[v2.8] CHAMPIONS [update 19/12/20]

[Gorec]

ive got an issue - i never seen any mutation of the champions even when i set the chance to max,im using gzdoom 3.4.1 and 3.3.2 with no other mods but still nothing

[Mikk-]

There was a small typo in 2.2 that unintentionally disabled the Mutations. This has been fixed in the next version

[ErrantMasa]

Ah, so that's why no muties appeared! lookin' forward to 2.3! Anything new and interesting coming soon?

[Mikk-]

Not particularly, mostly just fixes and optimisations. I've hit a bit of a wall when it comes to new content with Champions

[AvzinElkein]

Not particularly, mostly just fixes and optimisations. I've hit a bit of a wall when it comes to new content with Champions

Ah, okay. I was gonna suggest having a special option for Guncaster; Champions will drop additional gold if using Guncaster and Champions.

[eharper256]

I could think of a couple of extra champion types:
>> When it dies for the first time, it ressurects and goes Black.
>> It is completely silent, and has the spectre blur effect.
>> Whenever it fires a projectile, it fires three times in rapid succession side by side (i.e. spawns extra projectiles... probably ludicrously dangerous on a Mancubus or Cybie, and on Chaingunners... maybe make each projectile 1/2 the damage)
>> It has no-clip and hears the entire level, pursuing the player unnerringly the second they make a sound the first time.
>> Its projectiles fly twice as fast.
>> It can fly like a Caco (probably a bit hilarious in some cases).

You'd have to use some strange colours though I'm sure.

Also, a combo mode, like some Diablo elites have, where they can have multiple Champion properties at the same time?

Don't know how viable all these are to code, mind you.

[Mikk-]

some of these ideas are actually really good! I've been thinking about a "combo mode" where there's a small % chance that a champion has a second additional champion status. I'll see what I can whip up when I next work on Champions.

[eharper256]

some of these ideas are actually really good! I've been thinking about a "combo mode" where there's a small % chance that a champion has a second additional champion status. I'll see what I can whip up when I next work on Champions.

Glad you like them. Teleporting Triple-Fire Cyberdemons are a horrifying thought though.

[namsan]

Combo mode sounds very interesting and fun. It would create some very nasty enemies

I was brainstorming some champion types.
>> It buffs movement speed of enemies around.
>> It can summon flying weak turrets. Turrets can fire weak projectiles but can easily be destroyed.
>> It can summon multiple shield spheres around itself. Shield sphere can take projectiles or hitscan bullets. Hit points of shield spheres are relative to hit points of monster.
>> When it dies, it will make spreading pool of poison from where it was killed.
>> it can periodically throw bombs into player. Explosions from bombs harm player but heal monsters.

[eharper256]

Just found a crash to console glitch that occurs when an archvile tries to ressurect a dead indigo enemy:


Obviously I had no idea what caused it initially, but fortunately I quicksaved just prior to the crash, so in the third re-try I rushed around the corner to find an Archie that had just spawned. Killed it this time before it could do ressurection shenanigans. There was a dead pair of indigo shotgunners right at its feet.

[Mere_Duke]

i believe i've got a fix for the guncaster problem.

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Someone64 and eharper256 both shown what the problem is.

I'll also confirm this report:

https://i.imgur.com/NNLQo2G.png

the errors that pop up is the result of a conflict with the sprite names with the champion icons and something in Guncaster. I couldn't actually find the conflicting sprites in Guncaster itself, though.

The fix for this is to simply change the name of the champion icon sprites to something that does not conflict with Guncaster.
I started this by going into the "sprites/icons" folder and changing the sprite names from "ICON##" to "MCON##", as you can see in the below screenshot:


Next, I went and found any reference to the icon sprites and changed them to match the new names I gave them.

