SHRINE II - A Total Conversion Mod for Doom 2

[scumhead]

Scumhead and Mengo present:



Shrine II!



The Eldritch horde returns in Shrine II! Shrine II is a total conversion mod for Doom 2. Tusk is back, and his rage won't be quelled! Journey through five dimensions to find the source of the corruption in this 32 level total conversion for doom 2!

Including:

-Over 20 unique Demons to slay

-Boss Battles Galore

-Over 20 unique weapons

-32 levels

-Tons of secrets and replayability

-A challenging yet fair difficulty



Download:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/shrine-ii



Enjoy!



-Made for use with Gzdoom.

-You should have Jump enabled.

-Iwad is DOOM II

[Vostyok]

Oh, this was a surprise!

Downloading now. Will try and give feedback in due time.

[Captain J]

The both sound and enemy design of this TC is again, very stellar. Going to play this and share some feedback!

[Ferretmanjcdenton]

Like promised ...here the video

https://youtu.be/EyjnYW2fyhs

[Captain J]

Right, so i played the TC. And i have to say, that each map design are fascinating and mostly easy to navigate. I said mostly because some key finding stuff are hard to get use to. And i saw some issues here and there, i would like to share my feedback, some of them are not fixed yet:

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- Don't want to be mean, but the very beginning of the game has an issue: You always have to wait or quicksave after the conversation is over and retrieve your Bone Blade. The process is quite slow and unskippable, so it could boring the post-game players.


- All of the Jug props freeze to death for some reason.


- Cultists' gibs look weird when they're on the floor. Are they completely stopped hovering or are those landed sprites?

- About this Lever, i was genuinely confused because i thought i was supposed to press use key on it but didn't work, so i looked for another lever that actually works... Until i found out that i had to hit the lever to activate it. Some kind of tutorial based on this would be appreciated.

- Speaking of Bone Blade, it's darn satisfying to use. It chop down some lesser enemies with ease. However, the one thing it critically need is the chopping sound effect. That might be much more satisfying.

And about the sound design, i think some vanilla sound effects are here and there, unchanged, especially the gibbing sound and secret sound. Are you considering to replace them later? Gore Blaster's pickup sound won't play any sound, for that matter. Plus Adjuticator's punching sound.

- Branded are like zombies from blood - they live again once they're beheaded. You have to freeze them or blast them to bits. You can kill them twice, but it takes so much time. And for some reason, my Pod Bombs won't do the trick sometimes. The explosion from the bomb tend not to gib them.

- The Punished is probably the strongest enemy with a bit of weirdness. The projectiles are ridiculously fast, plays no sound at all and the delay of it before attacking happens way too quick.

- Speaking of enemy being weird, i would like to talk about the Stalkers. They insta-kill you, have crapton of health and just darkens the place upon death. And no, freezing them wouldn't darken the place either.

- When Hangmen get frozen, the whole sprite disappears.

- I see some ammo pickup sprites are glowing, to indicate where they are. But not the Hiveling nest, though. Yeah, the maggots are moving around the hive but still not en-lightening enough. Might confuse them as some kind of a prop.

- Bloodrail doesn't play its firing sound effect after i let go of the button quickly. And for some reason, i can use this without ammo even. Intentional?


- Let's talk about this secret switch. It meant to be pressed by hitting it, right? I think i shot at it but it would play no sound effect nor show any kind of hint that i pressed it. Is this actually working? Or do i have to look for more clues?


- Speaking of freezing jugs, the locks freeze too.


- Oil Barrels would leave red blood splat if get shot.


- Some tall props like trees might look weird if you look up or down. Adding FORCEYBILLBOARD might help with that.


- If you fall from this area, you're likely never able to escape and the water's not even damaging me. Basically it's a softlocking place.


- These pod bombs in Clockwork Cathedral are work differently - they're actually an ammo, not a weapon. Not sure why the rule just got changed.


- Found some map errors.


- I think you forgot to remove, or replace the squished meat sprite!


- The first boss... Foreskin? The introduction is quite fast than i expected. The projectiles suddenly come toward me without giving me a warning, or using any common sense, really! It's a cool boss but i think the introduction needs to be a wee bit longer.

Also i easily run out of bullet during the boss fight and you can't, i repeat, you can't simply beat this boss with only Bone Blade. I got a plenty of Cross ammo, but i haven't seen any weapon for it. Please don't tell me that i have to get it by finding a secret or some sort of... Also I don't even know if i'm actually damaging the heart or not because the feedback from it is barely noticeable. The heart even disappears without any fancy animation when it dies. The boss fight was positively challenging, though.


- Texture error found. Plus, nice usage of Ambulance and Emergency sound effect in this area. Somewhat it gives me the creeps! Also for some reason the console would say: Warning: z-offsetting not allowed for interactive portals. Changing line 4067 to teleport portal!


