High Noon Drifter v1.2 - Between God, the Devil, and a .500

[Kroc]

I believe I've found a bug -- if Infinite Basilissa Summon is on, then the super-shotgun always reloads 4 bullets and if you extra-reload, the bullet count remains 4, but it still goes through the animation of putting the shells in.

Could you add additional help (F1) pages to explain what each pick-up is? I find it difficult to tell the health-pack items apart and there's no documentation anywhere to say what some items even are, like the "Dead Radio"???

Lastly, it might be a bad idea, but could we have key-binds for throwing Boomerangs and Grenades at any time, without having to switch weapon? With the Boomerang, you could stun enemies quickly before unloading your guns into them.

[DoomRater]

Grenades would be pretty bad to have as an always ready option, but the boomerang...

[TerminusEst13]

I believe I've found a bug -- if Infinite Basilissa Summon is on, then the super-shotgun always reloads 4 bullets and if you extra-reload, the bullet count remains 4, but it still goes through the animation of putting the shells in.

I'm afraid I can't replicate this, I'm sorry. Is there any more information you can give me?

Could you add additional help (F1) pages to explain what each pick-up is? I find it difficult to tell the health-pack items apart and there's no documentation anywhere to say what some items even are, like the "Dead Radio"???

I'd like to add an extra F1 screen, yeah. A couple people have been confused about some weapons and how they work, it'd be nice to have a bit of a guide. Hell, even after spelling it out blatantly on the F1 help screen, a lot of people still don't know that all weapons have the Reload button do things!

[Kroc]

Sorry, didn't give details; it's my fault -- actually I'm playing Strange Aeons, so with the patch too, so it may not be a problem with HND on its own. Re-checking it's stopped doing it now, so don't worry. :S

[Gollgagh]

The weapons really ought to be rewritten with inheritance before adding quick grenades and boomerangs. To illustrate how it is now, the whip code is already repeated for (and effectively doubles the code length of) every single weapon.

[Irrevenant]

Sorry, didn't give details; it's my fault -- actually I'm playing Strange Aeons, so with the patch too, so it may not be a problem with HND on its own. Re-checking it's stopped doing it now, so don't worry. :S

That sounds like a slight issue with SA's infinite ammo buff. It'll always show as 4 if the SS is reloaded while it's active, but it stops after you double-reload and fire when it isn't.

[NotSoHazy]

I don't get it, how do i summon Basilissa?

[DoomRater]

Acquire the BFG powerup. Select it. Press "use" (found in the inventory management control setup).

[erni945]

Very cool mod but I noticed that when I go to the next map all my weapons and ammunition are gone, is there a bug or intentional action?

[Cryomundus]

Actually it's an option, you can toggle it in the "mod options" menu, it should be called something like "force pistol starts" or something like that.

[erni945]

Fuck up my angle, Senpai, we're going in! (this is the Hexen patch)

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First off, I took advantage of the fact that if you don't use a Hexen class for your character, the weapons for all three classes are spawned:

• The first three weapons use no Green Mana and are:
  1. Axe => Winchester
  2. Frost => Bow
  3. Staff => Boomerang
• The next triad of weapons is:
  1. Flame => SMG
  2. Hammer => DarkStaff
  3. Lightning => Coachgun
• All weapon pieces were mapped to the mask fragments that I showed in my previous post
• Flechettes are mapped to Grenades

The Bow, Shotguns, SMGs, DarkStaff, and Artifact were modified to use Hexen Mana:

• The Bow and Shotguns are mapped to Blue Mana
  1. Arrows are 5 Mana each
  2. Shells are 2 Mana each
• SMGs are Green Mana and cost 1 Mana per three bullets (giving an effective capacity of 600 bullets)
• DarkStaff and the Artifact use both Mana
  1. DarkStaff gets about 28 seconds of continuous fire with full ammo, compared to 24 seconds with no backpack in Doom
  2. Artifact actions were reduced to 20 for primary fire, 100 for reload, and 30 to summon

All armor pieces were mapped to leather armor because I couldn't figure out Hexen armor :U

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• NRA/IDFA gives the original HND weapons AND the modified versions
• If there are any levels that include all three sets of original weapon pieces, you can conceivably end up with a stray mask fragment
• The Krater of Might is currently mapped to Backpack, but since Hexen Mana doesn't double with a backpack, this probably ought to be mapped to a different powerup
• "Revolver uses ammo" still uses bullets, so it doesn't really work
• Hexen keys aren't visually tracked anywhere, use your memory or something
• The original Hexen powerup indicators still show up. I doubt this is easy to change, but I didn't actually try
• Because of the way I put this patch together, it is extremely fragile, and will most likely break with updates to the main mod (which is as of this post v1.1b)

I tried to make the patch as delta as possible (only include what files changed), but since a fair amount of inventory management was embedded, I ended up copypasting 99%+ of the code of the weapons that were modified. In an effort to make up for this, I refactored the Fullscreen HUD to use fullscreenoffsets because I am a massive showoff.

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Also, one suggestion for Term while I'm here: maybe to limit the ghost weapons, you can have them despawn after 30-60 seconds like the Dark Servant?

Great job Gollgagh, but I have one question whether your patch can only play the standard Hexen campaign or other maps too? I ask this because I tried to pass the Tower of Chaos but after collecting blue and green mana I can not reload the revolver and I do not know if this is because the patch is incompatible with this mappack or maybe it's just a bug

[Gollgagh]

I actually didn't touch the revolver code with the patch. Make sure that you have Revolver Uses Ammo turned off in the Mod Options.

[erni945]

I actually didn't touch the revolver code with the patch. Make sure that you have Revolver Uses Ammo turned off in the Mod Options.

Ok, I'll try to do it if I do not do it, I'll let you know

[erni945]

I actually didn't touch the revolver code with the patch. Make sure that you have Revolver Uses Ammo turned off in the Mod Options.

Ok, I'll try to do it if I do not do it, I'll let you know

Indeed, this option alone has helped, but could it be worth attaching a mana to the revolver?

[DoomRater]

Attaching mana doesn't make sense in any context. No starting weapons in Hexen use mana.