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For Doom, Heretic, and Hexen ----------------------------------------------- GET IT NOW HERE AT MEGA!! (Version 0.9) ----------------------------------------------- GoogleDrive Mirror! (Version 0.9) ----------------------------------------------- Discord channel Invite:https://discord.gg/rxsKfFp PLEASE NOTE ^^ THIS IS A TEMPORARY INVITE, IT WILL AUTO-KICK YOU AFTER YOU LEAVE. If you think you'll leave lots of Discord comments, PM me for a permanent invite. ----------------------------------------------- Hexen Walpurgis is...
A gameplay mod that works with Doom and Heretic, straight out of the Box!
Focused on giving everything three fire-modes without needing any extra resources, just balancing them around standard blue and green mana/ammo consumption.
Will have upgrades for each of those afformentioned fire-modes (think Trailblazer)~ I will point out that not all of these are implemented yet, though.
Strong and fun, but balanced. Extra care has been put into making everything have punch and impact and be fun to use but not the level of overkill. I'm a mad perfectionist when I get going; so repeatedly testing something over and over whilst I tweak values is not unusual.
Gothically medieval, with a taste of moderate-high fantasy. Magic is meant to semi-common in the world, whether through artifacts, or mystical items.
Based around play where you get used to using both your arsenal and your inventory items in tandem. Flechettes and Discs of Repulsion are really useful now; so use them!
Rigorously playtested with custom doom, heretic, and hexen wads to get a feel for how it plays with them; and to see if I can find reason to switch between my arsenal all the time (which is the sign of a good arsenal, in my opinion).
Is named this way because... well, "Hexen" are witches from germanic folklore. Walpurgisnacht is a grand festival for witches in general. So as a festival of new content for Hexen related shenanigans; its doubly relevant.
----------------------------------------------- Don't forget to bind yourself a 'Reload' key. In Walpurgis, this key is your third fire mode. Various inventory items can also be assigned hotkeys. Comes with its own version of Widescreen Status Bar, you will not need your own. ----------------------------------------------- Other optional (but recommended) mods to run in your GZDoom.ini: Nashgore Vengeance OR Universal Gibs for your bloody splatter needs. Tekish's HUD addons for general helpful convienience. -----------------------------------------------
[0.9] 'Wild Thing!' ----------------------- +New!: Illitheya The Druid stirs from the Wild! Yup, she's the fourth class I've teased for awhile. She's faster than the Myrmidon, though between the Crusader and Magister on HP (90), and with the lowest potential Armour (lower than the Magister)! Glass Cannon! Her weapons are: 1) Baselards. She's an adept dagger user. The primary fire shanks/slashes. The secondary fire throws knives. Both modes have a low poison effect. 2) Lupin Charm/Winter Warg Transformation.* Using this charm, she turns into a werewolf! Primary Fire slashes, Secondary is a charge up ice comet shot, and the Tertiary is a ground-slam, which increases in power if used after leaping off ledges/otherwise gaining more momentum. 3) Hebiko's Sceptre. This sceptre is blessed with the powers of snakes. Primary fire shoots homing acid snake projectiles. Secondary is a hypnosis effect that temporarily charms enemies. Tertiary lets loose a cloud of deadly corrosive gas that hangs around for a while. 4) The Ichival. The 'Bow of the Brightest Butterfly', its seperate from the Shining One's light relics used by the Crusader, it only acts to protect natural things. It has a variety of deadly ways to use arrows of light. F) Her Flechette spawns a vicious pitcher plant that spits acid globlets at nearby foes, and then explodes into a poisonous cloud after it runs out. I) Her Icon of the Defender regenerates 45 Health each second, as well as giving the usual 50% Flat damage reduction that all classes Icons get. A) Her Ambit Incant permanently increases her HP by 10 (up to a maximum of of 120 HP, as well as the usual infinite mana for 10 seconds. There are no upgrades for her at the moment. No upgrade items will spawn for her; this is so I can get tweaks and feedback on the base first! * = Note that the warg mode changes your vision to monochrome. If you don't like this, you can change it in the Walpurgis Options menu. +New!: Footsteps ZScript by DenisBelmondo added. Made a few tweaks to update to new GZDoom (notably, using A_StartSound rather than A_PlaySound), and adding several new definitions, as well as adding Heretic and Hexen step noises for all the flats. It works in all three games. +New!: Mana Wisps now have their own sprite that makes them considerably more visible than before, especially when they're dropped from corpses. +New!: Testing new Hexen monster varieties! 