Lowtech Remake (Updated 22/02/17)

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

What's this?

It's a remake of the Lowtech Mod made by Captain Red back in 2005. I always liked the way he worked the replacement of weapons. So, what i wanted to do was to remake it, add smoke, light, casings, centered weapons, altfires, better sounds, and get a little deeper into the theme. Of course, following feedback.

All i ask is a little attention and sincere feedback!

Credits are inside the rar, but here's another copy:

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This list might be incomplete,
but i'm not trying to steal anyone's work.
I know better than many how sad it is to see people claiming their
merit while others gather all the prizes. Enough talk.

Credits goes to:

I forget names sometimes, but if YOU recognize something that ain't credited,
or that got credited wrong, do me a favor and tell me.
I won't be mad at you and i'll thank lots for helping me to keep the guys that
worked hard on the boards around. Spread the word.

So, let's start!

//Special Thanks//

*Captain Red : The Creator of the original lowtech mod,
that gave me the idea to boost.

*Wildweasel, Zaero : The guys that got me started on decorate tricks,
tips and lessons to create things for GZdoom.

*Captain J and LedIris and YukesVonFaust : Excellent guys, feedbackers and wise
decorate wizards. I wouldn't do anything myself without their help.

*Lippeth, Sgt. Mark and Jekyll Grim Payne/Zer0 : Guys that brought
mods with many interesting stuff to study, learn,
and(with crediting of course), use from with no
major demandings but their names on the bottom lines.

*Sgt Shivers, JoeyTD, chronoteeth : Awesome guys and spriters good as fuck
that made many inspirational things or even,
things that i used, (like the tommygun) to bring out new inventions.

*My Wife: Supporting me since ever. Even when she hated me for going to bed late night because of Slade.

// Sprites, Sounds (weapons, objects...)

-CaptainJ
-Sgt. Mark IV
-Ceejay
-Trevor_402 (for evil dead sounds for the chainsaw)
-Diodeus (for many resources).
-Dunkelschwamm
-Dolphman
-TorridGristle (Many, many resources!)
-TheZombieKiller (Blood resources)
-RSL (nice coding lessons!)
-Dr. Kelexo
-Mike12
-JoeyTD
-SladeEXE (Doom64 Sprites)
-The Master Hand Sheet from the ZDoom forums. Saved my life countless times.
-Dynamo
-SmithyGCN
-Maxim

//The Voxels Team

I find this one important. I made many voxels from old sprites of mine,
but those i didn't made or took from shadow warrior and blood
original files must be credited to:

- Voxelbro: Cigarettes from Acessories to Murder by WildWeasel and DoomNukem.
- ReaperMan (Duke3D) : Nightvision, Armor, Steroids and the Chainsaw from Doom.
- DooMad (Doom voxel project) : Blue Armor and Backpack (started by ghostpilot).
- Ceejay : Didn't made any voxels but he made the sprite for
the panzerfaust, that's where i made the voxel from.

All the others were made by me or taken from Blood and Shadow Warrior.

//Game producers

-Capcom
-Banjo Software
-ID Software
-Velocity
-3D Realms
-Lobotomy
-GT Interactive Software
-Insomniac (Disruptor Stuff)
-Rebellion
-Valve
-Square Soft/Enix
-Konami
-Freedoom
-THQ
-Namco

//Softwares used

-Magica Voxel
-Audacity
-GIMP
-PSXFin
-ZSNES
-Slade
-Slab6

if i forgot someone, contact me. There's still the detailed list to do, but these are the ones i could remember right now.

Changelogs:

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22/02/17
- New Options : Magazines (thanks LedIris for remembering me) and Staying Scoped after sniper Reload.
- You can kick during some reloads (except glock, ssg and panzerfaust). Just keep mashing the button.
- New Scope Sprites to the sniper, due widescreen reasons.
- Effects to sniper shot by YukesVonFaust.
- New Select animation to the knife.
- New offsets for the Imbel alternate fire (Alternate Weapon Pack)
- Fixed Knife Throwing (Alternate Weapon Pack). Thanks CeeJay SO MUCH. I know i had to copy many states, but i swear this is no theft. Credz to him.

