[1.9b] Corruption Cards - Choose cards that alter your game!

[Cutmanmike]

Requires GZDoom 4.4.0 or higher!

Description

Corruption Cards is a gameplay mod for Doom (and others) which presents the player with three random cards each level. These cards effect the gameplay in different ways, some more subtle than others. The effects range from changing monster behavior, adding new mechanics, adding extra hazards and much more! In the standard mode, you will be offered a permanent card every 3 levels. This card will be locked in for the rest of the game, meaning you will have to live with your choice until the game is over! There are now over 50 unique cards, and more are generated as the game is played. Every run you will be offered different cards, which leads to an ever changing gameplay experience... dictated by your card choices!

Corruption Cards works with all sorts of mods, and will even generate custom cards for any new monsters it detects! Give it a try with your favorites to spice up the gameplay and add a little extra challenge

Screenshots

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Mods used in order: Doom Roguelike Arsenal, Pandemonia Monsters, Heretic (iwad), Doom Roguelike Arsenal

Downloads

< Version 1.0 (Stable) > < Version 1.9b (New) >


Corruption Cards Version 3a (outdated, for use with Zandronum)

Compatibility Patch Files

These are files for mods I could not fix without altering the code myself, and have to rely on patch wads:

Brutal Doom v21 - Compatability patch by Dox778 to fix disappearing monsters etc.

What's next?

I will be working on a couple of projects throughout the year, but I plan to do periodic updates to this to add new cards and features. I will be rolling out cards in batches at a time so you don't have to keep downloading the mod to get new content. I put quite a lot of thought into what cards I make for this mod, as I want it to be a fair and fun experience. Having said that though, I already have some fun ideas lined up, so stay tuned Also keep posting those card ideas! I may just end up using some. I may also crack open a discord server if it gets popular enough.

If you've enjoyed what you've played, consider supporting me on my ko-fi page. Thanks

Recent Changes

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• New Deck selector! After choosing a game mode you can choose from a variety of decks, which determine what cards will show up in your run.
• Attack style modifiers can no longer stack. I.e Monster fires bullets + Monster triple projectiles will no longer be offered togehter, as one replaces the other.
• Fixed several bugs with the Mirror Curse.
• Added 2 new cards.

[NightFright]

The idea is interesting. However, if you make the game more difficult, it could add to the thrill if you can also occasionally gain a bonus at the same time. As some kind of compensation or prize, if you will. Maybe the chance for getting such a bonus could increase when choosing a more difficult card or when gambling by picking the "hidden" one.

[IvanDobrovski]

The idea is interesting. However, if you make the game more difficult, it could add to the thrill if you can also occasionally gain a bonus at the same time. As some kind of compensation or prize, if you will. Maybe the chance for getting such a bonus could increase when choosing a more difficult card or when gambling by picking the "hidden" one.

This would be quite good. Imagine getting a positive and negative effect for each card. That'd be quite cool as you'd have to juggle them both.

[Yebudoom]

This seems really interesting. Looking forward to trying it out.

A couple of questions/requests:
1. Are the player's weapons affected? If not, would it be possible to play this with weapon mods that don't touch anything but weapons?
2. How many cards are there in the mod at the moment?
3. You said you had to replace or tweak every monster in Doom 2 for the mod to work. Would you be willing to use custom skins for monster types that are affected by the cards? So, for instance, when the cards make Imps fire Mancubus fireballs, the Imps would have a custom appearance from, say, Realm 667. You know, for variety's sake.

I'm a sucker for monster variety, please don't hold that against me.

Oh, and I second the positive bonuses idea.

Keep up the good work, cheers.

[Starman the Blaziken]

Honestly though, I would like to see this mod work for non-vanilla mods some day. It will be very fun to play with a lot other mods that I do like to play with randomizers at times.

[Starman the Blaziken]

Oh, and might you be thinking of adding more cards for the player to choose from in the future? Maybe some funny ones, some more good and bads, and maybe some useful stuff too just like the starting power ups as well?

[Sgt. Shivers]

I really like this mod, the idea is simple but really spices up gameplay! I'm looking forwards to seeing where you go with it.

[PatCatz2004]

does it mean I can load up any monster pack or weapon mod liek Final Doomer?

[quad01man]

This is amazing! Iv'e been playing this on zandronum with 2 friends and this is a great mod to use on survival! Please keep up the awesome work, we need more zandro. compatible mods like this. I really look forward to what gets added.

[Zenon]

GZDoom doesn't support execution of console commands from scripts

o.o

[stainedofmind]

Gave this a whirl and I'm looking forward to giving it a full play through. Took a shot at getting it to run in GZDoom (or LZDoom more specifically since I have a potato), but it would require a bit of work from what i can tell. Definitely going to give it a shot porting it though, cause theres just too many mods i miss that dont run in zandro.

[Cutmanmike]

GZDoom doesn't support execution of console commands from scripts

o.o

This is this line:

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ConsoleCommand("compat_clientssendfullbuttoninfo 1");

Which is to help server hosts (Zandronum only) enable this flag, as missing it breaks the card selection choice. In GZDoom it just prints that warning apparently.

A couple of questions/requests:
1. Are the player's weapons affected? If not, would it be possible to play this with weapon mods that don't touch anything but weapons?
2. How many cards are there in the mod at the moment?
3. You said you had to replace or tweak every monster in Doom 2 for the mod to work. Would you be willing to use custom skins for monster types that are affected by the cards? So, for instance, when the cards make Imps fire Mancubus fireballs, the Imps would have a custom appearance from, say, Realm 667. You know, for variety's sake.

1 and 3. Not unless someone makes a version of this in ZScript, as every monster/item/projectile needs to call a script to be included in the card system. AFAIK there's no viable way to do that without zscript (in Zandronum, which I wanted to focus on). Anyone is welcome to give it a go though!
2. 98 at the moment. There were a couple more but I had to disable them as Zandronum didn't play nice with them, or they weren't balanced.

The idea is interesting. However, if you make the game more difficult, it could add to the thrill if you can also occasionally gain a bonus at the same time. As some kind of compensation or prize, if you will. Maybe the chance for getting such a bonus could increase when choosing a more difficult card or when gambling by picking the "hidden" one.

I tried to come up with balanced cards, that always have an upside but in practice I couldn't come up with many that didn't feel forced (i.e double imps but you get double ammo). Some of them kind of are, for example giving Zombie Men plasma bolts might be better than having them all have their usual hitscan weapons on certain maps. I liked the idea of eventually the game getting so difficult it was unbeatable, and seeing how far you could go. Also I'm a fan of forcing players (including myself) into "would you rather lose your foot or your arm?" situations. Again though, anyone is welcome to use this as a base and make their own as I'm mostly focusing on other projects right now, but just had to get this idea out in the open.

[Starman the Blaziken]

Fun idea :3

[Quake161]

So I've completed MOC Overkill and Hell Revealed with this mod. For the love of god, keep up the awesome work.

[Tormentor667]

Just tried it Cutty, and I really like the concept. This is totally fun to play and gives the whole game a completely new dynamic. Gonna play around with it during my quarantine, I have so much time atm, it's a good thing to see that the community is running