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Blasphemer aims to create a free content package for the Heretic engine, with a theme of metal-inspired dark fantasy.
Any limit-removing Doom source port that is compatible with Heretic can be used to play Blasphemer.
As of this release we have almost 3 episodes worth of content to play. Almost all empty or blank placeholders have been filled with relevant graphics and sounds. E6M3 is a test map so all the new graphical resources can be easily looked over. There are over 2 episodes of deathmatch maps as well.
looks like its sprites replecement with new levels. For exemple this flying monster is Heretic Disciple he phase to semi-invisible ghost state and have simmilar attack pattern.
the plague crossbow with 3x bolts on body is great. I also like the ice wand weapon on slot 4.
I was looking at this green flying flame. but i still have no clue what it is. a stone face?
golem replacement is nice. i like the antlers
black demon is a little to big. He is easy to kill, but have size comarable to Maultaur.
Blasphemer project make me realise something.
there are lots of people who create awesome stuff, weapons, monsters, levels, weapons, maps, weapons and weapons. [me included]
But all that is just modification of existing games - Doom, Hexen or Heretic. Because of that, modders are forced to follow the old schemes. Like they need to use blue and green mana for Hexen-projects, and classes (weapon sets). Doom mods are using the doom monsters and weapons templates. Moreover Heretic was just a reskin of doom in the first place (a big, ambitious mod you can say), that rather screw up the doom balance.
There would never be a brand new experience with that. You will always know what to expect from another shotgun skin, or pinky demon recolour.
"WTF you wanna say? doom is masterpiece. None other fps have so greatly design weapons and monsters"
right.
My points is... this community is more than capable of creating brand new games. Whether open source or commercial, a new quality. New set of weapons, with drawn from scratch sprites. New set of monsters, with new behaviours, new animations, new attack patters. Even new player class, that can have new abilities (climbing, parkour, destroying walls, driving vehicles...).
problem I see is everyone is starting again with the base games. Instead taking existing pieces to create something new. And that all is interlocked: maps have placed vanilla monster and weapons, so weapon mods need to follow them.
“Why do you write this generalized ramble in Blasphemer topic again?”
I don’t like that monster and weapons are not behave in new way in Blasphemer.
“but this is open source to be compatible with other mods, that use Heretic weapons and monster templates. Otherwise, this would break already made maps”
I would sacrifice this back compatibility for a new experience.
“and what are your ground breaking ideas for new heretic monster and weapons, that would open us so many new gameplay horizons?”
I need to think about it.
Spoiler:
in doom the "magic", scifi weapons (plasma BFG), are late tier. I think "open-heretic" should follow the same.
in doom there are very weak humans enemies, that create good reference point, how powerful and tough the demons are.
in doom the human enemies drop weapons and items, that are sensible and nicely fit to what happen in the game. Sergant droping shotgun. Heavy chaingun.
tougher out of the world enemies are like tier 2 monsters, that you need to be prepare to face them. Mancubus, Revenant, arachnotron, Hellknight (nice variation of Baron). Heretic doesnt have that, all monsters are really tier1, expect ironlich and maulotaur (which is tier 3 - boss, like cyberdemon or spider demon).
P.S.
the dagger weapons have not enought sprite frames. Stab animation is very "stuttering". Is increasing sprite frames and adding decoration file out of discussion ?
I'm pretty sure the whole point of Blasphemer was that it could be the FreeDoom-equivalent of Heretic. I dunno, seems pointless to rag that a mod doesn't give you the experience you wanted, like someone going to a tennis tournament and whining about how they should be doing soccer instead.
“but this is open source to be compatible with other mods, that use Heretic weapons and monster templates. Otherwise, this would break already made maps”
I would sacrifice this back compatibility for a new experience.
Then make your own mod based on Blasphemer. Things like FreeDoom are made to be fully compatible with mods and maps.
Blasphemer is Free-Heretic. Your Bitter Heretic Mod works on it and the maps are really freaking good.
Good Job Blasphemer team!
nah... its not really compatible. sprites frame switch between same monster (or weapon). I would need to upload all missing frames from Heretic wad to bitter ("thats illegal ! im calling cyber police" ).
its not pointless, because I utter my opinion.
and yes, im gonna write down all my excellent and flawless mod ideas in some other thread here, were i can find some more progressive people who will ignore me instead
JohnnyTheWolf wrote:Has anyone been able to beat E3M1 yet? It is really difficult, even more so than its Heretic counterpart.
The Free-Doom's were also more difficult than Dooms were. I managed to beat E3m1 on Blasphemer difficulty so don't get too excited. The opening is rough but basically just run for the Crossbow and burn everything down with the Wand instead. Running for the Crossbow allows you to get more maneuvering room. The Ophidian hallway is basically just spam the Claw . No lie, the beginning and 1st room after the opening are really tough. I barely squeezed out a victory on that beginning. After that it gets considerably easier because you get the Claw styled weapon and there's just ammo everywhere.
Okay, I have tried once more and I got it this time. I have not spammed potions like since Diablo II!
I am not sure why, but I find the font to be incredibly hard to read in this one. Maybe it is the colour (red) and the automap background (dark pink). I hope subsequent versions address that. Also, compatibility with NightFright's excellent widescreen HUD would be much appreciated! I was expecting to be at least able to mask the status bar on the automap, but not even that seems to work.
JohnnyTheWolf wrote:Okay, I have tried once more and I got it this time. I have not spammed potions like since Diablo II!
I am not sure why, but I find the font to be incredibly hard to read in this one. Maybe it is the colour (red) and the automap background (dark pink). I hope subsequent versions address that. Also, compatibility with NightFright's excellent widescreen HUD would be much appreciated! I was expecting to be at least able to mask the status bar on the automap, but not even that seems to work.
If You are in GZdoom or Lzdoom just press the = button to switch it the hud bar to the minimal version of the gzd alt-hud. if you Press the - button it will move it the other way. No need to even use a hud mod honestly.
