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[Omega Tyrant]

With 0.9.9.8 officially released, many of the suggestions in this compilation suggestions thread for 0.9.9.8 have been implemented. So at Kornel's suggestion, I'm starting up a new compilation thread for 0.9.9.9, to start a fresh thread and to have a better organized OP that doesn't cover all the stuff that was already implemented or formally rejected, as well as to cover new suggestions.

I'll be maintaining this thread in Icy's absence, and any new suggestions from anyone else is welcomed, no matter how mundane or outlandish the suggestion may be. Before suggesting anything though, I would recommend reading Icy's OP in the aforementioned linked thread, consider the feasibility of being able to implement the suggestion, and backing your suggestions with well-reasoned points, while being open to any feedback your suggestion gets. I'll also note that I do not have any authority with the game nor am I a member of the ChaosForge team, so my own ideas are not above anyone else's, I'm just a passionate player organizing this and offering feedback.

Changes

This thread will be organized into separate posts for changes (which itself will be organized into bugs/exploits/fixes, traits, equipment/items, enemies, special levels, and miscellaneous), everything for badges/medals, and new content ideas. A suggestion marked with an X in its box means it has been implemented, a suggestion marked with ~ means it has been partially implemented, and a suggestion that is struck through has been officially rejected by Kornel. Each suggestion will additionally have links to the posts explaining the justification for the change and other discussion regarding it.

Bugs/Exploits/Fixes

[ ] Bug: The game may lock up on the trait selection screen upon levelling up, where the game still runs with the music playing and you're able to scroll through the background with the mouse, but your trait selection does not register and you cannot exit the screen, forcing you to kill DRL in Task Manager to exit and lose your progress. (Only has happened once to me so far and no one else has yet reported it, so it's unclear what triggers this game-ending bug). 1

[?] Bug: If a former is killed out of vision by something other than you, an error message may pop up stating it failed an attempt to call a table value. This most commonly occurs when a Former Sergeant shoots a barrel and kills himself. (An attempt was made to fix this in the latest hotfix and so far it looks like it worked, but it requires thorough testing to confirm this bug is 100% gone) 1

[ ] Bug: Damage calculation on direct hits with explosive attacks seem to happen after knockback is applied, resulting in direct explosive hits doing less damage than they should, or possibly no damage at all. 1

[ ] Bug: Corpses will sometimes be ungibbable by explosions and plasma(tic) shotguns for no apparent reason. 1

[ ] Bug: The melee accuracy bonus of Brute is still not properly applying to thrown weapons. (Link is a forum post reporting and demonstrating it in a beta, but I confirmed that the bug is still in 0.9.9.8). 1

[ ] Bug: Sharpshooter doesn't work with the Demolition Pistol, even on direct hits (and it hasn't been tested yet but likely doesn't work with the Anti-Freak Jackal as well). 1

[ ] Bug: In armor and boots assemblies that require a Technical Mod, if the Technical Mod is applied before completing the assembly, the Technical Mod's resistance boosts will stack onto the assembly's resistances, making assemblies like Fireproof Armor more powerful than intended. 1

[ ] Bug: The Dragonslayer's permanent berserk isn't working, with it granting no additional turns of Berserk at all. 1

[ ] Bug: When initiating a rocket jump, the targeting cursor can extend beyond immediately adjacent tiles, despite rocket jumping only being able to hit immediately adjacent tiles (in previous versions, the game wouldn't let you extend targeting beyond this range). Additionally when initiating a rocket jump with enemies onscreen, the targeting cursor will default onto an enemy, forcing you to move it back to an adjacent tile to rocket jump. 1

[ ] Bug: Explosive projectiles can go through walls without exploding from certain angles, including the outer boundary walls. (Needs more thorough testing to fully identify how this bug works). 1

[ ] Bug: Ammo stacks dropped by ammo levers are not affected by the difficulty multiplier. 1

[ ] Bug: Non-lava fluids are supposed to be able to appear in A100/666 beyond floor 30 for greater level variety, but you still only encounter lava except for in specific level types/events/features that could already have water and acid appear.

[ ] Bug: The lava flood in Halls Of Carnage sometimes does not activate. (Needs more thorough testing to determine what triggers this bug). 1 2

[X] Bug: When booting up the game, the loading bar will stretch beyond the screen.

[?] Bug: If a flood event occurs on an island level, it's possible to start in the middle of lava (this may have been fixed in a previous version, neither I nor Icy have ever experienced this and I haven't seen any reports of it in 0.9.9.8). 1

[ ] Exploit: The Spider Mastermind can get stuck when shot across the bottom or top middle pillars, making it only able to go up and down. The AI might need to be adjusted. 1

[ ] Exploit: Medical Armor in Nanofiber Skin Armor (N) can allow the player to take 1 damage and immediately heal it. Since this can be done infinitely, it may cause an issue if the total damage value reaches the highest possible. A suggested fix is changing the recharge delay of Nanofiber Skin Armor to 6 so that it can never reach 0. 1

[X] Fix: The Unlock All option doesn't unlock the harder difficulties.

[ ] Fix: The character info screen doesn't account for equipped ammo boxes with its displayed reloading speed, when it should.

[ ] Fix: Ironman's trait description is unclear with it stating you get +20% max health, which isn't fully true as Marines still only get +10 HP rather than 12 HP, so it should be reworded to state +10 HP. 1

[ ] Fix: For weapons with very long names (such as the "Burst nuclear plasma rifle"), the name can stretch beyond the available UI space on the HUD, obscuring its ammo. Whether it be scaling down long names, letting them stretch farther into the HUD, or anything else, something should be done to fix this issue. 1

[ ] Fix: When using the Look command, you are unable to scroll the screen with the keys, forcing the use of a mouse to do so. As an obvious detriment to keyboard-only players, this should be fixed. 1 2

[ ] Fix: When picking up Azrael's Scythe from the ground, the game will erroneously give the "You don't have Azrael's Scythe!" message. 1

[ ] Fix: Angelic Armor's description erroneously calls it the "@<Angelic Attire@>" 1

[ ] Fix: Charch's Null Pointer shows that its damage is 0d0, when it's actually 10d1. 1

[ ] Fix: When the Apostle spawns on the final floor of A100/A666, the ability to see all enemies immediately activates since all enemies technically die when you first enter the floor. Given this is supposed to be a boss fight, this mechanic should be disabled when the Apostle spawns like it is for boss levels. 1

[ ] Fix: Archangel of 666 shows both in-game and in the high scores that it's Ao100. Additionally, the ending mortem says you "finally completed 100 floors of torture". 1 2

[X] Fix: Elite Former Captains erroneously didn't get the melee damage buff that all the other Elite Formers got. 1

[X] Fix: Nightmare Imps erroneously had two different speed values applied to them. 1

[X] Fix: The player's sprite does not update properly when armor is destroyed. The player additionally doesn't show the proper armor and weapon equipped at the start of challenges and mods that have different starting default equipment. 1

[X] Fix: In the ASCII version, the cursor for the look command does not show and the targeting cursor blends in the invulnerability overlay. 1

[X] Fix: Music resets to max volume regardless of setting whenever booting up the game or entering a new floor.

