ZDoom

Spoiler: Items, weapons, spells and other thingamajibs

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SHOPKEEPERS!

Nithor

Your loose cannon of an ancestor, this deity of fury and passion went through his hoops of life definitely far from unscathed, if him and all his descendants being covered in black flames as a mark of their lineage of dragons with anger management issues, speaks any. Stupidly powerful beyond any rhyme or reason, currently stuck squatting as your room service for sins long past. As witty, smart and sarcastic as your average, dumb writer that tries to make a compelling, 4th-wall breaking character. Will gladly bestow his power upon you on moment's notice if that means any punching and burning time for his trouble.

Sabbatha (Available through Addon file.)

During his mentally deranged trip through Hell (aka murdering demons left and right) Cygnis had an unfortunate event of sparing a succubus. He noticed she was about to get executed by her fellow brethren for daring to make an escape as the mayhem was unfolding, always wanting to see the Outworld (the world outside of Hell). The demoness, being really curious and thankful for her unexpected rescue, decided to stick around with her savior, study his behavior as she never had much of contact with Outworlders, and... get into his pants as a means of thanking him. Cygnis wanting none of that ended up in a vicious cycle of fending off her advances. For now he managed to get her a cushy job as a shopkeeper just so he could have a break from her.

GUNS!

Getting in fights and entering the frays~ (technically not a gun, but better explain that one – combat and mobility capabilities of this guy may be slightly complicated. For a robust explanation, press that F1 button in-game.)

Where lead can't make its way (or rather you somehow ran out of bullets), your fists can do the speaking part for you. After thousands of critters being bludeoned into submission, there was no other option than repair the shattered knuckles with metallic replacements, hence the loud thuds each time you pack a punch into one's face... but isn't that just satisfying?

Mash ye thine fire button to combo things! If the monster is below certain amount of health, you can finish it off with an uppercut. If the monster is a popcorn-tier (like, 80 health or less), the uppercut won't trigger. To force an uppercut, hold crouch and punch to trigger.

You can kick (zoom button) anytime, even during punching or holding any weapon. You can also kick with any weapon being out. To perform a dash kick, simply hold forward while kicking. Roundhouse kicks are only aviable when your fists are on. Kick while holding strafe button (move left/right) to trigger. If you want to stomp the ground, kick while holding crouch.

You can fly (jump button) or even glide (double-press forward and hold it while in mid-air), or perform quite satysfying pound attack! (press crouch while in midair, has a moment of cooldown afterwards, and you need to be in midair for a short while to make it happen.)

You can climb onto ledges! Hold forward against a ledge while flying to do so. If you do it on an elevator you'll stick to its edge; hold jump to clamber upon it. If you wanna climb something off the ground, hold forward and press use to do so.

Oh yeah, you can also pick up and throw pods/barrels if you press use on them, regardless of the held weapon. Gimmick added for the heck of it.


Brimstone

Made in what was left of Asuzran forge, the Brimstone carries all the anger and technological prowess of the Cygnis' deceased homeworld. Despite its rather sleek appearance, this sword is definitely not meant to be used by a mortal - made of incredibly dense alloy, it requires an inhuman strength to even dare lifting it up, hence Cygnis foregoing any technicalties while swinging it around. Anything unlucky enough to get smacked by this sword (or rather, what's left of the poor sod afterwards) is more than likely to be sent flying, quite a couple meters away. But that's not the end of it's tricks, for its immensely sturdy blade contains equally frightening, destructive power. Powered by a still blazing piece of the star that watched over his world's demise - a condensed and magical nuclear reactor rod, it has a tendency after strucking adversaries to... make them literally explode. If they care to survive the impact, they get inflicted with an ailment that turns them into panicked, living bombs.

Longhorn

High-powered, octagon cylinder-fed revolver that is edgier than you? That's Longhorn to you! A gift from the past from one of his good, former students at the art of bringing pain to those in need (Who became a kickass merc!... nooo, not Blazer. Another guy, just to make it clear), it sports satisfying firepower, great accuracy, and... goddamn huge recoil.

