Hell Caliber [HC2 Status Update]

[Samarai1000]

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Heh, that looks pretty neat, but in the end I'm pretty sorely limited by my lack of artistic talent. Unless you can find me some doom-styled sprites of this thing, in which case I'd totally consider it! I'm already having trouble just finding sword sprites, though, I must be completely oblivious.

[Get Phobo]

This is a fun mod, only the knife is ridiculously strong. You should change that to a mighty sword or something, or keep it but make it much weaker.

[Samarai1000]

*schwing*

Good news! Your dreams (and about 11 other people's dreams) of a sword are now fulfilled! Sort of. I was limited in my sprite selection and the new chainsaw replacement.... Still looks like a knife. Just a slightly longer one. Give it a try! It's very barebones right now and only contains two attacks (the second attack is just caused by holding down your mouse button) but will hopefully get some more soon. I also need to, uh, make it a bit more flashy. The pickup sound and equipping animation are pretty underwhelming for how it actually performs.
https://streamable.com/twuf7

[Get Phobo]

Looks more like a large pair of scissors rather than a sword.

As for the pickup sound, something with ancient-/medieval-sounding trumpets would be good. Or something Japanese-sounding, if you decide to make it a Samarai sword. (Pun intended.)

[LossForWords]

Looks more like a large pair of scissors rather than a sword.

As for the pickup sound, something with ancient-/medieval-sounding trumpets would be good. Or something Japanese-sounding, if you decide to make it a Samarai sword. (Pun intended.)

a scissor blade is perfect for a reference to a certain anime.

[elCreyo]

Just played a couple of levels with this mod loaded. All weapons feel quite unique. Plasma gun is probably my favorite. I also like the knife(?). Shotgunners sound creepy as hell. I'm not a fan of how the ssg works but other than that it's really fun.

[Samarai1000]

*shortening quotes might not be necessary, but*

I'm glad you find the mod fun! I've said it before, but I really am surprised at the positive reception so far. Thank you all so much for your criticisms and feedback.
If I can ask, what about the SSG rubs you the wrong way?

[elCreyo]

Having to press the reload button after every shot kinda kills the fun. I'd rather have it vanilla way, where you just shoot constantly. That's really the only thing I don't like about it, since I really like the Doom 3 sprite.

[Samarai1000]

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Fair enough! The automatic reloading option in the mod options menu also applies to the SSG, give that a try and hopefully it works well enough.

Small new update out, changelog in the main post as usual.

Edit:
Whoops! I forgot to make it so auto-reloading affects the SSG differently to other guns. Sorry for the trouble, file will be updated in a moment.

[Captain J]

Oh my whoopsies. I forgot to play this mod after downloading it... Sorry 'bout that! Anyway i recently played this mod and my goodness, this is absolutely amazing and fairly action-packing!! Really nice work on Sound Effects and the Special Effects.

The Empty Cell Spawning after picking them up is very clever. And i guess 99% of the Sounds are from some Valve Games, eh? Then i gotta say, that's a very wise choice! They goes very well with the mod, especially Weapon ones. Gives me some the Realism-vibe to it.

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- It seems The Knife doesn't get affected by the Berserk. Intentional?

- All Casings are being half-devoured by the floor when dropped.

- UASG-12 Shotgun's overall Animations are pretty stiffy. Offset Adjustments required!

- FFS-9X19 SMG's fire animation lacks some recoil feels unlike other weapons. Also muzzle Flash is not constantly flickering.

- Smoke trails of the Explosion spread out very further and blocks the vision. They're like, being controlled by gravity!

- Grenade Casing is way too big. I know it's 40mm and has to be bigger than other casings, but it's way too big!

- Prototype Plasma Rifle's sprite looks... Kinda Crusty and weird looking. No offence to whoever made this, but it's just my thought!

- BFG-SG's Projectile leaves no decal after impact. I mean the Scorch!

