General Changes

-Change bot system so that there is a guaranteed 5 bot minimum, and then 1 bot is added for every 8 people. For example, on 40 pop, the bot count will be 10, which is equivalent to 1:4. Bots will be added every wave depending on the wave. Wave 1 through 3, 1 bot will be added. On wave 4 and onward, 2 bots will be added. Humans who die or join late will automatically replace any bots.
-Add phase nailing
-Remove player collision from all deployables to prevent griefing and as an overall quality of life update that everyone will enjoy.
-Remake redeem loadout:
Make it so that you redeem with speed traits and health traits (2 speed traits and 2 health traits), baseball bat instead of knife, arsenal crate, and a hammer

Gun Based

-Make pulse point multiplier scale per tier
Tier 1 - 1.25
Tier 2 - 1.2
Tier 3 - 1.15
Tier 4 - 1.1
Tier 5 - 1.05
Tier 6 - 1
-Increase pistol ammo received on redeem and remove bottom path of redeemers
-Change Redeemers remant value to tier 2 (upgrade cost and scrap worth)
-Move craftables to their actual scrap and upgrade values (guns and melees):
Waraxe to tier 2
Nova Blaster to tier 2
Fracture to tier 2
Stabber to tier 2
Galestorm to tier 2
Gladiator to tier 5
Blareduct to tier 2

Bust to tier 1
Sawhack to tier 1
Mega Masher to tier 2
Spear to tier 2
Lucille to tier 2

-Add back craftables such as:
Tithonus
Seditionist
Cinderrod
Innervator
Eminence
ASMD
Proliferator

Tier 1
-Nerf Alyx pistol damage slightly
-Increase blaster and tuned blaster accuracy
-Buff Carrion damage, 20 is unusable

Tier 2
-Buff nova blaster damage
-Buff Splinter reload speed
-Remove unnecessary prober remant paths
-Buff horizon damage and headshot mutliplier
-Buff CF-05 damage, firerate, and clipsize
-Buff Sprayer damage
-Buff Ricochet damage
-Buff SOCOM damage, it is unusable its so bad

Tier 3
-Buff Akbar damage, its equivalent to a slightly upgraded t1
-Buff Ender damage
-Buff Hunter reload speed
-Nerf Silencer clipsize from 30 -> 25
-Buff Deagle accuracy and nerf damage to 50
-Buff Polluter damage, fire rate, and taper
-Buff Tempest damage heavily and nerf clip size
-Buff Triad damage and buff Cerberus remantle path firerate and clipsize, but make slightly less accurate than regular path
-Slightly nerf Galestorm damage
-Give Waraxe a unique gimmick, and buff the special damage granted on the variant

Tier 4
-Make the Crossbow pierce and increase damage heavily
-Nerf Aug damage slightly
-Buff Shredder damage slightly OR buff firerate
-Give the Slug Rifle a clip reload instead of single bullet reload and decrease delay
-Buff Artemis damage and taper
-Buff Jackhammer damage, but it could probably use more work than that
-Decrease Keletal fire delay heavily and buff reload speed
-Add pierce to the Longarm
-Make the gunslinger similar to the redeemers and have two pistols
-Buff quicksilver damage
-Slightly increase winchester reload speed

Tier 5
-Rework Adonis
-Buff Stalker Damage
-Increase m1/m2 carbine damage
-Buff Tau Cannon damage, add back secondary attack self knockback, increase secondary charge speed but make it require 30 ammo to charge instead of 15
-Increase Renegade fire rate, and slightly nerf the fire rate remantle bonus
-Increase Scar clip size from 30 -> 40

Tier 6
-Heavily nerf boomstick damage, nerf knockback on regular path, decrease fire delay, and buff reload speed
-Slightly buff Juggernaut damage and maybe clipsize
-Buff Shail damage and damage on ricochet
-Increase fire rate of helios, slightly nerf damage, increase range, and remove unnecessary remant paths

Melee Based

-Change view model and animation of larger, hard hitting melee weapons
-Fix hitreg of fist weapons (I know how to)

Tier 1
-Heavily buff damage of brass knuckles
-Buff hook damage, and bleed damage
-Slightly nerf tire iron damage, give it a little more range, and decrease delay

Tier 2
-Buff Bat knockback and add a charge attack
-Buff Golf Club damage, slightly increase knockback, and add a charge attack
-Nerf Machete damage, increase delay, but make it apply bleed on hit
-Buff Shovel range but nerf knockback
-Buff Sledge damage, increase swing time, and increase swing delay
-Heavily buff bust-on-a-stick damage but increase swing time and delay

