Lithium 1.7.0 Beta (Apr. 17, 2022)

[Cryomundus]

Why not have a downgrade option that sets it so all weapons use ammo, including the low tier ones?

Also, I knew about the "hold button to load grenades", it's just that trying to quickly fire just one has some weird behaviour. The first shot should always be deadcenter, yet if you tap-fire, it'll fire once left, if you tap again it'll fire once right, and then if you tap once more it fires center. It also likes to sometimes just load 3-4 rockets and fire those even if I just quickly tap once. It's really finicky.

Actually, it'd be really nice to have a button to quickly switch upgrades on and off, cuz having to do that via the menu is a bit clunky.

Oh, and about that laser rifle upgrade, if I need to bother with being ammo efficient, then I'd just use the shotgun/assualt rifle, since, ya know, they don't use ammo. And the gauss shotty is already perfectly accurate AND it has a scope, so I don't ever need to bother with the laser rifle's upgrade, as it's rendered moot by the gauss shotgun being a scoped, infinite ammo weapon. The shotgun is also like the most common weapon in the entire game, so I'll pretty much always have it looooong before I can get my hands on a laser rifle. Also, it's upgrade is super cheap, I was playing doom2 with this and had the guass shotty by map03.

Soooo yeah, turns out that laser rifle upgrade ain't much of an upgrade.

That's also the problem of having infinite ammo weapons, any attempt to have something be ammo-efficient is immediately nullified by the simple fact that you can just switch to the infinite ammo weapon till you need the laser rifle/grenade launcher/Cannon again. Hell, the gauss shotty is good enough to take out anything that's an arachnotron or below, so I'd only ever be using the other weapons on bosses, barons, archviles, or hordes. Everything else you can just use the infinite ammo weapons on. After all, why waste ammo when you've got an infinite ammo weapon?

[Marrub]

Yeah, as I posted that I remembered how weirdly I wrote the launcher upgrade. I've amended this by making the alt-fire the regular rocket launcher, and the primary fire load more shells. (Changing modes still works the same.)

The point of the weapons having infinite ammo is so you can always use them against lower tier enemies. The power weapons are there for bosses and huge amounts of enemies.

As for the laser rifle, the problem is that the balance is whack. I think I've fixed this in the next release, and hope to resolve the gauss shotgun being the most OP thing in existence.
Also, the laser rifle not only takes less ammo, but also pierces enemies and does more damage. I'd definitely call that an upgrade, but it is too expensive right now.

[Fallingferret]

I'm more of the battle raifu person, but I think you've done good with bringing the gauss upgrade down a peg. It seems more in line with being a lower tier weapon upgrade to me at least. No longer am I become deth, destroyer of all challenge.

The rifle's scope seems like it drew the short stick, though. The shotgun has a less awkward view, and has the added effect of either pellets+gauss or just high damage single target autogauss. Seems like the grenade launcher would have been the upgrade, instead of becoming a 3-in-1. Unless I'm just missing something?

E: The new hellknight attack ends up causing them to self destruct after a couple shots. I don't know if you already know.

[Marrub]

The rifle's scope seems like it drew the short stick, though. The shotgun has a less awkward view, and has the added effect of either pellets+gauss or just high damage single target autogauss. Seems like the grenade launcher would have been the upgrade, instead of becoming a 3-in-1. Unless I'm just missing something?

I do plan to make the undermount a (rather cheap) upgrade. I can't do anything about the scope other than make it optional (via cvar, disabled by default) because I've limited myself to only using primary and alt fire (no zoom key).

E: The new hellknight attack ends up causing them to self destruct after a couple shots. I don't know if you already know.

Ahahhaha, what? That's a big oops, I'll go see if I can fix that.

[Ikazu-san]

Here's a bug: If a non-homing revenant fireball triggers adrenaline injection, it turns into homing one.

[Marrub]

Version 1.1 (Lithium Chloride) has been released.
This version brings a lot of additions, including new upgrades and lots of improvements.

