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For Doom, Heretic, and Hexen ----------------------------------------------- GET IT NOW HERE AT MEGA!! (Version 0.91) ----------------------------------------------- GoogleDrive Mirror! (Version 0.91) ----------------------------------------------- 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.
----------------------------------------------- Find out about the four classes and their Weapons!
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. ----------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------
[0.91] 'Stop Bossing Me Around' ----------------------- +New!: The Deathkings, the humanoid bosses of Hexen, get an entire rework; to make them more interesting to fight. ~ Menelkir is now a Lightning Master who can unleash plasma balls, ~ trails of seeking plasma, tendrils of lightning, and huge, devastating ~ shockwaves. He blinks around when wounded to evade hits. [ Zedek IS IN YOUR FACE, remodelling it with his Hammer of Retribution. [ He's really fast at closing distance and slippery, with good HP, [ and is very deadly if he can corner you in melee. + Tradactus is now a fast, flying Super-Bishop. He zips around his + warrens, pelting you with attacks, whilst constantly summoning + Lesser Bishops and Reivers to dogpile you. +New!: Imps, Both Chaos Serpents, Barons/Knights, Revenants and Caco's all get revised projectiles with improved looks and less random damage. This especially helps with fighting mid and higher tier Doom enemies in Walpurgis, leading to less instagibs for the poor Magister and Druid from 80 damage Revenant missiles and other such RNG related craziness, which are alot more deadly when your Armour save fluctuates heavily, as it does in Walp, but does not in Doom. +New!: Doom Zombies are no longer hitscanners. Been meaning to do this for awhile, they now fire tracer projectiles. Basic Zombiedudes are probably mildly more dangerous as they fire short bursts now, but they are still horribly inaccurate. Shotgunner remains similar danger, chaingunner is slightly easier due to loss of his hitscan and near-perfect accuracy. They also gained new sounds for their guns. Spider Mastermind is also affected. +New!: Armour is overhauled. You will now only rarely spot individual pieces, as normal Armour drops of all kinds are now class-specific packages with their own unique sprites (i.e. Myrmidon gets a full set of Legion Armour, Magister gets a Spellweavers Robe and Boots). The maximum amount of armour you can have is now slightly higher as well. +New!: The Torch Item now uses Dynamic Lights so that it properly acts like, well, a torch (lol), rather than the Doom Light Amp Goggles. It casts an orangy-yellow halo in a reasonable range, and it flickers. +New!: General graphical and audio effect improvements, such as a revised effect when you drink from the Mystic Urn and the Krater of Might and more variety for pain sounds. +New!: The Ichival gets a big overhaul to make it better!! >> The old Secondary (Butterfly Shot) is gone, replaced with the Artillery Arrow. As this arrow flies, it clones itself over and over in all 8 cardinal directions relative to its flightpath. Hence, the longer it flies, the more firepower it produces! At medium distance, it can be a powerful shotgun blast, and at long distance, its a wide area MIRV strike in an 8 pointed star shape. The puts the Ichival's Secondary Fire on par with the other ult's for horde clearance, especially if you can fire from above. >> The old Tertiary Fire is also gone, replaced with the Bouncing Blazer. This arrow ricochets many times whilst spewing napalm. This makes it especially strong in tight corridors where it can maximise its bouncing and napalm concentration; thought quite poor in wide open areas. It can also bounce off monsters! >> The Primary Fire now zooms in to 2x after a short delay holding the arrow in the string, and time slows, allowing you to snipe! Its now also 33% cheaper, costing 8 of both mana, rather than 12. >> The secondary and tertiary fire now have different arrow effects when on the string, and also slightly different sound effects. >> Finally, the bow itself got slightly improved sprites. +Tweak: The Mystic Urn now allows you to overfill your HP (up to 200!) like Doom Soul Spheres making it a fair bit more useful and not something clogging up your inventory all the time until you're really low on health. +Tweak: Firestorm Font Tertiary Fire (Blazing Barrier) can now be sustained by holding the Reload button. As it probably should have since the start, but I was lazy with the coding lol. +Tweak: New, better looking Gas Cloud sprites and effects. +Tweak: Quietus flames now have appropriate green embers. +Tweak: Druid Dog Mode Claw sprites improved. Dog Nose is no longer shown when you are transformed as it didn't look very good to be honest. +Tweak: Druid Hebiko Sceptre Tertiary Fire now fires a Gas Grenade, which explodes on 3 bounces, or hitting an enemy, rather than simply deploying the gas at your location directly, which makes it easier to use. +Fixed: When the Ichival only had enough Mana for 1 shot, it would sometimes take that mana and then fail to work, wasting it and switching weapon, due to the odd behaviour of A_Refire. This has been fixed. +Fixed: When adding a quick bind to Flechettes; the Druid's Frenzyweed Flechette was not included, so the bind wouldn't work for her. Fixed. +Fixed: Non-Druid Ultimate weapon pieces were displaying generic pickup messages in some cases. Now each part has a unique message again. +Fixed: Druid's Hebiko Sceptre would sometimes entirely fail to check for mana when using the Gas Cloud and Hypnosis, allowing free spam of them. Fixed. +Fixed: Druid's weapons had no pickup sounds set, so would play the default. They now have sounds defined. +Balance: Quietus Secondary Torpedo now charges up 33% faster (!) and if you miss the overcharge timing it will now automatically fire, rather than blow up in your face. None of the other ultimate weapons had a penalty like this and it was a needless nerf to Quietus. It should now be a mighty and reliable attack. +Balance: Crux Calicus Primary Fire revised; it now rips through enemies, but maintains its wall-bouncing. Its damage is now different but still much better than previous. It also gained a graphical and sound overhaul to give it a more satisfying 'oomph' to be more on par with the other ultimate primary fires. +Balance: Druid Dogmode primary slashes no longer use any Aetherial Mana, and the secondary Ice-Ball mode charges up about 25% quicker than before. +Balance: Damage from Firestorm Secondary and Agnus Abyssus Primary nerfed, as there were some weird random numbers causing the damage to be much higher than expected in 0.9. +Balance: Firestorm Secondary Verdant Mana cost increased by 2 (from 8 => 10). +Misc: A CVAR to prevent Firestorm's Secondary Fire from creating heat and soot decals was added. A request from Doomworld. +Misc: Druid Dogmode vision now defaults to colour, if you've not played Walp before. Remember you can change it in the Walpurgis options!
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). It also adds a fourth class, the Druid, with lots of custom-sprite work! ----------------------------------------------- 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 
