ZDoom

• 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.
• Upgrades for each of those afformentioned fire-modes!! (think Trailblazer)
• 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.

Spoiler: Classes and their Weapons!

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Spoiler: Changelog 0.96

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 [0.96]
'One-Stop Upgrade Shop'
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19/03/2022
+New!:   Huge back-end update to the upgrading system. It will now pause the game
      and halt movement, and allow you to preview what the upgrade does before
      applying it to your weapon. You can also back out from all stages of the
      menu by pressing the USE key. Uses bigger text and overlay base rather
      than the rather barebones thing that existed before. With this update of
      the system, its now possible to add in alternate means of upgrading.
+New!:   Which leads us to a new optional mode: Pnakotic Manuscripts Mode. This
      removes Upgrade Items, and replaces them with items that function in a
      similar fashion to Heretic Tomes of Power. When used from inventory, a
      Pnakotic Manuscript gives you ALL upgrades at once for 30 seconds.
      As usual, you can enable this mode from the Walpurgis Options menu.
+New!:   When upgrading your basic [1] slot weapon, you now only require ONE single
      Upgrade item to get ALL of the upgrades for it; giving you a three for
      one deal, and making this a competitive choice against always updating
      your mana-using weapons first.
+New!:   The Crusader gets his alternate in-slot (2) weapon, the Storm Sect Spear!
      This is the final one to go in.
      > [Primary Fire] is a mana-free spear thrust and swipe combo, that also
        automatically shield bashes foes that are too close! The spear has
        a long range (as you might expect) compared to most melee weapons.
        >> Upgrading this will make the spear attack faster, with 10% higher
          damage caused per hit as well.
      > [Secondary Fire] summons a spectral partisan. It will wait a moment in
        place before selecting a target (priotising targets in front of where
        you spawned it) and sailing off to detonate in its face.
        >> Upgrading this will make the fire mode cost +3 more, but two
          projectiles will be summoned at once, and if you hold the alt-fire
          button, all partisans currently out will wait until you release the
          alt-fire button to launch them all in a simultaneous barrage!
      > [Tertiary Fire] will spawn a magic circle in front of you, which will
        gradually charge with energy, and then detonate around two seconds
        later in a dome of crackling holy lightning.
        >> Upgrading this will make it cost +2 more per cast, but the circle
          will wait and detonate only when there are enemies nearby. It will
          also have a larger AoE and 10% more damage.
      By default, this will spawn randomly along with The Lightbringer, but you
      disable either of them in the Walpurgis Options if preferred.

>> NEW MYRMIDON UPGRADES
+New!   {{Ventus Gladius [2] Primary}}: Every 4-6 swings, you'll perform a very
      strong Dual-Strike with both blades, eviscerating weaker enemies and
      seriously hurting stronger foes.
      {{Secondary}}: Wind Blades fired by the Gladii travel faster and pierce
      through enemies, knocking them back whilst ripping away at them, giving
      the Dual-Gladius vastly increased AoE crowd-control abilities.
      {{Tertiary}}: Charges the Blast Tornado at slightly over twice the usual
      speed, allowing you to more quickly deal massive close range blasts.
+New!   {{Quietus [4] Primary}}: Changes the momentum mechanic: no longer any
      delay to reach maximum speed and damage on the swings.
      {{Secondary}}: When the Torpedo detonates, it will also send out several
      waves of an Aurora-type effect that deals additional damage and propel
      foes away.
      {{Tertiary}}: Each Blazing Fusilade swing will fire off +50% more
      fireballs than usual, creating a rather large volley of them.
      
>> NEW CRUSADER UPGRADES
+New!   {{Crux Calicus [4] Primary}}: The Primary fire instead fires twin-linked
      shots for concentrated hits. Though this reduces the rapid fire effect
      of the primary, the twin shots are 25% more mana efficient and still
      deal the same damage as before, making it quite brutal.
      {{Secondary}}: The Secondary Vortex now also explodes with a spherical
      manifold of stellar fire on both its creation and collapse, in the
      off-chance anything is still alive after the vortex. XD
      {{Tertiary}}: The Tertiary no longer creates a static wall, but a full
      360 degree halo around you instead, which follows you as you move about.
      It does last about 2 seconds less overall, and each piece has slightly
      less health, though.
+Tweak:   Mace Charge Attack (Upgraded Mace Tertiary) was made stronger and
      more worth your time in addition to its previous reliability update a
      few patches back. As usual this update, comes with the other [1]'s too.
      
>> NEW MAGISTER UPGRADES
+New!   {{Agnus Abyssus [4] Primary}}: The Primary Fire will launch 33% more
      homing darkblades every wave, further increasing its potency.
      {{Secondary}}: The Secondary Fire will cause the unleashed Hellfire
      to explode a second time, creating more devastation each wave.
      {{Tertiary}}: When you Teleport with a created Hell-Gate, you will
      blast away enemies on arrival, and the cost for placing the gate in
      the first place will be completely refunded.
      
