ARACNOCIDE 2.8 (Updated 06/AUG/24)

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Finally my internet helped!

Here's the latest update changelog:

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24/02

- Hopefully the last weapon added in game: Carabine kit for Blake's revolver.
- New sounds, sprites and code adjustments for Nitrogen Thrower
- New intermission texts written by Deii! Too fucking awesome (english only). Thanks man
- New option to disable magazines and clips to improve performance on slower pcs.
- New animated Intros for each character that can be disabled via options
- New adjusts on Sturmpistole's reloading animation.
- New freezing and death by freeze sounds by Captain J
- New sounds for the Lucky 7 revolver (Marion Callahan's upgrade). Edited from Project Brutality.
- New sounds for Kilmaat Queen.
- Aracnophobia mode now's painted in red.
- FA-MAS (Marion) reloads MILES faster than before.
- Some correction on Land mines sprites.
- Some corrections on boh uzis casing ejectors.
- Little internal organization.

Almost on 4.0 guys! Let's go download it! go go go

[Deii]

Gave this the usual 30 minutes of playtesting and already found a bug: when you upgrade the revolver to a revolver carbine, if you pickup another heavy handgun you'll have both the revolver with carbine kit and the basic 5 shot revolver.

Other than that, it's all pretty solid and I can feel that much like your other works it's getting pretty much close to finished.

P.S.: you forgot the fists in there

[Captain J]

Tango down, and i liked it! It has been changed a lot, and i've encountered some problems;

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- Their intro actions from the beginning are fun to watch... Except they're kinda slow to watch and start the action. Marion has the worst action of them all; He chats the radio and then reloads pistol, and it's very slower than any other classes'. I'd had no idea when the first map is open place filled with enemies. Otherwise, you're defenseless at the moment.

- It's pretty sad that i cannot throw a baseball with Derrick's Baseball Bat. Since the ammo icon shows a baseball!

- I have no idea why, but chainsaw replacements are all different and such, but always leaves chainsaw decal...

- The Triple Barreled Shotgun loads way too slow. I guess it's the penalty for being strong? But still it's slow to fight back if you tell me.

- Those Assault Rifle Casings' bouncing sound effects! THEY ARE SO LOUD, MAKE IT STOP! D:

- DN15-PDW's spent magazine is single, instead of couple. Also its weapon pickup sprite is way too different than first person one.

Also i have been thought that its ammo icon on the hud is not matching as well.

- When you hold Reload key, an arrow loaded on Hunter TAC-Ex disappears, visually. It's not really serious to talk about, though.

- TX-88 Mini Vulcan's firing sound effect is pretty quiet, it's sadly being buried below by loud casing sound.

- Blake's TNT doesn't shows his Lighter unlike Derrick's Trusty Whiskytov.

- RG-220 Auto Slugger Carbine doesn't feel like i'm shooting an automatic shotgun loaded with slug rounds. I mean, it has no special effects like penetration or powerful puff, just shoots only one deadly hitscan.

- I have nothing against PL-2303 Plasma Rifle... Except it leaves no spent magazine.

And now time for some problems of monsters;

- Arachnotron MK.II seems having the old problem again. When it shoots, goes back to spawn state.

- Kilmaat Wasp bleeds green, while the sprite shows red.

- Transparent Blackfoot Spider's hitbox is way too small. Even though i know where they are, but they always manage to dodge my bullets anyways.

- Arachnophobic Abomination Spawns little yellow spiders. Really good touch, but i'd make them harm the player like a plea if i was you.

- Giant Black Ant is not really deadly. I'd give it to leap or sprays acid, then it might be stronger. Also it bleeds green, but it spews red blood when death.

- Fly Spawning wasp bleeds green, but it spews red blood when death.

So, that's about it. Glad you used my resources and it worked really well. Thanks for the awesome mod!

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Gave this the usual 30 minutes of playtesting and already found a bug: when you upgrade the revolver to a revolver carbine, if you pickup another heavy handgun you'll have both the revolver with carbine kit and the basic 5 shot revolver.

Other than that, it's all pretty solid and I can feel that much like your other works it's getting pretty much close to finished.

P.S.: you forgot the fists in there

Sorry, had a busy morning. About the Revolvers, it happens with Derrick's Desert Eagle too. But even though i added some inventory checks, the problem doesn't solves. So i'll get to study it better.

Tango down, and i liked it! It has been changed a lot, and i've encountered some problems;

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- Their intro actions from the beginning are fun to watch... Except they're kinda slow to watch and start the action. Marion has the worst action of them all; He chats the radio and then reloads pistol, and it's very slower than any other classes'. I'd had no idea when the first map is open place filled with enemies. Otherwise, you're defenseless at the moment.

- It's pretty sad that i cannot throw a baseball with Derrick's Baseball Bat. Since the ammo icon shows a baseball!

