[Hexen] The Veteran (tentative title)

[StroggVorbis]

Hey all,

in the last couple weeks I started work on a simple quality of life mod seperate from FASTHEXN and thought I'd share it with you.
The name, which isn't set in stone, is a reference to and inspired by another mod, called The Adept by amv2k9, if anyone remembers that.
What this does is throw Hexen's class system out the window and merges them all into a new character.
This means that you will face the greatest opposition of adversaries but also find all classes' weapons.

Other changes include:

- Death Wyvern, Dark Bishop and Serpent Leader now check if you're in their line of sight before attacking, bringing them in line with all other games' enemies, well except for Strife =P
- Each Slot 2, 3 and 4 weapon now has its own ammo pool. To account for this, blue, green and purple mana (replaces combined mana) gives 5 ammo for all tiers' weapons.
- Porkalator now fires one shot instead of five at a time, max and pickup amounts have been changed from 25/1 to 125/5 accordingly.
- You will also find all three types of flechettes, bringing more variety to the combat (I suggest binding each of them to a different hotkey)
- All armor pieces give 20 points, for a total of 100 in conjunction with dragonskin bracers (thinking about changing all pieces to bracers)
- The Serpent Staff now fires a single projectile doing double the damage and without the Slither/Weave effect.
- Frost Shards now fire a single projectile dealing 17-136 damage instead of having to split into 17 seperate missiles in 8 tics with worse spread than a Super Shotgun.
- Kraters of Might now give 5 mana for each weapon now instead of fully replenishing it. I always found that too OP and never had to use them. Essentially a portable backpack without the doubling effect.
- Enemies now only flinch from poison clouds if they actually receive damage.
- Removed the serpent staff's idle blinking as it would slow down the deselection.
- Probably some other stuff I forgot :3

Known Issues/To do:

- I plan on changing the color of two of the flechette types so it's possible to differentiate between them.
- The fully assembled Quietus and Bloodscourge pickups from HeXmas can't be picked up (yet) due to RestrictedTo/ForbiddenTo properties.
- I need to find a way to give the player the option to convert purple mana to blue and green if you don't possess the ultimate weapons so you don't run out of ammo.

Feedback and constructive critique is appreciated :D

The mod is hosted at uploadfiles.io for now, I will look for a more permanent solution within the next 30 days

Have fun! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GOyL2Q ... sp=sharing

[StroggVorbis]

Reuploaded because the DECORATE file had a typo, preventing the mod from starting.

With that, Happy Halloween!

[CopperBoltwire]

Check "Brutal Hexen" it adds a 3rd and combo mana too. Maybe you can learn from that code. Had a look at it earlier today

[StroggVorbis]

Thanks for the heads-up. I'm always eager to learn and happy for being pointed in the right direction. Right now I'm more or less working on a conversion of Strife's dialogue scripts, however :)

[CopperBoltwire]

Oh, try Wrath of Cronos too - just had a look, and it also deals with multi ammo/mana combo orbs...

[StroggVorbis]

Changed the host from uploadfiles.io, where it died after 30 days, to my Google Drive, a bit too late, but better than never :D