After I had done that, it worked like a charm! I no longer got the errors in the console, and the game didn't crash! The only other hiccup I encountered is that if champions is loaded after Guncaster, it overrides Guncaster's bloodspot changes, but loading Guncaster after Champions fixed that. Here's a link to my copy which already has the changes. And here's a screenshot to show that it now does indeed work with Guncaster.

But there's also a zscript/champions/baseclass.txt file, where are such lines:

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       static const name champion_icons[] =
         {
         "ICONA0", "ICONB0", "ICONC0",
         "ICOND0", "ICONE0", "ICONF0",
         "ICONG0", "ICONH0", "ICONI0",
         "ICONJ0", "ICONK0", "ICONL0",
         "ICONM0", "ICONN0", "ICONO0",
         "ICONP0", "ICONQ0"
         };

I believe they should also be changed in appropriate way (ICON->MCON in this case).

Just found a crash to console glitch that occurs when an archvile tries to ressurect a dead indigo enemy:

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Obviously I had no idea what caused it initially, but fortunately I quicksaved just prior to the crash, so in the third re-try I rushed around the corner to find an Archie that had just spawned. Killed it this time before it could do ressurection shenanigans. There was a dead pair of indigo shotgunners right at its feet.

This problem is a serious bug with EventHandlers.
There are this (let's call this A):

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   Override void WorldThingRevived(WorldEvent e)
      {
   ...
      // if e.Thing is an Indigo Clone
      if(e.Thing && e.Thing.CountInv("champion_NullToken"))
         {
         e.Thing.A_SpawnItemEx("ArchvileFire");
         e.Thing.Destroy();
         }
   ...

... and this (let's call this B):

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   Override void WorldThingSpawned(WorldEvent e)
      {
   ...
      if(missilecolour && e.Thing is "ArchvileFire" && e.Thing.Target.CountInv("champion_PersistentInfo"))
         {
         e.Thing.A_SetRenderstyle(e.Thing.Alpha,STYLE_TRANSLUCENT);
         e.Thing.Translation = e.Thing.Target.Translation;
         e.Thing.Alpha = 0.66;
         }
   ...

So, in 'A' we spawn ArchvileFire using the lying Clone body as the "source" (target). Then immediately we destroy that body (delete the object, free the memory).
And then in 'B' we are trying to deal with the newly spawned ArchvileFire, and then... e.Thing.Target.CountInv("champion_PersistentInfo") leads us to a null pointer (since we have deleted the 'Target' - that blue corpse - already).

If anyone is interested, I have fixed that. I allowed the Archvile to resurrect blue minions, and also I have fixed the minor bug where blue minions couldn't inherit blood/projectile colors properly. And Guncaster compatibility is aslo applied.
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/5amm54y0a ... D.pk3/file

P.S.: TBH I don't know how to forbid the Archvile to resurrect specific actors (for example, blue minions) without editing the Archvile code or monsters behavior. I didn't want to change original code much, so just allowed Archvile to resurrect little ones

P.P.S.: I love this little mod! And Gncaster 3.1 too

[eharper256]

Thanks for that fixed version Mere_Duke, that's helpful whilst Mikk is working on the next version.

[Accensus]

Sorry for bad quality, screenshotted it from a stream. Can't say how it happened exactly cause I wasn't watching at that particular moment. It was really random, though, didn't happen for over 10 maps of a slaughterwad with 1200 monsters each.

[Gorec]

Sorry for bad quality, screenshotted it from a stream. Can't say how it happened exactly cause I wasn't watching at that particular moment. It was really random, though, didn't happen for over 10 maps of a slaughterwad with 1200 monsters each.

i disabled every option that has something to do with enemy or projectiles(but not enemy color) so i dont have any bugs

[JadedLexi]

Sorry for bad quality, screenshotted it from a stream. Can't say how it happened exactly cause I wasn't watching at that particular moment. It was really random, though, didn't happen for over 10 maps of a slaughterwad with 1200 monsters each.

i disabled every option that has something to do with enemy or projectiles(but not enemy color) so i dont have any bugs

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