Guncaster Vindicated 3.4.6

[cs89]

I had to turn off the particle effects and gore effects too and it has solved my FPS problem.
I know that the gore effects aren't so essential on every wads.

[Dinosaur_Nerd]

I started to play Guncaster Vindicated with a megawad with lots of monsters (Zones of Fear) and on Map 15 there was so many effects our PC (Intel Core i7-7700 CPU, Geforce GTX 1060 6GB and 16GB DDR4 RAM) can't handle it.
I turned on the Toaster Mode and it didn't help much. I guess I have to turn off the gore effects too.

It's not recommended to run this MOD on a map with more than 1500 enemies otherwise it will cause frame drops. This MOD was tested under certain wad packs, but I don't think the one you mentioned was on that list. Sometimes maps with an extensive use of torches can also cause frame loss, try messing with the settings more if none of the former is the issue.

This mod is about to receive a MASSIVE tune-up on the optimization thanks to a tremendous amount of help and work from KeksDose, after the update it should be able to handle things like this much much better. (the improvement is on the order of 4 times faster performance)

My sincerest apologies for taking so long to get this next update out, I've been working on improving the performance of gore code as well as lots of script speed improvement (particularly for the adapter)

For this particular update, we gotta wait on the official update from the big man himself, since there are several surprises in store and I'm not about to spoil them

[Alptraum]

I started to play Guncaster Vindicated with a megawad with lots of monsters (Zones of Fear) and on Map 15 there was so many effects our PC (Intel Core i7-7700 CPU, Geforce GTX 1060 6GB and 16GB DDR4 RAM) can't handle it.
I turned on the Toaster Mode and it didn't help much. I guess I have to turn off the gore effects too.

It's not recommended to run this MOD on a map with more than 1500 enemies otherwise it will cause frame drops. This MOD was tested under certain wad packs, but I don't think the one you mentioned was on that list. Sometimes maps with an extensive use of torches can also cause frame loss, try messing with the settings more if none of the former is the issue.

This mod is about to receive a MASSIVE tune-up on the optimization thanks to a tremendous amount of help and work from KeksDose, after the update it should be able to handle things like this much much better. (the improvement is on the order of 4 times faster performance)

My sincerest apologies for taking so long to get this next update out, I've been working on improving the performance of gore code as well as lots of script speed improvement (particularly for the adapter)

For this particular update, we gotta wait on the official update from the big man himself, since there are several surprises in store and I'm not about to spoil them

keep up with the good work Dino ^^

[grubfisher]

Don't know why, but DoomLauncher doesn't like the latest version of Guncaster Vindicated. Says it's an improperly formed pk3. Also pretends that the mod isn't loading at all if you load it in using the zip instead of the pk3 file. Any ideas?

[Valherran]

Don't know why, but DoomLauncher doesn't like the latest version of Guncaster Vindicated. Says it's an improperly formed pk3. Also pretends that the mod isn't loading at all if you load it in using the zip instead of the pk3 file. Any ideas?

Try not using DoomLauncher and use something else like ZDL.

[Dinosaur_Nerd]

Happy halloween landlubbers!!!

lots of update stuff happened here... too much for me to list... for now, get out there and have some fun!

[Morgul]

Happy halloween landlubbers!!!

lots of update stuff happened here... too much for me to list... for now, get out there and have some fun!

I knew it... saw this update coming with the new GC one
Thanks Dino <3

[Valherran]

I was experimenting with some custom settings on a map pack, then got this VM abort crash cracking open a black chest.

[Dinosaur_Nerd]

updating to version 3.2.1

I was experimenting with some custom settings on a map pack, then got this VM abort crash cracking open a black chest.

Thanks for the report. It's been fixed.
This was a result of the chest reaching a deferred list which I screwed up.

now... some update notes!

GC 3.5 notes:

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-GNUFASTER! A lot of performance fixes across the board to make this slightly less shit to play (for me at least, it might still make a lot of toasters cry, but I managed to get through some slaughterwad or two again. Huge success imo!) such as tome and strat pickups (generally everything item-wise that spawns particles) got a boost, improved performance on couple things like refurbished effects on Ironblast, Matriarch and Augur, you name it.

-Speaking of GNUFASTER - some special treatment carried out towards Eviternity in terms of compatibility, cause... well, they really made damn sure you've got the dead so badly it caused a lot of problems. And on top of that - doing something about that weather. Citing, "in this update we bent reality in mods that aren't ours".

-GUNSNAKE, WAZARD EAAATEEER~ aka snake game that was more of a gag\experiment but ended up being a real deal because!... why not. Yea. It also comes with Brutal mod. We went there, yes. Just activate extreme mode.
- added golden flame experience, uppercut and goomba stomp to him and powersuit and finally his own, proper draughsuited frames for hands cause I was neglecting that for a long-ass while.