1) Sergeant Ettin (Chainmail version) finally makes it in. Around 1 in 8 Ettins will be this. He shows his rank superiority by having much more melee sense than his cousins; dashing at you to strike and often trying to flank you. He hits harder, lasts longer, and can also fling maces at you if you try to keep the middle distance. 2) You'll sometimes see a dangerous Mud-Golem show up sometimes to replace Stalkers in their swampy habitats in Hexen. He's a recoloured Wedigo in brown, who spits deadly mud balls at you with serious force. I will gradually add in extra Heretic and Doom monsters as well if there is positive feedback to these. +New!: HUD improvement. Adjusted HUD graphics and amended code, with the focus on increasing easy readability and information. The Armour is now shown as its percentage % value, rather than the always obscure AC. The coloured HP, Mana, and Armour indicators (on by default) have had a few alterations and fixed a weird glitch in how it checks for mana. The individual Mana # displays will now only show colour if you're actually using that type of mana; and will otherwise be grey, but visible. +Tweak: Re-written Weapon Spawning Code to allow for extra class. This does have a slight side-effect, namely that in Hexen maps where, say, the Fighter gets their 2nd weapon earlier than the Mage, that will no longer be class specific. The earliest weapon available will be available to all. +Tweak: Jump sound effect for all classes. +Tweak: New Crux Calicus Sound when it fires the Vortex Shot. New Lightning sound effects for Fulgur primary fire. +Tweak: Mushroom Poison clouds in Hexen now inherit new gas sprite made for the Hebiko Sceptre. +Tweak: Algor coloration for ice spikes made to match the other parts. +Tweak: Ettin and Centaur melee sound effects- they used to always sound like they hit something even when they missed. I've now made them more like the Myrmidon's sounds, so the swing noise is seperate from the impact. +Fixed: Vis Tertiary Fire sometimes didn't visually follow the enemies centre when crushing them. This is purely cosmetic, but was fixed nevertheless. +Fixed: Vis Tertiary Fire didn't have +SKYEXPLODE, so it failed to complete its code and locked the players animation if the shot hit the sky. Fixed. +Fixed: Vis Tertiary Fire could sometimes instagib bosses in Hexen due to them reaching terminal velocity. To high HP targets it will now do around 300 to 400 damage on detonation, as it should. +Fixed: New Vis animations trail effect didn't have blank frames at its start, so it could cause a white flicker effect on the players screen; this should now be reduced. +Fixed: Fulgur Chain Lightning (Primary upgrade) has been given piercing in case its target choice is something in a strange place. +Fixed: Fulgur Plasma Ball could sometimes become very small and strangely shaped due to an errant decimal point. Cosmetic, but fixed nontheless. +Fixed: Fulgur Primary fire performance optimised somewhat. It should need less beef from your GFX, and shouldn't lag as much now. +Balance: A handful of minor damage tweaks to several base modes and weapons. +Balance: Revised Armour drop routine should increase armour variety in Doom wads that have an obsession with spamming Green Armour all the time which is annoyingly common and leads to situations where your armour is always quite low as you're just constantly changing your shoes... +Misc: The Walpurgis Testing Map is now innately included in the mod. You can go there by typing "map walptest" on the console with no quotations. BUT IT REQUIRES you to currently be using the HEXEN iWad; or else you'll get a bunch of bad textures and cyberdemons (lol). I may get around to making a Doom and Heretic version eventually; but its not there now. +Misc. Huge swathes of organisation in directory structure, SNDINFO, and a few other places to make them less of a clustertruck.
