Changing Starting Ammo

[IrocJeff]

I really have no idea where this topic could go so bear with me.

 

Is it possible through BehavED to change the ammo count for starting a level from the default 300 to something lower? I know there is a count field in the items.dat for weapons and BehavEd has a set_count feature. I've tried a script to change the Bryar Pistols count to 25  using the set_count choice but nothing happens. I still pick up a pistol with 300 ammo.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

[eezstreet]

Nope. :/

[Asgarath83]

In deception mod phelan start with a blaster pistol with only 15 ammo. How is possible that? O.o

[eezstreet]

He probably used the Bryar Pistol weapon.

[IrocJeff]

He probably used the Bryar Pistol weapon.

So, how did he use the Bryar Pistol Weapon to get the ammo down?

[Asgarath83]

If i remember well, Phelan start with bryar pistol, stun baton and melee. Try this combination of weapon in your player start. We see what happens...

[IrocJeff]

Well it took a while but I just figured this out. While I cannot seem to figure out how to start with lower ammo, I did figure out how to change Max ammo. So, all you need to do here is copy the EXT_DATA folder and remove all the files except Weapons.Dat. Open that up and change the numbers down the bottom where it has maximum ammo counts. Change this to whatever you want and then put this new EXT_DATA folder with the Weapons.Dat folder in a pk.3 and place it in your Base directory.

[Asgarath83]

Ah, but you wanna a blaster with low ammo for all game\mod? i understood you want just at the start of  the mission.

LOL, if i knew that i have told you your answer are in weapon.dat LOL.

Yes, your are correct. i have an edited weapons.dat for my mod... by i have incresead my ammo.  i have different exigents. XD.

[IrocJeff]

I had two options. 

Option 1 was to reduce the starting ammo to say 25-50 and then control the amount of ammo in game.

 

Option 2 was the weapon.dat file since that is how the ammo maximums changed in the Ultimate Weapons Mod. As a test I messed around with those files and took a wild guess at putting it into a pk3 and it worked!

 

I took the blaster ammo down to 200 and depending how big you are with alt-fire. I had to find a way to toughen the game up since most aftermarket levels seemed to benefit the player in terms of health, items, shields, and ammo. I think I have 1 shield and 6 health packs throughout 2 levels. No saber or force powers. Its pretty tough to go through even though I designed it and no where the enemies spawn.

[redsaurus]

You can probably change the starting ammo with some of the menu stuff that's used for the weapon select thing

[IrocJeff]

Asgarath83 mentioned a JA map that started with 15 ammo. I looked through the menu stuff and could not find anything. I'll have to go through them yet again and see. Its like reading Greek.