Changes:

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+ Added an indicator for weapons that take ammo and ones that have magazines
| Fixed the plasma rifle making too many particles, destroying FPS (sadly it doesn't look as nice anymore)
+ Added reloading to the rifle, which now has a 40-round magazine that must be reloaded but doesn't take ammo
| Fixed a potential script overrun in the first tic that could cause weird bugs
| Fixed deselecting the Punctuator Cannon while scoped breaking things
+ Added the Defensive Mini Nuke upgrade
| Fixed the Blue Skull Key giving a wrong pickup message
+ Made the player explode on death in singleplayer, togglable with lith_sv_revenge
| Made inputs a bit snappier
+ Gave grenades a small smoke trail
| Improved scope visuals
+ Added weapon readying sounds to the Former Human and Former Sergeant
+ Added the Adrenaline Injector upgrade
| Fixed enemies not giving score on XDeath
+ Moved the HUD into an upgrade, so it can be disabled (also gives you extra score)
| Changed the price of Torgue Mode
| Changed the amount of score the base upgrades take, making it easier to obtain score
+ Gave the Mancubus a new attack
+ Gave the Cyberdemon a new attack
+ Added powerups to the shop
+ Added a score multiplier view to the upgrades shop so you can see what gives how much
+ Added the Instant Death downgrade
| Improved GUI behaviour
+ Added reloading to the Gauss Shotgun (now Gauss Rifle), which has a 10-round magazine
+ Added a settings page to the CBI which lets you set up CVars
| Fixed powerups not having the correct sound
| Improved the Charge Launcher description
| Nerfed the Gauss Rifle and the Combat Rifle further
+ Gave the Hell Knight a new attack
| Made the Charge Launcher better
+ Gave the Omega Cannon new sprites, new effects and better balance
| Tweaked prices on upgrades
| Fixed cannon explosion sounds sometimes not playing
| Nerfed the Reactive Armor
+ Added the Reactive Armor 2 upgrade
+ Added the Omega Railgun upgrade!
| Probably fixed a ton of crashes
| Fixed there not being a space inbetween pickup messages and the forward arrow
| Fixed a bunch of things not alerting monsters
+ Gave the Shotgun new sprites/animations by Sgt. Shivers
+ Gave the Megasphere and Soulsphere new sprites
| Fixed inconsistencies log messages
+ Added a custom Teleport Fog effect
| Made the scope on the Combat Rifle's burst fire mode optional (disabled by default)
+ Gave the Baron of Hell a new attack
| Fixed the Lost Souls giving too much Score
| Added Thing ID validation to the player, which should possibly fix more advanced ZDoom maps breaking
+ Made the Blur Sphere into a Barrier powerup
+ Added fun

[Someone64]

What version of GZDoom does this run on? I'm getting a ton of divide by zero errors on stable and a not so recent git version.

[Yholl]

What version of GZDoom does this run on? I'm getting a ton of divide by zero errors on stable and a not so recent git version.

It says right in the main post. GZDoom 2.1.1

[Someone64]

Herp, I got it to run before but forgot and thought maybe something changed in the update.

EDIT: Actually it seems I was getting the errors not because I was using the wrong version but because I was running it with footsteps.pk3.

[Deii]

Yeah, I like this update quite a bit - things are more or less about as great as they come but the only thing I think all it's missing now is...well, a spammy gun. The assault rifle is pretty good in this regard but you know how reloading is soooo I'm kinda eager to see that supershotgun replacement in all its glory.

I also finally got Torgue mode and literally jumped out of my seat since I activated Steele mode right after and then I realized I had fucked up when I hit a wall for fun.

[johnlp]

Very strange Mod. Definatly worth trying.

[Marrub]

Version 1.2 (Lithium Carbonate) has been released. Download
I've balanced out a lot of issues, added new weapons and much more. Lithium now also somewhat supports Heretic!

Changes:

