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. -----------------------------------------------
[0.94] 'Key To The Armory' -------------------- 27/08/2021 +New!: The Druid gets her alternate in-slot (2) weapon, Dagon's Cane! This is the second one to go in. Right now, it cannot be upgraded, so Azurintine Fruits used on it will be wasted. > Primary fire shoots High Pressure Water Blasts at good velocity. > Secondary fire slams the ground with the cane. The first enemy in a direct line from your position will have a boiling geyser erupt at their feet. This ignores elevation and cliffs but has no effect on flying enemies. Enemies near and on the geyser will be blown away. > Tertiary fire briefly turns you into a tidal wave and makes you surge forwards. You'll blast through enemies on the way, dealing some damage to them; and knock foes away on arrival, making it an ideal panic and escape button (and likely a speedrunners best friend, ha!). By default, it will spawn randomly along with Lupin Charms, but you disable either of them in the Walpurgis Options if preferred. +New!: The Myrmidon gets his alternate in-slot (2) weapon, the Ventus Gladii! This is the third one to go in. Right now, it cannot be upgraded, so Whetstones used on it will be wasted. > Primary fire swings and stabs the dual swords rapidly to dice up foes. > Secondary fire invokes the Ventus runes, allowing you to rapidly swing to shoot shearing wind blades at distant foes. The blades cause erupt on impact, throwing nearby things backwards (including you, and any stray projectiles), so you can use them to clear gaps, but be careful if you're fighting with you back to a cliff! > Tertiary fire is a charge-up attack. When you release, you'll stab with both swords, also unleashing a localised explosion of air. Though slow, the AOE and damage delivered at the high end of the charge is quite good, and can gib multiple low and some mid-tier enemies. By default, it will spawn randomly along with Timons Vorpal Axe, but you disable either of them in the Walpurgis Options if preferred. +New!: Upgrades for Aestus! + Primary Fire shoots flame darts much quicker. The darts themselves also move faster and deal mildly (about 7%) more damage. + Secondary changes the Molten Ball into a proper Meteor Blast, allowing it to fly. It can also bounce off floors and ceilings but will detonate on walls. It still flies quite slowly, mind. + Tertiary's Fire Whip also fires out additional bouncing molten balls after detonation, and has a greater Area of Effect. +New!: [Doomed Souls Mode] - A new special challenge mode for Walpurgis. In this mode, normal health pickups do not spawn in levels, ever. You start the game with a special Kestus Flask, which has a fixed amount of HP in it; and which can only be re-filled (by 75) by finding where super-health pickups would normally be (Soul Spheres, Urns etc.) You can set its starting amount in the Walpurgis Options, as well as assign it a hotkey. +New!: New Elite: The Cardinal- Replaces the D'Sparil Disciple and the Korax Bishop in Heretic/Hexen respectively. Whereas normal floating cultists have a tendency to wander around, if the Cardinal locks on, he exhibits behaviour similar to a Doom Chaingunner, continually firing shots until you're out of sight, making him an annoying priority in a crowded room! +New!: New Elite: The Pulsarach- Replaces Doom Arachnotrons. Fires Red Laser Pulses at a rapid rate. Similar to its base type, but its harder to hide from and the lasers are very dangerous. +New!: Smart Flasks: Quartz Flasks have gotten smart (OH NO!). Now, if you run over one, it will auto-check your HP, and if its missing 25+, you'll just instantly use it off the ground like a Doom Health Item. If its not, you'll grab the Flask as normal to inventory. It will never waste healing as Doom Items do, so don't worry about that. But if you want to revert to the old behaviour, you may change it in the menu (as with many things!). +Tweak: You can now adjust the Percentage (%) spawning chance for Elite enemies from the Bestiary tweaks menu. By default, this is 10% but can be set at any 5% interval between 0% and 100% if you like. +Tweak: More reactive catching for the Vorpal Axe when its thrown- so if you're about to throw a punch but the axe makes it back you'll catch it dramatically and immediately slash. Radical. May still not react perfectly if you're in the midst of Shoryuken or Kick, but even there it will be alot better than before. +Tweak: The Lightbringer got revised ready/firing sprites to make it a new model that's more unique to Walpurgis. This joins the earlier overlay additions to