Strucker Mk. III

Ye olde 12-gauge goodness, Strucker combines the best of both worlds by combining the stopping power of two barrels, and the speed of an auto shotgun. Since the shotguns are among us since like, ever, I bet you know what do with that thing. If you somehow never had a contact with such, just keep in mind to aim the pointy end at the monster while pushing the trigger!

Ironblast

Two barrels weren't enough. Four barrels weren't enough. So how about eight freaking barrels that shoot shrapnel, plus the fact that whole thing isn't break, but a pump-action weapon? That's a material for the best shotgun in the world. Super Quadshotgun - because fuck everything that would even dare to stand in your way! Surprisingly tight spread, acceptable fire rate - and add on top of that the dual-wielding, and suddenly you become as tasteless as 80's action movie. Awesome, right?

Pulverizer

Compact, hand-held minigun - however weird it sounds, it actually works great anytime you need to take those barrels for a spin! Surprisingly accurate, stunlocks pretty much any target, and if that isn't enough for you, if anything gets near your hail of dispensed bullet casings - it's in for a bad time.

Matriarch

Do I really have to explain why holding a huge autocannon among your equipment is an absolute must? Well, it's accurate, surprisingly fast, and most important – it makes stuff explode!

Dynamite (TEE AN' TEE! I'm a power-load. TEE AN' TEE! - watch me explooooode, yeah!)

Since I finally got myself to get through Blood after years (especially after finding out that you can take off those bloody !@&%@!#$& hands off your throat - I decided to give it another shot), and boy if TNT wasn't a satisfying weapon. Probably the most satisfying thing I've been using in years... hence why I got stubborn to do my own take on it, and it took me quite a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get it working and looking how I wanted it to be. The effects are quite astonishing!

The TNT can be cooked, which gives you increased throwing power at the cost of fuse time. It bounces around, and blows up on contact with the enemies while still in motion, but if you hold it till the late throw power, it will always explode on impact. Once it sets steadily on the ground, you can kick it around to make it fly around again. Note that you shouldn't cook it for too long, else it'll go off in your hand... And even if you are quite impervious to the TNT blasts, that obviously hurts a lot. If you want to prevent that, weapon switch will defuse it.

Augur

The newest and deadliest in long-range sappy guy who delivers one-liners and death-technology. This massive-ass weapon should be either mounted on vehicles or carried by troops in power armors, but it's is perfectly fine to be used by a buff dragonkin like you. Fires off plasma-enriched slugs, dealing a lot of area damage both during flight and upon impact. It also has a scope that can actually be used for great advantage over large distances. The only flaw is that each shot takes a while, so line them up well. And if you think this sounds good already, just get your hands on its stratocaster mode. It's brought from the future in which a gzdoom version exists that actually supports this!

Old Dreadful

The best. The best. The best. Da best is da best. If something looks like BFG, smells like BFG, and tastes like BFG!... okay, that sounds a little pervy. Well, you get the drill – you know you want it, you know it packs an absolutely devastating greenical, plasmatory goodness (shakespearin' like no tomorrow). The classic in slightly refurbished flavour. Huge. Stylish. Deadly. Also Huge. No guts shall whitstand it. Did I also mention that it's completely safe to use, even if it wrecks shit like no tomorrow?

SPELLS!

Firespit

Cyg, even if being a dragon by all of this word's meaning, is actually a bit impaired in the matter of fire-breathing, as he isn't a true-blood dragonkin. However, he can still exhale a cloud of a nasty, condensed flame when needed. While short-ranged, it still gives monsters a solid dose of burning! (I didn't figure out a good tomed effect, other than constant, medium-ranged flamethrower, which would make from it just a copy of Scourgebreath. Maybe I'll at least add that later.)

Skullfire

Nothing fancy, just a classic fireball with a skullfaced explosion. Lays fire around the impact area. Tomed mode hurls a rolling chunk of lava, leaving trail of fire in its wake and tearing through monsters, unless it meets a boss monster or a wall - it explodes with a shower of flaming chunks, leaving a small-scaled firestorm.

