[WIP2] Thy Blood Konsumed: Vampiric Power Fantasy

[UnbornDecay25]

This is one of the best damn Doom WIPs I ever played. Immensely fun, the true essense of a glass cannon. But even that gets thrown aside as you get deeper. The only thing I request is maybe a few framerate fixes and perhaps... the Bloodrayne guns? As an alternative to one of the weapons or a super secret weapon? Would be nice. Other than that, I cant see this mod getting any better

Ps: The Vampire's Edge attack missing 90% of the time has already been mentioned, but it bears repeating. Makes that attack useless. Other than that, this thing is fun as hell

[r&r]

Kinda reminds me of vampire masquerade bloodlines powers

[Twitchy2019]

Alright, so I gave this mod a go. Pretty good although there are three things so far I want to touch base on.

1. The Scythe: I tested this weapon and I feel its lacking (how to describe this) "attack width" that the sprite would indicate close range for its basic slash attack. For example, I am at quite a close range for like three zombies and only one that I target with the crosshair gets affected. It should to me kill all three if not damage them outright even if the crosshair is not exactly on the enemy at close range. I felt I could only deviate about maybe a hair off of the side before it did not affect the enemy. May want to expand its attack area.

2. Why does the blood ball do splash damage to the player? Shouldn't Skarlet be strengthened by blood?

3. Why does enemy blood pickups not give health to the player? I would think that would be something that would be expected.

[D3athStalker]

Alright, so I gave this mod a go. Pretty good although there are three things so far I want to touch base on.

1. The Scythe: I tested this weapon and I feel its lacking (how to describe this) "attack width" that the sprite would indicate close range for its basic slash attack. For example, I am at quite a close range for like three zombies and only one that I target with the crosshair gets affected. It should to me kill all three if not damage them outright even if the crosshair is not exactly on the enemy at close range. I felt I could only deviate about maybe a hair off of the side before it did not affect the enemy. May want to expand its attack area.

2. Why does the blood ball do splash damage to the player? Shouldn't Skarlet be strengthened by blood?

3. Why does enemy blood pickups not give health to the player? I would think that would be something that would be expected.

1) Actually, that is a good idea. I was thinking of a way to make the scythe's swing attack stronger and I can just make that happen.

2) Yes, she is supposed to be strengthened by blood but not the "explosion" they create. Although she doesn't take that much damage from self-damage anyways.

3) I tried that once and felt like it kinda breaks the game, rendering some of the vampiric abilities useless, so I scrapped that idea. Although there is a powerup that makes the player get health upon picking blood energy dropped by enemies.

[r&r]

I tried this mod on Hexen,
it works until you pick up a Hexen weapon then your stock using that weapon only,
even with cheats to "give all" doesn't fix it.

Heres a few ideas Vampires Bloodlines you might like

https://vtmb.fandom.com/wiki/Thaumaturgy

And maybe another ability that would be nice to have is
"Blood Magnet"
So it's easier to pickup blood EXP.
Like for example when you reach Level 10
you get 'Blood Magnet' Level 1 that can auto pickup blood from 5 feet away.
then Level 2 it be 10 feet, and then level 3 it's like 25 feet.

[D3athStalker]

The update is here (the mod is still WIP tho)

Link: https://mega.nz/#!QtAVFSia!3DM1xuGodlBQ ... MHYWTNc1_Q

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- Heretic support (might be unbalanced due to item replacements, also custom player colors are missing).
- New HUD along with new icons.
- New bloodsmith weapon: Blood Armblades (SSG replacement).
- Buffed Blood Scythe, made its swing attack able to hit several enemies at once.
- New vial and draught sprites.
- Added Thunder and Chaos essences, which are the rare replacements for Rocket and Cell ammo.
- Elemental essences can now be cycled thru with dedicated buttons.
- Rewrote the way the weapon firemodes are cycled thru, now it works perfectly fine.
- Added a few new items.
- New sound effects for element of darkness and level up.
- Changed the color of element of darkness from black to dark purple.
- Elemental Talisman gives 25 units of each essence.