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From 1.1 to 1.2:
+ Added logos for companies in the BIP
+ Added a log tab to the CBI for showing things you've done or used
+ Added lith_player_scorelog for logging any score you gain to the HUD
+ Added Heretic support
+ Added new pickup sprites for the shotgun, plasma rifle and combat rifle
+ Added a Revolver weapon to the shop
+ Added new skill definitions - tourist, easy, normal, hard, extra hard, and nightmare
+ Added an automatic pistol upgrade
+ Gave the grenade launcher an actual grenade firing altfire
+ Added a Vital Scanner upgrade, which lets you see an enemy's health and the damage you deal to them
+ Added a new debugging cvar
+ Added a payout system, where you get paid based on percentages when you beat a level or hub
+ Added an Auto Reload upgrade, which loads your guns for you while they're not selected
+ Added a Laser Shotgun weapon to the shop
+ Added a Sniper Rifle weapon to the shop
+ Added a knife which replaces the fist
+ Added menu sounds and a smallfont replacement
| Made the pistol do more damage
| Probably fixed more crashes
| Made combat rifle spit blood better
| Made the cannon a bit easier to aim
| Fixed revenant missiles changing state when adrenaline is activated
| Fixed all the crashes ever probably
| Changed the pistol's capacity to 14 rounds instead of 7
| Moved murderous enemies to the Extra Hard skill
| Fixed not being able to pick up weaons sometimes
| Made the pistol, rocket launcher and shotgun's firing animations better
| Fixed the spiral rocket attack not being strong enough and not doing damage to Cyberdemons
| Gave the Gauss Rifle 5 extra rounds
| Fixed scopes being offset wrong
| Buffed the rocket launcher's attacks
| Nerfed the shotgun's attacks
| Fixed the barrier powerup acting weirdly sometimes
| Fixed flashes not showing up on players in co-op
| Reduced file size by compressing music
| Made the punctuator cannon's attacks pitchable
| Buffed bosses quite a bit
| Buffed some weapons

[durbdoogle]

Just wanted to say thanks for making this mod! There are plenty of great Doom mods but less that focus on RPG-lite gameplay.

[Deii]

This just gets better and better, doesn't it? Had a blast using the new sniper rifle in its complete opposite role and suddenly, the idea of an Obrez style "upgrade" that turns it into a really innacurate but rapid fire shorty rifle is more than amusing.

The other new guns are also quite fun to use, but the laser shotgun feels a bit weak compared to the regular one (I assume that's intentional though, to make up for it piercing enemies) and a carbine kit upgrade for the revolver which makes it essentially a tiny precision rifle is just about the only suggestion I could come up with.

There are some other minor things I noticed (the pistol's entry still says it has a seven round magazine, for example) but since they're mostly semantic I'd rather not dwell in them - also, I noticed that if you die and resurrect, the HUD's gone for the rest of the level. Also sometimes, when loading a save, some items/upgrades you bought before saving may not count like they actually were bought earlier. I.e. if I save right after buying the vital scanner and load that save, the vital scanner will still be usable but in the shop I can buy it again. It doesn't seem to happen all the time.

Also, did you ever consider some sort of chainsaw replacement? I think something silly like an explosive sledgehammer would fit the current lineup quite well!

[Marrub]

Just wanted to say thanks for making this mod! There are plenty of great Doom mods but less that focus on RPG-lite gameplay.

Thank you!

This just gets better and better, doesn't it? Had a blast using the new sniper rifle in its complete opposite role and suddenly, the idea of an Obrez style "upgrade" that turns it into a really innacurate but rapid fire shorty rifle is more than amusing.

The other new guns are also quite fun to use, but the laser shotgun feels a bit weak compared to the regular one (I assume that's intentional though, to make up for it piercing enemies) and a carbine kit upgrade for the revolver which makes it essentially a tiny precision rifle is just about the only suggestion I could come up with.

I originally didn't want to add upgrades to the shop weapons, but these are really tempting and I might just add them.

There are some other minor things I noticed (the pistol's entry still says it has a seven round magazine, for example) but since they're mostly semantic I'd rather not dwell in them -

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Fixed that. I'll be doing a once-over on the info pages because there are some I omitted out of laziness.

also, I noticed that if you die and resurrect, the HUD's gone for the rest of the level.

The resurrect cheat is not possible to detect without also breaking multiplayer because it doesn't trigger respawn scripts.
Unfortunately, I can't do anything about that except suggest you use a save or changemap to the same map (as starting a new level resets the player and sets you as not being dead.)

Also sometimes, when loading a save, some items/upgrades you bought before saving may not count like they actually were bought earlier. I.e. if I save right after buying the vital scanner and load that save, the vital scanner will still be usable but in the shop I can buy it again. It doesn't seem to happen all the time.

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If you're using a more recent build of GZDoom than 2.1 (or a more recent ZDoom than 2.8.1) you may want to report that as a bug with the new save system.

Also, did you ever consider some sort of chainsaw replacement? I think something silly like an explosive sledgehammer would fit the current lineup quite well!

Yeah, I have a few ideas. One is a mace like Paraias has in Hexen.