Gardevoir Has A Gun: Version 1.4 [06MAR2023] Gardevoir Day Update!

[kevansevans]

There are no plans for support outside of Doom.

[Spaceman333]

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Bug report!

First though, this mod be FUN. I did a quick playthrough and it plays really well, plenty of abilities to explore and enjoy, the context sensitive telekinesis skill is unlike any mod I've seen (automatically throw barrels at nearby enemies if there are any on the level or just suck in pickups from afar) and it still provides plenty of challenge.

Everything works well, but I had this odd glitch with the blackhole:

















I launched a fully charged blackhole into a building entrance and it just stayed there permanently. I waiting for a bit and it did not dissapate.
I first noticed some mancubi sitting at a lower terrain who seemed paralyzed; I tried shooting them with the shotgun, but despite hitting them, their health did not decrease. I then noticed mild lag FPS drop - not severe, but noticable.

Then I went inside the building and was greeted with an eerie sight of a whole bunch of monsters, items, some gore/blood either being paralyzed in place or lifted into the ceiling, motionless and seemingly in full health. Again, shooting them did nothing, they stayd at full health.

I then exited the building and noticed a bunch of trees, rocks and other props floating stuck in the skybox ceiling.

My guess is that the blackhole doesn't have an emergency cut off when the targets its sucking in are inaccessible behind walls or at awkward elevations.

I tried firing another blackhole inside the building and it did manage to suck and kill a few monsters, but it created massive lag that almost became unplayable.

I was able to hit the exit and continue as normally to the next level.

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[doom.Autoload]
Path=$PROGDIR/MD/ADD/smk4simpledecals.wad
Path=$PROGDIR/MD/GardevoidHasAGun1.1.pk3
Path=$PROGDIR/MD/ob11_gruesome_apathy.wad
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Path=$PROGDIR/MD/ADD/jp_grapple.pk3
Path=$PROGDIR/MD/ADD/NightVision.pk3
Path=$PROGDIR/MD/ADD/minimap_player_arrow-corner.wad
Path=$PROGDIR/MD/ADD/AllClearMessage_HLM_S.pk3
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Path=$PROGDIR/MD/FRIEND/DoomFriends_BlursphereReplacer.pk3
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Path=$PROGDIR/MD/ADD/Inf_multi_backpack_ammo_plus10percent.pk3
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Path=$PROGDIR/MD/ADD/BetterDifficultyModes.pk3

[kevansevans]

Hey! Thanks for playing, glad you enjoyed it!

Fun fact, the black hole does have a form of a cut off, and it's supposed to activate when hasn't absorbed an actor for a certain amount of time, so if it's not dissipating, something is feeding it. Will have to work on the list of things that can keep it going.

The floating paralyzed enemies are intentional, but definitely did not intend for it to make them invincible.

Work is still being performed on the mod, but I do not have a solid idea on when the next update will be, so unfortunately you'll have to deal for a bit.

[Spaceman333]

Hey! Thanks for playing, glad you enjoyed it!

Fun fact, the black hole does have a for of a cut off, and it's supposed to activate when hasn't absorbed an actor for a certain amount of time, so if it's not dissipating, something is feeding it. Will have to work on the list of things that can keep it going.

The floating paralyzed enemies are intentional, but definitely did not intend for it to make them invincible.

Work is still being performed on the mod, but I do not have a solid idea on when the next update will be, so unfortunately you'll have to deal for a bit.

Hmm, I think it might be hitblood/gore constantly generated (using Nashgore here) or some trail effect from a custom monster perhaps (Dehacked Attack v3.1). I did look in the automap with IDDT-2x to notice there were atleast 2 streams of invisible objects being drawn into the direction of the of blackhole, but the sources seemed to start at the wall where there was no one.

I'm glad the bug does not cause a crash or freeze, so I can keep playing if it happens again. Won't register full killcount for that level, sadly.

[Spaceman333]

Hey looks like it was indeed caused by nashgore. I pressed the "clear all blood/gore" button and soon after another blackhole that was stuck became ok again.

Anyway, had another fun playthrough just now and I noticed that the upgrades heavily rely on secrets to progress. Would be great if there was an option to change how upgrades spawn so that mapsets that have little to no secrets would still be viable.

I'm thinking a global killcount based (xp) based upgrade drops would be one way.
Another one could be spawn alongside uncommon powerups (soul, mega, backpack, visor, suit, berserk, etc).
Or perhaps spawned randomly with configurable chance whenever an enemy dies (with more monster HP = bigger chance).


Edit:
I just noticed with the blackhole bug is that the actors are only semi-invulnurable; I can actually damage them, but their health resets to full immediately on the next tick. The only time I'm able to kill the suspended enemies is by using weapons that have enough damage to instakill them with a single shot (bfg, shotgun) and only so if I manage to land the hit upclose so my projectile doesn't get yanked away by the blackhole before it manages to hit the suspended monster.

[kevansevans]

Got a decent update for y'all!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c9jk321i2q8my ... 2.pk3?dl=0

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Added:
- Tutorial Map!

