Standalone Overkill weapons

That is completely missing the point. Configuration and customization are promoted, we simply don't enable these features by default, instead allowing admins to enable them if they want.
In the spirit of open source, if you want the option to enable those weapons in maps, you're more than welcome to implement it. The points Antibody and Freddy raised are only a concern if you intend to make these available by default. Reply

Before you make an additional branch that simply bypasses the blocked mutators check, please address the other concerns raised by Freddy. I reckon that's the major reason for them being blocked, not for any doomsday-like DRM reason. I'm sure you can appreciate our desire to keep the code clean and sane: it must not only work, it must be written in a maintainable way. We've had several issues with Overkill on this front.

I've been using these weapons in vanilla for more than a year now. I've never had issues with them. Shotgun and MachineGun code was changed to reduce duplication. Only OKNex is kinda fat because it has most of the vortex code.

As long as we don't have maps that have those weapons in official rotation, server admins must explicitly work to make those weapons available. If we go on a "what if" trip we might as well remove all balance cvars from the game because server admins that make OP weapons by changing vanilla weapons' stats.

I was not talking about "bug-free" or clean code here, I was talking about gameplay. But easy configuration is also part of good maintainability. As I said, make it Opt-In instead of Opt-Out.

As developers we should not only think about what we (individually) created or what we want to have. Unofficial maps are important for Xonotic, so we should always keep them in mind. Reply

That is completely missing the point. Configuration and customization are promoted, we simply don't enable these features by default, instead allowing admins to enable them if they want.
In the spirit of open source, if you want the option to enable those weapons in maps, you're more than welcome to implement it. The points Antibody and Freddy raised are only a concern if you intend to make these available by default.

There are no official maps that have OK weapon spawns. They are not enabled by default i.e. there is no way a player can get those weapons in vanilla config even without MUTATORBLOCKED flag. Right now there is a big "FUCK YOU" sign to mappers and server admins who can't compile QuakeC and remove that flag. Reply

They were never available prior to being split, so you introduced them into the game. It is your responsibility to make them available to mappers, in a mutator since as stated we don't want them in regular gameplay in their current state, community maps or otherwise. Reply

Alright, compromise has been reached. Set g_overkill_weapons to 1 (or new custom rule) to enable those weapons outside of Overkill. Reply

OK weapons now got their own unique icons.

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