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Foreword So why a WolfenDoom project? Well, I was always a big fan of Laz Rojas' work, especially Operation Arctic Wolf or Operation Rheingold. It felt like a real sequel to Wolfenstein 3D. Since then I always thought about sending B.J. Blazkowicz back myself on even more story-driven missions around the world, kicking Nazi's asses. Especially the thought of having various operations and making them all unique in terms of look, feel and gameplay was something that I have ever dreamt of. In times of Vanilla and 56K, things like that have never been even possible. Now that the technical limits are gone, anything is possible in some way or another, and that was the moment when I wanted to start off.
Story It's 1944, and the war approaches its peak. The U.S. has joined the Allied forces, and the Soviets are pushing back the front in the east. The tides of war are turning, and Hitler's victory seems more and more beyond his grasp. But the Nazis, refusing to capitulate, have grown obsessed with human experiments and occult artifacts, in which they see a potential escape from their final Doom. The Allied leaders reject this possibility as nonsense; nonetheless, some still fear what the Führer might be up to. The situation is nebulous, however, and little is certain.
You are Cpt. William "B.J." Blazkowicz, an Allied spy, a fearless risk-taker, and the greatest soldier to ever take up arms in World War II. Your role has changed, though; you've retired from active duty, and now you spearhead operations as a systems analyst. You thought it would be the right choice--leading and motivating instead of doing the dirty work--but lately you've grown restless. At least until a few days ago, when you received an encrypted message from your old friend and comrade Cpt. Douglas Blake, calling you back to duty...
Features Blade of Agony is much more than just a pastiche of the classic shooters that inspired it; the project will offer a unique experience. It also has many features not often seen in source port projects--Blade of Agony truly pushes GZDoom to its limits.
7 playable and unique levels in Chapter One (over 20 in the full game)
Orchestra-quality game music
Voice acting and ambient soundscapes
A combination of low-poly models and sprite assets to create the perfect retro feeling
Devastating armaments from the battlefields of WWII
Interactive NPCs that support the twisted plot's progress and help you understand the game
Beautiful special effects (weather, elements, explosions, etc.)
Much, much more!
Participating If you are interested in helping us out, the easiest way to do so is by making pull requests to the project's GitHub repository. The development repo is public, and we are happy to have any kind of help. We can't promise to implement every public change, but we'll have a thorough look at all of them, and we'll be thankful for any helpful improvements or suggestions.
Development History (outdated)
Spoiler: "What's new since v1.0 till v2.0 (May 21st)?"
"Shadow of the Reich" Added high-resolution sprites for all actors (monster,npc; not only upscale, real detail) Added new NPC dialogues to the intermission map for Chapter 1 (also extended for Chapter 2) Added a little cutscene to the beginning of Chapter 1 (C1M1) Added subtle smoke effects to firing weapons Improved the dialogue script (no overlapping, new layout, scrollwheel control for long texts; thanks to AFADoomer) Improved the prisoner AI behaviour (follows better; thanks to AFADoomer) Improved all Chapter 1 maps (new areas, heavy improvement of gameplay, details and consistency; thanks to hours of community feedback, we listen closely) Improved doors (moving door knobs, different sounds for close/open; thanks for Enjay) Improved textures and model skins for numerous objects (consistency, detail) Improved the ending cutscene after beating C1M6 Improved the stealth system for a more intuitive gameplay experience (thanks to AFADoomer) Replacement models for a lot of sprite actors Replacement for parts of the introduction credits scene (moved to the intermission map) Total of 10 new maps Engine side ambient occlusion, lense distortion, shadow maps and bloom effect
Spoiler: "What's new since beta v0.98 till v1.0 (April 1st)?"
"Staff of Kings" Added custom shaders for grass, trees and fauna subtle movement Added custom shaders for rotation (drill, effects) Added death states for almost any prop, making all of them breakable Added a stealth system, mostly for C2M1 and C2M5 Added a scope to the Karabiner Added Marlene Dietrich (appears at a 33% chance in the intermap) Added two more weather settings to the INTERMAP Added minesweeper as a buyable pickup to the INTERMAP Added railshooter action to some maps Added "feldgrau" sprites for Wehrmacht soldiers (instead of palette-restricted grey) Added a LOD system (max. visibility distance for models in case of fps-drops) Added countless models as replacements for sprites (where it looks better to have a model) Added floor shadows to soldiers Added an alternate fire to the Panzerschreck that lowers the weapon for a better sight Added a objective system for easier tracking of mission objectives Added a training area to the intermap Added voice acting to the mission briefings (complete real voice acting when all chapters are completed) Added model definitions to larger tank enemies Improvements to a lot of Laz' stock WolfenDoom textures Improved ricochet sparks and explosions Improved mission briefings (new graphics, plot-related information, text syntax and grammar) Improved and added special effects (fire, smoke, water, steam, splash, ambient smoke, rain) Improved textures (about 300+) Improved C1M3 with new outdoor areas and bunkers making it feel more like "Overlord" Improved C1M5 with a new entrance to the city which makes more sense Improved C1M6 with a mine-cart ride and new areas to explore Improved the quality of various scenery models (stuka, battleship, cars) Improved scientist bosses (new behaviour, new sprites) New maps of the development version include C2M1, C2M2, C2M3, C2M4, C2M5, C2M6, C2M0, C3M1, C3M2, C3M5, C3M6 (mostly unfinished/unplayable) New music for C1M6 (Little big Adventure "Twinsen of Twinsun" by Scott Buckley) New AI for tanks
Spoiler: "What's new since beta v0.95 till v0.98 (August 22th)?"
