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

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

No, it's okay. Sorry for the fake drama, i just wanted you to see it.

[TerminusEst13]

Sorry, I slipped again.

I’ve been surprised time and time again by the reception to this little mod. I only started it as a way to figure out ZScript with just a simple Doom weapon replacement, and people have been overwhelming me with feedback about stuff they like, stuff they don’t like, and more.
Thank you all for your support and your criticism. I appreciate it sincerely.

DOWNLOAD HERE. (24.3 mb)
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CHANGELOG:

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FOR V1.2:
- Hexen support has been added! The red-headed stepchild of the idtech1 games, to be sure, but I've always had an irrational fondness for the game. It's now possible to play through Hexen and Hexen mapsets with High Noon Drifter, complete with unique items and even a unique weapon.
- Also Harmony support. Because it took like half an hour and why not?
- The alt-fire of the Gate of Anthrakia has been rehauled. The previous iteration was gimmicky, unintuitive, and completely random both in effectiveness and hardware demand. The new iteration now provides both a point-blank repulsion field and point-blank fire pulse of damage. This is now significantly more consistent in effectiveness, conveyance, and a player's FPS.
- The Quickdraw in Doom has been completely rehauled. It is now an option for the BFG-tier spawn, and is now a reusable inventory item that can be charged up based upon player kills.

