Gameplay Mod (GZDoom) Simple Slots - a Last Used Weapon mod with some additional features

[sarge945]

Simple Slots is a simple quickswitch mod for gzdoom, attempting to improve quality of life by making weapons easier to select/use in the heat of battle.

 

I know there are some other mods that attempt to add a last-weapon used button, but I find most of them clunky to use, usually not doing what I really want when I press Q, so I made my own. 

 

It's designed to be "intuitive". That is, it should always work exactly how you expect it to. If it behaves in a way you feel is unusual, I consider that a bug and will try to fix it.

 

It should work with nearly everything. I have tested it extensively with Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Strife, Brutal Doom v22, Project Brutality, Ashes, and some other PWADs and Gameplay Mods.

 

If you wish to download this mod, you can find it here. A Selaco version is available on the steam workshop.

 

Features:

• Select your Last Used Weapon with Q, similar to Half-Life and other games with this feature.
  • Weapons can be added to an ignore list, and will never appear as your last used weapon. Some mods like Ashes force-select weapons you may not want, such as selecting the Crowbar when using the Lantern with the Shotgun equipped. This helps to prevent "polluting" your Q button.
  • Weapons must be selected for a minimum amount of time (1.5 seconds by default) before becoming your last used weapon, to facilitate scrolling through weapons.
• Holster your weapon with H. This is mainly an immersion thing, and is designed for games like Strife or Ashes if you feel weird waving your gun around in settlements, but it's also useful for taking screenshots.
• Assign up to 10 "slots" with weapons. Hold a slot button to select it's assigned weapon, release it to go back to your previous weapon. Or simply press to select the slot weapon and press again to go back to your previous weapon.
  • Good for things like "Quick melee" buttons in mods that don't have a quick melee attack. Especially useful with the chainsaw! Also good with the SSG!
  • I like having a quick way to select the Pistol in mods such as Project Brutality where the pistol uses different ammo to the Rifle, for efficient long-range sniping.
  • Slot weapons won't become your Last Used Weapon, they are designed to be used for things you switch to when the need arises but don't want to switch to all the time.
  • Each slot has a priority list and can assign multiple weapons, it will use the last added one that you have available.

 

Hanging out in an Ashes settlement with my weapon holstered.

 

 

Caveats and Future Plans:

• Since this is written entirely in ZScript, I would love to make a Raze version of this one day, but I haven't modded Raze at all and this would probably require some modification to work. My current understanding is that Raze is nowhere near ready for this kind of mod, but we will see what the future holds.
• This has not been tested in Multiplayer. It probably doesn't work. I have tried to use correct scoping for cvars etc, but this will likely need extensive changes to support multiplayer. I'm very open to suggestions for this.
• This may or may not break demo sync, I have absolutely no idea.

Edited June 1, 2024 by sarge945
Clarification.

[sarge945]

I know this thread has been dormant for a while, but I just wanted to let everyone know I now have a Selaco version of this mod, available here:

 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3258970860