- I have no idea why, but chainsaw replacements are all different and such, but always leaves chainsaw decal...

- The Triple Barreled Shotgun loads way too slow. I guess it's the penalty for being strong? But still it's slow to fight back if you tell me.

- Those Assault Rifle Casings' bouncing sound effects! THEY ARE SO LOUD, MAKE IT STOP! D:

- DN15-PDW's spent magazine is single, instead of couple. Also its weapon pickup sprite is way too different than first person one.

Also i have been thought that its ammo icon on the hud is not matching as well.

- When you hold Reload key, an arrow loaded on Hunter TAC-Ex disappears, visually. It's not really serious to talk about, though.

- TX-88 Mini Vulcan's firing sound effect is pretty quiet, it's sadly being buried below by loud casing sound.

- Blake's TNT doesn't shows his Lighter unlike Derrick's Trusty Whiskytov.

- RG-220 Auto Slugger Carbine doesn't feel like i'm shooting an automatic shotgun loaded with slug rounds. I mean, it has no special effects like penetration or powerful puff, just shoots only one deadly hitscan.

- I have nothing against PL-2303 Plasma Rifle... Except it leaves no spent magazine.

And now time for some problems of monsters;

- Arachnotron MK.II seems having the old problem again. When it shoots, goes back to spawn state.

- Kilmaat Wasp bleeds green, while the sprite shows red.

- Transparent Blackfoot Spider's hitbox is way too small. Even though i know where they are, but they always manage to dodge my bullets anyways.

- Arachnophobic Abomination Spawns little yellow spiders. Really good touch, but i'd make them harm the player like a plea if i was you.

- Giant Black Ant is not really deadly. I'd give it to leap or sprays acid, then it might be stronger. Also it bleeds green, but it spews red blood when death.

- Fly Spawning wasp bleeds green, but it spews red blood when death.

So, that's about it. Glad you used my resources and it worked really well. Thanks for the awesome mod!

You know i always love feedback. Norths me to the best way.

The only i must advice though, is that the special intros are switchable on/off in the options menu. I should probably reinforce that; i remembered it from mapsets like scythe and had to make it optional

Other than that, i must assume i brought dumbness back when i messed up with Arachnotron MKII again. I forgot to fix the state jumping.

We are working on it sir! On our way to 4.0!

[Doctrine Gamer]

"New intermission texts written by Deii! Too fucking awesome (english only). Thanks man"

They got really good and creative in the context of Doom

[LedIris]

I've really enjoyed following this mod after all this time. It really has changed a lot. It's all really solid and I love booting it up with Consolation Prize + the ambience pack mentioned on the previous page. Thank you GAA for an amazing mod.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

"New intermission texts written by Deii! Too fucking awesome (english only). Thanks man"

They got really good and creative in the context of Doom

I thought so too. Did you got the doom Comics reference on Doom 2?

I've really enjoyed following this mod after all this time. It really has changed a lot. It's all really solid and I love booting it up with Consolation Prize + the ambience pack mentioned on the previous page. Thank you GAA for an amazing mod.

Your decorate and ACS lessons were and still are strong pillars to this. Wouldn't be the same without you. Thanks to you too

[Doctrine Gamer]

I did not find it in the changelog but was it my impression or the sprites of the dead soldiers were replaced?
I found it cool, one suggestion is to replace the sprites of dead bodies with spiders or other insects, Would combine a lot with the battlefield.

Obs: In my opinion this mod should win a for creativity and thematic spider, since I found no resemblance like this.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Yes, they did! Sorry, forgot about that one. I wanted to use Doom 64's, but they're way too big. So, i just used Freedoom's, so evertime the mod is loaded on custom players it keeps the originality.

Thanks for the kind words! Well, you can surely say it's the doom mod that explores insects more intensively than no other

[Doctrine Gamer]

Yes, they did! Sorry, forgot about that one. I wanted to use Doom 64's, but they're way too big. So, i just used Freedoom's, so evertime the mod is loaded on custom players it keeps the originality.

Thanks for the kind words! Well, you can surely say it's the doom mod that explores insects more intensively than no other

That! Exactly my friend.

[Deii]

- RG-220 Auto Slugger Carbine doesn't feel like i'm shooting an automatic shotgun loaded with slug rounds. I mean, it has no special effects like penetration or powerful puff, just shoots only one deadly hitscan.

I'm almost sure that the auto in its name refers to its autoloading nature, as in: you shoot one round, and the action cycles to both eject the spent shell and feed a new one. Plenty of firearms (particularly older ones) have automatic in their name but do nothing more than work as I explained above.
I will agree with you that it could use some fancy puff sprites...but from the looks of it, it really shooting just a big bullet (speaking of that, the magazine shows a bullet loaded into it, any plans on changing that so it's a shell?).