[Cardboard Marty]

Ahh I remember this being a top-secret idea, glad to see it out! The gameplay is super solid and I love what you've done here, I hope to give more in-depth feedback after I spend some more time with it!

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also your nitara avatar gives me life

[D3athStalker]

Ahh I remember this being a top-secret idea, glad to see it out! The gameplay is super solid and I love what you've done here, I hope to give more in-depth feedback after I spend some more time with it!

Thanks man, definitely looking forward to your feedback!

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also your nitara avatar gives me life

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<3

[UnbornDecay25]

Really like what you've done here, but all of a sudden the mod got really framey in this update. Red Storm doesn't lag my computer to 'worse-than-Arkham-Knight-levels' anymore, but now the mod just runs horribly, and I drop frames for no real reason. Sometimes it happens when dicing enemies into a red mist, sometimes it happens for no reason at all, sometimes its looking at flies.

[D3athStalker]

Really like what you've done here, but all of a sudden the mod got really framey in this update. Red Storm doesn't lag my computer to 'worse-than-Arkham-Knight-levels' anymore, but now the mod just runs horribly, and I drop frames for no real reason. Sometimes it happens when dicing enemies into a red mist, sometimes it happens for no reason at all, sometimes its looking at flies.

Did you try turning off the dynamic lights? I also might have to change the way the item particles work, making them only spawn when they are on the player's sight (although that was also the case in prev version so that's prob not the reason).

[UnbornDecay25]

Did you try turning off the dynamic lights? I also might have to change the way the item particles work, making them only spawn when they are on the player's sight (although that was also the case in prev version so that's prob not the reason).

No I did a vanilla Doom 2 playthrough with the latest GZ doom and it just runs horribly. Which is strange, I have a powerful pc, able to run Doom 2016 so why the hell does it lag so bad? I'm getting a strange 45 frames fullscreen, and a solid 60 windowed, even at the same resolutions.It makes no sense

So no its not your mod. I dont know what it is, but it isnt your fault


Edit- Okay so I fixed the issue by double checkign my graphics drivers and of course they were pretty badly out of date. (even though I updated them through the Windows control panel). A few bugs I did find were the game tended to lag the first time I used any weapons or picked up a new item, but after it tended to be fine. This happenes in other mods so it may be GZDoom. Something that could be fixed is both Blood Apprentice and Fierce Sorceress were both labled as the default difficulty.

Now the mod is pretty damn good. Though the flies still lag it pretty badly. But cheers bro, mods awesome now. Even if I didnt realize Vampiric Edge on the scythe was supposed to be that weak

[Spaceman333]

This mod is stellar, just blazed through a long playthrough with it. It absolutely nails the power fantasy aspect - even thought most actual held weapons are melee. Never thought a melee focused mod in doom could be so powerful, but it really works. Granted theres the big spell system that is used alongside the melee, but still.

I had myself storm into crowds of demons, slice/smash/stab them into pieces and use the huge variety of spells to just obliterate groups swiftly. Its an awesome experience, even in its WIP state.

My only nitpick would be fire element of spells being brown colored, when I was expecting them to be more bright orange or yellow. Summoning the elemental in firemode makes it look like its made from flaming poo. : D

EDIT: Can you include the forum post with its images and info inside the mod? This information is very valuable, so having it be shipped with the mod package - or even inside the .pk3 - would be helpful. I just re-read the first post and was surprised that I forgot all to use all the altfires for melee weapons, spell upgrades and costs of blood/essences

EDIT2: Also can you display the cost of a weapon altfire/spell in the HUD?

[MaxRideWizardLord]

I remember this mod used to have mana regeneration. How do I enable it? Can I have cvar or something, please?

[Doctrine Gamer]

What a fantastic mod too bad that it is no longer updated.
Only at WIP is it really fun.
My congratulations to D3athStalker for another masterpiece.

[D3athStalker]

What a fantastic mod too bad that it is no longer updated.
Only at WIP is it really fun.
My congratulations to D3athStalker for another masterpiece.

Thanks man. Although I have further plans for this mod but I was too busy working on Doom Incarnate 3.0 during that time. I'm thinking of returning to work on this slowly but surely.