Doomvengers: Earth's Weirdest Heroes (v1.4 10/23/2021)

[Captain Ventris]

Well glad you enjoyed watching that, at least. But yeah these are all things that shouldn't take long at all, I just have to get the time to do them.

For example, I typed that first sentence, finished two of those tasks, and then finished this post!

[Death Egg]

...but Aluqah has straight up vanished,
so that may have to stay separate Still! It's a lot better than it was!

Aluqah's [url=http://forum.zdoom.org/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=7265]userpage/url] says he's visited as recently as last month, so maybe you want to try again?

[Captain Ventris]

...but Aluqah has straight up vanished,
so that may have to stay separate Still! It's a lot better than it was!

Aluqah's [url=http://forum.zdoom.org/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=7265]userpage/url] says he's visited as recently as last month, so maybe you want to try again?

I actually had sent a pm to him and watched it change to having been sent when he visited then, and got no response. So he may swing through, but he's not active in a meaningful sense.

[Death Egg]

I actually had sent a pm to him and watched it change to having been sent when he visited then, and got no response. So he may swing through, but he's not active in a meaningful sense.

Perhaps he just needs the proper motivation. HEY ALUQAH, IF YOU'RE READING THIS, PLEASE LET CAPTAIN VENTRIS INCORPORATE YOUR AWESOME MOD IN HIS AWESOME MOD BECAUSE IT'S INCONVENIENT HAVING TO LOAD THE MODS AS IS.

[Captain Ventris]

I actually had sent a pm to him and watched it change to having been sent when he visited then, and got no response. So he may swing through, but he's not active in a meaningful sense.

Perhaps he just needs the proper motivation. HEY ALUQAH, IF YOU'RE READING THIS, PLEASE LET CAPTAIN VENTRIS INCORPORATE YOUR AWESOME MOD IN HIS AWESOME MOD BECAUSE IT'S INCONVENIENT HAVING TO LOAD THE MODS AS IS.

That should do the trick, thanks

Working on updating the Manual copy today while I can so I can just plug it into the thing and finalize it later on. Lots of rewriting and clarification to do - it'll read quite a bit nicer and be a better guiding hand for people looking into the subtle stuff.

[Captain Ventris]

Beta 1.6 is now out! Fina-frikkin-lly!

Biggest release yet, yada yada, I've parted out the changelog because it's enormous, downloads for errything in first post. I'll compile and get the newest manual version uploaded in a bit when I'm not feeling so lazyyyyy

General:
NOTE: I am always open to requests for compat patches. It will be a rare day when I do a full roster patch like I did for Beyond Reality, and I'm unlikely to do so for obscure or less high profile wads (especially ones with custom painstates like BR), but feel free to ask. The idea is if adjustments are needed to make Doomvengers work satisfactorily with a particular wad, not to adapt Doomvengers to a different gameplay style (i.e. Action Doom). My work with UAC Ultra is a fine example.

General Changes:
-WHAM! I finally got off my butt and put Doomvengers into a .pk3 format so things are better organized and easier to deal with, much more condensed and a little smoother running. Yaaaaay

-Shaved an additional couple megs off the file size via some file optimization.

-With permission from Xaser, I have now integrated Parkour Mod completely into Doomvengers, and Parkour mod is no longer packaged with Doomvengers since it isn't needed.

-The startup quote and name script now waits until you first move rather than happening in the spawn state. This keeps Doomvengers from being rude during a Titlemap.

-Title screen and class selection screen now shows the latest version of Style Guy's sprites.

-Added some duplicate default frames and renamed frames for Runner's BFG Altfire projectiles and Necrodoom's Missile launcher to ensure no weird visual bugs occurred in Valiant and other wads with minor graphic replacements, etc.

-Went in and cleaned up a shload of code and removed unused code so it was easier for me to read. Doesn't actually effect you guys, but I figured I'd note it down here!

-All Ripping weapons have been assigned Ripping Levels, as have all monsters.

