[WIP] Supplice

[Mechadon]

Supplice is a total conversion for GZDoom that has been a work-in-progress since 2009~ish. It started out life as a Boom megawad but morphed into a much more ambitious project over the years.

Here is the list of planned features:

• The main campaign will be split into 3 episodes of 10 maps each (plus 1 secret map per episode). Each episode will be made up of two distinct settings for a total 6 different settings. The settings will range from high-tech bases lost in a frozen wasteland, huge weapon factories dotted on a desolate moon, a hellish biotechnical nightmare planet, and so on.
• Maps will range from small to large in size with most being somewhere in-between. Gameplay difficulty will likely be average but harder than the iwad levels. I'm looking for this to be accessible to as many players as possible.
• The core Doom gameplay is being used as a foundation for a slew of new demons, weapons, items, and powerups. Some original things will be tweaked or remixed as well.
• The new arsenal includes 10 weapons. Each weapon has a primary and alternate firing mode. Here's a list of the new weapons:
  

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  • Fist - Mostly unchanged from the vanilla behavior. The alt-fire is a 'haymaker' punch which does more damage+push-back but has a wind-up delay (we're still fleshing out ideas for the alt-fire, so this may change).
  • Pilebunker - A mining tool turned into a powerful close-range weapon. The primary fire is a drill which tears up enemies at close range. The alt-fire is an explosive piston which has a longer range and can pierce enemies with a pressure-wave projectile.
  • Assault Rifle - This is your starting weapon. The primary fire shoots out hitscans at about half the rate of a Chaingun while the alt-fire is a less-accurate 3-round burst mode. If you find another Assault Rifle, you can upgrade to akimbo mode!
  • Minigun - A powerful bullet weapon that can dole out tons of firepower at the cost of high ammo consumption. The primary fire takes a few seconds to spin up to full firing speed. However once at full speed, you can keep the barrel spinning for a short period after releasing the fire key. The alt-fire deploys the Minigun onto a turret stand (at the cost of the weapon and some ammo) which will seek out and attack any nearby threats. The turret can be destroyed if you're not careful, but it can be picked back up by bumping into it before that happens.
  • Combat Shotgun - A rotating tri-barrel shotgun, this takes the pump action and double-barrel shotguns from vanilla Doom and rolls them into one. The primary fire shoots a single shell at a higher rate of fire than a pump-action (at the cost of slightly worse accuracy). The alt-fire unloads all 3 barrels at once for a huge blast of buckshot.
  • Slugger - This is a spiritual successor to the SSG in some ways. The Slugger is a heavy-duty double-barreled shell ammo weapon. However instead of firing buckshot, its fires 'slugs' which are essentially large projectile bullets. Each slug does roughly the same amount of damage as a full blast of buckshot, and these slugs are very accurate at longer ranges. The alt-fire is the kicker; it loads 2 additional slugs into the weapon for a max of 10 slugs. Once loaded, the primary fire will then stagger fire all loaded slugs in a quick (and much less accurate) blast.
  • Rocket Revolver - An enhanced Rocket Launcher which fires higher-speed rockets. The primary fire is pretty close to the vanilla behavior except that the rockets slowly accelerate over time once fired. The alt-fire is a guided rocket mode; holding down the alt-fire key and moving around the crosshair will allow you to steer the rockets while in the air.
  • Cremator - A flamethrower! This is a very high-powered offensive and defensive weapon that makes use of explosive ammo. The primary fire shoots a jet of flame that is only useful up to medium ranges but is very powerful. Alt-fire shoots out a glob of toxic and explosive gas. If left alone, it will burst into smaller clouds which do damage to everything that comes into contact with them. However these gas clouds can be ignited with the primary fire, causing them to burst into flame which do more damage than the clouds (however they do not last as long).
  • Plasma Blaster - This is an enhanced Plasma Gun. The primary fire is very similar to the vanilla weapon, with the addition of some plasma sparks that explode off of the plasma bolts after they hit an objects (doing extra damage). The alt-fire is a super powerful long-range plasma arrow which pierces enemies and explodes into a shower of smaller blots upon impact.
  • BFG9000-L - An offshoot of the BFG9000 with even more ridiculous firepower! The 'L' stands for lightning and describes the main upgrade to the weapon. The primary fire shoots out a BFG ball enhanced with electric bolts which do AoE damage as it flies. The primary fire also has a short-range lightning blast at the muzzle which does high damage to anything near it. The alt-fire shoots out a slower ball that paralyzes enemies and pulls them in towards it, allowing for more efficiency usage of the primary attack.

• There will be 5 new powerups joining all of the original Doom powerups. Here's a quick list of the powerups:
  

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  • Soulsphere - Same behavior as vanilla currently.
  • Megasphere - Same behavior as vanilla currently.
  • Berserksphere - This is the berserk pack just repackaged in a new sprite and name.
  • Invulnsphere - Same behavior as vanilla currently with a possible behavior wrinkle being added in the future.
  • Blursphere - This is a more useful version of the Invisibility Sphere. All homing behaviors for projectiles get nullified while this is active. The vanilla behavior gets applied on top of this.
  • Ragesphere - Gives the player 4x damage output and damage resistance for a short period.
  • Technosphere - Completely fills the player's ammo pool at backpack capacity and gives them a super automapper.
  • Boomsphere - Kills (or heavily damages) all enemies within eyeshot upon pickup.
  • Sonicsphere - Increases the player's running and weapon firing speeds for a short period.
  • Regensphere - Slowly refills the player's health over time (may also give it a HP siphoning ability in the future).
  • Haz-Suit - In addition to giving the payer immunity to damaging sectors, it provides resistance to fire and explosives.
  • Automapper - Just the original computer map unchanged from vanilla.
  • Light-Amp Visor - Just the original light amplification visor unchanged from vanilla.
  • Plus 2 secret powerups that you'll have to find!

