[WIP][Horror] Divine Frequency (Demo Updated)

[Ghost Prototype]

I killed that guy several times with different weapons, couldn't replicate the bug.
I also ran around fighting that Adrien thing on buddha mode, couldn't replicate the crash. Although this one has been reported before, I can't seem to figure out why,
I also tried replicating the no weight pick up, to no luck. Could you send me the save file?

[m1lk]

here is a save file. its just right before the Adrien fight.

https://filebin.net/fdnt4wsk7ddfery5

I forgot to mention, I also loaded this immersive camera mod along with it:

viewtopic.php?f=43&t=61915

as far as I know, it hasn't given me any problems with gameplay. but even before I started loading this immersive camera mod along, I was still having that inventory bug.
I like to load this mod with pretty much everything, and from my experience its pretty neutral and doesn't have any major conflicts with anything. I load it last.

also, im running it all on GZDoom 4.6.1

ive already beaten the latest demo, man I wish it was longer cannot wait for the full release, despite the bugs im absolutely in love with this project

thanks for letting me know the names of the songs! I had a feeling it was something vaporwave



edit: I literally went to load that save again just now, and it crashed as soon as I started shooting at Adrien. if you want, here is the crash log:

https://filebin.net/s8h7myk096wjvlf5

[Ghost Prototype]

Thanks! I'm now able to replicate the crash. I'll update you as soon as I can

EDIT: It's the revelation ring's damage reflecting passive that's causing the crash. Gonna try to patch that.
EDIT: Lockpick doesn't remove the inventory slot when taken, only dropped. Time to fuck around and patch that too

UPDATE:
-Reflected damage set to only reflect damage originating from DF_Monster & DF_Boss class. funny enough you can also crash the game by blowing up a tnt barrel with the ring on. Fixed.
-Removed the 'Cost' field from DIALOGUE, should now work without breaking (It's a cheap hack). "Fixed".

I'll update the build in about a week or so if everything goes smooth. There's some other bug fix that I completely forgot to write down lol

[Ghost Prototype]

Anyway, the immersive camera mod doesn't break anything. If anything it's actually quite a pleasant mod to play DF with. Thank you so much for playing! If there's any feedback you wanna throw my way, you can drop them here or hit me up on discord

[Captain J]

I forgot to play this demo so i gave it a try, and good heavens this this is super lengthy. In a good way! Every single map is in high quality and some areas are beyond impressive like putting a black magic on Doom Engine or something. Weapons are quite satisfying to use as well. I love the Tainted Shotgun that mostly puts bosses into pile of eldritch remains. Again this demo is lengthy, but i did manage to beat it within a day because it's that good. I think it's based on both Silent Hill and The Stanley Parable(but without the narrator).

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- Beginning of the game hits you real hard. Fireballs suddenly fly right at you with speed of light and speaking of which, that skeleton is way much worse. Dodge key helps, but this fella has one ridiculous speed. In half seriousness and half memeness(?), this is technically a giant middle finger and loud wakeup shout to the beginners and uhhhhh i kinda like it!

Oh and as you can see, the map has tiny gap into it.


- This particular crate prop has mspaint quality to it. Heh

- Thanks so much for making hotkeys so i can use the items without having to open the inventory so much. But when i have to destroy the objects like crates and vent doors, i always have to juggle my weapon slots til i draw a Wrench. Would be nice if i can do the quick melee attack once i get myself a Wrench.

- Chipped Tooth is quite useful but the condition runs down ridiculously fast. While repair kits are quite rare, the game gives me a plenty of ammo. It kinda gets useless when the condition's at below 40% or just plain zero...


- Breakable Walls spawn debris that play flesh bouncing sound effect and are fiery...?


- So i moved to this building after riding the train. And this cabinet refuses to open despite i have the Lockpick. Is this a specific one? Because i don't see any option to use the pick.


- I did kill the pyro boss, and the game gave me this rune. And for some reason, it keeps spawning once i picked it up. It keeps spawning over and over again.