-Implemented a universal Stun system to simulate and regulate stunning effects (like Possesso's Uglyface ability and Super Chicken's Shockweed) as well as adding a slowing effect that halves
a monster's speed when it is hit enough by ice attacks (like Zharkov's Icy Plasma or Super Chicken's Ice Breath). This system works off of both varying states of stat recovery for different
monsters, as well as thresholds for initiating Stunning or Slowing to begin with. TLDR; tougher monsters are harder to stun/freeze and keep stunned/frozen. As you may guess, these effects exist due to future content planned for Doomvengers. Though it is relevant and a fact of gameplay now, it will become much more important in the future!
-The new status effect system introduces two effects: Slow(Ice), and Stun(Electric/Shock). Due to how the system works, the vulnerability and duration of effects can be customized to each individual monster, so I can always balance things as neatly as I need to.
-When a monster is slowed, they will move about at half speed puffing frost until they warm up by walking. The length of time during which a monster is slowed depends on the individual monster, and more ice hits generate a longer slowing effect.
-When stunned, a monster will stand there looking like a doofus (with a visual effect) until they cease being stunned. The effect duration varies depending on the individual monster.
-Fiery weapons take away Ice counters and prevent slowing for obvious reasons.
-Bosses CAN be affected by Ice and Shock effects, but since the new system grants me a lot of granularity with how that applies, it is still very hard to stun or slow a big fella. Then again, that just makes it rewarding when you manage!

Bug Fixes:
-The mysterious misaligned frames for Freerunner's Super Chaingun were fixed when the integration of Parkour mod happened. Weird.
-The second frame of Runner's shotgun's muzzleflash was misaligned for a tic and it was killing me.

-The Arachnotron paused incorrectly after being hit by a Hitler salute.
-The Arachnotron did not respond to the Ugly Face ability.

-Spider Masterminds and Cyberdemons would not drop Freerunner's Superweapons if they were killed by Zharkov's Icy Plasma. Due to the new and future prevalence of ice attacks, this would become even more problematic!

-The visuals for the Pinky Demon Host becoming a Spectre were not functioning.

-Under the effects of a Demonsphere, the Icy plasma would fire forever if you had no ammo, so long as you held the fire button down.
-The Demonsphere Icy punch was slower than normal.[/spoiler]

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Necrosuit:
-The Necrosuit now has a 50% higher breath capacity than other classes.
-The Necrosuit now grunts when falling much more easily.

-Recolored Frank's arm sprites to better match the grungy, industrial appearance of his other sprites.


Super Chicken:
-The damage of the first two Beak impacts was raised from 4 to 5.

-Monsters struck by Ice Breath can become slowed.

-Shockweed now uses the universal stunning system. As such, its stun duration and likelihood varies depending on the monster struck. Stunning will be more common and longer lasting than before, so will be meaningful against large groups, etc.
-As part of the above, the ChickenNoStun damage type is now gone since it existed previously to keep bosses from being so easily stunlocked.

-Increased the radius of the Egg's explosion from 32 to 84 and made it deal full damage throughout the radius.

-Increased the explosion radii for the windkick from 96/64/36 to 112/72/48

-Bulletpunch ammo doubled from 40 to 80.

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Style Guy:
Style Guy is getting his personality as I have characterized it fleshed out in-game further with the advent of new sprites which add a lot of character and visual flavor. I'm awful happy about it!
-Edited Style Guy's sprites so that his jeans had some texture and fit him better, and fixed some wonkiness with his feet and the shape of his torso in certain frames. Also added grey hair at his temples for that distinguished flair, and raised his arm so he had a more proper firing posture.
Version without grey hairs available in my resource thread.
-Made Style Guy's HUD face have blue eyes and subtle grey hair at the temples to match in-game sprites.
-Added new Triple Shotgun sprites provided by WildWeasel. Full credits for the sprites are in the manual.
-Added new Triple Shotgun pickup sprites by me, edited from the Doom 64 Shotgun pickup sprite.
-The Triple Shotty now actually animates firing one barrel at a time in sequence, and of course fires all three at once for the Style Attack.
-Added new pistol sprites provided by WildWeasel. Full credits for the sprites are in the manual.

-Spruced up and refined the tracer effect on the Overkill cannon's Style attack. It's actually visible from the player's perspective now and looks more like something instead of not much of a thing.

