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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.
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Spoiler: Classes and their Weapons!
----------------------------------------------- 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. Please turn off Alternate HUD in GZDoom to get get the best experience with the UI. ----------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------- Walp is compatible with Pistol Starter if you like starting levels afresh, and this optionally allows you to keep inventory items (and upgrades) between levels. Also, Nimlouth over at the Discord made a Walpurgis patch for ZMovement. -----------------------------------------------
[0.95] 'Creature Feature' -------------------- 04/12/2021 +New: Dimensional Instability Mode: A randomiser spanning three games! ==> DOOM ELITES ADDED <== +New: Osseomancer is the Elite for Doom's Cacodemon and Pain Elemental. It is able to spit out grusome decapitated heads, which bounce around for a short while before settling in place. If you come close to a head, it will explode in a shower of corrupted blood. The 'mine-heads' last a while and often attempt to fling themselves around as well, seriously restricting where you can safely step in a fight, making this floating menace a priority target before it controls the battlefield. +New!: Hell Chevalier is the Elite for Doom's Hell Knight; he is faster with more HP and more RED. He flings three Green Fireballs in quick succession each of which are mildly more damaging than standard Baronballs. +New!: Ufetubus is the Elite for Doom's Mancubus. Sporting a black and purple theme, he fires two purple missiles that explode into deadly purple gas clouds that linger for a few seconds. Several of them together can provide some quite terrible area denial. +New!: Hellion is the Elite for Doom's Demon/Pinky. Also sporting a fetching red colour scheme, his main feature is his relentless short-range lunging. Unlike regular pinkies which you can often dance around even up close, if you let this variant get the jump on you he can be quite dangerous. +New!: Pyre-Master is the Elite for Doom's Archvile. Also in blazing red, his Fire Attack requires you to keep moving (or find cover as usual) as all areas affected by the initial flame in their vicinity will soon erupt into a MIRV-like cloud of death. He can also still resurrect like a normal Archvile. He has slightly less HP to compensate for his attack, and if used smartly, he's easy to goad into setting fire to his allies with it due to its AOE nature, like a Cyberdemon. +New!: Magicaco is the Elite for Doom's Lost Soul. This Cacodemon has much less HP and no ability to fire projectiles, but instead gains a mastery of illusion. He can create static Cacodemon Illusions, reduce his own appearance to just a mouth, and teleport around to charge at you from lots of annoying angles. And his bites are painful! +New!: Special Forces Zombie is the Elite for Doom's Sergeant Zombie. He can strafe, and often crouches when firing (reducing his hit-box). Also, if you remain close to him, he will repeatedly fire at you. Also has a spiffing Level 3 helmet. Which makes absolutely no difference to you, since you're not using guns anyway (lol). +New!: Cybercommando is the Elite for Doom's Chaingunner Zombie. He's upgraded his chaingun for a Heavy Laser Cannon, of course. Though slightly slower moving than the normal version, his suppression fire has little equal. +New!: Pistol Zombie is the new standard version of the Basic Zombie in Doom. The old Rifle zombie that was previously the default is now the Elite version, and has slightly more HP. Pistol Zombie only fires a single shot rather than a triple burst.
==> HERETIC ELITES ADDED <== +New!: Black Drakahn is the Elite for Heretic's Weredragon. He's tougher and fires three fireballs in quick succession. Walks slightly slower, but the already dangerous Weredragon shots are made far worse by this guy. +New!: Gorgon is the Elite for Heretic's Ophidian. I edited the standard sprites that are typically used by this to be darker and scaled. Its most notable feature is it supporting other monsters by using a monster version of the Hebiko-Sceptre's Charm Beam. If it gets you, are briefly paralysed and frozen in place, halting your movement (but not attacks) entirely. +New!: Stygian Imp is the Elite for Heretic's Flying Imps. He is extremely evasive, and hard to get a bead on. He fires blue magic missiles and uses his agility to harass you, though he's still not super dangerous. NOTE: Also see New Monsters below; as some Heretic Spawns now include them.
==> HEXEN ELITES ADDED <== +New!: Magma Serpent is the Elite for Hexen's Green Serpent; he can shoot small meteors from afar, and up close will breath flames, making him a dangerous ranged support monster. +New!: Ash Serpent is the Elite for Hexen's Brown Serpent; he's a support creature that will vomit up extremely annoying ash clouds that will inhibit player vision for quite some time, covering his group from attacks. In the rare case you do get hit by him directly, the shot can also cause some nasty damage, though. +New!: Fetid Geist is the Elite for Hexen's Wraith; he moves quicker and spits out balls of venomous power. A direct hit will do some severe damage. +New!: Wyvern Whelp is the Elite for Hexen's Afrit. As you might imagine, its a small version of the Wyvern boss, with a recoloured sprite, and acts like a more powerful Afrit, firing a salvo of four firedarts and having more HP and mobility. NOTE: For Centaurs and Ettins, see new monsters below.
