Shades of Doom v1.2 - More, more, more!!! (05/20/18)

[Cyanide]

Hey Cyanide, you can use sprites from Preacher, no problem. Sorry to answer here, apparently I can't reply inbox messages with this new account

Great! I'll make sure you're credited.

[Cyanide]

Well damn...

I just found out, that chaos mode does not respect the +AMBUSH flag, which might be why dljosef reported monster closets not working a while back. Since chaos mode is handled with ZScript, which I don't know how to code (Blue Shadow wrote the ZScript for this mod), I'm at a dead end. I have no idea of how to solve it. If anyone has an idea, please PM me. Chaos Mode seemed such an easy little thing to add, but causes a lot of problems for me. I know a lot of you guys love it, so I'm not gonna remove it. Unfortunatly I can't promise it will ever work correctly...

On a brighter note, I'm hard at work adding monsters to the mod. The next version will be the largest addition to the roster since the very first release. It will be a while though, since I have to remake the patches (and also add one or two).

[batos2]

Some enemies that are placed on the maps do not appear.

[Cyanide]

Some enemies that are placed on the maps do not appear.

I can't recreate this in the version I'm working on. So hopefully it's already fixed.

[batos2]

Coool!.

[HUGEGUTS]

This is exactly what I've been looking for! A randomizer that only changes enemies' appearance, without ruining the intended difficulty of mapsets. Also the idea of single replacement per map is really neat. At first I didn't really appreciate it and immediately turned on chaos mode, but in the end switched back. Chaos is just too messy, while default mode keeps it balanced.
Works fine with all weapon mods I play except for Doom Delta. Two main issues are bosses being instantly destroyed with BFG2704 and former humans not dropping souls. While first issue can be fixed very easily (there's intended to be 0.1 damage multiplier for bosses against bfg), the second one I didn't have much luck with. I can send my attempt at making patch if needed.

[Cyanide]

This is exactly what I've been looking for! A randomizer that only changes enemies' appearance, without ruining the intended difficulty of mapsets. Also the idea of single replacement per map is really neat. At first I didn't really appreciate it and immediately turned on chaos mode, but in the end switched back. Chaos is just too messy, while default mode keeps it balanced.
Works fine with all weapon mods I play except for Doom Delta. Two main issues are bosses being instantly destroyed with BFG2704 and former humans not dropping souls. While first issue can be fixed very easily (there's intended to be 0.1 damage multiplier for bosses against bfg), the second one I didn't have much luck with. I can send my attempt at making patch if needed.

Glad you like it.

Theres a link in the OP for a patch base along with some instructions if you want to give it a go. I'll take a look at Doom Delta myself.

[HUGEGUTS]

Yup, I did attempt to create a patch using your base a little earlier. Here, hope this helps: SoD_Delta
Added (hopefully) all needed damage resistances. Also made it so chaingunners always drop MachineGun, because otherwise you'd be able to get ChainGun too early. For souls there's mapeditor.zsc, which is exactly the same as DrPyspy's original code except for ~50 'if' operators for each of Shades' zombie class, lol. It's super dumb, I know, and sometimes dudes still don't drop souls for some reason.

[Cyanide]

Quick update. This project 'aint dead yet!

I've completed a new test-version of Shades of Doom. I'm in the process of testing it with the different patches. I've looked into making a Guncaster patch, which turns out to be quite an undertaking. But that doesn't really matter now, since THIS is a thing! As far as I can tell, it works with Shades of Doom, which makes it redundant to create my own patch.
I've put a lot of work into this, so I hope you guys like it.
Also, I'm testing the mod and streaming it on Twitch (on a very irregular schedule though). PM me for a link.
- Cyanide

[Whoah]

Good to hear from ya! Psyched for the next release