[Captain J]

No, what i mean is, the effect of the fired rounds. Yes, only that. I know how automatic shotguns works and i'm not against with that. The shot just needs some special effects to put cherry on top.

[Lime]

New Class, New Spider Mastermind, Special Intros, & Tweaks, My Wish has come true. This update just made it much more better! I'll keep an eye on your mod for more updates.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

HEY GUYS, it's a me! I've came to say that Aracnocide 4.0 is up and running!

This update fixes and add many things! I just ask of you that, if you spot a bug, please report me and i'll fiz it as soon as possible! My internet connection is giving me problems again, so i might take a little bit to respond.

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26/02

YukesVonFaust patch:

- Zoomed firing speed for Slugger increased.
- New sound for the FA-MAS and the Plasma Rifle.
- New sprites for the Beretta Reloading.
- New reload sprites for the FA-MAS and Altfire function of Burst Fire!
- Tweaked Intro for the Ranger and the Trooper.
- Fixed Sturmpistole Script and it should finally be able to Zandronum users.
- New effects for the Sturmpistole projectile.
- Added sounds for wall interaction to all classes.
- New offsets for the Dual Eagles.
- Corrected S&W Model 29 spawning casings on reload.
- Corrected Single Uzi shooting frames.
- Faster shooting on zoomed Lucky 7and better offsets out scope.
- Tweaks on Angle Grinder animations
- Tweaks on weapon names.

My changes:

- By Yukes request, added two new weapons: one for the Ranger and one for the recon: The M60 and the Ultimax 100! It takes the Gatling Gun place.
- Fixed Sturmpistole not alerting monsters, not reloading on alternate fire, and releasing smoke when shot.,
- Corrected Single Uzi Altfire as well.
- New sprites for Auto Slugger magazine reloading, now properly with shells.
- Greatly increased speed on Triple Barreled shotgun at the cost of a little smoothness.
- New firing sounds for the Pumpgun and Single Uzi.
- Increased Accuracy for the pumpgun and added a new frame to pumping animation.
- Pumpgun reloads faster.
- New pumping sounds to the pumpgun.
- New sound for heavy casings. (Painkiller)
- New sound for shotgun casings (Painkiller)
- Corrected Tactical bow reloading bug where an arrow dissapeared. It may still flicker sometimes. It's a never ending movie.
- Added lighter sprites for Blake's TNT. Blake lighter is not as old as Derrick, so it doesn't need to be triggered many times :v
- New pickup sprite for Upgraded PDW.
- New Status Bar Icon for high caliber automatic weapons.
- Upgraded PDW drops two drum magazines (it should be one with two glued, but this is just for now.)
- New decals for the Bazooka, Nitrogen Thrower and Automatic Slugger by OSJClatchford
- Plasma Rifle now ejects a spent cell clip.
- Fixed Drill puff and added some nice effects to it.
- New pickup sprite for the Single and Dual Uzis.
- New pickup sprite for the bazooka.
- New pickup sprite for the Auto Shotgun.
- Fixed Bereta casings. Now they spawn to the same side.
- New class portraits with some info about each class.
- rebalanced health between Derrick and Marion.
- lowered chance of bazooka missiles ammo spawning.
- fixed Dual Bottinis raise and lower states.
- Added a mugshot (Equinox) to the status bar
- Wrote a little intermission text for No Rest to the Living (until Deii do some)
- Fixed both FG42's not calling A_GunFlash.
- Fixed Nitrogen Thrower not bobing when holding reload.
- New firing sound for Browning HP
- New Barrel impact sounds.
- New special item sounds.
- New reloading sprites for Ranger Crossbow.
- Removed fists by request.

Monsters:

- Increased Blackfoot radius. I probably wanted to digit 16 and forgot the 1.
- Arachnotron plays another sound when firing missiles.
- Giant brown spider spawns small orange spiders as of now >:)
- Nerfed Arachnotron MKII machinegun and solved see state problem
- Black Ant now has a Damaging Leap (it must be a little close to you), and walks faster.
- Both Powerslave Wasps now bleed red blood correctly.
- Purple Scorpion bleeds only purple now.
- Stalker secret spider now explodes violently when dies >:) (Main Game Only)
- Corrected Shadow Spider acid height (HALELLUJAH!)
- Powerslave Scorpion is way more challenging now.
- Shadow spider is faster now.
- Powerslave spider is faster too.
- Restructuring of enemies documents.
- Removed all infighting, i think.
- Added a big variable size to the first orange spider.
- Both Hexen II spiders (Baron of Hell and Hell Knight), are way deadlier and faster.
- Fixed and changed some skill levels values.

My next plans are to add a new 3d model for ivulnerability powerup and remove some custom pickups from weapon pack to improve compatibility!

Hope you guys have a lot of fun with this one!

[wolf00]

emeny like marines/soldiers/civilian infested by spider's[they know how using guns] can be insteresting, something like headcrab's zombies in half_life