Frostbite

Fires a homing ice bomb that glues to enemies and freezes them before moving onto next target. Upon impact with walls or running out of time, it bursts with ice shards and freezing gust. While tomed, it turns into an old time classic, with a twist - homing frozen orb. I don't need to say how funny that one is.

Gumpop

An oddball of a spell, because it's cheap. What makes it also different from the crowd? Well, one – it increases damage to monsters from your attacks (75% from physical sources like knives, crows or bullets, 50% from semi-physical like corpseblast or annihilation, 25% from elemental damage, like fire or lightning). Two – it makes short work of armoured targets. Tho ree, and most important – it makes the baddies die the funniest and most gruesome death I can think of right now (albeit compared to corpseblast - it's purely visual). While tomed, you basically summon a gumpod nova that erupts immediately. Tons of exploding enemies ensured!

Thunderstruck

A bit hard to aim, but quite satisfying crowd-blasting spell with huge knockback potential. It calls a lightning to shatter upon unsuspecting foes heads in the place you point at. Best used by aiming at the floor. While tomed, it summon a short-lived lightning storm, with a spiral lightning in the center mass, no less. Hold crouch while casting to summon a Spiral Lightning Ball - while it hovers over your head, it automatically pours down lightnings on nearest targets, but drains your mana each time it strikes, so be mindful about your mana pool while using it. Can be toggled on/off while the tome is still running, but bear in mind that activating it also takes an entrance mana fee. You can squeeze out the most from this spell by using it in watery areas. It also causes electrocution effect for stunning display of power.

Threadcutter (ZA WARUDO!)

Have you ever be so mad that you just wanted to stuff your enemies with kitchen appliance? Well, you can kind of do it now! Turn enemies into pincushions by throwing clouds of knives and cleavers at them. This spell really shines while being under Tome's effect – it makes you stop time while in use, the cutlery guiding itself into nearest targets once casting is broken. Knives cause bleed effect which stacks time and damage-wise. The more ruptures you cause - the stronger and longer will be the bleeding, causing the monsters to wither in pain.

Skypunch

This one can let you turn monsters on your way into sitting ducks, floating mostly helplessly in midair, while you pour your lead into them! The harmonic earrrape-, I mean energy wave makes them hover above the ground for couple of seconds. Moreover, it also summons spiritual fists that harasses them for the good portion of the active time. What about already flying targets? Well, have no fear, if you had somehow affected them while they were close enough, it shocks them as well, making them confused and prone to running away. Tome makes you cast tidal shockwaves and empowers the way of thousand fists.

Corpseblast

Another shamelessly stolen piece of arcane knowledge, because I couldn't resist – it's freaking exploding corpses, how can I say no to that? (Probably half of them are. Please don't kill me!) As mentioned, this one makes the carcass in the impact point release a load of kinetic power at the cost of the carcass existence, and it hurts quite badly. It also can more than likely release the evil spirits residing within its mortal shell, and attack nearest of its former collagues while tomed. Brings especially hilarious effects on monsters that presumably can hold way more spirits, like archviles or iron liches.

Hitchcock's Birds

Being rip'n'teared by a flock of hungry ravens doesn't sound like a fun ending, eh? Unless you are the one to bring it! Amazingly useful against heaps of imps, they shall stand no problem while you bring those birds out. A real horror begins while you get the tome effects in – it makes the crows stand behind the killed targets that consist of feedable flesh for a period of time. If any monster trespasses near them, they get attacked by them.

Scourgebreath

Breathing fire sounds like a fine classic. But why not give it a new flavour by exhaling pure hatred at your enemies, making them die swiftly and in agonizing way? This spell has no fineness at all – you just roll through enemies and make them suffer from your rather bad breath... But hell if it isn't fun! Tome doesn't add to it any more effects, as it's deadly enough – it makes it cost less in power, thus lasting longer, as it burns energy like no tomorrow.

Annihilation

Unquestionably devastating spell, it turns your energy into destructive power sphere. While in flight, it showers targets with energy projectiles, just to explode into even more of them on impact, albeit non-homing. Heck, it turns into a real projectile-fest when tomed, but be warned – it requires more energy than you have by default, so expanding your limit is a must to use it.

