Flakes Doom v2.6b (Updated 06/03/18) Home fixes

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Videos :

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Gaming Room

So, Flakes? The hell is that?

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Vanilla and Chocolate are taken, and i always liked Flakes ice cream.
Jokes aside, this is a project inspired by MetaDoom by Kinsie, Doom 64k+ by zrrion the insect, and other "hybrid" mods, which tries to embrace not only Doom itself, but ID works as a whole. There are references to games like Daikatana, Quake, Wolfenstein 3D... well, you got the idea.

I'm not trying to be better than any modder, this project never had big ambitions.

Weapons have altfires, and you have grenades that can spawn in place of armor bonuses.

This also has compatibility with:
+Chex Quest;
+Heretic;
+Strife;
+Hexen;
+Return of the Triad;
+Hacx 2.0;
+Adventures of Square;
+Harmony;
+FreeDoom;
+TNT;
+Plutonia;
+Doom 1 and 2;

Oh yeah, as for eye candy, we have voxels and 3d models! Sorry to some Zandronum and ZDoom users.

List of actual altfires:

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Fist : Kicking attack, deals more damage, but slightly slower. Or a alternate punch which is faster and can be configured on options!
Chainsaw : Slash attack.
Pistol : Charging/ standard Plasma shot. Consumes 2 cells per shot (9 charged),
but has a 2x faster projectile than the plasma rifle one. The charged one is even faster and can pass through monsters!
Shotgun : Doom 2016's Three shot burst, or An explosive shot (uses grenades as ammo), which can be configured on options.
Super Shotgun : Double barrel shot (places changed due to DECORATE mess)
Heavy Assault Rifle : Zooming Scope/Micro Missiles which can be configured on options.
Machinegun : Incendiary shot (consumes 10 clip bullets).
Chaingun : Standby mode (alerts monsters).
Rocket Launcher : Zooming scope or Triple shot which can be configured on options!
Grenade : Mine trap.
Plasma Rifle : Plasma Flamethrower.
BFG 9000 : Allows you to charge your shot and release two smaller projectiles when desired, at the cost of a longer cooldown and 10 more cells.
Unmaker : Releases 3 powerful and fast lasers at once.

Credits people:

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Sprite wise, most glue work is mine, with all credits given, of course.

Sound wise, i tried to focus most on ID and related. There are even some Daikatana sounds!

//SPRITES

Fist : Perkristian for hands, Nullwire for kick sprites.
Mace and Gauntlet: Edited Combine Kegan Sprites (Combined Arms), Eriance and Raven Software.
Pistol: DIMOSHunter, edited and glued by me.
Shotgun : Torridgristle for Doom 4 sprite / Eriance(A.K.A. Amuscaria) for Doom hands and pumping animations.
Super Shotgun: VriskaSerket/Eriance/Me.
Heavy Assault Rifle: DIMOSHunter, Necronxxis and me.
Machinegun : Sgt Shivers/Eriance/Pickup sprite by Kinsie.
Chaingun : Minigunner/Cage
Rocket Launcher: Me/Jukem
Grenades : Kronos (Doom 2.5)/zrrion the insect edits of my edits and Zanieon for 3d model
Plasma Rifle: ID(Doom/Doom64), DIMOSHunter, Youtube for a screenshot of the Doom 4 plasma screen/ Z86 Weapons Mod (projectile)
BFG9000: Z86 Weapons Mod (projectile) ans Gothic for inspiration
Unmaker : Dr. Doctor, OSJC and some tweaks by me.

//SOUNDS

DBThanatos and Xeotroid (Everything from Doom 4)
Doom 3 Wads(Unknown rippers)
Perkristian HI-Res Audio pack
CaptainJ (MetaDoom sound pack)
Quake Series.
Daikatana

// MODELS and VOXELS
TheCamaleonMaligno
Zanieon
Johhny

HUD Status Bar code by wildweasel, sega saturn numbers ripped by torridgristle,
quake icons extraced by me.

Guess that's it. Everything else should be credited to me,
and if not, i apologize for my poor memory and i'll fix this document
as soon as possible. No thefts intended here.

Download Link and Add-ons

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Download Link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14XLXWw ... sp=sharing

Gambiarra Flakes

Facínora from the site GamingRoom made this awesome add-on which adds new content to the game, including musics, weapons and small enhancements! Load it AFTER Flakes Doom!

https://mega.nz/#!WohjjapB!pqSW-mpUJTC9 ... ybF1EqJolk

Black Gloves patch by Black Rock Shooter and more!

