Bullet Time X [v1.3.1] (Slow Motion Mod)

[Xortts]

Requires GZDoom 4.3.3 or higher!

Bullet Time X is a gameplay mod based on Max Payne’s bullet time.
My main goal was to be able to use this as an addon for multiple mods where not only the world around you is slowed down, but also your weapons, movement, sounds and everything!

Allowing you to slow everything down when you need it most, provided that you have enough adrenaline in your system to utilize this great power.

Fully developed in ZScript, which gave me full freedom on how to properly slow everything down while allowing the player to feel in full control of movement and actions being made when activated.

Press 'B' to activate it, or you can also change the key in the controls menu.

Features

• Full compatibility with other mods (Brutal Doom, Hideous Destructor, Gun Caster, Smooth Doom and many more!)
• Slow down of not only monsters and yourself, but environment (doors, lifts, lights) and sounds
• Customizable Slow Down multipliers (player and environment)
• Customizable Bullet Time duration
• Customizable Bullet Time sound effects
• Infinite Bullet Time
• Mid-air Bullet Time
• Adrenaline System (kill more monsters or get damaged to gain more adrenaline)
• Activate / Deactivate when needed

Some Tips

• When jumping / on air, adrenaline is not needed to activate bullet time and it will last as long as you don’t touch the floor
• Berserker packs fills and gives infinite adrenaline. Also, you will be faster during bullet time!
• Enemies with more health will give more adrenaline when killed

Some Clips

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Download! (Moddb)

Note: Mod should be loaded as last one, this is to prevent any issues with other mods.

Changelog

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1.3.1

• Added Static Handler to allow mod to be played on existing savegames. Now you don't need to start a new map or go to the next for Bullet Time X to work.
• Fixed issue where Bullet Time Counter was appearing on Menu maps.

1.3.0

• Added Blur Shader when activating bullet time
• Added Music volume decrease during bullet time
• Bullet time can now be activated throught console command (mostly for dev purposes)
• Changed min adrenaline duration slider from 15 secs to 5 secs (default is still 15 secs)
• Added 0 (full freeze) and 1 (normal time) to time multipliers
• Added option to hide console message when activating bullet time
• Replaced ‘midair’ with ‘shootdodge’, also added a new key bind specifically for that (enables bullet + jumps, also time goes way slower). Default is 'V'.
• Added Max Payne 3, F.E.A.R and GTA V bullet time SFX (can be changed in options)
• Minor fix with sand clock being too big when uiscale value was too high
• Tweaked default shootdodge (midair) multipliers

1.2.0

• Fix issue where NULL weapon states caused VM crash. This issue was present mostly on Project Brutality when reloading + kicking + turning off bullet time and also when crouching + sliding + bullet time.
• Allowed decimals in adrenaline kill and damage rewards in options menu to reduce them even further if needed.
• Added player model slow down (only visible in third person), this one can be seen from mods that rely on thirdpersons like Brutal Doom when doing Glory kills. Can be disabled from options menu and uses Player Weapon Multiplier as the slow down value.
• Added feature to whitelist monsters from bullet time (this one is only for modding only).

1.1.0

• Fixed major perfomance issues
• Fixed shaders on delta touch (fix by generic_name_guy, thx!)
• Fixed XYZ player movement issue for mods that applied some kind of force when moving (ex: jp-mobility, thx Spaceman333 for reporting!)
• Reorganized options menu
• Added unlimited adrenaline / bullet time option
• Added adrenaline regeneration option
• Added adrenaline rewards multipliers option (receive more / less adrenaline when killing)
• Added weapon speed and player movement time multipliers options (monsters can move slower and we can move / shoot faster!)
• Added mid-air time multipliers options (when jumping, time can now go even slower)
• Added berserk time multipliers options (when on berserk, player movement and weapon speed gets increased, great for rampages!)
• Added adrenaline counter position and scaling options

1.0.1

• Fixed Static Thinker replacement caused compatibility issues with multiple mods (thx Marisa Kirisame)
• Removed Health Bonus replacement (broke other mods health bonuses and it only worked on vanilla, not worth having it)
• Fix issue with Voodoo Dolls caused Player to be slowed down multiple times, making it unable to move

[Spaceman333]

I'm super excited to play with this. Slowing down doors and lifts as well as a more unified presentation already makes this far better than my old mod.

[Enjay]

You have just done what, on several occasions in the past, has been described as "can't be done". On a quick spin, it seems to work really well.

An alternative to how to gain this ability in game would be as an inventory-based PowerUp that could be picked up, activated from the inventory and removed from the inventory on activation (i.e. it's a one-shot deal that is found and used rather than recharging all the time). I had a quick look at the code to see if I might be able to do something like that but there is too much in there for me to wrap my head around.

Very nice implementation though.

[BradmanX]

Very nice mod, just out of curiousity though, do you think you could add a CVAR or series of CVARs to disable the adrenaline system and/or make the meter regen over a user defined amount of time, for those that might want to be able to use the bullet time without having to build up the meter through kills.

