Highway Acceleroid Booster v1 - Life in the Fast Lane

[dawnbreez]

Re: the Heavy Cylinder altfire, maybe tapping the button sends the grenades in a spread pattern, and holding the button launches them in a group (like it does right now) when you release? That way, you have a good weapon for large or spread-out crowds, but you can still get the grenade jump if you take the time to do it.

[Wivicer]

Yeah, the line belongs to a projectile that has +HITTRACER, so logically anything it should hit should automatically be considered a tracer. But sometimes things slip.
I'll fix it next update, thank you.

I think there may be a few other places where this problem arises. Just FYI

[Captain J]

Thanks a ton for your clear replies. And about the Game Over sequence, i might suggest more than stopping the music, of course. Like displaying the randomly generated texts like mockery, protip, insert-dead-memes-here and etc... Your're the boss!

Also let me just drop this right here, because it sounds retro and fine to me.

[Baratus]

Hell yes. Congrats on the release Term, I'll be sure to play the hell out of this now.

Just one bug I noticed: When you pick up the large ammo for the Jet Divider, the pickup message says that it gives you +4 ammo when it actually gives 20.

[slipcase]

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- Speaking of Clutch Buster... I think the firing sound effect is less clean and powerful hearing. Either the casing bounce sound too, really. It's just boring plastic tic, instead of satisfying brass clink as we know to this day. I guess this is all about OC canon thing? I dunno. Anyway Mac version of Wolfenstein 3D has the original and clean one, though!

- Also one more thing: The player with Ride Armor has no third person proper sprite. Just a Crusader straight from Strife. But i don't think it's not really multiplayer-based, so i guess it's doable.

More about the Ride Armor - it's a minor graphical issue, but both Control Sticks on the HUD are quite tall. I can barely see the Minigun doing its job.

- What do you think of custom game over sequence? Mega Man-esq exploding that don't stop the music is kinda not retrospective, if you know what i mean.

- Funny because you don't get the scolding after you type IDDQD or God in the console command except when you resurrect yours dead self.

- Heavy Cylinder is fairly strong weapon. However the Alt-Fire is just meh compare to its primary one. The projectiles bounce on the enemies on impact, so it bloops my momentum to detonate in direct hit. Also are you going to make the player spam a lot of Alt-Fire missiles somehow? Just like other great FPS games like Duke Nukem 3D and Blood. I think it's the most natural thing to put in.

- No F1 read me screenies yet... I guess you're going to put some weapon explanations and tips when it's gonna happen?

- Fuse Injector is very satisfying to use. The only problem with this is the sound of slashing the enemies is quite underwhelming unlike the wall one.

yeah i think i made the Control Sticks a bit to big and im not super happy with how they turned out overall so if Term is ok with it i can see about making changes to them.

[AvzinElkein]

Another thing: The video claims it to be monster-agnostic, but some monster mods have their own difficulty settings, which results in a conflict with Booster's.

[Ryuhi]

Another thing: The video claims it to be monster-agnostic, but some monster mods have their own difficulty settings, which results in a conflict with Booster's.

Thats just caused by the monster mods themselves, and can usually be fixed by adjusting the load order

[Alptraum]

It's a good fun mod ^^ You're one of the best Doom modders.

[dawnbreez]

Oh, before I forget: Thoughts on reworking the Fuse Injector. I've divided them into simple stuff that can be implemented without *too* much work, and the Radical Rework.

First, the basic stuff:

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• Basic Swing: Either 2x damage or a wider area of effect. The current sword swing is actually a *downgrade* from the fist; it deals as much damage as the regular punch, but swings slower even if you nail the timing, and it never gets the double-damage uppercut. Giving the basic swing twice as much damage--effectively making every swing into the uppercut--would make it competitive against larger single targets, while giving it an AoE would give you a reason to use it over the basic fist without going overboard on damage.
• Power Swing: Either increased damage or a forward dash, or both. Also, reduce ammo consumption. The power swing feels like it isn't much stronger than the sword swings you could've made in that time period, and giving it a burst of forward velocity would make it useful for movement tech like the charge fist is. Reducing ammo consumption would make it less painful to use, as well.
• Stunner: Disable the primary fire for a while after using it. Look, right now the optimal play after stunning a larger monster is to sit there and wail on it with the regular swing--and given how long it takes to actually kill a hellknight or larger monster with the primary fire, you not only get back all the ammo you spent on stunning it, you also sit there for several seconds just spamming the fire button. However, if you can't swing the sword for a few seconds after using the stunner, then you have to decide which other weapon you'll actually kill the thing with. Much more engaging.

Now, the pipe dream, the Radical Rework:

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• Spark Beam: Tapping the fire button performs a sword swing, but this time with an added spread of energy projectiles. Tap repeatedly, and you'll keep shooting out short-lived swordbeams.
• After Shear: Holding the fire button produces a rapid storm of sword swings--these don't have the Spark Beam projectile, but they hit almost as fast as your punches, and a bit harder too.
• Turbo Shear: Holding altfire charges up a dash attack. This attack sends a ripple of Spark Beam shots out behind you, and ghosts through enemies.
• Stun Gap: Tapping altfire gives enemies a dose of dead anime memes. However, this has a secondary effect now: Four "choke points" will appear on affected enemies, one in each cardinal direction. Slashing all four choke points does lethal damage to the enemy and makes an explosion of sparks, damaging other nearby enemies based on how much health the original target had.

[Pompous Seed]

All weapons feel great, however there is one which tops them all.
Speed booster/shinespark (can it be called a weapon though? More like an ability) is just amazing and satisfying to execute.

Although not executed like I thought it would be (simply jumping like in Metroid), it took me quite a bit of brute learning to finally understand how to execute the spark.
Still, maneuvering around tight corners and in small rooms to execute it to swiftly deal with an enemy in a one quick swipe is just beyond great.

Though, to be honest, it feels more like an infinitely long nova strike than a shinespark to me, just with how it's executed.
(X did a quick leap forwards before doing the nova strike, meanwhile Samus just jumps upwards to do it.)

So, how exactly do you activate the shinespark?

[Wivicer]

To quote myself:

I love everything about this, but I'm having trouble activating the shinespark reliably. What's the key combo? it's fantastic

Edit: figured it out. Run + forward

[Pompous Seed]

I thought that was the speed booster? Are the shinespark and speedbooster the same thing?

[AvzinElkein]

How does one perform the All Brake ability?

[Pompous Seed]

One must acquire the BFG 9000 replacement (all brake chip), and press altfire while selected. Primary fire slows time.

[Jarewill]

I thought that was the speed booster? Are the shinespark and speedbooster the same thing?

Pretty much yes, they are the same thing.

Holding run and forwards will trigger the speed booster.
Pressing crouch while speed booster is active will "contain" the charge.
And holding run and forwards again will release it in the form of a shinespark.

Also a small question: would it be possible to get a CVar for a more metroid-like execution of the shinespark?
Like, if the player is moving and jumps nothing happens, but if the player is stationary and jumps then shinespark will be triggered.