- I found this invisible rat. Or maybe a ghost rat?

- G. Blessing reloads automatically without animations when the mag's empty. Also having its mag loaded or not, when i press the reload key, it plays click sound and nothing happens. Other weapons don't act like this tho.

- Some Items like Necrotic Oil displays "placeholder" on the inventory description for some reason.

- Is there any way i can defeat the Entropy?? Bestiary doesn't enlighten me at all. It always reflect my damage and even Tainted Shell won't work against it. I did try to kill with the pistol but i had insufficient meds so i had to flee.

- Giant Cthulhu Skull enemy can hurt itself by the projectile's explosion.


- The red place where i poison this well? Somewhat bleeds.

That is all. And i dunno about the full release date but once this TC's done, i bet it's gonna be extra 10 hours long or something. And i certainly can't wait to travel the worlds of horror and other scary stuff!

[Ghost Prototype]

Hope you had a good time Captain J I'll get to working on these bugs. Will post an update to the changes I made when I run through them all. Again, thanks so much for the feedbacks!

UPDATE:

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Oh and as you can see, the map has tiny gap into it.

Fixed.

This particular crate prop has mspaint quality to it. Heh

Yeah I never got around to getting rid of that one lol. It's a tad bit too dark most of the time to see the finer details. Replaced with a screwdriver, a wrench, cup, some random oil can, and a chance to spawn random bullet casings. Here's what they spawn now.
https://streamable.com/z645g5

- Thanks so much for making hotkeys so i can use the items without having to open the inventory so much. But when i have to destroy the objects like crates and vent doors, i always have to juggle my weapon slots til i draw a Wrench. Would be nice if i can do the quick melee attack once i get myself a Wrench.

Time to use hotkeys for weapons . I'll see if something could be done about this for the future, it's not a bad idea.

- Chipped Tooth is quite useful but the condition runs down ridiculously fast. While repair kits are quite rare, the game gives me a plenty of ammo. It kinda gets useless when the condition's at below 40% or just plain zero...

The Chipped Tooth is more of a late game weapon, you get a chance to find an upgrade that keeps the condition permanently at 100% in The Abyss level. It's potentially a room wiper lol.

- Breakable Walls spawn debris that play flesh bouncing sound effect and are fiery...?

I got a bit too inspired by Blood I'll see if I can find something more fitting.

- So i moved to this building after riding the train. And this cabinet refuses to open despite i have the Lockpick. Is this a specific one? Because i don't see any option to use the pick.

This is a weird one, do you have a save file? I can't replicate this bug.

- I did kill the pyro boss, and the game gave me this rune. And for some reason, it keeps spawning once i picked it up. It keeps spawning over and over again.

Fixed.

- I found this invisible rat. Or maybe a ghost rat?

lol I used a cheap hack by playing the footstep sound on the rat so it seems like something was running into the dark. NOT REALIZING that the scanner detects the rat class even if its alpha was set to 0. Fixed, used an actual actor dedicated to this purpose now.

- G. Blessing reloads automatically without animations when the mag's empty. Also having its mag loaded or not, when i press the reload key, it plays click sound and nothing happens. Other weapons don't act like this tho.

Reload button swaps the ammo type you get from the runes. If you read the Codex it also informs you about this difference in mechanic.

- Some Items like Necrotic Oil displays "placeholder" on the inventory description for some reason.

They're literal placeholder text, I haven't gotten around to write lore stuff for those objects yet

- Is there any way i can defeat the Entropy?? Bestiary doesn't enlighten me at all. It always reflect my damage and even Tainted Shell won't work against it. I did try to kill with the pistol but i had insufficient meds so i had to flee.

Yes. If you have the revelation ring equipped, it'll reduce the amount of reflected damage you'll take.

- Giant Cthulhu Skull enemy can hurt itself by the projectile's explosion.

Fixed. Well, buffed would be more appropriate. It's now completely immune to Heat damage

- The red place where i poison this well? Somewhat bleeds.

