[Contest] Doom Mutator Contest 2!

[Jimmy]

Here's a little teaser for what I've got coming up.

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[Project Shadowcat]

http://files.drdteam.org/index.php/file ... utator.pk3 - Early half-done version of my mutator, Style Mod. Only four weapons present (RL, Plasma, and BFG have yet to be replaced).

The concept: all the weapons have infinite ammo. But in order to make the absolute most of them, you have to use some of your Style Points (alt-fire). You can get more Style Points from enemies, or from picking up a pair of Stylish Shades (replaces the Chainsaw). I'm especially proud of some of the Textures tricks I've been pulling here - particularly the Stylish Shades. (There are no additional sprites at all in the PK3 file. The shades were created by pasting a single pixel from one of Doom 2's textures, over and over again, for every single pixel!)

For a work-in-progress, that's pretty friggin' clever shit! The weapons look great, too!

[LilWhiteMouse]

FireStarter
Nothing substantial, just one weapon. Lights a firebomb and tosses it. Any enemies in the blast will be set on fire, and they'll possibly set any enemies they get near on fire. No pickup replacements (or even a pickup sprite), so you'll have to "give firestarter" from the console. It's not a "serious" weapon, so I didn't bother to have it use ammunition, and it can't hurt the player.

[DavidPH]

A simple mod that addresses two primary issues with Doom. First, ammo is annoying. Second, it was possible to win.

I'll elaborate on the good news first. Weapons don't take ammo anymore. And they fire faster. This, however, is just because of...

The bad news. Enemies spawn more of themselves when they die. This means that you can't stop to take in the scenery or bother trying to get 100% kills. (or 100% at all, really.) This is because you'll be too busy running for your life from an ever-increasing army from Hell. They don't spawn instantly, though. They do so over time, and eventually stop. Then again, every spawned one that dies just starts over again. So I suggest haste.

Download: http://files.drdteam.org/index.php/file ... ne-r36.pk3

For extra fun, play on Nightmare!

[Jimmy]

And here is my entry, dubbed simply "Omega".

THIS IS AN OLD VERSION, GO TO PAGE 8 FOR THE LATEST

j-omega.wad

(88.58 KiB) Downloaded 187 times

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Please take the time needed to read through this rundown of the new gameplay: it's kinda complex, but here goes nothing...

• The first thing you'll notice is a bunch of colored bars in the top right-hand corner of the new HUD. These are your Omega reserves - Omega being the equivalent of Mana or Chi or whatever you like. There are four types: yellow, green, red and blue, and you use these to attack.
• You are placed in the role of a nigh-indestructible demigod, and you are armed with only your fist and 60 Yellow Omega.
• You will also notice a white bar labelled "Z". This is your Zeal. This is also spent when you attack.
• You walk around the level collecting vitality bonuses (+5 to health) and zeal bonuses (+10 to zeal). All ammo is replaced by floating colored orbs which boost your correspondingly colored Omega reserves.
• The first bar in the top-right hand corner is highlighted. Use altfire to scroll through the bars.
• A custom keybind activates the currently highlighted color of Omega. (Make sure you have a key bound first - I use the middle mouse button.) When you activate it, your screen will be tinted to show the color, and you'll see the name of the currently selected skill. At the beginning of the game, you are only given one Yellow skill, but there are three of each color (a Level 1, Level 2 and a Level 3 skill), represented by colored megaspheres which replace the weapons.
• When Omega is active, you'll see the time before it deactivates on the left side of the screen. Keep hitting the activate key to boost this number in increments of 15. However, you must have at least 15 points of the correspondingly colored Omega in your reserves in order for this to work.
• If you possess more than one skill for the currently active Omega, you may switch between them by using the prev/next weapon buttons (mousewheel for most people, I assume).
• Beware! Watch your zeal - while Omega is active, Zeal diminishes gradually. If it falls under 30 points (you start off with 100 but it can climb up to 200 if you pick up bonuses) your screen will start flashing erratically and you will begin taking damage until the Omega deactivates - or until you die. You should then refrain from using any attacks, if you can, until you can replenish your zeal (it recharges gradually, but only up to 100).

