[1.9] Alphatius - Competitive Deathmatch Mod

[auratoostronk]

About:
Alphatius Deathmatch is a competitive multiplayer deathmatch mod for Zandronum. It's been refined like crazy to be as balanced and interactive as possible, and I plan on adding more content to it over time. Currently, there are six weapons, each with its own unique fire and alt-fire, 4 travel abilities, as well as 5 maps. Weapons also come with Weapon Mods that alter the behavior of either the primary fire or the alt-fire of the weapon.

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Weapons:

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Telsa SMG

(Fire) Plasma Projectile: Shoots a stream of weak electricity that pulls the user forwards.
(Alt-fire)Long Taser: Build-in tesla blades release a lethal continuous shock attack at melee range.
(Alt-fire)Thrust Taser: Dashes the user before releasing a shorter-lasting melee attack.

Particle Splitter

(Fire) Energy Pellets: Fires a spread of projectile pellets. Damage reduces slightly after a set distance.
(Alt-Fire) Particle Cone: Fires a single pellet. Reactivate to detonate it into a spread of pellets similarly to the Primary fire, but increased damage
(Alt-Fire) Half-Life Slug: Fires a single slug with strong damage falloff. If it kills an enemy, it decays in a violent explosion, blasting more Slugs in multiple lateral directions.

C-14 Assault Rifle

(Fire)Mini-Cannon: Shoots slightly explosive arcing projectiles at a decent rate of fire. Projectiles deal extra damage when hitting a target directly.
(Alt-Fire) Gas-id Canister: Fires a canister of toxic gas that rapidly deals damage to nearby enemies after detonating.
(Alt-Fire) Gamma Beam: Fires a slow-moving projectile that leaves behind a deadly lingering trail.

Spark Cannon

(Fire) Spark Beam: Mid-ranged continuous rail attack beam.
(Alt-Fire) Explosive Railgun: Unleashes a powerful rail attack after a very short delay. Explodes at the spot it hits.
(Alt-Fire) Piercing Railgun: Unleashes a powerful rail attack after a very short delay. This railgun can hit multiple aligned targets.

Photon Carbine

(Fire) Auto Blast: Fully automatic projectile-based carbine rifle with a high rate of fire and high projectile speed.
(Fire)Destabilized Burst: Three-round burst mode that fires projectiles with lower base damage than Auto Blast, but projectiles deal more damage at greater distances
(Alt-Fire)Energy Grenade: Fires an explosive arcing projectile that explodes on impact. Explosion damage and radius increases with travel time.
(Alt-Fire)Energy Missile: A non-arcing variant of the energy grenade with less damage scaling. Reactivate to detonate.

Crude Rocket Cannon

(Fire) Velocity Rocket: Fires explosive rockets at a low rate of fire. Rocket damage and blast radius increases with distance traveled
(Alt-Fire) Rocket Detonator: Detonates all traveling missiles, increasing blast radius and damage slightly

Travel Abilities:

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Thruster Boots: Thrusts you along the ground omnidirectionally with no vertical momentum. Stores up to two charges that can be used consecutively.
Rocket Jump: Boosts you upward and outward
Warp Drive: Phases you out of existence for a moment, thrusts you in the direction you are facing, then phases you back.
Hyperdrive: Increases your movement speed for a short time.

Please let me know what you think! Any feedback will be greatly appreciated!

DOWNLOAD (Zandronum)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rnlmg9k0mfi516e/alphatiusdm1.9release.zip?dl=0
link should be fixed now.

[Arctangent]

I don't really get the point of the classes. They don't really add all that much, especially when you have mobility abilities on the guy with the most health and cover his weakness while still retaining his strength. There's just ... nothing to them.

The light, medium, and heavy class kinda makes me think of Dystopia, but that's kinda discrediting Dystopia because the classes in that had a different weapon selection, and the lighter your class the more augments you could utilize both in number of options and number of augment slots. So light guys actually had a lot more mobility and utility than the others, since they were the best scouts and hackers, whereas heavies had objectively the best head-on combat ability but weren't very versatile.

'Course, I dunno if you can translate that into this thing, since Dystopia was team- and objective-based, so utility and alternative playstyles fit nicely into it, while this is just free-for-all deathmatch. It'd probably make more sense to drop the classes entirely unless you do them closer to TF2 or Overwatch, but focused more on providing a bunch of different, mutually exclusive playstyles over what team-based roles. Or I guess Quake Champions would be a better fit in that case.

[auratoostronk]

I agree with you completely. My plan is to eventually add six player classes, with weapons that each conform to that class's role. Also, I'm planning to make the game less deathmatchy and more objective-based in the future. What I have here is just a small portion of everything I have planned. If you'd like to see what I have and hope to implement, here's this:

EDIT: Dead link taken out of here

Let me know what you think of that if you get the chance. Other than that, I really appreciate the feedback. Thanks, and have a nice day!

[auratoostronk]

Update! Alphatius has been released for Zandronum! Also, I have a server up and running on Doomseeker using TheSentinel'sPlayground (TSPG). Feel free to join us (just search Alpahtius/auratoostronk)!

[auratoostronk]

Working on a big update for Alphatius! Take a look here:

Pictures:

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Features:

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New Map: Industry
New Weapons: Thermite Shotgun and Gravity Grenade Launcher (Planned)
New Player Classes: Bezerker and Recon (Removed Infantry)
Reload System
Planned:
Update Resource Collection Pit to have 3D crystal Models
Travel abilities can be used in all directions
Pressing Crouch stops your momentum

Note: These features are not available yet, but will be implemented in the next version.

[auratoostronk]

Slight change of plans for the new update. For one, while the new map looks sick, it doesn't really have a great layout for a deathmatch map like Quarry does. So, it will not be included in the new version. Also, the Gravity Grenade Launcher and the Thermite Shotgun are quite ugly right now, and I've been more focused lately on polishing up what I already have. So these will probably be released in a later version. However, that's the only bad news: The two new player classes are implemented, as well as the reload system, and Thruster Boots works in all directions. Only things left are improving Jet Pack's maneuverability, adding a few crystals to Quarry, and adding the crouch stop. If you'd like to test with us, feel free to hop on our server on Doomseeker by searching:
"[TSPG] Alphatius - Competitive Deathmatch Mod (auratoostronk)"
Thanks, and stay posted!

[auratoostronk]

Alphatius 1.8 is out! A lot of the earlier posts are irrelevant now as the mod didn't have a very clear direction at the time. I may toy around with player classes at some point in the future but for now, I think the mod is in a really healthy state.

[auratoostronk]

1.9 Released! New video, new map, added weapon mods. Lets GO!