Brütal Doom v0.18

[Nemesis6]

The Blox one definitely looks good, but the chamber does look a bit weird. I think this should be the rocket launcher for the next version if that little thing is fixed.

[zrrion the insect]

How about this:

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[VICE]

If you dont like the aethetics of eating a heart I can very well understand this

I'm not claiming to be a psychologist but this looks like you're trying to rationalize my disagreement as something else.
I'm perfectly fine with gory aesthetics (I play Brutal Doom for f***'s sake), I just plain and simple disagree with your idea.

Sergeant_Mark is sort of right, actually. The release of endorphins from pulling off an execution could dull out Doomguys' pain for a while and allow him to keep going until he finds an actual source of healing. I'm assuming him being in a state of berserk and souped up with all kinds of drugs we haven't even invented yet, his body would be constantly producing tons of the stuff, so it's plausible.
Basically it's game science loosely based on real science, which, if I may remind you all, is the best kind of science.

Eating raw beating hearts (or having the marine do whatever "leaving it to the imagination" means), is just cool for the sake of being cool... which isn't, in my opinion.

I like the launcher in the screenshot, but I think the position of the magazine makes no sense, I think it should be straight instead of angled like that, I imagine the rockets entering the barrel at that angle and there's no practical reason to make a them do that as opposed to entering straight.
Also I think it looks off because of the shading, the light source on the gun itself and the light source on the magazine don't exactly match up.

The one zrrion just posted looks like a keeper to me.

[Blox]

The thingy itself looks great, but the reload animation doesn't make any sense. o_O

It goes from something under a big metal plate, to something beneath a short metal plate that now moves above one of the connectors of the ammo thingy. (I don't know any of the terms if you haven't noticed.)
Which all ends up looking rather unconvincing and choppy.

[VICE]

Maybe making the magazine larger would solve that?

[Sergeant_Mark_IV]

What about this? Any better?

[Ribo Zurai]

What about this? Any better?

Now that's what I call polished.

[Valherran]

What about this? Any better?

I like that one, it matches the Chaingun. ^^

[Ferguson]

This is really something. Changes the whole dynamics of the game, monsters are a lot more unpredictable. I find it will work with a lot of user levels, I even ran it with KDIZD for s###s and giggles, far too wild, in a good way.

[Hellstorm Archon]

By the way, Nash just released a ACS-based system for headshots and legshots (without using hitboxes).

[Blazko]

... on the other hand I think you would have a hard time explaining why gaining health by eating a heart is "completely out of sense" while gaining health by ripping apart the body of a living monster is perfectly alright

When Doomguy rips and tears, he have pleasure on doing this. This causes a stress relief, and his body gets a huge charge of endorphins and norepinephrine. This of course doesn't makes his bullet holes stop bleeding, but these hormones makes him don't feel the pain, reduce his blood pressure and makes him bleed less, and this can be reflected in a health boost.

When next time my doctor prescribes me some pills I might try just to break them rather then swallowing them. Maybe that works better...

[Blox]

If you're absolutely going to go around how it makes sense, then how come it's permanent.

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<Bloax> This isn't a pretty sight.
<Bloax> But basically he's saying that what's happening here.
<Minigunner> inb4 Buddha Mode
<Bloax> http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1a440m/warning_gore_crocodile_disembowels_its_prey/
<Bloax> Is a thing that could count as increasing your health.
<Bloax> Why uh yeah that would work.
<Bloax> Except it'd drain rapidly once the RIPPING AND TEARING is over.
<Bloax> Just like this thing is gonna die pretty much just after the .gif ends.
<nub_hat> yeah if you do that irl you will get very healthy
<Bloax> You probably will.
<Bloax> Until it wears off.
<Bloax> At which point you realize just how fucked up you are and kablooie.

Unless biology is actual magic, I can't really imagine it working in another fashion. And if you really want to have that effect, then make killing things with melee while berserk give you plenty of health.
..Except take it back slowly afterwards. :v

[Gez]

Doomguy is health-and-environment-conscious and will only eat the hearts of free-range demons (none of those monster-closet demons who never roamed free) certified Organically Summoned. You never know what products there are in the run-of-the-mill demon meat. Generally, it's all full of nukage sludge, and also lead. Lots of lead in that demon meat, for some reason. It's just unsanitary.

[Sergeant_Mark_IV]

If you're absolutely going to go around how it makes sense, then how come it's permanent.

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<Bloax> This isn't a pretty sight.
<Bloax> But basically he's saying that what's happening here.
<Minigunner> inb4 Buddha Mode
<Bloax> http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1a440m/warning_gore_crocodile_disembowels_its_prey/
<Bloax> Is a thing that could count as increasing your health.
<Bloax> Why uh yeah that would work.
<Bloax> Except it'd drain rapidly once the RIPPING AND TEARING is over.
<Bloax> Just like this thing is gonna die pretty much just after the .gif ends.
<nub_hat> yeah if you do that irl you will get very healthy
<Bloax> You probably will.
<Bloax> Until it wears off.
<Bloax> At which point you realize just how fucked up you are and kablooie.

Unless biology is actual magic, I can't really imagine it working in another fashion. And if you really want to have that effect, then make killing things with melee while berserk give you plenty of health.
..Except take it back slowly afterwards. :v

Look, if we are going to nitpick everything, then we would need to question the functionality of the Medikits. I mean, you can't heal the wound made by a shotgun blast at point-blank range by just trampling a white box with a red cross on it, and walk around with "100% health" like if nothing had happened. Or can you?

It doesn't need to be 100% accurately realistic, it just need be loosely plausible. And the concept that a wounded guy can get back to fight after getting an adrenaline boost is much more plausible than regenerating his health by eating a dead man's hearth.

[Gez]

Mind your H!
Earth with an H at the end is our planet, a type of soil, and one of the four classical elements.
Heart with an H at the beginning is an organ that beats in our chests to pump blood throughout the body.
Hearth with H's at both beginning and end is the fireplace in one's home, sweet home. Eating a hearth isn't advised; it's mostly made of bricks.