Crossfire ~ v0.81 (5/1/2019)

[chronoteeth]

The muzzle flashes dont really seem like they come out of the barrel of some guns, and the starting pistol's sprites seem too high

[chronoteeth]

also
i did an edit of your aug scope
now it looks like the typical SUSAT scope that most AUG rifles use

[rollingcrow]

Ooh, might use that, since the current one is (vertically) off center.

[chronoteeth]

if you use the same origins as the original scope, the point will be just very slightly below where the dot crosshair would be.

[rollingcrow]

The second alpha of Crossfire has been released. Major changes include gaining experience at the spot (with some side effects, read the changelog for more information), an early perk menu, better scoped weapon handling (ex: reload, melee, grenades), ammo dropping zombies, helper marines that will teleport to you if you're too far, boss nerfs, the removal of explosion deflection, and the removal of the sniper rifle (which replaced the chaingun of all things). Otherwise it's a load of minor changes and some bugfixes. Another thing to note is that you won't need the widescreen patch anymore, screen effects are disabled outside of 4:3 for now.

Edit: Ignore the key that says "open perk menu" for now, it's on slot 0 until I can figure out why A_SelectWeapon isn't working.

Download alpha 2 here, and make sure (G)ZDoom is updated.

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- Added an early perk menu. It comes in the form a separate "weapon" on slot 0 at the moment because A_SelectWeapon doesn't want to work.
- Added a new pickup sprite for the hand grenade.
- Arachnotrons shoot slower.
- Archons of Hell now have 900 health instead of 1150 and don't throw homing projectiles during their flying attack.
- Arch Viles and Flesh Wizards both have 500 health instead of 700.
- Backpacks give 3 reloads worth of each ammo type and 3 of each recovery item.
- Bormereths attack slower.
- Bormereths attack with 1, 2, then 3 projectiles.
- Bosses go invulnerable for a moment then do their secondary attack when pained.
- Changed the Rolling Thunder's projectile sprite to match its ammo icon.
- Cleaned up the F88's scoped sprite a bit.
- Cyberdemons and Spiderdemons drop soul spheres.
- Cyberdemons shoot slower and have a smaller blast radius.
- Dead Arch-Viles don't cause blast damage.
- Every weapon can carry 8 magazines worth of ammo in reserve. 9 grenades and care package items can be held.
- Experience is gained on the spot, rather than at the start of the next map. Due to this however you may earn under or over 1500 XP depending on the map.
- Field rations spawn less often.
- Fixed bosses not playing they're see sound at full volume and instead their active sound.
- Fixed explosive weapons not always alerting enemies.
- Fixed movement being restricted when rocket jumping with the Neostead.
- Fixed the stats screen's shader cutting off on widescreen.
- Flesh sounds are quieter.
- Flesh Wizards respond to sound.
- Flying enemies (Archons aside) don't FLOATBOB anymore.
- Gave the Mk23 a slightly different firing sound.
- Gun toting enemies have vertical spread.
- Hand grenades can be thrown into water.
- Helper (blue) marines can't kill you with friendly fire anymore.
- Helper (blue) marines will warp near you if you are too far and out of sight. So don't worry if they don't follow you into an elevator or fall off a cliff.
- Homing projectiles should be less aggressive.
- Hostile (red) marines do NOT go towards your kill count.
- HUD effects are disabled when playing outside of 4:3 (makes widescreen patch useless).
- Increased the health of zombies and imps to 55 and 70.
- Kills give extra experience on Extreme (Catastrophic/Apocalyptic).
- Made subtle changes to the Neostead's dry reload animation.
- Made the XM25's grenade into a regular projectile instead of a fastprojectile, changed its sprite, and gave it smoke trails.
- Map placed ammo is randomized.
- Marine soul spheres do NOT go towards your item count.
- Phantoms have 500 health instead of 300.
- Quick melee does 150 damage instead of 100.
- Quick melee takes slightly longer to recover.
- Rearranged weapon slots. Kushnapup is slot 3, F88 is slot 4, and everything else moves down a slot.
- Rearranged weapon spawns. Kushnapups spawn on both shotguns and super shotguns, F88s spawn on chainguns.
- Removed ALL deflection effects from everything that causes explosions. This fixes a few bugs, but this also means no more flying corpses.
- Removed the Devil Imp sprites for now, some frames still show up as the regular Imp.
- Removed the PSX Doom plasma rifle sound.
- Removed the sniper rifle. It was kind of useless and it was replacing the chaingun(?!).
- Repositioned some muzzle flashes.
- Slowed down Hellhounds.
- Spiderdemons have a chance of doing their laser attack randomly instead of being at low health.
- Spiderdemons shoot less bullets.
- The F88 does 28 damage instead of 26.
- The Mk23's slide locks back when empty.
- Tightened the Kushnapup's and Neostead's vertical spread a bit.
- Wickeds do 10 damage instead of 12.
- You can melee, reload, and throw grenades while zooming a weapon.
- Zombie riflemen drop Mk23 and F88 ammo.
- Zombie shotgunners drop Mk23 and Kushnapup ammo.