Fixed.

Also, the demo is like 50% of the game lmao. The first 2 maps served as tutorial levels. And the third one (Crossroad level) is the first "for real" level.

[m1lk]

forgot to mention those bugs Captain J mentioned, but yes, i second that....

...as well as the issue with the chipped tooth. yeah its good when its at 100% but it does wear down very quick and repair kits are scarce, so i end up almost never using it and especially never on full auto, so having 3 fire rates on it makes it kind of pointless . the recoil on it is pretty gnarly too for an AR. even the shotgun recoil is like nothing compared to it, even with that doubleshot perk (forgot what its called).

speaking of perks, that shotgun doubleshot perk stops working after a while, dont know if thats intentional. also the perk for the chipped tooth that eliminates wear, thats great but cannot find the astronaut's piece (maybe its not included in the demo yet?) , nor can i find the axe (maybe not included yet either?)

my favorite part?

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the mushroom trip! well done on that!!!!

[Ghost Prototype]

In defense of the AR, it's a quirky weapon. Players dumping more points into STR will get more of a use out of this weapon, since spread and recoil scales off of that. The adjustable fire-rates are there for you to play around with depending on how good your recoil control is, you get to make the choice. In this video, I have 3 STR and the upgrade lol. https://streamable.com/yamvun
Obviously I could've just dropped a proxy bomb on the cultists, or use the revolver's AOE damage, or lure them one at a time, but I think that's the great thing about having this arsenal with its differing strengths and weakness. They all have one use or another.

Also, idk what might've caused the doubleshot perk for the trenchgun to not work. Did you have enough PSI? it uses 3 IIRC. And the axe isn't included in the demo, neither is the 2 other artifacts. They're found in the next level after The Crossroads

[Karl515]

When will the next update drop? It's just for the sake of me not wasting time and bandwidth when the next update gets released tomorrow or something.

[Ghost Prototype]

I'll update the build in about a week or so if everything goes smooth. There's some other bug fix that I completely forgot to write down lol

[Karl515]

Dammit, should've read more. Thanks for replying even though you've already answered it.

[Captain J]

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- About the Lockpick didn't work, Streamable provided me the fast and easy way to share video of proof without having to upload manually on Youtube because, you know, taking spaces with my contents.

Why this particular locked cabinet requires more than a Lockpick? I thought that was it but i honestly don't think i need even more knowledge to use a pick.

- Maybe you should check every single enemy that throws explosive projectile. Because i directly saw that shadowy humanoid guy at the train map killing himself from his own explosive ball.


- This Terrain plays LOUD gravel sound effect. Yeah, i did turn up the volume all the way up but other footstep sounds play just fine. It's just weird to me.


- But this Terrain, however, doesn't play any sound at all.


- This lift at the train map makes you stuck and certainly doesn't kill you.


- You sure it's okay to use this texture or this game is in fact fan Wolf3D project? Because well, it just doesn't look right if that's not the case.

- And now, i would like to patiently lecture about the Blue Doggy and a TNT Barrel at MAP02B: As usual, Doggo's strong and moves fast just like their siblings. Luckily the game gives you a hint that they're weak against explosion. So you get a TNT Barrel inside of the room slightly near the Pup to use against it, yeah? It looks good on paper but in reality, it takes a serious fortune to just lure it to the room. This is too far different than the game taught me. Here are problems i experienced.

First of all, the door automatically closes every single time especially when the Doggo's closing in. Even if you open the door early this thing just keeps running around the door and most likely will spew blue flames at me.

Second, the props are all over the hallway so the dog get stuck rather too often. Considering the door also blocks you when opened, the hallway is extra cluttered, making it impossible to get inside.

And lastly, the Barrel itself. Apparently it's not immune to the cold damage so when doggo does the icy bark after i almost lured to the door, i get forced to enjoy the chinese new year fireworks up close. I genuinely think this is the major point why it makes this simple task much more complicated. If the barrel never explodes from ice damage, replace it into landmine, or maybe remove either doors or props, things will get easy. I guarantee you.

