Hideous Destructor 4.10.0b

[Abba Zabba]

It's more than likely fine (this mod and it's unique quirky mechanics always throwing me for a loop, especially recently), but I was expecting a ton of wounds from balefire but it would up being not too bad IIRC. Maybe it was a putto, that balefire projectile isn't as bad as a baron or knight, right?

Wrapping up with a question: does standing still while crouched and braced help recover stamina quicker? I imagine it being akin to your character sitting down and recooping for a moment, as your view/aim even while in critical health values is nice and manageable. Just want to know if it is indeed a bit faster or if that's just a placebo effect I'm thinking.

[Matt]

Doing stuff increases fatigue and raises blood pressure, so I think staying still would help, but bracing should make no difference.

Those monsters actually all use the same main projectile. I might increase damage of one kind or another.

[Matt]

NEW UPDATE!

Changes:

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• Fixed:
  • Corrected values passed to doorbuster MoveFloor() call.
  • The new portal check on the muzzle collision was giving a false positive on long weapons.
  • Random armour amounts in found backpacks increased to something more plausible.
  • Casting problem with dropping frag grenades out of the backpack resulting in soft crash.
  • Backpack no longer lets you merge two pieces of green armour.
  • HERPs would disappear if you tried to pick them up while you had another.
  • Shotguns should behave similarly now.
  • You no longer need to let go of the fire button to restart every time you see that "You need to stay still..." message while bandaging.
  • The bandage "You have no injuries to bandage" has been reworded since the newbies keep thinking it's about the hitpoints.
  • Soft crash on caco blood for reasons I still cannot understand.
  • *ERPs were immune to fireballs due to insufficient exceptions to exceptions.
  • The flanking direction selection was erring in favour of making a beeline for the target, rather than actually flanking in the actor's individual preferred direction.
  • Rocket marines would avoid shooting at targets even if all the friendlies in the estimated blast radius were already dead, did not try to retreat to a proper distance to use their rockets.
  • SawGib item no longer automatically departs from actors with no gib states.
  • Renamed all VULG* sprites to GTLG* sprites to avoid a fairly obvious naming conflict with other mods.
  • Corpse gibbing no longer uses the xdeath state. Apparently all monsters have xdeath states.
  • All aggravated damage was being cleared between levels.
  • Mypos cheat works again.
  • Thunder Buster counted impacts into sky ceilings from the side.
  • Punching bag VM crash if damaged with no inflictor.
  • New bullet didn't have a line horizon or even a proper sky check.
  • Shotgun guys' shotguns are now as random as the player's.
  • Player corpse gibbing on death ignored +noextremedeath flag on inflictor.
  • Double-button firing of the Slayer was causing each barrel to shoot twice.
  • Liteamp no longer counts spare 4.26mm in onemanarmy mode.
  • Rocket grenade minimum airburst is now consistently 10m regardless of mode.
  • DERPs called A_FaceTarget much too late before the shot, resulting in impossibly perfect precision every time. Their shots have also been slowed down to compensate for recoil and the report volume has been restored to something comparable to the pistol.
  • Ladders can now be placed on maps.
  • Lightning air cracks were spawning in the wrong direction.
  • Arachnotrons did not check to see if their shot was actually clear.
  • New flame effects for when things get really hot.
• Added:
  • Nightvision shader by Pixel Eater. The bad news: you can't use scopes anymore. (Again.) The good news: the lite-amp actually acts like one!
  • New radsuit rules. It now gradually heats up over time. Keep moving to make sure the heat has somewhere to go. If you hear something burning, get out of there and take it off!
  • New map modifications (and some new cvars):
    • hd_dirtywindows: If a line blocks projectiles and has no midtexture, a translucent dirt texture is added to its surface.
    • hd_safelifts: All lifts speed 64 or lower are capped at speed 24.
  • Autopistol spawns. But also more Boss rifles, to balance it out.
  • Mancubi check to see if their shot is clear first, to reduce the suicide rate. This does make them slightly easier to avoid and defeat, increasing the mancubicide rate.
  • Additional layer of armour protection: if your armour rating is sufficiently high, subject to a random modifier, you may end up with bullet damage capped at a non-lethal level on any given attack.
  • Lost souls now latch on to you. While on fire.
  • Zombie and marine ZM66s can now jam. Zombies do not know how to clear this jam.
  • Your ammo counter bar is now much more coarse-grained (going in 1/4 steps) while you are shooting or not holding use for full hud.
  • Occasionally you will survive lethal damage, but accrue extra long-term damage as a result.
  • Additional check to slow you down a bit while moving up stairs.
  • Slide! Press Crouch while moving forwards or sideways to gain a speed boost to dodge things.
  • More obscurantism in the HUD! (use hd_debug to show health numbers again.)
  • Permanent mypos with compass.
  • Recoil, weapon inertia and the low-health jitters now affect crosshair.
  • More blue magic effects.
  • Health reset between levels.
  • Multiple bullets on a single target within 2 tics of each other now dump all their damage into the target in one go! Barons can be killed with shotguns again!
  • If you brace your weapon against something, while holding use for slow aim you will pivot on the gun while turning.
  • A_Print a blank message every weapond deselect to clear obstructive helptexts.
• Changed:
  • Passive gun bracing on walls is now more equivalent to a floor and no longer requires bumping the gun.
  • Reduced the extreme penetration of the 7.76.
  • Increased difference between the two shotguns.
  • Second Flesh now totally randomly selects between healing burns and healing wounds.
  • Magical healing is much slower now, but occasionally provides ancillary effects.
  • Zombies and marines take a little longer to shoot and zombies are less accurate.
  • Scriptified lost soul, pain elemental, baron of hell, archvile and SS.
  • Overhauled bullet damage scaling. Everything can kill everything again.
  • Grimdark now has you periodically spawning shards instead of regular nightmare respawn again.
  • Liberator no longer counts spare 4.26mm in onemanarmy mode.
  • Different drops for horribly nerfed Slayer.
  • Replaced the pickerupper with a linetrace and thinker. The pickups now work even while the game is frozen, and you can now pick up brass and individual small rounds with your hands instead of your feet!

