Looking for a weapon replacement wad

[Curunir]

I'm done searching I believe. Thanks fly out to wildweasel for recommending Beautiful Doom in the first reply. It seems to be what I need - no drastic changes to weapons yet some visual and dynamic changes, plus, of course, all the wonderful gibs and species-specific gore, shell casings and all that. Works for me! Thanks again!

[wildweasel]

Hmm, I can only offer a few others by Xaser. Some older Wild Weasel's mods, Diaz is nice, but I don't like getting dizzy.
Wild, you should have a warning. "This mod may make you get very dizzy."

I think you're the only one that has that problem.

[DavidB1000]

From my experiences with your mod, and Oblivion, which did the same thing until I found a hit animation shader replacer, I dare say I wouldn't be the only one.

Yeah, your weapon mod and Oblivion has something in common. All I know is that while WWHC-DIAZ was cool, I do have that issue. And because there are hit animation shader replacers for Oblivion, I can logically conclude I am not the only one. Unless I have clones running around.

Sorry to hijack the thread, Boss Mod.

[SoulCrow]

XutaWoo is the creator of Hideous Destructor

I thought it was Vaecrius?

[wildweasel]

XutaWoo is the creator of Hideous Destructor

I thought it was Vaecrius?

You are correct, it's Vaecrius. I don't recall offhand what XutaWoo has done.

[DavidB1000]

Oh, well, I got confused then. Mostly, I thought Vaecrius would have replied if it was his mod. I know I would have.
Again, my apologizes about that, and other things.

[XutaWoo]

XutaWoo is the creator of Hideous Destructor

I thought it was Vaecrius?

You are correct, it's Vaecrius. I don't recall offhand what XutaWoo has done.

I don't blame you. Most of my stuff, aside from my GVH stuff, this (which I need to work on), and this (waiting for Skulltag), doesn't get a topic, if it's even seen by more than one person.

[Curunir]

If you want something done right, you always have to do it yourself

I took Eriance's green-tinted set of weapons used in Demon Eclipse and put the sprites into Beautiful Doom 4, fitting animations as best I could without changing the DECORATE lumps. Now this is just perfect!

[Curunir]

Gargle!

I finished this thing. Basically, I injected Eriance's green weapons from Demon Eclipse into Beautiful Doom 4. In the end I also changed the DECORATE, removed the pistol-wielding zombies and the pistol drops, as well as the alt-fire of the weapons as this doesn't make sense with the new sprites. I can't do DECORATE for crap and even though it's a bit of a messy job, all sprite frames animate fine, there are no error messages and everything basically just works. I can't list all changes I made because I touched a ton of different things but really, what matters is that the end result is bug-free, looks good and works. I also put Simplicity's palette in.

I like it because it's mostly modular and can be used with any .wad that doesn't go insane with DECORATE.

Here's a link if you want to try and play with it:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R6B7YMTD

[TypeSaucy]

you know, in the projects tread and in the skulltag forums, i released Zen-Dynamics Weapons mod for skulltag. check it out if you want to, unless you already have it.

[Curunir]

Zen Dymanics is a little too crasy for me, I'm trying to stay as close to vanilla weapons as possible.

[XutaWoo]

Zen Dymanics is a little too crasy for me, I'm trying to stay as close to vanilla weapons as possible.

You could check my MV Experiment project. Using keybinds, you can switch between 3 weapons for each weapon. One is the vanilla DOOM 2 version while the others are custom.

[eliw00d]

I just tried most of those recommendations. First off, I want to say that whoever thought Hideous Destructor could ever be any fun should seriously think about his design abilities. Zero Tolerance has its tasty parts but somehow fails to come through as good or usable overall. Diaz had several absolutely sweet weapons but again, the theme was a bit off for my needs.

I'm looking for something to play through my megawads with. Very long reload times or lack of proper rockets can be a major hindrance. I mean, can you imagine going through Alien Vendetta usign Diaz?

Plus almost all of these aren't weapon packages, they add or change a whole bunch of other stuff in the game.

I think I'll go with the Doom 3 weapons as they might be the closest thing to what I want - consistent with the original set in terms of pistol/shottie/rifle/rocket etc, somewhat overpowered but the power is offset a bit by the reloading so it might give you a bit of an edge but who doesn't need that in UV difficulty...

I am curious to know what you thought of GZDA? It was one of the suggestions that WW gave you, but it doesn't seem like you tried it. I have tried to retain the feel of Doom's weapons in GZDA, and play coop with my brother regularly using it on older megawads like AV. Hope that's what you're looking for.

[Ceeb]

Epic bump.

[Xaser]

In all fairness, Eli hasn't been around for a while, so it's quite legitimate. Welcome back, at any rate.

Though ironically, Curry's been absent. Timing, woo!