Chillgrasp

With this spell, the force is with you - you can catch monsters in a freezing stasis and toss them around however you like (comes with momentum affected by your mouse swing!). But wait, there's more than that - this spell freezes also everything around and turns the victim of the grasp into freeze bombs. And if you want to go absolutely nuts, the tomed mode makes the freezing chain last as long as the freezing chain can keep on killing stuff.

Flamewave

Being inspired by the likes of ROTT and Diablo, this one creates a wall of fire that chews through monsters. Very powerful crowd control that gets bouncy while tomed! Bear in mind it likes to chew through your mana, though.

Rachmaninov's Punch

Ever felt like becoming a living meteor? Bring the justice at the speed of a speeding bullet right into monster's face with an explosive end! The tomed mode severely increases the impact's power.

Sheepshield

The pinnacle of wtfness - this spell creates a stampede of sheeps around you that blocks projectiles and tears monsters a new one at the same time. And the tomed mode... well, let's just say that this homage wouldn't be complete without it.

Spirit Cannon

A spell that sets up a turret that blasts away at nearest enemies, draws mana from your pool. While tomed, it pops three shells in a row, if you have enough mana that is. I usually ommit area control things like mines and turrets, but I've had decided to take my crack at it nonetheless, knowing some people like this kind of stuff.

Prism Lazer

While it doesn't have any special behaviour, other than fancy pattern - this spell still has huge firepower, can cause elemental effects on impact, and generally - it kicks ass. The only drawback is the huge mana drain. Tome helps in that regard.

Apocalypse

Yet another reference of a spell, and pretty powerful at that. Anything unfortunate enough to be standing in front of you gets a taste of hatred blasts, most often than not devouring them. Tomed mode decreases the amounts of blasts, but gives them quite a punch in exchange.

Darkpath

Just when things couldn't get any worse for the map devs, the mod got "this spell" - while not exactly devised for fighting purpose, this spell lets you traverse decent distances by teleporting yourself around, through tight gaps, anywhere it strikes you fancy, as long as you can fit in the destination spot. Empowered mode blasts anything within landing zone's vicinity with dark energy, lifts the range restriction and leaves a sick lightning over your traveling path. Oh yeah, also lets you telefrag monsters up to some point, depending on their health and whether they're a boss monster or not. You can lift those restrictions further with Deadmaker's Mask and the tome of power/ancient amplifier.

Hammersmite

A sort of an opposite to the Darkpath, this spell casts upon your enemies a holy hammer to smite them. It's especially effective against the undead, and leaves a small, healing aura in the impact zone. Tomed mode summons a circle of hammers. This spell also heals in coop, albeit it has a nasty side effect of sending your buddies flying.

Dragonshout

Release a powerful shout that sends enemies flying and generally - very dead. Tomed mode lets you shout faster!

Sigil of the Gods

A pretty powerful spell based on the powers of an alien entity. Fires out an Annihilation-like projectile that fires out all kinds of lightning and lightning accesories, depending on its power level. You can increase it by acquiring more volumes of it!

STRATOCASTERS!
Those weird but handy boxes contain unlockers for extra firing modes to your weapons. They're far from being cheap, but they're usually worth their slack.

Brimstone

Using mana, it unleashes waves of nuclear death that also collides with incoming enemy fire.

Longhorn

Can be activated by trying to cast a spell while zoomed in, or through shop; Fire a chain lightning shot! Keep in mind it uses more ammo per shot, and a bit of mana.

Strucker

Turns your standard, boring shells into powerful, drilling slugs that tear monsters inside out, roaming around in their flesh, causing them to panic!

Ironblast

You can haunt the weapon, making from it a self-sustained gun turret. While in use, it chews through your ammo pool, and you don't have any control on what it shoots, so keep an eye on your shell surplus (if you run dry on shells, the shotgun will tell you about it, plus start glowing red). If you want to withdraw it from action, you can use an item that appears in your inventory after summoning it. There's a quick-bind for that in the key customization, too. (If you don't like it's chatter, you can deactivate it in HERE BE DRAGONS menu.)