[ ] Fix: Repeated sounds (such as from several enemies being hit at once) can still get too loud, the sounds should be better staggered out instead of stacking all at once on each other, or perhaps add a limit of some sort that prevents the same sounds from being stacked too loudly on each other. 1 2

[ ] Fix: Ensure bridges that go over rivers are not blocked off by walls or rooms without doors (this might be too technically difficult to implement). 1 2

Traits

[ ] Nerf Hellrunner's dodging bonus to +10% per level (needs discussion). 1

[ ] Nerf Vampyre (needs discussion). Some ideas include increasing its prerequisites, disallowing Vampyre from healing beyond 100%, and/or prevent the resistances of berserk from stacking with the resistances of the Marine. 1

[ ] Buff Entrenchment (needs discussion). Some ideas include increasing the resistance bonuses to +50% when chain firing, granting +20% to all resistances when just equipping a chain firing weapon, and some means to allow chain firing longer (such as reduce ammo consumption when chain firing or instant reloading when your clip runs out during chain firing). Alternatively, Entrenchment could be replaced with an entirely new mastery, a la Running Man -> Gunrunner in 0.9.9.7 1

[ ] Give Bullet Dance the additional perk of reloading faster when dual gunning. 1

[ ] Give Fireangel an additional offensive-based perk (needs discussion). One possible idea is when using rocket-based weapons, each shot will get +2 dice in damage calculation. 1

[ ] Buff Gun Kata to have an instant Pistol attack after dodging instead of it being near-instant. Also consider letting it apply Dodgemaster to all enemy projectiles inbetween moves (needs discussion). 1

[ ] Change Gunrunner's prerequisite of Juggler to Finesse 2. 1

Equipment and other Items

[ ] Add sounds for all actions for exotics/uniques/artifacts. 1 2

[ ] Allow Technicians to add a single mod or basic assembly to the following unique armors: Medical Powerarmor, Necroarmor, and Shielded Armor. 1 2 3

[ ] Buff the Chaingun's accuracy to +3. 1

[ ] Frag Shotgun needs farther buffs. One idea to make it standout is to change its damage to 6d3 and decrease its firing speed to 0.5 seconds. Additionally allow it to spawn sooner and be less rare (such as a depth of 10 and weight of 3). 1 2

[ ] Increase the Medical Powerarmor's generation rate to 3 (matching the similarly powerful Necroarmor in rarity). [1

[ ] Let Mega Buster use alt fire to switch modes, but you have to collect all the damage types (more similar to Mega Man). 1 2

[ ] Increase the Mjollnir's generation rate to 2 or 3. 2 3

[ ] Allow Subtle Knife kills to count as "knife kills". Additionally modify it to spawn sooner and be less rare (such as a depth of 7 and weight of 2). 1

[ ] Nerf Trigun's Angel Arm to not be an instant nuke and require 10s like regular nukes. 1

[ ] Change Nano-shrapnel to a master assembly, with an assembly requirement of PPPN or PPTN. 1

[ ] Change the resistance values that Technical Mods add to boots to be +20% acid and fire resistances while removing the other useless resistance buffs, rather than using the same values they apply to armors. They can keep the +20% plasma resistance as well if the proposed blood fluid is added and utilizes plasma damage. 1

[ ] Buff Agility Mods to give +2 accuracy when applied to melee weapons instead of only +1. 1

[ ] Allow Firestorm and Sniper mods to be applied to melee weapons (needs discussion on exact effects). Current ideas are a Firestorm mod will turn their damage type to fire so they can gib much easier, in addition to possibly increasing damage sides by +1 too, and a Sniper mod will give them the autohit property. 1

[ ] Give Sniper mods an effect for Shotguns, instead of doing nothing. One idea is each Sniper mod applied to a Shotgun will reduce its dropoff reduction rate by 1% (so a basic Shotgun with one Sniper mod will have its dropoff damage reduced from 7% to 6% per tile, and if triple modded with Sniper mods, its dropoff damage will be reduced from 7% to 4% per tile). 1

[ ] When a third Sniper Mod is applied to a ranged weapon, have it give the autohit property instead of doing nothing. 1

Enemies

[ ] Add sounds for Nightmare enemies, Lava Elemental, Agony Elemental, Arena Master, and Apostle. 1 2

[ ] Add sounds for enemies spawning, enemies reviving, and Archviles charging their attack. 1 2

[ ] Make Cacodemons and Nightmare Cacodemons more aggressive in their attack frequency. Possibly also consider buffing Nightmare Cacodemons to hit slightly harder. (needs discussion) 1

[ ] Farther buff all Elite Formers by increasing their melee accuracy. 1

[ ] Farther buff the Nightmare Archvile by increasing its attack's explosion radius to 2, matching the Arena Master's explosion radius. 1

[ ] Lower the Nightmare Cacodemon's spawning depth in A100/666 to 50+. 1

[ ] Lower the Shambler's spawning depth in A100/666 to 70+. 1

[ ] Increase the Lava Elemental's generation weight to 2 or 3 so it isn't so uncommon in deep levels of A100/666. 1

[ ] Allow the Angel Of Death to spawn in very deep floors of A100/666. Its spawning depth can be either 80+ or 90+. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

[ ] Buff the Apostle to have 500 HP and always teleport after being hit. Also kill all enemies and end the game when it dies like JC. 1 2 3 4

[ ] Change hunting AI to not ignore items and armors (if implemented, Cyberdemons may need their ability to use items removed or medpacks may need a healing limit of 110 HP to keep them from being potentially too obnoxious). 1 2 3 4 5 6

Special levels

[ ] When special levels are destroyed by a nuke, disable any traps/subsequent enemy spawns they may have from triggering and have the game register them as cleared (this includes Containment Area, City of Skulls, Abyssal Plains, House of Pain, The Lava Pits, and Mt. Erebus) 1

[ ] Allow Hell's Arena to have both different rewards and different enemies depending on challenge. Dual challenges would use the harder set. 1 2 3

[ ] Make Military Base more difficult as it's still much easier than Phobos Lab. One idea is removing its Tracking Map on UV and N! difficulties. Another idea is if the "patrol" AI flag is added to the game, it could be applied to enemies here so the player cannot rely on camping at the start to kill everything. (Needs discussion) 1

[ ] Change how Schematics drops in Hell's Armory/Deimos Lab work, so that players do not miss out on a rare mod because of them and so each run is truly independent (can probably just have them drop separately from the rare mods). 1 2 3 4

[ ] Have The Wall/Containment Area open up after all enemies are dead to prevent softlocks if you use a Phase Device. 1 2

[ ] Replace the redundant Missile Launcher in City Of Skulls/Abyssal Plains. What to replace it with needs discussion, but one idea is that it can instead be a random guaranteed exotic non-BFG ranged weapon, to make these levels potentially more appropriately rewarding. 1

[ ] In City of Skulls, replace the lever with a horizontal coordinate trap, so that it isn't free to run through. Also extend the middle pillars to go all the way up to the top and bottom of the screen, so that the player is forced to be between the pillars when the trap activates. 1 2

[ ] Define a default song to play for House Of Pain in the music.lua file, so that it doesn't play a random song at default that will likely be unfitting. Suggestions for the song to use are either Sign Of Evil (i.e. E1M8's track) or Dark Secrets (i.e. The Vaults' track).

