The Guncaster - 3.888b

[PillowBlaster]

Not sure if this is mentioned but the game gets laggy when usingTome of the Draugh on 4.4.2. That and it crashes when opening the shop in Unloved.

Heard that this gzd version has some memo leak problems, which would explain that, methinks. Can't say if newer versions can even launch GC now, but it will once we get the update out. (which might be soon at the rate things go here!)

[Tesculpture]

Can't say if newer versions can even launch GC now

GZDoom v4.5.0 can't, at least for me. I get the following error:

Script error, "Guncaster.pk3:moonspeak/shop/main/ui_handling.txt" line 342:
Unknown identifier 'm_noprescale'

I also get some warnings:

Script warning, "Guncaster.pk3:zscript/spells/darkpath.txt" line 36:
Accessing deprecated member variable X - deprecated since 2.3.0, Use Pos.X instead
Script warning, "Guncaster.pk3:zscript/spells/darkpath.txt" line 36:
Accessing deprecated member variable Y - deprecated since 2.3.0, Use Pos.Y instead
Script warning, "Guncaster.pk3:zscript/spells/darkpath.txt" line 36:
Accessing deprecated member variable Z - deprecated since 2.3.0, Use Pos.Z instead

[PillowBlaster]

Can't say if newer versions can even launch GC now

GZDoom v4.5.0 can't, at least for me. I get the following error:

Script error, "Guncaster.pk3:moonspeak/shop/main/ui_handling.txt" line 342:
Unknown identifier 'm_noprescale'

I also get some warnings:

Script warning, "Guncaster.pk3:zscript/spells/darkpath.txt" line 36:
Accessing deprecated member variable X - deprecated since 2.3.0, Use Pos.X instead
Script warning, "Guncaster.pk3:zscript/spells/darkpath.txt" line 36:
Accessing deprecated member variable Y - deprecated since 2.3.0, Use Pos.Y instead
Script warning, "Guncaster.pk3:zscript/spells/darkpath.txt" line 36:
Accessing deprecated member variable Z - deprecated since 2.3.0, Use Pos.Z instead

Yeah, first is because of some internal changes in gzd, KeksDose got it covered; the latter got fixed by me the other day too.

[PillowBlaster]

So, this update will be a controversial one in a way - I streamlined things. What does that mean? For a variety of reasons (that I somewhat noted down in changelog) I nuked a bunch of items, or me and Dino sat down to retool them. Reasons being that I oftentimes got an item that didn't feel like it was worth my time and trouble, it was causing performance issues or I just didn't feel like using it at all, meaning it was unfocused, misdirected, annoying to use or simply feeling like a clutter that didn't really make any difference for me. I know it might subjective and the mod has less options now, but I think it paid off with a better flow and inducing less headaches on what to use, and most importantly, a bit less of maintenance overhead - "sometimes die is better".

Also, also - power reduction in a lot of places, whoa... Who woulda thought that's even possible?! Does that mean it's actually balanced and an average user can yell at me about it now?..... Hahahahaha, no. You're still overpowered as shit. But, that's the way it is supposed to be!

Special thanks to my dear compadres KeksDose and Dinosaur Nerd who were with me on board with this, yet again! And to Famskull who brought in some fresh load of Overkill via!... well, you can see what form of overkill in that video thumbnail, and to Lt. Blam, who I feel I didn't recognize enough last time, methinks, for his input into the mod as well! THE CREW HAS EXPANDED.

Also note: you'll need gzdoom 4.5.0 for this.

