History VideoGame / BallisticWeapons

The original homepage is [[http://www.runestorm.com/ballistic here]]. Though [=RuneStorm=] has abandoned the mod, a new development team has picked up the reins and is actively updating it well into TheNewTwenties; the latest version can be downloaded from their Discord server [[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=264940047 here]].

A popular mod for ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'', created by [=RuneStorm=]. Instead of focusing on game modes, they focused on new guns guns.

A popular mod for ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'', made by [=RuneStorm=]. Instead of focusing on game modes, they focused on guns.

Can be downloaded from the homepage [[http://www.runestorm.com/ballistic here]].

** The upcoming [=Mk. 781=] is a Benelli M1014.
** The upcoming [=AT40 STREAK=] is the M202 FLASH.

** The [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/ballistic-weapons/news/sergeant-kellys-pack-june-update MARS and MARS-2]] are FN F2000s.
** The coming-soon [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/ballistic-weapons/news/sergeant-kellys-pack-august-update Conqueror]] is a chopped-up Milkor MGL.

** The [=MRS138=] shotgun has a ''taser'' mounted below the barrel for this purpose.

* SwissArmyGun: the E-23 [=ViPeR=], to some extent - it has a shotgun mode, a continuous laser, a rapid-fire mode, and, when zoomed in, turns into a sniper rifle.

* VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck: Averted; the [=RX22A=] flamethrower, while not actually projecting napalm due to the limitations of the [=UT2004=] engine, is ''quite'' long-ranged. This is balanced by the rather volatile fuel tank on the user's back, which tends to rocket upwards when shot. The Spectre's flamethrower doesn't explode, thankfully, and deals a lot of damage, but it has a small capacity - not enough to kill an enemy by itself, but useful for softening up targets to shower them with the Spectre's flechettes, or finishing them off if your magazine runs dry or the burst didn't do the trick. Finally, the STREAK is a murder machine that will close off hallways and stop enemy charges dead cold (well, not very cold, rather).

* UniversalAmmunition: Mostly averted; only a few weapons share ammo. Most of the 12 gauge shotguns do, but they're (with one exception) loaded from loose shells.
** Played straight with any magazine-based weapons using the same caliber - 5.56 weapons, for example, all share ammo, but without the addon packs, very few weapons are affected by this.

* AllThereInTheManual: The flavor text of each gun alludes to some sort of war between what's essentially a cross of the [[Franchise/{{Halo}} UNSC]] and the [[Series/{{Firefly}} Alliance]], against various alien races, namely, the plasma-firing Skrith (who appear to be some sort of cross between the [[Franchise/{{Predator}} Yautja]] and the [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Covenant as a whole]]), the Cryon, where the info from the flavor text of the Spectre states they're synthetics covered in organic or psuedo-organic material, like the Franchise/{{Terminator}}s, and the Krao, who we don't know much about, except that the machine guns slaughtered millions of them in a particularly bloody battle. WordOfGod is that {{zeerust}} [[TitleDrop ballistic weapons]] were fielded because they penetrated Skrith shields, which are made for deflecting plasma and lasers, far easier than their regular energy guns. In addition, it's implied that the weapons in-game are mostly outdated: the anti-materiel rifle says it's been supplanted by two other, modern anti-materiel sniper rifles, which aren't in-game.

* {{BFG}}: The XMV-850 minigun, SKAS-21 super shotgun, JL-21 MRL 'Peacemaker' rocket launcher, J2329 HAMR portable mortar, [=RX22A=] flamethrower, [=HVC-MK9=] lightning gun, M75-TIC Railgun, R20 Bulldog Assault Cannon, and the E-V 9000 Plasma Cannon (which is a ShoutOut to [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} the original BFG]]).
** The HAMR is particularly Big - the recoil is so bad firing it unmounted ''damages'' you.

** Various weapons added through Sergeant Kelly's bonus packs have multiple potential camo patterns. In the case of the [=RS04=] Compact and SRS Mod 2, the rare Red Tiger Stripe pattern actually changes how the guns work - they become fully-automatic, and the former reloads in half a second. The SRAC-21/G autocannon likewise has the "Fabulous" paint scheme, which is purple and removes the manual fire mode, but is otherwise unchanged.