08-11

- Panzerfaust name changed to Panzerfaust 100 due to obviousness.
- Barrel voxel changed.
- Keys voxels changed.
- Some sprite modifications on the sawnoff.
- Flamethrower reload speed increased.
- Changed Ammo1 Sound.
- New logotype for Heretic
- New sprites for sawnoff
- New sounds for fists and kick
- New sounds for keycards
- New sounds for Chainsaw
- Fixed Rifle Casing sounds that for some dumb reason, weren't playing correctly.

29/10

- Took out title and interpic screens (more than useless 150 kb)
- Totally new panzerfaust sprites made by me, thanks to Ceejay for all this time using the old one.
- Tweaked some states on the panzerfaust decorate.
- A Voxel for the unused panzerfaust.
- Panzerfaust fires faster.

Zaero made a patch for an old version of lowtech, and i implemented some of his fizes, like:

- Tweaked the TNT to be more powerful and less bouncy.
- Sawnoff shotgun now reloads automatically when chambers are empty.
- Panzerfaust box of ammo has the weapon sprite now, and the weapon sprite itself is one (1) single panzerfaust.
- Karabiner 98k can be reloaded when zoomed and the weapon zooms automatically if there's ammo yet.
- New logo.
- Logo don't blink anymore.
- New panzerfaust and bolt icons by cambertian.
- Tweaked bullet puff sprites
- Excluded some shit.
- Textures are united in one document only.
- Monster fireballs exlcuded.
- Ammo Icons Implemented on Ammo actors.

26/10

- New ammo Icons.
- New Panzerfaust Missile Sprites.
- Changed Casing positions.
- Changed stimpack sprite. Voxel remains the same.
- Added sprites to the chainsaw and bolt projectiles.
- Tweaked internal actors to avoid possible conflicts (Thanks once again to LedIris).
- Renamed Panzerfaust to Panzerfaust 60 just for the sake of details.
- Better explosions Sprites, from Aracnocide.
- New "Explosive Arrows" option.
- Updated Credits.


20/10
- New tommygun sound, on a better quality than the original.
- Fixed Tommygun zoomed kick states.
- Added a new "quick tnt" throwing command! Not obligatory, of course, but might help on tough situations.
- New casing sprites made straight from blood resources by me.
- New radiation suit sprites, made by me.
- a new stimpack sprite.
- New Options to disable voxels, casings, smoke, and a patch to launch chainsaws instead of crossbow bolts (cool idea from Gamer With Dignity!)
- New bolt voxels by Gamer with Dignity!

17/09
- New Sounds for Crossbow, Flamethrower, TNT and Sniper Rifle.
- New sounds for Strife flames.
- New sounds for Rifle Casings
- Added Noalert for terrain lump
- Casings splash again.
- Crossbow bolt nerfed
- Strife flames nerfed again!
- Finally added the berserk kick!
- New cardkey sound
- New startup sound
- Removed boss death sounds.
- Corrected TNT that could be used underwater. Derp!
- Tweaked Flamethrower flames.
- Added texture lumps to kick animations so weapons don't disappear out of the screen! (Except on air kicks).
- Moved Panzerfaust to slot 7
- Added a Sniper rifle spawner for those who are playing doom 1.
- Small tweaks.

08/09
- Changed Casing sounds. This time it might be stable.
- Changed a little definition on TNT ammo name.
- Added flamethrower smooth offsets by YukesVonFaust.
- Added Glock smooth offsets by YukesVonFaust.
- Added Sawnoff smooth offsets by YukesVonFaust.
- Added Chex Quest Spawners by YukesVonFaust.
- Voxel for arrow projectiles! Suggestion by Gamer with Dignity.
- Inner organization.