Core file
Addon

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3.777 EAT GUMMY BEARS TO ABSTAIN FROM SMOKING EDITION
-When Sabbatha violently explodes, she now leaves nothing behind! She gets completely PULVERISED! HAHAHAHAHA (Keks; HAHA I GOT THE FIRST FIX IN THE NEW PATCH)
-You may now manually revive shopkeepers with ccmd "reviveshopkeepers" instead of restarting gzd. (Keks)
-Added a safety master check in Deadmaker's Frozen Orb projectile, hopefully preventing vm aborts. (Pillow)
-Mourning Glory received a pretty significant tweak: (Pillow)
*Now this gun is very C&C.
*Gave it second barrel and faster firing rate, warranting to move it to slot 7 as I felt it overlapped too hard with TNT and Matriarch; now it has its own niche of being obscene explosive shell ammo equivalent to Sandman.
*Took out custom ammo so distribution and acquisition is easier.
*Gave it speeds-up-firing-at-cost-of-accuracy for strat, fitting more the original inspirer for this one.
*Commented out firing effect to make yourself not blind while firing.
-Bumped strat prices up on Mourning Glory and Golden Emperor. (Pillow)
-Added intervals between monster alert calls on firing Pulverizer... God, I swear it used to be not such a resource hog, else I wouldn't use it so leniently!... Am I being brainwashed again, what the hell~ (Pillow)
-Accounting for deathmatch?!? (By way of nuking MTHRUSPECIES on several things if deathmatch is true) (Zhs2)
-Also drop the Deadmaker Mask on death in deathmatch (Zhs2)
-I coded some convenience options that allow you to change the size of the buttons in my shop. This includes being able to set a smaller message box, in case you prefer playing in 4:3 or something. (Keks)
-Fixed weapon spawns in addon for the rare chaingun\rocket launcher drops in multi cuz those wouldn't stick around, whoops. (Pillow)
-Added small safety on Longhorn because lol-deathmatch-really-now~ (Pillow)
-Added "Prophet" Mechsuit variant for Deadmaker + Powersuit combo. I am so long past the point of no return that what the hell, why not push it a little further? Was obviously not in plans, but can thank FamSkull for that one - he offered frames and the rest is history~ (Pillow/FamineSkull)
-Changed blood spots to use flat sprites. (Dino) This allowed tilting them to align with sloped surfaces. (Keks)
-Longhorn now gives ammo so you can pick it up properly when spawned around the map and you have a Longhorn already. (Pillow)
-Kinda fixed the Draugh and Meteorfist on it; it still gets stuck on geometry, but now it will stop properly if the monster is dead or its trying to slam into it for too long. (Pillow)
-Toned down a little the Gunzerk's regen. (Pillow)
-Gunzerk no longer reduces damage taken. (Pillow)
-Reduced a bit protection level on suits and Deadmaker. (Pillow)
-Made Deadmaker... "Flexing" the enemies (as one guy had put it regarding making monsters spontaneously combust while walking on or near them) way less deadly. (Pillow)
-Voidwalker's touch now has limited capacity of turning monsters onto your side, up to 10 max. (Pillow)
-Draugh is now killable and has limited work time. You can still pop down more Draughs, but the more is out there, the faster it burns out. (Pillow)
-Mana shield tome now reduces only up to 35% of damage when active when fully upgraded. (Pillow)
-Halved the effectiveness of the Traveler's Journal missile reflection, removed level 4 trait, and each reflected projectile takes a bit of your mana now. (Pillow)
-Explosive Presence has lowered range and frequency. (Pillow)
-Removed Wyvern Idol (Do I even need to explain why this felt like auto-win beyond auto-win I stopped using a while back?). (Pillow)
-Removed Molten Armor (arbitrary upgrade). (Pillow)
-Removed Strider's Lantern (can get laggy with a lot of projectiles, shitty coding). (Pillow)
-Removed Gladius Barrel (arbitrary damage increaser). (Pillow)
-Didn't however remove the Tiberium Core cause... Tiberium is fun and without blue variant, it's just not the same. Moved it to findable artifacts though. (Pillow)
-Removed Powersuit Autocannon (I just added it for the heck of it). (Pillow)
-Removed Arbiter Module (Lags, laaaaags so haaard and I feel I could do this differently. Might return in another take later as a passive upgrade even, if I'll form a better idea around it). (Pillow)
-Removed Splitter Shield (Did I ever use this? Not really. It felt awkward to tryna line-up the projectiles to bust down incoming fire, and each time I found it, I felt I was more penalized than rewarded by not finding something cooler. So, into the trash it goes). (Pillow)
-Removed passive healing on Draughsuit in coop... I kept forgetting to remove that experiment, lol. (Pillow)
-Removed rejuvenation items (Wonky, especially on auto-use where it eats all of them at once and I never remember to use them manually in the heat of the moment anyway). (Pillow)
-Moved Tiberium Core to findable artifacts. (Pillow)
-Tank armor now gives 300 instead of 400 points worth of armor. (Pillow)
-Not that it matters much when your damage is already insane with it, but reduced Quad Damage boost from 4x to 3x, and downed it's active time. Also gets less bonus time from carnage collector, given any damagetype feeds it. (Pillow)
