Clipping taken from Danmaku Magazine:
"'How do I stop a rude shrine maiden or a thieving witch from tearing a new wing of the mansion out from the library? The answer: use knives. And if that don't work, use more knives. And if that STILL doesn't work, use a WHOLE LOT MORE knives!'
With these words, Danmaku Guns Inc. (a branch of Kappa Inudstries), has released the first part of their work-in-progress Garry's Mod addons emulating the various abilities and spellcards of the inhabitants of Gensokyo. Readers can secure a copy for themselves by going to the address provided at the bottom of this article.
This first piece centers on the nearly-finished SWEP that emulates the abilities of that knfe-throwing maid from the Scarlet Devil Mansion, Sakuya. The SWEP is fully functional, and should be pretty glitch-free (However, if you find some you're free to report them, and we will solve the problem as quick as possible).
The weapon itself has performed well so far, with very little, if any, lag, even with plenty of shots on the server. Any person, human or youkai, who has a bit of free time to kill, can go spend it killing things with lots of knives.
With that, this is Halle Rochmun, reporting out!
Links:
As a Maidens of the Kaleidoscope-exclusive you also get the Beta for the Cirno SWEP, at no extra cost!
You can acquire your own copy of the WIP Sakuya SWEP here:
http://host-a.net/Sploder/danmaku01_02.zip UPDATED, READ FURTHER DOWNA little info:With spell cards: Less health = More knives (Lower defence = Better offence)
Spell cards can be activated by getting the required spirit-power, shown in the lower-right corner
Spell card 1 - Silver Bound: Throws knives in a circle around the player. Varies from throwing 6 x 3 knives, to 28 x 3 knives (You throw this one in bursts)
Spell card 2 - Killing Doll: Throws knives upward, that then speed towards where your crosshair may be at that moment.
Spell card 3 - The World: A homeage to the infamous "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure"-move that goes by the same name (Only in japanese). In this card your player stops time for 5 seconds (Requires a 2 sec charge-up). The cool thing about this one is that it
DOESN'T REQUIRE SV_CHEATS to be on
You'll get the hang of it soon though.
The Maidens of the Kaleidoscope-exclusive Cirno beta is based around the Ice-Fairy Cirno, and so far is just the main attack, it also has no viewmodel, and uses the worldmodel of the Sakuya SWEP. Fire's Icicles quickly. Has blowback so you can fly with it.
If you want tf2is updates around the Danmaku SWEPs, please join our Steam Community:
Danmaku Guns (Members get Betas before anyone else, you also get to voice your opinion before anyone else and all that good stuff)
SWEPs made by: SploderI did some stuff to, but that's unrelatedClipping taken from Danmaku Enthusiast Magazine:
"Earlier this week, I received an odd letter. I'm not quite sure how it got up here to the Youkai Mountain, but either way, it was more interesting in other ways. The writing on the envelope was barely legible, leaving only one strange symbol discernible from the other jumble of characters: a circle with a nine in it. On top of that, the letter was frozen through, completely solid. It took me a whole day to thaw it out so I could open it.
Within the letter was a damp paper, containing even more unreadable scrawls. After wasting a good ten minutes just trying to decode the message, I gave up. It seems I ended up losing much time to such a silly endeavor.
Why am I talking about a random letter I got? Well, recently, the folks at Danmaku Gunz Inc. have finished the main underpinnings of the SWEP emulating a certain Ice-Fairy. Like with the first release of the Sakuya SWEP, the latest WIP is still missing several 'graphical niceties' such as weapon models and some effects; however, the basic attack and spellcards are all there.
On that point, I was informed that there are some balance and gameplay issues with the new SWEP, 'Strongest Eyce,' and that any ideas for improvement would be greatly appreciated.
As an aside, I sure hope that letter I couldn't read wasn't something important.
And with that, this is Halle Rochmun, reporting out!
Links: You can get the latest update of the Danmaku Weapons Pack here:
http://host-a.net/Sploder/danmaku01_07.zipIt includes Sakuya's SWEP, as well as the new Cirno SWEP. And maybe a secret.
In case you haven't seen it already, there is now a video showing some of the functions of both existing SWEPs here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEbL5BZKeMQ"
Note: I was thinking of getting an SVN for easier updating and distribution, but I want to wait until we possibly get a few more downloads before we switch over. Either way, there will still be links provided as well, so as not to discourage those who wish to download the old way.
