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

[AcidFlux]

Nnnnnot sure what's going on, but this modset is crashing GZDoom on startup through ZDL and the batch file included. I'd like to see this set, but it's just not working so far.

[Captain Ventris]

Nnnnnot sure what's going on, but this modset is crashing GZDoom on startup through ZDL and the batch file included. I'd like to see this set, but it's just not working so far.

What error are you getting? Can't wait to see what's become outmoded since I last touched it!

[AcidFlux]

Getting access violations from GZDoom 3.1 when attempting to run.

Code: C0000005 (Access Violation - tried to read address 0000000000000020)
Address: 000000013FC66B77
Flags: 00000000

[Captain Ventris]

Okay, you're gonna need a 2.2.0 build of GZDoom. My Dev build has a couple errors regardless, but I know how to fix those mostly. The ones I get with an actual new GZDOOM download are way over my head. Try older GZDoom builds for now. Sorry!

[AcidFlux]

Doesn't seem to work with 2.2.0 either. <_<;

[Captain Ventris]

Oooookay, had the time to sit and do research, and I do believe I can get it all working in the latest GZDoom stable version. I wrote the player class count scripts like I was on acid, so the compiler is spewing hate mail, but I think I've got it fixed. Next release will, like, actually work. On top of 8,000 improvements to things, new compat patches, Villains module, etc.

[Captain Ventris]

Doomvengers 1.0 is finally OUT! The Villains expansion is at last released, and as always all downloads are in the OP. Other then any major bugs and some possible boss balance if needed, this is definitely the last meaningful release for Doomvengers. Final balance touches, Villains (they're so fun!), and two optional rare items. Wheee


Changelog:

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General Changes:
-There is now a Doomvengers Settings menu from where you can toggle Legions and the Tools of the Trade on and off. Whee! If you toggle it mid-level, it will affect any monsters that have not yet spawned (spawners wait until you are close enough/in sight/have alerted them).
-There is also a third toggle when Age of Villainy is loaded for boss spawning, and can effect things mid-level just the same.

-Performed some code merging from module content to make things neater.

-Downsized the standard stun VFX and created two larger and more dramatic variants for bigger enemies. Reads much clearer now!

-Added Painstate checks for Stunning, due to issues with responsiveness.

-Okay. The version of Necrodoom included with Doomvengers has had subtle modifications to its TEXTURES to prevent errors on startup in the latest stable GZDoom.

-I also now include PossessMe in the Doomvengers download, as it required similar alterations. Aluqah's Read Me always said you could use his stuff however, but I'd been leaning on the side of caution before.


Bug Fixes:
-A couple goofy Decorate issues that were keeping it from launching in GZDoom 3.1. Honestly who knows why it ran before, other then luck!

-Clip Boxes looked like clips when playing as Zharkov. I don't know how I make these mistakes.

-Archvile Host's Firewall was not Ripping correctly (i.e. not ripping at all). Whoooops

-Pinkys' horns would vanish while cloaking or uncloaking.
-Pinky cloaking toggle is still broken. I was sick of messing with it, and it's an incredibly niche thing anyway, so for the time being it can't be undone. It does, however now use the fuzzy effect instead of translucency.

-For thoroughly unknown reasons, the Soulsphere had a couple wrong frames.

-Super Chicken's Will O' Wisp and Love projectile were not Ripping correctly.

-All calls for A_FireCustomMissile have been replaced with A_FireProjectile in order to fix pitch calculations.


Necrosuit:
-HVGun ammo drop raised from 12 to 18 to help with maps that ammo-starve or only give the Shotgun slot item via Shotgunners rather than an explicit weapon pickup at first.

-Chaingun ammo drop amount raised from 80 to 100. Just to give it a touch more ammo to aid in situations where other weapons are not provided or you are ammo starved.

Super Chicken:
-Now destroying Monitors will add a point to the Chaos Condenser as if you had killed a monster, so Super Chicken can benefit a teeny bit from Point of No return weapon caches ala Map 30.

-Increased the duration of the Ninja monitor from 60 to 90 seconds. Basically enough to get the delicate bird through a boss fight easier.

-Increased the flight time of the Bullet Punch projectile from 3 to 6 tics, thus doubling its range so it can be better used against more dangerous enemies.