Spoiler: Credits
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CREDITS: >> Several Code snippets (mostly heavily modified) and some sprites are by 4Page. >> Footsteps ZScript by DenisBelmondo >> FireHammer sprites are by DEAD_FiSH. >> Widescreen HUD sprites on Mace, Fists, Axe, Hammer, and Quietus taken from Cronos Unleashed by Rip and Tear, with edits by myself. >> Smooth BloodScourge by DavidG (Itsnaturetodie). >> AxeThrow Sprites, as well as base mage hands, cleric scalemail, and numerous others by Neoworm; editing by me. >> Excellent edits to my Kick Sprite by SallazarSpellcaster. >> Crux Calicus Vortex Sprites are modified explosions (!) from Russian Overkill. >> Some Firestorm & Quietus projectile sprites from Rise of the Triad. >> Quietus alternate swing/stab sprites by Lord Lothar. >> Quietus Torpedo sprite originally from BulletEye, edited by myself. >> Quietus Tertiary swing sprite idea from QCDE. >> Boots sprite, and Ice Spear sprite from Wrath of Chronos. >> Whip Sprite changed into Grapple Chain for Myrmidon originally from High Noon Drifter, edited by myself. >> Glacial Spike from Hisoutensouken, ripped by Random Talking Bush, edited by me. >> Frozen Doom Monsters by myself, Frozen Heretic Monsters by Neoworm. >> Initial code idea for hotkeys by Lagi. >> Basic sprite for Axe/Sword Decal taken from Trailblazer and edited by me. >> Widescreen Split Statusbar (ZScript) by 3saster and Nightfright. >> Sounds by Kevin Schilder, Chia Chin Lee, Drew Markham, Tommccann, Robinhood76, Humanoide9000, Grant_Evans, Partners In Rhyme, and 4Page. >> Some Sounds obtained from Soundbible.com, GameSounds.xyz, and a couple were taken from Wrath of Chronos and Russian Overkill.
If you are missing from the Credits and your stuff was used, vast apologies, please contact me either at the GZDoom forums, or at DoomWorld (I am eharper256 in both places).
----------------------------------------------- When I was a kid, and still now, I've always been a fantasy nerd, so Hexen was always one of my favourite Doom spinoffs: I've long wanted to create something for it, something similar to what Heretical did for Heretic, but the initial step forwards was always something I was lethargic about. After all, I'm not much of a natural coder; my skills lie in spriting and writing by default.
Fortunately for me; 4page in this very forum recently released a mod called HexArcana' in a similar vein, which I enjoyed quite alot. Huge props to them; because apparently this was the kick up the ass I needed to start proper Decorate usage and get cracking. What started as me simply adding the Lightbringer (from Hexen 2) to HexArcana, spiralled massively out of control, and it turned gradually from spinoff into full-fledged mod of its own.
It now shares very little with HexArcana as its been gradually shaped by my vision of what I wanted in a Hexen mod. I'm not exactly the best Doom player in the box, so my design philosophy is rule of cool over practicality, and making the mod that I want to play! That really shows in how its developed.
The three revised classes are now the Myrmidon (Fighter); the Crusader (Cleric), and the Magister (Mage). A fourth class, the Druid, with lots of custom-sprite work, will be available in the 0.9 version. ----------------------------------------------- Videos: Thanks for struukduuker for covering my mod! Check out his Myrmidon video here:
I made a gameplay video with a sp map which suited the theme of this mod imo. I love this mod! Been playing through a couple of wads with it and have been enjoying it, this could become one of my fav mods. Keep up the good work!
A video of the final Druid in Action, playing the first three levels of Doom! ----------------------------------------------- MAGISTER VIDEOS Testing the Magisters new ultimate, the Agnus Abyssus!
Mad props to you! This looks amazing! I'm genuinely jealous. Looking forward to trying this out, though and exploring this. I already see quite a few things in there that I have no idea how you did them. I'm very impressed with how things look! I was really planning on adding Doom support to Hexarcana at least, but I might not be able to. Which would be a shame.
I've managed to get Doom Support in so far as replacing the items correctly and its entirely playable right now, but the lack of a statusbar is vexxing. I especially need to finely tune the balance (especially for the Myrm/Fighter) as, of course, Doom very much expects you to always be toting a gun. Zombies explode from a single punch in the face which is funny, but I expect they may need their health rebalanced for this mod. XD
eharper256 wrote:Glad to hear you like the look of it.
I've managed to get Doom Support in so far as replacing the items correctly and its entirely playable right now, but the lack of a statusbar is vexxing. I especially need to finely tune the balance (especially for the Myrm/Fighter) as, of course, Doom very much expects you to always be toting a gun. Zombies explode from a single punch in the face which is funny, but I expect they may need their health rebalanced for this mod. XD
eharper256 wrote:Glad to hear you like the look of it.
