Survival Horror Doom BETA 3

[mrtaterz]

SURVIVAL HORROR DOOM

Welcome to my first original mod!

This is a mod that de-emphasizes combat and focuses on making the player feel helpless. I will continue to update it as I learn more!

Here is a list of what it features so far:

• Aim with the pistol for increased accuracy, increased weapon damage (and removal of damage randomness), and decreased rate of fire!
• The Shotgun fires slower, but packs quite a wallop at close range. It fires a lot of pellets (24 to be exact, and the Double Barrel fires 48)!
• Zombies can be incapacitated to allow you a chance to flee!
• A focus on non-lethality! Push your enemies away and then run to live another day!
• Pick up Medikits and Stimpacks, and use them to heal yourself over time!
• Your former comrades slumber. Or do they? Smash their corpses into pulp, just to be safe!
• Everybody loves extra weapons: Grenades, a trusty lead pipe, and even a Rifle!
• Soul-crushing (but fair) difficulty!
• Cyberdemons that have missiles that seek you out! The terror!
• Extra corpse decorations for mood setting!

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SCREENSHOTS

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CHANGELOG

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BETA 2

• Rats from my previous mod Dead Marine Redux are back.
• Shotguns are more likely to knock enemies down than other weapons.
• Plasma Rifle makes humanoid enemies trigger a unique death animation.
• BFG9000 uses the old beta DOOM behavior.

BETA 1

• Physical Bullet projectile weapon mechanic removed.
• All bullet weapons now have a bullet projectile that is cosmetic.
• Backpack now gives you Grenades.
• Grenades are a weak explosive Inventory item that the player can spam at enemies to clear their path.
• Zombie Rifleman now has different shooting behavior; the player will now be able to "dodge" their hit scan attacks.
• Cacodemon has had it's reviving role removed.
• Pain Elemental can now punch the player.
• Pain Elemental now revives enemies.
• Lost Souls will only dodge up close now.
• Archvile Pain Chance slightly increased.
• Archvile Health decreased.
• Archvile attack timing changed.
• The Cyberdemon will now shoot a single, slow, heat-seeking missile.
• The Cyberdemon has also had it's pain chance increased. Use bullet weapons to prevent him from shooting missiles at you.
• Autocannon rate of fire increased, as well as an increase in spin-up time.
• Slightly increased the movement speed of the player when using the BFG9000 and the Rocket Launcher.
• The player has a movement penalty when firing the Rifle, to encourage Pistol use.

ALPHA 0.9

• Shambler-type enemies now wander around.
• Most enemies now have sight and sound-based checks for the player. Keep your distance from enemies and they may not hear you shoot.
• Most enemies have a 170 degree cone of vision now. This is useful for Stealth-based add-ons and mods that compliment Survival Horror Doom.
• Rifle has a new sprite.
• Revolver has had it's damage increased.
• Rocket Launcher has had it's damage increased.
• Rifle has had it's bullet drop increased, bullet speed reduced, damage increased, and bullet spread reduced.
• Enemy predictability increased, frames on attacks have been increased, and most enemies no longer face their targets right before an attack.
• Lost Soul behavior changed; aggression increased. They will dodge away from the player's view.
• Cacodemon health decreased.
• Noble's now shake the ground beneath them, and are a force to be reckoned.
• Difficulty selection revamped.

ALPHA 0.8

• Physical bullet sprites changed to PUFF to reduce filesize.
• Revolver added. Dead Marines will occasionally drop these weapons.
• Stimpaks and Medikits have proper feedback on use.

ALPHA 0.7

• Footsteps for basic enemies.
• A new melee weapon thanks to GAA1992! The Pipe joins Doomguy's close range arsenal. You will find it in place of the Chainsaw on occasion.
• Footsteps and Active sounds now falloff over distance.
• Using your Hands makes you faster.
• Switching weapons slows you down.
• Saw Behavior changed. Saw damage increased.
• Swinging with the Pipe stops the player's movement.
• Fists no longer change turn angle.

ALPHA 0.6

• Imps now prefer Melee combat at close range, and will switch to their claws when you get close.
• Imps can now be Incapacitated.
• Pistol Push altfire frame fixed.
• Rifle now fires a physical bullet that rips through multiple targets.

ALPHA 0.5

• Pistol aiming bound to 'Weapon Zoom' instead of 'Weapon Altfire'.
• Altfire for Pistol is a shove, just like for the fists.
• Hand tremors when aiming with the Pistol.
• Rocket Launcher damage fixed.
• Lost Souls dodge your view and have reduced HP.
• Mancubus will no longer shoot both barrels unless up close with the player.

ALPHA 0.4

• Pistol now has a physical bullet that travels and has drop when you aim.
• Plasma Rifle is now the Plasma Emitter; it will fire a single shot before cooling down. Luckily it rips through multiple targets at once.
• Rocket Launcher deals more damage on the inside, and less damage on the outside, and is overall more effective in splash damage. It also has gravity.
• Arachnotrons now move and shoot, but will no longer refire.
• Fist sprites and animations improved.
• Rifle damage improved.
• Player movement slower.
• Zombie pain chance increased, zombie incapacitation chance decreased.

