I'm really excited for the UGX mod Standalone 1.1, but some stuff doesn't seem too great. This is my thoughts.
I like the elemental system, but it definitely shouldn't be in the Pack-A-Punch machine. The elements and PaP should be separate because they're 2 different systems. You can't just add something like that to that system because it is a specific upgrade system made to give laser bullets like it always has. To change it to a system with 6 different elements (Fire, Water, Acid, Electricity, Air, Lasers) would change the nature of the PaP machine to be more powerful than it ever was before, meaning it was holding off on us for years. There needs to be a separate machine to be seen as almost more powerful than the Pack-A-Punch, but not significant enough to seem like PaP is unnecessary.
Sharing Is Caring is a great concept, but the machine itself is bad. Sharing Is Caring doesn't sound like a perk machine. It sounds like an achievement. The perk machine looks amazing, but the name is too long. It may just be the Is in there, but it feels too long to say. I will most likely be starting to make custom maps once the mod comes out, but, if I can, I will be changing Sharing Is Caring into a pegboard in a gun shop in whatever I choose to make and put the "Elemental Machine" in there too. This way friends can drop weapons where they know where they can find them and mess with them if they have the money, otherwise you're directing them to where the gun is and causing trouble.
Brutus doesn't look right. I don't know if you did that as a little "Look what we did!" or not, but he doesn't look like the prominent, scary monster he is. I understand either way, but, if he does come with the mod, make him the kind of guy you should fear.
Questions:
*Can the Sentry gun be upgraded with the "Elemental Machine"? Otherwise, can it be PaP'd to be grenadier Sentry gun?
*Would you make Max Ammos optional? Like you can save it for when you really need it, but can only have one at a time?
*Gersch Devices? Are they possible?
*Will we get different character models or is it the normal ones?
*Galvaknuckles?
*Will you have the portable wall chalk like in Buried at all? If so, which ones?
*No ballistic knives?
Sorry if this is too many questions to answer at once. I like what you're doing with the mod: I just don't like how some of it works. Thank you for the hard work you're putting into the mod and I truly hope you take some of this to mind.