[Abba Zabba]

Does this update make the shotguns a little stronger now, against imps? Got the master branch a half hour ago and mage imps would stubbornly survive a single Slayer shot at point blank range. I'm fine with cacos and such being more armored against it with their thick hide, even if they heal a bit too quickly, but the imp health thing was killing me.

[Matt]

I really have no idea why imps are so extremely magically resistant to buckshot... shotguns are doing like 200+ damage to zombies now and 70-90 to imps

[TheNightATK300]

So, any tactics to defeat the Cyberdemon, only using a non-BFG weapon?

[Silentdarkness12]

...Pray you have cover?

[Bigger C]

T-Buster tooltip says that altfire is rangefinder when what it does is toggle firemode.

[Matt]

Fixed.

And to answer ATK's question, said TB's scatter attack eats both shields and ammo like popcorn cotton candy.

[TheNightATK300]

Scatter attack? As in their main attack or their secondary?

[Serathis]

Would it be possible to add an indicator for friendly demons and zombies?

[Matt]

Nope, the awkwardness and ambiguity are part of the game! :V

(just like real life)

[Silentdarkness12]

....I feel like there should be some sort of identifier, too. Idk. Yes, yes, I get the 'irl awkwardness and ambiguity' thing. But maybe at least some sort of subtle thing, like 1% different sprite. Such as color-swapped eyes, or something.

[Tranthula]

I'm diggin' the braced pivot movement, makes rounding corners in a ready position so easy. Encountered a crash with Friendly-Vile resing monsters (multiple times). And are ammo boxes filled with multiple traps? I've disarmed a few boxes at least 3 times with no payout.

[Matt]

Crash to desktop or VM (game ends but you're still in the GZDoom console) crash?

EDIT: And what monster corpses were nearby?


EDIT: And what exactly do you mean by "no payout"? Does the box not turn upside down, or does it turn rightside up again when you try using it again? Or does it simply trigger a trap even though it was marked as disarmed?