[ ] Make Unholy Cathedral more difficult (needs discussion). Current suggestion is increasing the Demon count on HMP to match current UV/N!, then replacing half of them with their Nightmare versions on UV, and replacing all of them with their Nightmare versions on N!. 1

[ ] Prevent being able to teleport into the "mountain" on Mt. Erebus, so that the player does not end up potentially softlocked 1 2 3 4

[ ] Make Mt. Erebus more difficult (needs discussion). Some ideas include adding Cacodemons separately from Lost Souls/Pain Elementals (and then replacing them with their Nightmare versions on UV/N!), increasing the number of Revenants and Mancubi on UV/N! (or possibly even replacing them with Nightmare versions if they're added to the game), and/or having to fight two Lava Elementals as the boss fight instead of one. 1

Miscellaneous

[ ] Add method for guaranteed Berserker Armor and Dragonslayer in Angel of 100 / Archangel of 666, so that full wins in A100/666 aren't terribly luck-based. 1 2 3 4

[ ] Obtaining high scores mostly devolve into playing Archangel of 666 and aren't really used as a means to compare runs. Perhaps they should be changed (needs discussion). 1

[ ] Give EXP for pulling levers (but consider disabling this bonus if the player has Intuition) 1

[Omega Tyrant]

Medals, Badges, and Rankings

This post is for everything regarding medals, badges, and rankings. This is primarily fixing redundant or realistically unwinnable medals/badges, and bringing up the count of Angelic badges to be equivalent with the count of the other badge tiers. Any ideas for new medals and badges will also be here though.

[ ] Add color-coding to medals and badges in mortems at the end of a game. 1 2

Medals

[ ] Change "Shotgunnery Cross" and "Marksmanship Cross" to each require 100% kills, so that they're not redundant with the Angel of Shotgunnery and Angel of Marksmanship challenges, and so that you can't cheese obtaining them in a pacifist run. 1

[ ] Change "Malicious Knives Cross" and "Sunrise Iron Fist" to require 50+% kills, so that you can't cheese obtaining them in a pacifist run. 1

[ ] New: Experience Token - Reach experience level 15 (excludes Angel of 100 and Archangel of 666). 1

[ ] New: Aurora Star - Find 10 uniques or more in a single game (Allow all challenge types). 1

[ ] New: Technician Medal - Create 15 or more different assemblies in a single game. (Allow all challenge types) 1 2 3

[ ] New: UAC Cross - Kill 2,500 or more enemies. (Allow all challenge types) 1 2 3

[ ] New: Boss Slayer Cross - Clear a boss floor and exit alive. (Boss floors are special floors where all enemies are a boss, which are Bruiser Brothers, Shamblers, Agony Elementals, Lava Elementals, or Cyberdemons. This does not include Phobos Anomaly, Tower of Babel, Dis, and Hell Fortess). 1 2 3 4 5 6

[ ] New: Unexplored Star - Visit no generated levels and win the game. (Excludes Angel of Confidence, Angel of Overconfidence, Angel of 100, and Archangel of 666) 1 2 3 4 5 6

Badges

[ ] Disallow Dual-Angel challenges for all badges that require performing a feat on a specific challenge. This includes Berserker Bronze Badge to Pacifist Bronze Badge, Berserker Silver Badge to Pacifist Silver Badge, Berserker Gold Badge to Arena Gold Badge, Berserker Platinum Badge to Everyman Platinum Badge, and Reaper Diamond Badge to Arena Diamond Badge. 1

[ ] Allow previously obtained badges to appear in mortems, and keep count of them. To prevent the awards section of UV/N! mortems from becoming absurdly large, have only the highest tier of each badge appear on the mortem 1 2

[ ] Have higher rankings require more of the previous tier badges (get to needing 15 Bronze, and then a few rankings later, start requiring them again for 18 Bronze, 21 Bronze, etc). 1

[ ] No-Life King ranking should require all badges of every type. Currently it only requires Angelic Badges. 1

[ ] Change Heroic Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum/Diamond Badges to require 10%/30%/50%/70%/90% of total medals respectively, so that the series remains proportional as new medals are added. 1 2

[ ] Add a new set of badges for House of Pain, since the Scavenger series doesn't work for it (as it doesn't require luck to complete without the Staff). You can read my linked post for ideas on what do for the badges. 1

[ ] Veteran Bronze Badge - Change this to requiring a standard game so that it's at least a bit different than Medal of Prejudice. 1

[ ] Speedrunner Bronze Badge - Change this to 40 minutes so that it's a little different than Compet-n Silver Cross. 1

[ ] Arena Bronze Badge - Change this to requiring a standard game so that it's at least a bit different than Hell Champion Medal. 1

[ ] Gatekeeper Gold Badge - Change to passing Phobos Anomaly on Hurt Me Plenty difficulty without taking damage, so that it isn't practically the same as Cyberdemon's Head and is less trivial. Alternatively, change it to both passing Phobos Anomaly + clearing Tower Of Babel without damage on at least HNTR. 1 2

[ ] Berserker Platinum Badge - Remove the kill count requirement, so that it isn't too similar to Gargulec Cross. 1 2 3

[ ] Hunter Platinum Badge - Change to Ultra-Violence and needing 75+% kills, as it's mostly redundant with Hunter Diamond and UV is nonsensically skipped in this badge series. 1 2 3 4

[ ] Everyman Platinum Badge - Change it to requiring 100% kills, so that it isn't the same as Thomas' Medal. 1

[ ] Berserker Diamond Badge - Remove the kill count and require the newly suggested medal "Unexplored Star" for a more unique and fitting challenge. 1 2

[ ] Arena Diamond Badge - Change this to requiring Ultra-Violence, as it has become realistically unwinnable since Hell's Arena was changed to only spawn on floor 2 (possibly keep it on Nightmare if potential changes are made to Hell's Arena that could make this badge winnable again). 1 2 3

[ ] Centurial Diamond Badge - Change this to require the Experience Cross in addition to Nightmare difficulty, so that it isn't the same as Dervis' Medallion. 1