** A number of pistols have a LaserSight. The XRS-10 and S-AR 12 do, as well, the former combining with a detachable suppressor and the latter with an adjustable stock.

* TooDumbToLive: Overcharging your heavy weapons.
** Walking into a hallway filled with napalm you just shot off.
** Firing your RPG into the wall in front of you.

* UsedFuture: Nearly all projectile weapons are 20th[=/=]21st century weapons yanked out of mothballs and given higher-tech internals in a last-ditch attempt to fight off the Skrith, whose shields stopped all laser or plasma weaponry, but not old projectile weapons. The flavor texts says there are much newer guns that aren't desperation weapons, but we only see mostly outdated weapon models, with the exception of the cutting-edge Spectre, the stylized machine pistols, and the LK-05 and SRS battle rifles - and even then the latter two are heavily based on early 21st-century weapons. Jack Carver's pack also explicitly states that its Desert Eagle is a recreation of an overly popular 20th century gun.

*** Yet another variant, [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/ballistic-weapons/news/sergeant-kellys-pack-september-update the yet-to-be-released LK05]], mashes together bits and pieces of the Magpul Masada and the SCAR-L (mostly the stock).

** The [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/ballistic-weapons/news/sergeant-kellys-pack-february-update Puma-77 Repeater]] is a H&K UMP. Bizarrely enough, it launches airburst grenades and comes with an energy shield deployer.
** The upcoming [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/ballistic-weapons/news/sergeant-kellys-pack-march-update FMP-2012]] is the [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons MP-40.]]

** The wait-for-it-please [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/ballistic-weapons/news/sergeant-kellys-pack-june-update MARS and MARS-2]] are FN F2000s.

*** The [=XM300=] Dragon Nanoblade and the SKAS-21 super shotgun (and by extension the SRAC-21/G autocannon) are carbon copies of the Dragon's Tooth sword and assault shotgun from the original ''VideoGame/DeusEx''.

*** The [=XM300=] Dragon Nanoblade is a [[VideoGame/DeusEx Dragon's Tooth sword]]. Likewise, the SKAS-21 super shotgun, and by extension the SRAC-21/G autocannon, are carbon copies of the assault shotgun from the same game.

** [[Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun The Golden Gun. Its flavor text is a direct quote of Scaramanga.]] [[VideoGame/{{Goldeneye 1997}} It also functions like you'd expect it to be in a FPS.]]

*** The [=XM300=] Dragon Nanoblade is a [[VideoGame/DeusEx Dragon's Tooth sword]].

** The autoshotgun and autocannon are the ones from the first VideoGame/DeusEx.

* WeakTurretGun: Very, very averted. The four mountable weapons in the base mod are the [[{{BFG}} XMV-850 minigun, the J2329 HAMR mortar]], the [[MoreDakka M353 LMG]], and the M925 .50 caliber machine gun. If gun sway is increased to realistic levels, this is the only way to actually hit anything.

!!Ballistic Weapons includes examples of:

** The upcoming [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/ballistic-weapons/news/sergeant-kellys-pack-march-update FMP-2012]] is the [[NazisWithGnarlyWeapons MP-40.]]

* HitScan: Played straight, but the illusion of bullet travel is faked very well; the effects for bullet weapons, including wall and object damage, are done after the original trace for damage.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: The [=MD24=] pistol's magazine shows if it's been emptied entirely when reloaded, the J2329 HAMR's remaining rounds are all clearly visible, and the two belt-fed machineguns both show their belts getting shorter when very few rounds remain in their magazines - they even have alternate reload animations for those situations.
** The D49 revolver's mechanics are incredibly well thought-out. You can see which shells have been fired and which are unused during reloads (complete with only the number of fired shells being left on the ground), secondary fire can only be used if the top and bottom shells in the chamber are both unfired, and hitting an empty chamber after using secondary fire is a real possibility (though this never will happen to you more than once in a row, even if there should be more than one fired chamber between a fresh bullet and the hammer). The Wilson 41-DB is much the same, with the added ability to [[AwesomeButImpractical continue dry-firing like a real double-action revolver, if you want to do so for whatever reason]].
** All weapons have the ability to only have their secondary fire reloaded, if it was used.
** Most weapons have a specialized kill message depending on where the killshot hit - the chest, an arm, a leg, the head, and so on.