And a couple ideas Backported from Heretic Stylemod:
-The Stylebar will now flash "Empty!" text when dry-firing.
-Added a new item with a cheap sprite edit: a stylish satchel which will spawn 1/3rd of the time on a Backpack spawn and increases Style Guy's Maximum Style amount to 150. I've got the thing only spawning occasionally since his Style Attacks are SO powerful. This not only helps him out with fighting bosses, etc. but also gives him a little more power progression as you play, which he lacked somewhat.


Freerunner:
These visual changes are a big part of personalizing each Doomvenger more and more. Though he uses mainly default weapon sprites, Runner has a personality and outfit of his own, and that was something I thought was worth making visible in-game. It makes the player feel like they're playing as someone, and not just a reskinned Doomguy.
-Toned down some of the more mentally instable expressions on Runner's mug and darkened his skin. Also made his nose more consistent on the directional pain frames.
I've added a link to the customized mug in my resource thread as Runner Mug v2.

-Darkened Runner's skin in his HUD sprites.

-Gave Runner's hud sprites black gloves courtesy of Icy Freezy. I darkened the elbow band, though! That was all me! Wheeeee
All frames for darkened arms with black gloves available in my resource thread.
-Runner now has to be falling much faster in order to grunt when falling.

Balance-wise, Runner has had his bottom line shifted upwards. He's intended to be a character who doesn't have a huge damage output and can't painlock everything forever like the Necrosuit, but can pick and choose his targets with accuracy and stay out of trouble via his speed, dashing, and double-jumping. With this list of changes he's better able to make something out of the classic control-through-maneuverability factor he plays off of.
-Some tics were shifted in the punching animations so that the hit connects faster but the attack itself takes the same total amount of time, making it better for hit and run attacks.

-Pistol damage raised from 1d3x6 to 8-20.

-Shotgun pellet damage changed from 1d3x5 to 5-15.

This change not only makes it damage output better balanced with the single shotgun, but was also partly intended to give the Double Shotgun an extra pellet, meaning it can potentially hit more and therefore shove more.
-Double Shotgun damage lowered from 1d3x4 to 4-10.
-Double Shotgun pellet count raised from 9 to 10.

-Chaingun bullet damage raised from 1d3x6/1d3x5 to 8-20/7-15
-Chaingun grenade explosion radius raised from 128 to 158.

-Rocket direct damage raised from 1d8x22 to 1d8x28.
-Rocket speed raised from 35 to 40.
-Rocket Altfire now only uses 1 cell per 2 flames.
-Rocket Altfire takes away Icyness from foes who have accumulated it.
-Rocket refire sped up by 3 tics.

-Raised plasma minimum damage from 10 to 15.
-Changed charge plasma damage from 1d8x12 to 30-42.
-Raised charge plasma explosive damage from 50 to 75.

-BFG Altfire now uses 20 ammo, down from 30.
-BFG Altfire now fires 40 energy balls, up from 30.

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Possesso:
-Gave Possesso's Hostless form a Berserk attack which does not cost health. This attack is just a basic ranged attack which allows him to use switches, etc. when he has no host available or can't get into melee range. Addition inspired by Crumpets Map01.

-Added little visual effects to all of Possesso's attacks which didn't have them. They aren't miraculous and stunning, they just give flavor and a little touch of fancy to his actions, which were previously mostly just the same thing your enemy did, which looked lame. The overall effect now, combined with the previously done offset animation smoothing, makes Possesso feel a heck of a lot more professional and flashier, in line with his compatriots.

-Improved the Stunning visual effect by sizing it up just a little and giving it a fade. Especially since it's gonna be more prominent now, being used for the universal stun feature and all.

-Implemented a flag allowing Possesso to crouch in all his morph classes. Have fun squeezing that Cyberdemon everywere.
-Implemented a property allowing Masterminds to use switches and such despite their size.
-This same property has been used to ensure all morph classes can reach beyond their own radius as much as the Doomguy can so as to not break any puzzles, etc.

-The Imp Host's Ugly face works the same in practice, but now interfaces with the universal stunning system.
-Imp fireballs take away Ice markers from monsters

-Made the Pinky Demon host able to toggle its Spectre status on and off, costing health to turn it on each time.

