[v2.666][NEW] CHAMPIONS - Multicoloured Death Awaits!

[Mikk-]

I was playing the Binding of Isaac the other day and I thought to myself "might be neat to try and implement the Champion monsters without directly modifying or creating new monsters" - so I did! After a few hours here are the fruits of my labour!

Champions is a gameplay mod that adds 17 new variants of each monster and is cross-iwad compatible!!

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Currently there are 17 variants
   RED       -   Spawns with 2x base health
   DARK RED   -   Crumbles into gibs upon death - will respawn if not taken care of
   ORANGE      -    Explodes upon death
   YELLOW      -   2x faster movement speed
   GREEN      -   Can teleport around rather aggressively
   DARK GREEN   -    leaves a trail of liquid that can hurt the player
   LIGHT BLUE   -    Causes a wind effect that pushes things around
   BLUE         -   Explodes into 12 projectiles upon death
   INDIGO      -   Spawns 2 weaker clones upon death
   VIOLET      -   Occasionally fires a secondary projectile at you
   PINK         -   Regenerates HP and will heal nearby enemies
   BLACK      -   2x higher base damage
   GREY      -   Will dodge your attacks and leap for the player
   WHITE      -   Slows player down with a trail of white creep
   BRONZE      -    Takes reduced damage and has no chance of flinching, but moves slower
   SILVER      -   Moves slower but can generate a reflective shield
   GOLD      -    Can buff enemies to take reduced damage, also moves slower.


mk-champions[2.666].pk3 (477kb)

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   ~New Features in v2.666~ The Update That Took Way Too Long
      - Certain Champions will now deal a secondary effect, such as:
         - Dark Green Champions poison you with their melee or ranged attacks
         - Cyan Champions will knock you back with their melee or ranged attacks
         - White Champions will slow you down with their melee or ranged attacks
      
      - Tweaks to the Silver Champion
         - Will warn you when it is about to shield
         - Becomes stationary when shielded

      - Visual Tweaks
         - Projectiles now have a Champion Coloured
            - Can be disabled in the options menu
         
      - Audio Tweaks
         - Indigo Champion clones have a higher pitched voice
         - Titan Mutations have a much deeper and intimidating voice!
   
   Issues Resolved
      - Fixed a crash related to the bundles system

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   ~New Features in v2.5~ The Bundle Update
      - Bundles have been altered massively
         - Support for Doom, Heretic, Hexen and Strife!
         - Also support for Guncaster! When the mod is loaded, Champions will now drop Gold, Gems and even Tomes
      
      - Food!
         - Food drops from slain champions, it heals 1% health and comes in several varieties

      - Silver Champions now have a warning before their sheild is raised

      - Some other things (that I can't remember)
   
   Issues Resolved
      - Fixed issue with Guncaster Sprite name conflicts

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   ~New Features in v2.2~ The Performance Update!
      - New options settings
         - Projectile/Blood inherits Champion Colour
         - New Ice translation
         - All setting modifications will take change AFTER map change.
      
      - Pink champions now heal more HP/s and will heal nearby enemies

      - Violet champions have 2 new patterns to attack with
      
      - Bundles have had an overhaul, will now drop better items
         - Drops are split into 6 tiers. Tiers are based on the dropping monster's StartHealth
         - Currently bundles are only available for DOOM based games. Raven, Strife, Chex and Square to come later!
   
   Issues Resolved
      - Performance - the previous versions made extensive use of expensive CVAR checks
         - I have reduced the amount of calls per tic on each champion and icon class
         - This has greatly reduced the numbers reported in the "stat vm" ccmd
         - One small caveat is that all CVar changes will only take effect after a map change.

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   ~Quick Fix 2.1~
      - This fixes a bug present in 2.0 in which Undying Champion's hearts
         do not alter the Champion if the heart is frozen, this renders
         the champion unkillable
      - Fixed a few minor visual glitches in Hexen featuring ice deaths

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   ~New Features in v2.0~
      - 4 new champions!
         - White      - Slows the player down with a trail of white creep
         - Light Blue   - causes a wind effect pushing away anything nearby
         - Bronze    - will never flinch and takes reduced damage
         - Silver    - can generate a reflective shield occasionally
         - Gold      - will buff other nearby monsters, turning them golden
      
      - Mutations!
         - rare variants of champions, each mutation has a different effect
         - there are three so far!

      - Legendoom Compatibility!
         - Only Legendary Monsters become champions!
         - Exclusive Legendoom champion behaviour and boosted abilities
         - Set the Legendoom Compatibility Toggle in the menu

      - Icons and Particles
         - new visual effects to identify the champions
         - can be toggled on and off in the Champions Option menu
         
   Issues Resolved
      - Champion Spectres are no longer un-identifiable
      - Dark Red champions now drop items correctly
      - Whole champion system ported over to Thinkers
         - this should be a more lightweight system compared to the original Actor based solution

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   ~New Features in v1.3~
      - This is a bugfix update

   Issues Resolved
      - Fixed a critical bug that causes VM Execution Abort involving resurrection
      - Fixed a small issue with Grey Champions' sight checks not working properly

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   ~New Features in v1.2~
      - 2 New champions!
         - Pink - regenerates 8hp/s
         - Titan - 3x Health and Damage, 1.5x slower movement speed
            - when killed gives the player a "fear" powerup for 30 seconds

      - Bundles!
         - very early bonus drops. Champions will drop bundles on death
         - drops small ammo pickups and health/armour bonuses
         - stronger monsters drop more items in their bundles.
      