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Fixed:
- Blackhole damage algorithm. No longer indefinitely heals enemies.
- Blackhole feeding on actors that can cause it to stay spawned indefinitely
- Infinite ammo causing problems for certain guns
- Shotgun alt-fire/thwack mode buginess
- Shotgun alt-fire not keeping up with primary fire
- Megasphere behavior
- Max rocket speed causing weird behaviors
- minor sound issues
- RNG Names for Rocket, much more random now
- Difficulty no longer affects bonus gun pickups
- "Give all" command works better
- Perpetually spinning barrels

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Changed:
- Ice Punch no longer a separate weapon. Pressing Mouse 4 will perform ice punch with any weapon.
- Ice Punch nerfed in power. Deals less damage, lower range, but no longer consumes rage.
- Ice Punch will allow you to leap at enemies.
- Ammo types will no longer grant guns. You need to find guns in maps now in order to use them.
- Items within kinesis ping need to also be visible to player in order to work

[Spaceman333]

Excellent update, fixes everything and improves quality of life nicely. Thank you!

[PatCatz2004]

Ello uhm kevansevans

I just wanna say that this mod is very good

Also...I tried it in LZDOOM And surprisingly, it works well-

[Starman the Blaziken]

Been meaning to reply about the mod since after the update that came upon me birthday and here, I see this update and went back into playing this again for the joy of it.

I have been dealing with shortening the HUD since the one I go with for a normal experience is to be pretty big and at least easy to read while scaling it as correctly as possible while not being too huge. But with this mod, the HUD is so big the black long bars like to cover up my crosshair funnily enough and I usually have to remember to downscale and back. Not sure if you have any HUD plans to make the size less funky, but I might as well put this out there while it bothers me at times.

But oh, off of the screenshots you posted with the Dehacked Attack mod you are playing... Where did you find those mods like the Monsters Only Fall Damage, in multi backpack ammo, Doom Friends blur sphere replacer, and... Friendly Broccoli? I think I seen at least a few of them before and I forgot where I found them at but have wanted to use those since then...

[kevansevans]

I can tackle the hud problems if people share with me their fullscreen hud settings, under: options -> HUD options -> Scaling options.

[Starman the Blaziken]

Ah I was not expecting a reply that quick, but here is what mine usually is these days:

UI scale: 5

Overides for above setting
Messages - Default Scale
Console - Default scale
Status bar - 4
Fullscreen HUD - 4
Alt HUD - Default scale (Not that I use this)

Intermission and Screen Border Classic scaling might not matter but I have those mostly to their default state too.

[Spaceman333]

But oh, off of the screenshots you posted with the Dehacked Attack mod you are playing... Where did you find those mods like the Monsters Only Fall Damage, in multi backpack ammo, Doom Friends blur sphere replacer, and... Friendly Broccoli? I think I seen at least a few of them before and I forgot where I found them at but have wanted to use those since then...

(broccoli) https://www.moddb.com/games/doom-ii/add ... r-broccoli
(doom friends) viewtopic.php?f=61&t=55990
(backpack multiplier) viewtopic.php?f=43&t=71979

MonstersOnly_FallDamage.pk3

Worth noting that I changed filesnames of the first three to remember them better. Original filenames of many mods are often too vague.

[Spaceman333]

I can tackle the hud problems if people share with me their fullscreen hud settings, under: options -> HUD options -> Scaling options.

these are mine:

[Starman the Blaziken]

But oh, off of the screenshots you posted with the Dehacked Attack mod you are playing... Where did you find those mods like the Monsters Only Fall Damage, in multi backpack ammo, Doom Friends blur sphere replacer, and... Friendly Broccoli? I think I seen at least a few of them before and I forgot where I found them at but have wanted to use those since then...

(broccoli) https://www.moddb.com/games/doom-ii/add ... r-broccoli
(doom friends) viewtopic.php?f=61&t=55990
(backpack multiplier) viewtopic.php?f=43&t=71979

MonstersOnly_FallDamage.pk3

Worth noting that I changed filesnames of the first three to remember them better. Original filenames of many mods are often too vague.

Ah thanks. Drag Things seem interesting to me at first and I might ask about that one, it makes you able to drag props or items around right?

[Spaceman333]

But oh, off of the screenshots you posted with the Dehacked Attack mod you are playing... Where did you find those mods like the Monsters Only Fall Damage, in multi backpack ammo, Doom Friends blur sphere replacer, and... Friendly Broccoli? I think I seen at least a few of them before and I forgot where I found them at but have wanted to use those since then...

(broccoli) https://www.moddb.com/games/doom-ii/add ... r-broccoli
(doom friends) viewtopic.php?f=61&t=55990
(backpack multiplier) viewtopic.php?f=43&t=71979

MonstersOnly_FallDamage.pk3

Worth noting that I changed filesnames of the first three to remember them better. Original filenames of many mods are often too vague.

Ah thanks. Drag Things seem interesting to me at first and I might ask about that one, it makes you able to drag props or items around right?

Yup, that one allows me to grab and pull objects and corpses out of the way if they're blocking my view (cacodemons for example). Its here:
viewtopic.php?f=105&t=59384