-Caco's Berserk attack, Imp fireballs, and Mancubus fireballs take away Icyness from monsters which have accumulated it.
-Caco's Lightning ball inflicts shock.

-Mancubus fireball damage raised from 1D3*18 to 36-54.
-Mancubus Fart altered to interface with the universal Stunning system. It now has a set radius of 128 units outside the radius of the Mancubus itself (so 176 units). As a result it will be much more useful and give the Mancubus a much better fighting chance.

-Baron melee damage raised from 12 to 14.

-Revenant missile damage lowered from 16 to 14.
-Revenant rocket direct damage lowered from 15 to 14, but explosive radius raised from 72 to 84.

-The Arachnotron Host's Berserk attack is no longer the loudest sound ever produced by man. It's only maybe the fifth loudest, now. Seriously, iD made those things a little too raucous.

-Made Archvile attack tracer more responsive and therefore a better indicator of where the attack is going to land.
-Increased the accuracy of the resurrection actor.

-Added a vertical spread of 2 to the Mastermind's attack so it can hit Lost Souls without it being some weird trial and error aiming effort. Seriously it was odd.
-Raised Mastermind ammo from 1000 to 1200. Because wow that's a lot of ammo consumption.

-Cyberdemon ammo lowered from 300 to 200. I trashed almost the entire last level of Crumpets (that's like 6 Spider Masterminds at least) because I had so much ammo.
-Cyberdemon rocket blast radius reduced from 156 to 148.

-Easter Egg ammo increased from 200 to 300.


Zharkov:
Got a whole new massive wave of Zharkov changes, mainly about ensuring his playability. Now that I've finally nailed down a good playstyle for him (rampant nutso), I'm ensuring his weapons are each actually useful for something and he isn't frustrating to play!

-Added a new Zharkovision effect which will be a rare thing to see. Yes, I just add them when I have an idea for something. This one is super silly and you'll reaaaaally have to try for it or get comically lucky. 'Grats to whoever actually sees it!
-Made a couple Zharkovision effects less common.
-Made a couple Zharkovision effects slightly more common!
-Edited a couple of Zharkovision effects to be zanier. Scary, right?

-Weaponslots rearranged to be more intuitive as far as what weapons they replace and their functions.
-Forcebeam, as a chainsaw type claustrophobia-fallback weapon, is on slot 1 for quick panic-access.
-KungFu is on slot 2 now along with the Uzi, since it is an excellent and quick fallback weapon for most anything. Also, Slot 2 will have a weapon still if playing in Doom 1.
-RicoChotGun is a good ole' standard and the Rockslinger is a rough SSG equivalent so they share slot 3.
-IcePlasma exists on slot 4 still, being a good spot considering its power and the fact that it, duh, replaces the chaingun.
-Chimneysweep, being a rocket launcher equivalent, is on slot 5.
-The Ricegun, as a high level assault weapon, is on slot 6 like the Plasmagun. Also, it replaces the plasmagun, so yeah.
-The Raynor, being a mass destruction weapon, is on slot 7. Also, it replaces the BFG, so duh.
-The Fate Device is on slot 8.

-The Demonsphere variants of all melee attacks now heal Zharkov for a higher proportion of their damage.

The Forcebeam is a weird niche weapon, but it's altfire was useless, so it's been updated to make the weapon much better at the claustrophobic conditions it's intended for.
-Forcebeam Altfire radius raised from 150 to 172.
-Forcebeam Altfire attack now hits five times in a row, for a 5 hits of 12 damage (60 total, compared to the previous single hit for 50 damage). This will cause it to have a very brief stunlock effect to protect Zharkov while he uses the weapon.
-Forcebeam Altfire ammo consumption reduced from 4 to 3.

-Zharkov's KungFu now projects a number of puff-less, 1 damage hits that serve to help keep monsters stunnned while he swings his fists, making it less hazardous to deal out those rad combo punches (and kicks!) against monsters.
-In addition, though this slightly slows down the Kung Fu combo, the period during which you need to click again to keep the combo going has been lengthened just enough that using the Kung Fu is VASTLY easier.
-The KungFu altfire now alerts monsters.

