D4DHF v0.3 - "Cloak and Dagger" [Add-On]

[shotfan]

I have a request for the Repeater, if I may: can you give it an ability to fire single shots in the semiautomatic mode - like in the base game - and assign the burst/semiauto toggle to the Mod Switch button? This would make the gun much more suited to sniping work, whereas currently you will waste excessive amounts of ammo if you try to shot down enemies at the distance (especially as there seem to be mostly weak ones placed in far away balconies or such - Zombies or Hell Razers - for which an (upgraded) burst may be an overkill anyway).

[VICE]

New version is ready, check the first post.

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# v0.22b [22/11/16] "The War on Bugs"
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@ Option: A new "Nightmare Secret Weapons" option allows you to disable the new Nightmare weapons introduced so far (Deadshot and Enforcer) from appearing in your game.
@ Weapon: Enforcer! The Elite Guards were packing some serious heat... Play on Nightmare or Ultra Nightmare difficulty to find this weapon.
@ Weapon: Deadshot can now absorb corpses like the Carrion Cannon (press 'mod' key to absorb).
@ Weapon: Deadshot ammo costs increased to balance it with the Carrion Cannon and account for corpse absorption.
@ Weapon: Improved offsets for the Deadshot
@ Monster: Heavy Revenant added.
@ Upgrade: 3 new upgrades for the Enforcer - Burst Fire, Shaped Charge and Impact Missiles
@ Upgrade: Cell Recycler upgrade added for the BFG.
@ Misc: Skull key nests will no longer spawn unwilling around them to avoid awkward spawns in places where keys are usually placed by mappers.
@ Bugfix: Added a height check to nest and guard interactions. Needs heavy testing to confirm the fix doesn't break anything, especially with skull key nests.
@ Bugfix: Fixed a major issue with modular ammo upgrades reseting to 1 after map exits.
@ Bugfix: Fixed the same issue with Deadshot "Strength In Numbers" ranks resetting to 1 after map exits.
@ Bugfix: Fixed the credit costs of Ammo Reserve, Nightvision, Equipment Rec. and Holo Sustain upgrades
@ Bugfix: Fixed a rare bug that made gore nests with items turn into regular gore nests if you tried interacting with them in very quick succession.
@ Bugfix: Made nightvision permanent until disabled (it used to turn off on its own after 2 minutes).
@ Bugfix: Fixed a minor bug that made the nightvision scanlines persist through map transitions.
@ Bugfix: Fixed a bunch of typos in menus, messages, cvars and scripts.
@ Bugfix: Fixed a typo that made Barons fight eachother...

[Ikazu-san]

So, height check on guards did broke something. The one that spawns with yellow key in map01 of Sunlust doesn't respond to anything. (noclipping into it works though)

[VICE]

So, height check on guards did broke something. The one that spawns with yellow key in map01 of Sunlust doesn't respond to anything. (noclipping into it works though)

I suspected this could happen, but I didn't think the function I used was this strict...
I also realized that I made the guards spawn before the keys so you can't see the keys this way. I'll patch this up in a sec so that it's playable.


Edit:
Done. v0.22c is up.

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# v0.22c [23/11/16]
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@ Monster: Got rid of the Mag Troop charge indicator visual. Moved the rail offset to be a bit more centered.
@ Misc: Reworked the spawns of gore nests and hell bishops when Doom 1 is loaded as an IWAD
@ Misc: Reworked gore nest and unwilling spawns to flow better.
@ Misc: Tech lamps now drop the regular cell pickups that fade quickly but are attracted to the player, rather than the lingering kind that stay put.
@ Misc: Optimized most PNG files in the mod, reducing file size and possibly improving performance for potato computers.
@ Bugfix: Removed the height check from nest and guard interactions until I can come up with a method that doesn't break maps.
@ Bugfix: Turning off Nightvision will also turn of the regular light amp goggles if they were active.
@ Bugfix: Fixed the invisible revenants spawning from gore nests in Doom1 (since D1 doesn't have sprites for them). Gore nests will spwan only revenant variants if D1 is loaded.