01/09

- Added some sounds for Icon of Sin (Diablo series);
- Changed some powerup sounds.
- Chainsaw doesn't fails so much now.
- Added another teleport sound.
- Kicking chance during fists was taken; random kicks during combos only appear on berserk mode.
- Added a little Delay before exploding barrels.
- Added a little recoil when kicking barrels.
- Fixed SSG reloading! It was my fault; i forgot to add the correct kick state jumping from the idle state.
- Flamethrower alternate fire heavily modifed on ammo consumption; it was just TOO overkill. It was better than the panzerfaust sometimes.

30/08

- Added on/off system to the chainsaw, to avoid alerting monsters by mistake.
- Added quick kick key! You only can't kick while the chainsaw is on, or during the sniper scope mode.

And the best part is: No acs involved! thanks a bunch to wildweasel!

- Improved Bullet puffs.
- Restored Clip original drops .
- Added smoke on kick puff.
- Added +DONTSPLASH to casings .
- Improved Explosions.
- New Sprites for chainsaw.
- New firing Sprites for flamethrower.
- Corrected Kar98K accuracy.
- removed alternate firing modes on panzerfaust and tnt.

16/08
- Changed Kar98 inner scope sprites.
- Changed a little sound definition for cigarettes to avoid incompatibilities.
- Menu logotype blinks.
- Added Brightmaps. Directly from the Brightmaps.pk3
- Fixed terrain sounds that probably weren't playing.
- Changed the water splash sound for a cooler one.
- TNT Can now explode on water! (Thanks to LedIris!).

01/08
- took out tnt alternate fire, it's a melee attack now, for the same panzerfaust reasons. No one was using it anyway.
- changed barrel explosions again! Metal slug explosions FTW!
- added terrain lumps, thanks a LOT to LedIris and his badass mod!
- added a new kick attack, removing only one left kick that was annoying as hell.
- few unused files were removed.
- something i forgot.
- Nerfed flamethrower altfire. Too overkill in my opinion.

31/07
- Changed tnt throw sounds.
- Corrected tnt bounce sound.
- secretly corrected a sniper bug on last patch.
- swapped flamethrower for the aracnocide one, and the alternate fire consumes double fuel, however it works like a molotov. I can change it back if necessary.
- other stuff i forgot.

25/07
- fixed karabiner dryfire bug.
- buffed karabiner damage by 5 points.

24/07
- reduced ammo sprite sizes in case someone disabled voxels.
- raised tommygun damage by 2 points.
- cleaned up and organized sndinfo.
- changed some sounds definitions for the ssg to avoid incompatibility with colourful hell.
- applied same chambering system from the tommygun to the glock.
- corrected tnt bundle launch sprites.
- corrrected a bug involving fuse sound from tnt that kept playing.
- Added automatic shell extractions for the ssg, and it's a lot faster now.
- nerfed limits for tnt, panzerfaust and glock single clip shells. 60 tnt's? how didn't i nerfed that?
- changed weapons swap sound.
- changed casing sounds again, this time, from Medal of Honor : Allied Assault.
- fixed tnt bug where it appears when deselected during dryfire.

20/07
- Fixed Bolt box voxel that looked wrong on mirroring
- changed 45 acp box voxel for anoother one edited from a hacks 9mm pickup.
- New explosion sprites for TNT.
- switched barrel explosion sprites for old tnt ones.
- tommygun has a new reloading system: if you reload while there's still bullets on the drum, you won't pull the
pin, since you already have a bullet ready on the gun (courtesy of LedIris). You can also load 51 bullets.
- tommygun reloading animations are much faster now.
- tweaked tommygun reload offsets.
- corrected tommygun clip in sound.
- karabiner reloading faster.
- increased rifle shell limits from 25/50 to 35/70.
- took out that skull icon while i don't find some good ammo icons.

19/07
- corrected panzerfaust altfire kick offsets.
- tnt's are now cookable!!! It means you can hold them while the button is pressed, but for a limited time. After it runs out, you automatically launch it to avoid exploding yourself
- added A_WeaponReady during reload states, which means weapon won't stop if you keep reload button pressed.
- Added a little Zoom to panzerfaust state.
- In the previous patch, i believe i forgot to mention that i replaced the casing sounds. All of them by Alvin Lin.
- Heretic patch!!! Not everything was replaced, but i expect your feedback and help on this one, since i'm not a good heretic player.
- changed player sounds to something from Diablo 2 Druid.

