[WIP] Doom: Evil Unleashed

[RV-007]

To try making the life/score system more relevant to gameplay, they can rank after each map. With more lives saved, comes ammo/inventory surprises. Therefore, an award for serious dooming. If a score reaches a certain number, a extra life could be incremented in the life system. Maybe there could be a HQ thing where rank (at player's choice) comes into play (if allowed in the Doom Bible).

[Steve1664]

To try making the life/score system more relevant to gameplay, they can rank after each map. With more lives saved, comes ammo/inventory surprises. Therefore, an award for serious dooming. If a score reaches a certain number, a extra life could be incremented in the life system. Maybe there could be a HQ thing where rank (at player's choice) comes into play (if allowed in the Doom Bible).

Well, then this seems kinda pointless to somebody like me who routinely quicksaves after being bitten by so many badly made WADs in the past and expects all sorts of jerk moves around every corner. Doesn't it load to your last quicksave/manual save by default in Z/GZDoom when you die anyway?

Anyway, looking forward to the official release of this. It looks cool.

[RV-007]

True, I guess there could be a health rating on how much damage the player takes in a map. The more damage taken, the higher/bigger the score/reward. That means the life system would be more of a health system. It's like a alcohol test, but for doom.

[Marnetmar]

To try making the life/score system more relevant to gameplay, they can rank after each map. With more lives saved, comes ammo/inventory surprises. Therefore, an award for serious dooming. If a score reaches a certain number, a extra life could be incremented in the life system. Maybe there could be a HQ thing where rank (at player's choice) comes into play (if allowed in the Doom Bible).

The problem with the lives system wasn't just that it was useless in the form it had taken. I don't want to blind your eyes with one of my vague and badly worded explanations, so hfc2x would probably have to explain.

[hfc2x]

Well, those are indeed nice ideas, but since the finished Doom didn't support a life system, ZDoom as a result cannot reproduce something like that without making it look weird. You know, all of those things CAN actually be implemented, but will look ugly and choppy.
Besides, I cannot unbind all your save/load keys without making all of you rage against me just because I want you to NOT save the game and force you to play with an arcade-style life system

[jazzmaster9]

instead of using the heretic imps as the Flying Imps.
maybe you can use this instead:
http://www.realm667.com/index2.php?opti ... f=1&id=417
you can rescale the sprites and change its AI a bit.

hope it helps.

[Marnetmar]

The Heretic imps are only a placeholder, we are planning on making custom sprites.

[BlueFireZ88]

But is the enemy concept the same?
(i.e. small winged Imp/demon?)

[Marnetmar]

We don't have a concept for it. All we know is that it will be flying and will be annoying.

[jazzmaster9]

We don't have a concept for it. All we know is that it will be flying and will be annoying.

I wish there was a like Like Button in the forums.

[Marnetmar]

We don't have a concept for it. All we know is that it will be flying and will be annoying.

I wish there was a like Like Button in the forums.

I don't.

[RV-007]

Make it fly around the target when in range. It would be like a fly. Lord of the flies (cool monster name/book), lol.

[Marnetmar]

They're still going to be called flying imps, and they'll probably have a similar behavior to Heretic's imps. They'll (hopefully) look quite a bit different, though. I have some concept art drawn up, but at the moment (the past month, actually) I don't have any way of communicating with the team, so I have no idea what's going on at the moment.

[hfc2x]

I have no idea what's going on at the moment.

You know, Skype is your friend.

[MisterX]

I have no idea what's going on at the moment.

You know, Skype is your friend.

To be honest, I think he posted that when he still had problems with his internet. He probably knows how to use Skype

Anyways, there didn't happen much, except we got a new music composer! He has already made some music tracks, and they are quite good. He will maybe write a post here by himself, however, it is not guaranteed!
Well, that's it for the "interesting news", stay tuned!