(RLME)-Roguelike Monster Expansion BETA

[Ranik]

Hello everyone. Reviving this post and Mod after ooooooh 8 years or so of personal use.

RLME focuses less on higher difficulty tiers of monster IE: Nightmare/Cybernetic/Armageddon and more about variety of monster behavior and threats. Pretty much all of the material is taken from R667 then tweaked to have new behavior/effects and to be DRLA compatible. All due credit belongs to the people who originally created the monsters from R667 (Credits have been included within the Wad. Please tell me if I forgot anything) and to Yholl / Kyle873 for their respective mods.

Gameplay Video with DRLA+DRLA Extended + DRPG + RLME (DRPG support coming soon)

https://youtu.be/nyi9ODGUNUo

Current Version Download:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f3h3e659 ... v3bvf&dl=0



Instructions:
If you are using only DoomRL Arsenal. Load RLME.pk3 after DoomRL Arsenal 1.1.5 + DoomRL Monsters Beta 7.3 (and RL Extended if you are using it). RLME.pk3 should be later in a priority list than DRLA and monsters beta.

Choose Standard Difficulty and you will see the new monsters in your game.

[wildweasel]

*Weasel's Stamp of Approval image here*

[Zanieon]

Done

[Ranik]

Ok, small update with better DRPG compatibility. Ran into Map 07 issues with the Arachnotron variants and many kudo's to Kate for helping me out with it.

[Ranik]

Ok, Alpha 1.6 is out now with two new variants. One is the Berserker Demon and other is the Berserker Knight. They both basically get increasingly pissed and aggressive over time or when hurt.

These in particular are very quirky since they can set themselves off as well as be raged by the player. So any feedback about the rate / likelihood they get angry would be great.

[SAraisXenoQueen]

Huh. Would be good for more custom monsters that work well, Might be better with more fresh monsters than those from 667. We've seen them quite a lot before.

Yholl & Co's new monsters are generally all unique or intresting in their function, whilst still following the synergies that Doom's monsters had, like how the cacobyss has a secondary orbiting ressurect method, or the hellstorm elemental has an attack that pulls you in.

[Ranik]

Huh. Would be good for more custom monsters that work well, Might be better with more fresh monsters than those from 667. We've seen them quite a lot before.

Yholl & Co's new monsters are generally all unique or intresting in their function, whilst still following the synergies that Doom's monsters had, like how the cacobyss has a secondary orbiting ressurect method, or the hellstorm elemental has an attack that pulls you in.

Hehe show me some new monsters that are freely available and I'll happily use them. Otherwise I have to use what's readily available and tweaking the ever living crap out of them. The purpose of RLME isn't so much synergy as it is new threat variety. Imps which can throw AoE poison attacks. Knights which can defend themselves while attacking, Demons which have a chance to go into a rage and start lunging etc etc.

[Silentdarkness12]

Have you considered doing some frankenspriting? Or editing existing sprites? Seems like a lot of the DRLA monsters are just that.

[Ranik]

Have you considered doing some frankenspriting? Or editing existing sprites? Seems like a lot of the DRLA monsters are just that.

At the moment no. I've been doing this project in spare time while getting ready to move to a new job in a few weeks. Currently I basically look for decent sprites, then think of a good role for them followed by a lot of tweaking to make them fulfill that role. Just because the R667 stuff has been around for a while doesn't mean they at all play out the same after quite a bit of behavior tweaking.

Heck, if anything I'd rather have a monster act differently than simply look different.

[Hellstorm Archon]

*paging Yholl to the thread*

[Yholl]

*paging Yholl to the thread*

Yes?

[Hellstorm Archon]

*paging Yholl to the thread*

Yes?

Quickly, what is the power level of this sub-mod?

[Ranik]

*paging Yholl to the thread*

Yes?

Quickly, what is the power level of this sub-mod?

Yholl was ok with me making a DRLA sub mod and helped a few times with code issues but I'm not sure he's actually played it lol.

[Ranik]

Bumparino for 1.65 WiP version. Some of the new changes might be a little aggravating or at least it can feel that way in my playtesting.

[Redead-ITA]

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