[isaacpop23]

There seems to be a problem with the "Advanced Servos" on the Gauss Cannon. It seems to let me by it regardless of my credit amount, if I have less than the 8000 required it just sets me to 0. I tried this with some of the other new upgrades and they didn't have the problem.
Also, the Gore Nests seem to have a problem with saving. If you destroy it and save afterward, once you re-load you can destroy it again. So if you wanted to you could just keep destroying it over and over.

I'm setting this one off cause I don't know if it's a bug or just my ineptness, but it seems that sometimes when the Guard indicator comes up it's only on the map about half the time. On small maps I've put on the full automap and looked around with noclip for a few minutes and couldn't find them. I'd like to believe that I'm not passing them dozens of times, but I may be. (Not sure if this is helpful or not but this is on the Going Down map set.)

[-Ghost-]

Weird question, but would it be possible to swap out the little red/yellow ammo bonuses for actual ammunition sprites, like shells, clips, etc? It's just my personal take, but I never thought the little bonuses looked good, in the actual Doom 4 or in the mod.

[shotfan]

Is there any command for getting extra Praetor Tokens? Like if I wanted to try out new upgrades quickly. (also, is there any similar command to get extra credits?)

I'm setting this one off cause I don't know if it's a bug or just my ineptness, but it seems that sometimes when the Guard indicator comes up it's only on the map about half the time. On small maps I've put on the full automap and looked around with noclip for a few minutes and couldn't find them. I'd like to believe that I'm not passing them dozens of times, but I may be. (Not sure if this is helpful or not but this is on the Going Down map set.)

I had something like this happen on Witch Space (map 7) in Doom 2 Reloaded: there was a single Praetor Token indicator shown, but there was no Cyberguard with it anywhere. (Also, I could not get to have Summoners appear after killing Arachnotrons, and I had to kill them by going noclip and visiting them in their closet away from the main map space. But I suspect that could be caused by the Gore Nests from Phobos867's addon interfering with death-based triggers, so that bug does not apply to this submod)

Weird question, but would it be possible to swap out the little red/yellow ammo bonuses for actual ammunition sprites, like shells, clips, etc? It's just my personal take, but I never thought the little bonuses looked good, in the actual Doom 4 or in the mod.

Agreed. All of these enemy-spawned bonuses look a little too symbolic (or 'self-aware') for my taste as well.

[VICE]

Is there any command for getting extra Praetor Tokens? Like If I wanted to try out new upgrades quickly. (also, is there any similar command to get extra credits?)

The actor name for the basic elite guard is D4EliteCorpse. You'll have to get the tokens one by one from guards since it's the only way to get the Cvars and Inventory values to match up for the HUD, scripts and menus to work in conjunction.
Doing this will put your guard quota display out of sync for that map, though.

Also try summoning some 'dosh' if you need money.

Weird question, but would it be possible to swap out the little red/yellow ammo bonuses for actual ammunition sprites, like shells, clips, etc? It's just my personal take, but I never thought the little bonuses looked good, in the actual Doom 4 or in the mod.

Nope, that's definitely not within the scope of the mod. Feel free to message me for help if you want to try doing it yourself.

There seems to be a problem with the "Advanced Servos" on the Gauss Cannon. It seems to let me by it regardless of my credit amount, if I have less than the 8000 required it just sets me to 0. I tried this with some of the other new upgrades and they didn't have the problem.
Also, the Gore Nests seem to have a problem with saving. If you destroy it and save afterward, once you re-load you can destroy it again. So if you wanted to you could just keep destroying it over and over.

I'm setting this one off cause I don't know if it's a bug or just my ineptness, but it seems that sometimes when the Guard indicator comes up it's only on the map about half the time. On small maps I've put on the full automap and looked around with noclip for a few minutes and couldn't find them. I'd like to believe that I'm not passing them dozens of times, but I may be. (Not sure if this is helpful or not but this is on the Going Down map set.)

The Advanced Servos thing is probably a blunder on my part in the menudef, easily fixed.

I can't confirm the gore nest saving thing on my end. They save and load fine for me, even if save mid-way into their animation. Are you running on GZDoom 2.2.0?
Anyone else encountering this?