Sorry if i'm being rude or having one of those DSP moments but i spend like solid 25 minutes to kill this thing with the alternative option you gratefully offered. The funny thing is, after all that, you get opportunities. Several, opportunities to kill Hulking Cancer way easily. It's the mother of all hardest bosses but i can kill this thing without risking myself of save-scumming.

Pistol does some good damage against this Chaotic Canine buuuut saving ammo is the major key to defeating spooky floaty skulls so...


- MAP02B has these weird sparkle effects. So square-y.


- And here's the last feedback. I found this pitch black elevator door in again, MAP02B and is this intentional?

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- The message after you eat the frozen raw chicken is the best thing in the world. This is Seasoned Perfectly.

Totally can't wait for more maps and creepy places.

[Ghost Prototype]

I too love the chicken quest. Not for the gameplay but how ridiculous the premise is lol

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Why this particular locked cabinet requires more than a Lockpick? I thought that was it but i honestly don't think i need even more knowledge to use a pick.

OHHH I see now, you need at least 3 WITS to unlock that. Hence the (WIT 3 Required), so there's a stat upgrading mechanic and it's done so by interacting with the skull with 1 candle on top of its head. If you had 3 WITS but it still doesn't work, let me know.

- Maybe you should check every single enemy that throws explosive projectile. Because i directly saw that shadowy humanoid guy at the train map killing himself from his own explosive ball.

Yeah it's pretty hilarious isn't it? So called interdimensional entity dies to his own attacks lmao. I'm aware of these interactions, I kept them in because it's fun to watch. Like if you stand where Warfare Anatomy is going to land, it gets stuck and you can beat it to death with a wrench lol.

Footstep stuff

Yes indeed, this is something I completely lost interest in and it's sitting in Limbo. Idk what to do with it honestly. I think for the next update I'm going to temporarily disable them until I have a clearer idea of where I want to go with it.

- This lift at the train map makes you stuck and certainly doesn't kill you.

Fixed. Replaced with a simple lift instead of that fancy stuff.

- You sure it's okay to use this texture or this game is in fact fan Wolf3D project? Because well, it just doesn't look right if that's not the case.

I honestly didn't even noticed that. But in any case they're easily replaceable and doing so isn't a big deal to me. Good catch.

Dog problem

Whoops, that room was never meant for the dog LMAO. Worms spawn there later if you unlock the elevator lift shortcut from the Upper Levels. But I see what you mean, I'll try to reframe the encounter so it's more fitting. Good catch again! Also, if you don't want to waste handgun ammo, you can activate an energy cell for the trenchgun or switch to the Aero rune on the revolver. They do big damage against beast-like enemies.

- MAP02B has these weird sparkle effects. So square-y.

OH GOD, IGNORE THAT LOL. WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THOSE. (replacing them right now)

- And here's the last feedback. I found this pitch black elevator door in again, MAP02B and is this intentional?

Fixed. That issue has been addressed before but I guess this elevator door just enjoy roleplaying as batman.

[Ghost Prototype]

Things indeed went smoothly. I'm currently sick and on the verge of death but ayyyy we got this update rolled out lol. Includes all the fix I mentioned in the posts and several other ones I'm not gonna bother writing down.

ALSO. Getting Reshade running should be less of a pain now. Just run the 'ReShade_Setup_4.9.1.exe', leave it opened and running in the background. Then run 'Start Divine Frequency.bat'.

[Captain J]

Oh shi, take it easy now! The time is plenty. But hey, i do really appreciate for the reply and the update. And honestly, i didn't even know that TNT Barrel wasn't for the dog but it was meant to be used against the worms spawning in. But honestly, Doggo is much more threatening than the worms. So yeah.

And about the Locked Cabinet thing when i actually beat this TC in first playthrough, i did stack up the Wits and unlocked it. It still consumed my Lockpick so technically, you DO require both higher Wits and the Lockpick. Well crap.