Ashes Afterglow TC - closing the vault

[Captain J]

I recently beat Episode 1 and holy moly i really love the new changes now it has. Tutorial level feels extra meatier than before and i love it. Weapon sprites look cool and Scavver sounds a lot different than usual! So that's really cool.

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- So about the Tutorial, it gets kinda tougher with the expanding numbers of Cannibal in Arcade Difficulty. It's understandable and all but this Pipebomb trap caught me off guard and i didn't expect this. The thing is, the tip showed up as soon as i tripped it over. How cheeky. Has no Checkpoint either.


- During the convo with the Barkeep at first town, Scavver brings up the Typo- "Broadcasts?.". It has both Dot and Question Mark.


- So wow, umm Motorcycle feels A LOT different than usual. Now it steers extra smoothly. I think it's okay, unless the steering speed is extremely slow when you're controlling it with Mouse. Hope there's a way i can tweak the sensitivity manually.


- calx already mentioned this before, but i'm indeed seeing some misaligned, awkwardly-colored textures here and there. Luckily i took the Screenshots of them as i can.


- The section where you see terrified Raiders, they still feel a lot happy because of their new idle sounds. Their line, "LET'S GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!" Sounds legitimately scared tho.


- At the Crossroad in MAP05, i found this. Good ol' paper bridge. The times when we couldn't make 3D walls.


- At the Elevator Ambush Section, there are Cannibals can't get out of their monster closet. I know that 100% kill is impossible in certain levels in Ashes but at least i'd like to see them fucntion.


- At MAP09, this big fella can't get out their hidey hole. Maybe because that Mannequin is blocking his path.


- At MAP07, you can easily get stuck if you jump down into this hole.


- This Upgraded Ingram rules. However, i see a little white pixel worm hovering above the Silencer.

Also about Alt-Fire, i already can sense that it's based on Blood's Tommy Gun spray move. But maybe it's aping the reference so much?? Because it still feels not helpful at all. I dunno but my advice would be decrease the horizontal spread but drastically increase the vertical spread. It's about spreading it at the crowd, no?


- The Cutscene before MAP08 starts has "Jungle Vines.Slid down into the pit.", lacking a single space between two lines.


- Speaking of textures, at the Mass Hall of MAP08, what's this supposed to be? It's too pixel-y so i can't figure out of this is a Pile of Tin Cans or a Stack of Dishes.

Soon i'm totally going to play the Dead Man Walking. My heart is really beating and can't wait to play it! Keep up the good work there, Voy.

[Curunir]

Never pinpoint a release down to the hour and expect people not to keep refreshing the page, Vostyok, my good man!

[GoldenWarden]

I just finished the Ashes 2063 enriched (literally just now) and am waiting afterglow god I love this mod

[pagb666]

Are we there yet?

[Vostyok]

Thank you for all the effort finding and reporting these. It's been a big help.

Uploading now.


Stand by....

[Vostyok]

First build of Ashes Afterglow, version 1.00.

Please note the following: This is the first build. There will be bugs. There will be jank. Not everything I am happy with. But happy enough for now.

Neutral NPCs are still immortal. Don't start a fight you can't finish.

Includes:

3 2 new weapons!
18 maps!
Multiple endings!
8 new enemies and a ton of new characters.
A ton of new music.

Credits (wip, it's been two goddamn years):