>> NEW DRUID UPGRADES
+New!:   {{Baselard [1] Primary}}: Stabs and Swipes do additional bleed damage.
      {{Secondary}}: You will now throw two baselards in quick succession
      and can hold down the fire button to continually throw them.
      {{Tertiary}}: Not strictly an upgrade, applying a Azurinthine
      to upgrade this fire mode allows Illitheya to summon her Mystical
      Falcon Familiar, Turul. Turul stays close until you see enemies, at
      which point he zips off to provide remote fire support with flurries
      of deadly pinions. He stays out even when changing weapons, though you
      can use the Baselard Tertiary Fire again to toggle his summoning.
      <<NOTE: YOU NOW GAIN ALL 3 Baselard upgrades for a single Azurinthine!>>
+New!   {{Dagon's Cane [2] Primary}}: The Water Ball of the primary fire gets extra
      pressure, exploding with more force on impact and briefly stunning foes.
      {{Secondary}}: The Geyser erupts with double the water in a secondary
      blast, giving it wider radius, blast, and somewhat higher damage.
      {{Tertiary}}: The Tsunami Surge has a wider line that it cuts with as
      you charge, and deals more damage based on your speed.
+New!   {{Ichival [4] Primary}}: When using Sniper Mode, you'll now concentrate
      for the time-slow and zoom at twice the usual speed. Arrows fired will
      deal around 15% more damage and knock foes not killed back.
      {{Secondary}}: The Artillery Arrow will now have its projectiles fire
      off an additional arrow of light if they impact the terrain during flight
      or from missing a monster, covering an additional area in a hail of arrows.
      {{Tertiary}}: The Bouncing Blazer will now unleash triple the usual
      amounts of napalm each time it bounces, turning tight rooms into
      extreme burning death.

>> OTHER CHANGES   
+New!:   New Elite Monster: The Harpy Screecher. Replaces Heretic Imp (Basic),
      and has similar behaviours of charging at you and clawing, though will
      stop to re-target if it is misses, and tends to be more damaging.
      Also makes an ungodly amount of bird screeching noises to annoy you.
+New!:   New Exertion sounds and Passive Auto-Taunt system for all classes,
      to add to player immersion. If you don't like this and prefer the old
      style silent protagonists (or changing the taunt rate, which is quite
      low by default), you can alter this in the Walpurgis Options as usual.
+New!:   Also added extra pain sounds; and failed use sounds, to match above.
+New!:   When browsing Inventory Items, the currently focused item on the quickbar
      will have a short description of its effect. Ideal for those not familiar
      with Item effects, and QoL for everyone in general.
+New!:   Walpurgis now gives you a reminder if you start a new map without
      having fullscreen mode on, telling you to correctly use the custom HUD.
      The option to enable this is also made much more visible at the top of
      the Walpurgis Options menu to help prevent confusion for new players.
+New!:   Slashing and piercing weapons now actually inflict a bleeding status on
      monsters. You'll see them splatter for a couple seconds after being hit.
      This only does very minor damage in most cases, but can helpfully invoke
      pain states. The Druid's Baselard deals much larger bleeds as its niche
      thing now (and making it sorta more realistic, as that is its thing iRL)
      rather than dealing poison damage.
+Tweak:   Tertiary Fire for the Druid's Dagon Cane got additional visual flair
      that makes it look more impressive (more swirl, bubbles, and splashes).      
+Tweak:   Secondary Fire (Artillery Arrow) for Druid's Ichival now fires in a
      spiral pattern rather than a eight pointed star shape. Because coolness.
+Tweak:   Tertiary Fire for Myrmidon's Vorpal Axe (Thrown Axe) now has extra
      visual flair, with trailing lightning and sparklies as it flies.
+Tweak:   Tertiary Fire for Myrmidon's Ventus Gladii (Whirlwind Blast) now actually
      creates a Whirlwind for better visuals once more.
+Tweak:   Primary Fire for Algor (Ice Shards) now has additional hand animations
      (8 extra frames) to make the whole thing look alot smoother.
+Tweak: Requested Feature~ You can now choose a 4th option for [2] Weapon spawning,
      picking one of the options and then only this one spawns from then on.
+Fixed:   Dimensional Instability mode broke levels with BOSSDEATH flags like
      E1M8 and MAP07. The spawners now correctly inherit the required info
      to trigger BOSSDEATH flags, regardless of the monster spawned.
+Fixed:   Ichival Primary time-slow when sniping, if sustained for 5+ seconds,
      would sometimes not be removed immediately upon releasing the arrow.
      This issue has now been fixed, and time-flow will resume immediately,
      making the focus feel much smoother!!
+Fixed:   Stygian Imp could sometimes create an insurmountable corpse when dying
      due to a missing call. Fixed. Also had Red Blood, Fixed to Blue.
+Fixed:   String for Doom Automap was missing a semi-colon, so its pickup text
      was garbled and mixed with Morph Ovum (lol). Fixed.
+Fixed:   Cybercommando spawner never actually spawned a Cybercommando! Fixed.
+Fixed:   Though Hexen Geists were replaced by the new spawners and could become
      Fetid Geist Elites, this didn't affect Geists that started buried in
      the ground (which is actually the majority of them in Vanilla Hexen...)
      The buried version has been given a new revised spawner to fix this.
      As a bonus, buried Geists are now harder to spot, come out quicker,
      and throw dirt around in a better looking manner when unearthing.
+Fixed:   Lightbringer Prism could be thrown around by Cyberdemon Rockets. Fixed.
+Fixed: Satyr Gladiator inherited Ettin's XDeath State when gibbed. Fixed.
+Fixed:   The Crux Calicus Vortex has Orbiter effects to indicate where the
      dangerous area of supergravity begins, but it wasn't too accurate before.
      It's now much tighter and closer to where it should be, so beware when
      crossing the starry border!
+Fixed:   The Myrmidon can now fire Quietus Torpedoes up close and not worry about
      murdering himself with them. Rather needed with the upgraded Torpedo, lol.
+Fixed:   A handful of sounds somehow escaped last patches big conversion to OGG
      from WAV. Those have now been done as well. Every 100K saved, eh?

Spoiler: Credits

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CREDITS:
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>> 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).
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