Doomvengers: Earth's Weirdest Heroes (v1.4 10/23/2021)

[Captain Ventris]

Excellent, Possesso works as he should. Thanks, man! Now, a stupid question: If I want to beat every chapter of Valiant with a different Doomvenger, can you recommend who best fits with each chapter? If not, no problem, this is a ridiculous question.

Ha interesting question! I don’t think there’s a particular best order, though Freerunner might make Mancubian candidate easier due to his speed and precision. It’s worth waiting until the full range of enemies is appearing for Possesso since you’ll get the most Host variety, and Styleguy’s limitless ammo or Necrosuit’s ammo and item reserves would be a boon for the final boss battle.

[sotenga]

Good tip for Possesso, I'll save him for one of the later chapters. I'm thinking, then... Zharkov for the first, Super Chicken for the second, Possesso for the third (can he survive Cyberwar 7734?), StyleGuy for the fourth and Necrosuit for the fifth. Since I find Freerunner the easiest character to use, I'll save him for Sawdust since he can do anything. I'll see how wrong I am with this assessment later, lol

[Captain Ventris]

With the new minute of full stealth, Possesso has a much better chance with levels that start violently, and the Valiant hosts are crazy powerful! Good luck!

[Captain Ventris]

Heeeeey I ended up with a Roland so I’ve been Dooming again some. Decided to release some changes I’d never released! Download links updated!

Lots of balance fine tuning, bug fixes, a pass on all the Tools, and Eviternity compatibility!

1.3 Changelog.

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General Changes:
-Updated the Help screens.

-Made gore less samey, and less overwhelming in volume.


Super Chicken:
-Made clucking slightly less constant and quieter.

-Increased shockweed tap ammo usage, and sped up hold attack interval.


Freerunner:
-Plasma rifle primary fire did not deal ice damage. It will now deal proper bonus damage vs fiery foes.
-Plasma rifle altfire projectile damage raised from 30-42 to 45-60. For full charge, that's going from 120-168 up to 180-240, which doesn't factor in the 75 explosion damage. It should be a lot more worthwhile now, even aside from its stunning.
-Plasma rifle altfire explosion now deals its full damage throughout the entire radius.

-Rocket Launcher altfire now rips through basic enemies, greatly increasing its utility.

-Cyber Launcher altfire accuracy increased.
-Cyber Launcher altfire damage increased from 5 to 6, so it's actually worth the ammo.

-Super Chaingun quake effect intensified.
-Super Chaingun minimum damage raised from 5 to 6.


Possesso:
-Hosts will no longer carry over into the next level. Perma-pistol start!
-Non-stealth hosts will now cut off your start-of-level stealth instead of things being weirdly stealthy.
-All Melee attacks should now have camera interpolation.
-Possesso now has special Hosts for Nightmare Imps and Demons. Nothing complicated, but its nice!
-Shifted frames on a few attacks (particularly the Imp and Noble fireball attacks) to make them snap off a shot better.
-Altered some code to ensure classes other than Possesso don't end up with his stealth item!

-The Head Bomb sprite was shrunk a little more.

-Lowered the movement speed of Manc, Arach, Revenant, Shotgunner, and Mastermind Hosts.

-Manc host max health lowered to 750, from 900.

-Arach host max health lowered to 650, from 750.

-Raised the movement speed of the Cyberdemon Host.

-Lowered the strafe speed of Demon and Spectre Hosts, encouraging you to barrel forward.

-Easter Egg Host altfire wasn't using ammo!

-Spider Mastermind and Cyberdemon host health raised to 5000/6000 and max health to 5500/6500, respectively.

-Moved Valiant Cybruiser rocket inward some so it wont clip when you're against a wall.
-Fixed the death animation for the Valiant Baronball.

-Slowed the Imp berzerk attack so it's not quite as instantaneous.

-Sped up Archvile berzerk attack casting.

-Raised the projectile height of Hell Nobles so their fireballs are easier to aim.
-Hell Nobles were not properly using ammunition!
-Valiant's Pyro Demons and Cyberbarons had infinite ranged attacks when out of ammo. Whoops!