17/07

- changed actor names for rifle ammo (7.92 Mauser instead of 7.62)
- changed Panzerfaust to slot 8.
- added deselect sound to all weapons.
- tweaked voxel sizes.
- added a little sfx to the bolt death.
- shrunk power orbs a bit.
- new shotgun wielding sound.
- new kar98 reloaing finish sound.
- new cigarette pickup sound.
- new ammo1 sound.
- new secret sound.
- new dynamite throwing animations. A little slower, but smooth.
- decreased bouncing factors and raised TNT's speed.

16/07
- fixed rifle ammogive1 : it was givin' not only the 762 ammo, but the reload as well.
- swapped the panzer altfire for a kick. Not original, but keeps a reliable attack while holding such a dangerous weapon, right?
- added a lot of new combos, tweaked coding and added left kicks!
- painkiller and rifle shells voxel shrunk a bit.
- swapped water voxels for cigarettes, made by voxelbro.
- reduced smoke during flamethrower shots.
- changed tommygun clipout sound.
- changed tommygun magazine drop sounds, made by lord mordecai.
- reduced almost 1MB by changing only a set of explosion sprites!
- took out the NOAUTOFIRE flag from fists.
- fixed rifle box voxel that had a mirroring.
- fixed arrows: they stay for 10 seconds on walls! J would like this one!

15/07
- Fists Greatly updated! a new combo, new kicking sprites, visual recoil and beefier damage!
- Changed Glock and Sniper Rifle Sounds.
- Sniper Rifle's Damage between scoped mode and normal is the same, to avoid quickscoping.
- Changed startup sound.
- Glock silencer animations faster!
- Tommygun can answer reloading command during ADS.
- Ammo sounds changed
- Mancubus Arm beefed, so as the alternate fire damage and speed.
- Tommygun magazine sound changed.
- Crossbow firing sound doesn't get cut anymore.
- Crossbow can reload at will now.
- Panzerfaust spent casing bug fixed.
- Chainsaw alternate fire bug fixed.
- Chainsaw alternate firing sound a little tweaked.
- Fixed panzerfaust reloading states.
- Changed sounds for pistol and shotgun wielding.
- Took doors sounds out for compatibility issues.

14/07

-Took out all monsters, leaving only custom projectiles, to make it lighter and closer to vanilla.
-All sounds in OGG!!!
-Reworked all weapons, few issues may happen.
-A new weapon, the Panzerfaust!!! Now you can kill Icon of Sin!
-Alternate firing modes for every weapon!
-Berserk mode finally inplemented.
-Many many MANY, (seriously), MANY sounds changed.
-Everything important has VOXELS!
-A new alternate fire for the pistol : a silencer!
-GLDEFS for stuff.
-New sprites for some things and weapons.
-Much lighter file size: from 10.1mb to 5.3!
-Better explosions!

and much more!

15/05

- Changed kar98k sounds.
- added a empty tommygun drum to reload.
- changed ammo maxamount to the original mod patterns.
- Added randomspawners to three ammo types (Rocket Ammo, Shotgun Ammo and Cells).
- Added the single tnt, an alternate fire mode to the tnt, uses only one tnt (the main one uses six now), and does less damage. Pretty much like Plasma-BFG working in game.
- Invisibility sphere is back now.
- Excluded some unused actors.
- Added all doom64 powerup sprites.
- Changed number fonts logotype and screens.
- Added allmost all enemies from the original.
- Added the Mancubus Arm! Now the only way to obtain a flamethrower is to kill a mancubus. I did that for the sake of rarity and to get rid of the Blood Spray. There are 3 Blood weapons on the previous release!
- Changed some sprites for this weapon and to the Mancubus shot.
- Imp fireball changed as well.
- Many other shit stuff.