-Increased Acid ripping level from 3 to 4 (It will pass through Baron/Miniboss level enemies).

-Shockweed main projectile damage raised from 1 to 2.

Style Guy:
-All Weapon drops now give 20 Style points, up from 10, so Guy really benefits when a level drops a huge amount of supplies in preparation for a big fight. Trust me, it blows when you're supposed to kill a Cyberdemon with little but whispers and praying.

Freerunner:
-No changes! Sorry, pal. Actually, not sorry, because he feels pretty good.

Possesso:
-All Possesso hosts can now acquire health above their default. As-is, weak monsters can double their starting health, larger monsters can add 50% to their starting health, baron-level monsters can add a quarter, and bosses can add a fifth. Anyway, this change makes situations where a player is dumped into an arena, etc. and unable to back track easier by allowing Possesso to stock up on extra health for his current host so he can reliably bring down more things to inhabit for himself.
This raises an interesting point about the Revenant: It's ability doesnt MAX its health, but rather gives it 300 health, so now that the cap is higher, you would use the ability at 150 health to get the Revenant to its maximum of 450. Now go forth, and agitate!

-SSG drops will now provide a Hellknight corpse for Possesso, RL drops a Baron or Caco corpse, and a BFG drops a Baron or Vile corpse. This helps with situations where a map author hands you a weapon cache and drops you into an arena or what not with little to no chance to nab a corpse beforehand.

-Mancubus host health reduced from 750 to 600 (its default health). His abilities are pretty rad at this point, but he's an artillery piece that can't take as much damage as he can put out.
-Moved fireballs inward by 4 units, and reduced fireball size from 8x6 to 5x5. Much easier to hit what you're aiming at now!
-Raised Mancubus Fart stunning amount from 20 to 40. This will stun the ever-living crudola out of basic monsters and even puts a halt to bigger ones. VERY useful for the fat, slow fella to get out of trouble now.

-Arachnotron host health reduced from 650 to 500 (its default health). It's finally strong enough. Put on its berzerk and Bitch Move ability, then wail on a boss, and you'll see what I mean!

-Increased the shock inflicted by the Cacodemon's Lightning balls from 6 to 8.

-Cyberdemon host ammo raised from 200 to 250.


Zharkov:
-Reduced the Icy points inflicted by Icy Plasma from 8 to 5. It's super useful but it IS a low-tier weapon after all.


Module: Legions of Noobs:
Bug Fixes:
-Haha, with Legions off, Spectres were spawning instead of Mancubi. Whoops!


Doomvengers Compatibility Patches:
Major Doomvengers Compatibility Patches:

Beyond Reality, version 0.91 (No new version)

Valiant/Sawdust, version 0.2:
-Possesso now has custom hosts for all the Valiant monsters! Possesso has an equal playing field in Valiant/Sawdust, and boy does it feel good. I'm half-tempted to just make the Valiant patch work in other map sets just to use the monsters and hosts.
New Hosts:
-Super Imp hosts are unmodified from the normal Imp, except their standard attack always fires 2 substantially faster shots in a row. They thus consume more mana per click, but overall have a higher rate of fire and longer effective engagement range.
-Super Demon/Spectre hosts move quicker, and their attacks occur faster.
-Arachnorbs are basically smaller, flying Arachnotrons with a much lower rate of fire (and less health, obviously), but the same abilities (though their berserk fires fewer projectiles).
-Pyrodemon hosts use their imp/imp/baronball fire pattern as their normal and melee attack, and their baron/baron/baron/baronball fire pattern as their berserk attack. Since they fire baron balls in melee, they will deal supremacy damage in melee. Berserk ability consumes more health than for a normal Hellknight due to its strength.
-Cybruiser hosts use a toned down version of the Cyberdemon host's weapon, with less ammo and much slower fire rate. In melee, they fire an imp/imp/baronball pattern like the Pyrodemon. They retain the Baron's Supremacy ability, which applies to their rockets and 'melee' attack.
-Super Mancubus hosts have their full 900 health, and in most physical aspects are identical to the Mancubus host, except their attack involves a volume of fireballs instead of a pair (and at a faster rate), and their berserk attack and special ability are much stronger. Basically they're ridiculous to the Nth degree.


