ZDoom

Clownman wrote:I always wanted to see some sort of remaster/remake of this, The weapons in the original version of this mod were particularly what always kept bugging me. Also, I think you finally answered the longtime question I had wether or not this was supposed to be set in the Blood Universe or if the player was supposed to be Caleb.

Nash wrote:Alright, sorry to say but initial tests aren't so good. With literally nothing else loaded (-noautoload), I am getting frame rate drops with the remaster. Just by standing at the campfire at the start (where the revolver is), I am losing a lot of framerates.

Tesculpture wrote:If I could make a suggestion; I always found the price of not reaching a shelter when the alarm sounds...

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...a little anticlimatic. The game builds up the supposed horror of the creatures plaguing the city, but when the worst case scenario happens, all that happens is you encounter a single invisible thing that touches you once, making you keel over without a lot of fanfare. I think the horror of being trapped outside could be better served by something less omnipotent; say, a massive horde of regular enemies that can be killed, but respawn endlessly, ensuring the player's death is long and drawn out as they run out of ammo, try to use melee, realize they can't do it without losing some health each time, try to flee only to get boxed in, etc.

Tormentor667 wrote:

Clownman wrote:I always wanted to see some sort of remaster/remake of this, The weapons in the original version of this mod were particularly what always kept bugging me. Also, I think you finally answered the longtime question I had wether or not this was supposed to be set in the Blood Universe or if the player was supposed to be Caleb.

What were the problems you had with the weapons? Generally my goal was to make them not too powerful. It should feel more dangerous and less like an action shooter.

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the house with the knife key has bugged doors. I was unable to get to the translation book - I had to use NOCLIP.

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The first time the siren sounds, there seems to be a bug - the cultists that are running away in fear are forever running in fear. They just scream infinitely and run away even after the nightmare has finished.

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- Skybox is not SSAO friendly, should convert the night sky to a GLDEFS skybox

- Combat feels incredibly weak, damn. This was probably fine in 2007 but the lack of visual and audio effects in the weapons and combat in general is starting to show its age

- Player view height seems too short

- Are the Blood level textures in their original palette or are they in the Doom palette? The colours look very washed out

- I think it would be good to give the player some indication of when the next nightmare is going to happen, so that they can plan their journey. But to make it immersive, instead of just drawing some timer on the HUD, I was thinking about some pendant they have to select (maybe bound to 0 key) that glows more and more red, to indicate how close til the next nightmare siren. Or if that is too much work, maybe some immersive notifications/messages followed by sounds - perhaps in 4 stages - letting the player know that it's getting more and more dangerous and they should be a near a shelter soon. Something like "Something doesn't feel right" -> "I feel a cold chill in the air" -> "I feel a dark gloom approaching" -> "Evil approaches, I should seek shelter soon" (last warning). These are just example phrases LOL I'm sure someone can write better words.

- That recolored Cyberdemon for the last boss... yeah those sprites also look very dated too :(

- There should be cutscenes before each boss fight for increased dramatic effect. Like showing the spiders spawning out of the hole, or some cutscene to show Thamuz being summoned, things like that.

- Would be cool to have a little journal menu where you can go through every note you've read before, like in the Resident Evil games.

- Perhaps have some scoring system for the game ending where you are ranked for how fast you finish the story, how many secrets and monsters you completed, how many notes picked up, things like that. Again, like the Resident Evil games. It would encourage replayability. And perhaps a specially unlocked New Game+ mode for those who achieved the highest rank for the ending.

- Would be cool if the siren monster isn't an invisible ghost but literally something nasty like the Pyramid Head

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This flag texture should be mirrored


The flats on the boat are reflective. Must be a very clean boat

I feel like taking care of this one could improve the framerates on lower end PCs

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This door blends with the wall:


The safe texture is wrong in both sides, and it blends with the wall a bit:


This door opens at sound speed, and it slams you in the face if you use it from the right:

Nash wrote:Colors, beautiful colors!

Ozymandias81 wrote:@r&r that weapon is not present on TCOTD2, please test without mods first and then get screenshots using idmypos true command

@Nash It seems that map slowdowns comes from portals and sway shaders applied to trees, which inherit Doom props... If I can later I'll try removing inheritances and instead use as simple as possible code for those props

Gothic wrote:Seems like a bugged build again, because there is no map in there.

Nash wrote:I can help implement most of the ideas I suggested, including code and custom artwork. It's going to be a long project, so give me some time to do them one at a time.

Nash wrote:I have identified what exactly is causing the massive FPS drops - there is excessive think time, in other words there are several actors with inefficient code. I know exactly which ones to fix. But I'd like to make sure our works do not collide.