Zharkov:
-Rockslinger Big rock direct damage raised from (40) to (50), and explosive damage from (50) to (60).
-Small rock damage raised from (20) to (30).

-Icy plasma speed raised from 25 to 35.
-Icy plasma is now slightly more translucent.

-The Chimney Missile will now rip through basic enemies, making it excellent against hordes rather than of questionable value vs Chimney Bombs (which are better at groups of tougher enemies).

-Large rice shot damage raised from (3) to (5).

-Raynor plasma ball speed lowered from 5 to 4, which narrows its spread.
-Raynor primary fire travel speed lowered from 20 to 18, which makes its bombardment more dense.

Zhark's Fate Device was weird. Altfire could instakill ANYTHING while Primary Fire was a waste. Both have been normalized to be extremely powerful, but still not an Instant Win button. They provide a necessary but fair late-game tool for Zharkov to handle boss monsters he otherwise struggles against.
-Doubled Fate Device primary fire explosion damage, but it no longer forces radius damage.
-Improved Fate Device primary fire homing. It will reliably cycle through a boss enemy like it should.
-Reduced Fate Device primary fire lifespan from 75 to 50.
-Reduced Fate Device altfire lifespan from 75 to 35.
-Reduced Fate Device altfire damage from 4 to 3, and it no longer forces radius damage.
-Fate Device altfire now consumes 50 health, up from 25.
-Narrowed the angle of the Fate Device altfire.



Compatibility Patches:

Major Doomvengers Compatibility Patches:
Beyond Reality, version 1.1
-Updated to support boosted Villain chances.

Valiant/Sawdust, version 0.5
-Updated to support boosted Villain chances.

Chex Quest 3, version 0.3
-Updated to support boosted Villain chances.

Eviternity *NEW*, version 0.1
-Enjoy playing through 2019's top release, Doomvengers Style! Comes with Possesso Hosts and all.
Module: Tools of the Trade:
-Refined Massmouth visual effects.
-Shortened the time Massmouth's music plays.
-Added a GLDef to Massmouth.

-The most important music cue in the game was STILL broken.

-Finally made proper icons for the Ammo in a Bottle and Recovery Point.

-Ammo in a Bottle now provides more ammo when used, including 2 Monitors and 2 Corpses.
-Adjusted the Recovery Point explosion effect.

-Added visual effect to Instant Discharge cannon.
-IDC damage is no longer random. At full ammo, it will always deal a little over 6500 damage. The exception is Possesso's Chaingunner host, which deals a quarter of that.

-Slowed Violet down some.
-Slowed Violet's animation and healing rate some.
-Raised Healing per pulse to 4.
-Violet will stray less before trying to warp back to you.
-Improved Violet's spawning to be more reliable.
-Raised Violet's healing radius to 350, from 300.
-Violet will now stop when near her summoner, so she's not a pain in the butt.

-Rewrote Chaos Sphere spawning to be more reliable.

-Instant Discharge Cannon, Ammo in a Bottle, Recovery Point, and Violet are now rarer.



Module: Age of Villainy, version 1.2
-Slightly, gently upped the chance of Villains appearing.

-Increased the range at which the Lost UAC machine would use its flamethrower.
-Lost UAC Machine will now never use the Time Freeze repeatedly, and will not use its chaingun for a time after executing the time freeze (long enough to not hitscan you while you're frozen).
-Made Lost UAC Machine chaingun attack more accurate.

-Made the various parts of the Archivist take their target from the central entity so they will focus their fire.
-Raised the damage of the Archivist's Foreverhood and Hacx attacks.
-Archivist is now perma-frightened so it will back away. Since the central thing doesn't shoot, this won't affect its fire rate.
-Increased the size of the Archivist's Foreverhood projectile.
-Shrunk the Archivist's Chosen arrow.
-Increased Archivist's health by 500.
-Fixed a frame name duplicate with Zharkov.

-Grand PITA's slowing spit projectiles will now fly further.
-Adjusted Grand PITA's attack chances and range checks. Their charge attack works now, and they won't fire when out of range.