PSX Doom TC, version 0.1: (No new version)


*NEW* Chex Quest 3, version 0.1:
-Doomvengers now works in Chex Quest 3! Mind you, a number of sounds and effects are all Chexed up, but at this point I find it pretty charming so I'm not driven to override that at the moment.
-Legions for CQ3 spews out more low-level Flemoids compared to the equivalent Doom monsters, since they're mainly melee while retaining the fragility of their counterparts. You'll have plenty of Flemoids to Zorch, is what I'm saying.
-Also works for any theoretical Chex map packs unless they have a level with a defined Levelnum of 25, since then the Maximus kill script will fire off (i.e. killing all the Maximus in such a level would end the level).



Minor Doomvengers Compatibility Patches:

UAC Ultra, Version 0.5: (No new version)


Deus Vult 2 Version 0.1 (No new version)


BTSX E2, Version 0.1: (No new version)


D2TWiD, Version 0.1: (No new version)


Module: Age of Villainy:
-Released! Enjoy getting stomped!


Module: Tools of the Trade:
-Is now implemented in the main file. Just introduces two new rare items that can make all the difference in the universe. One item can spawn rarely at BFG drops, the other rarely at Invulnerability drops (and is a one-time use!).


KNOWN BUGS WHICH PROBABLY CAN'T BE HELPED:
-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 NEVER FIGURED OUT BUT ARENT HYPER AWFUL?:
-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.

I've loved working on Doomvengers and with Villains really does feel like a love letter to the Doom community. It's reached a wonderful point where I almost always use it to play because it preserves relative balance and is always a surprise. I hope you enjoy it nearly as much as I have.

[Goregrinder]

For some reason I can't possess people as possesso, just the corpses that are already on the map as decoration. Besides that this is a great fun mod.

[DoomRater]

That's how Possesso always worked.

Edit: Corpses in general, not living monsters. If you killed something, and still can't possess the dead body, then there's a problem.

[Goregrinder]

yeah I can't possess the dead bodies of monsters I've killed, and weapons don't seem to be spawning for the other characters apart from super chicken?

[Someone64]

Can confirm this bug. Can't posses monsters you've killed. Possesme works by itself but not with Doomvengers. Also, I think there's an issue with the DUUUUUN sound effect as it plays in so many situations where I feel it isn't. For example, every single shotgun you pick up with parkour plays this sound.

EDIT: It seems enemies are buggy in general. Imps drop style points from getting shot even if they don't die. Also I saw a zombieman head bouncing forever and I have no clue what caused it.

[Captain Ventris]

Redownload and see if that fixed it the weapon spawn issues. Keep your variable names consistent, kids!

Haha I'll look at the sound issue if that persists.

As for the bouncing zombie head: weeeeere you playing as Zharkov at the time?

Edit: Also Style Guy's pistol can cause monsters to bleed Style Points.l, if that's what you were using. It's basically his farming gun.

[Ethril]

Ahahaha, the Cyberjumper is unleashed at last!

[Captain Ventris]

Ahahaha, the Cyberjumper is unleashed at last!

And he's a reaaaal jerk. Actually they're all real jerks. But beatable! Either of the rare item drops can insta-end a fight if you're in a bad spot, as well. Don't waste them.

[Goregrinder]

Now it's throwing up some errors about decorate stuff when I try to launch it:

Code: Select all

Script error, "Doomvengers.pk3:legions" line 96:
Unknown identifier 'user_PossCount'
Script error, "Doomvengers.pk3:legions" line 113:
Unknown identifier 'user_PossCount'
Script error, "Doomvengers.pk3:legions" line 132:
Unknown identifier 'user_PossCount'
Script error, "Doomvengers.pk3:legions" line 389:
Unknown identifier 'user_PossCount'
Script error, "Doomvengers.pk3:legions" line 403:
Unknown identifier 'user_PossCount'
Script error, "Doomvengers.pk3:legions" line 419:
Unknown identifier 'user_PossCount'

Execution could not continue.

6 errors while parsing DECORATE scripts

sorry for all the fuss with this I guess mr possession ghost is still messing things up