[ ] UAC Angelic Badge - Change to requiring Ultra-Violence or even possibly Hurt Me Plenty, as it is realistically unwinnable. 1

[ ] Strongman Angelic Badge - Change to requiring 75+% kills, so that it is less tedious and possibly realistic without farming respawns. 1

[ ] Speedrunner Angelic Badge - Change to requiring 12 minutes or less, as it is realistically unwinnable. 1 2 3

[ ] Demonic Angelic Badge - Change to winning a standard game on Nightmare with 100% kills and Untouchable Pin, as it is realistically unwinnable. 1 2 3

[ ] Shottyman Angelic Badge - Change to requiring 100% kills, as it is too easy for an Angelic Badge. 1

[ ] Eagerness Angelic Badge - Change to requiring 50+% kills, as it is realistically unwinnable. 1

[ ] Inquisitor Angelic Badge - Change to requiring Ultra-Violence, as it is realistically unwinnable. 1

[ ] Pacifist Angelic Badge - Change to requiring Nightmare and remove the kill count requirement, as it is unwinnable without absurd save scumming. 1

[ ] New: Heroic Angelic Badge - Achieve all medals. 1 2 3

[ ] New: Destroyer Angelic Badge - Complete Angel of Max Carnage + Angel of 100 on Nightmare. 1

[ ] New: Hunter Angelic Badge - Complete the proposed Archangel of Darkness on Nightmare. If this challenge isn't created, instead go with Angel of Darkness on Nightmare as a conqueror. 1 2 3

[ ] New: Daredevil Angelic Badge - Complete Angel of Overconfidence + Angel of Darkness on Nightmare with 100% kills. 1

[ ] New: Purist Angelic Badge - Complete Angel of Purity + Angel of Light Travel on Nightmare. 1

[ ] New: Carnage Angelic Badge - Complete Angel of Max Carnage + Angel of Masochism on Nightmare with 100% kills. 1

[ ] New: Apostle Angelic Badge - Kill the Apostle in a standard game on Nightmare. 1

[ ] New: Sunrise Angelic Badge - Complete Angel of 100 on Ultra-Violence with 100% kills using only Fists. 1

[Omega Tyrant]

New Content

This post will cover all suggestions for new content to add to the game. It is organized by general features, equipment/items, enemies, new challenges, and miscellaneous stuff (a traits and special levels section could be added too if Kornel says they're on the table and anyone has decent suggestions for them).

Features

[ ] Have the trait selection screen be more color-coded (example by Mader Levap): 1 2

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[ ] Add a toggle for turning off the powerup overlays of Berserk, Invulnerability, and Envirosuit. 1 2

[ ] Add a toggle to enable legacy inventory selection (where each inventory slot was instantly selectable by an associated letter key) for players who preferred that method. 1 2 3 (Too technically difficult to implement)

[ ] On the UI bar, in the empty right side of it, show the total amount of loose ammo in your inventory for your equipped weapon (or the ammo left in your equipped ammo box if you have one equipped). 1

[ ] Consider having a time display in the player info screen? 1

[ ] Create/readd locked vaults, as they're described on the wiki. 1 2

[ ] Add trap rooms. These would have a power-up/exotic/unique item inside, and when picked up, has a randomized chance of spawning enemies similar to a summon enemies lever, or floods the room with acid or lava. The weight of the power-ups/exotics/uniques would not impact the rest of the floor, and any enemies spawned by the trap will not give EXP. The chance of the trap activating can be affected by depth level and/or difficulty. 1 2 3 4 5

[ ] Add support for more music slots beyond level 25 in the music.lua file, so that players have the option for more different music to play in A100/666 if they desire. 1

Equipment, assemblies, and other Items

[ ] New common Pistol type (suggested example is "Magnum" with more power and less accuracy). 1 2

[ ] New exotic: Acid-Proof Armor, which is 3 Protection, 95% Acid Resistance, -10% movement speed, everything else normal. (Could alternatively be named "Baron's Hide" to have a more flavorful name) 1 2

[ ] New exotic: Glass Armor, which is 0 Protection, 50% Durability, 50% all resistances. 1 2

[ ] New exotic: Glass Shield, which is 0 Protection, 50% Durability, 80% all resistances, cannot be repaired, cannot be modded, doesn't degrade. 1 2 3 4

[ ] New unique: Dimensional Boots, which is 4 Protection, -30% Move Speed, +30% Knockback, and when worn, you move two tiles for each movement rather than the usual one tile. 1

[ ] New assembly: Scouting Armor (any armor + AS), which is original with +1 Vision, +10% speed. 1

[ ] New assembly: Blastproof Armor (any armor + TF), which is original with half damage to explosions, +30% knockback. 1

[ ] New assembly: Grappling Armor (any armor + BA), which is original with +30% Melee Resistance, -50% knockback. 1 2 3 4

[ ] New assembly: Sniper Rifle (Chaingun + BAS), which is original with auto-hit property. 1 2

[ ] New assembly: Laser Blade (Combat Knife + BTN), which is 5d5 plasma damage with 0.8 sec firing speed, -2 accuracy, and when equipped, it has the ability to reduce any plasma hit that deals less than 5 damage before armor/resistances to 0 (or alternatively gives +50% plasma resistance). 1

[ ] New set: Tactical Set (Tactical Armor + Tactical Boots), which gives Dodgemaster. 1 2

[ ] New set: Bruiser Set (Acid-Proof Armor/Baron's Hide + Acid-Proof Boots), which gives 100% acid resistance. 1

Enemies

[ ] New enemy: Nightmare Revenant, which is much faster, hits much harder in melee, and swaps its fire damage and resistance for plasma damage + resistance. (Exact stats to be discussed, view linked post for current suggested numbers). 1

[ ] New enemy: Nightmare Mancubus, which is far tankier, hits much harder in melee while having melee resistance, and its projectiles deal acid damage while being able to leave behind acid tiles. (Exact stats to be discussed, view linked post for current suggested numbers). 1

[ ] New monster group: 2 x Baron of Hell, 2 - 6 x Nightmare Imp, with a minimum depth of 30, maximum depth of 60, and a weight of 4. 1

[ ] New monster group: 2 x Bruiser Brother, 4 - 9 x Nightmare Imp, with a minimum depth of 60, and a weight of 3. 1

[ ] New monster group: 4 - 9 x Nightmare Demon, with a minimum depth of 50, and a weight of 3. 1

[ ] New monster group: 3 - 6 x Nightmare Arachnotron, with a minimum depth of 70, and a weight of 2. 1

[ ] New monster group: 1 x Elite Former Sergeant, 2-6 x Elite Former Human, with a minimum depth of 60, maximum depth of 80, and a weight of 4. 1

