ROTT TC - Update 1.6 [save bug fixed]

[el zee]

This is lots of fun. But I did notice a few small things:
-The excalibat is still a bit tricky to work with
-The hands of the characters holding the pistols still does not seem to change depending on their skin tone
-When the guards start begging for their life, they should die in one shot

Now about those new weapons...

I haven't been able to fix these things:

With the excalibat tap it once when it swings and if you hold down the fire button, it keeps swinging.

I can't think of a way to make the pistols unique to each player.

The lightning guards have a little bit extra health when begging because they explode otherwise.

if anyone has any ideas on how to fix these things that would be cool.

[Project Shadowcat]

I can't think of a way to make the pistols unique to each player.

Each player class carries a specific inventory token. For each pistol-type weapon, have state jumps for each of these tokens.

With the excalibat tap it once when it swings and if you hold down the fire button, it keeps swinging.

Force the weapon to do nothing (idle) while the trigger is being held in the Hold state.

The lightning guards have a little bit extra health when begging because they explode otherwise.

I think it's possible for specific weapons using DamageTypes -- or just on the weapons themselves -- to not gib? DONTGIB, I think? I'm not 100% on that.

[FDARI]

If you want to prevent a single weapon from ever gibbing its victim: NOEXTREMEDEATH is your flag.

If you just want to give the victim a reasonable buffer (reduce likelihood of gib), you'll need a different approach.

I'd probably set Woundhealth to "health -1", and have a woundstate like:

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/*....*/
wound:
    "####" "#" 1 A_Die
    wait
/*....*/

Any damage that doesn't gib this actor will kill it.

[InsanityBringer]

We could, of course, also just change the GibHealth, really.

[Project Shadowcat]

If you want to prevent a single weapon from ever gibbing its victim: NOEXTREMEDEATH is your flag.

Though it'll be closer to three weapons, this is probably the best way to go.

[cq75]

I can't think of a way to make the pistols unique to each player.

Each player class carries a specific inventory token. For each pistol-type weapon, have state jumps for each of these tokens.

Or, make a different weapon for each class. Use Hexen style weapon pickups, which show up based on which player class you are.

The lightning guards have a little bit extra health when begging because they explode otherwise.

I think it's possible for specific weapons using DamageTypes -- or just on the weapons themselves -- to not gib? DONTGIB, I think? I'm not 100% on that.

+DONTGIB keeps enemies from being turned into pools of blood if a door closes on them

+NOEXTREMEDEATH in a weapon's definition would turn gibbing off for a particular weapon.

Great work by the way, if this had Skulltag support I would be hosting it and playing it online.

[XutaWoo]

+NOEXTREMEDEATH in a bulletpuff's/projectile's definition would turn gibbing off for a particular weapon.

[el zee]

yeah but +NOEXTREMEDEATH stops him from being gibbed by missile weapons.

[Project Shadowcat]

yeah but +NOEXTREMEDEATH stops him from being gibbed by missile weapons.

Put it on the specific weapons that you don't want to gib him, such as both Colts and the MP40.

[Snarboo]

This is one of the best wads I've played in a long time. Great job, El Zee! You perfectly captured what made ROTT so good. :)

As others have said, making the weapons match their character is relatively easy. Give each class a special item only they have, then use a state jump on the pistol weapon pickup. In fact, if you gave each character a unique variant of the starting pistol that matched them, you could use that for the state jump. You can also use a similar method to prevent the player from picking up multiple pistols or MP40s.

If you need an example I can post one.

[el zee]

An example would be cool, thanks

[Amuscaria]

Anyone else feel the rockets are a bit weak? I remember in ROTT, that 1 shot would guarantee a kill on all but the toughest enemies. Here it takes 2 even on the weakest, on many occasions.

I played through the second episode up to the second level (but seem to be stuck) and found some bugs(?)

1) On the steps made of the floating pads in the second map of EP2, there seems to be a giant hole in a part of the steps. If you fall into it, you can't jump back out, and there is no way to get out that I found by wall-humping.

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2) This part with the jump pad and the large Ankh-coins, the pad doesn't actually thrust you high enough to get them. I'm not sure if there is another way to obtain those coins.

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3) There are large numbers of floating and wall-clipped food/health items found in the maps so far. Both in Episode 1 and 2. My guess is there you forgot to reset the Z-pos to 0 for these items after placing other items with a z-pos.

[SamVision]

Yeah the regular non homing rockets should be the most powerful projectiles.

[janiform]

This is really wonderful! A few things:
1. The "I'm" in the second-highest difficulty level is missing its apostrophe.
2. Would you consider making this an IWAD, recognized as such by (G)ZDoom?
3. Would you consider a community project to create maps for a third episode (a "Master Levels" for ROTT)?

[Snarboo]

An example would be cool, thanks

I haven't dug around in your code yet, but here's a possible solution:

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ACTOR DougPistol : Weapon // Doug Wendt's Pistol
{
// Weapon code goes here
}

ACTOR FreelyPistol : DougPistol // IP Freely's Pistol. Shares some properties with Doug's
{
// Weapon code goes here
}

ACTOR SecondPistol : CustomInventory // Second pistol pickup
// Custom inventory items allow for custom pickup and use states
{
     // Item properties go here
     states
     {
     Spawn:
          PIST A -1
          Stop
     Pickup: // Pickup state is entered when the item is walked over/picked up
          TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory ("DougPistol",1,"DougPickup") // Checks for Doug's Pistol, then jumps to the right state
          TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory ("FreelyPistol",1,"FreelyPickup") // Checks for Freely's Pistol, then jumps to the right 
          // state
          Goto Spawn // If player doesn't have either, go back to spawn
     DougPickup:
          TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory ("DougPistol2",1,"Spawn") // If Doug has a second pistol, go back to spawn state so he 
          // doesn't pick it up again
          TNT1 A 0 A_GiveInventory ("DougPistol2",1) // If Doug does not have a second pistol, this gives it to him
          Stop
     FreelyPickup:
          TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory ("FreelyPistol2",1,"Spawn") // If Freely has a second pistol, this prevents him from picking 
          // it up again
          TNT1 A 0 A_GiveInventory ("FreelyPistol2",1)  // Gives Freely a second pistol
          Stop
     }
}

Using a similar setup as the above, you can create a custom pickup that checks for which weapon the player has, then give them an appropriate one. If they already have it, they won't pick up a second one. Keep in mind you'll need to do this for every character. This way you can give each character a weapon that fits their skin color.

If you want to prevent a projectile or puff from gibbing an enemy, you can try this:

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ACTOR noGibMissile : PlasmaBall
{
     // Actor properties go here
     +NOEXTREMEDEATH // This flag prevents a projectile or puff from gibbing an enemy 
     // Actor states go here
}

ACTOR noGibPuff : BulletPuff
{
     // Actor properties go here
     +NOEXTREMEDEATH // This flag prevents a projectile or puff from gibbing an enemy 
     // For bullet weapons, you need to put this on the puff
     // Actor states go here
}