-Reduced base ammo count and some of the pickup amounts. And retooled their damage output for the most part either. (Pillow)
-Reduced Starting ammo to 12 bullets. (Pillow)
-Why nobody told me you can deselect a weapon and maintain the Threadcutter's time stop forever? You cheeky fucks. (Pillow)
-Berserk no longer gives you ridiculous damage output with Powersuit\Deadmaker. The damage increase is much more controlled now. (Pillow)
-Removed arbitrary weapon damage increase while using Powersuit\Deadmaker. (Pillow)
-Retooled melee damage output just a little while I was at that. (Pillow)
-Berserk no longer gives you slight damage boost after it runs out. (Pillow)
-Reduced Dreadful blast radius and added damage falloff on the Dreadful nuke. Also added back the ripper damage on projectile and decreased projectile size. (Pillow)
-Reduced blast affliction's alert radius so you can actually bother using Brimstone for sneaky cleanups. (Pillow)
-Fixed Matriarch shell having a tiny thrust upward when it doesn't fall down anymore. (Pillow)
-Backpacks now only expand your ammo limit for every three you pick up. (Pillow)
-Reduced amount of dynamite you can carry and its spawn ratio. (Pillow)
-Reduced the range on Augur's thru-wall projectile. (Pillow)
-Re-added Augur's impact blast over time-shocking... pretty sure it was a thing that went missing, but maybe my memory foils me. (Pillow)
-Nerfed a bit Sandman and Mourning Glory too (well, with Glory it's... kinda nerfed, given its other upgrade, lol). (Pillow)
-Nerfed a bit Golden Emperor's build-up and reduced base ammo cap. (Pillow)
-Reduced ammo given on Golden Emperor pickup. (Pillow)
-Tweaked the amount of ammo you get from backpacks. (Pillow)
-Added auto-reload on deselecting empty-clipped supermags; wonder if that'll stick cause it makes things a little crazy, though. (Pillow)
-Reduced damage on Deadmaker melee fireballs. (Pillow)
-Reduced ammo given from a bunch of sources. (Pillow)
-Dynamite prox bombs are timed now. (Pillow)
-Moved a bunch of the more high-tier spells into not-available from get-go. To compensate for that, your chance to find cool spells is way higher. (Pillow)
-Limited spiritcannon to just one cannon you can spawn at a time and made it destroyable, also its cost went down to 1500. (Pillow)
-Threadcutter does not operate in time freeze anymore. But, now you can reenact proper Dio, especially that I didn't even seen that series before I even conceived that spell, lol. (Pillow)
-Deadmaker's Megabreath has reduced effectiveness. (Pillow)
-Gave sheeps limited blocking power and reduced damage. (Pillow)
-Reduced Sigil's weave lightnings potency by giving them a lifespan cause they could get a little ridiculous. The rest of bits got a bit of a downgrade too. (Pillow)
-Reduced Gumpop's physical damage bonus, but boosted the spell damage bonus for those who wanna bother juggling the spells. Also increased radius in which the debuff is being given, so you can use it on large enemies. (Pillow)
-Reduced a bit of Darkpath's damage being [censored word] under right circumstances. (Pillow)
-Reduced damage and count on super spirit punches for Skypunch too. (Pillow)
-Changed the way Scourgebreath works where it doesn't go through walls anymore, but it can still damage things through walls. (Pillow)
-You can now eat as much marzipan as you like without getting fat! (Keks)
-Supermag icons are now properly restored when loading a savegame. (Keks)
-(addon) You may now enable 'gc_guidedemperor 1' in the console. This allows you to remote control the Golden Emperor's missile with a camera. I just copied it from what I did for the Deathhead for Russian Overkill. Note that dual-wielding will only fire normal shots. (Keks)
-HP viewer now respects looking through other cameras. (Keks)
-Rewrote my old Skypunch levitation acs in zs. (Keks)
-Fixed m_noprescale preventing startup from my shop due to newer gzd builds reworking mouse sensitivity handling. (Keks)
-Retooled Voidwalker's Touch. (Dino)
-Retooled Reaversphere by making it work more like actual stealth mode, breaking when attacking, monsters losing interest of you, you name it! (Dino)
-Made the grrorious hand lazer beams work for Prophet. (Dino)
-Retooled the Riftwalk to make it more effective in some cases like actor bridges and made it run on separate resource. (Dino)
-Retooled Augur shots so they have new wall penetration behavior and damage dealing system. (Dino)
-Made the grrorious hand lazer beam model and texture (DoomNukem!... DoomNukem? What the f~)
-Made the hand lazer beam work nicely. (Dino)
-"force default steps" and "force default size" now also affects Deadmaker. (Zhs2 / Dino)
-Made new handling on Spiritcannon limiter. (Dino)
-Decreased spin down time on Sandman. (Pillow)
-Added a speed-up on Brimstone attacks if you have any melee enhancer on like berserk, powersuit or Deadmaker. (Pillow, Famine's suggestion)
-Written brand new vm abort catcher from scratch. (Keks)
-Very slight rework of menu tip handling. (Keks)
-Slight rework of console alias to bind key name handling. (Keks)
-You can now select a vm abort style by setting gc_abortmode:

