Ashes Afterglow TC - closing the vault

[Captain J]

Finished playing Dead Man Walking today and each Cutscene pic was all brilliant and well made. Feels positively a lot different now and i also like how the Rippers look different than any other Raiders!

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- Forgot to mention this, but Bootknife animation on 9mm Autoloader and Pump-Action Shotgun look weird and jittery.

- Forgot to mention this(2), but Blaster Master big boys can hurt themselves by their own fireball's explosion.


- Forgot to mention this(3), but Ingram suffers Hacx Uzi syndrome. It being graphically inconstant, but thankfully it doesn't mess with the gameplay.


- Recently noticed that these particular Carpet footstep sound effects are kinda quiet than any other footstep sounds for some reason.


- Graphical suggestion: This letter Q doesn't look like Q, you know, O with a stick under it. And i took the wrong Screenshot here but Scav says something like "So you must be the Quartermaster", missing dot at the end of the line.


- This Patriot's sprite change when i somehow die and has no firing sound effect.


- This Office Chair looks a bit small, reminded me that world's smallest coffee cup meme back in the day


- Also this is an Off-Topic stuff here but can't think of anything but that particular scene from South Park XD

Also mega Congrats for releasing Afterglow TC version 1.00!! This month is going great with the Post-Apocalyptic stuff.

[TheRedCrow]

I need confirmation on this because it's driving me crazy, but spoiler for the gap, possibly.

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are you, or are you not, supposed to get into the hospital via mega-blaster jumpiong up the elevator shaft?

[ReformedJoe]

There are 0 places where blaster jumping (or any other movement exploit) is needed to progress.

So to answer your question, absolutely not.

[Cynderstone]

So maybe it's because I'm using Rocket Launcher, but when I try to launch Afterglow with Doom2 as the base WAD I land on this error screen:

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OS: Windows 10 (or higher) (NT 10.0) Build 19043

M_LoadDefaults: Load system defaults.
Using program directory for storage
W_Init: Init WADfiles.
adding C:/Users/josep/OneDrive/Desktop/Doom/gzdoom-4-2-4a-Windows-64bit/gzdoom.pk3, 608 lumps
adding C:/Users/josep/OneDrive/Desktop/Doom/gzdoom-4-2-4a-Windows-64bit/game_support.pk3, 2520 lumps
adding C:/Users/josep/OneDrive/Desktop/Doom/doom2.wad, 2919 lumps
adding C:/Users/josep/OneDrive/Desktop/Doom/AshesAfterglow1_00.pk3, 7570 lumps
I_Init: Setting up machine state.
CPU speed: 2208 MHz
CPU Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz
Family 6, Model 158, Stepping 10
Features: SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 SSE4.2 HyperThreading
V_Init: allocate screen.
S_Init: Setting up sound.
I_InitSound: Initializing OpenAL
Opened device OpenAL Soft on Speakers (Realtek(R) Audio)
EFX enabled
ST_Init: Init startup screen.
Checking cmd-line parameters...
S_InitData: Load sound definitions.
G_ParseMapInfo: Load map definitions.
Texman.Init: Init texture manager.
ParseTeamInfo: Load team definitions.
LoadActors: Load actor definitions.
AshesAfterglow1_00.pk3:zactors/enemy/manslayer.zsc, line 370: A_StartSound: action function not found in RJBullshitHack
AshesAfterglow1_00.pk3:zactors/object/flametrap.zsc, line 21: A_StartSound: action function not found in RJFlameTrap

Execution could not continue.

2 errors, 0 warnings while compiling AshesAfterglow1_00.pk3:zscript.zsc

Just wondering if there's any ideas? Rocket is my preferred launcher, so I'd rather not switch if I can help it. for some reason I'm terrible with other ones.

[wildweasel]

The launcher should be fine - consider checking your version of GZDoom, though, as it might not be up to date.

[Cynderstone]

The launcher should be fine - consider checking your version of GZDoom, though, as it might not be up to date.

Will do! I decided to play through dead man walking first, so I think I'll finish that first I think, lol

edit: I stepped away, came back and updated, and sure enough that did it! Thanks!

[Echelon5]

I'm not crazy, right, you're supposed to be able to jump the fence with the rideable mutant in the south badlands? Because I cant make this dang jump lol.

[Vostyok]

I'm not crazy, right, you're supposed to be able to jump the fence with the rideable mutant in the south badlands? Because I cant make this dang jump lol.

Yeah, you can. It takes a little run-up, though. Run up the ramp, stop just as you reach the edge, then hit altfire.

I'll make it a little easier in next build.

[Jarewill]

Oh my goodness, Afterglow released!
I've been having a blast playing it on survival difficulty: Definitely harder than in the demo!
I barely fixed up my bike and departed after making sure to 100% the entire hub. (I was really surprised at the amount of side quests in it)
Will continue playing it later, but I feel like this is gonna become one of my favorite Doom TCs.

[CyberneticPhantom]

So quick question

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After that awesome mutant arena level am I supposed to have lost all my upgraded weapons and be reset with the originals or was there a way to get them back back there?

[Vostyok]

So quick question

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After that awesome mutant arena level am I supposed to have lost all my upgraded weapons and be reset with the originals or was there a way to get them back back there?

It was intended that you recover them all after the fight. They can be found in the arena.
Just to clarify, did you die during the cutscene that proceeded it?

[CyberneticPhantom]

Oh? I didn't progress too far past this so can go back luckily, maybe I missed them somehow. But yes I did die in the cutscene

[Vostyok]

Okay. I'll fix this. Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience.

[Vostyok]

https://www.mediafire.com/file/8s5xqdlb ... 2.pk3/file

Night Of The Hotfix

Update for Afterglow to version 1.02. Fixes a ton of the worst issues encountered. Main one - Bike now has keyboard AND mouse controls. No need to switch options for it. Please let me know how it feels. Will be pushing the bike controls fix over to 2063 Enriched shortly. Many thanks.

Please note: Keep a backup for saves. This will most likely break them due to the amount of changes.

changelog:

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changelog

1.01:
-Fixed "red blindness" softloft issue in final boss battle
-Vinaya's shockwave projectiles are now faster and visible
-Fixed sequence breaking tunnel quest softlock in Prosperity
-Added Walker's introduction speech
-Fixes for some of the sequence breaking in dialogues
-Relaxed difficulty mode has bonus damage resistance for player and reduced enemy aggression
-Keyboard controls for motorcycle as well as mouse (bound to strafe keys by default)
-weird red glow during final end cutscene sequence gone
-Roamer confrontation at end of hub2 now triggers correctly
-removed/reduced blaster jumping
-fixed some areas that can let player get out of bounds
-buffed bayonet damage

1.02:
-Fixed broken elevator in nuclear site
-Fixed death-exit bug in city escape.

[efraletti]

Hello, many thanks for this AAAA TC, great atmosphere and fun, a milestone for years to come.

I have completed Enriched 1.0 first episode, and started first map on DMW and noticed the following:

* map05 sub caverns:
- can confirm there is a monster closet close to the normal exit, mencioned in a post above, where mosters are stuck.
- secret exit to level map09, if you press the button to flood the area, gate opens, you walk all the way to the end, and water pours not from the grates but from the middle of the corridor, awkwardly.

* map51 dead man walking start: in the original one, after text intro, there was a red screen and our scav screams, waking from almost death being thrown in the ditch, with 10 health; a nice detail, unfortunately missing in Enriched.

for now, report over, and out.... (radio static)

again, contratulations all involved in this marvellous game.