[Beta][Cool] \m/ ~={ DEMONSTEELE }=~ \m/ - 0.9 desu~

[Ethril]

At first I thought Jung Hae-Lin was the angel in the middle of the first-page pic between the Doomguy and the metal dude. Then I checked your tumblr and was proved wrong. She looks kinda tsundere, but who says she can't be a waifu.

BTW, I'm launching a ship between Hae-Lin and my OC MegaJim, to test the waters before I use it in fangames, fanfics and stuff, maybe even a crossover. I'm calling it 'Hae-Jim'.

Don't flirt with Death. It never ends well.

[TerminusEst13]

The Wolfenstein SS now have a replacement. Since the entire goal of the secret enemy is to act as a throwback for development...well...I thought it'd be good to have a little nod to one of the big inspirations for this project, Shadow Warrior. So now the Yakuza are making an (edited) appearance and are ready to throw their lives away in a futile attempt to try and take down the Angel of Death with some diddly Minebea M9s.

...I say that, but you may end up relying more on guns for this one. They spam those bullets kind of a lot, and it quickly turns into a whole lotta diddly.

[Jeimuzu73]

Given those trigger-happy yakuzas, maybe make Hae-Lin rapidly deflect those bullets with the sword like in 'Killer Is Dead'.

[Captain J]

Wha, no loan debt collectors? Ow well. Yakuzas are more dangerous then them anyway, Unless if you did some loans.

[Jeimuzu73]

The fact that they chop off their pinkies as penance is what makes them dangerous.

[Slax]

At least they're not people from the infamous yak-ooza clan. That spit stinks, man.

[TheBadHustlex]

Maybe you could replace the wolfenstein-textures with appropriate shadow-warrior-ones?

[Somagu]

Maybe you could replace the wolfenstein-textures with appropriate shadow-warrior-ones?

While that could be a cute idea, any maps that (god forbid) use any of those textures will suddenly look pretty strange, also there's not a whole lot of texture variety to begin with, so the effect of having really blocky barely decorated maps is kind of lost, and it suddenly starts looking like some really novice mapper's first venture instead.

[Viscra Maelstrom]

i dunno, i think it could work. i mean, who else uses Wolfenstein textures for anything BUT Wolfenstein levels, unless they're really newbie mappers who fucks around with a bit of everything?

[Somagu]

That's true. It'd have to be a pretty neutral texture to replace the bricks, though. There are a few that might work, come to think of it, but I don't have a texture sheet sitting around.

[torridgristle]

i dunno, i think it could work. i mean, who else uses Wolfenstein textures for anything BUT Wolfenstein levels, unless they're really newbie mappers who fucks around with a bit of everything?

That's a shitty reason to replace something that people expect will remain the same. Suddenly the mod becames a partial texture pack, making other Wolfenstein-themed levels in other wads look incorrect just for Doom 2's 31 and 32. This idea deserves to be abandoned.

[Kostov]

Agreed. This is a gameplay mod. Let it never stray from its purpose.

[Captain J]

So, let us untouch the texture. Also hae-lin would be mad if she sees one of these textures if you know what i mean.

[TerminusEst13]

I wouldn't mind having a replacement map or two for a more unique and/or appropriate area to go through, but that's much farther down the line--and even if I went through with that, it'd be toggleable by a cvar (defaulting to off) so that you wouldn't suddenly end up there unless you intentionally wanted to.
Like Undead and torrid said, this is a gameplay mod--a very far-reaching gameplay mod, but a gameplay mod nonetheless. The primary purpose is to go through mapsets we already know and love without any major issues. Replacing textures would result in, well, major issues.

In the meantime, development has been churning along smoothly, aside from a week-long break in lieu of another project suddenly becoming popular. I've been focusing primarily on fixing the many bugs that's popped up and polishing up some of the rougher edges, so I don't really have any new screenshots with neat features and fancy new sprites.
But I do have a pretty flashlight that I'm unreasonably proud of, because melee-ing enemies in pitch-dark maps is a gigantic cock of shit. At the moment it's bound to its own key (because Zimbabwe doesn't have the Reload key yet), but it's infinite and lets out a nice stream that's an actual beam and not just a bulletpuff with a dynamic light. And it works in Software, too, though it just uses A_Light2 there.




NEAT.

I guess this makes the infrared visor somewhat redundant, though, so I should probably think of a replacement for that.

[Captain J]

hmm, how does she uses a flashlight even she grabbed weapons on her both arms? she must be have a spelunker helmet.