For Want of a Pack of Smokes

FOR WANT OF A PACK OF SMOKES

You are /n. Every day, you wake up and smoke a cigarette,  before haunting the &RP grid mindlessly. For years you've lived in this sewer, until one day... the power goes out and you wake up to an empty carton. You're out of smokes. 

So, what's happening up there? Do you really care? In your search for another pack of smokes, you might end up trying to find something else without even realizing it...

CURRENT DEMO FEATURES (3.3.26 4.6.26 4.7.26 4.23.26):

• 9 maps out of the ~19 accessible overworld maps. Most of New Malta proper is accessible, in addition to Roukiline Church and the Crackhead Burg.
• A lot of new guns, drugs, and other bullsh!t to collect, such as:
  -Save Liquor-A water pipe-Makeshift Firearms-An energy drink- Sellable Valuables-
• Reworked weapon crafting skills.  Produce Laser, Plasma, and Tesla weapons have been combined into one "Advanced Makeshift Weapons", with the same Hardware req for crafting as vanilla. Minimum Hardware to get the ability is the minimum for vanilla's Produce Laser. In addition, you can craft the new junk guns using Makeshift Weapons.
• Alternative Fire modes for certain guns; Shotguns have a variety of capacities for ammunition; you can holdup to 7 shells in reserve before having to load them into a box and can unload shotguns to pocket the shells
• Lockpicking and Drug Dealing minigames. Currently you can only deal Crack to Crackheads, but most locked doors can be picked.
• About 11 quests, three of which have multiple ways to complete them.
• The first two quests, each, for 2 of the (arguably more important of the) 5 planned faction quest lines.
• 20 music tracks that are mostly comprised of VRC7 (a sound expansion chip developed by Konami that adds 6 Yamaha derivative  FM channels, only used in exactly 1 Japan-exclusive release) remixes of songs from various NES games, which will eventually be replaced with entirely original tracks.

PLANNED RELEASE TIMELINE:

• - Initial demo release
  Maps: New Malta Sewers, Uptown, Docks, and Bad Street, Roukline Church, North and South Crackhead Burg, the Forest Sewers, and the Insane Asylum

• Update 1 -
  Maps: Edge of Civilization, Badlands, New Malta Downtown
• Update 2-
  Maps: The Upper/Lower Slums, The Woods, the Vacation Inn, the crown island of Latouche
• Update 3-
  Maps: [REDACTED], [REDACTED 2] , [REDACTED 3]

• 10.18.26 - Initial release. Hopefully, if all goes well...

KNOWN BUGS:

Too many to count, though because of the delayed release most of the obvious ones are fixed or covered in expertly laminated paper mache. Please report anything that seems like a bug so I'm forced to write sh!t on the spot. Balance is all over the place but I have managed to do most of the quests from a new story; feedback of any kind is appreciated.

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     I refuse to contribute to a work culture that encourages and practically rewards lazy pricks who get paid for early access bs but then never finish their game (especially, in this case, because I have no idea if I'll be able to follow through with everything I want implemented). So all releases of FWOAPOS are 100% free until I feel like it's worth at least 10$, at which point it will still be free, but you can choose to donate if you want.

   If you absolutely insist on supporting continued development, then go buy one of the other mods on my itch page (I'm particularly proud about Death of Lincon [sic], as it was made in a memorable sleep-deprived 3 day sprint that gave me a certain degree of confidence in my ability to get sh!t done). 

After all,  I never expected to make money off this, anyway. Money-making is for contest entries and the other ideas I have for brigand scenarios that I think would be cool.