-The Uzi's second bullet deals 6 damage instead of 5, and its fourth bullet deals 6 damage instead of 4.
-Ammo received from a dropped Uzi raised from 60 to 100.
-Uzi now only uses 3 bullets per fire cycle, down from 4.
-Uzi now will not switch away to another weapon when it runs out of ammo, since it has a melee attack you might want (or even need) to use to regen and painlock.
-Demonsphere Uzi uses the same amount of ammo per fire cycle.
-Demonsphere Uzi altfire resumes its normal saw attack after the rail attack fires off when held, so you can still regen health and painlock things with it.
-Demonsphere Uzi saw damage increased from 2 to 3.

Zharkov has very few ways to engage at a decent range, so I have adjusted the Ricochot gun to help him with those times where a map has you up against Hitscan snipers.
-Reduced the width of the Ricochot gun's spreadfire mode by 2.
-Ricochot projectile bouncefactor changed 0.7 to 0.6 (that means it loses less momentum when bouncing, and thus can bounce more).
-Reduced Ricochot gun's altfire spread from 8,4 to 5,3.
-Ricochot altfire now fires 3 bullets instead of 2.
-Removed offset for Ricochot projectiles.
-Ricochot projectile height and radius has been reduced to 2 so you can fire them near a wall without effect.
-Added a small chance for a Shotgunner to drop a Ricochot gun, to aid Zharkov in levels where the Author relies on Shotgunners to give the player a Shotgun.

The Rockslinger was useless before. Its damage was so unpredictable it couldn't be counted on, and in any normal hallway firing it often resulted in killing yourself rather than the Demons. So I finally rehauled the thing to be useful and allow Zharkov a much needed weaponslot.
-ROckslinger refire sped up by 7 tics.
-Rockslinger recoded to no longer use the weird A_SpawnDebris for the damaging bits.
-Big rocks now split into two forward-angled small rocks when bursting.
-Big Rocks no longer fire at angles from each other, just straight ahead offset from one another.
-Rockslinger rocks now bounce once before detonating, allowing you to shoot the ground and have the projectiles fan out ahead of you.
-Rockslinger primary fire projectile offset reduced by 2.
-Rockslinger altfire angle reduced by 4 (the spread is tight enough to be focused on a group instead of having the edges bounce back and kill you).
-Rockslinger big rock damage changed from 1D3*15 to (30).
-Rockslinger big rock explosion damage changed from 1D3*85 to (50).
-Rockslinger small rock damage lowered from 1D3*15 to (20).
-Rockslinger small rock explosion damage changed from 1D3*35 to (20).
-Big rock speed reduced from 50 to 40.
-Small rock speed reduced from 50 to 40.
-Ammo consumption increased from 2 to 3. Altfire ammo consumption remains at 5.
-Demonsphere firemode now fires 1 Big rock and two small ones, instead of 3 small ones, and has an accelerated refire.
-Demonsphere Altfire ammo consumption reduced from 5 to 4.
-Big Rock radius reduced from 24 to 8 and height reduced from 48 to 8. Yes, seriously, they were that big before.
-Small rock height and radius reduced to 4.
-The smallest type of rock debris no longer deals damage. It's just there for decoration!

-Icy Plasma now will not switch away to another weapon when it runs out of ammo, since it has a melee attack you might want to use to regen health.
-Slightly raised the amount of health gained using the freezy punch from 10% to 12% of the damage dealt.
-Enemies struck by the Icy Plasma can now be slowed. Do note that the Icy Plasma is still the only weapon that can shoot through frozen corpses. That's a unique thing, not an ice damage thing.
-Scaled down Icy Plasma balls by 20%. It's just visually nicer, especially considering the massive blue area around them

The Chimneysweeper's primary fire wasn't particularly reliable before. Overall the weapon is much more useable and able to be relied on for clearing crowds.
-Chimneysweep Altfire radius raised from 160 to 200.
-Altfire bomb speed raised from 50 to 55.
-Altfire ammo consumption reduced from 4 to 3.
-Chimneysweep shard explosive damage raised from 1D3*10 to (70) and direct damage raised from 5 (1 in the case of the up and down shards) to 6.
-Chimneysweep shard radius raised from 16 to 48.
-Altfire now checks for the correct amount of ammo, and the Demonsphere variant has identical ammo consumption (since its the same thing with doubled cooldown).