-The Crusher will rise more between attacks, aiding it in Infighting and not flailing 1 inch above something's head so much.
-Adjusted Crusher appearance so the top and bottom align properly.

-Meta Parasites were each dropping Fate Devices.

-Increased the number of gas clouds spawned by Dr. Gate O. Perdition.
-Buffed Dr. Gate's Bouncing orb attack, but the orbs no longer last forever until struck.
-Buffed the effect of Dr. Gate's gravity ball, but slowed its projectile speed.
-Sped up Dr. Gate's laser.



Module: Gunfinity War, version 0.2
-Added the monsters of Eviternity! If Age of Villainy is loaded and you are incredibly unlucky, ArchAngelus (with greatly reduced health) can replace a Mastermind. Otherwise expect to see Nightmare Demons and Former Captains accompany Demons/Spectres and Chaingunners, arachnotrons to have the correct projectile, and that Astral cacodemons will spawn alongside normal cacos. Possesso has full custom hosts! Check out the minimalist HUD animation for the Annihilator, whooooo

-Fixed incorrect Nightmare Imp SP Spawning.
-Raised Nightmare Imp spawn Chance.

-D64 Variant lost soul health raised from 30 to 45, and their visual size is scaled down slightly to give a minor visual cue.

-Haaaa I hadn't actually finished up the Suicide Bombers for Valiant. Done, and so far only appear to replace Dead Lost Souls. Mass Extinction surprised me, it did.

KNOWN BUGS:
-With Legions of Noobs, monsters who should be Dormant will, uh... not be Dormant. Last I checked, I was told there's no way to check for that in ACS, so tell me if I'm wrong! Cuz it really messes with the last episode of Beyond Reality.
-The trail particles on Freerunner's BFG primary fire are incorrect since Necrodoom v4. I can't find the reason why.
-One of Possesso's HUDs is not operating.

[undeadmonk354]

I've been playing this new update, but there's no files of ArchAngelus anywhere in Age of Villainy.

[Captain Ventris]

ArchAngelus is part of the Gunfinity expansion, so his files are in there. The CODE for him is in Doomvengers proper.

[haxray]

I've been having some problems lately with the hud on Necro(Mechsuit guy). For some reason, his custom Mech Hud is only displaying on a single screen size, but the hud for dismounting from the Mech refuses to display on said screen size, forcing me to either use the normal hud or constantly switch screen sizes. Is there a solution for this somewhere?

[Captain Ventris]

I've been having some problems lately with the hud on Necro(Mechsuit guy). For some reason, his custom Mech Hud is only displaying on a single screen size, but the hud for dismounting from the Mech refuses to display on said screen size, forcing me to either use the normal hud or constantly switch screen sizes. Is there a solution for this somewhere?

What do you mean the HUD for dismounting? There’s a mount/dismount hot key, otherwise it’s just an inventory item and shows up when you swap items or what not like normal. The full Mech HUD indeed shows up on one size, otherwise it’s the more minimal HUD.

[haxray]

What do you mean the HUD for dismounting? There’s a mount/dismount hot key, otherwise it’s just an inventory item and shows up when you swap items or what not like normal. The full Mech HUD indeed shows up on one size, otherwise it’s the more minimal HUD.

Im refering to the heads up display itself(health and armor) when dismounting refuses to appear when dismounted while on the hud size that shows the Full Mech Hud. It would only show the gun(and the bottom part of the sprite being missing on this resolution).

[Captain Ventris]

Oh, the dismounted display doesn’t show up? Okay yeah that’s an error I’ll have to figure out at some point.

[haxray]

Upon messing with a few of the other characters, i got to say that Possesso feels incredibly overpowered. The fact his health fully restores whenever he grabs a body, how little hes punished for dying while possessing a body(literally not at all outside of a short cooldown) makes it feel basically impossible to actually die or lose as Possesso. IN addition, he doesn't feel particularly fun to play either. Some of the demon sprites(in particular the Imp and Hell knights/Barons) for weapons are kinda ugly, and they don't feel particularly fun to use either. Their sounds and animations also feel very underwelming considering what their actual firepower is.

