Rather Ghastly Stuff - Stuff I'm working on

[CaptainToenail]

Wand of Embers? Cinder Staff sounds nicer

[The_Funktasm]

Wand of Embers? Cinder Staff sounds nicer

Or mix the two, wand of cinder or staff of embers.

[Ghastly]

Cinder Staff sounds nicer

Staves are longer. I'd be willing to code a Cinder Staff if someone sprites it, though.

[NeuralStunner]

I like it.

Power seems somewhere between the Elvenwand and Ethereal Crossbow, leaning more toward the Wand. The spread is pretty wide, making its effective range is quite similar to the Crossbow's. Being weaker by comparison though, I think the 100/200 ammo capacity matches it pretty well.

Only a couple complaints:
- The random "danning" of the side blades is cute, but doesn't seem to work well with other weapons. If you were to DeathMatch with this wand, you'd give yourself away easily. (At the mercy of the RNG, really.) If it were a more powerful weapon (like the Arc of Death from Hexen), this would be more understandable.
- Powered mode seems a little... Dull? I'm pretty sure i've suggested this before, and if so, sorry for pestering you. It might be more interesting having it fire some larger spheres (that do a bit of explosion damage maybe), which break into many small spheres on impact. The small embers could have a bit of gravity of course. It'd resemble the volcano ball in that regard. (I do like the fiery trail though.)

I don't like how I keep going to Eriance-sprited projectile sprites, but I guess they work pretty well for this.

I know I won't complain.

[Ghastly]

- The random "danning" of the side blades is cute, but doesn't seem to work well with other weapons. If you were to DeathMatch with this wand, you'd give yourself away easily. (At the mercy of the RNG, really.) If it were a more powerful weapon (like the Arc of Death from Hexen), this would be more understandable.

I considered that too, and figured I'd remove it if people complained about it.

- Powered mode seems a little... Dull? I'm pretty sure i've suggested this before, and if so, sorry for pestering you. It might be more interesting having it fire some larger spheres (that do a bit of explosion damage maybe), which break into many small spheres on impact. The small embers could have a bit of gravity of course. It'd resemble the volcano ball in that regard. (I do like the fiery trail though.)

I'd rather save something like that for a more powerful weapon. The only other idea I had was something like the Firewall spell from Heretic 2, but I was going to save that for if I coded something new for the Gargoyle Wand. I tried small A_Explodes, but they didn't really fit the projectile.

Also, I just realized it doesn't have a large ammo pickup yet.

[Ghastly]

New Wand of Embers and Scepter of Souls betas. I started putting betas up on the first post, so as not to have links all over the thread.

[ShadesMaster]

I like the new Wand of Embers, but it's missing a recoil!!!!

[Ghastly]

Thanks for reminding me, I just added that and updated the link on the first post. I'm pretty happy with it now. I'll consider it done if nobody has any problems with it.

Also, no comments on the Scepter of Souls?

Edit: Since I was going to use it for ToTL, I went ahead and wrote some Decorate for the Trident. It's a little slower, but a little stronger than the Staff. I still need to make some effect for the powered mode, and I'm not totally happy with how it sounds if you hit a non-bleeding monster, of which Heretic has its fair share. It's up on the first post.

[Ghastly]

Updated first post with some Heretic powerups I've been working on, the status of the weapons (Wand of Embers was finished and added), and the Raven Staff beta.

[Ghastly]

Figured I'd revisit this thread to note down some stuff I've been working on. I've moved on to working on some Strife resources that should be pretty interesting.

Stuff's up on the first post. I may put up some tech demos of certain things to get opinions, but I probably won't put up full public betas of these resources. I really want to make a good map-set for Strife, and it wouldn't have the same effect if new monsters, powerups and things were released before they showed up there.