New aircontrol & stamina system New hud parts (air/stamina graphical bars) Rail textures are now walkable and shoot-through Added boss health displays New dialogue system for the intermission briefings Improvements to the hud Overhaul to the intermission map Weather effects now toggable in the options menue 6 lock colors instead of 2x3 to avoid confusion New projectile style (model-based) replacing the original tracers Climatic enhancements to C1M6 New and improved mugshots New Startup screen New help screen Numerous fixes and adjustmends to maps from C1M1 to C1M6 according to the community feedback New map C1M0 ("Operation : Eisenmann", accessable from the labs) Models for all trees instead of flat sprites New sprites for allied forces, barkeeper and medic Addition of a simple stealth mode (instakill idle soldiers with knife, alerting nearby enemies in range)
Spoiler: "What's new in beta 0.95?"
Increased treasure count on all maps (200 - 400 coins) Fixed non-friendly chars in the intermap Improved the briefing texts in the intermap Improved the radio messages in the missions Jukebox is now controlled via ZSDF Fixed the "Project Totengräber" blood splat Increased scaling of nazis (from 1.2 to 1.25) Removed the "infrared" trivia Removed the click sounds of radioactive barrels Darren has now a last name, so does Ryan have a surname. Improved the menue (moved options around) Fixed automap overlappings of SBARINFO Changed drop ratios for weapons in all soldier DECORATE Changed the Prisoner behaviour in C1M6 a bit (ZSDF) Toggleable reloading (automatic or manual, boa options) Scalable recoil (boa options) Ejecting brass/shells Added enemy rotations for various actors (attack, pain) Smoother movement for enemies Extended map for Operation: Speerspitze (C1M1) Intermission map dialogues have now mugshots for all NPCs (special thanks to Ed the Bat for most of the gameplay- and codefixes)
"May I use resource x from your mod?" It happened now for about a trillion times that people asked if they can use material from Blade of Agony. There are two answers on that: If it is original material exclusively developed for Blade of Agony by its authors, then clearly no (!), not until the final release of Blade of Agony which includes all 3 chapters. If it is material by other authors (for example elements from wildweasel's Nazis mod), ask the authors directly themselves. If you are not sure who made it, ask us or read the credits text file. I know that this WolfenDoom project borrowed a lot of resources from other games and projects, and we are happy to see our material of use for other modders in the future, but we simply don't want to spoil anything of it yet, that makes people think "Oh, I have seen this already before in a different mod than Blade of Agony" even though it has been exclusively created for our mod. I am sure people understand this.
Polls
Spoiler: March 2016: "The Multiplayer Issue"
Currently we are considering to drop the multiplayer support. There are various occasions where focusing on a single player experience will make it much easier to develop the mod on the one hand, creating amazing and interesting experiences on the other hand which are not possible to realize as the engine isn't capable of handling this. So please let us know if you want to have multiplayer support at all costs or if you just don't need it - use your vote wisely. //Result: 11% want multiplayer support, 89% don't care about it.
Loving the story there, and that SBARINFO is smexy, i'd recommend moving the timer and what seems to be the weapon's name to the top of the screen tho.
Thanks for the feedback, I actually want to keep all the information on the bottom so the player doesn't need to search for it. And yes, the sword will be useable but with some... let's say "limitations"
You DID NOT ASK FOR PERMISSION on those ww-nazis weapons. =P
[edit] No, really. I hate to be a hard-ass, but some times, I really do like to know ahead of time when people plan on using my work as a base for further work. I didn't really want ww-nazis to be "the last stop for Wolfenstein-themed Doom guns," yet I've had no fewer than three people suggest using my weapons to improve other peoples' Wolfendoom projects (and never asking me ahead of time if this was okay). I mean, I'm not in a position where I can STOP that, but I'd really just like to be informed about it before you go advertising your work with my stuff in it.
I'm not going to tell you to remove it, and really, I give you kudos for actually remembering to credit me, but there's a lot of peoples' work in ww-nazis that isn't directly my work, and I'd like that they get the credit as well.
There better be a chaingun. I hate how some of the original wolfendooms either didn't have one or had the stock doom chaingun. It should also use 9x19 bullets because wolfenstein.
xenoxols wrote:There better be a chaingun. I hate how some of the original wolfendooms either didn't have one or had the stock doom chaingun. It should also use 9x19 bullets because wolfenstein.
There most likely is, because there was one in ww-nazis, and he seems to be using that as a de facto base for this. Without asking me first.
Ah, it's always great to see new wolfendoom stuff. I'm pretty sure i've played all of Laz's doom scenarios so anything new is always good! Are you using WSJ styled enemies or ones closer to the classic wolfenstein sprites?
I'm thinking about reviving Operation Rheingold mod since it was never completed. Only the first two episodes are completed - there are 7 episodes total. I'd also like to fix the gameplay issues (more health packs and ammo + less enemies in some places )and add some zdoom / gzdoom features like breakable glass and other destructible environment.