make it pretty awesome looking! +Tweak: Aestus now has an additonal magic circle animation when using the secondary fire, which makes it look alot better (IMHO). +Fixed: Various weird behaviours with the Crusader Mace Tertiary Attack fixed, The charge should now be a fairly reliable attack most of the time. +Fixed: Upgraded Druid Werewolf Primary no longer damages you if you punch a wall by mistake. +Balance: The Druid gains +1 to her base AC so its now equivalent to the Magister's AC. Still very squishy, but no more rounding errors on damage. +Balance: Range on Druid's Baselard Swipes/Stabs increased by about 15% so its a bit easier to 'fence' enemies rather than needing to get so close since she doesn't have the endurance of the Myrmidon. +Balance: Druid is now immune to her own poison-gas from her Flechettes and the Hebiko Sceptre (finally, lol). +Balance: The swing of the Aestus firewhip is now about 20% faster, and it also causes more AOE detonations to make it more worthwhile. However, it now also costs +2 more Aetherial Mana (for a total of 12). +Balance: Firestorm Flamethrower (Primary) Damage increased by around 5%. +Balance: Boots of Speed in Hexen now spawn Upgrade items, since in general you would only get 2 upgrade items in the whole vanilla game.
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 0.92 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 Chainworm Kommando in 0.94!
Playing Sucker Punch II by Rook in 0.93! ----------------------------------------------- MAGISTER VIDEOS
Playing Lullaby by Danlex in 0.92
Testing the Magisters new ultimate, the Agnus Abyssus! ----------------------------------------------- MYRMIDON VIDEOS
Playing Zone 400 in Doom.
Playing Apostate in Heretic. ----------------------------------------------- CRUSADER VIDEOS
Fighting the new version of Tradactus in Hexen
Playing 2048 units of /vr/ ----------------------------------------------- GENERAL VIDEOS Showing off New Icons of the Defender for each class!
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Re: Hexen: Walpurgis [Beta release nearly ready!]
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2020 7:15 pm
by 4page
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.
Re: Hexen: Walpurgis [Beta release nearly ready!]
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2020 8:09 pm
by eharper256
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
Re: Hexen: Walpurgis [Beta release nearly ready!]
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2020 8:17 pm
by AvzinElkein
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
Oooooo this looks cool. The Magister especially looks kickass! I'm gonna have to keep an eye on this one
Re: Hexen: Walpurgis [Beta release nearly ready!]
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 4:01 am
by eharper256
AvzinElkein wrote:
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.
Re: Hexen: Walpurgis [Beta release nearly ready!]
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 8:36 am
by Terensworth
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!
Re: Hexen: Walpurgis [Beta release nearly ready!]
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 8:57 am
by Jarewill
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.
Re: Hexen: Walpurgis [Beta release nearly ready!]
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 2:44 pm
by eharper256
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!
Good to have you onboard. XD
Re: Hexen: Walpurgis [Beta release nearly ready!]
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 3:31 am
by eharper256
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!)
Re: Hexen: Walpurgis [New Beta Preview Stuff!]
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 1:16 pm
by eharper256
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?
Re: Hexen: Walpurgis [New Beta Preview Stuff!]
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:38 am
by Blackgrowl
If I was 4page, I'd be jealous too. I'm loving the possibility of this mod, let's see how well it goes with HexArcana.
Re: Hexen: Walpurgis [New Beta Preview Stuff!]
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:45 am
by 4page
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.
Re: Hexen: Walpurgis [New Beta Preview Stuff!]
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 4:33 am
by eharper256
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!
Re: Hexen: Walpurgis [New Beta Preview Stuff!]
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:09 am
by 4page
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!
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2020 5:17 pm