[ ] New Monster group: 1 x Elite Former Captain, 2-3 x Elite Former Sergeant, 2-3 x Elite Former Human, with a minimum depth of 70, maximum depth of 90, and a weight of 3. 1

[ ] New monster group: 1 x Elite Former Commando, 2-3 x Elite Former Captain, 2-3 x Elite Former Sergeant, with a minimum depth of 80, and a weight of 2. 1

[ ] New monster group: 2-3 x Lava Elemental, 2-3 x Shambler, with a minimum depth of 70, and a weight of 1. 1

[ ] New monster group: 1 x Agony Elemental, 3-8 x Nightmare Cacodemon, with a minimum depth of 80, and a weight of 2. 1

[ ] New monster group: 1 x Cyberdemon, 4-9 x Baron of Hell, with a minimum depth of 80, and a weight of 2. 1

[ ] New monster group: 1 x Cyberdemon, 3-6 x Bruiser Brother, with a minimum depth of 90, and a weight of 1. 1

[ ] New monster group: 2 x Nightmare Archvile, 3-6 x Mancubus (or 2-4 x Nightmare Mancubus if they're added), 3-6 x Revenant (or 2-4 x Nightmare Revenant if they're added), with a minimum depth of 90, and weight of 2. 1

New challenge ideas

[ ] "Angel of Gladiating" and "Angel of Labyrinth" (or any other appropriate name): The former challenge will have all floors be Arena-type levels, and the latter challenge will have all floors be mazes. 1

[ ] "Angel of Misfortune" (or any other appropriate name): Every floor will have a level event. 1

[ ] "Angel of Spilling" (or any other appropriate name): Your inventory will be reset to the starting loadout upon entering every floor. The starting loadout may be modified so you're not practically forced to use Pistol builds, exotics/uniques may have increased chances of spawning to compensate for the temporary equipment, and an exception could be made for entering boss and special levels, so that they remain beatable. 1

[ ] "Archangel of Darkness": You have a vision radius of 4 and enemies revive, but you gain x2.5 experience. 1 2 3 4 5

New level events

[ ] "Mortuary event": All enemies will immediately die when entering the floor, then a random number of Arch-Viles will be spawned around the floor (and especially bad level rolls on UV/N! could spawn Nightmare Arch-Viles). Also disable the "reveal enemies" mechanic and stair sense in this event. 1

[ ] "Max Carnage event": Emulates Angel of Max Carnage for a single level, i.e. the player and enemies always deal maximum damage while having +12 accuracy. Particularly bad level rolls should instead have a "Snake Eyes" event, where only enemies deal maximum damage and have +12 accuracy. 1

[ ] "Masochism event": Emulates Angel of Masochism for a single level, i.e. the player will be unable to heal until they exit the floor. To prevent a player from getting screwed by entering such a floor at low health, have the player get supercharged upon entering the floor. 1

Miscellaneous

[ ] New fluid: Blood, which deals 8 damage, and while it harms the player, it does not harm enemies. (Needs discussion on damage type, it could just be Plasma, so that a third resistance type is relevant to boots, but some boots will need that resistance added). 1

[Omega Tyrant]

I'll use this post to explain my rationale for the new suggestions I added to the OP while making it.

*Farther buff all Elite Formers by increasing their melee accuracy.

Elite Formers were given a substantial buff to their melee damage to make them less exploitable and weaken camping strats in Military Base. However, I realized their accuracy wasn't buffed either, and their accuracy with melee attacks range from mediocre to terrible, limiting the impact of their melee buff as even on UV/N! they'll miss you often with their melee attack. Just buffing them all by +2 should suffice.

*Lower the Nightmare Cacodemon's spawning depth in A100/666 to 50+.

I noticed the Nightmare Cacodemon has a spawning depth of 51+, which looks like a typo, when all other enemies from floor 30 onward have spawning depths that are a multiple of 10, with this lone exception. So that should be corrected.

*Lower the Shambler's spawning depth in A100/666 to 70+.

When looking over when the later enemies start spawning in A100, while floor 60 only introduces one new enemy (Elite Former Sergeant) and floor 70 introduces two enemies (Elite Former Captain and Lava Elemental), floor 80 introduces a whopping four of them. So this suggestion is to more even out when new enemies get introduced instead of having this big spike at floor 74-80, of which the Shambler in that floor 80 group makes the most sense to have spawn sooner.

Give EXP for pulling levers (but consider disabling this bonus if the player has Intuition)

On Discord, after someone erroneously thought that levers gave you EXP, Kornel stated he thought that could be a good idea, and I think it can be too, so I want to formally propose it, to farther incentivize gambling with levers. I would also suggest possibly disabling that EXP bonus if you have Intuition, so that Intuition doesn't get buffed farther.

Change "Shotgunnery Cross" and "Marksmanship Cross" to each require 100% kills, while also changing "Malicious Knives Cross" and "Sunrise Iron Fist" to require 50+% kills

Aside from the former two new medals being redundant with the already existing challenges where you're restricted to only using Shotguns and Pistols, I discovered you can easily cheese getting them alongside the Malicious Knives Cross, Sunrise Iron Fist, and the new Zen Master Cross all in a single pacifist run (as you can see in this mortem I posted to the Discord). Ignoring the blatant cheesing to get a bunch of obtuse medals at once, this seems to be clearly against the spirit of these medals where you're supposed to be actually killing enemies with the designated weapon type. A simple solution would be adding a 100% kills requirement to the Shotgunnery and Markmanship Crosses (that additionally has the bonus of making them somewhat distinct in purpose from the pre-exisiting shotgun/pistol challenges), while adding a 50% kills requirement to the Malicious Knives Cross and Sunrise Iron Fist. You could technically still get them all in a single 100% kills fist-only run, but that takes a ton more effort than spamming pacifist runs until you get lucky (and at least you wouldn't be able to double them up with the Zen Master Cross and Pacifist Medal).

*Allow previously obtained badges to appear in mortems, and keep count of them. To prevent the awards section of UV/N! mortems from becoming absurdly large, have only the highest tier of each badge appear on the mortem

Being able to reobtain badges was shot down by Kornel, under the reasoning that it would make Nightmare mortems' award sections become hugely inflated. I agree with that reasoning but still would like this idea, so I want to propose amending it to where you can reobtain badges, but only the highest tier badge of each set will appear in the mortem's awards section (for example, if you fulfill the conditions to earn the Veteran Diamond Badge, none of the lower tier Veteran Badges will appear in the mortem). The main cause of this potential inflation is that obtaining the higher tier badges will also fulfill the requisites for all the lower tier badges in the set, with only a few exceptions, so this should prevent the award section from becoming too inflated in size with redundant badges.