      - Spawn Menu
         - you can alter the weight of the monster spawns
         - this means you can remove certain champs from the pool completely
         
      - Colourless Champions
         - removes the colourisation of champions to allow greater compatibility with other mods.
      
      - Champion colours have been altered slightly in some cases (mostly orange, indigo, blue and violet)

   Issues Resolved
      - Added new sprites from Freedoom for the Blue, Orange, Dark Red and Violet Champions
      - Resurrected Champions now retain their effect
      - Indigo clones no longer mess with the kill count and cannot be resurrected.

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   ~New Features in v1.1~
      - New options menu!
         - Override global spawn chance and colour!

   Issues Resolved
      - fixed "hidden" corpses from being autoaimed (hopefully)
      - fixed white corpses being shootable
      - fixed multiple mod incompatibilities such as
         - Brutal Doom
         - Quakestyle Unbound
         - Russian Overkill

[Cardboard Marty]

This is really awesome! I've only dorked around with it a little bit but the cross-compatibility is sure to spice up enemy encounters for a variety of mods! Great job, can't wait to play with this more!

[Shadez12]

Is it me or does this affect the player as well?

EDIT: It actually behaves sort of weird in Brutal Doom, monsters will change colors. Just testing this out in different mods for fun.

[ErrantMasa]

have you tested compatibility with LegenDooM Lite and/or Colourful hell yet? (I'll go ballistic if all three can combine!)

[Mikk-]

Is it me or does this affect the player as well?
[..img..]
EDIT: It actually behaves sort of weird in Brutal Doom, monsters will change colors. Just testing this out in different mods for fun.

It... shouldn't? Definitely shouldn't - I suppose Marky Mark puts the ISMONSTER flag on the players - he must have some serious mental deficiency (i.e. severe retardation).

have you tested compatibility with LegenDooM Lite and/or Colourful hell yet? (I'll go ballistic if all three can combine!)

I haven't tested it with either - but there's nothing to suggest that it won't. You'll just have to find out

[Shadez12]

have you tested compatibility with LegenDooM Lite and/or Colourful hell yet? (I'll go ballistic if all three can combine!)

Oh dear.

Even the weapons are colored!

I think you have your answer.

[ErrantMasa]

just tested it a bit (I also use DooM Roguelike Arsenal)! Even MAP01 is insane; I *love* it! If it's possible, get in touch with Hege Cactus, Yholl, and Sgt. Shivers (among other modders) and see whether there's some way to synergize all your respective mods!

[RikohZX]

Is it me or does this affect the player as well?

EDIT: It actually behaves sort of weird in Brutal Doom, monsters will change colors. Just testing this out in different mods for fun.

Odds are Mark's got some really retarded method of causing monsters to despawn/respawn, likely to differentiate between alerted and passive/on the prowl for the pseudo-stealth. And for some reason the player uses some weird tags too.
I tested this and it's pure chaos, where even the player randomly changes monster attributes which can result in tanking a full shotgun blast head-on one moment, surviving death with 1 HP implausibly another, and then tapping a Dark Green's acid trail and exploding violently all over the place. It's fun to see that Champions even manages to work in the first place, but Brutal's so hilariously broken that it becomes anarchy.

[Cyanide]

This is great!
I would like some way of changing the amount / frequency of champion monsters, though.
Also, the dark red champions don't respect a monsters blood color when spawning the shootable corpse.

[RikohZX]

Well I wasn't able to capture a pic of it, but I tried playing Plutonia with this and Quake-Style Unbound. And I guess one of the Cacodemon enemies constantly rewrites their state or something already, so it was literally every variant type and cycling through all the colors rapidly while dodging and teleporting all over and releasing near-instantaneous death. I'm definitely finding some rather interesting reactions with other mods.

[Blue Shadow]

I'm trying out this mod, and it's just... miraculous how well it works! Like, seriously! The modifiers are neat, can't wait for more, and testing it with Beautiful Doom, the color of the modifier applied to a monster actually carries over to their gibs. I have no clue how or why that works, but I love it!

[Blue Shadow]

Okay, so I completely un-scientifically stress tested this mod with Colorful Hell, Legendoom Lite and Russian Overkill. Pretty much everything works fine (aside from sensory overload), but I have found a legitimate bug. The Champion modifiers apply to Russian Overkill's Warpocalypse Tank, since it's technically a monster. It has resulted in this amusing bug, though.

The top half of the tank (the turret) had the modifier that allows it to regenerate if you don't gib it, so upon trying to return the Warpocalypse, the turret was left behind. It can't move or fire, but the tertiary turret still fires at enemies.
Anyways, great mod!

[ErrantMasa]

CHAMPIONS, or Super Pride Day!!

[Gorec]

dead bodies of white variant are shootable and autoaim works on them

[Mikk-]

I've made a few changes and hopefully squashed a handful of bugs and so Version 1.1 is here!

Download mk-Champions[1.1].pk3 (143kb)

Changes from previous version (v1.0)

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   New Features
      - New options menu!
         - Override global spawn chance and colour!

   Issues Resolved
      - fixed "hidden" corpses from being autoaimed (hopefully)
      - fixed white corpses being shootable
      - fixed multiple mod incompatibilities such as
         - Brutal Doom
         - Quakestyle Unbound
         - Russian Overkill