Gameplay video by: JimpArgon



Gameplay video by: GamingRoom



Gameplay video by: Lezuum



Download Me!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N7BdG5 ... sp=sharing

Alternate Weapon Pack

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dmmOdn ... sp=sharing

And here's the original if you don't know it yet:

Original Lowtech by Captain Red
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/combos/lowtech

Have fun and keep an eye for updates!

[LedIris]

Not bad. Glock is really cool to fire, and the burst fire is pretty interesting too. The bow is really fun to use, as well.
Small nitpick: There's a bit too much quake on the Chainsaw, at least to me. (personal nitpick)
Keep up the good work!

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Oh yes. Chainsaw kickback is not up to my taste as well.

You're in the credits list, but not only because i'm using DAT keycard sound, but also because i used your SSG coding to fix up mine, and i have to read the instructions manual in pretty much everything i do

So, thanks man. This mod still has ground to be covered. The custom enemies sure will be a good exercise to me!

[LedIris]

Oh yes. Chainsaw kickback is not up to my taste as well.

You're in the credits list, but not only because i'm using DAT keycard sound, but also because i used your SSG coding to fix up mine, and i have to read the instructions manual in pretty much everything i do

So, thanks man. This mod still has ground to be covered. The custom enemies sure will be a good exercise to me!

No problem. You can use any of my code, no need to ask.
Custom enemies will be cool, IIRC I think the original Lowtech mod has pistol zombies instead of rifle zombies which made more sense. Also, there was a crossbow that shot dynamite straight out of Redneck Rampage which also functioned pretty well.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

That's my problem in game. Since it used dynamite (and replaced the RL), it uses the same ammo as the TNT, rather than making them spawn on Cells. Cells are actually fuel for the Flamethrower.

My objective is to find a proper ammo positioning. I'm thinking about that.

[LedIris]

That's my problem in game. Since it used dynamite (and replaced the RL), it uses the same ammo as the TNT, rather than making them spawn on Cells. Cells are actually fuel for the Flamethrower.

My objective is to find a proper ammo positioning. I'm thinking about that.

Well you could try using spawners to replace ammo types, that have a chance to spawn as flamethrower fuel or TNT. Not really the best way of doing it, but it seems to work.

[Miguel371xd]

WOW looks good I try this with guncaste monster pack

[chronoteeth]

this is solid!!! gj dude!

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Thanks a lot man!

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

I SAID to keep a keen eye for updates!

Here's one:

Changelog

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15/05

- Changed kar98k sounds.
- added a empty tommygun drum to reload.
- changed ammo maxamount to the original mod patterns.
- Added randomspawners to three ammo types (Rocket Ammo, Shotgun Ammo and Cells).
- Added the single tnt, an alternate fire mode to the tnt, uses only one tnt (the main one uses six now), and does less damage. Pretty much like Plasma-BFG working in game.
- Invisibility sphere is back now.
- Excluded some unused actors.
- Added all doom64 powerup sprites.
- Changed number fonts logotype and screens.
- Added allmost all enemies from the original.
- Added the Mancubus Arm! Now the only way to obtain a flamethrower is to kill a mancubus. I did that for the sake of rarity and to get rid of the Blood Spray. There are 3 Blood weapons on the previous release!
- Changed some sprites for this weapon and to the Mancubus shot.
- Imp fireball changed as well.
- Many other shit stuff.

Download at first post!!!

I'm sorry for the late posting, but tomorrow after the work i will dedicate my free time to release and finish the aracnocide separate packs, if everything goes right.

This update here should hold the mod playability for a longer time 'till i get everything updated.

HAVE FUN GUYS!

[Captain J]

solid yet super, good work once again!

but of course, i have few gripes, the arrow disappears when it hits the walls. it kinda make sense when it hits the enemies except walls, though. and i kinda frustrated when i didn't got BFG9000 replacement weapon except TNT. is there will be even more weaponry?

also do you know pistol magazine sprite and empty one were made by me? would be nice if you can add my name in your credit list!