I've managed to get Doom Support in so far as replacing the items correctly and its entirely playable right now, but the lack of a statusbar is vexxing. I especially need to finely tune the balance (especially for the Myrm/Fighter) as, of course, Doom very much expects you to always be toting a gun. Zombies explode from a single punch in the face which is funny, but I expect they may need their health rebalanced for this mod. XD
Yup, Chaingunners might need a replacement especially; they're annoying for Doomguy, never mind the Myrmidon. It's something I'm going to have to check with a full Scythe or Ancient Aliens playthrough or something.
Another fun fact with Doom conversion; lots of the base Doom levels are un-completeable without crouching with the basic Hexen characters; I had to reduce their height: Doomguy is actually quite a shortass (or the Chronos people are all relative giants). XD
Whoah wrote:Oooooo this looks cool. The Magister especially looks kickass! I'm gonna have to keep an eye on this one
Thanks; the Magister is pretty cool indeed, I wanted him to feel more like a powerful wizard and I'm well on the way to that.
Oh, this looks very interesting indeed. I really like the idea of summoning up to 4 ice spears and throwing them at once, but still being able to throw one or two in a pitch. Will keep an eye out for release.
Jarewill wrote:Oh, this looks very interesting indeed. I really like the idea of summoning up to 4 ice spears and throwing them at once, but still being able to throw one or two in a pitch. Will keep an eye out for release.
Yep, thanks for the assist on the pitch calculation on getting that to function as it now does; I'm very proud on how its turned out; 'tis very satisfying to use.
Terensworth wrote:Well dayum, now I've got another fine bit of Hexen to look forward to, as a guy who really enjoyed Hexarcana in all it's iterations, I'm excited!
Well, I was missing the Fighter class preview, the Myrmidon, so here it is.
Most notable in this video is his new Uppercut on the Gauntlets (though I didn't get to use the secondary in this tight space), and numerous improvements to Timon's Vorpal Axe (it gained 'Vorpal' because of that new shortranged but awesome secondary fire!)
No new videos today; but I've been spriting quite a bit; and there's been some good results of that.
First of all; the re-sprite for the Magister's "Fulgur"; Lightning Mastery, which is what used to called Arc of Death in the original Hexen: It has three completely revised modes which are badass; and the normal sprites just didn't look right... so I've been adding a load.
My favourite is this one: For going Full Sithy EmperorLightning Hose on your foes!! ---------------------------------------------- Also, I came to the conclusion that the Wraithverge was WAAAAY too evil a weapon for the Crusader to be using, its flat out Necromancy, after all. The Hexen Cleric must worship a weird god; considering the Serpent Staff and Wraithverge, to be honest. Or I guess he's just a pragmatist.
Anyway; no longer! Joining the Lightbringer; we have the Crux Calicus(lit. Aetherial Cross in Latin, I believe): Its got nothing to do with ghosts any more, and has both rapid-fire bouncing photon blasts and a holy fire launcher. It's pretty powerful, as to be expected of an ultimate weapon. As you can see, it is effectively a re-skin of the Wraithverge; this is to help with status bar woes, but I think it looks pretty different, eh?
Of course I'm jealous! Not only does this look like it has some really cool mechanics, but HOT DAMN those are some tasty looking sprites. I did a bit of sprite work for mine. Probably the worst parts of my mod.
Blackgrowl wrote:I'm loving the possibility of this mod, let's see how well it goes with HexArcana.
Thanks! I'm happy with how its going. Hopefully it'll be interesting different experience.
4page wrote:Of course I'm jealous! Not only does this look like it has some really cool mechanics, but HOT DAMN those are some tasty looking sprites. I did a bit of sprite work for mine. Probably the worst parts of my mod.
Thanks; as I work with Photoshop alot I'd consider myself decent at it. I can't say I'm better than that, as there are still some people who are just complete naturals for it that honestly baffle me with their l33t skills.
Anyways; here's another video of me testing the Crusader again:
The Mace is totally different; it gained gained chainmail sprites, sideswing sprites, and also a new Secondary Fire; the Holy Smite, where the Crusader spends a second pouring his power into the mace, and then using it to blast back enemies. It can help you out of a tight spot! We also see use of his new blueberry flavoured Flechette, which coughs out a blast of stunning blue flames. Each class has a new flechette!
Well, you're certainly better than me. Though I guess I did something pretty ok, since it looks like you're using the Electrosplosion sprites that I made. I'm loving the way this looks and super stoked to see more!
by eharper256 » Sun Jan 19, 2020 5:17 pm 
