[Release/WIP] The Xoldier

[Xim]

After not doing anything Doom related for awhile I thought I'd give another crack at making a weapons/enemies mod. This one is more advanced then my previous attempts. The majority of the weapons have reloading, alt-knife attack and a zoom feature. I have replaced all the enemies with new ones, some are randomized accept the "boss" monsters only have one replacement so they don't break gameplay, but some maps such as Magic Walker might not work properly thanks to the imp variants. The helper marines from Nuke Weaps are back with a new arsenal (one contains a new sprite!). I also think I should make a custom hud for it, but I'm inexperienced in that. Anyways I'm not sure if I've squished all the bugs yet so let me know and give feedback please!

Note: This requires the latest SVN build of (G)ZDoom. Although I haven't made any GLDEFs for GZDoom yet, so for now it's mainly for ZDoom.

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Credits

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Chronoteeth, JoeyTD, Uboa, Marty Kirra, Scuba Steve, Doom Nukem,
Wild Weasel, Eriance, Xaser, Pisstepank, Yuraofthehairfan, deathz0r, scalliano,
GreyGhost, Scero, Virtue, Ben2k9

IdSoftware, Bethesda, 3D Realms, Lucas Arts, Raven, Monolith, Infinity Ward

Screenshots

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The Weapons

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Knife (Slot 1)
Usually this is on the alt-fire for the other weapons. It's yer basic combat knife.

Handgun (Slot 2)
A basic pistol. Holds ten bullets per clip.

Plasma Pistol (Slot 2)
Shoots plasma blasts. Holds 20 cells per clip.

SawedOff Shotgun (Slot 3)
A standard double barrel, alt fire fires both barrels.

Franchi Combat Shotgun (Slot 3)
Continues the trend of having single barrelled pump-action combat shotguns being the supershotguns.

Assault Rifle (Slot 4)
An accurate and reliable bullet shooting gun. Holds 30 bullets per clip.

Explosive Carbine (Slot 5)
My personal favourite. A modified 6-shooter that fires explosive bullets. The scope will come in handy.

Flamer (Slot 6)
Burns stuff. 'nuff said.

Grenade Launcher (Slot 7)
Fire grenades of two flavours. Your basic explosive rounds or plasma rounds (which might be familiar). Alt-fire switches the ammo.

Cryo Cannon (Slot 8)
Although it's the replacement for the plasma rifle, it functions more like a shotgun in that the blasts have an "explosive" spread. Freezes your enemies.

Pyro Cannon (Slot 9)
Shoots a massive fireball that leaves burning flames all around. Based of the UTNT gun from the Realm, but a little less excessive.

Doom Blade (Slot 0)
Replaces the berserk pack. You can "hold" up to 50 gibbing slashes of red fire, and afterwards it can be a heavy melee weapon.

I'll post stuff about the monsters and items at a later date.

To-Do List

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-Slow down Franchi
-Fix the "knife frame" bug in the Doom Blade, fix the bobbing and the ammo usage
-Adjust the casing falls
-Speed up the flame weapon reloading or add more frames
-Make a new flamer pickup (maybe a whole new spriteset)
-Fixed the sawedoff firing sound from getting cutoff during the reload
-Adjust the power (or beef up the baddies)


Maybe fix these
-Keep the selected grenade type for the grenade launcher
-Make a new projectile for the pyro cannon
-Speed up the weapon selection
-Make the weapon selection doom standard (Perhaps with a class system)
-Fix the assault rifle alignment, maybe get a new sprite

[Endless123]

Good thing i didn't miss this one, i like it

I like the grenade launcher specially with the plasma rounds, really impressive animation when it explode. Most of the weapons feel a bit too overpowered but having made a mod with overpowered weapons myself it's not really a complain I like strong guns

I also like the monsters. I got a surprised when i saw the one replacing the Mancubus. I even tried to get behind like in Duke Nukem in hope i could get an easy kill but i found nothing.

In short i think that's a good mod and i recommend it. For a WIP it's a really good one

[Slax]

Xoldier of Xortune. Gonna give this a whirl.

Post-whirl edit:
SFX are all over the place. Find a comfortable medium.
Combat shotty completely outclasses the sawn-off. If you can't take something down with 8 quick shells you're likely better off with a bigger gun to begin with. Maybe make the sawn-off a quickdraw weapon so it can stay around as a viable backup.