* DramaticGunCock: There's an optional keybinding in the menu for doing this. It never costs any of your ammo, even though a lot of the guns have an actual bullet ejected when you use it.

* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Played with; most energy weapons fire visible and slow-moving projectiles, but they tend to do a good bit of damage or have other useful attributes. For instance, the E-23 [=ViPeR=] plasma rifle is also capable of acting as an assault rifle, a shotgun, a repair tool (a la the Link Gun), and a marksman rifle with nightvision scope. This is also justified in-universe, as kinetic weapons are the only thing that get through Skrith shields.

* AllThereInTheManual: The flavor text of each gun alludes to some sort of war between what's essentially a cross of the [[Franchise/{{Halo}} UNSC]] and the [[Series/{{Firefly}} Alliance]], against various alien races, namely, the plasma-firing Skrith (who appear to be some sort of cross between the [[Franchise/{{Predator}} Yautja]] and the [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Covenant as a whole]]), the Cryon, where the info from the flavor text of the Spectre states they're synthetics covered in organic or psuedo-organic material, like the [[Franchise/{{Terminator}}]]s, and the Krao, who we don't know much about, except that the machine guns slaughtered millions of them in a particularly bloody battle. WordOfGod is that {{zeerust}} [[TitleDrop ballistic weapons]] were fielded because they penetrated Skrith shields, which are made for deflecting plasma and lasers, far easier than their regular energy guns. In addition, it's implied that the weapons in-game are mostly outdated: the anti-materiel rifle says it's been supplanted by two other, modern anti-materiel sniper rifles, which aren't in-game.

* ShockwaveAttack[=/=]GroundPound: The FGM-70 Shockwave (duh) has a secondary fire that exchanges the explosive payload for a seismic one that has a ''very'' wide sonic boom that passes through walls and melts brains.

* AllThereInTheManual: The flavor text of each gun alludes to some sort of war between what's essentially a cross of the [[Franchise/{{Halo}} UNSC]] and the [[Series/{{Firefly}} Alliance]], against various alien races, namely, the plasma-firing Skrith (who appear to be some sort of cross between the [[Franchise/{{Predator}} Yautja]] and the [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Covenant as a whole]]), the Cryon, where the info from the flavor text of the Spectre states they're synthetics of some sort, and the Krao, who we don't know much about, except that the machine guns slaughtered millions of them in a particularly bloody battle. WordOfGod is that {{zeerust}} [[TitleDrop ballistic weapons]] were fielded because they penetrated Skrith shields, which are made for deflecting plasma and lasers, far easier than their regular guns. In addition, it's implied that the weapons in-game are mostly outdated: the anti-materiel rifle says it's been supplanted by two other, modern anti-materiel sniper rifles, which aren't in-game.

* UsedFuture: Nearly all projectile weapons are 20th[=/=]21st century weapons yanked out of mothballs and given higher-tech internals in a last-ditch attempt to fight off the Skrith, whose shields stopped all laser or plasma weaponry, but not old projectile weapons. It's implied there are much newer guns that aren't desperation weapons, but we only see mostly outdated weapon models, with the exception of the cutting-edge Spectre, the stylized machine pistols, and LK-05.
* VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck: Averted; the [=RX22A=] flamethrower, while not actually projecting napalm due to the limitations of the [=UT2004=] engine, is ''quite'' long-ranged. This is balanced by the rather volatile fuel tank on the user's back, which tends to rocket upwards when shot. The Spectre's flamethrower doesn't explode, thankfully, and deals a lot of damage, but it has a small capacity - not enough to kill an enemy by itself, but useful for softening up targets to shower them with the Spectre's flechettes, or finishing them off if your magazine runs dry or the burst didn't do the trick.

