Wolfenstein: Shadows of Destiny TC - NOW ON IDGAMES v1.2 - NEW UPDATE

[jazzmaster9]

Finally, the last levels just seem impossible to complete on 'I am Death incarnate'.

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How the hell am I supposed to kill all those Super Clones? There is just not enough health and ammo to take care of them all.

Hint: You actually dont have to use Ammo At All to kill those guys.

[JohnnyTheWolf]

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I did notice a flame trap in the room where two of them reside, but I have not found a way to activate it.

[jazzmaster9]

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I did notice a flame trap in the room where two of them reside, but I have not found a way to activate it.

The flame trap is in the other side of the Super Clone cage. But you have to get around it first.

[JohnnyTheWolf]

I take you do not mind spoilers after all.

I know about the fire trap that is already active; I was speaking about the inactive fire trap inside the room where the Super Clones are. Is there a way to activate it? If not, does it mean I need to break the pillars that enclose the area where the Super Clones are and lure them to the fire trap corridor?

[jazzmaster9]

I take you do not mind spoilers after all.

I know about the fire trap that is already active; I was speaking about the inactive fire trap inside the room where the Super Clones are. Is there a way to activate it? If not, does it mean I need to break the pillars that enclose the area where the Super Clones are and lure them to the fire trap corridor?

There is a switch in the otherside of the cage. That is what you use to activate it

[jazzmaster9]

The mod has been uploaded to the idgames archives.
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/level ... z/wolf_shd

[Woolie Wool]

Another, smaller gripe I have with the mod is that the undead super soldiers looks more like afro-wearing black men who literally turn into shit when killed. It took me a while to realise what they were supposed to be.
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They're not undead, they are literally made from "waste." Areyep was who made the sprites for Spear Resurrection and Spear of Destiny: End of Destiny back in 2001-2004.

Personally I think clones are still kinda problematic and I don't like seeing them, but anyway...

This is actually a remarkably authentic-feeling Wolfenstein experience. You can actually play it like Wolfenstein and use Wolfenstein tactics; it's not just a hacked-up hitscan-heavy Doom PWAD. Even the movement physics are more Wolfenstein-like, though not quite the same. Though the levels are kind of small and simplistic from the ones I've played so far (map01-map07), they are well-paced and the encounter design shows that you know how Wolfenstein gameplay works. I appreciate that all the secrets are marked in some way because wall-humping in Doom is much less convenient than in Wolfenstein because you have to mash the spacebar repeatedly instead of just holding it down. Some quibbles I have:

* The lack of a status bar makes the weapon sprites look really odd, because the vanishing point for the sprites is far below the center of the screen.
* Why no score? The score gave treasure meaning, and gave the player an incentive to explore the level fully instead of just blitz through it.
* B.J. seems considerably slower than in Wolf3D, which makes dodging into cover in the nick of time considerably more difficult.
* The clones/mutants' increased speed makes them incredibly annoying to fight and exacerbate the problem of mutants draining the player's ammo supply quickly by inducing the player to hose down areas to suppress mutants--now you'll try it and all your shots will miss!
* The SS now appear to have an attack pattern similar to Hans Grosse in the original game, which makes them disproportionately lethal and in later levels the sheer number of them strongly discourages any sort of aggressive tactics.
* The Waffen-SS feels kind of pointless to me--"an SS that's a bigger bullet sponge" isn't really a hole in the Wolf3D enemy roster that needs filling.
* All the player weapons do too little damage and the Nazis' health has apparently been reduced to compensate (but not equally, so the balance among the enemies feels a little off).
* The rifle is too unreliable in its damage output to be a useful alternative to the machine gun, and feels like a punishment for when you run out of machine gun ammo. Consider making it do a fixed amount of damage (like the rifles in my ECWolf mods, or the railgun from Quake II) and give it a beefier firing sound and a sound for working the bolt. The BOOM-click-clack rhythm is what makes the Doom SSG so great and I feel it's also essential to a good bolt-action rifle.
* Level 6 is a really unfun slog that amplifies all the most annoying qualities of the clones. I'd suggest replacing it with a new map.