EDIT: extra gripes; i think only imp and mancubus ball become fancy except other monsters' projectiles, arachnotron replacement's projectile has no decal, seems mancubus and hell knight's attacking role has been changed for some reason, cyberdemon's rocket is really unfair to dodge, it shows nothing but smoke and directly follows you, also has no decal at all.

[chronoteeth]

minor gripe, i forgot to remove the brown from the scope when using it cocking, it looks fuggo

major gripe, the icon of sin is a bastard because of its design. You have to add some sort of projectile explosive even if it doesnt fit at all, because you cant complete so so many wads and original levels without an explosive weapon that shoots straight

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

and i kinda frustrated when i didn't got BFG9000 replacement weapon except TNT. is there will be even more weaponry?

also do you know pistol magazine sprite and empty one were made by me? would be nice if you can add my name in your credit list!

EDIT: extra gripes; i think only imp and mancubus ball become fancy except other monsters' projectiles, arachnotron replacement's projectile has no decal, seems mancubus and hell knight's attacking role has been changed for some reason, cyberdemon's rocket is really unfair to dodge, it shows nothing but smoke and directly follows you, also has no decal at all.

J J J J J God sorry sorry sorry man, really. I got the thing straight from Aracnocide and really forgot putting it there. I will edit first post.

I tried to respect the original mod's weaponry, otherwise, i would have some more weapons to use, like a nailgun, a baseball bat and some melee weapons.

The seekermissile is from the original mod decorate as well. I personally think it leaves it more challenging.

I will bring more updates.

minor gripe, i forgot to remove the brown from the scope when using it cocking, it looks fuggo

major gripe, the icon of sin is a bastard because of its design. You have to add some sort of projectile explosive even if it doesnt fit at all, because you cant complete so so many wads and original levels without an explosive weapon that shoots straight

i think i going to respect the dynamite bow idea and work on a treat i have here.

Thanks for feedback guys, i need to be fast cause i'm at work, but i can solve some things later night.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

UPDAAAATE!

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14/07

-Took out all monsters, leaving only custom projectiles, to make it lighter and closer to vanilla.
-All sounds in OGG!!!
-Reworked all weapons few issues may happen.
-A new weapon the Panzerfaust!!! Now you can kill Icon of Sin!
-Alternate firing modes for every weapon!
-Berserk mode finally inplemented.
-Many many MANY, (seriously), MANY sounds changed.
-Everything important has VOXELS!
-A new alternate fire for the pistol : a silencer!
-GLDEFS for stuff.
-New sprites for some things and weapons.
-Much lighter file size: from 10.1mb to 5.3!
-Better explosions!

and much more!

Have fun guys! This mod is almost 100%, and it only depends on your feedback!!!

[Captain J]

Good update, now it become decent now!

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- When i alt attack with a chansaw while keep pressing the button, it somehow quits and goes to primary attack. And it's pretty bizarre that it spends 10 fuels when you attack in few seconds, not more like spending 1 fuel in each second. Intentional?

- When i swing my fists, somehow they flickers. I guess they has non-existing sprite frames.

- Glock 21's silencer equipping animation is kinda slow, also i can't fire it faster either. Balancing, i guess?

- It's awkward because Tommy gun's empty magazine's bouncing sound effect uses glock one. Since you'll probably know where the glock one were taken from, it'll be neat if you can take rifle magazine bouncing sounds from the same game for its empty magazine.

- Crossbow's fire sound effect gets cut off by arrow loading sound. And its arrow projectile just disappears with no effects when it hits the wall, pretty boring to look at.

- It's about the Crossbow again, i can't reload it whatever i want unlike other weapons.

- Mancubus' Arm cannon's smoke is devours my screen when firing. Also its altfire is literally useless; the projectile is weaker and take much time to fire again.

- Panzerfaust's primary fire and altfire seems same. What's the difference, if i ask? And its discarded shell floats when you fly or in the air or something and its fire sound has casing bouncing sound effect, too.

- Ammo box pickup sound effects uses Quake 1 one. It's a minor gripe, but can you make it... You know, updated?

I'll be wait for more update!