DOOMablo: a looter-shooter DOOM (v0.10a - Oh, yes)

[fakemai]

I'm positive now that plasma whiffs at point-blank. As for the new stuff, the push-pull monsters are generally annoying, particularly joining an enemy in a death pit when I sneezed at the wrong time. Blink looks like pure evil with one intercepting my rocket launcher up-close, and also how does it work with those monster teleport caches because I had the hell knight in MAP05 join me in the plasma gun secret when it would have been alerted but not moving due to the ambush flag, and not in LoS either.

[MsrSgtShooterPerson]

I'm positive now that plasma whiffs at point-blank.

Confirming this on my end too - plasma projectiles do zero damage if shooting an enemy that's melee-range to you (haven't played the new affixed monster version yet )

[sidav]

Thanks for the feedback. it seems Plasma Rifle needs to be fixed then.
I think I should add LOS check to the blink, and will prevent it from happening right in front of you.
About push-pull monsters I'm not sure though. Do you have any ideas how should it be fixed? Would it be better if it was weaker? Or having minimal (or maximal) working distance? Or removed altogether?

[stainedofmind]

I'm positive now that plasma whiffs at point-blank.

Confirming this on my end too - plasma projectiles do zero damage if shooting an enemy that's melee-range to you (haven't played the new affixed monster version yet )

That (and the low feeling mag capacity) would probably explain why I often find myself relying on the chaingun for crowd control, and the SSG for high damage.

The new version is here. Get ready to face new bugs randomized monsters with their own vile affixes!

*SNIP!*

As always, report any bugs, let's squish'em together!

A couple of maps into testing, and I am quite having fun with the monster affixes.

On a random note, I hacked in a weapon/armor/backpack scraping feature that randomly gives you an item/ammo instead, and I find it works rather well. As of the current version, here's my (super simple) code hack:

in "zscript/player/press_to_pickup_handler.zs", starting with line 16:

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            // Check if button is pressed
            if (currentItemToPickUp && players[0].mo && (players[0].cmd.buttons & BT_USE)) {
				if (players[0].cmd.buttons & BT_ALTATTACK)
				{
					Actor spawnedItem;

					if (random(0, 2) == 0)	// Hackish, temporary, but feels good
					{
						spawnedItem = DropsSpawner.SpawnRandomOneTimeItemDrop(currentItemToPickUp);
					}
					else
					{
						spawnedItem = DropsSpawner.SpawnRandomAmmoDrop(currentItemToPickUp);
					}
					
					DropsHandler.AssignSpreadVelocityTo(spawnedItem);
					
					// Todo: Add visual/sfx
					currentItemToPickUp.Destroy();
				}
				else
				{
					if (RandomizedWeapon(currentItemToPickUp)) {
						RandomizedWeapon(currentItemToPickUp).rwTouch(players[0].mo);

					} else if (RandomizedArmor(currentItemToPickUp)) {
						RandomizedArmor(currentItemToPickUp).rwTouch(players[0].mo);

					} else if (RwBackpack(currentItemToPickUp)) {
						RwBackpack(currentItemToPickUp).rwTouch(players[0].mo);
					}
					manualPickupCooldown = PICKUP_DELAY;
				}

Originally had a randomized/customizable percentage option, but it felt scammy when you didn't get something out of it.

[Jareth247]

Can/will this eventually work with Brutal Doom? I tried with the original, Extended Edition and Project Brutality and none of them worked. Sure, I can use a gore mod but it's not the same.

[sidav]

A new version is there. A minor release this time, mostly regarding your feedback.

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New things:

A new rare affix for Rocket Launcher to counter-counter the blinking monsters countering your rocket launcher.
You can now "recycle" artifacts. Bind "Weapon State 1" button in the settings. Press and hold the button while looking at the item you want to recycle. I'll add proper binding to the mod menu when there will be the mod menu.
Weapons are recycled into ammo of their type, armors give you armor bonuses, energy armors can give you both cells and armor bonuses, backpacks give you random non-artifact drops. Amount of items given by recycling is proportional to the item's rarity.

Fixes and balance changes:

Weapons:

Fix plasma rifle point-blank shots dealing no damage.
Increased plasma rifle base magazine capacity.

Monster affixes:

Magnetic and Fear monster affixes are now weakened in strength. Moreover, they are triggered only at some distance from the monster, meaning you're safe if shooting it from far away.
Blinking monsters now won't teleport THAT close to you.
Blinking monsters are now 3x less likely to blink if they can't see you.
Summoners will now summon their minions at least 2x farther away than before.
Other minor changes

Internal changes:

None

Known bugs:

There's no explosion when you fire RL at point-blank range. The issue should be only visual (the damage should still be dealt), but it needs further investigating nonetheless.

[sidav]

I hacked in a weapon/armor/backpack scraping feature that randomly gives you an item/ammo instead

Your insisting on this feature is now finally heard! The mod now has the "recycling" system, see the changelog.

Can/will this eventually work with Brutal Doom? I tried with the original, Extended Edition and Project Brutality and none of them worked. Sure, I can use a gore mod but it's not the same.

