The Edge of Time - TPC (Beta 1.8 "Salamander")

[FireSeraphim]

Just a somewhat important hotfix, folks. Check the OP for the download link.

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• E1M4 Now has a Hi-Powered Revolver in one of it's secrets
• The Hi-Powered Revolver now penetrates through multiple weak enemies
• The following weapons now have custom crosshairs
  
  • Officer's Pistol
  • Hi-Powered Revolver
  • Combat Shotgun
  • Double-Barreled Shotgun
  • Assault Rifle
  • Heavy Chaingun
  • Marksman's Rifle
  • Nailgun
  • Argemt Channeler
• fixed a minor glitch where reloading and firing certain guns caused them to eat through ammo like crazy
• reverted the Officer's Pistol back to it's pre 1.6 behavior due to the change not panning out.

[FireSeraphim]

The next version of The Edge of Time that I'm releasing will have further improvements on the polish side of things then I'm probably going to resume work on the maps. I really need to remedy the lack of polish in some areas of the mod.

[sirudoom]

I like the old-school feel to this mod. its like im playing a game from the 90's except the over the top coin collecting. its kinda like sonic in that way ha

[FireSeraphim]

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• Fixed a minor exploit/bug in E2SM2
• Added brightmaps to all the Weapons, The Literal Chaos Device, All three Egg variants, the Helmet Armour Bonus, Nightvision Goggles, The Computer Area Map and the Coins
• fixed some lighting inconsistencies in all of weapons
• Overhauled the Argent Channeler's Firing Sound
• Tweaked the Hi-Powered Revolver firing animation to be less stiff and more impactful
• All Treasure Items that aren't dropped by the enemies now glitter (this can be disabled in the TEOTPC Options Menu)
• The Hi-Powered Revolver and the Argent Channeler now have new firing sounds
• The Hellknight's Alundran Fireball attack and the Baron of Hell's Fiendian Bolt attacks have been improved slightly
• Fixed a long standing bug/oversight where the Hellkite's projectile trails also did damage
• Did some minor enemy encounter touchups in episode 3's maps
• Added custom crosshairs for the rest of weapons

Another Day, another revision. The download Link is in the OP as usual

[Tesculpture]

I have just finished playing the 1.5 beta, and I did have a lot of fun. The level design reminds me a bit of Golden Souls 1/2, what with platform elements and features not usually seen in regular ol' Doom maps. The money collecting aspect certainly helps make combat a bit more challenging/frantic, with you having to make critical judgements every nanosecond as to whether to rush in close to a mob and risk death, or stay a safe distance and watch a major payout disapears into thin air.

A few things I particularly liked were:
-The Pojo Egg was a hilarious/nice idea, inverting the usual trope of being turned into a chicken being bad. Any chance a of mode where you play through the entire game as a Pojo?

-The bounce pad gameplay of Episode 3, particularly the Abyss level. People may condemn me for this, it would be nice to see a boss fight against a massive Icon-of-Sin style enemy where you have to use bounce pads to get up high enough to take a shot.

That said, I have a few concerns I want to point out:
-Imp fireballs are ludicrously powerful - on my first playthrough, the first imp of the first level literally one-shot me from 100 health! Through out the game, imps would regularly win infights against the likes of Cacodemons and Hell Knights. This didn't stop me from completing the game or having a fun time, but I wasn't sure if it was intentional extra challenge or a bug.

-The poison cloud flechettes don't lend themselves well to the gameplay. Using one (or getting one from a Literal Chaos Device) pretty negates any chance of collecting coins from the enemies you use it against, as picking them up before they fade away becomes impossible without taking damage from the cloud. If it was changed so you are immune to your own clouds, that would solve the problem immediately, but as it stands, I used the flechettes only a couple of times at the beggining then never used them again.

-Another thing about the Literal Chaos Device; you can cheese any boss fight by saving up a large number and spamming them at the boss until one gives you Archvile Flame - will a very low failure rate, it will one-hit anything/everything in your path. I recommend giving bosses resistance to Archvile Flames.

-While destructible trees are a nice touch, rewarding a player with points for destroying them kinda encourages silly behavior, like staying a level after you've found the exit/killed all the monsters, and destroying every last tree to artificially inflate your score. It's particularly a problem in Episode 2, where many levels have large numbers of points-giving trees up on high ledges around the edge of outdoor areas.

-The Heretic enemies, in particular the Gargoyles, look out of place outside of Episode 3. Granted, the Gargoyles do have a lot of features in common with Doom's demons, but the art style isn't quite right for them to slot in alongside them seamlessly.

