The Guncaster - 3.888b

[Patriot1776]

Question for the new version: how do you pick up an carry barrels in this new version as shown in one of the promo videos? Or, was this a feature that was ultimately removed? Loving the new version so far! ^^ Nithor's wisecracks bring plenty of humor to lighten up the day. ^^

[Rowsol]

The pain sounds are too loud and it's quickly becoming annoying. I decide to lower them in SNDINFO. No matter what I set $volume Guncaster/Pain/100 to, the sound doesn't change. /shrug
Also, the title music isn't working for me. On 3.3.2.

Question for the new version: how do you pick up an carry barrels in this new version as shown in one of the promo videos?

The use button.

e: I just crashed the game. Had 2 idols and a tome of power active while I was throwing knives. Not sure if it's still an issue with 3.4.1, I'm using 3.3.2 which otherwise works fine.

[Zhs2]

Also, the title music isn't working for me. On 3.3.2.

Known old bug. Update GZDoom!

[Rowsol]

Also, the title music isn't working for me. On 3.3.2.

Known old bug. Update GZDoom!

Okay, thanks. Guess an update is in order.

e: It just froze. 2 idols and tome of power active, this time using thunderstruck. Unlike 3.3.2 where I got a crash log, this time it just froze the game.

[will183]

For some reason i cant absorb the shadow clone of cygnis when i use the tome of draugh. heelp

EDIT: figured it out

[eharper256]

Quick question, PillowBlaster. I was wondering if you'd be willing to add a blood and gore intensity into Guncaster, like in Brutal Doom and Project Brutality? The amount of blood and gore in the current version of GunCaster is... unsatisfying, to be blunt. It just doesn't give off the sort of vibe I'd expect from a stupidly over-the-top, badass mod such as this one, and Sargeant's Ketchup Mod seems to screw up the coin drop system whenever I use it in conjuction with GC. Thanks in advance!

Have you tried using Universal Gibs instead? Its less stressful on the CPU, more modern, more customisable and works with basically everything.

[Dinosaur_Nerd]

Unfortunately NoPain is all-encompassing, and there aren't any global pain chance alternatives in MAPINFO. NoPain seems like a good complement for high difficulty anyway - change your strategy to do enough damage and quickly enough that your enemies die, rather than relying on stunlocking.

Interesting ways to increase difficulty you say? I might know a few...

[DemonbaneSol]

The Mana Headache option seems to not work as intended. Regardless of its setting, I don't pick up mana drops when at full MP. So far this is present in Doom and Doom 2; I haven't had the chance to test it with Heretic, Hexen, or Strife yet.

Also, the thing with the Barons in E1M8 of Doom was present in previous versions of GC and other mods. I think it was the map itself looking for the Barons' deaths, but it would only recognize "normal" deaths. Gibbing them would essentially soft-lock the game and prevent you from finishing the map unless you noclip'd through the wall to the teleporter. I don't know if map 10 or whatever it was of Scythe X (the one where you're supposed to kill a Cyberdemon to lower some bars to continue) was doing the same, but in 2.8a it didn't matter how I dealt the finishing blow to the Cyberdemon, the new/non-vanilla death animation for it seemed to prevent that section from working right.

[wildweasel]

The fix for the map trigger bug is usually to make sure there's A_BossDeath functions on any monster's death states that can trigger a map action. I am not in a position where I can check if that's the case already, though.

[PillowBlaster]

Found another bug with Annihilator Spell during gameplay and I was doing several tests to see if I'm correct or not. Seems like it is.
Basically, Annihilator's invisible bfg rays seems to do no damage at all, and that's dissapointing.

Was an oversight that I didn't notice ever since, meaning the spell is pretty dang powerful with or without it. Whatever, fixed for the next update.

The pain sounds are too loud and it's quickly becoming annoying. I decide to lower them in SNDINFO. No matter what I set $volume Guncaster/Pain/100 to, the sound doesn't change. /shrug.