Oh, and the assault rifle sprite is too low. Doesn't line up with the crosshair.

[jimbob]

I think ejecting the casings could be a bit more random and "action-packed". For example, it looks like the casings from the combat shotgun appear from thin air and just fall to the ground where they clump together if the player stands still.

The grenade launcher should keep it's selected grenade type.

[PillowBlaster]

Yay, a gun mod - yippie ka-yay, I'll give it a whirl, aaand... here are my thoughts so far:

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-The animations are either extremely fast compared to the rest (like shotgun), or actually moving, but slow (revolver) or barely moving and slow (pistol, assault rifle...) and many more troubles with that. It just feels like playing impaired slow-mo man. The only one that feels kind of alright is the plasma pistol, if not for being static while firing.
-The gunshot effects look like they're flying out of your arm.
-I'd speed up a little the spas pumping sound, as for now it just doesn't fit the animation (or make it longer, as gee whiz, on contrary to all other weapons, this is like you're shooting this gun after six espressos!)
-The sawed off firing sounds are getting cut off while reloading.
-The fire weapons reloading is extremely slooooow. (I can tell it's probably for balance reasons, but I'd chug in some extra frames there so it doesn't feel so choppy.)
-I swear I've seen this projectile in the alternate grenade somewhere before, heh.
-I'd align the casing drop in the revolver more to the right, so it looks like they're dropping from the cylinder.
-It probably was intentional, but it looks quite weird when the freezing plasma falls down after hitting the wall.
-This mod needs more particles, whizzles, kaplooeys, effects and whatnot! (Just a personal feeling.)
-The flamer pickup is sooooo tiiiiny - it's actually smaller than a pistol... and that gun is bigger than a pistol, I believe.
-I know that this selection speed is a doom standard, but I'd seriously speed it up - I just can't live without fast weapon switching these days, but it's your choice here, I guess. Just a little suggestion!
-I'm not sure what he's doing with the assault rifle when reload is done, but that sound cracks me up hard.
-I'd actually work on the pyro gun to make it work a bit different; I've seen it in so many shuffle mods that it makes me cringe when I see it.
-The sword, using up ammo while swinging into nothingness is a huge dissapointment, even if it actually kill stuff pretty nicely; I'd make it use it up ammo only when the hit connects. It also just feels meh; could have a use from adding more knockback or particles for the oomph-factor (also, I can see it turning into a knife for a one frame when swinging). Otherwise, its idle animation in pickup is waaay too fast, it just looks weird. And it could be placed a little higher, as it clips into the floor while bobbing.
-I'd condense the weapon slot placement to doom standard, or at least move the sword to slot 1 as well - I don't like moving my hand all over the keyboard to a melee weapon set at slot 0!

There's probably more than that, but that's what I gathered from a five minute play. Overall, sorry if I sound harsh, that ain't intentional. For such long break, it's pretty alright, and I like the fact that when I shoot stuff - it actually dies!
Slax is right about the rifle being very low, but I bet that it's the sprite's fault. If he'll raise it any further, it'll get cut off. This mod just needs some polishing, that is all.

[Xim]

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for the feedback. I'm glad you've enjoyed it so far. I've made a To-Do list based on your comments (in the 1st post).

As for the Plasma Grenade being seen before, I'll admit that I "borrowed" it from deathz0rs OMG Weapwns. I just loved the attack for the Mega Proton Cannon so much that I had to use it, it felt like an instant classic. But if need be I'll try and make something more original, and same with the Pyro Cannon.

[leon2012evil]

I can't download this mod. I would like to, because according to the screenshots and the description, it seems like a good mod.

[Xim]

Oh this mod is ancient now, I don't think it's even works the latest GZDoom. Lots of clunky bugs in here too. It probably seems better than it is tbh.

Here's a new link for it, thank you for being interested in this.

edit: that version I uploaded was even more out of date, fixed it with a newer one.

[GoalDude-00]

Ancient or not, I gave it a spin and enjoyed it as something of a retro throwback. It's certainly enjoyable, though the grenade launcher's HE grenades seem to be broken (as in they seem to lack any visual or audio data associated with them, leading to me killing myself over and over when trying to use them). Definitely took me back to the past.