Greetenings!
I am Krev, and I am also what some of you might call a complete amateur.
A month ago, this amateur decided that he wanted to take up modding - learn how to throw models into an actual game, animate them, and get things a bit killy - and in particular I decided to take up modding a little indev indie game called
Ravenfield.Given it's lowpoly nature, low price, accessible engine
(Unity), and a number of guides as well as a minimal reliance on textures in addition to sandbox battle-sim gameplay, I figured it'd be a solid choice for me to start out on.
I released a small mod containing a Pulse Rifle and a smaller carbine variant, and I've since grown into what I feel is something of a big chap I've taken to calling
Mercs & Marines.Spoiler
Taking inspiration from fan art, the tech manual, and a good amount of concept art, I've updated it almost non-stop to
sixteen weapons
(of which there are enough variants to kick it to 21), six vehicles, and
four skins, and yesterday I released the base of a rough Xenomorph expansion, featuring three more skins and a couple alien-specific weapons.
Spoiler
Everything i"ve modeled myself, animated myself, though I've had to yoink audio because I'm not going to be able to recreate Cameron's screaming pig-elephant-robot for the Pulse Rifle - though I think that's pretty okay.
Weapons included at this time feature:
- The M41A Pulse Rifle, with pump-action grenade launcher
- M41C Pulse Carbine
- M4RA DMR and shotgun
- M37 Shotgun (trench and stakeout configs)
- VP70 Combat Pistol (single and dual)
- Spearhead .357 from Alien Isolation (with HE for that extra kick)
- M39 SMG (Stock and sight, stockless and sightless)
- TA01 Assault SMG (Dual only, based on some Prometheus concept art of a particular replicant)
- M56A2 Smartgun (smart targeting not yet a feature)
- M5 RPG (a sort of hybrid of that horrific ACM design and the simpler techmanual design)
- M83A2 SADAR
- The M44 Sledgehammer (based on AvP 2 railgun concept art)
- The M6B Rocket Launcher
- The M78 PIG
- The M42A Scoped Rifle
- And the humble M40 grenade
Vehicles include the Dropship, M577 APC, M22 Jackson, a fanmade jumpjet to play attack VTOL, and a Battlestar-y take on the AD17 - as well as AvP 2's
Alice.Spoiler
The Dropship features a copilot-operated nose MG, and a number of pilot-operated rockets including the 70mm Zeus, the 150mm Banshee, the Air-to-Air Headlock, Hellhound AGM, and a lighter AGM known as the SGW - as well as around 33 seats, to compensate for the fact that I haven't figured out how to lift APCs around with it yet.
The APC, meanwhile, features around 13 passenger seats, a cramped interior, gunner/Gorman-operated plasma turret, and the driver's front MG and a horn for honking at xenomorphs angrily!
The M22 features more common fare, and is due for an update, as is the AD17 and potentially the V62.
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As far as skins go, the four main ones I've got right now include the
Colonial Marine, AvP 2 Sniper, and two variants of the ACM Mercs - and as a bonus, because I generally deliver what I say I'll deliver, there's also some penguin marines called the Vietnoots!
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I plan on plenty more, and I plan on overhauling a lot as I learn, but generally I hope that at least some of you enjoy the mod!
Oh, and I mentioned that yesterday I released the Aliens!
Spoiler
You can check out the steam page for
Mercs & Marines by clicking that link, and for the
Xenomorphs by this one!
If you want to try Ravenfield, I think there's an old beta missing some of the new features
here.