- I don't think Hellhounds are explosive, but their death animation says otherwise.


- This horseman fella causes a console error called: P_StartScript: unknown script and music "none" not found. Also i found this boss so badass!


- Is this pillar supposed to be floating?


- Some texture misalignment. Or is this a secret wall but ain't working?


- This weird sceptre says "you got a pickup" if you pick it up.


- And now i'm genuinely stuck at MAP17 Tomb. There must be a some kind of lever around in this cave since i found some outside the map. I wonder where it is?

It was a long trip. Still have to go further, though. Thanks a ton for this neat and aesthetic TC!

EDIT2:

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- Finally, FINALLY found the lever i should hit with. Again, it needs to have some kind of crucial detail to indicate that you're supposed to shoot at it. Like making it glowing or some sort of.


- The rock textures move along with the waterfall in the same map, Tomb.


- This boss goes some fire attack and inferno-based attacks. But for some reason she plays gun firing sounds, even in the 2nd phase. Technically, she needs much more fitting sounds. And the sword enemy she throws at you act quite weird, especially when it dies: it turns into a human too.


-Also found some texture error.


- Can i somehow pacify the hellhounds with this staff? I did everything to make friends with them but to no avail.


- MAP31 Forgotten Temple shows Unknown bottom texture errors in the console. And the map gives you the shockwave bomb to push enemies off the ledge, i guess? But it's useless because they don't die in insta-death pit.

- The Secret weapon, Eldritch Annihilator displays "You got a pickup". And Sisters won't play their death sound after getting killed by it.

- Lust beasts seems get easily stuck on some maps like Gluttony.

- The both MAP21 River Styx and MAP22 Gore Pit might need more healing items or armor shards around the map because you have to take a lot of damage and they're filled with damaging water that you have to go through...


- Sum texture errors.


- So about this boss battle... It wasn't really challenging at all. Maybe it's actually depends on the difficulty? Only things i killed was just simple mooks. Also they sometimes drop literal flame that does nothing.

And the walls closer to the boss has a tiny gap you could get in and softlock the game.


- This skybox is... Well, literally boxy.

So i finally beat the game. The final boss was awesome and challenging, but the design of his final form was meh. But still, i can't deny that the overall design of this TC are great and aesthetic.

Also is there one more map did i miss? I already visited MAP31, though... And now i'm wondering, who was the person, alien, or whatever gave you the bone blade in the first place? I don't think they appeared ever again after that.

[Jeans44]

Great work man, the art is amazing, love the style and the design of the main character.
I am about halfway through and its got some really cool levels so far, only thing I'd add would be more ammo for that one coliseum level.

[Captain J]

Yeah, the ammo in Gladiator is quite scarce, but it gets quite easier if you're used to swinging fire axe.

[ZDL_800]

Hello and hope you are good.

This is brilliant, epic works. Also its really trippy in VR, music gets you bobbin!

Shrine I and II works epic in VR.

Thankyou very much!

[COR]

I love the aesthetic and sound so much,

but I have one problem, I cannot see my ammo unless I Turn on the alternate hud.

Specificly, when I equip a weapon that uses ammo, I see a small white bar on the side of the ammo counter, so the ammo is showing up behind the red ammo pane.

This is my first time modding so I'm probably just overlooking something.

My install is just gzdoom 442 windows 64bit,
Doom2.wad and shrine2.pk3 and shrine2V1.1.pk3 dumped into the GZdoom base directory
and I launch the game by dragging shrine2V1.1.pk3 on to the gzdoom.exe

What am I missing?

[ZDL_800]

I believe you only require 'shrine2V1.1.pk3' and 'Doom2.WAD'

You have checked the HUD size? ''-'' and ''='' keys.

[COR]

yeah I have the size at 11, and I have tried all 3 of the render modes

[ZDL_800]

That's strange indeed, I have both versions of shrine running with the recent GZDoom and VRDoom versions, no issues with the hud.

I would try and update GZDoom and remove the GZDoom options ini and start fresh.

[Vostyok]

Hey. I really enjoyed this!

The weapons were weird, which made them interesting, and fun to use. Melee had a crunchy, old-school feel to it. I really liked all the bits of environmental storytelling everywhere. And the choice of soundtrack was excellent.

Looking forward to what you make next

[Jayrassic Park]

Minor, but when picking up the Time Clock, "it's" should be "its".

So far, I'm liking it better than Shrine 1, though I wish the crossbow had a piercing attack and the Hiveslayer looked more grotesque.

Edit: Just letting you know this error happened when fighting the boss in Ward of the Damned:https://imgur.com/a/TnpCeJkIn addition, I was easily able to stunlock the boss's second phase with the Hivehand.

[wolfmanfp]

It's out on Steam and itch.io!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1417010/Shrine_II/
https://scumhead.itch.io/shrine-ii