The Guncaster - 3.888b

[PillowBlaster]

Have some bugs to report:

-Grabbing the Powersuit or the Deadmaker Mask for the first time always puts it on, even if "Auto-activate Artifacts" is set to No. Also, the Powersuit doesn't seem to display its item tips on first use, even when "Special item tips" is set to On.

-When wearing the Powersuit, if you start a new game or load a game where you aren't wearing the Powersuit, the HUD icon for the Fire Breath spell remains the green "Tiberium Breath" version instead of changing to the regular orange one. This persists no matter how many times you start new games/load games; the only way to change the icon back is to have the Powersuit on and "take it off".

-The "Button-Based" Armor Restriction applies to Armor bought from the shop as well - if you don't hold down the "use" key as you click the button to complete the purchase, you still expend the money but don't receive the armor.

-The "Shop Ring opacity %" Option does not actually adjust the opacity - it also changes the Shop Sprite scale instead.

-The projectiles of the Flamewave spell use sprites from the Guncaster Addon - if you load Guncaster without the Addon, Flamewave has no sprites save the embers/explosions.

-First part is intentional, given they are a special case, while the latter is not. Dunno what's going on there, so I'll have to relay it to Zhs2.
-Whoops, that'll require administering a fix by KeksDose.
-Administered a fix for that myself.
-Sounds like it could be reading wrong cvar, or its attached under wrong name, but I'll leave it to KeksDose.
-Whoops, that's on me, fixed on my side.

[fakemai]

I might take a look at the auto-activation things in Strife later since that presently only applies to health items, and not things like Quad Damage. Also auto-activation for Deadmaker is hilarious since there's an NPC that sells it in that game, and you proceed to alert everyone when doing that, as well as likely gutting the seller.

[PillowBlaster]

Oh.... That's bad. I should probably put just the item, not the bringer there (technical jargon, do not worry about that). In fact, that's what is used for Powersuit, so I should definitely do that, thanks for heads up.

[PillowBlaster]

It's been a while, so lemme do the thing. Update time, give thanks to KeksDose for fixing things too! (And of course, praise Mima and the Moon)

Core + Addon.

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3.888b EXTREME KOZAK ZAPOROZKI SITTING ON A HEDGEHOG WITH A BARE ASS EDITION
-Buffed Matriarch a little. (Pillow)
-Added +NOTIMEFREEZE on Augur shots as otherwise they get fugged up if someone does ZA WARUDO while firing it. (Pillow)
-Buffed Scourgebreath, Crows, Frostbite. (Pillow)
-Fixed screen effect and rainbow circling gldefs getting stuck while using Prism Lazer once you climb a ledge. (Pillow)
-Fixed midas uppercut not turning stuff into gold. (Pillow)
-Fixed unlockable items having broken item binding behaviour in the shop. (Keks)
-Added nicer text to shop UI stuff like buying and binding. (Keks)
-Changed the player scaling while using suits and mask to match where the eyesight's at a little more. (Pillow)
-Fixed the Draugh still playing the dance sound after leaving the dance state. (Pillow)
-Fixed the Draugh still playing Mechamaker sounds after removing the powersuit off oneself. (Pillow)
-Fixed Deadmaker's Skullfire Meteors causing a VM abort when Draugh uses it and disappears. (Pillow)
-Fixed Super Sheepshield to release on Deadmaker melee while climbing. (Pillow)
-Fixed killing a monster with no death animation with a stratted Strucker causing a VM abort. (Pillow)
-Buffed up the base kick a bit and fixed berserk not buffing it up proper. (Pillow)
-Added some fun, extra behavior to Masters of Pain gauntlets, which justified really ramping up its price. You'll see what I mean once you give it a shot. (Pillow, Famskull's suggestion)
-Turned Ironblast strat despawning item into a weapon in slot 3 where you hold hands outward and summon it back into your hands. I think it's a bit more intuitive than inventory item to bring it back. (Pillow)
-Made dropped Pulverizers also drop you Longhorn ammo, even if it doesn't make sense, I think it makes using revolver slightly more viable. (Pillow)
-Fixed Strife healing pickups VM aborting on AutoUse 2. (Pillow)
-Fixed Loremaster shot sprite conflict with Prophet's hand. (Pillow)
-Doubled ammo count in Hexen cause I felt it's a tad low. (Pillow)
-Added ammo give to Draugh Tome and Deadmaker's Mask pieces in Hexen (I probably had a reason to not do that, but I'll be reminded later; also not touching Golden Emperor cuz lazy, lol~) (Pillow)
-Added looping sounds to keys (except for Hexen and Strife) so its easier to track them down in the wild in case they won't pop up on map. (Pillow)
-Fixed Bishop's arm cannons doing the projectile firing after pitch shift, thus throwing it off from where you aimed it at. (Pillow)
-Fixed restrictive armor behavior set to 2 being funky with the shop. (Pillow)
-Fixed Flamewave sprites not being in base file after swapping sprites. (Pillow)
-Fixed buying the Deadmaker Mask from that one guy in Strife causing mayhem you can't stop, lol. (Pillow)

