DOOM RPG Monster Variants

[darthbdaman]

Description
This mod adds all of the variant enemy types from the mobile DOOM RPG into the game. They will occasionally spawn in the place of their regular counterparts, with weaker variants being more common, and stronger less.

Currently, the only difference between variants is there health. Generally the middle variant has the same health as the original DOOM monster (for enemies with very low health, the lowest tier enemy has the original DOOM health). The lower variant has half the health of the middle variant, while the upper variant has twice as much health as the middle variant. This is based of the difference between the Baron and the Hell Knight.

The chance of any variant spawning is slightly different. The lower tier variant has a 1/2 chance of appearing, the middle variant has a 1/3 chance of appearing, and the upper variant has a 1/6 chance of appearing.

Screenshots

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Details

• Zombie Man: Zombie Private (Yellow), Zombie Lieutenant (Blue), Zombie Captain (Red)
• Shotgun Guy: Zombie Corporal (Yellow), Zombie Sergeant (Blue), Zombie Major (Red)
• Chaingunner: Trooper (Yellow), Commando (Blue), Assassin (Red)
• Imp: Impling (Green), Imp (Brown), Imp Lord (Red)
• Lost Soul: Phantom (Green), Lost Soul (Brown), Nightmare (Blue)
• Pinky: Bull Demon (Yellow), Pinky Demon (Red), Belphegor (Blue)
• Cacodemon: Malwrath (Yellow), Cacodemon (Red), Wretched (Blue)
• Pain Elemental: Beholder (Green), Pain Elemental (Brown), Rahovart (Blue)
• Revenant: Ghoul (Green), Revenant (Red), Fiend (Blue)
• Mancubus: Behemoth (Blue), Mancubus (Brown), Druj (Red)
• Archvile: Infernis (Blue), Archvile (White), Apollyon (Red)
• Baron: Ogre (Green), Hell Knight (Brown), Baron of Hell (Red)
• Hellhound: Hellhound (Brown), Cerberus (Red), Demon Wolf (Blue)
• Nazi: Nazi Private (Yellow), Nazi Lieutenant (Blue), Nazi Captain (Red)

Notes
I tried to stick as closely as I could to the RPG monster classes, but I had to make some changes and additions. The major changes are moving the Revenant and Pain Elemental to the middle of their classes, and moving the Fiend and Rahovart to the top. This was done to make them more consistent with the other demons, as well as make the Pain Elemental class consistent with the Lost Soul class, as in the DOOM RPG, the Pain Elemental summoned the Blue Nightmares, while the Blue Rahovart summoned the normal Lost Souls, which was rather inconsistent.

The Shotgun Guy and Wolfenstien SS were not in the DOOM RPG, so I made their colors and names consistent with the Zombie Men and Chaingunners. Hellhounds are not used anywhere in the game, but I did make sprites and a spawner for them, based off of Nash's GZDoom dogs, and they could be added by another mod.

Hell Knights are replaced by a random spawner that will produce an Ogre, Hell Knight, or Baron. Barons however are not replaced. This was done on purpose, as Barons are frequently used as bosses, and having them be replaced would be underwhelming. Also, Doom doesn't include the Hell Knight sprites from Doom 2, so preventing Barons from turning into Hell Knights seemed to be a good idea.

Addons
There are three optional files. Load these along with the Main File.

The first 2 add dogs into the regular Doom games, by giving Wolfenstein SS and Shotgun Guys a 50% chance to be replaced by dogs. The dogs have 3 variations just like the other monsters in this mod.

The other optional file allows the Barons of Hell to scale down into Ogres and Hell Knights. Normally, Hell Knights are scaled up or down into Barons or Ogres, but Barons do not. This makes Barons also scale. If this file is used with the original Doom, Hell Knights will likely be invisible, unless you are using something like WADSmoosh which adds the sprite. Use at your own risk.

Credits
I edited all of the sprites myself using Pixel Painter. I'm no artist and they could be done better, but I wanted some practice in different areas of modding.
The original GZDoom dog sprite is by Nash, under CC-BY
I used Slade for everything else.

Download Main File
Download Nazis with Dogs Addon
Download Shotgun Guys with Dogs Addon
Download Baron of Hell Replacer Addon

[Whoah]

I really like this in concept! Like a super diet version of Colorful hell. I have a bit of a suggestion for the sake of variation. You could have the weaker enemies have weaker or dialed down versions of the vanilla enemy's attacks, and vice versa for the stronger versions. Like, Impling=no fireball attack/fireball affected by gravity, Imp=standard vanilla attacks, Imp Lord=faster/more damaging fireball and leaping attack etc. Either way, I look forward to seeing where this goes!