*Add a new set of badges for House of Pain

Currently the Scavenger set of badges do not apply to House of Pain. You could simply include House of Pain in this badge set, but given that unlike The Vaults, House of Pain is conventionally beatable without the Arena Master Staff, so getting the Scavenger badges on it would be much much easier. Considering that, House of Pain should have a new set of badges for it. The requisites need to be hammered out, but I have the following ideas:

Homewrecker Bronze: Enter House of Pain, and decline the invitation.
Homewrecker Silver: Clear House of Pain.
Homewrecker Gold: Clear House of Pain on HMP or higher without using the Arena Master's Staff.
Homewrecker Platinum: Clear House of Pain on UV or higher in Angel of Confidence.
Homewrecker Diamond: Clear House of Pain on N! in Angel of Overconfidence.
Homewrecker Angelic: I'm at a loss for this one and really need ideas, maybe clear it on N! without using the Arena Master's Staff in an Angel of Purity + Angel of Impatience dual challenge? (i.e. beat it on N! while being unable to heal at all)

*Change Everyman Platinum Badge to requiring 100% kills, so that it isn't redundant with Thomas' Medal.

Kornel has stated that he doesn't want to change any of the medals named after old players, named after them for being the first players to achieve that medal's particular feat. So if changing Thomas' Medal is off the table, then Everyman Platinum should be changed to not be redundant. One idea is to change Everyman Platinum to require 100% kills instead of being a conqueror, so that it remains a tough platinum badge that is still available to obtain on HNTR difficulty.

*Change Centurial Diamond Badge to require the Experience Cross in addition to clearing A100 on Nightmare difficulty, so that it isn't redundant with Dervis' Medallion

Similarly, if changing Dervis' Medallion is off the table, then Centurial Diamond Badge should be changed to not be redundant. My idea is to make it also require obtaining the Experience Cross, so you must actually kill most enemies to max out your level instead of just trying to stair dive through, but you don't have to go through the tedium of destroying all corpses or repeatedly killing a reviving enemy as kill percentage doesn't matter unlike with many other badges.

*Add the Bruiser Set (Acid-Proof Armor/Baron's Hide + Acid-Proof Boots), which gives 100% acid resistance.

If the Acid-Proof Armor (or Baron's Hide as I think it could be named) is added, it makes an obvious pairing with the Acid-Proof Boots, that can work as a weaker counterpart to the Inquisitor Set with full acid immunity instead of fire immunity, while also giving the underutilized Acid-Proof Boots a bit more potential usage.

*Add new monster groups for deeper levels in Angel of 100/666

0.9.9.8 added a new monster group of Pain Elementals + Cacodemons that spawns exclusively in A100/666 as its minimum depth is beyond standard game limits, which got me thinking that there could be more groups added to shake up deeper A100/666, utilizing the nightmare and boss enemies that have no such groups. Plus seeing the 100th Archvile + Barons/Revenants/Mancubus group gets repetitive, so more promotion of variety is nice and helps to make deeper A100 floors a bit more potentially dangerous. Several new monster group ideas I have:

2 x Baron of Hell, 2 - 6 x Nightmare Imp, with a minimum depth of 30, maximum depth of 60, and a weight of 4 (an upgraded version of the Baron + Imps group that stops spawning after floor 21).

2 x Bruiser Brother, 4 - 9 x Nightmare Imp, with a minimum depth of 60, and a weight of 3 (a farther upgraded version of the aforementioned group).

4 - 9 x Nightmare Demon, with a minimum depth of 50, and a weight of 3 ("Phobos Lab flashback", an upgraded version of the mass Pinky group that stopped spawning dozens of floors ago).

3 - 6 x Nightmare Arachnotron, with a minimum depth of 70, and a weight of 2. ("You can't tank this", an upgraded version of the mass Arachnotron group, though accordingly more uncommon).

1 x Elite Former Sergeant, 2-6 x Elite Former Human, with a minimum depth of 60, maximum depth of 80, and a weight of 4 ("Elite platoon", an upgraded version of the old Former Sergeant + Former Humans group)

1 x Elite Former Captain, 2-3 x Elite Former Sergeant, 2-3 x Elite Former Human, with a minimum depth of 70, maximum depth of 90, and a weight of 3 ("Elite platoon Mark 2", a farther upgraded version of the Formers-only group that utilizes the newly spawning Elite Former Captain).

1 x Elite Former Commando, 2-3 x Elite Former Captain, 2-3 x Elite Former Sergeant, with a minimum depth of 80, and a weight of 2 ("Elite platoon Mark 3", an even greater upgraded version that brings out all the big guns).

2-3 x Lava Elemental, 2-3 x Shambler, with a minimum depth of 70, and a weight of 1. ("Fireblu", a rare yet potent combination of lava and plasma, plus these two guys both teleport and regenerate, while not making good group buddies with anyone else).

1 x Agony Elemental, 3-8 x Nightmare Cacodemon, with a minimum depth of 80, and a weight of 2 ("The Dark Cloud", a significantly more threatening version of that cute meatball cloud group we've been seeing for the past 50 floors).

1 x Cyberdemon, 4-9 x Baron of Hell, with a minimum depth of 80, and a weight of 2 ("Tricks And Traps", a homage to one of Doom 2's most famous setpieces, unfortunately this time you can't make them fight each other).

1 x Cyberdemon, 3-6 x Bruiser Brother, with a minimum depth of 90, and a weight of 1 ("You can run but you can't hide", a rare upgraded version of the former group, as aside from Cybie having even beefier backup, this time they will all be hunting you alongside him).

2 x Nightmare Archvile, 3-6 x Mancubus (or 2-4 x Nightmare Mancubus if they're added), 3-6 x Revenant (or 2-4 x Nightmare Revenant if they're added), with a minimum depth of 90, and weight of 2 ("Nightmare VMR", of course we need the upgraded version of this classic trio group to round out the end of A100).

Add a new fluid, Blood, which deals 8 damage, and while it harms the player, it does not harm enemies.

Kornel mentioned the possibility of adding a new fluid, and when thinking of it, we're missing the third classic damaging fluid from Doom, blood. To make it more interesting, I think it should do substantially less damage than lava at 8 damage, but it should be even harder to get good foot protection against it (perhaps it should utilize plasma damage?), and it has the farther unique effect of being a fluid that doesn't damage enemies, making it a more serious impediment than lava can be (which you can normally exploit to great effect against most enemies, whether to escape them, corral them to a favorable position, or knock them into it to severely injure or kill them). It should be made to only generate in Hell and beyond, and be a bit uncommon. If it's added, some boots may need the relevant resistance added (but I'm thinking nothing but Enviroboots or a new unique boots should make you immune to it), and you can also add it to the pool of lever effects.

[TNT]

Thanks for the compilation, Tyrant.

A small U/X suggestion based on my recent experiences with DRL:
It would be convenient if we had a way to show how much ammo is left in your inventory for the current weapon you're wielding. Feels like there's space to the right of the weapon itself, at least.
I know you can open the menu to look, but not having to stop the action to look and keep track may make gameplay flow better, especially with ammo-hungry stuff like rapids.

