[MOD] Gain random perks each round

[sapheriel]

I've been working for a while now on cleaning up and learning the Receiver source code, and thought I'd try making a mod for it.

The idea behind this mod is to give the player a random perk each round providing a slight advantage (or handicap!), hopefully changing how they approach the game a little bit. The title of the perk you've received is display in the upper left when you spawn and then fades out.

The mod is by no means complete, but I've implemented 12 positive perks so far. Their names are:

Moonshot
1850 PSI
Monophobia
Short Sleeves
Pocketful of Shrapnel
Magnificent
Déjà Vu
Slow Day
The Unseen Bullet is the Deadliest
Consumer Grade
Brownout
Glacial Stare

You can read the source code to find out what they do, but I think it's more interesting to just play and figure it out for yourself.

Speaking of source code: I haven't been able so far to get in contact with anyone at Wolfire to talk about licensing for distribution, so for now I can only distribute the mod through the source code on Github. (https://github.com/robinkunde/7DFPS/tree/mod_perks)
You have to use the latest version of Unity 4, since I can't figure out how to port the game to version 5.

I hope you enjoy it!

Plans for the future:
More perks!
UI to let you customize the mod in-game
Bug fixes & Performance improvements to the base game (I have a separate branch just for this, so you can enjoy these without the mod)

[SteelRaven7]

Cool mod idea!

I've been talking Receiver mod distribution with David in the past, and I'm pretty sure he said it's OK to distribute the receiver executable file without the data content for mods, which should work fine so long as the mod is code only. You should try contacting him on the IRC to double check this though.

[MattShea]

This is awesome! Saw the devlog and they're hoping you can make an executable for the mod. I'm thinking of trying it out for my Youtube channel. Sounds like a lot of fun.

[sapheriel]

Whoops, I forgot to subscribe to this topic.

There were some things I wanted to fix/clean up in the scene files and level geometry, but I guess I can skip that. I'll definitely give it a try and hope a minor version mismatch is not a problem.

[Thatguysowl]

How can i install this mod?
It looks interesting and i want to try it out but i cant get it to work.

[WynterFoxx]

As Thatguysowl said, how do we install this mod?

[Silails]

I would love to have this mod just to play some more of the game

[sofiabovino]

Sunds like a lot of fun.

[savimakwo]

i want to try it out but i cant get it to work.

[sapheriel]

I’m not sure there’s anything I can do about that at this point. The version of Unity the game was built with is pretty old at this point. You can probably still run it, if that version is still available, but I haven’t checked in a while. I tried multiple times to get in touch with someone at Wolfire to talk about distributing a compiled version, but they’ve been pretty busy shipping Overgrowth, so it never worked out.

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