This nitfy patch here replaces all hands in Flakes Doom with Black gloved ones, making it real badass. It started as a project like SmoothDoom does it, but i'm not THAT skilled to do that. So here's it as an optional add-on for you folks out there.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10wAbwx ... sp=sharing

Classic Chainsaw by Black Rock Shooter

This patch, also by Black Rock Shooter, replaces Flakes Doom's Chainsaw with our old Eager Beaver 2.0! Just load it AFTER Flakes Doom and you're good to go!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aDDvRX ... sp=sharing

Classic Chainsaw with Black Hands by Black Rock Shooter

Load this AFTER black hands patch!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bElnyu ... sp=sharing

Zandronum Deathmatch patch by YukesVonFaust
This patch replaces the minigun with the Heavy Assault Rifle, and soon (if possible) with new weapons!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TrBEo5 ... sp=sharing

SSG Farcry Blood Dragon-style by Gezzdt
LOAD THIS AFTER FLAKES DOOM! It changes SSG sprites for a Far Cry Blood Dragon style. Sprites made by user Gezzdt and polished by me.
(Yes, we both know the idea came from Weapons of Saturn. Lippeth approved the idea, as well. )

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dFd2F0 ... sp=sharing

SSG Farcry Blood Dragon-style with Black Hands by Black Rock Shooter

Load this AFTER black hands patch!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M4l5Ro ... sp=sharing

NC HUD patch by Tekish

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2qwbk9vzfvt0 ... m.pk3?dl=1

How to play this with HACX and ROTT TC properly:

1 - Select either HACX 2.0 (NOT OLDER VERSIONS) or Return of The Triad TC made by El Zee and 5thFifty.
2 - Select Flakes Doom together.
3 - Drag them by the first on gzdoom/zdoom/Zandronum.exe
4 - Select Doom 2/Freedoom 2 as the IWAD
5 - ???
6 - Profit!

*Hacx standard status bar is fucked up and i couldn't round it. The other is alright.

*The Yellow warnings are necessary to recognize both HACX 2.0 and ROTT TC weapons and items. Ignore them.

Feedback is appreciated! Download, grab some beer, a monster pack, and have fun!

[Scripten]

The idea seems solid and the mod plays alright for the little I've done with it. Good luck!

EDIT:

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Thanks! I need it.

[Deii]

This was a pleasant little surprise. Played until I got my hands on a BFG and then went to bed while thinking about the mod.

Here are a few suggestions and things I noticed:

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-Chainsaw has the silent flag, so monsters don't become active when you're using it. It's kinda neat, actually, though the notion of something so loud not alerting monsters is kinda amusing. Maybe give it an altfire such as thrusting it directly forwards for strong damage?

-Fists are okay for the most part, nothing to change there in my opinion.

-Pistol is actually pretty cool and has a very smooth animation - congrats on that! My main gripe is that its plasma shot moves a tad too slow and isn't all that useful until you come acros cells and generally speaking, at that time you'd already have a plasma gun at the ready.
Maybe have its altfire be a plasma shot that needs to be charged up to deal strong damage? Ammo could be infinite to give it some more use, but I'm not too sure on that.

- Shotgun's badass enough as it is, but I think its spread is a little too wide - I recall having trouble to reliably kill anything that wasn't relatively close to me. Maybe make it a little more accurate?

-Same goes with the super shotgun, though its spread is pretty alright.

-Machinegun is...well, I love it. It cuts things down in no time if you keep it on target, but wouldn't that be the purpose of the chaingun? In fact, I generally think you should probably follow Doom 2016's approach to automatic weapons: machinegun is rather accurate but has low DPS, chaingun is the king of spam and raw DPS.
As for an altfire suggestion, why not give it a scope along with increased damage (while consuming more ammo of course), if you decide to make it into a more accurate gun? If you keep it with the same high ROF it has now, just give it a shotgun altfire - to keep the close quarters feeling it has.

-For the chaingun, my major gripe with it is that the pickup sprite doesn't actually resemble the gun itself - maybe use Eriance's gatling gun's barrels instead of the Doom 64 ones? I would say it would be a good idea to up its damage per bullet as well.

-The rocket launcher is pretty cool but I don't fully understand the purpose of its scope, since it still flies at vanilla speed (from what I could tell at least). Maybe speed it up some?

-Plasma gun is pretty cool, and I like the way it vents steam after firing. While the slow projectile speed is a bit of a problem at long ranges, I generally only use it up close and personal so it's hardly an issue.
For the altfire, why not a heat blast like Doom 2016's, or maybe launch an explosibe plasma canister?

-BFG9000 needs no changes at all IMO. If you want to make an altfire for it, just make it like a gauss cannon shot or something.

And that's all I got for now! Pretty good name for it as well, as I do like flakes better than vanilla or chocolate.

Keep up the good work!

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Hey man! I appreciate it a lot! Thanks you liked it.

As for some questions, here we go:

- Probably the chainsaw is going to have a on/off function; when on you can't throw quick grenades (which i think i'm going to add), and will alert monsters even on idle state. When off, well...