-Thotkeeper got a voice now, even alternate one cause I didn't want to leave the other VA who had lent their talent out! (I know that one line's missing; I didn't wanna bother her with that~)

GCV Special stuff

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- Both shopkeepers implemented, Sabbatha is default in DOOM and Nithor is default in Heretic and Hexen (and strife)
- Shopkeepers have their own theme music, now you can REALLY feel like your in a grocery store... a magical grocery store!
- Monster Projectile Overhaul! This is a big one... Monsters on top difficulty will now sometimes attempt to intercept the player with projectiles. That's right... now the bad guys know how to aim. Watch out! (not all monsters will do this, gun weilding enemies in particular won't intercept you, but things like imps and barons will)
- Crouching no longer fools monsters. Their aim is now far more precise, and crouching to try to cheeze projectiles is no longer a valid strategy, they will aim directly at your face if you try it, so beware!
- New advanced hitbox! Player's hitbox is now independent of the collision box, this makes it so projectiles fired by monsters will be able to aim more reliably at the player's model and sprites without needing the player to have a huge collision box. Taller players will now automatically stoop to fit under low ceilings, eliminating the need to crouch just to get under some doors, if the ceiling is low enough, the player will be automatically crouched.
- Deadmaker Melee touchup. Melee for deadmaker now cycles through a few different punches and swipes to mimic the behavior of melee when playing as a non-kaiju dragon. No more fireball flinging on swipes, it's impossible to balance. Charge punch is now a shoulder barge that will dash the player forwards and try to crush enemies.
- Huge improvements to speed and optimization for monsters, scripts, and just the mod overall. This goes beyond the improvements to Official GC to include Vindicated stuff and gore (especially the adapter which was causing really bad lag)
- Smarter Riftwalking and Dergovision: Riftwalking no longer falls through actor bridges and dergovision will now have double the normal duration when you have a wizardseye powerup.
- Living on the edge: Using draughsuit Riftwalking when very low on health will now drain mana much more slowly than normal, allowing for more time to try to recover from serious damage.
- New augur behavior: Augur now acts a lot more like a super railgun, pushing enemies in the direction of the shot's flight and dealing damage radiating outwards from the projectile with the main damage focused in the center.
- Sword improved to be far more defensively powerful, granting slight regeneration when hitting monsters with berserk, Draughsuit with Essence Devourer, or Deadmaker
- Dreadful shots now fly to their target very quickly, allowing for more easy application of A_BFGSpray (monsters in the player's field of view take damage when the projectile explodes).
- Dynamite quick toss and dynamite power throw optimized and re-scripted to eliminate glitches caused when trying to power throw one dynamite bundle while gunzerking. Qiuck toss now features swappable tiberium bombs and TNT. Once you've collected a Tiberium bomb, simply toggle them on to have quicktoss throw tib bombs instead of dynamite, or vice versa.
- Weather and sounds optimized to be lightning fast thanks to lots of help and teaching from KeksDose!
- New GCV Universal Automatic Continuation! This is a brand new episodic continuation made by yours truly just for GCV! This is an adaptive script that is compatible with multiple map sets including:
-- heretic treasure chest
-- rekkr
-- ancient aliens
-- valiant
-- doom complete (fully wadsmoosh compatible under any combination including Sigil, but be aware, wadsmoosh is not updated to handle the most recent version of sigil.)
-- heretic
-- freedoom phase1
-- Doom the way ID Did
-- No End in Sight
-- Masters of Chaos
-- and more!
- Now compatible with PIRATE DOOM!!! You can play against pirate monsters whenever you like, and adventure through the cool pirate themed levels of pirate doom itself, just load the Pirates!.wad before Guncaster Vindicated and have a halloween blast!

[Dinosaur_Nerd]

updating to fix a couple small bugs

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- updating UAC healing script to ACS because it actually works
- updating tilting to now be toggleable to only work on viewtilt instead of weapon tilt and viewtilt
- fixing vision bad behavior

[Hellmasker]

Heya!

It seems like the Bossfight with the Hell Smith is broken. (Vind08 - Portals of Chaos)

The 3 Maulotaurs are there, and after they die - nothing happens. The Boss itself won't spawn and the Portals won't open.

Unless I'm missing something here...

[Dinosaur_Nerd]

Heya!

It seems like the Bossfight with the Hell Smith is broken. (Vind08 - Portals of Chaos)

The 3 Maulotaurs are there, and after they die - nothing happens. The Boss itself won't spawn and the Portals won't open.

Unless I'm missing something here...

Something happened to the map somehow. I have re-scripted the entire encounter to use a more robust ACS method of handling it.

I was doing some testing tonight but I got interrupted by some other issues. I'll conclude testing tomorrow and post an update as soon as the testing proves effective.
Keep your eyes peeled for the update! I plan to post a fix 11/15/2019 at some time.

[user5124]

Anyone else have trouble getting map progress triggers to fire in map09 of gd.wad? It's a very, very small level with a really straight forward progression and yet I'm just..stuck with no way to activate more enemies or open doors. I've beaten it repeatedly with other mods but I still wouldn't rule out a map bug...

EDIT: Even after resetting by doing "map map09", I still get the same result.
EDIT: More problems on map14 and map32. Looks like the gd.wad map set might not be compatible.

[Hellmasker]

Heya!

It seems like the Bossfight with the Hell Smith is broken. (Vind08 - Portals of Chaos)

The 3 Maulotaurs are there, and after they die - nothing happens. The Boss itself won't spawn and the Portals won't open.

Unless I'm missing something here...

Something happened to the map somehow. I have re-scripted the entire encounter to use a more robust ACS method of handling it.

I was doing some testing tonight but I got interrupted by some other issues. I'll conclude testing tomorrow and post an update as soon as the testing proves effective.
Keep your eyes peeled for the update! I plan to post a fix 11/15/2019 at some time.

Alright, thank you! Will wait then

[Dinosaur_Nerd]

EDIT: Even after resetting by doing "map map09", I still get the same result.
EDIT: More problems on map14 and map32. Looks like the gd.wad map set might not be compatible.

map09 is the result of VERY VERY temperamental unstable voodoo script
you have to trigger the blue and red floor switches that open the doors to the revenants and hellknights within 15 seconds of your first shot, or the voodoo imp won't work properly.

You can switch to "Old School" monsters for better compatibility with this if you want. I'll extend my list of recommended favorite map packs as soon as I can.