There are some other gameplay quirks to note:

• There are no stimpacks or medkits.
• Soulspheres no longer heal you. Instead, they add 100 points (up to 200) to your zeal. Hence, the only way to regain health is to collect vitality bonuses. (Or is it...? )
• Silver megaspheres called "Omega Boosters" increase the total capacity of your Omega reserves. These replace the chainsaw and backpack.
• If you get your zeal high enough, you'll unlock special powerups that affect you until your zeal drops beyond that point.
• All Level 3 skills require extra zeal to perform. Because of this they should be used sparingly, but if you don't possess enough zeal to begin with, you won't be able to use them at all.

If you wish to spoil the skills you can acquire for yourself, here they are:

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If there are any problems at all with it, please feed back. I'm sure I missed out a couple of bugs/weird things. Please enjoy nonetheless!

[Davidos]

Blaaaaah

Ah, so, after testing it, and finding out a few things, I gotta admit ammo is pretty hard to come by and healing is even worse...

[Jimmy]

Really? I found myself with too much ammo sometimes... And yes, healing is a pain. I've stuck the stimpacks and medikits back in - in the form of "soul globes" - but with reduced healing.

I'm still playing around with the gameplay balance - trying to find a system that works is more trouble than I thought.

[Dark-Assassin]

What version of zdoom does it need to run?

[Jimmy]

I've been testing with GZDoom 1.4.8 r790 / ZDoom 2.4.1 r2390, which was the latest available about a week ago.

[Davidos]

Odd, I really can't find any ammo...


Weapons don't give me ammo

And there's hardly any pickups around...

Enemies don't drop either.

O.o so how are you supposed to get ammo?


In Map02 I was already out of everything and I only used fireball and acid rain like, three bleeding times each. >.>

[Jimmy]

Are you playing with any megaWADs which are particularly stingey with ammo? I've tested it with Doom 2, TNT, and an assortment of other megaWADs, and found the gameplay to be quite fun.

Anyways, I'll be releasing a new version of it soon, although I've not been able to fix this quite persistent visual bug yet.

[wildweasel]

http://files.drdteam.org/index.php/file ... utator.pk3 - Final version of StyleMod (UPDATED 05/19/2010), barring any sudden game-breaking glitches. In true Weaselverse style, the descriptions of the new items in the following spoiler.

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STYLE MOD OFFICIAL STRATEGY GUIDE

Style Points. Get to know them well, for they are your new source of demon-slaying goodness. Forget bullets, shells, and explosive ordinance. You don't need to deal with that now. All that's left is the awesomeness of your guns...and how much quicker you can take down those demons with a little added flourish.

STYLE ORB - For every enemy you kill, they'll release these glowing green orbs packed with pure Style. Just one isn't enough to do anything; pick up a whole ton of them, though, and you'll be oozing with pizazz.

STYLISH SUNGLASSES - These'll make you feel more awesome just from picking them up. Grab 'em for a one-time, 50% boost in Style.

BOX OF MANLINESS - Who's a man and a half? You are - twice! Grab this box filled with untold amounts of booze, steroids, and testosterone and you'll not only get a boost in health, you'll also do four times the damage as normal for the next thirty seconds!

LAW ENFORCEMENT HANDGUN - This standard-issue sidearm comes with a select-fire switch. Because you're so cool, you wield this thing left-handed and can fire it in a three-round burst without using your other hand to keep it stable. This comes at the cost of a slight drain in Style Points, though. (You start the game with this.)

TECH LASER - The primary energy-based weapon of the modern military, the Tech Laser fires quick-traveling lines of energy toward foes. If you're feeling particularly stylish, set it to Wide-Angle and deal with large crowds (or just get up real close and cut 'em in half with it). (Replaces the Shotgun.)

DUAL NEUTRON DISRUPTOR - This two-barreled purveyor of sub-atomic particles will ordinarily fire in a 1-2-1-2 configuration, but those who consider themselves keen on the ways of ass-kicking will set it to double-fire mode, where both barrels fire at once, spewing neutrons forth at a (technically) faster rate, for additional damage. (Replaces the Chaingun.)

