Doom Rebalanced - A vanilla-inspired rebalance mod

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Re: Doom Rebalanced - A simple vanilla-styled rebalance mod

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Huh, didn't even know that was a thing. Generally I try not to leave things more broken than they started, so I'll look into fixing it. Also noticed that 3.7.2 causes a weird pitch problem in the zombie enemies, but I don't know if that's caused by a bug or a bugfix since the CMF_BADPITCH flag is causing it.
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Beta 4 has arrived! Not much to say about this one. An important crash fix for summoning friendly enemies, further tweaking of weapons (this time geared towards cheats), fullscreen options, the enemy melee toggle, and an important fix for Revenants being dopey. Enemies in general are slightly more intelligent now as well. I'm pretty happy with the set of features I have so this'll likely be the last beta before full release. If everything goes smoothly expect this version to transition into 1.0 next week.
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I tested this out and I gotta say. It's actually a decent balancing mod in my humble opinion.

Only thing I didn't like is how the weapons raise at the speed of light.
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NeonLights95 wrote:I tested this out and I gotta say. It's actually a decent balancing mod in my humble opinion.

Only thing I didn't like is how the weapons raise at the speed of light.

That's one of the main things I like so much about it. But eh, to each his own.
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Just wanted to congratulate on Beta 4, all feels fine to me. Looking forward to full release :twisted: .
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v1.0 is finally out! It's been a while since I've updated this (and this update has been ready for a really long time...) but I didn't have the energy to get around to doing the post modifying needed. I have some downtime though and figured now would be a better time than ever since I'm incredibly busy with school at the moment and finally have a break. The changelog has been updated to reflect being v1.0 but there are some very important tweaks in this update. More fullscreen HUD options, some bug fixes to make enemies more consistent, but most importantly some behavioral changes to the BFG and shotguns that fixes a few issues. Unfortunately these changes mean your old saves are very likely to break. They'll throw an error if:
  • The level had a BFG on it that you hadn't picked up yet
  • You saved in the middle of pumping or reloading a shotgun
I apologize for the inconvenience, but such is the life of beta testing and it's very unlikely this will ever be an issue again.


In the mean time I've been working on a mod for another id Software game that arguably needs it much more. Quake Rebalanced is in the works and has a similar goal to this mod: make the weapon variety better, rebalance the items, clean up messy item management, and make the enemies smarter and scarier. The mod is very far along and hopefully I can get a release up sometime soon over at QuakeOne.
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I hate to bump an inactive thread like this, but do you think you will ever put out another update for this mod that includes new gameplay features? Doom Rebalanced is by far one of my favourite mods out there and is an inspiration for me to start making rebalance mods of my own
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The BFG no damage falloff (area of effect) is pretty extreme, I used to abuse the close range "rays" that disperse from the player character, but now I don't even have to, it is way too powerful now.
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I actually already have a new update out over at DoomWorld. I've just been too lazy to update it here yet.

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/1 ... lance-mod/

Sorry for the delay, I'll get around to it eventually. No new features but it does have some clean up and I've already done some more work to clean up partial invisibility a bit. Not really sure what else I would want to add at the moment, but I'm sure I'll think of stuff.
Helion wrote:The BFG no damage falloff (area of effect) is pretty extreme, I used to abuse the close range "rays" that disperse from the player character, but now I don't even have to, it is way too powerful now.
Yeah, I've been thinking about halving the range so the diameter matches the original BFG's range. It's kinda tough though because it's not as powerful for single target as the default so I need to make sure it's actually worth using, especially with the improved Plasma Rifle actually competing with it. That's one of the reasons I added an option to use the vanilla BFG since I know it can also break things like slaughtermaps pretty hard.
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The pistol is more powerful & accurate than the chaingun XD
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