[Gameplay Mod] The Punisher (Beta 100423)

[YukesVonFaust]

On that day, Frank Castle died.

On that day, I was born.
To avenge them... and all others like them.

I am...



If you're guilty, YOU'RE DEAD.


Frank Castle has a new mission:

Retaliate with extreme prejudice against anything that threatens us again, be it humans, demons, machines - it doesn't matter, he's the man who can punish these transgressions against peace and justice in equal terms.

And YOU are the only one who can help him accomplish this. Don't miss out on this opportunity to play as the toughest Marvel™ anti-hero of all time!


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FEATURES:
- Pick your favorite weapon and blast enemies in a very dynamic beat 'em up-styled system!

- Compatible with many enemy packs and maps to suit your style!

- Lightweight in size and easy to play!

- Save hostages to get items and bonuses! (Toggleable in Options)
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HOW TO PLAY:
Use your Reload key to perform actions such as: throwing away/discarding your weapon, grabbing enemies when you are using your fists (and throwing them anywhere you want!), or even reloading said weapons that allow you to do it;

Use your Zoom key to throw grenades.

Use your Altfire key to perform secondary actions such as a melee attack, switching fire modes or zooming a scope.
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SCREENSHOTS

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Loaded with the following mapsets: Anomaly Report, Urbanside.wad, FreeDoom Phase 2

VIDEOS

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Video by Facínora of Gaming Room!

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CHANGELOG

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(Apr 10, 2023) v1.0 (as Beta 100423) - INITIAL RELEASE.

BUG REPORTS

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None, as of yet.

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Click here to SAY YOUR PRAYERS.
(Mirror Link in case the Kingpin took it down.)
current version: Beta 100423



The Punisher, the skull logo and other assets are copyrighted by Marvel Entertainment Group.
Based on an arcade game released by Capcom.
Mod Created by Yukes von Faust. (Credits are inside the pk3 file.)

[Skelegant]

Excellent work! This is one stylish mod, you absolutely nailed the look and feel of the arcade original.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

YES! I longed for this day!!!

[Captain J]

Congratulations on releasing this mod. I've played the mod and beat Vanilla Doom 2's MAP01 to MAP08. I'm really surprised how various the weapons are! The feedback after hitting baddies with them is satisfying, and the animation plus details on each weapon sprite look great. I like MGL and M-16A1 the most because i noticed the weapon zooms in during reload. Nice touch! The hostage and lives system are flawless, going well with the mod. They made the scoring a lot fun.

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- I wish there was an easy way to find out when my guns' magazine ammo is running out, besides pistols and revolvers(easy to figure out already, so). Reloading can be a fickle thing during the gunfight. Either it being HUD visual or in audio feedback, always would be nice. Unless i can find a way to toggle it, i cannot reload them guns manually. Have to empty the gun first or just pick up a fresh one.

- Comic style effects when shooting are so much satisfying!! But the ones coming from Shotguns and Pistols seem quite large compared to Automatic ones'. They can block half the screen. I can turn this off right away but it's a hard choice. So awesome just to deactivate.

MP5SD lacks such an effect, speaking of. It's silenced, i know. But kinda expected it to throw pewpewpewpewp

- M-72 LAW is SUPER explosive! But its pickup sprite is colored grey, while it's brown in first person. And not sure why this is the only explosive weapon that kills me.


Also, i was able to get the weapon by not punching the secret wall for some reason.

- Punishment Time is one of the things i really like about this mod. Frank goes completely judgemental with two Combat Knives in his hands! Tho i get the nearly-invulnerable damage resistance since he's no demigod, but some damage boost to handle stronger enemies wound be nice.


- If you haven't noticed, that's Ithaca 37 Shotgun dropped on water. It's somehow completely submerged.

- Feels kinda weird not seeing explosives in Rocket Launcher replacer. M1 Carbine do come with M203 but i get no ammo for it. An extra hand grenade would be reasonable, at least.


- The extend text overlaps with the stage introduction one.

- I just noticed that USAS-12 is very powerful but has smaller recoil compared to other powerful Automatic weapon, M-60 HMG. Weirdly enough.

- Uzi SMG's zoom-out effect remains until you open fire again. Caused by reloading after emptying the whole magazine.

- It's possible to exploit the scoring by killing unlimited numbers of Lost Souls spewed out of a Pain Elemental. With M1911 akimbo in a safe place, you're all set.