Tier 3
-Buff katana damage and make it apply bleed on hit
-Nerf Executioner axe damage
-Nerf Meat Tenderizer damage, increase swing time, and make it gib zombies at a 100% chance rate OR make it have a chance to give food items on kill to give it a unique gimmick
-Heavily decrease swing time and delay, slightly nerf knockback, and nerf damage slightly of Mega Masher

Tier 4
-Nerf Atomic Detonator damage, but increase range and make it do AOE on hit
-Remove the 3-swing combo from Scythe, increase swing time, slightly decrease delay, and slightly increase damage
-Add a variant called the Reaper Scythe that will give you a chance to get Reaper stacks on hit, at the cost of damage and slightly increased delay
-Nerf Kongol Axe damage, decrease delay, make it cleave on hit, and heavily nerf knockback
-Buff Loea damage, make it apply bleed on hit, heavily nerf knockback (why does a sword have knockback)
-Buff powerfist damage, move it to Tier 3, slightly increase delay

Tier 5
-Increase swing time of Warhammer, increase delay slightly, heavily buff damage and heavily nerf knockback

Tier 6
-Heavily decrease knockback of Zwei, add cleave, slightly buff damage, heavily increase swing time, and increase delay slightly.
-Nerf Scorch Blade damage slightly, buff fire damge, and give it a unique ability to create an AOE fire attack after getting a certain amount of hits

Zombies

*Regular Classes**
-Increase delay of antlion attack
-Slightly increase headcrab health
-Make crawlers wave 1 but with only 125 hp
-Heavily increase fast headcrab hp and slightly increase damage, but make it a wave 3 unlockable (and unlock at 50% dead)
-Buff wraith hp 135 -> 160
-Add a mutation called "Sonic Scream" that disorients humans nearby when you scream as wraith (I'm pretty sure this was an old mutation)
-Buff stalker speed slightly and hp slightly
-Nerf Lacerator pounce damage to 20, primary damge to 10 and speed slightly
-Nerf zombine damage to 40, buff hp to 450 and nerf blood armor given on spawn to 25

Bosses

Nightmare:
I have complained for a very long time that the nightmare is unbalanced and here is my suggestion to rework him.
-Buff cade damage from 40 -> 60
-Decrease slowness power on hit
-Nerf bleed damage
-Remove soften effect given on hit
-Increase speed to 215
-Nerf human damage to 35

Bastardzine:
Bastardzine is by far the worst boss and is terrible in all situations.
-Give it the same attack as the regular fast zombie, but deal 15 damage
-Once it is killed, the headcrab on it's head will detach. You will then play as the nugget.
-Slightly buff bonemesh health and decrease bone ball damage from 25 -> 20

Butcher:
-Buff range and health very slightly

Devourer:
I also hate the current devourer and believe it could use a rework.
-Buff speed to 225
-Buff health to 2000
-Make the hook pull you in and apply slowness for 5 seconds. This will make the boss still very good at killing runners/people by themselves without being uncounterable. The current devourer can be very op towards single humans, but is can be bullied easily when ganged up on. Buffing it's speed and health will make it more agile and able to counter groups easier.
-Bring back Giga Gore Child
-Bring back Tank
If it is added back, make it unlock wave 5, increase its health to 5000, but decrease rock damage, remove knockdown on touch, decrease primary damage, nerf run speed, and buff cade damage.

Howler:
Increase health slightly, heavily decrease range and decrease damage from 38 -> 30.

Shade:
Shade is a pretty powerful boss, but can be countered quite easily.
-Decrease prop damage/force of small props to make them more realistic
-Make it have 2000 base health
-Make the shield counter melee attacks
-Make it unlock on wave 3 start instead of wave 4

Tickle Monster:
In my opinion, the tickle monster is very balanced, but could probably use a slight buff.
-Increase cade damage from 22 -> 32
-Slightly increase range
-Slightly increase health

The End

If you made it this far, I'm impressed. I decided to go all out with this forum post and post every single one of my ideas on balancing and general quality of life content. I spent around 6 hours on this, so please like it. I played fair and posted my ideas on nerfing some weapons and zombies, on top of buffs. While I don't believe that these updates are crucial for the server to survive, I do believe that they would very important and definitely have a positive impact on the server, and MANY players would enjoy it. For the weapon balances, I tested out all of these weapons and gave my ideas on how they could be better balanced.

Thanks for reading 😄