It's funny because I had that problem before and I explicitly lowered the volume on them as I couldn't make it work. No idea what's up with that, and no matter how I edited the sound, it still was the case. /doubleshrug /martywhatdidyoudo

The fix for the map trigger bug is usually to make sure there's A_BossDeath functions on any monster's death states that can trigger a map action. I am not in a position where I can check if that's the case already, though.

Also, the thing with the Barons in E1M8 of Doom was present in previous versions of GC and other mods. I think it was the map itself looking for the Barons' deaths, but it would only recognize "normal" deaths. Gibbing them would essentially soft-lock the game and prevent you from finishing the map unless you noclip'd through the wall to the teleporter. I don't know if map 10 or whatever it was of Scythe X (the one where you're supposed to kill a Cyberdemon to lower some bars to continue) was doing the same, but in 2.8a it didn't matter how I dealt the finishing blow to the Cyberdemon, the new/non-vanilla death animation for it seemed to prevent that section from working right.

That got fixed on my end.I can miss stuff like that in places.

The Mana Headache option seems to not work as intended. Regardless of its setting, I don't pick up mana drops when at full MP. So far this is present in Doom and Doom 2; I haven't had the chance to test it with Heretic, Hexen, or Strife yet.

Weird. Everything in code looks fine and I didn't touch that ever since so I have no idea why this ceased working. Will have to investigate further.

Quick question, PillowBlaster. I was wondering if you'd be willing to add a blood and gore intensity into Guncaster, like in Brutal Doom and Project Brutality? The amount of blood and gore in the current version of GunCaster is... unsatisfying, to be blunt. It just doesn't give off the sort of vibe I'd expect from a stupidly over-the-top, badass mod such as this one, and Sargeant's Ketchup Mod seems to screw up the coin drop system whenever I use it in conjuction with GC. Thanks in advance!

I am not willing to touch that with a ten feet pole. I admire Mark's ability to make gore satisfying, but that code is giving me seizure the moment I look at it. I tried a couple times to clean it up and each time I gave up before I even reached halfway through. I only added it and kept it roughly as-is ever since day one. If someone has a better alternative at mind though, I'd be willing to replace it in some future, but that's a huge maybe. Nashgore seemed a bit too intense for my needs, as much as it works nicely in DRLA.

e: It just froze. 2 idols and tome of power active, this time using thunderstruck. Unlike 3.3.2 where I got a crash log, this time it just froze the game. Here's the log if it helps.

Log sadly won't help me as I can't read anything useful out of it. Wyverns aren't complex per-se but they have a ton of crap going for them. Trying to track this down will be insanely annoying, I feel.

[RedoLane]

On that note, which wads would you recommend to try it on?

I think you missed my question

[KeksDose]

For the time being (until some patch Keks might decide to add a CVar for this), you could roll your own

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bind t "toggle invertmouse; +Gimbostratus"
//or whatever heckin' key you want to use

I'll definitely look into this.

Also glad to hear the shopkeeper is liked. Nithor is a bit strange, but will go heads over tails for you if you buy an Extreme Sphere!

[Evil Operative]

Kind of getting this error here. I tried it with stable GZDoom, and the latest devbuilds of GZDoom and QZDoom. Same problem. Every time. I also tried redownloading the entire thing but it didn't work.

EDIT: I tried it on a fully fresh version of GZDoom by copying DOOM2.WAD into the folder, letting it make its first config file and all, and it seemed to work there. So I am guessing that there is something to do with my autoload...

EDIT x2: I found the problem. It seems to be incompatible with Mikk's Champions v2.2

[fire238]

I was bumming around on TV Tropes, and I noticed that Trailblazer has an entry, but not Guncaster.

I was thinking of creating one if anybody is interested.

[AvzinElkein]

I was bumming around on TV Tropes, and I noticed that Trailblazer has an entry, but not Guncaster.

I was thinking of creating one if anybody is interested.

Sounds awesome, and I wish you the best of luck. Please make sure to let the reader know that Guncaster's stuff is intentionally OP.