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[Turret49]

Currently the fog is making everything a bit hazy.. is it possible to have the maximum seeing distance the same, but with a shorter falloff towards the player, so things nearby are more clear? It's fine if you can't really do anything about it though.

[Ed the Bat]

Just began trying this out. When I pick up the shells dropped by the Shotgun Guy, the message says (+3 Shells) but I only receive one. The amount is being cut in half (and rounded down) when dropped, since you left the amount unspecified. So you'll either want to explicitly specify the drop amount, or use a different actor for the monster's DropItem.

Looks like the ZombieMan has a similar issue, since the replacement for clips says (+10 Bullets) but dropped ones are worth five.

Also, I have to say I don't care for the chainsaw being lower priority than the fist. Having to tap 1 twice, or scroll down two slots from the pistol, is unusual.

And, is this a Turok thing? When I find Explosive Shells, I'm not allowed to use buckshot until I burn through the explosive, which means my primary close-range weapon is now deadly to me at close range, even under the effect of 'Spirital Invulnerability'.

And...

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In the Quake map, I got a message about a bridge across a moat, but can't find anything. Feels like Hexen...Nevermind, found a way to progress... Not a fan of the inescapable lava pit, either, I gotta say.

[Paul]

@Ed The Bat

I believe the alternate ammo interaction is intended, as it matches the behavior in Turok. Except in Turok, I think the explosive shells gave no self damage. Explosive shells were basically just a fancy "double damage" item.

[FireSeraphim]

@EdTheBat:The Alt Ammo behavior is meant to be exactly like Turok 1's. Also could have sworn I fixed the "cut in half" ammo amount issue. Oh well, I may as well upload a new quickfixed version real quick. I was wondering if I could get your help improving the coding in the "Spirital Invulnerability" powerup. It's supposed to slow down time as opposed to stopping it and my current implementation leaves much to be desired to be honest, it's nowhere near as good as the "slow down time" powerup in the Doom RLA + Doom RPG mod combo, it's also supposed to cycle through the lighting colours like it does now.

[Ed the Bat]

I could try to help with the powerup, but I'm not sure how it could be improved. My guess right now is you're using a rapid series of short timefreezer's?

[FireSeraphim]

Yep, but my implementation is a bit janky in comparison to the mod combo I mentioned. Also I updated the OP with a new version of the main mod file. (At the time of this reply the upload had one minute left)

Edit: Oops, the time jumped up to ten minutes on the upload.

[wildweasel]

@Ed The Bat

I believe the alternate ammo interaction is intended, as it matches the behavior in Turok. Except in Turok, I think the explosive shells gave no self damage. Explosive shells were basically just a fancy "double damage" item.

You can damage yourself with explosive shells in Turok, but Spiritual Invincibility is supposed to be absolute (outside of falling in bottomless pits).

[BFG]

please make a optional dinosaur monster wad for this!

[Turret49]

Been playing through this a few times recently after finding my old Turok CD, there's a couple things causing performance issues in GZdoom for me that I had to fix:

- The Pirate Doom blood splats ("BloodSmear" actor) last the entire level, this was causing framerate drops in large open areas with a lot of high health enemies, so I changed the "XDT1 K-1" state to "XDT1 K 1050" (30 seconds).

- A lot of Pirate Doom's blood actors are actually superfluous due to commented out code and unused sprite definitions, you can actually delete the A_SpawnItemEx functions on the BloodSmear actor as it's just spawning invisible objects, "bpool", "bpool2", "bpool3", etc. don't have any sprites and can just be cut out. "Bloodtrail" isn't being used for anything, either. I can show you my edited DECORATE text if you need it.

- "KeyGlitter" and "KeyGlitter2" never despawn, they just stay there invisible and constantly spawn over each other until you pick up the key. this leads to the game almost locking up when I go near the key at the end of MAP02, as it had been spawning KeyGlitters for the entire length of the level. I had to remove the TNT1 A -1 state to fix this.


I hope you're still working on this, it's quite enjoyable.