There's a lot to go through and respond to here, but for the moment, +1 to having an upgrade to the basic pistol that isn't a special drop you could never see in a given run.

EDIT: Also, after once again staying up until almost 3 AM playing the game, I think it'd be -extremely- helpful to have a clock display somewhere >~<
It can maybe be toggled or something but it'd certainly help with keeping track of time, especially when playing in fullscreen.
ToME has this as an add-on and it's probably the only reason I don't stay awake playing until ungodly hours

[Omega Tyrant]

Thanks for the compilation, Tyrant.

A small U/X suggestion based on my recent experiences with DRL:
It would be convenient if we had a way to show how much ammo is left in your inventory for the current weapon you're wielding. Feels like there's space to the right of the weapon itself, at least.
I know you can open the menu to look, but not having to stop the action to look and keep track may make gameplay flow better, especially with ammo-hungry stuff like rapids.

There's a lot to go through and respond to here, but for the moment, +1 to having an upgrade to the basic pistol that isn't a special drop you could never see in a given run.

EDIT: Also, after once again staying up until almost 3 AM playing the game, I think it'd be -extremely- helpful to have a clock display somewhere >~<
It can maybe be toggled or something but it'd certainly help with keeping track of time, especially when playing in fullscreen.
ToME has this as an add-on and it's probably the only reason I don't stay awake playing until ungodly hours

Having an ammo display on the UI bar would be convenient and there is certainly space for it. Main issue is ammo boxes and other weapons of the same type with ammo in them, but I would imagine that it wouldn't count them since that isn't ammo you can readily reload with. And if you have an ammo box equipped, it could instead show the ammo left in it.

As for a time display, I personally don't see much use for it, but it is one of those "sure why not" things, as long as there's a clean spot in the UI to fit it in (and it of course isn't too much a pain to program in).

Updated the OPs to include this and a more up-to-date bug list.

[Khashishi]

I miss the ability to select items by pressing a letter key corresponding to each row of the inventory. It is much more efficient than scrolling to the item and pressing enter. Both methods of selection should be available.

The volume of the sound from using the arena master staff on multiple enemies should be reduced, or it should only be played once regardless of enemy count.

I'm not sure if knockback has been fixed; I haven't tested enough 0.9.9.8. But in 0.9.9.7 knockback occurred at a different time to damage, so hitting enemies with tactical rockets would frequently cause them to get knocked back but take no damage. Also, I think that you can get knocked back twice by enemies with splash damage if they knock you back into a tile where the splash hasn't resolved yet. I'm not sure how this affects damage.

I suggest not basing knockback distance on damage so that son of a bitch doesn't increase knockback. This is a nerf to son of a bitch, which is very powerful. You could add increased knockback to the reloader trait, which would synergize well with the shotgun and rocket focus, though you might need to change the name of the trait.

Maybe a guaranteed combat pistol somewhere would be nice, like in Phobos lab.

UI change: When using look mode, the screen should scroll if you try to look near the edge of the screen. I'm not sure if there's a way to scroll the screen without using the mouse, but I don't like using the mouse to check around the map.

[Omega Tyrant]

I miss the ability to select items by pressing a letter key corresponding to each row of the inventory. It is much more efficient than scrolling to the item and pressing enter. Both methods of selection should be available.

I personally hated this and was glad to see it removed, as too many times I misclicked on the inventory screen and it made me waste a medkit or other consumable item. I suppose there is no harm though in adding it as a toggle in the legacy settings if people really want it back though (assuming there is no coding complications with it).

The volume of the sound from using the arena master staff on multiple enemies should be reduced, or it should only be played once regardless of enemy count.

This is a problem in general with how repeated sounds being played at once have their audio stacked together. This was pointed out in the 0.9.9.8 thread and some adjustments were made for it (notably, tripping a wall destroying lever no longer breaks your ear drums), but more could be done.

I'm not sure if knockback has been fixed; I haven't tested enough 0.9.9.8. But in 0.9.9.7 knockback occurred at a different time to damage, so hitting enemies with tactical rockets would frequently cause them to get knocked back but take no damage.

This is already reported in the OP, being the second point in the bug report section.

Also, I think that you can get knocked back twice by enemies with splash damage if they knock you back into a tile where the splash hasn't resolved yet. I'm not sure how this affects damage.

Could you elaborate on this, and perhaps accompanied by screenshots demonstrating it, because I'm not understanding what it is you're reporting here. If you're just saying that some hits can knock you back two spaces, then that's a completely normal function of the knockback mechanic, where any shotgun blast and non-BFG explosive hit knocks you back by one tile per 7 damage before armor/resistances, and so an explosive hit that rolls 14+ damage will knock you back two or more tiles, which such strong attacks are possessed by several enemies.

I suggest not basing knockback distance on damage so that son of a bitch doesn't increase knockback. This is a nerf to son of a bitch, which is very powerful. You could add increased knockback to the reloader trait, which would synergize well with the shotgun and rocket focus, though you might need to change the name of the trait.

I'm going to strongly disagree with this. Aside from knockback being tied to an attack's strength being intuitive and how it works in actual Doom, this would be a huge fundamental mechanic change that goes beyond just player balancing (now how would you determine knockback from enemy attacks if it's no longer tied to damage?). Son of a Bitch is additionally not so strong that it merits any nerfs, not to mention it being able to increase knockback can already be a drawback (notably having high amounts of SoB resulting in rapid-fire weapons knocking enemies out of vision and so your subsequent shots miss the now out-of-sight enemy), and Reloader already got a substantial buff in 0.9.9.8 by having its effect be improved to -30% reloading time per level (while shotguns also don't need any farther buffs when they were already the most reliable weapon type before the aforementioned Reloader buff gave them a complete cakewalk of an early game). On top of that, not tying knockback to damage would be a crippling nerf to Pistols that heavily depend on reaching the damage thresholds to cause knockback to stay out of an enemy's vision and kill enemies before they reach them, and Pistols are already easily the weakest builds in the game.

Maybe a guaranteed combat pistol somewhere would be nice, like in Phobos lab.

This would be very strong for Pistol builds and worthless for every other build; special level rewards should avoid only benefiting a small amount of builds, the guaranteed Combat Shotgun is a far better reward in Phobos Lab and Military Base (being an invaluable utility weapon for every build in the game and not just benefiting Shotgun builds). Additionally, the suggestion for a new stronger common Pistol already does cover Pistol builds being handicapped by the lack of a guaranteed upgrade (first point in the equipment section of the New Content post).

UI change: When using look mode, the screen should scroll if you try to look near the edge of the screen. I'm not sure if there's a way to scroll the screen without using the mouse, but I don't like using the mouse to check around the map.