Pulverizer

Gives the weapon the ability to create... a lead ball. Or rather, brass and lead ball. Made of bullets. And casings. And it grows as you hold fire. And it rolls after you release it. And it shoots as it goes. And it kills as it rolls. And it looks like radioactive cheese ball. Mmmmmm. Cheese.

Matriarch

Gives the weapon a burst drunk missile launch mode; up to ten shells can be loaded at a time, they get released the moment you stop holding the button. The missiles prioritize targets within the spot you were aiming at.

Dynamite

Empowers the dynamite with purifier seal, making the dynamite burst into pretty long-lasting fire bath. Other than being pretty good at keeping enemies at bay within choke points, it also nullifies self-damage. Take note that it costs mana to throw while active.

Augur

Can be activated by trying to cast a spell while zoomed in, or through shop; unlocks a capability of the weapon to not only shoot through, but also see objects through walls! However, it has a limited range (still pretty good though).

Old Dreadful

Ahem... Well, if you really, REALLY need that absurd firepower of this weapon to be multiplied by another one hundred, this one is for you. Is it really worth it? Not really. Still comes handy during slaughterfests. Or when you want to blow up Romero's head at the other end of the map. (And yes, it stacks with the tiberium core upgrade.) Bear in mind it sometimes needs to... reboot, after shooting with this one on. But usually everything is already dead afterwards, so that shouldn't bother you too much.

ITEMS!

Gold and gems (aka „Dosh”)

No rest for the wicked, as they say – to actually get all those spiffy spells in most of the time, you gather all those shiny objects to pay that annoying shopkeeper, whose voice and behaviour is kind of familiar... no matter, as long as you can stuff yourself with goods, who cares?

Hammerspace Backpack

At first pick up, it doubles your ammo count, and increases it by 10% for each two you pick up afterwards. If you feel overburdened with ammo, you can toggle it off in the "HERE BE DRAGONS" menu.

Magic Tomes

In place of gauntlets or chainsaws, you might stumble upon magical tomes containing arcane knowledge, floating around, just like that – ready to be grabbed. You have that piece of knowledge already? Have no fear - you automatically gain 50% of it's price right to your wallet instead!

Syringes

Because who doesn't love those empowered, magical drugs that boost your capabilities? You can expand your energy limit, energy regeneration, or health capacity with those.

Tome of Power & Ancient Amplifier

The classics! Boosts and/or alters your spells behaviour at increased energy costs, and you can hold five of them anytime.

Wings of Wrath & Lifter Syringe

Considering you can fly at your desire, this powerup would make no sense in the game, so it increases your flight capacity instead. Comes in a syringe flavour in techy environments.

Health'n'Mana refills


All your restoring goodness! Comes in red and blue flavours for obvious things, respectively. Health spawns as usual in their places, mana however is a different can of worms - when you're killing enemies and your mana isn't filled to the brim, mana pot/capsule drops can occur while killing monsters (Some monsters have higher chance of doing so, bosses are guaranteed to drop a handful of big pickups). Their filling value is also affected by the amount of mana boosters you have.

Potion of Iron Lizard (lol Metal Slug)

Temporarily gives you skin that is impenetrable by any means. HYES!

Berserk

Temporarily boosts your physical capabilities by an outrageous level, giving you an ability to hit things with an enormous power, suck out life from your victims with each hit, increases your mobility, decreases damage you receive... generally, you become a horned reaper! (Effect stacks each time you use it, time-wise.)

Gunzerk (Borderlands 2 ahoy!)

Working in similar manner like Berserk, it also gives you increased physical resistance, halves weapon recoil (except for Ironblast for reasons), health regeneration... but instead of increasing your physical strength, like the name suggests - it doubles the weapons in your hands, and makes you regenerate your ammo! Of course while it's in use, you can't quite make use of the magic, but who cares when you can just pour twice as much lead into those pesky adversaries?

Propane

Not really that useful but a fun item nonetheless. Propane can be picked up, pushed around if you're full on it, used to block monsters, tossed into their faces (even cause collateral damage if you have extra strength, coming from Berserk/Suit!), and obviously - explode when shot. You can still save the propane from exploding if you have enough inventory space to pick it up before it goes off. Putting on it strong impact will make it blow up instantly. It occasionally spawns instead of barrels.

