ZDoom

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- NEW: Kick sprites updated and translate based on players colour from @Dr_Cosmobyte and @Mr.Enchanter
- FIX: Grenade throwing sprites now use the new darker brown gloves

New monster behaviors, attacks, and sprites: Every monster is tweaked in some fashion to make them more dangerous and even more tweaks in the new Ultimate Agitation difficulty. Check out the Project Scope for more details in what the entails.

New weapon behaviors and sprites: Tweaked to perfection!

• Pistol is replaced with a Rifle
• Chainsaw needs to be started up when switched to
• Fists have a hold attack for a harder smack
• SSG gibs!
• Minigun has a separate ammo pool and no reload - unless you run through the previous ammo and need to feed it a new belt
• Rocket Launcher is now mag based
• BFG has charge up states like Doom 3

Kicking all around: Your legs are no longer attached to a weapon. You want to kick then you are reloading? Go ahead, it won't stop the animation! You want to kick when switching weapons? No problem! Finally a dream come true for your leg 1 and leg 2! Other player actions are also independent from the weapons so say hello to more fluid gameplay.

Compatible with Heritic, Hexen, and Chex Quest: If you want a bit of different scenery, no worries!

Compatible with monster packs: Love the Faspon weapons but want fight something with bigger teeth and claws like Legion, Dark Doom Creatures, or the other hundreds of choices? Go ahead! You still get access to the Iron Mode, options menu, and other features Faspons has to offer! (Faspons must be loaded before the monster replacement pack)

Details, details: Many weapons, monsters, and actions in the game have been tweaked to provide a more smooth and detailed experience. You rifle is fully out of ammo? Need to reload and make sure you get a round in the chamber. Minigun running low on ammo, watch the belt get eat up as your last bullets go flying by! If you ever have suggestions on how to make things look every cooler or consistent, let me know!

New difficulty - Ultimate Agitation: Monsters projectiles are always faster, no vanilla behaviors, and each enemy has a few new attacks or tricks that make them a bit more difficult to deal with.

"Iron Man" modes: One life - if you die, that is it. Your prior saves will not work if you try to reload them. You have to start a new game. Available in Ultra-Violence and Ultimate Agitation flavours.

Gameplay toggles: Not everyone likes change. You can toggle some features on/off like gibs, the HUD visor, reloading, key saves, etc., to customize the experience.

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MOD LIMITS:

GAMEPLAY

• Must still be skill based
• Must still rely on movement dodging
• Do not tip the scale in any one direction
• Give people options to grab more of the player base:
  • E.G., turn off reloading. Not everyone likes this.
• If you have an idea; try it, test it, play it. Doesn't work? Remove it. Don't leave in something not worth playing.
• Gameplay always comes first

WEAPONS

• Have no alternate fires to limit weapon complexity
• Do not change the complete firing function of the weapon. It needs to stay true or improve what it already is.
• The weapons need to feel punchy

MONSTERS

• Keep the same monster HP limits for compatability sake.
• Each monster will have at minimum, 1 new attack but no greater than 2
  • A modification of their current attack can count as a new attack
• Do not add new monsters
• You are not reinventing the monster, you are simply improving it
• If a monster has projectiles, it uses projectiles. If the monster is hitscan, it uses hitscan. Do not mix and match.
• Think about how each monster is unique to the universe and their behaviour
  • What kind of zombies are these? What do you think the Imps are? Are smaller monsters inherently afraid of bigger monsters? How do these monsters act in a group?
  • What subtle changes to their behaviour can be based on these questions

VISUALS

• Takes a back-seat to gameplay
• Monster deaths will only be sprite based, no flying gibs (has a toggle!). You have addons for that.
• Needs to work in GZDOOM for newer PCs and ZDOOM for legacy players
• You are not Brutal DOOM
• There should be no issues with popular megawads such as "Going Down" in which other popular mods experience FPS drops with.