-Raynor Rainer speed reduced from 25 to 20, so the bombardment spends more time over an area.
-Raynor Chimneysweep shard direct damage raised from 5 to 6, and explosive damage raised to (70).

-Improved the homing abilities of the Fate Device's projectiles.

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Legions of Noobs:
-Now not a module! Legions of Noobs is now a mode inherent to Doomvengers that can be toggled via CVAR. Type "Legions_Toggle true" in the console to activate it. Legions defaults to being off. In the future there will a much nicer way of toggling it and other future options, all intended to give you a nicely customizable experience.
-Greatly refined the spawner logic and made them more properly responsive, so you won't be seeing monsters blink into existence as you come into sight.
-Cleaned up some antiquated code in a few of the patches.

Bug Fixes:
-Looks like a hacky state fall-through present in the spawner code could cause potential issues. It's been cleaned up since.
-Pain Elementals ignored a Zharkovision effect while Legions was active.
-Pass-through Lost Souls were still spawned when a Compat Patch was loaded but Legions was not. Whoops!
-Fun fact: It took me two entire days of work to figure out that Lost Souls were spawning themselves and that's why everything kept crashing. Yep. Sorry, guy who kept trying to watch me dev stream. I know it was a boring couple days.


Compatibility Patches:
-A chunk of new patches for y'all to enjoy! CQ3 is still pending but definitely happening (I decided to go with the more obvious PSX Doom as a big patch first).
-Have now categorized the patches into minor and major categories to separate minor compat issues from major overhauls that required a new/mostly new monster cast or something. Major patches will usually include things like new Titlescreens, etc. as well, and will in the future include customized Possesso Hosts!

Major Doomvengers Compatibility Patches:
Beyond Reality, version 0.9
-Updated to respect the newly-integrated Legions add-on.
-Enemies did not fully respect Zharkovision.
-Updates to support BR2-specific enemies and content are waiting until the thing is more or less feature final so I don't have to deal with development shifts and changes.

*NEW* Valiant. version 0.1
-Now the Doomvengers can fight against the frightening VALIANT strain. This patch allows Doomvengers to run with the original version of Valiant so you can experience it with its intended set of monsters. Run it with the original, NOT the vaccinated edition. Because you can just run Doomvengers with the Vaccinated edition to begin with, duh.
-Details in first post.

*NEW* PSX Doom TC, version 0.1:
-Please note that if you are using the customizer, you have to edit PSXLOAD to include the proper Doomvengers files in its load order. The line below contains the exact text to add to the end of the load order:

, "xa-necro.pk3", "possesme.wad", "Doomvengers.pk3", "1 Doomvengers Age of Villainy.pk3", "Doomvengers PSX TC.wad"

With that added to PSXLOAD.pk3, running the PSX DOOM batch file that comes with the TC will be sufficient to run Doomvengers in PSX Doom.
-Other details in the first post.


Minor Doomvengers Compatibility Patches:
UAC Ultra, Version 0.5
-Updated to respect the newly-integrated Legions add-on.
-Too many Haymakers spawned on Doomvengers difficulty with one player. Like, way too many. Whoops.
-Haymakers were not fully compatible with Zharkovision and did not respond to Possesso's Archvile attack correctly.
-Made Haymakers vulnerable to Hitler Salutes and Imp Ugly Faces. They're not Boss Tier so it makes sense.

*New* Deus Vult 2 Version 0.1
-Now exists! This was to support our good pals the Afrits as well as the Evil Clerics. Have fun getting yourself thrashed, I guess.
-Decorate credit for the monsters goes to Beed28 from his ContraDoom patches with permission.

*New* BTSX E2, Version 0.1.
-Just to support the Zombiemen who don't drop clips used in E2 here. No biggie. Can load with other wads if you just want Commander Keen to instead be a zombieman that doesn't drop ammo for some reason.
-Decorate credit for the monsters goes to Beed28 from his ContraDoom patches with permission.