- Thank Johnny for the frames! I asked him permission to take it from JohnnyDoom, and hey really flow fine.The intention on adding a plasma shot to the pistol was to suffice a plasma shot without needing a plasma gun (say, you can fire plasma shots on doom II's stage 3 already), and get a even faster. I don't remember how fast was the plasma shot before, but i cranked it's speed up to 35, and the pistol plasma to 70. I also nerfed the cell consuming to 2 instead of three. That seems to make it "fair".
(About charging altfires, i paln one to the plasma gun; but i think a railgun shot would be way too cliché. We'll see that).

- Shotgun's accuracy buffed now it's spread on normal shots lowered from 5.6/5.6 to 3.4/3.4. On the three shot burst, every shot increases it in 1.1/1.1, so: 3.4/3.4 4.5/4.5 and 5.6/5.6.

SSG Kept as it is. But there's one frame that slightly pauses. If i can fix it, it'll become even faster.

- I thought on making the machine gun work like the Doom 4 repeater. But nobody likes locked three shot bursts. So, while i think on a nice altfire, i lowered the machinegun spread to 2.9 and inverted chaingun and machinegun speed ticks.

- A new pickup sprite for the chaingun is on the oven.

- RL Speed will be raised.

- Plasma rifle got its speed buffed. I forgot to say, though you already seen: it fires one tick faster, to match Doom 4.

- Well, all i know is that the bfg won't have it's beta altfire.

Thanks for the feedback! As soon as these changes are 100% the file will be uploaded!

[Deii]

Sweet, downloading now! Will do more or less the same as last night and then come back with feedback.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

No! It's still not ready!

Just gimme some time!

[wildweasel]

Definitely liking the feel of these so far, outside of the chaingun and pistol (primary fire, anyway, i wasn't able to find cells in my brief playtest) feeling a bit on the weak side.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Thanks weasel! I'm glad you enjoy it!

Game got updated, now we have some quick changes suggested by Deii:

- Plasma Rifle and Plasma Pistol projectile speeds buffed.
- Rocket launcher projectile speed buffed.
- Shotgun and machine gun spread lowered
- Inverted chaingun and machinegun speeds
- Pistol cell consumpt nerfed from 3 to 2 cells per shot.
- New pickup sprite for the chaingun
- SSG speed buffed.

Enjoy!

[Deii]

Welp, I'm glad I had to go put the garbage outside before I came back to my room. Took enough time for you to actually post the updated version.

I'm glad if I could help, so give me a bit to test everything out.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Hooray! An update!

Guess being unemployed is a good thing to you guys... I updated my games like, 5 times in less than a week.

Just kidding. Game is now updated, and should feel better to play now. My only personal complain is the new railgun altfire for the plasma rifle, but the charging shot is being occupied by the BFG now.

Changelog:

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- Chainsaw alerts monsters during fire state.
- New alfire for BFG9000 allows you to charge and hold the shot (at the cost of a way longer cooldown than the primary fire).
- New altfire for the Plasma Rifle: Railgun shot (yeah... i know). Costs 30 cells.
- Machinegun fires faster than the Chaingun now, but only in bursts of five shots.
- New sprites for powerups, taken from Immoral conduct 2.
- Voxels for the grenade. I had voxels for many weapons, but some of them are so ugly i decided not to release them.
- New Sounds for some items.
- New Altfire for the machinegun, the incendiary shot.
- Powerup Quad Damage replaces Berserk.
- Added decals for the plasma rifle and pistol.

So, what you guys think about a "plasma flamethrower" altfire, just like the old brutal doom v19 plasma rifle?

it can be seen at the beginning of this video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7MOw6OhXVA

Have Fun!

[Deii]

Just gave it a test, here are the things I noticed and a few suggestions:

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-Machinegun's five round burst is a bit...well, a bit too much since generally speaking you're going to waste some bullets on a killing blow. The recoil is also rather high (which makes it rather innacurate, but I only noticed at VERY long distances) and its altfire feels a bit weak all things considered, especially for 9 bullets.
I'd suggest toning the five round burst to a three round burst and definitely reduce its recoil, and the altfire to be a little "punchier" - maybe something like the repeater in Doom 2016's MP? It fires a more powerful shot while consuming three rounds, much like the current one.

-BFG9000's altfire is bugged and won't actually use ammo. The rest works as intended.

-Plasma gun's altfire feels a bit weak overall for 30 rounds and doesn't alert monsters, though I'm not against the plasma flamethrower replacing it.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Thanks! I will work on it tonight!

[NullWire]

This needs the Gl, Railgun, hellshoot and some kind of unmaker-reaper

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

In a expansion patch, why not?

Thanks to Deii, i updated the game and fixed some errors, here goes the changelog:

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15/12
- Fixed BFG infinite alternate fire.
- New alternate fire for the plasma rifle: plasma flamethrower.
- Buffed significantly incendiary damage on the machine gun, however, it is divided on more than one pellet.
So it is not recommended on (very) long distances. Also, nerfed clip consuming from 9 to 8 units.
- reduced machinegun burst from 5 to 3 shots.
- Nerfed significantly the machinegun's recoil.

Download it and have fun!