==> BRAND NEW MONSTERS <== +New!: New Monster: The Jaegar, added. This is a resprited and recoloured version of the Hexen II Undead Archer. He will spawn in place of Heretic Ghostly Nitrogolems, and sometimes in the place of Hexen Slaughtaurs, to give more variety to the cast of these games. His normal green shots are fast and powerful, and his blood-red shots have erratic but sometimes unnerring homing properties. Be careful of them suddenly hitting you from behind! +New!: New Monster: The Blackguard, added. This skeleton knight will spawn in the place of Heretic Ghostly Skeleton Knights and sometimes in the place of Hexen Centaurs. He has a good melee attack, and can also fire vorpal slashes similar to the Myrmidon, but in sinister red. +New!: New Monster: The Lizard Warrior, added. He can spawn in the place of the Hexen Stalker Serpents. He can submerge and stay low profile in water, before leaping out to attack you (sometimes onto land as well). +New!: New Monster: The Necromancer Cultist, added. He can spawn in the place of Wraiths rarely in Hexen, and in the place of Beasts rarely in Heretic. He can endlessly summon skeleton minions like a Doom Pain Elemental, and can also raise dead enemies like a Doom Archvile, making him a scary supporter. Fortunately, he's not too fast nor tough, and will avoid summons in favour of shooting you with weak shots if you're too close. +New!: New Monster: The Skeleton Minion, added. He is normally only summoned by the Cultist, but Dimensional Instability mode can occasionally throw him out as a fodder unit. He only has a slow melee attack and doesn't move too fast, but has above-average HP and if you're not careful, alot of allies marching with him! +New!: New Monsters: The Satyr Warrior & Satyr Gladiator. These guys are made to give some more variety to Hexen's usual rank and file: the Ettin, and will appear in the place of them half of the time, with the Satyr Gladiator appearing in place of the Ettin Sergeant when an elite spawn occurs. In general, they have slightly less HP than their counterparts, but move and attack somewhat faster in compensation.
==> OTHER MONSTER RELATED CHANGES <== +New!: Burning to Death Animations added for all standard monsters from Doom, Heretic, and Hexen. Some elites don't have them yet, will come soon. +New!: {The Great Monster Projectile Revision} In all cases, I've tried to keep a similar feel with the new projectiles! >> Cyberdemon gets new rockets and effects. They're mildly more dangerous than before since they also blast you away like a big rocket should! It also has a new remixed sound-effect that mixes the classic Doom one with a more modern one. >> Skeleton Knight's Axes get a makeover with better directional frames of animation and sparklies. >> Iron Lich gets new sprites for all of his attacks to make sure they look up to standard with other projectiles we have now. The column of flame is especially impressive, IMHO. :D >> D'Sparil Disciple's (Floating Wizards) purple ring shots get updated, along with a new shooting noise. >> Weredragon (Beast) gets a new Fireball, with very impressive trail that still evokes its old smokyness but now makes it awesome. >> Revenant Rocket gets a new sprite. It already had new effects, but these are now attached to a rocket rather than a mystic 8-ball. >> Arachnotron Plasma and Hexen Bishop Plasma now use a new, shared and updated sprite. >> Hexen Slaughtaur gets to re-use a blue bolt sprite also made for the New Stygian Imp in Heretic. >> Hexen Afrit and Brown Chaos Serpent shots get slight revisions. +Tweak: Heretic Mummy gets new sprites that look more like a Mummy, less yellow. +Tweak: Doom Shotgun Zombie now has a animation for cocking his shotgun. +Tweak: Doom Chaingun Zombie now has a rev-up animation for his chaingun.
==> NON-MONSTER NEW STUFF <== +Tweak: All Doom, Doom II, Plutonia, and TNT intermission and ending text has been re-written from the perspective of your Walpurgis character, who at this point is assumed to have cleared at least Hexen and hence achieved demi-godhood with the Chaos Sphere. This joins the earlier text already added for Heretic and Hexen. +Tweak: Footstep sounds for {ALL} OTEX Flats added. Since its being used in a fair few levels now. I might get around to CC4 and others later. +Tweak: Keeping up with the Joneses, I created a brand new sexier base set of sprites for Fulgurs lightning, so it looks better than ever. Also slightly improved the primary's tracking once again; you should now always be able to move forwards at full speed whilst zapping enemies without bolts dissappearing. Though going all Leroy Jenkins with the Magister is generally still ill-advised anyway. :D +Tweak: Firestorm Font's Secondary got some new flaming burst graphics so it'll look less spiky and more like I always wanted it to look. This also affects some other flames like Aestus' Meteor and Hammer's Shockwave. +Tweak: Terrain splash definitions added for all Doom, Heretic, Hexen, OTEX flats. +Tweak: A bunch of new GLDefs/Dynamic Lights for projectiles were added. +Tweak: Updated Split Status bars with new sprites to improve their looks. +Tweak: New Animated Menu Logo.