- Because of the above, it's no longer possible to get Quickdraws from backpacks.
- Using Taunt as Basilissa no longer plays Corzo's voice.
- The ghost Reisings actually fire bullets now. Well, that was embarrassing.
- Basilissa now takes even less damage from everything.
- Grenade explosions now have their $limit set to 0, which should hopefully result in less silent explosions.
- For people who want even more powerplay, a health regeneration cvar has been included to regenerate your health by one per second. Does not affect Basilissa for obvious reasons.
- Sgt. Shivers has polished up the animation of the Cintia shotgun so that it's significantly clearer that it is actually lever-action. This has had the unfortunate downside of making the animation one tic longer. What a shame.
- Hats no longer put blood on walls when shot.
- If a weapon had already been picked up, and a map put an action special on the weapon, the resulting ammo spawn will now trigger the action special.
- Basilissa can no longer pick up the Mystic Torch in Doom.
- The Dead Radio ghosts now only last a limited time. A cvar has been included to restore infinite duration, if desired.
- The Soul Satchel's spirits are no longer affected by timefreeze.
- If someone fired the Mask of Basilissa alt-fire and then summoned Basilissa, Basilissa is no longer permanently affected by the slowdown.
- The Dead Radio ghosts will no longer target Corzo's hat.
- The Heretic keys on the HUD are now arranged in the proper order.
- When holding fire (or reload) to ready up grenades for throwing, hitting Alt-Fire will drop simply drop them for a more controlled demolition.
- The whip now foils invulnerability.
- Basilissa's fire no longer frightens Boss enemies.
- Being full on shells and then picking up a shotgun no longer provides the player with a mysterious ghost shotgun.
- Thrown/mysteriously-vanished boomerangs will be restored on loading next map.
- When the Spirit Bottle is picked up, the hat throw is now affected by the extra Berserk damage.
- ChexVisorReplacement will no longer appear in Doom.
- Corzo's hat is no longer capable of killing him.
- The infinite Basilissa summon cvar now also applies to the initial summon cost for summoning Basilissa.
- Basilissa can no longer be summoned mid-quickdraw.
- There is now a cvar for items to be carried, like their Heretic equivalents.
- Grenade duration is now very, very, very slightly randomized, so throwing two at the same time doesn't make them blow up at the same time. This is a completely useless change but boy did it rub me the wrong way.
- If Revolver Starts Full and Revolver Uses Ammo is set to On and Gun Reloading is set to Off, the player will now start with a fistful of bullets to use with the revolver. Wow, that is such a niche scenario.
- IDFA/IDKFA/Give All now actually gives the Summon Basilissa inventory item.
- Picking up carryable inventory items (outside of the Mask of Basilissa) automatically activates the inventory bar in Doom, rather than it needing to be set via the menu.
- Automatically recieving your revolver upon losing it no longer happens on a mapset's titlescreen.
- The defense bonus for being in Basilissa's pentagram is now increased to 0.666.
- A typo was preventing the UTNT fire trails from having randomized rotations. This has been fixed.
- BulletSparks and GunSmoke effects have been renamed so as to prevent conflicts with enemysets that use them.
- Booleans and Counters have had UNDROPPABLE replaced with UNTOSSABLE, so on hubs with inventory resets they no longer linger in the inventory and mess things up.
- Multiplayer play with Basilissa has been improved, other Corzos on desummon will no longer teleport to different Corzo spawn points.
- ATTN_NONE sounds have been changed to LocalAmbientSounds, so as to not disrupt netplay.
- Boomerangs in multiplayer no longer chase other players.
- Going back and forth in hubs no longer messes with the Dead Radio ghosts, nor does it break the player's height on sliding, nor does it fuck with the player's status because of errant powerups.
- A bigfont has been added for text consistencies from game to game. HND messages in Heretic, for example, will no longer be missing characters and should no longer cut off at the edges.
- For ease of viewing the menu options, especially when the titlescreen turns to the filled-with-white-text credits image, the menu now dims a dark black when hit.
- The main menu options have been centered for no other reason than to appease my OCD.
- Hey, it's really annoying if you find like 15 chainsaw spawns and can't get anything from them. After picking up nine boomerangs, the tenth spawn will be a different weapon, and then afterwards will be armor.
- Angling the grenades just right to have it bounce just before it explodes would cause an infinite series of explosions. This has been fixed.
- There are now a variety of different cvars to start with different equipment on fresh starts/pistol starts. You can start with the Nimurdal Boomerang, the Cintia 1901 shotgun, the Heki bow, the new Dead Man's Holster, Basilissa, and/or a backpack.
- Discarded SMG magazines now have a bounce cap to keep them from bouncing forever on floors lowering down.
- Same with discarded grenade pins.
- Revolver bullet casings are just a touch less bounce-happy.
- The randomness of the Dead Man's Holster spinning bones have been converted to frandom for slightly more randomness. Will not suddenly result in holding up a spork.
- Grenade sprites have been renamed so as to not cause conflicts with enemy sets making use of grenades. "NADE" is a common spritename, turns out!
- Basilissa is now immune to both the InstantDeath, Massacre, and Extreme damagetypes, as landing on insta-kill floors with those caused crashes.
- Basilissa is now immune to being telefragged.
- Basilissa now has +DONTRIP, like a boss character.
- Basilissa is now immune to the Firemace's charged shots, for custom maps that use those as a trap.
- Basilissa is now immune to being banished by the Banishment Device.
- Basilissa is now immune to being morphed into either a chicken or a pig.
- The Mystic Torch now has a cvar to alternate between being a simple PowerLightAmp or a big dynamic light. For some reason, it would cause lags on certain maps, with seemingly no correlation between any of them. I can't fix it, so have an option to change it.
- Herbs have had their color very slightly randomized, which should help them pop out against monocolor grounds.
- There is now an option to have the caltrops spawn as replacements for armor/health bonuses in a 1/7 chance.
- The Dead Man's Holster now automatically reloads the Thunderhawk when activated.
- The ending picture for Heretic now has detailing and shading.
- There is now a hotkey for summoning Basilissa and using the reusable Dead Man's Holster.
- Because there is literally 0 Chex Quest enemy mods or good mapsets that make good use of enemy replacements, the Samsara Chex monsters have been integrated into HND.
- Going through an exit while double-loading the super shotgun should no longer start the map with 4 shells and no quad-shot.

[YukesVonFaust]

*downloads*
*grabs a corzo-like hat*
...It's about time we talked about High Noon.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Oh, god. I need to do house services like clean the dishes, you know. My wife's gonna kill me for that...

HND + Kriegsland Enemies, here i come.

[mutator]

When you go to next level all medikits you pick up for inventory disappear except for 1, is this a bug or intentional?

[insightguy]

- The Quickdraw in Doom has been completely rehauled. It is now an option for the BFG-tier spawn, and is now a reusable inventory item that can be charged up based upon player kills.

Hooray! the thing is actually viable rather that a "I need it so I'm going to save it and never use it" item

- The Dead Radio ghosts will no longer target Corzo's hat.

Actually made me wonder if you could put hats on monsters by throwing it at them and they all exclusively target that monster... just a thought.'

- Corzo's hat is no longer capable of killing him.

How was this even possible?