Currently it can't, potentially - maybe. For now I can't figure out how to bind the weapon affix logic with weapons not rewritten by me. But I honestly want to allow the mod to be compatible with weapon packs. I would not expect it any time soon, but I'm still occasionally experimenting with some ideas which eventually should allow that, and it should in turn make the BD compatibility possible.

[DoomThing445]

Would you want to enable Gun Bonsai compatibility at some point with this one? Out of curiosity, of course.

[fakemai]

Recycling helps a lot for de-cluttering and should ease the issue I had with a recent playthrough of running out of ammo due to enemies with extreme HP and defensive mods. Push/pull I'll hopefully get to try on MAP24 soon, the issue is that it's the type of effect that's fine most of the time but will complicate and potentially ruin any map with precision platforming. The enemy armor mod is good for balancing shotguns. I was thinking blink could ignore the LoS check after teleporting for the first time, as a safety consideration against them going into inaccessible sectors or void, but you nicely pre-empted that in a better way.

[stainedofmind]

Would you want to enable Gun Bonsai compatibility at some point with this one? Out of curiosity, of course.

Is something specific not working with GunBonsai? I ran them together without any obvious issues... Mind you, I was also feeling sick in the head and also combined it with Colorful Hell, Colorful Hell Plus, Champions, and LegenDoom Lite, so I was getting murdered before making it to map03 everytime, so maybe I missed something.

[stainedofmind]

Your insisting on this feature is now finally heard! The mod now has the "recycling" system, see the changelog.

Very nice! You added basically all the things I was planning to do to it as well! Only had time for one map this morning for testing.

Also, Plasma Rifle feels good now! Bigger mag definitely helped!

I did just run into a "well darn it" moment with the recycling system however, specifically with the item spreading feature, mainly, as I was trying to junk one item, it "jumped" out of the way, and somehow the item behind it got recycled instead, almost immediately. I personally am not a fan of the item jumping feature, but I feel like I've been "complaining" a lot, and you've been very accommodating of my gripes, so no biggie!

[sidav]

I did just run into a "well darn it" moment with the recycling system however, specifically with the item spreading feature, mainly, as I was trying to junk one item, it "jumped" out of the way, and somehow the item behind it got recycled instead, almost immediately.

Thanks for the feedback. I think I need to add a check if the item being recycled is the same that was there when you've started pressing a button.

[sidav]

A new version is here, and it goes brrrrr! Two new weapons!
But even the chainsaw itself is not that important as the new frame-speed code, see "internal changes" below.
This release is not as big as "affixed monsters" one, but it changes more things than it seems at the first glance.

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New things:

Added the Chainsaw.
Added new monster affix to counter the chainsaw.
Added two new weapon affixes.
This all puts a total affixes count to 100. Horray!
Add a new weapon (no, not the BFG).
Added scrapping hint to the UI.
Added exit messages with mod-related gameplay tips and stupid jokes

Fixes and balance changes:

Fully reworked the chaingun into something different (not visually, though).
Fixed rate of fire being applied in the wrong way.
Rebalanced all speed-related affixes because of the calculation change (see "internal changes").
Added fail-safe for scrapping, so that it's now more difficult to accidentally break a wrong item.
UI now shows real bound keys where applicable (there are not many such places though).

Internal changes:

New frame-related speed code. Old one was buggy, did too much rounding with frame durations and thus resulted in ugly animations. The new algorithm uses fraction accumulation to adjust the real rate of fire (or reload speed) to the expected one. From now on, the animations should feel more "natural" and smooth, and, the most important, there is now real (if noticeable) difference even between +1% and +2% rate of fire, because the difference is no more a victim of duration rounding. The downside is that the rate of fire behaves and feels fully differently from now on, but I'm fully sure the new one is much better.

Known bugs:

It's boring, unknown bugs are more interesting.
There's no explosion when you fire RL at point-blank range. The issue should be only visual (the damage should still be dealt), but it needs further investigating nonetheless.

As always, report any bugs, let's chainsaw them together!
Have fun!

[MsrSgtShooterPerson]

I'm still on 0.7.1a but moving to 8 after a pretty painful playthrough - a legendary mob apparently inflicted what looks like a poison debuff on me that ripped my armor up and killed me 5 times (I'm using the Invulnerable mod that allows me to live again right after hitting 0 health with a set number of lives)

Maybe poison inflicted on a player should stop a time limit and perhaps not kill entirely (maybe at least stop at a certain low health threshold) or be fixed by picking up any medkit - as it stands, even different armors I managed to pickup in the brief time I was poisoned including energy armors tore up instantly.

[DoomThing445]

Would you want to enable Gun Bonsai compatibility at some point with this one? Out of curiosity, of course.

Is something specific not working with GunBonsai? I ran them together without any obvious issues... Mind you, I was also feeling sick in the head and also combined it with Colorful Hell, Colorful Hell Plus, Champions, and LegenDoom Lite, so I was getting murdered before making it to map03 everytime, so maybe I missed something.

Oh, there's nothing wrong- I was just wanting to know if they'd make sure any future features would be compatible with Gun Bonsai-