[JimmyJ]

I feel like with nothing to replace the sniper rifle there's a gap in the arsenal.

[Captain J]

i concur about that, these's no different about sniper rifle.

also medicare bag is nothing has changed too. it does looks like a ammo satchel. could you make bag's color into a brown or gray? or change that yellow tag into white or add a medical symbol? that should be works.

[Steve1664]

The verdict so far is quite positive! Thanks for addressing the ammo issue; it's a lot easier to get started and keep from running dry at critical moments while maintaining an impetus to keep your heavier weapons for special occasions. The perk "purchasing" screen works as a stopgap until things can be remedied, and gameplay in general is nice and smooth. Keep it up.

[Steve1664]

I'm currently playing Hellbound with this - close combat can be pretty brutal with things hitting you from all angles, especially if you run dry and are forced into a longer reload. Maybe if you implemented some disposable armor to help mitigate some damage, or a quick-use health item (like Left 4 Dead's pills/adrenaline shot). Also, I can't reliably find grenade pickups for the life of me. Other than that it's been nice and tense so far.

[Failure]

I'd like to send to you a cheap paint made weapon just for you.Iron sights included.

[rollingcrow]

I feel like with nothing to replace the sniper rifle there's a gap in the arsenal.

I don't know, the sniper rifle felt a bit useless. You can shoot down long range things with the F88 (especially with dexterity 2), it got out damaged by pretty much everything (not output per magazine, just killing speed), and it replaced the chaingun. Since zombies don't drop weapons, maps that have a chaingun as the first map placed weapon will force you to fall back to your pistol or grenades to fight any groups of enemies.

also medicare bag is nothing has changed too. it does looks like a ammo satchel. could you make bag's color into a brown or gray? or change that yellow tag into white or add a medical symbol? that should be works.

?

Maybe if you implemented some disposable armor

Unlikely. The way vitality / max health works is that it's just 35% damage resisting armor. The only defense boosts are the 2% bonus for every perk you have and the 20% bonus when sprinting with agility 1. Maybe a time based toggled shield instead that replaces invulnerability?

or a quick-use health item

I'm leaning towards this, probably would replace the berserk pack or armor randomly with health packs. Though another idea I had was that there is 1 full heal item that heals both health and stamina rather than separate health packs and rations, health regeneration is removed, and quick use health items would heal the health that would normally be recovered by regeneration.

I'd like to send to you a cheap paint made weapon just for you.Iron sights included.

Go ahead, if you'd like. Though is it a new weapon or sprites for an existing weapon?

[wildweasel]

?

I would try this instead (anybody can feel free to update this):

[rollingcrow]

Thanks, I think I'll use that, might change the cross to red though.

[Steve1664]

or a quick-use health item

I'm leaning towards this, probably would replace the berserk pack or armor randomly with health packs. Though another idea I had was that there is 1 full heal item that heals both health and stamina rather than separate health packs and rations, health regeneration is removed, and quick use health items would heal the health that would normally be recovered by regeneration.

That's not a bad idea, actually. It still encourages you to ration your major healing items for emergencies and see how far you can push yourself with what health you have. Kinda screws with the Tenacity perk a bit though, but it's still a work in progress so changes should be inevitable.

[Matt]

Thanks, I think I'll use that, might change the cross to red though.

Leave it green!