TRIPLE SHOTGUN - Two barrels not enough? Four barrels too much? Try this middle-range beast. Fire the barrels one at a time for a (slightly) more accurate shot, or be a man of action and blow all three at once. Who cares if half the pellets don't hit anything? It's cool! (Replaces the Super Shotgun.

OVERKILL CANNON - Long after the discussions began as to whether an ordinary soldier could carry and fire the General Electric M134 minigun, the fine folks at Japanese firearms company Makoto Arms created this ridiculous mashup from spare sentry-gun parts and an old motor. It weighs almost one hundred pounds fully loaded and will soon become fully unloaded in a matter of seconds. Thankfully, since you're so Stylish that you don't need ammo, this thing's yours for the carrying. Unfortunately, it's a physical impossibility to run and fire at the same time, so you'll be locked in place while the trigger's being held down. If you're really feeling stylish like an attaché case, rev the motor up to full blast and let those demons know that you don't care about accuracy - only that you're sending more ammo downrange in the five seconds it'd take to empty your Style points than a whole battalion uses in a week!

SWARMER LAUNCHER - Bringing new definition to the term "carpet bombing", the Swarmer Launcher scatters five gyroscopic homing missiles that will independently seek out nearby foes (as long as they're in line of sight). If you want to be the most stylish guy in Hell, though, you'll spend your style points on the Macross Missile Massacre - the more Style Points you charge the weapon with, the more missiles will launch at once when you let go of the trigger, up to 100 missiles. Be VERY careful, though - that many missiles will be putting out some serious explosive power, so you don't want to be anywhere near any walls, trees, or...pretty much anything solid when you let this thing rip!

[XutaWoo]

XutaWoo's Cricket Mod!

"ANGEL" Miniture Flying Sentry Bot activated.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Locate the demon, codenamed "Big Boss", and relay it's position to the marine.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Locate all security keycards and unlock all security doors along the way.

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The UAC's mk 6 Miniture Flying Sentry Bot, nicknamed "cricket" by the employees and "ANGEL" by the company, is mostly what it says on the tin. Oddly enough, instead of a hoverboard or even rocket-propulsion systems, it uses wings.

In this minimod, you play a Cricket activated by the doomguy to mark a path through whatever campaign you're playing through. Said Crick is so tiny to the point of redicule; while you are pretty damn slow on your feet and enemies still somehow manage to see you, you can easily skip past parts of some levels easily, which is further complimented with the bot's ability to move in the air; press fire to move on the xy plain and altfire to move on the z plain. There's two player classes to choose from; one, the autobooster, simply moves as you hold the respective button. The other, the manual booster, requires you to tap with each boost, making it easier to move diagnolly at the risk of your fingers falling off if you have a calcium deficincy. To help prevent that from happening, however, is the fact that each boost of the manual booster is a bit more than the autobooster.

Of course, being so small makes you rather fragile. While you only take 1/5 of normal damage and your small frame makes it difficult for you to be hit, you only have 10 health points. Melee attacks don't really agree with your bot, so try to get out of hellspawn's arm span as soon as possible if you get caught in them.

Needless to say, since the bot lacks defense, the game ends when you reach the last level and die. No happy ending for you, but at least if you manage to get there you helped save mankind.

[Soosisya san]

This is my mod. I use only Decorate, ACS scripts, Keyconfig and Sbarinfo.
Description:
This mod makes playing style similar to the RPG. As a player, the monsters have 4 levels. The game has 4 characteristics:
Vitality - affects the amount of health and the degree of protection
Agility - affects the accuracy of weapons (firearms), and negatively affects the accuracy of monsters
Intellect - affects the amount of damage and the number of health cures using kits
Focus - affects the chance not to spend the ammo at a shot and a chance to reflect on the projectile (in this case the player suffers damage)
http://www.wadhost.fathax.com/files/DoomRPG_V1.9.zip
before the game you need to set special buttons

[wildweasel]

Had to update Style Mod: http://files.drdteam.org/index.php/file ... utator.pk3

Fixed a glitch and a missed opportunity regarding the Overkill Cannon.