Happy New Year 2016, everyone!
Well well well, finally I have released the so-long awaited major update of the HXRTC Pack, but you know what?... From now, it will be known as
HXRTC Project, and thereby continuing in its 3.0 version!
(So, there is not a v2.1 as I announced previously, because after thinking about it deeply, this edition includes so many, many, really a lot of new things and features that it surely deserves a higher version number!)
What is awaiting you in this fresh release? As I said, it includes a pretty long list of new things and features, so here are the most destacable ones:
- A huge bunch of new and fierce enemies:
Girl Scout, Master Shotgunner, Double Chaingunner, Infernal Imp, Hellish Dog & Hellish Spectre, Dark Satyr, Cyberwarrior, Baby Cacodemon, Watcher, Blizzard Soul, Wicked Shadow & Wicked Spectre, Nightmare Reaper, Gremlin & MiniGremlins, Underworld Minion, Machinegun Mancubus, Zombie Missile Tank, Railgun Spider, Arachnorb, Hell Necromancer, Big Rat, Giant Bat and the new big bosses:
Underworld King and
Arachnorb Queen!
- A new and dangerous cutting weapon: the
Saw Thrower. Once you get it, you can shoot seeking-circular saws to your foes or alternatively, use it as an even more powerful Chainsaw!
- Improvements for the HXRTC Player actions: now you can kick everytime your opponents, without the need of switching to a pistol weapon type as before, and now even you can shout and taunt your enemies with a middle finger (ala BD Style!). Be sure to bind your favourite keys in (G)ZDoom control options if you want to use the Kicking and/or Taunting feature.
- New auto-powerup feature based on Player rage: the most pain gets the player (with enemy attacks or by other means) more rage points he will obtain. Once he reaches enough rage points, he will get in a kind of trance ('limit attack') for a very limited time, in which he will be able to make double damage to all enemies, at the same time he will be immune to all types of damage. Seize it!
- New interactive decorations: now most of tech lamps are breakable, and the computerized pillars can be hit until destroying their crystal display (beware with the shards!) Also, in Hell levels, the impaled skull piles can be football-kicked like, and some ceiling hangmans can be torn apart... but if you do it, the gnawing-meat rats over them may get angry!
- After all this time, the Shop system feature is now a reality! As far as you advance in your Doom adventure killing enemies and finding treasures, you'll encounter occasionally (and randomly) with some TSD (
Trade Store Droids, or
Trade Shop Droids, as you prefer to call). All and each one of them will be pleased to accept your gathered wealth (money) in exchange of multiple and useful items/actions, like weapons, armors, special objects, ammo recharge, health recovering, etc. However, each TSD is only able to trade one item or action once, so beware and search the ones you really need, and pay the price they claim if necessary!
- Released Mistery Boxes are still helpful, but now you'll have to take care, they can now be morphed in a pretty nasty surprise! (No more details available, please discover it with your own eyes!)
- Some weapon behaviour changes: updated the old silver 1911 pistol to the solid
Colt 1911, which is a bit more powerful and has more capacity per clip. Also, the secondary attacks of the pistols (kick hit) has been replaced: now you'll whack your foes with pistol grips when you equip the Beretta and Colt 1911, and shoot a three-burst attack with the Plasma Zapper.
- The old single Knuckle fist weapon has also been updated with the
Double Knuckles, more practical and fearsome than before. If you pick up a Berserk, you'll become a dangerous demon-killing machine!
- Some enemy attack patterns updated and improved.
- Other minor changes and fixes: sound tweaking, sprite fixing, code cleaning (all that stuff, you know).
And last, but not least, the HXRTC HUD has been updated to v5.0, which includes compatibility with new features and some little improvements.
For now that's all, or almost all. Hope all of you enjoy this new release, and don't forget to report any bugs you encounter!
Cheerio, have fun and a nice Doomsday!
