ZDoom

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Fists:
Fists are largely unchanged but are now available for every weapon as a quick melee.


Chainsaw:
Primary fire is unchanged, however the chainsaw now has fuel which is used for an alternate swipe attack. The swipe is very powerful, dealing a large amount of damage, and restores some health to the player. The chainsaw is generally a tool for when you are low on ammo and the swipe attack is for when you are low on health.


Pistol:
Slightly increased damage and absolutely no spread. It takes just as many shots to kill a zombieman but a shot or 2 less to kill an imp. It's not enough to effect balance much but it does make pistol starts a might less tedious.


Shotgun:
Spread is conical and has been tightened from vanilla giving the shotgun a longer effective range. The pump can be canceled to perform a chainsaw swipe attack.


Super Shotgun:
Spread is conical, increased slightly, and the pellet count has been reduced to 2x the shotgun. To compensate for the reduced damage the SSG now deals bonus damage at melee ranges. The melee damage and the increased spread should move the SSG a bit farther away from the shotgun's role in the arsenal and keep both weapons useful throughout a given playthrough. The reload can be canceled to perform a chainsaw swipe attack.


Chaingun:
Damage increased to match that of the pistol and chaingun sniping has been removed, spread now applies to every shot fired. This should help a bit to keep both the pistol and chaingun useful.

Rocket Launcher: -
It launches rockets. What else does it need to do ?


Plasma Rifle:
Mostly unchanged however the cooldown/recoil (honestly not sure what it is supposed to be) can be canceled to perform a chainsaw swipe attack. I'm tinkering though, maybe this will change later.


BFG 9000:
Like most of the larger weapons it hasn't been changed all that much. There's not a lot that needs to change really.


The Unmaker:
Consuming a whopping 20 cells per shot and dealing enough direct damage to kill a revanent the Unmaker is the least like it's retail counterpart of all the weapons and that's largely because the retail version outclasses like 3 other weapons. So instead of adding a 3rd rapid fire weapon that dealt more damage for less ammo than the BFG I've instead made the Unmaker into a sort of sniper which the weapon roster otherwise lacks. Unfortunately there's no way to get the Unmaker unless a mapper puts it in the map. Previous versions of the mod did have a system for adding it to megawads but I've ditched that for now. Maybe sometime down the road I'll revisit it.

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Zombie dog:
This is just taken from the dog pack on R667, though it wasn't part of that pack when I downloaded it.


Retro Zombie:
It's just like the WolfSS, just zombie. Good for when you want something between a chaingunner and a zombieman and aren't making a Wolfenstein level.


Shadow:
Classic shadow. Fits perfectly in with the vanilla enemies IMO, health was reduced to the same as the imp. I'd link it on R667 but linking directly to stuff on R667 is annoying.


The Cacomera:
The cacomera is basically like a little cacodemon, about the same health, does the same damage, projectile is a bit faster. Where is differs significantly is that the cacomera can teleport around the arena. This means it can't be funneled through a door and will follow players if they try to flee from a fight. It won't telefrag other enemies (except lost souls, they hate lost souls) and won't telefrag the player either. They put pressure on the player and discourage trying to cheese enemy pathfinding and make for very hectic fights.

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Gold Props:
An assortment of gold props designed to fit in with existing gold props, come in all sorts of flavors including torch, bunch of candles, and key gizmo.


Wood and Iron props:
Not a whole lot in this category, got some pillars big and small and a candelabra. The wooden sign prints a message to the screen when used and is a super handy way to include directions and hints for players.


Heretic and Hexen props: (and some from Blood and Duke too)
Altered to fit doom better, either edited the palette or adjusted materials so the sprites would match with vanilla assets.


Wolfenstein Props:
Same as above, props edited so they work better alongside doom's vanilla assets. (I'm not sure the source for the base of the bush sprite)


Items and Powerups:
Several new items and props have been added. The large health bonus and the armor boots are just 10 point health and armor bonuses respectively, the red armor converts existing armor to health before giving you more armor, and the double-jump boots let you double-jump until the end of the level (unless you use the orange version, which lasts forever). They don't shake things up too much, but they add just enough to be valuable inclusions.


Savepoints and Checkopints:
The savepoints save your game when you use them and the checkpoints move a teleport destination when you use them. Really handy functionality to have, especially the savepoints.


Doors:
Yep, doors. These doors are thing-based and as such you can see through them, but they still block sight and sound across them. They come in 3 flavors: 1) Standard door, needs a switch to toggle, does not close automatically by default but can be set to. 2) Proximity door, opens when you get close and closes again after a delay, the activation distance and the delay time can both be configured. And 3) Decorative door, doesn't do anything, can't be opened or closed, it's sometimes slightly less annoying than using a midtexture. I'm working on a version that animates instead of raising/lowering.


Enemy, Prop, and Item Spawners:
Just what it says, select a thing to spawn from the dropdown in doombuilder and when you activate the spawner it spawns something. Can be configured to call a special when you spawn something, when the spawned thing would normally call its special, and to call the special repeatedly instead of just for the first thing spawned.
Additionally the spawners support 3 spawn styles, Teleport Fog, Fake Floor Raise Trick, and Silent. I personally really like the fake floor raise trick style, it just feels more doomy than teleporting things in does.


Behavior Trees:
This isn't done yet but once I get it working it will allow you to drive level events with a behavior tree, allowing for you to create complex sequences easily right in doombuilder. So far the action nodes (which call a special when activated) and the proximity trigger (which calls a special when a player enters its hitbox) are complete but the system that links everything together is still incomplete and I'll probably scrap what I have and start over here before too long. Out of anything in this mod this is the single most useful tool added. It lets you very easily build complicated sequences with a lot of moving parts all moving at the same time without needing to code a bespoke solution in ACS for everything more complicated than a line trigger.

Pistol Starts:
I've added a type of inventory item that will cause the player to do a pistol start if you give it to them at the start of the level. This can be set to last for one level, where it will give the player anything they previously had back when the level ends, or it can be set to trigger on every level. They can also be configured to change what the player starts with, so if you wanted you could rocketlauncher start every level, or fist start every level.
You can use this for starting every level in a wad w/ whatever you want, or you can make a map that is fist-started but the rest of the wad is unaffected. This one is pretty fun to mess around with and it's nice to have single maps in a longer wad where you just start the player with a completely different set of things than normal.

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oh boy. It's been a bit since the last update and I didn't keep track of what I did so here's what I remember:

• HUD converted to zscript, everything should be zscript now
• more blood added to gore effects, blood colour isn't respected sometimes, not sure why
• added cacomera
• added pistol start system
• added large health and armor bonuses
• added key pillars for purple card and green skull keys
• added enemy/prop/item spawners
• added proximity trigger
• some sector action things can be assigned a sector tag and will apply their effect to all sectors with that tag, not just the sector they are in
• skybox picker can be assigned a sector tag and it will change the skybox for all sectors with that tag, not just the sector it is in
• better chainsaw swipe detection, dealing damage always uses fuel now
• added thing doors
• reworked thrifty health/ammo system, system is now independent of the pickups themselves
• added message toast system, no toast queue but that would be easy to add if I ever needed more than one message on screen at once.

Spoiler: And the good thing is i'm already prepared for some feedback!

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- I'm seeing it-has-no-decals™ cliche on every weapons except rocket launcher and plasma rifle.
- Zombieman's clip gives you 10 bullets, intentional?
- Any reason why Super shotgun plays pump-action shotgun sound effect?
- I don't know, but plasma rifle seems held up A LOT unlike other weapons.