The Guard thing is very real and only seems to happen in some mapsets (I have it happen to me on the Doom 2 maps of Maps of Chaos but not on the Doom 1 maps, even though the exact same file is loaded )
Spawning guards via console works fine, so my guess is that the placement itself has something to do with it, or possibly the maps themselves, somehow.
I plan to iron it out before the next version (which is already beefy with new content, but bugfixes come first).
Thanks for the feedback, it's very helpful.

[isaacpop23]

I am running GZ 2.2.0, HF 0.22c, and Going Down. I just tried it again and the same thing happened, I destroy the nest, save, instantly load and can destroy the nest again.

[VICE]

I am running GZ 2.2.0, HF 0.22c, and Going Down. I just tried it again and the same thing happened, I destroy the nest, save, instantly load and can destroy the nest again.

Very strange, I just tried it on Going Down too and it works fine for me. Can you do the same thing with guards? (They're coded in almost the same way.)
You can try sending me your config file too, maybe your settings have something to do with this.

Edit: I figured out what was wrong with the guards spawning. I'll test this a bit further to make sure it's fixed, but it looks good so far.

Cooking up some new content for v0.3.

[isaacpop23]

Yup, same thing happened with the Elite Guards. By config file you mean the .ini file right?

[VICE]

Yeah I meant the ini file, but looks like that's irrelevant now. ~
I finally get what you meant, and I'm getting in on my end too.
I guess I assumed their appearance would reset so I didn't try interacting with them again once I've loaded a few times and saw that they're still "corpses", but yeah, you're absolutely right and it's not just an issue with your setup - you can actually interact with a "dead" nest again if you save and load. Same thing for guards.

I'm guessing this has something to do with how GZDoom saves the data on switching decorations (I thought maybe a compatibility setting in in your ini file was causing this, but looks like it's global).
I have a few ideas on how to work around this though. It will be fixed for the next version.
Well spotted.

Edit: Fixed. That was easier than I thought.

[shotfan]

Is there any command for getting extra Praetor Tokens? Like If I wanted to try out new upgrades quickly. (also, is there any similar command to get extra credits?)

The actor name for the basic elite guard is D4EliteCorpse. You'll have to get the tokens one by one from guards since it's the only way to get the Cvars and Inventory values to match up for the HUD, scripts and menus to work in conjunction.
Doing this will put your guard quota display out of sync for that map, though.

Also try summoning some 'dosh' if you need money.

These work. Thanks for help!

[AdmiralAjax]

So in all the time I've been playing this, I haven't found any of the new weapons so I just summoned them in. I can pick them up, but they don't seem to appear. Going to keep trying some things but I just don't know what to do.

[VICE]

So in all the time I've been playing this, I haven't found any of the new weapons so I just summoned them in. I can pick them up, but they don't seem to appear. Going to keep trying some things but I just don't know what to do.

The weapons only show up on Nightmare or UN difficulty, and they're pretty rare right now (next version makes them more common), so there's no guarantee that you'll find them at all. It really depends on what kind of map you're playing too.
Also, if you give them to the player via console, you'll be able to use them, but you won't be able to upgrade them unless you got them through the proper... ahem... channels.


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Edit: v0.3 is ready, first post has been updated with a link and some feature descriptions. Some new screenshots as well. Enjoy.

Changelog:

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# v0.3 [30/11/16] "Cloak and Dagger" - (Totally not playing the Black Sabbath song as I type this)
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@ Option: Added a menu option to set doomguy doll uses to 1 per doll (personal preference of mine).
@ Feature: WallJump and Double Jump have been made mutually exclusive. You will not be able to walljump if double jump is enabled.
@ Feature: Following that change, the Triple Jump update was modified to grant you a Dash ability if you're playing with WallJump. Double tap a direction key to dash.
@ Feature: Added the Demonic artifact item. Demonic weapons and ability upgrades will require these (so far Deadshot, Tyrant, Syphon Grenade and the Blood Fueled and Megadeath abilities).
@ Feature: Added artifact pedestals to the spawn rotation. Gore nests will sometimes have artifacts in them too.
@ Weapon: Tyrant! Cleave demons with impunity... Play on Nightmare or Ultra Nightmare difficulty to find this weapon.
@ Weapon: Enforcer missiles were made faster and 50% less damaging to the player.
@ Weapon: Enforcer altifre ammo cost increased to 2, and reduced the amount of pellets slightly. Still works well as a boss-buster.
@ Equipment: Caustic Grenade! Time to melt some faces. Play on Nightmare or Ultra Nightmare difficulty to find this new equipment.
@ Equipment: Caustic grenades create an extremely volatile firestorm when their clouds ignite nukage barrels.
@ Upgrade: Argent Wave ability for the Tyrant. Unlocks the Tyran'ts alt-fire and allows it to absorb corpses for carrion.
@ Upgrade: Empowered Wave ability for the Tyrant. Increases the size and strength of Tyrant's altfire.
@ Upgrade: Enslave Spirit ability for the Tyrant. Killing enemies with Tyrant's altfire conjures spirit knights that fight for you for a short while.
@ Upgrade: Death Visage ability for the Tyrant. Primary attacks have 5% chance to stun per rank. Max rank is 3.
@ Upgrade: Megadeath ability added. Receive extra credits for collecting excessive amounts of carrion.
@ Upgrade: Blood Fueled ability added. Move faster for a few seconds after performing a Glory Kill.
@ Upgrade: Cloak! Fade into invisibility. Cloak lasts for a short time and takes a long time to recharge. You can turn it off early to reduce recharge time.
@ Upgrade: Accelerating Barrel upgrade added for the plasma rifle.
@ Upgrade: Vile Dose upgrade added for the Caustic Grenade (increase AOE)
@ Upgrade: Necrophage upgrade added for the Syphon Grenade (converts corpses into extra health)
@ Item: Collecting a the blur sphere when you have the cloak upgrade allows you to store it and activate it later, overriding your suit's cloak once. Collecting additional blur spheres awards you with credits.
@ Item: Light Amp Goggles have been given a different voxel.
@ Item: Once you've purchased the Nightvision upgrade, collecting light amp goggles will award you with extra credits instead of their usual effect.
@ Visual: Added the scanline effect to the standard light amp goggles powerup as well.
@ Visual: New Berserk indicator reminiscent of Doom4. Scrapped the Nightvision indicator since it wasn't necessary anyway.
@ Visual: Megadeath and Blood Fueled have unique HUD indicators when they are active. They appear above the ammo display.
@ Visual: Swapped the Praetor token icon and moved the item tally to the bottom left corner.
@ Visual fix: Made the key HUD indicators scale to the left properly in the fullscreen hud.
@ Audio: Reworked gore nest sounds to be more interesting and natural.
@ Misc: Changed the Nightvision colormap to standard green (no longer highlights actors).
@ Misc: Added a small help / info section to the options menu for new players.
@ Misc: Added a primer for the new weapons to the options menu.
@ Misc: New upgrade menu category for grenades. Relevant existing upgrades moved there.
@ Misc: The Holo Sustain upgrade is now locked until you find the Holo Grenade item. This will apply to all other grenade-specific upgrades too.
@ Misc: Rebalanced some HF upgrade costs. Most of them were made cheaper.
@ Misc: Reduced the effective radius of armor and backpack pickups back to their vanilla sizes, so they aren't picked up through walls.
@ Bugfix: Fixed a bug that caused "spent" elite guards and gore nests to become usable again after saving and reloading the game.
@ Bugfix: Fixed a bug with elite guards not appearing despite being registered on the HUD.
@ Bugfix: Made elite guard spawns manually reset every new map via script (relied on actor definitions before), so that they work better in the DUMP series and similar hub-based megawads.
@ Bugfix: Fixed a bug with the Enforcer glitching out when rocket ammo is depleted. Balanced its select and deselect states too.
@ Bugfix: Fixed a typo that prevented elite guards from spawning near green armor.
@ Bugfix: Fixed the cost and description for the RL shrapnel upgrade.
@ Bugfix: Fixed some HUD wonkyness in the automap, particularly with certain images not displaying.
@ Bugfix: Prevented Hell Bishop from fighting with other hell nobility.