Karnak - Gameplay Mod for Heretic/Hexen/Deathkings

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Karnak - Gameplay Mod for Heretic/Hexen/Deathkings

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GET IT HERE!

Basically here's a fun excuse to binge your Heretic and Hexen mapsets again.

Karnak is a gameplay mod series that changes Heretic, Hexen, and Hexen: Deathkings into a sci-fi and sorcery epic. You play Maa’hes, rightful king of the lion-headed centauroids known as the Leonids, the dominant species on planet Karnak.

KARNAK – For Heretic. The Beast King Marduk has come from a galaxy far, far away to conquer Karnak and the rest of the Khepri System. Using a combination of guns, magic, and brute strength, Maa’hes slays his way through 5 episodes to save Karnak and rid the cosmos of Marduk’s taint forever.

KARNAK 2 – For Hexen. After a lengthy inter-dimensional campaign, Maa’hes finally returns to his homeworld, only to find it on the brink of holocaust: a creature known as the Defiler is posing as the god of the Crimson Order, pushing the red-robed cultists to amass an unstoppable legion. Play as Maa’hes, Gilgamesh, or Ren and stop the Defiler’s followers.

KARNAK: SCOURGE OF ABYDOS – For Hexen: Deathkings. Maa’hes returns to Memphis to reclaim his birthright…and is promptly thrown in a cell for impersonating a monarch. His only chance to fulfill his destiny as ruler of Karnak is to stop the Dark Lord Nergal, dictator of Abydos, from poisoning the river and subjugating the leonid people.





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Re: Karnak - Heretic Mod

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Okay, things didn't turn out quite right... http://i.imgur.com/DW4lKzv.png
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Reason: Screenshot too large. Because shrinking it in my usual way would make it unreadable, I've converted it to a clickable URL instead. Please read the Image Posting Rules!
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Re: Karnak - Heretic Mod

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Yeah that shouldn't have happened. I know I fixed that RedPuff thing already. Lemme check again.

EDIT: I dunno how this stuff wasn't causing errors for me. Fixed now, and uploading 1.1 in the next ten minutes.

Also would you mind putting spoiler tags around that screenshot? I put some around my giant pics since I forgot.
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Re: Karnak - Heretic Mod

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My apologies.
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Re: Karnak - Heretic Mod

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Seems very good! It has a rather polished look and has a certain intriguing feeling. I'll give it a playtest tonight and tell you my impression. :twisted:

It's rare to find Heretic content, to be honest. Well, rarer than Doom at least.
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Re: Karnak - Heretic Mod

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TechnoDoomed1 wrote: It's rare to find Heretic content, to be honest. Well, rarer than Doom at least.
Yeah, especially when it's so much fun to mod for, so it turns out.

I've started modding it because I always felt the gameplay was tedious compared to the other Doom engine games. Hopefully this mod fixes that a little bit.
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Re: Karnak - Heretic Mod

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hey nice mod you made this time, before you released the game i made my own version of the protagonist of your mod
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Re: Karnak - Heretic Mod

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Nice! I really like your work and I love Heretic. I guess that's my Saturday taken care of! :)
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Re: Karnak - Heretic Mod

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Nice to see a new Heretic gameplay mod. Like the Idea of it. :thumb:
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Re: Karnak - Heretic Mod

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TechnoDoomed1 wrote: It's rare to find Heretic content, to be honest. Well, rarer than Doom at least.
True but a few have been just released lately (including mine). I still need to try this one.
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Re: Karnak - Heretic Mod

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drfrag wrote:
TechnoDoomed1 wrote: It's rare to find Heretic content, to be honest. Well, rarer than Doom at least.
True but a few have been just released lately (including mine). I still need to try this one.
Yeah, and there's also that Heretic chapter wad with inmense quality which I don't remember the name right now, but comparing with the amount of A+ quality doom wads, it's not the same.
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Re: Karnak - Heretic Mod

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mekanchest wrote:hey nice mod you made this time, before you released the game i made my own version of the protagonist of your mod
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lol That's pretty cool. He looks like an action figure from the 80s.
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Re: Karnak - Heretic Mod

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duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude :shock:

you just took everything I found stupid and offputting about the Heretic setting and replaced it with awesome

can't wait to put this on autoload
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Re: Karnak - Heretic Mod

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Took longer than I thought to try it out. I must say that once I started E1M1 I was in awe, it's certainly got an egyptian vibe, and it nails it. 8-) The new monsters are fun to play against, though maybe a little on the easy side (I'd buff both the Crimson Witches and the Bruisers, they ought to resist more damage). As a partial conversion for Heretic, it's pretty good. Now, there are some things I'd like to see addressed.

- BUG: Jackalmen are missing a sound for when they melee attack you.
- SUGGESTION: Leonid soldiers' pain sound is not differentiated enough from other sounds, like your weapon's.
- SUGGESTION: I'd be cool if more menacing sound effects were given to monsters, to give an impression of being not-as-powerful. Right now, playing through the game makes you feel very overpowered. Even subtle things like this would help a little.
- SUGGESTION: Buff monster health, specially Crimson Witches and Leonid Bruisers.
- IDEA: Considering all monster replacements seem to be done in Decorate, why stick to the restraints of vanilla gameplay? Altfire for weapons and more monster variety (Heretic is very limited in this sense, and the mod's lacking a proper Clink replacement) would add a lot of depth.

Overall, I'm liking it so far. Congrats on a job well done! :wink:
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Re: Karnak - Heretic Mod

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Really interesting stuff! Heretic gameplay mods are a bit of a rarity and I'm always fond of them.
This really goes above and beyond in giving Heretic a new sheen of paint--putting in custom textures and music was a really nice touch. :D

...boy that melee feels really slow, though!
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