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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.
----------------------------------------------- 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. 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. -----------------------------------------------
+Fixed: Fixes an issue with some monster spawners not inheriting the flags and TID a map may have given them. Thanks to UnknDoomer for reporting it.
[0.93] 'Suited and Fruited' -------------------- 30/04/2021 +New!: The Azurinthine Fruit drops for the Druid, allowing her to upgrade: >> Wolf-Mode Upgrades added. + Primary Swipes and punches have a third super punch added after two regular hits. This has huge knockback and good damage. The regular hits also do somewhat more damage. + Secondary Ice Ball erupts in cold novas it as it flies, and additional ice shards fly from it upon eruption (based on its charge level). + Tertiary Slam gains a wider AOE, more knockback, and causes an eruption of small boulders on impact, dealing additional damage all around you. >> Hebiko Sceptre Upgrades added. + Primary Shots become Caduceus twin snake shots for more damage. + Secondary Hypnosis now lasts longer and can affect higher HP enemies, and it steals somewhat more HP from the target, which is now standard behaviour (see Tweak below). + Tertiary Gas Grenade gains hypervelocity, turning into a fast Rocket that deploys its gas cloud, allowing you to cause havoc at a distance! >> Right now, the Baselard is not upgrade-ready and will waste your Azurinthines so keep that in mind. +New!: Brightmaps for everything unique to Walpurgis added. This does not cover base iWAD content. If you want to cover base content, I would recommend "Brightmaps Plus" by Nightfright (loading it before Walp). +New!: The Steel Golem joins the cast of new monsters. He can sometimes spawn in the place of Nitrogolems in Heretic. He's much tougher and slower, and has a jump attack and bouncing spike bombs to throw at the player, making him an expert at harrying you whilst you deal with more dangerous targets. +New!: The Vrock also joins, a vulture headed elite imp variant that will show up occasionally in Doom. He fires off a scary triple spread shot of wind-blades, making him a priority target if he shows up leading a group of regular imps. +New!: New CVAR allows you to toggle whether you want to enable Walpurgis Monster Tweaks and whether you want Elite Monster Variants to spawn. Read the Walpurgis Options Menu (New Bestiary Section) for info. +New!: New Item: Philters of Vitality. This scarlet liquid works like a Build game's portable-medikit, giving you HP that you can use to top off your HP to your usual class maximum. You can carry up to 200 HP's worth, and find it in various sizes. Once you've picked up a least a small vial of it, you'll gain a bottle in inventory forever. +New!: Fulgur Tertiary Storm Fire gets new firing sprites to replace the generic ones from before, and also now has a much better on-impact effect when a bolt strikes its target. Deals somewhat more damage than before (about 15% more) but also has its cost increased to 12. Glitches where it would sometimes do the incorrect impact damage and acquire targets wrongly were also fixed, making the damage more reliable. +New!: A few extra tweaks to melee sound effects (Baselards make correct wall impact noises based on whether stabbing or slashing, new Axe Impact sounds to add variety). Also new sound for Vis Force Blasts. +New!: DoomEd ID numbers added. Hence, you can now specifically make levels for Walpurgis, should you have a fit of madness (lol). This can be achieved by loading the Walpurgis pk3 as a resource in Ultimate Doom Builder. Should also work with other editors, but this is not tested. +Tweak: Druid Hebiko Sceptre Hypnosis now also steals a small amount of HP from the foe you are hypnotising. It also has a much better 'swirly' visual effect to make it more clear when a monster is fighting for you. +Tweak: Druid Wolfmode ground-slam now always knocks foes back and away from you when you land, making it less silly to kill yourself by leaping into a dangerous pack which then tears you up. Caution should still be exercised around heavier monsters like Barons and Mancubi. +Tweak: Doom Pinkies/Spectres now have a chance to leap at you, and they also attack in melee somewhat faster than before. +Tweak: Doom Barons now occasionally fire a more dangerous meteor attack. +Tweak: Heretic Nitrogolems flaming skull attack changed to a homing ghost. Acts same as before, but now with the same tweaks as the Revenant Missile (ceases homing after