-While some weapons, like the missile launcher, Argent Chaneler and nailgun have nice, smooth animations that make them feel weighty and satisfying, others like the assault rifle, heavy chaingun, and hunting rifle look really bare-bones, and IMO could use some beautification to match the rest.

Good luck with this, It'll be nice to see what comes next!

[FireSeraphim]

@Tesculpture: I encourage you to update your copy of the Edge of Time to the newest version. I have done my best to remedy the lack of polish on certain things and you'll find that the imp's fireballs have been nerfed slighty, also the Archvile's flames are no longer as powerful as they used to be (it was mostly due to a bug I fixed where the Flame trail afterimages inherited their damage from the main Flame trail projectile, I also fixed a similar bug with the Hellkite bouncing balls).

As for the Heretic Enemies, you'll understand once episode 4 has been created and released.

[FireSeraphim]

I have once again updated my mod with yet another revision. A bit more polish here and there and some bugfixes under the hood. You can grab the newest version in the opening post as always.

And now for the changelog!

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• Fixed a missing brightmap on the Morph Ovum
• Added brightmaps to the Poison Flechette, the Exploding Barrels, the Doomsphere, the Turbosphere, The Megasphere, the Regensphere, the Techbase Lamps, the Disciples and the Bishops
• Improved the brightmaps for the Exploding Barrels, the Arachnotron and the The Aracnorbs
• Tweaked the Aracnorb's Eye colours to be the same as the Arachnotrons
• Reworked the Poison Flechette code so it dissipates sooner
• Replaced the Designated Marksman Rifle sprites with ChopBlock223's DMR sprites
• Fixed an alarming glitch where the treasure glitter option in the options menu did nothing
• Now treasures dropped by enemies glitter as well!
• New fancy explosion sprites have been added to The Cyberdemon, The Cyberdemon Lord, The Bruiser Brothers, and The Spider Mastermind
• E1M8 and it's Boss Fight has been greatly improved
• E2M8 Boss's Health has been buffed from 8000 to 12000
• Likewise E3M4's ending miniboss has been reworked
• The Bruiser Brothers and the Archvile's painchance have been reduced from 10 to 5
• The Assault Rifle's now has new firing sounds, courtesy of SMarines's custom sound pack
• Slightly buffed the weaker swings of the machete by one point of damage
• fixed a couple of minor visual errors in E1M7 and E2M3

[FireSeraphim]

It's been nearly a month since I released an update but you'll find the wait is totally worth it. Here's the changelog.

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• Two new levels has been added: E1M3 - Deep Into the Forest (The entrance to the second secret level for episode 1 can be found here) and E2M5 - Desert Ruins
• And with that, all of Episode 1 and 2's maps are complete!
• A few minor glitch-sploits in E2M1 have been fixed
• A couple of minor visual glitches in E2M6 has been fixed
• Added Brightmaps to most of the textures and light sources (I been on a roll with brightmap support lately!)
• Fixed a long standing texture issues with the firewall traps in E2M1
• The pain chance of the Cyberdemons (both boss and non-boss variant) and the Spider Mastermind has been cut in half
• Fixed the missing intermission text for E2SM2
• The Argent Channeler no longer burns through ammo so quickly!
• The Argent Channeler Green Argent Mode now cost 32 units of Argent Energy to fire
• The Argent Channeler weapon pickup now gives 16 instead of 32 units of Argent Energy
• The ammo amount of big Argent Cells has been cut from 64 to 32 units of Argent Energy
• The bug with the Argent Particle Cannon lingering BFG balls has been fixed
• The Argent Channeler Blue Argent Mode has been buffed slightly
• The Argent Particle Cannon's primary rail shot has been greatly buffed
• The Nailgun's projectile damage has been slightly buffed
• Nightvision goggles and Envirosuits are now additive like the rest of the powerups
• Optimized the PK3 via deleting some unused textures
• Optimized the png files that make up the brightmaps
• The smaller bushes are now destroyable
• Tweaked the visuals of certain Hexen trees
• Gore props are now breakable, they now have a chance to drop health and armor bonuses when broken

As usual the dowload link is in the opening post.

[FireSeraphim]

And a couple of screenshots of the new levels included in this build (you can also find the screenies in the OP as well!)

[FireSeraphim]

Happy New Year's everyone! I hope you'll enjoy this particular release, I have been burning the midnight oil for the last few weeks in order to get this build out before the year's end. You can find the Latest Build in the Opening Post as usual.