"(File)Size Matters" 64K Compo (Judging not underway)

[Accensus]

No probs, just asking cause you said 30th and it's almost 2nd here, lol. Time zones, eh.

[wildweasel]

No probs, just asking cause you said 30th and it's almost 2nd here, lol. Time zones, eh.

Yeah if I might clarify, I must receive entries by midnight tonight in Pacific Daylight Time. That gives you, by my count, about 14 and a half hours to submit entries - any later and I'll begin docking points for lateness.

I won't start writing the scoresheets until a bit later; I tend to go pretty in-depth, so it may be a while.

[Accensus]

No probs, just asking cause you said 30th and it's almost 2nd here, lol. Time zones, eh.

Yeah if I might clarify, I must receive entries by midnight tonight in Pacific Daylight Time. That gives you, by my count, about 14 and a half hours to submit entries - any later and I'll begin docking points for lateness.

I won't start writing the scoresheets until a bit later; I tend to go pretty in-depth, so it may be a while.

Roger, roger. I don't have any entries to submit myself, but thanks for the information, nevertheless. I'm eager to see the results; there are some good mods in this competition.

[Combine_Kegan]

Son of a bitch, I thought I fixed the bug where the pinky demon's dashing sound loops forever if you kill them while dashing. I've fixed it now and updated the mod.

Sorry again, I seriously though I had that thing fixed assdfgdsfgjkh

[wildweasel]

Son of a bitch, I thought I fixed the bug where the pinky demon's dashing sound loops forever if you kill them while dashing. I've fixed it now and updated the mod.

Sorry again, I seriously though I had that thing fixed assdfgdsfgjkh

Alright, I got it.

[Combine_Kegan]

Thanks Weasel, it wouldn't be one of my mod releases without a few last minute fixes/additions where I completely forget something

[kodi]

Doomshock updated. It may be all kinds of broken but has some neater stuff. Thanks and good night.

Edit: Documentation below

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Introduction:
This mod aims to take some of the gameplay of the first System Shock game into Doom by replacing the weapons and the movement/aiming system. It also gives you access to a small number of "programs" of which you can run two at a time on your cybernetic rig.

How to play:
1. Use development builds of ZDoom or GZDoom.I strongly suggest Zdoom with a resolution of 640*400. My bad! use GZDoom with vid_renderer 0 or some of the angle math goes bonkers. Below 640* 400 the text just won't render proper though, and at very high resolution the charm is kind of lost
2. Play in a 4:3 resolution in any other case!
3. Remove your hud, by minimizing it away and turning off the crosshair for example.
4. Bind Weapon State 1 (+user1) and Weapon State 2 (+user2) to the keys you wish to turn left or right with respectively.
5. +user3 and +user4 make you look up and down, but I suggest ignoring them and playing without this feature.
6. Use your alternative fire key to interact with the menus in the bottom corners.
7. Use Doom2.wad as your IWAD or there'll be a few graphics missing.

The DS_TURNFACTOR cvar multiplies your turning speed if you feel the standard amount is too sluggish.
DS_ALTXHAIR will provide a high visibility crosshair when set to true. (for you ck )


Weapon guide

Unarmed
Unmodified fist
Laser rapier
Powerful melee weapon. Goes bananas if you find a berserk pack.
9mm pistol
A pretty lackluster pistol.
Tactical carbine
100% accurate with a moderate fire rate. It's basically chaingun-tapping in a can.
Pump action shotgun
Slightly faster than the vanilla shotgun, has a fairly accurate conical spread.
Break action shotgun
Fires 14 pellets instead of the vanilla 20, but does more damage to compensate. Slightly reduced fire rate, slight bit of recoil.
Gast gun:
Multi-barreled machinegun with a fantastical fire rate. Single-handedly makes bullets a valuable resource.
Grenade launcher
A fairly standard grenade launcher.
Laser pistol
An efficient and accurate weapon. Hits like 5 plasma gun shots and costs the same amount of cells.
Graviton Collider
Costs 75 cells to fire. Extremely powerful room-clearing weapon.
MFD Software

GravBoost
Turns your movement ffaster but more slippery. Does not consume cells.
FarSight
Puts a zoom overlay on top of your crosshair. You may tweak the level of zoom with the arrows. Pretty useful in the intended 640*400 resolution!
Active camo
Acts like the blursphere. Consumes cells quite quickly.
EnviShield
Acts like radsuit.
NiteLite
Acts like like light amp goggles.

Known bugs and issues

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Pistol doesn't use ammo.
The aiming angle is just bitshifted to integer before being sent to the weapon's decorate, so there's a great loss of precision.
All the debugging print/log functions were mistakenly left on for the MFDs. Whoops.
MFDs crash and lock under some circumstances. Entering the next map restores it at least.
The code is made of spaghetti and sleep deprivation
No widescreen support. Adjusting the position of a scaled hudmessage was a can of worms I did not have the time to deal with before the deadline

If you find any more bugs or would like to express your opinion on the mod in general I'd appreciate hearing about it.

[wildweasel]

Doomshock updated. It may be all kinds of broken but has some neater stuff. Thanks and good night.

Received, thank you.

[wildweasel]

!! ATTENTION ENTRANTS !!

As of the end of May 1st, Pacific Daylight Time, the Grace Period for penalty-free submission is now over. Entries and patches submitted beyond this point will be penalized 5% of their overall score. This late penalty will increase to 10% past the end of May 2nd, 15% past the end of May 3rd, and entries will NOT be accepted past the end of May 4th.

[kodi]

Just a heads-up: I will try to update the post with my final upload with more documentation for the mod.
Also, I may decide to continue working on and updating it independently of it's status as a contest entry if there's any interest for it - would it be okay if I edit in a separate and clearly marked download link in the post if I decide to do so?

[wildweasel]

Just a heads-up: I will try to update the post with my final upload with more documentation for the mod.
Also, I may decide to continue working on and updating it independently of it's status as a contest entry if there's any interest for it - would it be okay if I edit in a separate and clearly marked download link in the post if I decide to do so?

The question I'd have to ask you is, do you consider this update part of the submission? It's up to you whether you want the previous version to be judged or if the fixes are enough to offset the penalty.

[kodi]

No, not a part of the submission. It'd be for the sake of the mod itself.

It's up to you whether you want the previous version to be judged or if the fixes are enough to offset the penalty.

I don't think I'd be able to judge that. The rushed and flawed version will stand as my submission, come what may

[Accensus]

I also plan on continuing the work on CustomDoom long after the competition is over. The version when the competition ended was 1.4.2. That is the one which should be judged. No time penalties apply to it since it was released weeks ago.

[wildweasel]

I also plan on continuing the work on CustomDoom long after the competition is over. The version when the competition ended was 1.4.2. That is the one which should be judged. No time penalties apply to it since it was released weeks ago.

Yup, that's the version I've got in my collection at the moment.

[Marisa the Magician]

It's all fine. I personally made the choice to leave any bugs unfixed to not screw up the filesize, after all.