- Thrown weapons(like this Lance right here) cannot activate punchable doors. Except Boomerang, though. That's the only weapon activating properly.

- I might need some punisher facts but i'm sure Frank would freak the hell out if he ever killed an innocent by complete accident. Seems like there's no penalty for being not careful in the mod. Score decrease, maybe?

Hoh wow, stood up all night having fun playing your mod. I get that it's still on beta but i hope my feedback is not overwhelming, though. And again, congrats on releasing the mod, Punisher!! It's a promising gameplay mod with a lot of variety and action.

[Bobby]

Great job on the mod! Though I encountered a bug; when an imp or imp fireball kills me, it kills me instead of using the extra lives.

[YukesVonFaust]

Great job on the mod! Though I encountered a bug; when an imp or imp fireball kills me, it kills me instead of using the extra lives.

...do you have the lives system cvar on?

[Bobby]

I thought so, seems to have stopped. I also seem unable to get smg ammo pickups that are on the map (though this is most likely because they are actually rifle rounds and I didn't notice).

*Edit: The death bug seems to happen when the extra life says: X3

[StraightWhiteMan]

Absolutely awesome mod, great job and thanks for sharing it with us. I do agree that the comic style effects are extremely cool but do block a lot of the screen. Maybe a good alternative would be to have the comic words appear on the enemies when they are hit, and not when the gun is shooting in general.

[YukesVonFaust]

I also seem unable to get smg ammo pickups that are on the map (though this is most likely because they are actually rifle rounds and I didn't notice).

You can only pick up ammo if you have a corresponding weapon (e.g. smgs can pick up light ammo, rifles pick up heavy ammo, and so on)

[DeeDeeOZ]

Congrats on the release. Mod is pretty bloody awesome
you had me at white gloves, boomerangs and Lances.

In all seriousness you've done an amazing job keeping the feel of both the beatem up game and comic punisher.
SOME FEEDBACK

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PROS
-visual comic sound effects are amazing, also glad you can turn them off if you want, great for choice.
-whole bunch of options in mod menu so people can tweak it.
-guns all feel awesome and powerful, MGL is so satisfying to use.
-all the different melee stuff is awesome, grabbing enemies and throwing them at stuff is perfect.
-hostages are great, like that they kind of freeze when injured to try and help you not accidently kill them.
-like the punishment mode, nice shout out to the other Punisher game.
-alt fires, grenades all work great.
-whole thing feels very polished, awesome job
-works amazing with my paybackenemies mods

MINOR CONS (very minor)
-agree with CaptainJ about the mp5 not having visual sounds, something like Phut, Phut or Tik, Tik in small writing would go great.
-no way of knowing how much ammo is left in most weapons clips, got caught reloading unexpectedly sometimes.
-the double barrel shotgun needs to reload before you can voluntary throw it away?
-not being able to collect ammo when you don't have weapon type is good idea, but switching out of an empty weapon tosses it for good. I had this happen few times while I was back tracking for ammo I couldn't pick up earlier.

-lastly, really appreciate you stuck weak damagetype on the punisher punches, it works great with my paybackenemies knockout deaths, but only on the base jabs, all the other melee options become lethal (don't know if that's intentional) the damage type doesn't seem to carry over.

Great mod and good work, going to enjoy playing it. just realized I never tried throwing an explosive barrel at guys, can you do that,
going to go try that now!
EDIT* -yes you can throw explosive barrels! awesome!

[LossForWords]

Dude, i've been WAITING for this!
It's been a blast to follow it's development, and i'm beyond happy to see it's release.

[Matt Eldrydge]

Congratulations on the release, Yukes! You kinda caught me by surprise there, if I knew you were releasing it yesterday I would have gone and recorded a video or two with it.

Still, glad to see it's finally out! Gave it a spin earlier today, it's even better than the version I tested a while back. Keep it up!

[Facínora]

I really like where its going so far. I published my first video with The Punisher. There's more to come.

[YukesVonFaust]

I really like where its going so far. I published my first video with The Punisher. There's more to come.

Ayoooooo, can i add it on the page? looks cool.

[Facínora]

I really like where its going so far. I published my first video with The Punisher. There's more to come.

Ayoooooo, can i add it on the page? looks cool.

of course. don't even need to ask.