Asbestos Suit

Not that Cyg shouldn't be completely fireproof in the first place, but due to some dumb limitations (and kinda-balance reasons), I had to resign from that idea. Still, this gives him a handy protection from a bunch of things, like sludge, more fire, poison, ice - stuff like that. You can use it on any given moment when needed, albeit be warned that each activation draws one duration point.

"Bishop" B.A.D.A.S.S. (Battle Armored Dragon Assault Strike System)

My guilty pleasure, this stupidly overpowered item will turn you into a hulking powerhouse of a dragon. Provides passive regen, high resists from pretty much any kind of attack, immunity from a variety of hazards, insane boost in physical strength, you can punch projectiles back at monsters (if you time it right), provides an arm cannons mode (press reload with fists on while its active, also has airstrike attack on alt-fire while active!). Hold fire instead of tapping to charge up a rapid-fire punch!... What are the drawbacks, you can ask? Well, other than being a little louder!... there's none. Just gotta be lucky to find a one. It occasionally spawns instead of Old Dreadful. Once you've had found it, you're pretty much set to go on insane killing spree till the rest of the game. I don't say "stupidly overpowered" without a reason, as this is a pinnacle of my wet dreams. So nah, not planning for it to be balanced or sensible, ever. Don't like it - don't use it, hurrr.

Armor

Get yourself a protective gear in all, most fashionable colours this season!

Medbag

Standard-issue medkit, heals you instantly for all the amount of health you're missing, and as much as it can cover. You can hold up to five hundred units of it at any given moment. Each time you use it, you have a delay of 15 seconds before you can use it again.

Spheres

These here come with little to no changes compared to their vanilla counterparts, however - there is another bunch that brings something new to the table.

Reaver

An upgraded response to the lack of Blursphere - this thing makes monsters have a hard time reacting to what's going on, and generally freak out while you leisurely slam more lead into their faces!

Quad Damage

This is completely unnecessary addition, but I just love Quad Damage. Me playing Quake sparked the urge to have that around again, so... here it is. Works as usual.

Wizard's Eye (I fook'n love references! And I love that pickup sound. ;-;)

While Cyg has his hatred for wizards, he won't mind any help that might come from making use of their dirty tricks. This serves as an automap powerup that also gives you an insight on all of the objects on the map, much like the spell I reference here. (I highly recommend configuring automap object colors to make them represent enemies/allies/items/objects/whatever in your color desire.) Since you can use nightvision any moment (just bind a proper button in the menu!), it replaces the light-amp powerups.

EXTREMESPHERE (Remember, the professional term is "Going full Nithor.")

MUST BE WRITTEN IN CAPITAL LETTERS BECAUSE CONVENTION REQUIRES TO DO SO - A CLASSIC FROM MY PREVIOUS SHITTY MOD THAT TURNS YOU INTO UNSTOPPABLE KILLING MACHINE WITH WHY OF COURSE DRAGONFORCE PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND BECAUSE FUCK YEAH THAT FITS NOW GO EXPLODE SOMETHING AND SOMEONE YOU DON'T NEED A REASON OR COMMAS COMMAS ARE FOR WUSSIES SORRY THAT I DIDNT GET THE SCREAMS IN BUT I DIDNT WANT TO MAKE MARTYS THROAT SUFFER FROM TRIPLE CANCER AFTER TRYING TO RECORD THAT UNLESS HE WILL STILL WANT TO DO IT WHEN HE WILL SEE THIS BEAUTY IN ACTION!!!!111!!11!1!11oneone

ARTIFACTS!
Quite pricy and often very specific in behavior, but with right combination of stuff, the artifacts can make you even more obscenely powerful than before. Your main source of them are treasure chests, left by killed boss monsters. You get a couple to select from by default.

Philosopher's Tome

This nutty powerup item recharges every 90 seconds after being deployed, and works for 45 seconds. While active, your 'touch' can turn monsters into golden statues. Breaking those statue gives you extra money boost, and on top of that, they shatter into coins that you can pick up afterwards. But wait, there's more - while its active, the dough scattered around you is being teleported straight into your pockets!... Did I also mention this thing somewhat stacks effect-wise with the Berserk and Amplifier/Tome and... Skypunch? Can be found sometimes instead of backpacks or in treasure chests.

