Kyle873's Doom RPG Mod [0.10.0 Beta]

[Belisk]

okay someone explain me WHY the HUD just doesn't show anything from the mod ?

[-Ghost-]

Did you check your hud scale? It might not be set to the right one. I think he uses the fullscreen HUD.

[Belisk]

Alright i fixed it...

Turns out the sodding HUD scale had to be put on 11 for it to work...

[Ribo Zurai]

I wonder what happened to the project, it had been a long while without news.

[karmakazi]

DOOM RPG notes:

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Let me start by saying I love what you've done with DooM, though it has long stood the test of time, lets face it, she faces some immersion issues. This mod has all the potential of being a much MUCH better take on the borderlands formula which, while great also exists to shill DLC's and is far too weapon drop dependent. As anyone will tell it aint the weapon, but its how you use it. I'm sure the doom community is all sick of dodging from cover to cover in "new and improved" FPS' and the whole second wind thing is stupid(not too mention the incessant NPC yammering SHUT UP!!!1). This being said, I read some peoples notes on the boards, and they seem a little demanding, and I hope like hell I don't come across that way. I really appreciate your efforts, and these are just suggestions.

Testing notes;

-Cant get full level completion bonus if the map has 0 secrets. The bonus itself also seems heavily dependent on what kill streak bonus you have active, making the 100% map completion bonus range from the laughably paltry to game-breaking mega levels. (I once gained ten at once by bfg'ing a horde of imps and cyber demon to death and finding the last secret in the map with their deaths on the board.) Perhaps a level dependent bonus to a global 100% completion bonus, or even an end of level partial completion bonus because sometimes those last secrets/monsters/items are just too damn illusive to warrant the 20 minute scouring. This may also help keep the pace fast and furious as it should be.

----Maybe ranks beyond Master Sargent Major? Though it doesn't make sense for a grunt like McTaggart to get beyond enlisted ranks without going to officer school, being the lone savior of the human race and the one thing Hell fears warrants a bypass of some of the red tape. Perhaps certain promotions can result in medals that appear in the accessories menu and have various benefits.
----Maybe diminish the overall Xp bonus (which seems a bit heavy handed to me, it's the first stat I spam for that reason ) from proficiency stat in favor of an increasing margin between kills for the combo bonus, or if your plans include major xp gains just the inclusion of the combo bonus increase.
----On my playthrough of doom2 at one point my accessories capacity dropped from 3 to 2. though i cant place why exactly, I want to say it had something to do with purchasing the capacity badge. The addons i use are the heavy metal remix wad (doommetalvol3.pk3) high quality sound (pk-doom-sfx-20100109.pk3) and Sbrightmaps.pk3. all of which doubtfully caused the problem, but i think you want a certain amount of thoroughness in bug reports.
----Perhaps a reduction of the icon sizes of the runes would allay the complaints about them not looking part of the game. maybe a sprite of the credits laying flat and causing their light source to blink or pulse will diminish their "undoom-ish" appearance? perhaps some palette swapped duke nukem bills for the various denominations?

Pie in the sky stuff:
----The combo system drives the player into frenzied speedrun style play, (at least for me) and in my playtesting of brutal doom the AI contributes to the frantic place as well. perhaps you object to the torture porn-y aspects as some do, which i find a little overwrought myself, but i find the new AI routines at the very least to be as revolutionary as your own efforts as far as immersion and overall fun goes. this would also go a long way of ameliorating the unbalancing influence of the stat increases as these monsters are right bastards. this would have the secondary effect of counteracting the BD unbalance in playing the newly hardcore monsters in traditional maps with less health and ammo deposits, as well as the monster placements having the old dummy monsters in mind. i think that this would be wildly popular in the Doomserve crowd, as they seem perfectly content to play co-op maps that seem to be simply a cycle of firing the BFG into unreasonably large hordes of monsters and respawning when ripped asunder, lather rinse, repeat. making these hordes survivable and rewarding beyond the sense of a number in the end count screen that nobody looks at because they're too busy typing gg and w to even look at, would be awesome.
----Perhaps a Bethesda-style xp system in which the stats increase in accordance to the playstyle of the individual, strength for close quarter chainsaw\berserk kills (maybe a separate accuracy stat for weapons damage as the connotation of strength effecting gun damage results from… pulling the trigger harder? second thought: tie into agility?) armor/vitality for taking damage and self healing and armor repair, agility from maintaining long combo streaks, energy for fireball/summons/use of energy weapons. regen could be a passive increase scaled to level as well as proficiency luck and capacity. perhaps this would warrant a global reduction of bonus stats to be spent in these areas according to the taste of the individual.
----This all being said, im sure the sane response is, "you want it, you do it, sir-talks-a-lot". which i am fully willing to do, though i would be completely at sea at first and i have a mac which is a big steaming pile of unsupported. Any pointers in the right direction and i would be all too willing to try my own hand at it and with all hope be able to submit my own ideas for your approval as opposed to being your wanna-be taskmaster.

EDIT:Sorry for the verbosity, it was one of my first posts and didnt think to spoiler it. I've been working on some cash sprites and some military medals for badges as well. hasnt been going too well, but I keep trying.

[karmakazi]

Yessir. I don't touch the weapons (only DoomRPG-Extras does) so that you can play WADs which have their own weapons. Even better, my Strength stat uses the generic DamageFactor, so ANY custom weapon will be effected by it.

Cool. I almost got it working with Brutal Doom, but didn't gain any experience with kills. Must have to do with how the custom deaths are handled.

Ever get that rolling properly? I've been driving myself crazy about how damned awesome that would be. I need the marriage of BD and this mod to be happy good.

[-Ghost-]

Yeah actually it's working fine for me now. I loaded BD before the DoomRPG and everything worked great. I occasionally saw enemies get gibbed and frozen mid-frame in the animation, but nothing major other than that.

[karmakazi]

Yeah actually it's working fine for me now. I loaded BD before the DoomRPG and everything worked great. I occasionally saw enemies get gibbed and frozen mid-frame in the animation, but nothing major other than that.

Did you just put one above the other in the .ini? or do i have doomrpg load in the autoload and load bd with a command line at launch?
EDIT:Tried the above, and though i got it bd blood and weapons they reverted to vanilla ones on switching, and they had the same ol vanilla ai. what version of BD are you running?

[-Ghost-]

I'm running 18b and I use the Zdoom Launcher to order my files.

[karmakazi]

Alas I has no windows.

[-Ghost-]

I think you can also drag the wad files into the program or whatever you're running Doom through, but I'm not sure how the ordering works so you'd have to play around with it.

[Ribo Zurai]

Is the mod still alive? It had been a while since the last update.

[karmakazi]

Is the mod still alive? It had been a while since the last update.

He's either hard at coding or hiding. Im new to this, but ive been poking around, changed the credit sprites and the EP. as ive said im new, so its a very amaturish affair, somehow my stuff is pixelated whereas the pre-existing stuff gets smoothed. My next order of business was to add officer ranks on top of the enlisted.

[isaacpop23]

It won't let me summon marines any idea why?

[karmakazi]

It won't let me summon marines any idea why?

not yet implemented.