- Bullets are getting blocked by the Props like the Torches. It can be Disadvantaging to every gunned characters, including the player...

And now it's time to tell you about the Enhanced monsters;

- Both Baron of Hell and Hell Knight has the same noise and sometimes they confuses me which one's a real Baron in some maps.

- Arachnotron fires few projectiles in a second, however does not constantly fire its weapon like the Chaingunner.

- Revenant Cannot shoot me when i'm in mid-range until it goes pain state. Pretty weird and underwhelming if you ask me.

- Cyberdemon now acts very awesome and dreadful... However it acts and moves super slow. And if you're gutsy enough, you just can abuse its slow melee preparation and kill it easily.

- I see Spider Mastermind and Commander Keen hasn't enhanced yet. And they somehow bleeds Grey! :O

- When the blood's dropped, it never disappears and eventually the number increases, fries my computer.

- Now here's my suggestion. Since the Fist uses Knife as Secondary Fire, why not apply this to every... Or maybe only one-handed weapons?

And that's about it! It's very impressive, smooth and fair weapon/monster mod. I like it!

EDIT: Just found out that Cyberdemon's own Grenade Explosion can hurt itself!

[Samarai1000]

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Thank you for the feedback and compliments, Captain!

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-If you still have the regular fist altfire knife and the Mastermind isn't replaced, then you need to redownload the mod. I guess I should announce when updating the file instead of only editing the changelog?

-I don't really know what you mean by them being "half-devoured". If you mean they fade out, you should increase the casing limit.

-I'm pretty bad at weapon animation, and I agree some of the shotgun's animations are a bit stiff. I might take another shot at them soon.

-I agree that the firing animation is a little simplistic. I couldn't really do much with such a short, looping fire state, but now that I know about the wonders of A_WeaponOffset I could probably make it look a lot better. The muzzleflash should be an easy fix too.

-I'm not sure what I could do with the smoke-trails. Give them less velocity? You can disable them by disabling 'explosion debris' in the option's menu. The smoke trails themselves are particles, so tinker with your particle settings. I personally recommend square particles.

-They are a bit too big, that's an easy change.

-Unfortunately I can't do much about the plasma rifle's sprites.

-The BFG projectiles not leaving scorch-marks is intentional, but I might change it.

-I suppose I could make the bullets pass through props, then.

-Yeah, I should probably give Barons and Knights differing sound effects, I was a bit lazy with copy-pasting them.

-Arachnotrons not refiring is intentional.

-That weird revenant behavior isn't something I've seen, I'll take a look at it.

-Commander Keen isn't going to be edited. I'm not sure what I'd do, since he's basically a decoration? The grey blood of Keen and the unreplaced Spider Mastermind (which is now replaced) is just what the blood sprites look like when it has no color applied to it. I should probably try to figure out making blood 'fall back' to being red if there's no blood color on a monster.

-That is a problem! I'll add a blood limit Cvar and probably remove that 'blood culling' system I put in, just because it doesn't seem to improve performance much at all.

-The knife is now its own weapon, like the chainsaw.

[Stock-Doom]

Erhm...

When I try to download the file, I directly go to the contents inside instead of the usual download link in Dropbox...

Can you fix that, please?

[Samarai1000]

Erhm...

When I try to download the file, I directly go to the contents inside instead of the usual download link in Dropbox...

Can you fix that, please?

I'm not sure why that's happening, but if you click 'download' at the top right it'll download the zip as normal.

[Captain J]

Ow shucks, i also forgot to re-download the mod. My Bad, again! Anyway thanks for the reply and i hope my feedback helped big time. I'd like to see this mod to be updated even more. I'll look forward to it!

Anyway about the word Half-Devoured, what i meant was the dropped casing sprites are all half, slightly buried under the floor. Do i make myself clear?

Also about the Plasma Rifle replacement, i think i can recommend some. If you really want to replace it.

[Get Phobo]

Could you make the barrels explode with a massive blast and a wide radius like in Brutal Doom?