• There's a bestiary of about 30 demons, some of which are entirely new and others which are the same Doom demons we know and love (I might go into details on these guys later).
• Tons and tons of new decorations, hazards, obstacles, effects, and items will make an appearance!
• All of the graphics, textures, and sprites are going to be new and/or repainted. This includes an entirely new texture set, new monster sprites, the new weapons, powerups, items, decorations....pretty much new everything! And OpenGL players will get to see extra neat stuff like brightmaps, dynamic lights, and so on.
• There will be an entirely new musical soundtrack by our very talented friend Jimmy!
• Many (if not all) of the sound effects will be replaced (with Bouncy helping out here). There will be lots of sound effects for the new stuff as well.
• Possible extra stuff that may or may not happen:
  
  • A DM map set that will be Zandronum compatible (will depend on Zandronum either coming up to parity with GZDoom OR if we have the free time to craft up the coding work necessary to make the new weapons/powerup/etc work).
  • A Eternity-compatible version of the main campaign.
  • A weapons-only mod that will let you use the Supplice guns in other map sets.

If you have any questions or comments, we will be very happy to answer them

Dev Team:

• Mechadon: Project leader and organizer, main mapper, and lazytron. I’ve also done a good bit with sprites/graphics and some coding.
• Jimmy: Musical wizard, mapper, and general advice giver/helpful person/good friend. He’s been helping me out with the project pretty much from the beginning.
• Cage: Artist extraordinaire. Cage has saved this project from my very mediocre graphic creation skills and has uplifted it to something truly amazing.
• Pillowblaster: DECORATE and coding maestro. Pillowblaster is doing most of the coding-heavy portions of the project.
• Bouncy: Sound effects wizard.
• We will probably have some special guest mappers on board which I'll announce at a later date!
• Also special thanks to Xaser for hosting our development Discord channel.

Releases:
- Music
Alien
Dark Matter
Monstrance
Splitting the Atom
Euthanizer
Dead Eyed
- GFX/Sprites
Supplice artwork timelapse #1
Supplice artwork timelapse #2
Supplice artwork timelapse #3

Screenshots:
Romeda (E1):



Cryoferron (E2):



Various DM Maps:

[Springy]

Good to see this still being worked on, amazing shots as always Mech. If you need help with testing in the future I can if you want.

[Nightfall]

I really dig how that blue looks. The textures look amazing and the architechture is the usual brilliance.

[Blox]

stop hacking god damn it

[Mechadon]

Thanks for the positive comments guys . I would have had this out much earlier than this, but I went sort of crazy on my concept map. It's not entirely my fault though, Cage's textures were too much fun to work with.

@Springy: I will definitely keep you in mind for testing! Hopefully we'll start some mapping soon.

@Nightfall: Glad you like the blues, that was the first range I edited when tweaking the palette. I was shooting for Quake-style blues and I guess it's pretty close. We've got new greens, more yellows to work with, and a bunch of other palette changes to make everything look just a bit more colorful but contrasted.

[Enjay]

Oooh, very nice looking. Very nice indeed.

[wildweasel]

This is beautiful! Cage's work on the weapon sprite is especially amazing (is it animated yet? I drool at the possibility!).

[Mechadon]

Yup, it's animated and pretty much complete at this point. I'm not sure if he is going to edit it further but I'm really happy with it as it is. I can't wait to see how he does the rest of the weapons

By the way, that weapon is a faster firing rifle which replaces the Pistol. It behaves more like a slower firing Chaingun.

[esselfortium]

Seriously cool bears

The texture set looks really yummy, and for example maps these look pretty involved!

A couple things that stood out to me as odd:
- The grass should probably just be using the desaturated greens, as the bright teal highlights look rather unnatural and "lol paletted graphics"
- With all the custom textures you have in this, I was really surprised to see the IWAD-stock UAC shawn texture
- The colormapping seems off in some textures, like the orange pixels here. I'm assuming you guys did something similar to BTSX's palette/colormap to make stuff like lava and orange lights fade more seamlessly in the dark, but as a side effect of it, orange on regular walls and stuff ends up glowing in rather glitchy-looking ways. Might have to color-remap those textures to switch the oranges for similar tans.

Also, I have no idea if you have room in the palette for it, but some sort of orangey-magenta range could complement the teal greens really well, a la Retroblazer. I kept expecting to see something like it in there

[Nash]

I'd forgotten how beautiful maps in the software renderer can look. :') Ten thumbs up! Awesome stuff! Can't wait to play these maps.

[Estopolis]

Great screenshots and amazing spritework.

Will all weapons end up with new sprites or just the tweaked ones?
Either way, looking forward to this.

[scalliano]

mmm...cyan...

[SamVision]

The blues are a good break from the browns and greens.

[Scuba Steve]

Holy shit, this is amazing. Where did this project come from?

Pre-posting in the 2013 Cacowards thread.

[Nightfall]

Although unbeknownst to you, it is already far, far too late.

I just thought... how is it unbeknownst to me that it's too late if you're telling it to me right here in this thread? o_O