MetaDoom v7.1 "Ghost" - This Mod Has Moved. See OP for details.

[Kinsie]

Good to see you have not given up on this mod after all! Is the player vulnerable to the Gas Bomb's effects, though?

Currently yes. It acts kinda-sorta like the Poison Flechette from Hexen, except the clouds drift a little. It honestly needs a bit of tinkering to be more useful, but it's in...

feel free to use my new vortex rifle

thank u, also use this one as well, credit me when updates are good

here, a better update

Feel free to edit my burst rifle and vortex rifle under my consent/permission. As long as, i will learn it from you all.

I'm starting to get the feeling that you really want me to use your sprites. Got any credits for the bits and pieces you pulled from elsewhere?

[ThrashfanBert1994]

Well, the vortex rifle had some little helps by encater, the reapeater rifle was mine.
This is more of a suggestion weapon for meta doom since im here to help and support the project

[wildweasel]

He's specifically referring to Mr. Enchanter's post here: http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?p=963426#p963426

[Kinsie]

Fair enough, I'm just pretty big on citing my sources. Those who forget the mistakes of the past, etc. etc...

The Vortex Rifle and Repeater are sitting alongside the Hellshot on DO4M things that I'd like to adapt to MetaDoom, but I'm not sure how to do so, as all the niches they take up are already filled pretty nicely by weapons I've already added and I'm cautious about going down a path that ends up with five very similar weapons on each keyslot... as you might be aware from my copious bitching earlier on in the thread.

[Jeimuzu73]

Kinda like how Death Foretold (D4T) also omitted those weapons because of redundancy. I'd give the burst rifle a pass as a bullet-based sniping weapon though; it could be occasionally dropped by the rifle-toting zombiemen and you can call it the Sig-Cow or something that references the novels.

Speaking of which, are you going to reference the novels or is it confined to the games only?

[wildweasel]

Speaking of which, are you going to reference the novels or is it confined to the games only?

I think it'd be funny to change the obituaries for the basic monsters to reference the made-up names from the first book. Like "steamdemon" or "spidermind."

[Kinsie]

Speaking of which, are you going to reference the novels or is it confined to the games only?

If I can find some way to squeeze that stuff in. Probably as a rare easter egg. (Lederhosen Revs?)

[Doomguy5th]

Good to see you have not given up on this mod after all! Is the player vulnerable to the Gas Bomb's effects, though?

Currently yes. It acts kinda-sorta like the Poison Flechette from Hexen, except the clouds drift a little. It honestly needs a bit of tinkering to be more useful, but it's in...

feel free to use my new vortex rifle

thank u, also use this one as well, credit me when updates are good

here, a better update

Feel free to edit my burst rifle and vortex rifle under my consent/permission. As long as, i will learn it from you all.

I'm starting to get the feeling that you really want me to use your sprites. Got any credits for the bits and pieces you pulled from elsewhere?

Yep. Enchanter did the original RIP of the Repeater's iron sights, and I tried to make it look like an ADS sprite for Neccronixis's Doom IV Repeater (I think one time, I requested if anyone could make the sprite look a bit better and more Doom-y or something similar). Well, there's one part of the gun. Don't know about the rest of the gun though.

[ThrashfanBert1994]

i admitted since my head popped ideas of "what If"

[Kinsie]

v2.11 "Olivia" (~21mb)
Developer Repo on Github

v2.11 "Olivia" (02/01/17)
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A quick bugfix for a startup issue with the very latest version of GZDoom. Sorry for the inconvenience.

- Fixed a GetDistance issue that prevented startup on GZDoom 2.3.0

[Kinsie]

I guess I should post this here too...

Started slowly integrating ZScript into MetaDoom.

Because I don't much fancy taking the bumpy road of converting perfectly working DECORATE into the new and scary thing, and because all my monsters already inherit from a single base actor for state sharing, I created a new ZScript actor for the base actor to inherit from, allowing me to create new action functions to integrate into my pre-existing code, mixing the new and old in a sane and pleasant manner.

In one case, this has caused 77 lines of horrible copy-pasted repetition from the Soulcube death state to be replaced with just five calls of one of my new action functions:

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A_MetaPinata("MetaHealthPinataPerm", 12);
A_MetaPinata("MetaArmorPinata", 12);
A_MetaPinata("MetaPinataClip", 12);
A_MetaPinata("MetaPinataShell", 12);
A_MetaPinata("MetaPinataRocket", 12);
A_MetaPinata("MetaPinataCell", 12);

I've also renovated the bleeding status effect from the Axe weapon to also use a function, allowing me to renovate it into being flashy and easier to read without having to copy-paste each change into every single monster. (I still need to do the Axe status effect for players, mind. I need to figure out how to keep track of which player scythed a piece out of you so frags can properly be rewarded... any ideas?)

I miiiight have gone a little mad with power.

[Kinsie]

Lightning Gun:
During the development of the Plasma Rifle, a number of failed prototypes were produced. This one, however, failed in such a unique and interesting way that it was developed further into a weapon of its own right, channeling plasma energy into a semi-predictable, short range stream of agony. However, users should keep in mind that it doesn't cause demons to "flinch", necessitating usage of evasive manouvers like circle-strafing for effective use.

Alternate Fire launches an unstable ball of plasma energy that, upon hitting a solid object, blossums into a searing mass of energy that effectively stuns enemies within the blast radius, leaving them easy pickings for other means of attack.

[Captain J]

Looks shockingly amazing! Heheh. Anyway replacement sprite is indeed needed for this one.

[JohnnyTheWolf]

What is wrong with the current sprites? I think it looks very good - at least, on the pictures.

[SiFi270]

I can't speak for Captain J, but I think his problem with it might be how 3D and video captured it looks. I think it might help if you just took parts of it and combined them with parts of Doom 64's unused weapon that Kaiser believed to be a lightning gun.