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Ashes: Afterglow Credits:
ReformedJoe - Co-mapper and Zscript specialist.
The Dutch Ghost- Screenwriter
John-S Weekley/Primeval - Soundtrack. Check him out on Facebook/Bandcamp if you haven't already!
Retromuffin - Textures assistant and additional art/story
SunniBoi -the voice of the Scav.
Chronoteef - main voice acting for cannibals/raiders. I GET HIS LIVER!
Captain J - the excellent SFX pack.
Snarboo for the framework of the vehicle code.
Ezepov for ANOTHER awesome new logo and title.
RamonDexter - ZDOOM dialog help and the Journal system.
WildWeasel - GunLabs tutorials. I cannot stress how much this helped me get started.
The entire Zdoom Forums for the wiki, the support and the Youtube playthroughs! Marvellous.
XLightningStormL - Improved Radiation script
D2Icarus - Help with zscript basics
Sgt MkIv for the idea behind the motorcycle.
TerminusEst13 for the handling script for the motorcycle. Original mod here: viewtopic.php?f=43&t=58804
Vader for the original Roach sprites. Not, not those roaches. The bigger ones.
TiberiumSoul for sourcing some new Jusket and assault rifle sounds!
NMN- fantastic art which now is my phone's lock screen, as well as the sprites for "Lucy"
PillowBlaster - The Nuke script
The Zombie Killer - Footsteps code original designer
GupGupExtreme - Voice of the Goons Boss
TheAbsoluteLad - Voice of Garavito
BigC - Voice of Barrett/Mojo, son of Jojo
Pug-alo - Voice of Jack Miller
Goaldude-00- Gasbag colony sounds
Many sounds from Fallout Tactics, by 14 Degrees East
JessyRuiz- radio voice1 in Flooded District
Wolfseyerio - Athena/Vinaya
SirAz-The General/The Warlord/Overseers
Badguy292-"Give em hell" art kindly donated
Playtest Team Alpha Wolf Squadron - you know who you are

Textures- (as few as possible, most are based on stock images or drawn by Retromuffin34. Please ask for individual credits
Raven, 3d Realms, Monolith, Xatrix entertainment, of course Id software as well.

Realm667 and various contributors for some props and sounds.
Specifically; Gothic, Captain Awesome, CaptainToenail, Bloax, EttinGrinder.
MagicWazard for his/her (?) Terrain Splashes plugin.

More to follow as I find them

And thank you all very much for all the love and support. I will be available for any major problems for the next few hours from time of this post.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/quhh5n2a ... 0.zip/file
Instructions: Run with gz/lzdoom , with Doom 2 as an iwad, on it's own. No other files required! Mod compatibility has not been tested yet!
Final note: Some of you may still find the motorcycle difficult to control. I'm working on a fix for this. Hopefully it's not too smooth at the moment.
Final final note: Tested in Dark sector mode, which may be too dark for your monitor. Check Sector Light mode is set to Doom or Vanilla if you find the light level is too low. Prologue offers a testing area for these purposes


Edit: Apologies for wait for this and huge file size. I wasn't happy with splitting our story, so decided to cram it together into a double episode. Thank me later.

[GoldenWarden]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlFB30a_3mM

[Hermann_Wolf1]

FINALLY!!
I didnt sleep last night when the Ep.1 remaster came out and I wont sleep tonight as well

[Psychodelic]

Thank you for this, V. I'll certainly enjoy the beauty and madness of the apocalypse.
And then I'll probably do it all over again w/ Hideous Destructor.

[calx]

Some journal text doesn't appear to align correctly, I assume this is because of my aspect ratio?

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https://imgur.com/a/W7sJeZi

[ReformedJoe]

First build of Ashes Afterglow, version 1.00.

Please note the following: This is the first build. There will be bugs. There will be jank. Not everything I am happy with. But happy enough for now.

Neutral NPCs are still immortal. Don't start a fight you can't finish.

Includes:

3 2 new weapons!
18 maps!
Multiple endings!
8 new enemies and a ton of new characters.
A ton of new music.

Credits (wip, it's been two goddamn years):

---

Ashes: Afterglow Credits:
ReformedJoe - Co-mapper and Zscript specialist.
The Dutch Ghost- Screenwriter
John-S Weekley/Primeval - Soundtrack. Check him out on Facebook/Bandcamp if you haven't already!
Retromuffin - Textures assistant and additional art/story
SunniBoi -the voice of the Scav.
Chronoteef - main voice acting for cannibals/raiders. I GET HIS LIVER!
Captain J - the excellent SFX pack.
Snarboo for the framework of the vehicle code.
Ezepov for ANOTHER awesome new logo and title.
RamonDexter - ZDOOM dialog help and the Journal system.
WildWeasel - GunLabs tutorials. I cannot stress how much this helped me get started.
The entire Zdoom Forums for the wiki, the support and the Youtube playthroughs! Marvellous.
XLightningStormL - Improved Radiation script
D2Icarus - Help with zscript basics
Sgt MkIv for the idea behind the motorcycle.
TerminusEst13 for the handling script for the motorcycle. Original mod here: viewtopic.php?f=43&t=58804
Vader for the original Roach sprites. Not, not those roaches. The bigger ones.
TiberiumSoul for sourcing some new Jusket and assault rifle sounds!
PillowBlaster - The Nuke script
The Zombie Killer - Footsteps code original designer
GupGupExtreme - Voice of the Goons Boss
TheAbsoluteLad - Voice of Garavito
BigC - Voice of Barrett/Mojo, son of Jojo
Pug-alo - Voice of Jack Miller
Many sounds from Fallout Tactics, by 14 Degrees East