[Rowsol]

-Made dropped Pulverizers also drop you Longhorn ammo, even if it doesn't make sense, I think it makes using revolver slightly more viable. (Pillow)

Making zombiemen always drop it works for me. Was that a thought or is it not doable in the other games as well?

[fakemai]

Speaking of Pulverizer, if you enable that option for Acolytes to spawn with them, and kill them with fire while they're shooting, the shooting never stops, at least the sound. It's funny. That aside nothing else noticed and those other things were fixed, thank you. I just need to actually play vanilla Strife again and confirm how certain things are meant to be played. Probably Heretic next though. Also Masters of Pain? That left me confused for a while but I get it now, and it'll be a lot of fun to exploit the hell out of.

[Rexen]

Okay so recently I had this dumb idea but a silly one. I was thinking that when the player opens the shop there's a very small chance the shopkeeper is sleeping on the job in some way, like snoring or something like that. Also I been wondering, is it possible for subtitles to be added for the other non-shop voice lines since gzdoom has a feature for that?

[ClessxAlghazanth]

Hi

Does anyone know if it's possible to run the latest Guncaster version with monster packs such as Colorful Hell ? The universal adapter mod doesn't seem to be updated for a while

best regards and thanks

[Fureyon]

I haven't played a lot yet, but here's some feedback:

That little buff to the Matriarch gave it the punch it needed to compete with other guns as far as time to kill is concerned. On the previous patch you could easily overtake Matriarch damage with other guns on sustained fire (base guns only, no Stratos), now its damage overall is pretty similar with the added benefit of also having some AoE, so it's worth using on the big guys, such as the Cyberdemon.

I can't say I've noticed much difference in the buffed spells. Mind you, I don't doubt they're better, but I haven't felt like it was worth modifying how I use them. That is to say: despite the buff, the status quo is unaltered, which is good!

The Ironblast Strat summon/unsummon is indeed more intuitive now, although I've always used the quick summon/unsummon myself. I also think the sprites look pretty cool, I've always been curious about what Bishop's palm structure looked like.

Masters of Pain upgrade is hella good! Now I consider this artifact a must-have, especially because it fits my playstyle like a glove!

[UTNerd24]

There's a weird bug with the propane tanks. If picked up, selected, then used, the tank is thrown, but its still in the player's inventory, however it can't be selected. Like, it skips to your next item, but reads "Propane"
I know I should be using binds, but still, It's kinda weird.

[Fureyon]

The key noises help a lot, I dunno why I can't see the keys on the map anymore even with the setting to do so on GZDoom. I only have this problem with GC for whatever reason, with other mods it works fine.
Also I'd like to ask you to boost the key noises in Heretic. In Doom(2) it's fine, nice and audible, on Heretic its so low you can barely hear it even without music.

I don't think Hexen or Strife have key noises, considering you have at least a dozen different ones.

EDIT: Skull Keys in Doom seem to use the same sound bits as Heretic, and could use a boost in volume too.

[Rexen]

I seen the Key issue happen with Project Brutality 3.0 as well, so I don't think its just a GC case

[Fureyon]

I noticed another bug, when gunzerking with the Sandman, shell casings coming off the Left Gun are tiny (aka: normal sized) compared to the bigger casings the gun normally spews.

[Gourry]

Not sure if this has been mentioned: when I get the reaversphere, the game goes to vm abort mode.

[Chaosvolt]

I seen the Key issue happen with Project Brutality 3.0 as well, so I don't think its just a GC case

I almost misread that as implying you'd tried to play with both mods enabled and started getting 'nam flashbacks.