I doubt you'll start making balance changes over a single random person on the internet, but i feel having Possesso's health stay at a consistant value similar to Necro(Dismounted Hp remains the same regardless if you remount) would help make him not feel as utterly broken.

[shaodoomkahn]

Doomvengers endgame when ?

[Captain Ventris]

Upon messing with a few of the other characters, i got to say that Possesso feels incredibly overpowered. The fact his health fully restores whenever he grabs a body, how little hes punished for dying while possessing a body(literally not at all outside of a short cooldown) makes it feel basically impossible to actually die or lose as Possesso. IN addition, he doesn't feel particularly fun to play either. Some of the demon sprites(in particular the Imp and Hell knights/Barons) for weapons are kinda ugly, and they don't feel particularly fun to use either. Their sounds and animations also feel very underwelming considering what their actual firepower is.

I doubt you'll start making balance changes over a single random person on the internet, but i feel having Possesso's health stay at a consistant value similar to Necro(Dismounted Hp remains the same regardless if you remount) would help make him not feel as utterly broken.

He’s been hard to balance, to be honest. He was undertuned for a long time! Kind of rewards camping. Consistent health when unpossessed would be a good step, yeah. That said I guess I hadn’t personally had that much of a problem getting myself killed in casual play, but that’s probably a Me-problem!

I agree that better sprites would be a big benefit. They are out of whack with the rest of the classes. Unfortunately, I’m not a spriter!

Doomvengers endgame when ?

I’ve thought about it, but I’ve had massive trouble doing much modding work nowadays!

[Captain Ventris]

Version 1.4 is OUT! Download links in the first post.

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General Changes:
-Compatibility with Corruption Cards added! Have fun with flying, invisible Villains etc.

-The Bossbrain no longer has extra health, as this broke Augur;Zenith Map 21.

-Barrel sprites and custom actor from Super Chicken are no longer included, allowing mapsets like DBP36 to replace or alter them.


Necrosuit:
-Rocketpod speed raised from 25 to 35, radius from 84 to 96, and full damage radius from 64 to 72.
-Laser damage raised from 18-27, to 30-40. Now it feels more like a high tier weapon instead of a glorified stun gun (though it's still good at that, too!)


Super Chicken:
-Health and max health raised from 100 to 125.
-Beak damage raised from 12 to 15.
-Beak attack is now a flat 64 range, instead of increasing in range per hit.

-Moved Wave projectile up slightly, as it was hitting the floor when fired.

-Ice breath ammo has been increased by 50%.

-Whirlwind attack radius has been doubled, making it much more viable.


Style Guy:
-Neutron Disruptor altfire ammo consumption reduced from 3 to 2.
-Neutron Disruptor altfire damage lowered from 6-8 Plus 10, to 6-8 Plus 8. It feels much better now, and doesn't suck up Style so badly compared to its effect.


Freerunner:
-Increased the number of projectiles unleashed for the BFG's altfire.
-Reduced BFG Ammo consumption from 80 to 60.
-Raised BFG main projectile damage from 15 to 30.
-Raised BFG Ray count from 6 to 10.

-Rocket damage raised from 28 to 35.

-Double shotgun damage minimum raised from (3) to (5)

-Plasma damage minimum raised from (15) to (20).


Possesso:
-Lowered revenant ranged damage from 14 to 10.
-Lowered Revenant berzerk attack explosion damage from 64 to 24. It's STILL very powerful.

-Manc max damage lowered from (54) to (45).

-Caco melee damage lowered from 8 to 6.
-Caco ball damage lowered from 16 to 12.

-Hell Noble ball damage lowered from 16 to 12.


Zharkov:
-Increased Zharkov's resistance to AOE damage from 0.75 to 0.5.

-Added a screenshake effect to the Ricochot gun, the Uzi, and the Rockslinger's primary fire.

-Heightened the Rockslinger altfire's screenshake effect to better represent it's power.

-Sped up Ricochot gun ROF by 4 tics.

-Uzi bullets now all deal 6 damage, rather than half of them dealing 5.
-Uzi under the effect of a Demon Sphere now deals 6 damage per bullet, up from 5.
-Decreased Uzi accuracy.
-Reduced Uzi pickup ammo from 100 to 75.
-Removed ability to Chaingun Tap with the Uzi. It's now purely a close range weapon, giving the Ricochot gun some more utility by comparison.