Playtest Team Alpha Wolf Squadron - you know who you are

Textures- (as few as possible, most are based on stock images or drawn by Retromuffin34. Please ask for individual credits
Raven, 3d Realms, Monolith, Xatrix entertainment, of course Id software as well.

Realm667 and various contributors for some props and sounds.
Specifically; Gothic, Captain Awesome, CaptainToenail, Bloax, EttinGrinder.
MagicWazard for his/her (?) Terrain Splashes plugin.

More to follow as I find them

And thank you all very much for all the love and support. I will be available for any major problems for the next few hours from time of this post.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/quhh5n2a ... 0.zip/file
Instructions: Run with gz/lzdoom , with Doom 2 as an iwad, on it's own. No other files required! Mod compatibility has not been tested yet!
Final note: Some of you may still find the motorcycle difficult to control. I'm working on a fix for this. Hopefully it's not too smooth at the moment.
Final final note: Tested in Dark sector mode, which may be too dark for your monitor. Check Sector Light mode is set to Doom or Vanilla if you find the light level is too low. Prologue offers a testing area for these purposes


Edit: Apologies for wait for this and huge file size. I wasn't happy with splitting our story, so decided to cram it together into a double episode. Thank me later.

To nip a few issues in the bud:
1. Yes we know about the revenant noises that one enemy still makes.
2. The bike is still a bit jank. Give it a chance, make slow gradual movements with your mouse and don't just hold W down.
3. If you're having performance issues switch to the Vulkan renderer.

Anyway, for the people who might not have seen it here's the trailer again:

Change "SOON" to "NOW" lol

[Echelon5]

An issue I've had since playing the demo is the, to be frank, absurd amount of damage enemies do even on the easiest difficulty. Seems a little unbalanced to have hitscanners be able to peel your health down so very fast. It's odd because I felt like the first Ashes episode was perfectly balanced on every difficulty, but this just seems a little needlessly frustrating, even on the easiest setting. Incredible work so far, otherwise.

[TheRedCrow]

An issue I've had since playing the demo is the, to be frank, absurd amount of damage enemies do even on the easiest difficulty. Seems a little unbalanced to have hitscanners be able to peel your health down so very fast. It's odd because I felt like the first Ashes episode was perfectly balanced on every difficulty, but this just seems a little needlessly frustrating, even on the easiest setting. Incredible work so far, otherwise.

Respectfully disagree, I'm playing on arcade and I feel like this might be a you problem.

I know it's a bit soon, but has anyone found the yellow key in westside?

[Vostyok]

Some journal text doesn't appear to align correctly, I assume this is because of my aspect ratio?

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https://imgur.com/a/W7sJeZi

Change hud scaling. It's an option in hud menu. It's a weird one but until I switch fully to zscript it's something I'm not sure how to fix.

An issue I've had since playing the demo is the, to be frank, absurd amount of damage enemies do even on the easiest difficulty. Seems a little unbalanced to have hitscanners be able to peel your health down so very fast. It's odd because I felt like the first Ashes episode was perfectly balanced on every difficulty, but this just seems a little needlessly frustrating, even on the easiest setting. Incredible work so far, otherwise.

I've been considering making Relaxed mode a little easier than it is actually. Not only for those not used to this kind of game but also for those using mobile apps like DeltaTouch. I'll try to put this in the first update, which should hopefully be soon.
Also, none of the enemies use hitscans. Try staying mobile. I left your speed unchanged for this reason.

...I know it's a bit soon, but has anyone found the yellow key in westside?

Mod is hub based. Think Hexen/New Wolfensteins. Except hopefully less obtuse. I'm sure you'll find it somewhere if you look around the city.

[calx]

Adjusting the scaling did the trick, thanks! I'm close to catching up to where the demo ended now.