Showtime!!! A magical adventure for Doom 2 (v.2.0 Major overhaul Updated 06/01/25))

[PatCatz2004]

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Hoo!

Now this is a cool mod, and I would definitely play this with Susie and Ralsei!

[Celegil]

Been having a blast with this one great way to play some map packs, Love the Alt fire variety and mechanics and the limited arsenal, the fan service is a nice little touch too!

I've been playing it with player respawns and fast monsters it makes the mod pretty interesting, just wondering do you have any recommendations on any specific gameplay settings to go along with your mod

[PresBarackbar]

Really like this mod! Theming is great, and I really like the character and the tone. The outfits are so fun, and I love the little musical stings that come with them, super creative (especially Changing Keys for the Gameshow outfit and the Bewitched theme for the classic witch). I also really like the easter egg integrations with Versatile Factions (which is a super fun monster pack in its own right!)

Some criticisms:

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-I've had this criticism since the first version I played, but some of the tomes are not great, to the point where I'd never willingly pick them up. This worked better in the earlier versions before they were tied to outfits, which are obviously something you always want to collect for the extra armor and the boosts.
-In particular, I think the defense and the speed tomes are ones I'd generally avoid since I don't feel like the alt fires they give you are particularly useful (especially the wand and hat alt fires for defense).
-To kind of piggy back on that, some of the tomes have absolutely godlike alt fires (basically all the Texas tome, the elephant out of the hat, the triple tome ring laser) to the point where if I changed tomes, the difficulty of the level went up significantly.
- I also think the card alt for the...sword tome? (the one that makes the cards spin around you and damage enemies) should probably have its range extended a bit since its not usually very useful until enemies are close enough to hurt you at which point they'll just kill you through the damage.
-The rings take way too long to spin up and start firing, and some of the alt-fires have a really long spin up for a really lackluster effect (the tome that makes them fire sequentially being a good example, I think that's in the ammo-free tome so I get it but its pretty underwhelming for such a long wind up)
-This is a criticism I have with a lot of weapon mods, but the lack of a BFG replacement can make maps with a lot of enemies tough to get through if you don't have the right tome.
-The saw, even in its upgraded form, isn't great most of the time because you get slapped around by enemies while using it and you don't tend to get enough back out of it to make it worthwhile.

Overall this is amazing and I highly recommend anyone interested give it a download!

[CherubCorps]

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Hoo!

Now this is a cool mod, and I would definitely play this with Susie and Ralsei!

Cool. I'm glad you're enjoying the mod.

Been having a blast with this one great way to play some map packs, Love the Alt fire variety and mechanics and the limited arsenal, the fan service is a nice little touch too!

I've been playing it with player respawns and fast monsters it makes the mod pretty interesting, just wondering do you have any recommendations on any specific gameplay settings to go along with your mod

Besides graphical stuff in GZdoom (Check out the troubleshooting in tips n tricks). You can always try it out with enemy mods such as Angelic Aviary and Versatile factions. I'm going to add a "pistol start+" version in the future where you lose all weapons and ammo per level, but you keep your outfit and style points which will be another way to play the mod.

Really like this mod! Theming is great, and I really like the character and the tone. The outfits are so fun, and I love the little musical stings that come with them, super creative (especially Changing Keys for the Gameshow outfit and the Bewitched theme for the classic witch). I also really like the easter egg integrations with Versatile Factions (which is a super fun monster pack in its own right!)

Some criticisms:

---

-I've had this criticism since the first version I played, but some of the tomes are not great, to the point where I'd never willingly pick them up. This worked better in the earlier versions before they were tied to outfits, which are obviously something you always want to collect for the extra armor and the boosts.
-In particular, I think the defense and the speed tomes are ones I'd generally avoid since I don't feel like the alt fires they give you are particularly useful (especially the wand and hat alt fires for defense).
-To kind of piggy back on that, some of the tomes have absolutely godlike alt fires (basically all the Texas tome, the elephant out of the hat, the triple tome ring laser) to the point where if I changed tomes, the difficulty of the level went up significantly.
- I also think the card alt for the...sword tome? (the one that makes the cards spin around you and damage enemies) should probably have its range extended a bit since its not usually very useful until enemies are close enough to hurt you at which point they'll just kill you through the damage.
-The rings take way too long to spin up and start firing, and some of the alt-fires have a really long spin up for a really lackluster effect (the tome that makes them fire sequentially being a good example, I think that's in the ammo-free tome so I get it but its pretty underwhelming for such a long wind up)
-This is a criticism I have with a lot of weapon mods, but the lack of a BFG replacement can make maps with a lot of enemies tough to get through if you don't have the right tome.
-The saw, even in its upgraded form, isn't great most of the time because you get slapped around by enemies while using it and you don't tend to get enough back out of it to make it worthwhile.

Overall this is amazing and I highly recommend anyone interested give it a download!

Thank you for the feedback.

I'm always trying to balance the tomes so that they're all viable. Some are intentionally more difficult to use than others (Safety and Quick tomes being the least orthodox), but they might need more power. I might add a parry mechanic to the safety wand alt to make it a little better (It will shoot a strong railgun attack when parried correctly). The bear-ier was buffed to lure enemies to it, but it needs a change. The plan is to turn it into a voxel (once I figure out how to do it in doom) and have the player be able to shoot through it while the bear-ier absorbs incoming damage. The quick wand grants both speed and immunity to pain sector (Which I need to figure out how to convey to the player). I might up the damage of the quick cards, the fox is a hitscan missile and showstopper (quick rings) is the most powerful ability in the game as you can attack enemies frozen in time.

I'll probably increase the ammo cost of Texas tome wand and cards, they're designed to be really powerful but very ammo heavy. I want to add a slowdown to the player's movement speed when using the Texas rings to make it feel more the like a mobile turret and to make it slightly more risky to use.

Right now, the ring upgrade replaces the BFG (Which eliminates the windup animations and reduces ammo consumption). I have an idea for a BFG weapon but I'm still trying to figure out how to implement it.

Again. Thank you for the feedback. I'm currently working on an update so hopefully some of this stuff will be improved.

[Celegil]

CherubCorps wrote:
> Besides graphical stuff in GZdoom (Check out the troubleshooting in tips n tricks).
> You can always try it out with enemy mods such as Angelic Aviary and Versatile
> factions. I'm going to add a "pistol start+" version in the future where
> you lose all weapons and ammo per level, but you keep your outfit and style points
> which will be another way to play the mod.


Thanks for getting back to me, I've actually been playing it a lot with your Angelic Aviary, they both work great together and have been really fun, it also kinda inspired me to look into doom modding and add more statue like player death states based on different damage types from base doom and Angelic Aviary, happy to hand them over if you'd like

Loosing weapons and keeping style points seems fun, I've yet to try the current pistol start as I'm always getting curbed stomped, I gotta give it a go soonish

I know it wasn't in reply to me but seeing your plans for rebalancing some of the tomes, having the shield wand parry would be great, maybe for the pain sector immunity colour the edges of screen green like when you get the rad suit/green heels? I don't know if that's possible or not
I do feel like the cards take a bit to long to reload sometimes but that's just me being dumb

Defo looking forward to a new update!