• Lippeth - For the whole mod including coding, sprites, animations, and anything else I missed
• Johnny - For grenades, sprites, sounds, and having an ape avatar
• Somagu - For all suggestions, help, and memes
• Sgt. Mark IV - Brutal DOOM sounds, sprites, and anything else I missed
• saegiru - Ultimate DOOM Visor hud
• TheUnbeholden - For testing, advice, and feature ideas
• DabbingSquidward - For help with the Heretic, Hexen compatibility
• Ac!d - For help with the Heretic, Hexen, Chex compatibility
• wildweasel - For http://gunlabs.blogspot.ca/ and the tutorials that taught me a few things
• SigFloyd - For Brutal DOOM SE sounds
• Gifty - For Smooth DOOM and how mag drops were implemented (life saver), idle animation sprites
• Pa1nki113r - Slide sprites and sounds
• Magmacow - New shotgun and combat rifle sounds
• STRELOK - New plasma sounds
• id Software - Quake 4 sounds
• Valve - TF2 sounds
• TerryWADArchive - DOOM 3 player sound wad
• Blue Shadow - NC Hud graphics
• Blox - Monster death sprites
• Vader - Monster death sprites
• ItsNatureToDie - Monster death sprites
• Kinsie - Monster death sprites
• Minigunner - Monster death sprites
• Eriance - Monster death sprites
• osjclatchford - Monster death sprites
• PermaNoob - Cacodemon, Imp death sprites
• Chickenlegz - Demon gib death sprites
• David G - Monster death sprites
• Leu Xandro - Chaingun Guy kick sprites
• Neccronixis - RPG, SSG, Chainsaw, and Chaingun sprite designs. Bloody monster sprites
• Xaser - Game checker code
• Dr_Cosmobyte - Sprites
• @Mr.Enchanter - Sprites
• Credits from Weapons of Saturn -
  • Beautiful Doom by zer0
  • Brutal Doom by Sergeant_Mark_IV
  • Demon Eclipse by Eriance
  • Accessories to Murder by wildweasel and DoomNukem
  • Weasel Presents: NAZIS v2 by wildweasel
  • DOOMRL Arsenal by Yholl, SoloSpaghetti and Sgt. Shivers
  • Killing Floor by Tripwire Interactive
  • Return To Castle Wolfenstein by Gray Matter Interactive
  • Doom 3 by id Software
• Mom - For pushing me out. Also, happy mothers day
• If I missed anyone else that has something in this mod, please tell me.

Silentdarkness12 wrote:Forum protip: Try to avoid yellow text. MY EYES

Otherwise, this all looks good to me.

cem26 wrote:simple:this wad featuring bunch of guns and new self funny times?

USSRBear wrote:faslrn-love your reference to 5th Element =D

I like the mod, weapons feel nice, good sound effects. Any chance of some updated visual effects later on in this mod's life? Voxels, visual fluff like PFEH or BD...etc?

Lippeth wrote:Cool! I love what you did with the BFG.

Average wrote:This mod is really good fun. It's a nice balance between the old and the new.

I've been playing Wonderful Doom with this mod along with njsplash and nashgore. I have issue with auto aim and hanging corpses (they become bullet sponges and are indestructible) but I can live with that.

Having said the positive, I have an issue with the controls. For some reason, the Faspons control mapping (reload etc) isn't remembered between loads and I have to input them every time I play. I'm using the latest SVN build of GZDoom...

I also have a couple of requests. I really like the 'breathing' animation of the enemies when they're standing still in Brutal Doom (among other mods). Secondly, (I always request this but with little success!) I'd love the chainsaw to be replaced with the Doom 64 sprites - It's just so cheesy and cool with its twin blades. Is there any chance you could add these to your mod?

Thanks for sharing and thanks for reading.

Average wrote:Thank you so much for your super quick reply and even more thanks for adding the chainsaw! It is cool, isn't it?

Looking forward to seeing if you can get the idle anims working.