*New* D2TWiD, Version 0.1
-Just to support the Keen secret-level enemies. Can be used with other map sets if you suddenly want all Wolfenstein SS to be 5000 health Dopefish. Consider it a challenge mode. Dopefish observe the same damage resistances/vulnerabilities, etc. as other boss monsters.
-Decorate credit for the monsters goes to Beed28 from his ContraDoom patches with permission.


Module: Age of Villainy:
Verrry near a state of test-readiness. Go ahead and volunteer to test now.
Age of Villainy will release with 10 Villains for each slot, for a total of 20 of these dudes. They're all pretty awful, so I'm sorry.


Module: Tools of the Trade:
-BUG: In some very early stages here on my harddrive. Provides neato, very powerful items as well as some additional character customization/progression. Will also add other, super cool functionality for fine-tuning your experience and satisfying those of you who like collecting junk.
-I will need at least one mapper for one map this. Contact me if interested. The map will be a detailed interior setting.


Module: Dimensions:
-BUG: Only exists as notes on my phone. Comes after Tools. Will be larger than Tools. Will require mapping, so I'll need help! Aims to provide supplemental gameplay with some optional nonsense to shake up a Wad run-through without screwing the original wad itself. Should satisfy any good player's need for loot, and implements past modules in doing so.
-I repeat, I will need mappers, guys. Go ahead and volunteer your services. I'll need be maps which are modular (procedural to a degree) and have to work and look a certain way, with different paths being open each time you enter. They won't need to be big at all, though. They'll be reasonably brief as I envision it.


Module: ITS SECRET:
-BUG: Only exists as a series of furtive notes on my phone. Basically my Doom-modding ultimate wet dream which would require other people and sundry madness. Mapping, mapping consultation, etc. Will wrap around a megawad play-through, and add to the overall experience. Will be amazing for playing with a group of friends. The ultimate end to a Doomvengers experience, if you're hardcore enough.


Manual:
-Fixed various typos and errors.
-Updated Legions page to correctly reflect the amount of Style points dropped by a Cyberdemon.
-A couple Stylepoint values in the manual were incorrect.
-Second Legions page still displayed spawn ranges.
-Updated Styleguy hudface pic.
-Added entry on Styleguy's new satchel
-New and updated credits!

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KNOWN BUGS WHICH PROBABLY CAN'T BE HELPED:

-The thing in the console about defining BloodTrail twice? Can't do anything about that without modifying the source wads. I'd need to talk to Aluqah about integrating Possess Me to fix it, and I can't figure out how to contact him.

-With Legions of Noobs, monsters who should be Dormant will, uh... not be Dormant. I'm told there's no way to check for that in ACS, so that sucks. Unless something has changed since I last checked.


KNOWN BUGS WHICH I NEED HELP WITH:
-The trail particles on Freerunner's BFG primary fire are incorrect since Necrodoom v4. I can't find the reason why.

-One of Possesso's HUDs is not operating.

-Super Chicken's Normal HUD does not appear correctly AT ALL.

EDIT: Reuploaded with fix because Possesso's Demon host was trying to unstealth when you first pressed the button, and there was a visual error.
EDIT 2: You couldn't open doors in PSX Doom. Haha, whoops. In other news, links to Compat patches are now direct links rather than zips so I can save myself a few seconds when updating them. Yep, pure laziness.

[DoomRater]

i was playing Equinox and I died as possesso while possessing a chaingunner. Not exactly sure why that happened.

[Captain Ventris]

i was playing Equinox and I died as possesso while possessing a chaingunner. Not exactly sure why that happened.

Hrm. Equinox have any Dehacked work whatsoever? Played through Crumpets as Possesso this version and had no issues with Chaingunners hosts. Hmmmmm. Latest stable GZDoom, I presume?

[DoomRater]

It did seem to be a fluke, as I hadn't run into it a second time playing possesso. I'll have to do some testing to see if I can reproduce it.

[Captain Ventris]

Liberal usage of Morph classes can be weird, so who knows. What do you think of the new visuals, etc.? Tried a new compat patch yet?

[Captain Ventris]

Teeny tiny update to the Valiant/Sawdust patch due to Suicide bombers having some incorrect frames, and the UAC Ultra and DV2 patches to make Haymakers/Afrits vulnerable to Supremacy. Whoops!

