Creating Custom Player Professions in VEIN
Enhance Roleplay by designing unique backgrounds and loadouts for new spawns. Do you want players to start as Cops with pistols, or Cooks with frying pans?
The Value of Professions
Professions offer replayability and identity. Instead of everyone waking up in a hospital gown with nothing, professions allow players to start with gear appropriate to their "past life" before the apocalypse.
Configuration Methods
While deep customization often relies on mods, server admins can sometimes inject starting loadouts using the Game.ini equivalent logic. For heavily modded servers, a Loadout.ini file will explicitly define arrays.
[Profession_Police]
StartingHealth=100
StartingItem_1=Weapon_Pistol9mm
StartingItem_2=Ammo_9mm_Box
StartingItem_3=Consumable_Bandage
[Profession_Chef]
StartingHealth=100
StartingItem_1=Melee_Cleaver
StartingItem_2=Consumable_CannedBeans
Balance Check: Be extremely careful giving firearms to starting professions on a PvP server. It creates a toxic meta where players repeatedly die purposely just to respawn with free guns and ammunition.