* BlingBlingBang: The [=AK490=] has a Golden variant. There's also the GRSXX, a [=GRS9=] with a gold-plated slide, slightly larger mag capacity, and a blue laser that deals more damage in return for faster rate of power consumption.
** Various weapons added through Sergeant Kelly's bonus packs have multiple potential camo patterns. In the case of the [=RS04=] Compact, the rare Red Tiger Stripe one actually changes how the gun works - it becomes fully-automatic and reloads in half a second. The SRAC-21/G autocannon likewise has the "Fabulous" paint scheme, which is purple and removes the manual fire mode, but is otherwise unchanged.

* DoNotRunWithAGun: By default, you can't, as the game halves the walking speed. The devs, however, included a Ballistic Sprint mutator that allows you to... guess. This also applies to jumping. Interestingly enough, weapons can still be fired while running - but they're terribly off-target, making it impossible to aim unless it has a laser sight. Bots don't get the message, though, so at long ranges they're typically harmless.

* {{Overheating}}: Happens to some weapons. The [=HVC-MK9=] lightning gun hurts the user if it overheats, while the plasma cannons ''explode'' - the HV-9000 in particular detonates like a Redeemer missile.

* BlingBlingBang: The [=AK490=] has a Golden variant. There's also the GRSXX, a [=GRS9=] with a gold-plated slide, slightly larger mag capacity, and a laser that deals more damage in return for faster rate of power consumption.
** Various weapons added through Sergeant Kelly's bonus packs have multiple potential camo patterns. In the case of the [=RS04=] Compact, the rare Red Tiger Stripe one actually changes how the gun works - it becomes fully-automatic and reloads in half a second.

* DoNotRunWithAGun: By default, you can't, as the game halves the walking speed. The devs, however, included a Ballistic Sprint mutator that allows you to... guess. This also applies to jumping. Interestingly enough, weapons can still be fired while running - but they're terribly off-target, making it impossible to aim. Bots don't get the message, though, so at long ranges they're typically harmless.

* GatlingGood: The XMV-850; an interesting example in that it has a ''realistic'' max fire rate of 3600 RPM, at which point anyone on the receiving end may as well kiss their ass goodbye. It also doesn't overheat, but ammo is very limited - it only holds 900 rounds in a magazine, with 1800 spare, so you don't even have a minute of full-speed fire. The heavy recoil can be mitigated by mounting it using secondary fire. There's also the "Personal Minigun" that is much more man portable and has less recoil, at the cost of firing rate.

* ImprobableWeaponUser[=/=]AbnormalAmmo: The [=AK490=]'s secondary fire launches a ballistic knife.

* LaserSight: Several weapons come with one; though it gives away your position, shots will ''always'' hit the aiming dot.

** The .75 Bulldog is essentially a [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}]] Bolter, down to the red paint scheme and square, ugly build, the fact it uses .75 shells, and can fire explosive shot.

* DirtyCommunists: The SK-410 and [=AK490=] kill notifications are all parodies of Soviet militarism.

* GunAccessories: The M50 has a grenade launcher and a small screen for use with the tertiary-fire camera, while the M46 has a ''proximity mine launcher''.

** The .75 Bulldog is essentially a [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000]] Bolter, down to the red paint scheme and square, ugly build, the fact it uses .75 shells, and can fire explosive shot.

!!In addition to all the non-weapon tropes on the ''[=UT2004=]'' page, Ballistic Weapons includes examples of:

A popular mod for VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004, made by [=RuneStorm=]. Instead of focusing on game modes, they focused on guns.

!!Ballistic Weapons includes examples of:

* VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck: Averted; the [=RX22A=] flamethrower, while not actually projecting napalm due to the limitations of the [=UT2004=] engine, is ''quite'' long-ranged. This is balanced by the rather volatile fuel tank on the user's back, which tends to rocket upwards when shot. The Spectre's flamethrower doesn't explode, thankfully, and deals a lot of damage, but it has a small capacity - not enough to kill an enemy by itself, but useful for softening up targets to shower them with the Spectre's flechettes, or finishing them off if your magazine runs dry.