+Fixed: Blood colours for Walp monsters set so that gore mods paint the correct gib colours (i.e. Green Baron blood, Blue Caco blood). +Fixed: Sounds that were previously .wav have been remuxed to .ogg to reduce their filesize. This has resulted in a 20~ish Megabyte saving, though this has then been eaten back up with lots of new content (lol). +Fixed: Tradactus' double burst fire had the wrong explosion animation. It wasn't too noticeable in that frenetic fight so I didn't see it in test. Fixed. Also tweaked his ability to summon Wraiths, which should now be more reliable rather than failing about 80% of the time. +Fixed: Kraters of Might would sometimes show their old sprite. Fixed. +Fixed: Removed the 'Zap' sound produced on Electric Pain. Its not very noticable and if a monster was in an Electric Pain state and then died to another type of damage (usually from infighting), that noise would persist in a rather annoying fashion after death. +Fixed: The Elite spawning system broke the A_BOSSDEATH action used by iwad levels to lower and raise floors. A workaround has been put into place to prevent this issue, so these levels will work properly again! (along with any pwads that also use this feature)
+Balance: Primary Fire of Druid's Dagon Cane cost increased by +1 Aether Mana. It does a similar amount of damage to the Lightbringer, but was 33% cheaper before, so this puts it on a similar balance. +Balance: Gas clouds from Druid's Hebiko Staff Tertiary and Flechette made around 15% less powerful as they were super-strong for the cost. +Balance: Tertiary Fire of Aestus for Magister (Whip) cost reduced to 10, and made the animation another 2 frames faster. +Balance: Thrown Baselard Hitbox tweaked slightly to be closer to its sprite. +Balance: If you don't like the change to Revenant Missile Homing in Walp, you can now always spawn classic revenant shots with the Menu Option.
Spoiler: Credits
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CREDITS: -------- >> Several Code snippets (mostly heavily modified) and some sprites are by 4Page. >> Footsteps ZScript by DenisBelmondo, edited by myself. >> 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. >> AxeThrow Sprites, as well as base mage hands, cleric scalemail, and numerous others by Neoworm; edited by myself. >> 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, remade by myself. >> 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. >> Some bases for Burning Monster deaths, and Rockets, from Project Brutality. >> Hell Chevalier sprites by Carnevil. >> Improved Mummy Sprite by WARDUST. >> Clapping Baron and Imp Shoot Animations by DavidG (Itsnaturetodie). >> Initial code idea for hotkeys by Lagi. >> Basic sprite for Axe/Sword Decal taken from Trailblazer and edited by me. >> Some base monster sprites by Captain J, Captain Toenail, Zedek, Uboa. >> Widescreen Split Statusbar (ZScript) by 3saster and Nightfright, edited by me. >> Font [GargoyleWing] by Jimmy. Font [Midway] by Kinsie. >> The Testmap and TitleMap use OTEX by Ukiro. >> Music Credits: Bosa, Everattic, Halcyon Phoenix X, Matthias Verbinnen (Newgrounds). >> 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. >> Druid Voice Samples remixed from Turok II and Fire Emblem Fates Voices. >> A handful of sounds were remixed from Nox, and Turok II, though edited.
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). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
Thanks to John Suitepee for covering Walpurgis 0.95, playing the Vanilla Hexen iwad with Walpurgis! -----------------------------------------------
Here's a video from Rayburn, showing him playing Walpurgis 0.95 in conjuction with their own monster mod, MMDoom. ----------------------------------------------- Official Vids: DRUID VIDEOS
Playing Heresy by Endless, Remilla Scarlet et. al. in 0.95!
Playing Wonkels Wad in 0.95! ----------------------------------------------- MAGISTER VIDEOS
Testing Dimensional Instability Mode!
Playing DBK01 in 0.94 ----------------------------------------------- MYRMIDON VIDEOS
Playing Zone 400 in Doom.
Playing Apostate in Heretic. ----------------------------------------------- CRUSADER VIDEOS
Playing Vow of Vengeance by BRI
Playing 2048 units of /vr/ ----------------------------------------------- GENERAL VIDEOS Trolling the Cyberdemon! Showing all the Class Ultimate Weapons!
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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 