-Altered a Zharkovision effect to prevent it from breaking levels.

-Increased the amount of health Zharkov gets from melee attacks.

-Ricegun damage raised from (3) and (5) to (5) and (7).

-Reduced Rockslinger ammo consumption from 4/6 to 3/5.

-Chimneysweep altfire ammo consumption reduced from 5 to 4.


Compatibility Patches:

Major Doomvengers Compatibility Patches:
Beyond Reality, version 1.2
-Increased villain spawn chance slightly.

Valiant/Sawdust, version 0.6
-Increased villain spawn chance slightly.

PSX Doom TC, version 0.3
-Increased villain spawn chance slightly.

Chex Quest 3, version 0.4
-Increased villain spawn chance slightly.


Minor Doomvengers Compatibility Patches:

*NEW* Doom 64 in Doom 2, version 0.1
-Enjoy playing Doom 64 in Doom 2! Support added for Nightmare Imps and the Mother Demon.


Module: Legions of Noobs:
-Imps were not spawning with Legions turned off and enemies set to Vanilla. Whoops.

-Lowered spawn counts when in multiplayer across the board, particularly at high player counts. It's still enough to make any level Sunder, but should be more feasible now.


Module: Tools of the Trade:
-Made the Massmouth projector effect a little more fancy with some randomized fading in and out, and a quick fade out when the message ends.

-All Tools are now slightly more common. I was going whole map sets without seeing some!

-A bug prevented the Chaos Sphere from ever spawning. Oops! And I put so much work into it!
-Added two new Chaos Sphere effects, one good and one neutral.
-Reduced the severity of a few Chaos Sphere effects that were too punishing.

-Ammo in a bottle now only spawns one monitor for Super Chicken.


Module: Age of Villainy, version 1.3
-Almost all bosses were slowed slightly to make them less overwhelming in tight quarters.
-Increased villain spawn chance slightly.
-Villain health greatly decreased across the board. They are now much more approachable with a decent amount of ammo. Most of them have more health than the default bosses, but are still manageable. They are much less likely to ruin a run, now, while preserving their fun.

-Fixed a bug where stunning a Villain resulted in the boss music and intro script re-firing, which borked the level's music.

-Raised Crusher attack range from 24 to 48, so it will strike when it can hurt you a good amount rather than waiting for a perfect drop. It is now substantially more dangerous!

-Lost UAC Machine will now only use time freeze when within a small enough distance, so it doesn't try to waste it at a distance where it won't affect the player.

-Narrowed the arc of the Mother Demon's fire trails, halved their damage from 20 to 10, and slowed them from 22 to 18.
-Slowed Mother Demon attack animations some.
-Reduced minion spawn rate of Mother Demon.

-Lowered the number of bees fired by Dog Pope by 4 (he shoots 3 bees now).

-Lowered projectile count of Meta Parasite attack from 3 to 2.
-Reduced Meta Parasite aggression, so they'll shoot less.


Module: Gunfinity War, version 0.2

-When Gunfinity War was set to Eviternity, the spawn for ArchAngelus wasn't implemented! Whoops!


KNOWN BUGS I CAN'T FIGURE OUT:
-The Gunfinity spawn for Mother Demon, ArchAngelus, and the Valiant final boss isn't working and I'm not sure why.

-Freerunner's double shotgun pickup does not appear.

-With Legions of Noobs, monsters who should be Dormant will, uh... not be Dormant. Last I checked, I was told there's no way to check for that in ACS, so tell me if I'm wrong! Cuz it really messes with the last episode of Beyond Reality.

-One of Possesso's HUDs is not operating.

-When outside the Necrosuit, one of the HUDs isn't working properly.

[Starman the Blaziken]

I have a bit of a curious question about Possesso in this mod and the fact no ammo boxes seem to spawn and I am probably not gonna seek for a buried comment if it exists, but despite the original mod having them for the appropriate monsters to pick up and the lil' bit old manual saying that ammo is a thing for him. What is up with that?