I use mouse and so never use the look command, but I certainly see how this is annoying and an outright gameplay detriment for keyboard-only players in graphic mode, so this is a no-brainer fix. Will add it to the OP.

[Kornel Kisielewicz]

I personally hated this and was glad to see it removed, as too many times I misclicked on the inventory screen and it made me waste a medkit or other consumable item. I suppose there is no harm though in adding it as a toggle in the legacy settings if people really want it back though (assuming there is no coding complications with it).

This would be a nightmare to sensibly support alongside keybinding rebindings unfortunately, that's why I removed it.

[Omega Tyrant]

This would be a nightmare to sensibly support alongside keybinding rebindings unfortunately, that's why I removed it.

Noted, supporting rebinding keys is definitely more important in that case than maintaining support for legacy item selection.

[Buzzard]

Wording Change:

Currently, Ironman specifically states it gives you 20% more health points when in fact it gives you a flat 10 regardless of what class you are. If you were a Marine, 20% of your starting health would be 12 more hit points. I understand that this is partly due to how Angel of Humanity works, but Angel of Humanity already tells you that Ironman only gives you +2 more health points. In addition, Marine itself says you get 10 more health points instead of a percentage increase.

I would reword Ironman to just state that it grants you 10 more health points (just like how choosing Marine does now) and just keep the wording on Angel of Humanity where it says that Ironman grants you +2 HP now. I would also probably add in that Marines do start with 12 on AOH on the AOH trial selection screen, just to be clear.

[Omega Tyrant]

Updated the OP, as well as got a few new suggestions:

*Buff the Chaingun's accuracy to +3

The Chaingun is in an awkward spot compared to the other standard weapons, where it not only has a better standard weapon of the same type that completely outclasses it (the Plasma Rifle, after which being obtained, rapid fire builds will only keep the Chaingun around for ammo conservation purposes), but it is also a rather lousy weapon in the early game without several cumulative levels of EE + SoB or playing in Angel of Max Carnage, with its very unreliable damage output (especially against high armor enemies like Pinkies and enemies with bullet resistance like Lost Souls, where half the time a bullet from a Chaingun will only do 1 damage to them without SoB). Even when playing rapid fire builds, I find myself still mostly using Shotguns until I get a Plasma Rifle because the Chaingun is so unreliable (especially with Ammochain, where you're blocked Eagle Eye and so can't hit anything with the Chaingun), and if I'm not playing a rapid fire build, I basically never bother with a Chaingun (with its only possible niche for them is when playing Nightmare or Angel of Darkness, being a means that is slightly better than the Pistol to kill enemies without knockback so they die exactly in a spot that destroys their corpse). The Gatling Gun assembly exists to give a big early improvement to the Chaingun, but you typically won't get the two Bulk mods to make it until you clear Phobos Lab/Military Base, by which point you likely have a Plasma Rifle or will get one very soon, and so you likely rather save them for Fireproof armor, buffing the Chainsaw, making a Tactical Rocket Launcher, or possibly building a Nanomachic weapon.

Buffing standard equipment is tricky, as they're so integral to how the game been balanced since its inception and a buff to them that is a little too much can upend that balance, but I would like to see the Chaingun get some help and there is room to improve it. So I propose PowerPlayer's/Buzzard's idea to slightly buff the Chaingun by increasing its base accuracy to +3; this gives it a bit more crucial reliability so burst builds will actually use it more and non-burst builds may find it a bit less frustrating to try using, as well as gives it something over the Plasma Rifle rather than just using a cheaper ammo source. I think you could increase its accuracy to +4 instead or its damage to 1d7 too without shaking things up too much, but again given how delicate the balancing of standard equipment is, I rather err on the side of caution with buffing them. This change would also indirectly buff Former Captains, but since they are usually such a nonthreatening enemy (with Sergeants even often being more threatening despite the Captains having the higher danger rating), them getting buffed would be fine.

*Have Sniper mods reduce the dropoff reduction penalty on Shotguns.

Currently you can apply Sniper mods to Shotguns, but like Agility mods, it does nothing. There is the Plasmatic Shotgun assembly so Sniper mods can do something for Shotguns, but this isn't an assembly you'll necessarily want to make (especially if you're not playing Nightmare or Angel of Darkness for its corpse disposing abilities), as Shotguns can be buffed a lot more through conventional modding and not lose the ability to corner shoot with them (as turning it Plasmatic would). This makes Sniper mods a pretty lousy find for Shotgun builds much of the time, and gives no worth finding multiples of them (woe behold the Shotgun build whose "reward" from Deimos Lab is two Sniper mods), farther enforcing Sniper mods being the least useful rare mod by far.

Considering that, Sniper mods should do something directly on Shotguns rather than nothing, and an obvious idea that comes to mind is to have Sniper mods improve their long distance damage by reducing the Shotgun's dropoff reduction rate by 1% per applied Sniper mod. This makes Sniper mods always valuable in a unique way for Shotguns, whether you're a Shotgun build or not, and gives more interesting modding ideas for Shotguns so that going PPPTT or PPTTT isn't the only optimal modding endgame for them, while not necessarily being broken either even if you triple Sniper mod a Shotgun (as even a Combat, Assault, and Plasma Shotgun couldn't have their dropoff reduction rate fall below 2% per tile, so they would still see some damage reduction at very far ranges).

*Add new Unique boots: Dimensional Boots (or any other more interesting name)

Currently we only have two Uniques in the games that are boots; the Enviroboots and Nyarlaptotep's Boots. This is for good reason, as you are limited in interesting things you can do with boots, and the existing special boots already cover strong fluid protection (Acid-proof Boots, Gothic Boots, and the aforementioned Enviroboots), faster movement (Phaseshift Boots), and both (the aforementioned Laptop Boots), but we could have one more to have a bit more variety with the available Unique boots. When thinking of interesting effects new boots could have to merit putting them into the game, one idea that came to mind is boots that let you move two spaces for each action, which has the following unique applications:

*You would now have a means to actually dodge Revenant missiles, as well as dodge Archvile zaps within their vision.
*You have a means to avoid fluid damage without outright fluid immunity over 1 tile wide fluid rivers/pools, and otherwise can farther limit fluid damage without needing big fluid resistances, by effectively having to move through half the fluid tiles.
*You can get more usage from action-based powerups, as you'll cover more ground in less actions (especially useful when you can't rocket jump for whatever reason).
*Has a drawback in that only moving two tiles at a time gives you less precise control, while switching to another pair of boots takes time. Can also come with a big movespeed penalty so that you're not moving across maps absurdly fast.

I'm unsure of what to name them, but "Dimensional Boots" comes to mind if no one can think of something better. Exact stats also need to be hammered out if this idea is doable and accepted, but I have the following stats in mind:

Protection: 4
Resistances: None
Durability: 100%
Move Speed: -30%
Knockback: +30%
Depth: 12+
Weight: 2