0: Utsuho (classic)
1: Simon
2: Random

-Fixed edge case in my Sandman visor code causing a vm-abort when the moment it picks up a target is instantly followed with said target getting removed from the map in the same tick. (Keks)
-New keyshare and locks handling. (Dino)
-Remade title screen script from scratch to accommodate the bigger crew page. (Keks)

[Cardboard Marty]

This looks fantastic! Great work to everyone involved, looking forward to testing this baby out when I can!

[CanisLaticanis]

I may have found a bug: the Mourning Glory still leaves behind radioactive fallout, but only while the Stratocaster is active. Also it still seems to be on the RL slot?

EDIT: Also it seems I can't pick up any armor.
EDIT2: ... nevermind, apparently the default armor pickup mode is button-based now?
EDIT3: Mourning Glory leaves fallout in both firemodes, still. The bigger problem with this is that alt-fire causes a TON of lag.

[cubebert]

It's a bit of a shame that some items had to be cut, but I can understand the reasoning behind it, since Guncaster might've started to get bloated with items that share a purpose or aren't really too convenient to use such as the rejuvenation potions. Would they ever return in a separate addon or are they on the chopping block for good? That said, I like the hard work that's been put into this update. Nice job as always, crew!

[Dalse]

Hello!

As much as OP you can be with the new Suit Stacking, I am noticing that not only you cut a lot of things, but have done some nerfs and balacing! I am liking this because as much as it feels good to be OP , being like that too early makes the game get "used up" very fast! I play mostly Guncaster Vindicated due to the difficulty , but I am starting to like this one more than past updates because you need work to actually get into the OPNESS territory , just like how I feel with Vindicated!

So...great job with the newer design decisions , Pillow! And , of course, we cannot deny the immense work of all your awesome team in making this dragon freaking soar! Have a awesome day!

[rhyrhygogo]

Not sure if it's cause of my PC but when I open the shop the game closes
Excited to play with the new features tho!

[PillowBlaster]

I may have found a bug: the Mourning Glory still leaves behind radioactive fallout, but only while the Stratocaster is active. Also it still seems to be on the RL slot?

EDIT: Also it seems I can't pick up any armor.
EDIT2: ... nevermind, apparently the default armor pickup mode is button-based now?
EDIT3: Mourning Glory leaves fallout in both firemodes, still. The bigger problem with this is that alt-fire causes a TON of lag.

-The armor, so far I checked on fresh config, defaults to standard doom behavior as usual. Something weird must've happened for you there.
-Ah, fallout didn't get cut, that's integral part of the gun. I also reduced the particle count there a whole lot, not sure what else I can do there without reducing the effect completely, sorry. ;_;

Not sure if it's cause of my PC but when I open the shop the game closes
Excited to play with the new features tho!

Any error message or it just... explodes you to desktop? If yes, that's real weird.

It's a bit of a shame that some items had to be cut, but I can understand the reasoning behind it, since Guncaster might've started to get bloated with items that share a purpose or aren't really too convenient to use such as the rejuvenation potions. Would they ever return in a separate addon or are they on the chopping block for good? That said, I like the hard work that's been put into this update. Nice job as always, crew!

Unless I'll get better ideas for those items, they probably will stay in shadow realm for now.

Hello!

As much as OP you can be with the new Suit Stacking, I am noticing that not only you cut a lot of things, but have done some nerfs and balacing! I am liking this because as much as it feels good to be OP , being like that too early makes the game get "used up" very fast! I play mostly Guncaster Vindicated due to the difficulty , but I am starting to like this one more than past updates because you need work to actually get into the OPNESS territory , just like how I feel with Vindicated!

So...great job with the newer design decisions , Pillow! And , of course, we cannot deny the immense work of all your awesome team in making this dragon freaking soar! Have a awesome day!

Yeah, I've felt I don't get same satisfaction there, so I had to mess with it. I think the results do feel better, I muck around with inventory less, get more mileage from what I get too (especially early game vs drla + legendoom is... an experience). Good thing that I had a right feeling in the gut.

This looks fantastic! Great work to everyone involved, looking forward to testing this baby out when I can!

Definitely; have fun there Marty, hehe.

[Whitestellar]

Everytime this mod comes again out of nowere and make me see how cool Doom mods can be

[rhyrhygogo]

So it just explodes me to desktop no error message it happened again when I tried to do the MechSuit+Mask combo ;_; That was the one I wanted to try the most

[Starman the Blaziken]

Sad that some things went away like the lamp, the magma armor and the nerf to the armor count to tank armor and shields even further, but wyverns I wish they could of been for something else instead of spell spitters (To make them less of a win item oof). Although the Quad Damage is gonna bug me for being Tri Damage being without the changes to make it what is on the tin even if it makes you turn anything unmodified into soup for fun, eh it is still useful nonetheless and I am excited to play this soon.

[baddude1337]

While I do miss a couple of the items (Lantern and Cannon, that shoulder gun was hella fun), being able to use the mask and mechsuit together is amazing and super fun to play! Congrats all on the amazing release.

[Dalse]

I completely forgot that thanks to the adapters , Guncaster can be compatible with enemy mods!

Pillow and people , what kind of enemy mods works best besides the doomdrla with legendoom?