Tome of the Mana Shield

A toggle-able item that, while active, converts a portion of damage taken into mana burn. The more tomes you have, the stronger the effect! Can be found sometimes instead of backpacks or in treasure chests.

Tome of the Draugh

A rather interesting piece of knowledge from another age, this tome lets you summon a dark clone that clearly talks way too much upon finding himself a victim. He doesn't use all of the player's spells or weapons, due to the creator's sanity and limitations, but still sports a relatively strong collection of attacks to do your job for you, if you are as lazy as the mod's author is at times. Pretty much invincible, cannot be destroyed in combat, so whatever the enemy you are facing, they cannot win against him. Can only hold one tome at a time, but if you summon him and find another tome... feel free to do so. It can be occassionally found in place of the BFG or in treasure chests.

Okay, but the clone is only one part of the equation. If you hold use/open doors button while activating this item, instead of summoning the Draugh - you absorb him, creating a dark, otherwordly suit! This suit boosts your resists by a slight amount and your mana regeneration and capacity by a more considerable amount. Sounds lame compared to invincible murder clone on the loose, right? Well, those changes are just an extra addition to the main feature of the suit - the riftwalking. To riftwalk, hold use/open doors to trigger it - as of 3.777, it runs on its own, self-regenerating resource. While riftwalking, the monsters can't see you and they have a hard time reacting to you murdering them. It also lets you pass right through most of the objects. It can also be upgraded with specific artifacts!

Alchemy Lab

Creative stoner's best tools for field 'trips'! This item increases the potency of your powerups (with an exception of EXTREMESPHERE), extending their time by 15 seconds per each acquired item.

Heavy Duty Stompers

Other than otherwordly glow, this pair looks indistinguishable from your regular steel-toed boots... except when you try to stomp/bootstomp with them, you release an impaling attack from the ground, effectively multiplying your stomping power! Each pair further increases its power.

Carnage Collector

This fancy-looking curio converts the slayed enemies essence into powerup time for berserk/gunzerk/tome effect, effectively making their active time indefinite, so long you can keep on killing enemies with their respective damage types. Each acquired item increases that time bonus per kill.

Croesus Blessing

Ancient artifact from another past, it rewards your greed by randomly spawning Midas Spheres off killed monsters while midas power is active. Leveling it up increases chance to drop the spheres off the monsters.

Masters of Pain

This set of beaten, flesh-hungering gloves amplifies your fists' stopping power by making monsters you hit always flinch.

Voidwalker's Touch

A strange, floaty, severed hand that makes one's skin shudder just by looking at it. Empowers your riftwalk with an ability that lets you temporarily turn monsters on your side while passing through them. It also enables deflecting incoming, enemy projectiles while riftwalking. Each level increases the speed and damage and adds some extra effects while at it. Take note it burns mana each time that happens and requires such to do so. Enemy possession is toggle-able and runs off the riftwalk mana.
Level 1. Gives you possession ability. Deflects incoming projectiles back at the enemy.
Level 2. Doubles the possession time. Deflected projectile flinches enemy.
Level 3. Desintegrates monsters after time runs out. Forces splash damage on enemies that are otherwise immune to it.
Level 4. Lets you convert boss monsters!
Level +5. Extends Riftwalk power.

Supermag Johnson

A rather hefty mag for Ironblast; gives you three shots before you have to pump the weapon.

Supermag Theta

An equivalent to Supermag Johnson, except for Augur. Gives it three shots before having to reload.

Demoman's Eyepatch of Power

A peculiar piece of magical equipment, apparently soaked with some dark magic after protecting a cursed eyesocket for years too many to count - fortunately don't need to wear it to make use of it! While active, turns your dynamite into proximity mines!

ADDON ITEMS!