EDIT: Also an update to the Beyond Reality patch:
-Lowered the Legions spawn ranges for Randomguys and Haunted Swords.
-Fixed a number of monster errors, including a whopper that swapped the Randomguys' attack states with periodically walking slower. Oops.

[Captain Ventris]

Finally stopped being lazy and uploaded the version of the manual relevant to Beta 1.6, though now that I mention it, it totally doesn't mention anything about stunning or slowing. Awwwwesome. Either way, it's still helpful, so whatevs. Download in the first post, as per usual.

[Captain Ventris]

Okay, already working towards 1.7 with a few things I knew I wanted to do next. Obviously there has already been a scattering of bug fixes and a couple adjustments to the Ripping hierarchy, stunning and slowing effects, and other such tomfoolery.

Additionally for, get this, the first time, I actually played this in Co-op and now have identified a couple things I want to mess with to make things are nice as possible, since co-op is one of Doomvenger's big draws. For the most part this is going to be minor quality-of-life changes that will make a number of niche situations more balanced and less frustrating for players, particularly how some classes deal with the extremes of ammo starvation and large item caches, and tuning up the spawn multiplier ranges. As always, one of Doomvenger's main goals is to ensure that all of your favorite map sets play well.

But the actual interesting stuff that's upcoming is going to be, as always, THE NEW JUNK. Namely that Possesso now has custom hosts in Valiant/Sawdust which are definitely a blast. Their variants on the default hosts, so no outright new abilities, etc., but they play quite differently and work very well. I will be working on custom hosts for the other major patches in the future and may consider doing so for minor ones as well depending on the workload of other things I want done.

Speaking of Compat patches, I've already got Compatibility for Chex Quest mostly up to par. It has a couple oddities to it of course, namely that I'll need to add 'corpse' markers for Possesso's sake, and that because of the brand new monster cast, I'll be sending it out into the wild with custom hosts. While I was obviously free to multiply the Maximus like the Barons they replace with an accompanying script to end E2M5 correctly, I've had to figure out how I want to handle the Flembrane. It's technically an immobile baron depicted as a boss fight. Since it's immobile I can't well multiply it, but it's waaaaaay too easy no matter how you cut it. So despite not TECHNICALLY being a boss monster, it'll be getting additional health and danger level that scales with the player count as if it were a boss of some sort. It still won't be a show stopper, but it should matter some.

Some of the other alterations needed involve future content such as the villains, since most of them are certain death if they spawn in the Flembomination's tiny room. But I'll figure it out! Chex Quest is not Doom and presents things very differently, so though I want to preserve relative balance, I also want to be flexible and ensure that things are fun as can be!

Other than all that, as you can see I've been doing small incremental updates on the existing compat patches as I encounter problems since they're very small files and now that the Dropbox links are directly to the files themselves. I probablt won't be putting out big content updates like the custom hosts between big version releases but bug fixes on the patches are simple and quick.

Lastly, I know I haven't been devstreaming much recently because my wife's been sick and it was my birthday recently so I was being cripplingly lazy. It was a good time, basically.

[Prologue-9]

How unfortunate, I just discovered this and it looks like it's been dormant for a while. This drew me in because I've been hella enjoying PossessMe! lately and seeing if there was some attempt at updating it, I discovered this. Have to say, I've loved playing Possesso and the Necrosuit. Not sure if this is still being worked on or not, but playing around with this in ZDoom it feels like the monster spawning is a little off playing on UV. Idk, maybe I'm missing something.

[Captain Ventris]

Whoo! Had never seen this post! Sadly this project has ended up dormant, as I ended up attempting to make a commercialized version of a previous was (got screwed out of that), and am now writing a science fiction novel.

HOWEVER, I still love Doomvengers and usually use it to play wads still. To that end, I'd like to polish up and release what I do have, which is super playable and all. That means Villains as well as some balance changes and bug fixes I've made since the last release, the Valiant compat patch (CQ3 still needs some doing that I'm not sure I'm up for), as well as a couple minor things that just need doing (a menu option for Legions)!

Hopefully you're still around: may I ask what direction the spawning felt 'off' in?

Spoilers: A number of serious ideas I came up with for the pointless Doomvengers lore formed the basis of the novel I'm writing.