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entering a map in DUMP1 when you become balista this happens when you return. might want to test this on other hub maps for that

[Someone64]

The you absolute madman cvar doesn't take effect when you're berserk (and holy shit picking yourself up with your own boomerangs if you throw them at an angle at the floor is fun as hell). Also, you should probably reduce the frequency of caltrops for the caltrops sometimes cvar.

[WallyTheBoogieBug]

Picking up a Spirit Bottle causes the sound of the train from the Boots of Speed's replacement to play. Is that intentional?

[TerminusEst13]

When you go to next level all medikits you pick up for inventory disappear except for 1, is this a bug or intentional?

Sort of intentional, it's default engine behavior. All the way back in Heretic, whenever you'd go to another level, all of your inventory stuff would be reduced down to 1. So this behavior's kind of stuck with the engine since!
With the +INVENTORY.PERSISTENTPOWER flag, it's possible to have the amount stick with you from level to level! But I'd rather have that be cvar-controlled because being able to carry 25 medikits/berserks/invulns from level to level would be disgustingly overpowered and would encourage hoarding rather than usage.

The you absolute madman cvar doesn't take effect when you're berserk

Picking up a Spirit Bottle causes the sound of the train from the Boots of Speed's replacement to play. Is that intentional?

I'm sorry, I just tried out both of these and I'm not able to replicate either of them.
Is there anything you can tell me that might help? What build of GZDoom are you using? what iwad, map, anything happening around you, etc?

[Someone64]

I'm using GZDoom 3.2.1 and I've had a similar problem with the train sound. Can't remember how I did it but it did have something to do with picking up a powerup. Also, I replicated the boomerang cvar bug just by turning on the cvar, picking up a berserk pack, and testing the boomerang to see if it would pick myself up (and enemies up but that's really inconsistent and I don't really know when it should and shouldn't pick up enemies).

[WallyTheBoogieBug]

I'm sorry, I just tried out both of these and I'm not able to replicate either of them.
Is there anything you can tell me that might help? What build of GZDoom are you using? what iwad, map, anything happening around you, etc?

I am trying the bug I found under multiple conditions and I can only reproduce it some of the time under the exact same conditions. Sometimes it plays the train noise, sometimes it doesn't. The pattern doesn't seem affected by the other wads I have loaded or not, it only sometimes happens.

For reference, I first noticed it loading 'sunlust.wad' and autoloading 'nash's spriteshadow v1.5.wad'. My GZDoom version 3.2.1. It occurred on MAP04 of Sunlust, with the Spirit Bottle in the corner directly to the left of the player at the start of the map. The settings for the berserk had it set to 'random'. After posting about this issue I immediately began to experiment with it, turning off autoloading and loading only High Noon Drifter itself. It occurred twice via summoning it and then picking it up using the 'summon berserk' command on MAP01, and occurred in a non-summon test by changing level to MAP07 and picking up the berserk that was placed there normally. It has not occurred any other time since then, and does not occur on repeat tries. I have not changed the settings between my own personal testing.

Basically it seems like this bug is random, at least as far as I can tell. It might be attached to save, so if I'm able to get a save that has a bugged Spirit Bottle, I'll share it here.

[Nems]

Oh, god. I need to do house services like clean the dishes, you know. My wife's gonna kill me for that...

HND + Kriegsland Enemies, here i come.

This really is an epic combination. I played through most of the Oscillation level set with this (I say most because levels 8 and 9 lagged like fuck for me due to either the monster count exceeding a thousand [level 9] and/or the number of sprite effects/XDeath gibs bogging down the engine to a single FPS slide show bonanza ).

Congrats on another epic release, Term! :3

[WallyTheBoogieBug]

Alright, no, disregard some of my previous statements. Though I can swear its occuring in relation to grabbing the spirit bottle, I actually think the train sound is occuring simply at random. I got the sound to occur just by playing through Doom 2's Map23 without having done anything specific or out of the ordinary. I hadn't even touched the console other than to change the level. Perhaps picking up some common item is firing off the script that triggers the train noise?

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

The train sound played for me in Masters of Chaos (Heretic Mapset), but i thought it was replacing the ambient sounds. Still, sometimes it seemed the source of the train sound was really close to me.

GzDoom 3.2 here.

[JohnnyTheWolf]

Wait, did I just enter a time warp or did you just decide to release build 1.2 a week early?