Deadmaker's Mask

An item once belonging to another, powerful entity, used as an excuse by Nithor to cause some havoc. Grants you a sizable stature and fists hungering for things to punch. In technical lingo - augments your health pool, melee and magical capabilities. Firebreath and some singular spells get empowered across the board. Double-tap forward to sprint. Reload\strat mode button to perform a fist slam, then fire afterwards to perform a ground slam. Reload\strat mode button while running around with your fists up to perform an elbow slam.

Also since version 3.777, can be paired with Powersuit!... Oh my god.
And to answer incoming question which everyone will probably ask in confusion as it's admitedly not that obvious - to raise up your beam hands and activate missile racks, gotta press reload without moving or running forward.

Explosive Presence

Another from "handy" kind of artifacts, this one while activated and the Deadmaker's Mask is active, brews an aura around you that causes the monsters caught in it long enough get inflicted with the Brimstone's fuse debuff. Extra items increases the chance for it to kick in, and the aura range.

Emperor's Breath

A rather potent artifact, it enables some of your weapon-based explosions to traverse through walls! Exceptionally broken when combined with Golden Emperor, given it was devised solely for that weapon at first, but Rowsol's comment gave me some food for thought and I made it work with a couple more toys.

Mourning Glory

An unholy mess of a double-barreled cannon, the Mourning Glory packs a hefty punch by lobbing radioactive, high-explosive shells across the battlefield at a pretty decent speed. Strat mode is semi-reference from yet another mod from another game that didn't see the light of day, but as you can see!... it's pretty damn hilariously messed up~

Golden Emperor

Given I had spent way too much time playing DRLA, this is a direct homage to one of the toys there - a missile launcher with a limited capacity but incredible potential for firepower, sporting a regenerating mag of its own. Its missiles gain power over travel time up to some point (I could make it uncapped but tests proved that would be a bad idea). Strat simply makes the missiles guided, so you can artificially extend the flight time for some sick explosions or guide them from safe spot into monster crowds.

Sandman

Yet another interdimensional piece of equipment, originally meant for dedicated, powersuit-laden troops in a """seemingly humorous but it makes maybe two people laugh""", incredibly defeatist and weird, dystopian future, starring godlike, lazy electricians, magicians which explode places just by entering them if they don't care to have correct house color, good guy generals speaking to incredibly OP drunken special ops' with trumpet solos, radioactive crate-bitten jamaican janitors with superpowers and last but not the least - depressed commanding officer of fanatic terrorist group who seemingly can't get anything their way... Cough, yeah, you'd wonder how that even came to be, but that's a longer story for another day. Eitherway, it's a gun. Sports crazy fire rate and firepower - also crazy appetite for ammo and a design flaw, making it unable to fire bullets that won't detonate past some point, unless you have a strat box for it. And that strat... ohh boyo, you just need to see it yourself.

How do I even launch this again?
The included .txt file has some explanations for that. Also, this page is your best friend in that regard.

Why the monster mods ain't working with this, yet they all seem to be normal. I want more challenge! Your other two mods allowed such!~
For some particular mechanics and stuff to work - I had to edit monsters here. I had a limited amount of features or knowledge to work with, so that prevents from adding any monster mods on top of that.

You keep using those words - "That got fixed." I don't think you think it means what it means.
When I say that, I don't mean that it already is fixed and that I uploaded fixed version. It means that it's fixed on my side. This is no open-sourced mod, you have to wait for the update.

I have this and this bug with the mod and it crashes! Plz fix!
...And I have no idea why this happens if it never happened in my life. Please provide a better disclosure of what you pair this mod with in those cases. I am not a guru that reads people's minds or loading sequences.

Okay, I have these addons there. Now fix it!
I am not responsible for third party addons to make things work with them, unless we speak map errors that are not heavily-scripted or modded by default. If the OG creator will be well within my reach, will want to cooperate and it will be worth it, as sometimes it may mean things becoming incredibly time-consuming and hard, if not downright impossible to deal with. If that's not the case, then we could possibly work things out. Otherwise, that's entirely on the user.

Getting weird errors while launching it here.
If you load the mod alone and it still does not want to work, you might want to update your gzdoom. If it still persists, then you might want to report things.

Ghastly_dragon wrote:Why do people keep putting guns in Heretic, specifically?