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

[Dan_The_Noob]

Custom game doesn't allow permanent cards

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my bad, i didnt realise i could set the level count to 0 to force every level to be permanent etc.
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also, would there be a way to allow multiple cards per level or mystery cards in addition to the picks in custom mode?
I enjoy the "Hardcore" mode, but having it ramp up slowly takes out a bit of the difficulty, since most roguelike style games are hard until you get stuff.

[Cutmanmike]

also, would there be a way to allow multiple cards per level or mystery cards in addition to the picks in custom mode?
I enjoy the "Hardcore" mode, but having it ramp up slowly takes out a bit of the difficulty, since most roguelike style games are hard until you get stuff.

Well the idea of the mod is to give it an escalating difficulty curve. I did experiment with a mode that had you picking "card packs" of 4 cards at a time instead of one card, but I need to redo the menu in zscript first as trying to make everything play nice in ACS is becoming a headache.

[WolVexus]

What all would need to be done to make the bdv21 patch also work with the xvme monster expansion out of curiosity?

[Cutmanmike]

What all would need to be done to make the bdv21 patch also work with the xvme monster expansion out of curiosity?

Depends on the issues, got a link to the mod?

[WolVexus]

What all would need to be done to make the bdv21 patch also work with the xvme monster expansion out of curiosity?

Depends on the issues, got a link to the mod?

https://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom/ ... ters-addon

[Cutmanmike]

It seems the monsters that die at the start of the map need the same treatment in a CCARDS lump.

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dontfreeze RifleZombie
dontfreeze PistolZombie
dontfreeze HeadlessZombie
dontfreeze Imp

This is the current fix. You'll have to add any other monsters that are behaving that way to that lump. I haven't a clue why this happens as brutal doom hides its ACS source from me which is... Well, it prevents me from looking into a fix without dumb patch wads.

[WolVexus]

It seems the monsters that die at the start of the map need the same treatment in a CCARDS lump.

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dontfreeze RifleZombie
dontfreeze PistolZombie
dontfreeze HeadlessZombie
dontfreeze Imp

This is the current fix. You'll have to add any other monsters that are behaving that way to that lump. I haven't a clue why this happens as brutal doom hides its ACS source from me which is... Well, it prevents me from looking into a fix without dumb patch wads.

Alright, that's what i thought but i wanted to make sure first, thanks!

[Mor'Ladim]

Well this blew up rather fast since I first saw it posted.

At first, it sounded like a neat concept, but considering I only play my own mod, I didn't bother to try it. I was under the impression that it only worked with vanilla Doom. Then I came back to this topic just yesterday and saw the screenshots. It's compatible with Heretic?! Sign me up! So I gave it a shot with Heretic, and I had a lot of fun. I only made it to The Graveyard, as the power in my home happened to go out for a second, so I stopped afterwards.

I am not sure why, but during Heretic, I decided to look at the first post of this topic again. I suppose to see if I was missing some info? Who knows. But thankfully since I did that, I discovered something that I did not previously see. Corruption Cards is compatible with other mods as well?! I decided to load up my mod, Bullet-Eye, to see if it would work right out of the box. Well I am literally playing it right now and so far I haven't spotted any major problems. Granted, I am only on Map03 of Vilecore, but it's nice to see that it detects my custom enemies in order for the cards to work properly.

Also, since I see some people are posting their ideas for cards, I have a few of my own. I'm not sure how possible these are, but:
- Enemies slowly regenerate health when not in the player's line of sight.
- Enemies spawn a ghost version of themselves upon death. These ghosts cannot be killed and slowly move towards the player, and will explode on contact. Ghosts only remain for a short time.
- An enemy that kills another enemy due to infighting will power up.

Again, I haven't played for too long so I am not sure if at least one of these is already in.

Keep up the good work! This is definitely something that will add difficulty to older mapsets that are sparse with enemy placement.

[Dan_The_Noob]

gave the old zandronum version a crack last night, do you know which specific functions make the newer version not friendly with zandronum?
I have a mod for zandronum but it doesnt work with the zandronum version (i'm guessing the new version searches with more generic calls for monsters etc to allow mods?)

[Cutmanmike]

gave the old zandronum version a crack last night, do you know which specific functions make the newer version not friendly with zandronum?

The entire thing was rewritten in zscript which is what allows it to be so modular. The zandro version uses ACS and DECORATE to replace weapons, monsters, projectiles etc meaning it will always be inflexible.

[Dan_The_Noob]

gave the old zandronum version a crack last night, do you know which specific functions make the newer version not friendly with zandronum?

The entire thing was rewritten in zscript which is what allows it to be so modular. The zandro version uses ACS and DECORATE to replace weapons, monsters, projectiles etc meaning it will always be inflexible.

oh gotcha, well it's fun. currently working with a friend to get it up and running in GZDoom with my mod over virtual LAN

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Is there a specific tag or something to give demons/imps etc the wings or zombies etc jetpacks when they are flying?

[Cutmanmike]

Is there a specific tag or something to give demons/imps etc the wings or zombies etc jetpacks when they are flying?

They only appear for vanilla monsters as their offsets, size, colour etc have to be manually specified.

[Dan_The_Noob]

Is there a specific tag or something to give demons/imps etc the wings or zombies etc jetpacks when they are flying?

They only appear for vanilla monsters as their offsets, size, colour etc have to be manually specified.

ah right, the wings/jetpack help with identifying flyers (other than them flying, of course)
kind of like the blood rage in the 0.83 version being just red enemies

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a bit of feedback from playing on GZDoom in co-op with mods.
give an option to stop the mouse from selecting cards, it causes it to switch unexpectedly sometimes.
add a toggle to stop cards which target 1 specific creature or make all cards affect all of a species maybe? mods with large monster varieties cause single-target cards to become almost redundant (???)

[Cutmanmike]

give an option to stop the mouse from selecting cards, it causes it to switch unexpectedly sometimes.
add a toggle to stop cards which target 1 specific creature or make all cards affect all of a species maybe? mods with large monster varieties cause single-target cards to become almost redundant (???)

If you're not using a controller, try disabling joystick support. I might have to add a cvar to manually turn that off though.

Corruption Cards will try to target species whenever possible, but the monsters in question need the species property adding to them. I will probably add a way to group monsters together manually via CCARDS at some point.

[MsrSgtShooterPerson]

Hey Mike, thanks for the excellent releases so far! CC has always been pretty much on my mod list for every mod and I end up updating to the new version as soon as I see one!

Just wanted to comment - I checked on the thread and saw that there was some discussion about QCDE compat before and how it has been achieved - unfortunately as of CC 1.0 paired with QCDE 2.7, I don't seem to be generating any monster modifier cards in the deck. However, I can confirm that world cards in general that do things like add random buffs to monsters work just fine. Interesting note: CC 1.0 works just fine with the last release of Death Foretold which (assuming this is relevant since both mods are from the same author and seemingly use the same coding style)

Thanks again!