a few seconds) and with a less annoying noise and a white palette. The golems themselves also got a much better palette that makes them look metallic rather than blue (lol). +Tweak: Doom Lost Souls now explode into skull pieces on death. +Tweak: Tradactus given more HP and given an additional attack: double homing ghosts (as now used by the Heretic Nitrogolems). His teleportation routine was also vastly improved, making him harder to take down quickly (which in turn makes him way more dangerous, and he turns the fight into a clusterfuck over time with his summons in the narrow spaces!). +Tweak: Aestus Primary made slightly tighter (aim-wise) and made to cost just 1 mana per shot, but in exchange it does about 30% less damage per shot to justify its half-price. Before it was a serious mana-hog compared to the efficient killing power of Algor. +Tweak: Aestus Secondary no longer damages you if it detonates point-blank. +Tweak: Aestus Whip deals about 15% more damage to justify its slow wind up. +Tweak: Various visual tidying up for a few weapon effects (sparklies and embers given better Z tracking, Quietus no longer snaps back into place after the primary fire, Algor icy clouds made to behave, Wand of Hitscans actually uses a proper effect, pitch tracking on charge-ables, etc.) +Tweak: Revised Smoke and Steam effects most notable on fire based attacks. +Tweak: The Krater of Might gets a new sprite that actually makes it into a Krater (a type of fat greek urn) rather than it being a Chalice. +Tweak: Adjustments to spawners and drop chances for Doom and Heretic so that less crazy amounts of Kraters of Might appear (but a little more normal mana will drop on occasion instead). +Fixed: In Hexen Maps, the Druid wasn't correctly recognised, so weapons and weapon pieces for all three classes were dropped (and then replaced!) allowing them to collect excess drops and assemble the Ichival far, far earlier than they should have been able to normally. Fixed. +Fixed: Lightbringers overlay wasn't considered fullbright. Fixed. +Fixed: Wings of Wrath were being carried between hubs in Hexen. Fixed. +Fixed: Testmap in Hexen was ignoring the Skybox prompt. Fixed. +Fixed: Barons and Hellknights in Doom would infight due to a weird leftover flag inherited in their fireball's decorative flames code. Fixed. +Fixed: Doom Sergeant Zombies now have a special drop routine that allows them to drop you a slot (2) weapon if you don't have one already. Some Doom maps never put a standard weapon drop down assuming you're going to get your shotgun off him, so this is for those. +Fixed: There is now some limited multiplayer compatibility framework now in place in Walpurgis; so that weapons should function fine regardless of which player is using them. Spawners are not yet 100% fixed, but some may may function to a degree (i.e. you can try it, but I probably need to recode all of them in ZScript).
Spoiler: Credits
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CREDITS: -------- >> Several Code snippets (mostly heavily modified) and some sprites are by 4Page. >> Titlemap music is a cropped and edited version of 'The Cadaver's Waltz', jointly made by mrgrimsdale & Jimmy. >> 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. >> Smooth BloodScourge by DavidG (Itsnaturetodie). >> 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. >> 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, edited by me. >> Font [GargoyleWing] by Jimmy. Font [Midway] by Kinsie. >> The Testmap and TitleMap use OTEX by Ukiro. >> Music Credits: Bosa, Everattic, and Matthias Verbinnen (All from 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). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
----------------------------------------------- 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! ----------------------------------------------- Streamer Videos: Thanks to MotiTerminus for covering Walpurgis in Playtesting Stream #4.
^ Starts at 01:19:00. The link above this video takes you directly to that timestamp. The forum widget doesn't support specific timestamps sadly. Covers playing Vanguard with the Crusader and the Magister! ----------------------------------------------- Also Thanks for struukduuker for covering my Walp! 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!
----------------------------------------------- Official Vids: DRUID VIDEOS
Playing Sucker Punch II by Rook in 0.93!
A video of the older 0.9 Druid in Action, playing the first three levels of Doom! ----------------------------------------------- MAGISTER VIDEOS Playing Lullaby by Danlex
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 