Anyway, I'm enjoying this and I hope you make more Wolf3D-style projects in the future.

[jazzmaster9]

This is actually a remarkably authentic-feeling Wolfenstein experience. You can actually play it like Wolfenstein and use Wolfenstein tactics; it's not just a hacked-up hitscan-heavy Doom PWAD. Even the movement physics are more Wolfenstein-like, though not quite the same. Though the levels are kind of small and simplistic from the ones I've played so far (map01-map07), they are well-paced and the encounter design shows that you know how Wolfenstein gameplay works. I appreciate that all the secrets are marked in some way because wall-humping in Doom is much less convenient than in Wolfenstein because you have to mash the spacebar repeatedly instead of just holding it down. Some quibbles I have:

* The lack of a status bar makes the weapon sprites look really odd, because the vanishing point for the sprites is far below the center of the screen.
* Why no score? The score gave treasure meaning, and gave the player an incentive to explore the level fully instead of just blitz through it.
* B.J. seems considerably slower than in Wolf3D, which makes dodging into cover in the nick of time considerably more difficult.
* The clones/mutants' increased speed makes them incredibly annoying to fight and exacerbate the problem of mutants draining the player's ammo supply quickly by inducing the player to hose down areas to suppress mutants--now you'll try it and all your shots will miss!
* The SS now appear to have an attack pattern similar to Hans Grosse in the original game, which makes them disproportionately lethal and in later levels the sheer number of them strongly discourages any sort of aggressive tactics.
* The Waffen-SS feels kind of pointless to me--"an SS that's a bigger bullet sponge" isn't really a hole in the Wolf3D enemy roster that needs filling.
* All the player weapons do too little damage and the Nazis' health has apparently been reduced to compensate (but not equally, so the balance among the enemies feels a little off).
* The rifle is too unreliable in its damage output to be a useful alternative to the machine gun, and feels like a punishment for when you run out of machine gun ammo. Consider making it do a fixed amount of damage (like the rifles in my ECWolf mods, or the railgun from Quake II) and give it a beefier firing sound and a sound for working the bolt. The BOOM-click-clack rhythm is what makes the Doom SSG so great and I feel it's also essential to a good bolt-action rifle.
* Level 6 is a really unfun slog that amplifies all the most annoying qualities of the clones. I'd suggest replacing it with a new map.

Anyway, I'm enjoying this and I hope you make more Wolf3D-style projects in the future.

Thank you very much for playing and i'm glad you are liking the experience so far
I've read your concerns and in hindsight I agree with a lot of them especially about the rifle and the balancing of the mutants/clones.
I will definitely try to alleviate most of these in the sequel.

[JohnnyTheWolf]

Wait, there is going to be a sequel?

[jazzmaster9]

I'll just leave this here

[JohnnyTheWolf]

Ohoho! Is it going another Wolf3D homage or something more along the lines of that TNO-inspired secret level from Innocence X?

[armymen12002003]

I'll just leave this here

oh goodie another wolf tc from jazzmaster9 looking forward to seeing how you do this.

[jazzmaster9]

Ohoho! Is it going another Wolf3D homage or something more along the lines of that TNO-inspired secret level from Innocence X?

Like Shadows of Destiny its going to be a stright Wolf3d homage.

[sherberttcat]

My only complaint is the music. When I started hearing stuff from Final Fantasy, I was pulled right out of the game.

[jazzmaster9]

My only complaint is the music. When I started hearing stuff from Final Fantasy, I was pulled right out of the game.

My inspiration for the music usage was Spear: End of Destiny which also used music from Final Fantasy/ FF Tactics.
I think it sounds nice given the pace of the game.

I did at one point change the music, but ... well it just didn't feel like the End of Destiny homage i wanted it to be and changed it back.