Alpha 0.3

• Added a Rifle. Dropped by Zombiemen.
• Fists now come with a non-lethal altfire. Use your hands to push enemies away.
• Improved incapacitated Zombieman sprite.

Alpha 0.2

• Double Barrel now takes longer to reload and fires 48 shots.
• Chaingun has a wind-up time and the spread is flipped from horizontal to vertical on it's second shot.
• You can now carry multiple Stimpacks and Medikits.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ADDONS

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Universal Enhanced AI by Josh771 allows you to sneak past enemies and hide in the dark.
AI Director by Josh771
DarkDoomz by Caligari87 makes sectors darker so you can sneak around using Universal Enhanced AI.

[mrtaterz]

Alpha 0.3

• Added a Rifle. Dropped by Zombiemen.
• Fists now come with a non-lethal altfire. Use your hands to push enemies away.
• Improved incapacitated Zombieman sprite.
• Autocannon has a spin-up time.
• No more Infighting.

[jdredalert]

For some reason that looks terrifying!

Gonna download and check that later today.

[Jarewill]

I literally played this a few hours ago and it got updated.
The only issue I have with this at the moment is that the pistol is rather weak, but I assume it's the intention.
But I really like the fact that enemies can play dead.
And the pistol sight sprite (which feels weird to use in doom) looks really goofy and I kinda like how round it becomes.

[mrtaterz]

I am glad you like it. Make sure you use the fists to push enemies away and also to push them into walls to potentially knock them down!

[mrtaterz]

ALPHA 0.4

• Pistol now has a physical bullet that travels and has drop when you aim.
• Plasma Rifle is now the Plasma Emitter; it will fire a single shot before cooling down. Luckily it rips through multiple targets at once.
• Rocket Launcher deals more damage on the inside, and less damage on the outside, and is overall more effective in splash damage.
• Arachnotrons now move and shoot, but will no longer refire.
• Fist sprites and animations improved.
• Rifle damage improved.
• Player movement slower.
• Zombie pain chance increased, zombie incapacitation chance decreased.

[ElEskelerCortazar]

Impressive mod even though is still on diapers, looking foward for new updates!
Also, resurrecting marine is creepy af

[mrtaterz]

Alpha 0.5

• Pistol aiming bound to 'Weapon Zoom' instead of 'Weapon Altfire'.
• Altfire for Pistol is a shove, just like for the fists.
• Hand tremors when aiming with the Pistol.
• Rocket Launcher damage fixed.
• Lost Souls dodge your view and have reduced HP.
• Mancubus will no longer shoot both barrels unless up close with the player.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Nice job taterz!

Are you willing to accept any sprite collab with this?

[Jarewill]

A little bug I found.
Using the new pistol's altfire will change the sprite to the fist after shoving and then fire the pistol after a moment.
I assume there's a goto missing after the shove, but I haven't yet looked at the code.

Edit: Checked the code and the issue is here:

Also using the disc of repulsion effect for shoving makes it so you shove in 360 degrees, so you can shove everything behind you as well as in front of you.

[mrtaterz]

Hotfixed!

I also made the Rifle fire physical bullets like the aimed Pistol; the bullets are .308 and go through multiple targets!

[mrtaterz]

ALPHA 0.6

• Imps now prefer Melee combat at close range, and will switch to their claws when you get close.
• Imps can now be Incapacitated.
• Pistol Push altfire frame fixed.
• Rifle now fires a physical bullet that rips through multiple targets.
• Plasma Emitter fires 3 invisible projectiles that rip through their target.

[mrtaterz]

Nice job taterz!

Are you willing to accept any sprite collab with this?

Any community support or insight from people who are more experienced than I am is appreciated. My Discord information is public and available on the right-hand side, below my profile picture.

One thing I am currently trying to maintain is a focus on the golden rules of:
A. Doom art style focus. Nothing that is outside the visual consistency of what Tom Hall or John Romero would want.
B. The player should feel helpless. Either speedrun that shit or try to fight and push your way through. Never expect to be able to survive, never expect to be able to get 100% Kills and Secrets. Not all of your favorite mapsets will be playable with this mod.

[mrtaterz]

ALPHA 0.7

• Footsteps for basic enemies.
• A new melee weapon thanks to GAA1992! The Pipe joins Doomguy's close range arsenal. You will find it in place of the Chainsaw on occasion.

The Pipe is affected by Berserk btw.

[mrtaterz]

Hotfix!

• Footsteps and Active sounds now falloff over distance.
• Using your Hands makes you faster.
• Switching weapons slows you down.
• Saw Behavior changed. Saw damage increased.
• Swinging with the Pipe stops the player's movement.
• Fists no longer change turn angle.