[darthbdaman]

Ya I would like to do something like that eventually. I just did the health changes for now to match how the Hell Knight compares to the Baron.

[BradmanX]

I have an idea on how the Hellhounds could be brought in, perhaps have them as rarer Pinky/Spectre spawns, or something like that, even if as an optional thing.

[darthbdaman]

I'll probably make optionals to make them appear instead of Nazis or shotgun guys

Edit: Done! They are in the main post

[SpaceyStrife]

Replacing shotgunners with dogs only works well if the dogs spawn in locations where they can reach the player to bite them - If the shotgunners are on high ledges or sniper points then the dogs become useless. If you wanted to get fancy, you could run a proximity check on Pinky spawners so that they turn into dogs if they're within a certain distance from a zombie or shotgunner. Or you could keep dogs as shotgunner replacements but make them shoot bees from their mouths.

In any case, I was wondering if a mod like this would crop up eventually and it does exactly what it needs to do. Good job!

[darthbdaman]

Ya I thought that that might be a problem. I wouldn't know where to begin with your suggestion, but I'll try to figure it out

[darthbdaman]

I updated the file so it now has tags for monsters, so if your using a mod which lets you see their names on the HUD, all of them will be named correctly

[doomstuff]

Not sure how to PM the OP so i am posting here.
EDIT: Ifound the PM button LoL! - so all this can be ignored, i left it here just incase and will move it to my own thread after sufficient time for the OP to reply to PM has passed.

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Short: Cool mod, i had to rework some stuff for personal use, i extended the project, not sure if its ok to Link and include RPGVs with my own post - so i am asking here first if its ok BEFORE i make my dedicated Resource post (for my mod release)..

Long:
I was messing around with doom monsters for personal use , creating "Vanilla Doom with Better variety". As i am sure many users will understand, often projects get duplicated, or people embark upon stuff that is already done and they find it online (due to length of existance and ease of use/ mods).

As such i dropped my project and was able to simply use RPGVariations with my existing work, great stuff, saved alot of time etc. However, like all other so called "sprite fixes" and various other mods, the (well known?) pixel skull piece of the SKUL sprite (Lost Soul) still existed which bugged me...and the baron sprite issues and blah blah blah... again, as many users will understand, there was some conflict when adding to my other mods.

So now i have this: (another, i did this, you can have it if you want it kinda mod)
Official Monster Variations [.pk3]
- Containing;
[*]1. RPG Variations - modified to avoid conflict, sprites fixed, crushed, etc.
[*]2. Another Lost Soul - My Mod that provides Variety to the Lost Souls and Pain Elementals; includes all & only official versions.
[*]3. Commander Keen Alive - because why not?.. i use it as a friendly buddy coz i have no friends and suck at doom.
[*]4. DoomDogs - basically just organised the helper dogs and fixed the sprites.
[*]5. Blood mod; i know everybody does it right? but i dislike the so called bloodfixes and mods i found online and had to make more for the additional MONSTERS.

so ....

If someone wants the RPG variations + My Another Lost Soul Mod (all official lost soul and pain elementals N64, PSX , Beta, Alpha, Demo, Press release etc)etc - as a "Official Only monster variations Mod" from all platforms, or wishes to continue such a project for themselves or others, then i can offer what i have. I.e. someone could continue adding e.g. the rest of the N64 monsters like i did with Los Soul/ PE.

Request re-iterated:
Is it cool to include the link for RPGVariations TOPIC (here where we type) with my mod when posting my resource Topic, as this would be easier, since i have merged the two to do the aforementioned and the RPGV mod is basically still intact, sans my compatilbity file structure and correct sprite fix implementations. The ALT would be having both mods and this is entirely redundant as it is a non-destructive mod implementation that builds upon RGV without effecting it.. But i would rather People know where the original RPGV thread is than not, which woudl be the case if i didnt have permission to reference the source-- understand?


The new file structure would look something like this

i will not include images of my Lost Soul mod as it may be seen as ill-placed or not cool to do so here... I shall await reply before posting.

[thugsta]

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if you like, use this pack of lumps i zipped for you so you can have the HellKnights appear in the original doom HellKnights lumps, just to have it clean and not look like a "bug" so your mod is self-sustained so to say.

[PatCatz2004]

can it work with monster packs or no?

[IttaBaby]

years late, but is there a way to stop them from randomly changing, I wish to choose in my level editor.