[Kinsie]

Oh my giddy aunt.

Out of interest, what is your licensing/permissions for other mods to include/adapt this?

[Xortts]

I'm super excited to play with this. Slowing down doors and lifts as well as a more unified presentation already makes this far better than my old mod.

Thanks!! I was inspired by watching your mod, the slowing down of lifts and doors is what I wanted to achieve, boy was it a pain the butt but it was worth it!

You have just done what, on several occasions in the past, has been described as "can't be done". On a quick spin, it seems to work really well.

An alternative to how to gain this ability in game would be as an inventory-based PowerUp that could be picked up, activated from the inventory and removed from the inventory on activation (i.e. it's a one-shot deal that is found and used rather than recharging all the time). I had a quick look at the code to see if I might be able to do something like that but there is too much in there for me to wrap my head around.

Very nice implementation though.

Thanks!! Regarding the inventory-based powerup, you mean that once it is used, it is removed? It could be an interesting alternative, but I probably should replace with an item that is somewhat common, so that it can be used multiple times during the same level I guess

Very nice mod, just out of curiousity though, do you think you could add a CVAR or series of CVARs to disable the adrenaline system and/or make the meter regen over a user defined amount of time, for those that might want to be able to use the bullet time without having to build up the meter through kills.

Thanks!! Sure, I will add it in the next update, like an infinite switch or another switch to disable the adrenaline system altogether in the menu options

Oh my giddy aunt.

Out of interest, what is your licensing/permissions for other mods to include/adapt this?

Probably the one that matches the best is the MIT licensing one. You can do whatever you want with the mod (include it, modify it, etc), although if possible, please mention me in the credits or somewhere around the code. I would really appreciate it

[Nems]

I didn't get a chance to take a screenshot of an issue I'm having with this and Trailblazer (gonna be going to work soon) but I wanted to bring it up and describe it to the best of my ability. There seems to be some conflicts with the health bonuses when loaded with Trailblazer as the sprites flicker between Doom's health bonus, Trailblazer's health bonus, and Trailblazer's health syringe boost. I even tried loading Bullet Time X last like it recommended and I still get the issue. Removing Bullet Time X resolves it.

I'll do some more testing when I get back from work later tonight. Other than that issue, I'm really enjoying the mod.

[mamaluigisbagel]

Personally I never found a use for bullet time in games other than looking cool, plus its another keybind on top of the hundreds I have to use, but will say I really like this one. I don't think I'll use it often, but I love that it slows down near EVERYTHING. (I assume there's something out there it doesn't slow, whether it be intentional or a bug.)

Would also suggest an option to move the stopwatch icon, since some mods actually use the top-right part of the screen for their HUDs.

[Marisa the Magician]

I'm sorry to say this but, the way you're handling stopping/resuming scrollers completely breaks ANY AND ALL MODS that use static thinkers.

Just saying.

[Xortts]

I didn't get a chance to take a screenshot of an issue I'm having with this and Trailblazer (gonna be going to work soon) but I wanted to bring it up and describe it to the best of my ability. There seems to be some conflicts with the health bonuses when loaded with Trailblazer as the sprites flicker between Doom's health bonus, Trailblazer's health bonus, and Trailblazer's health syringe boost. I even tried loading Bullet Time X last like it recommended and I still get the issue. Removing Bullet Time X resolves it.

Thanks!! Yeah that's probably because I wanted to replace all HealthBonuses so that when picking them up it gives adrenaline, but it only works with vanilla doom and apparently doesn't even work with mods, so I'll probably remove it and it will fix that as well.

Personally I never found a use for bullet time in games other than looking cool, plus its another keybind on top of the hundreds I have to use, but will say I really like this one. I don't think I'll use it often, but I love that it slows down near EVERYTHING. (I assume there's something out there it doesn't slow, whether it be intentional or a bug.)

Would also suggest an option to move the stopwatch icon, since some mods actually use the top-right part of the screen for their HUDs.

Thanks! glad you liked it!
Got it, option will be added in the next update.

I'm sorry to say this but, the way you're handling stopping/resuming scrollers completely breaks ANY AND ALL MODS that use static thinkers.

Just saying.

Ohhh just rechecked it and you're right, it checks for all thinkers of type 'Object'. May have to find a workaround or just remove the slowdown of scrollers.
Thanks for pointing it out!

[lu88lu]

I sometimes get a bug where it freezes me in place

[mamaluigisbagel]

(I just noticed I called the hourglass a stopwatch.....man I need a new brain)

Thinking about this, if we can get that infinite slow motion option someone mentioned, we can combine this with Gearbox to make a pseudo-Doom 2016/Eternal style weapon wheel

[Nash]

Any way to get the wall decal animations to slow down? Currently they are unaffected.

(decals on walls can have animation - like the plasma/BFG decals, or BloodSmear1/BloodSmear2)

[m1lk]

its cool. i like how you have to replenish it by killing enemies, the sounds effects from Max Payne....but it slows it down TOO much.... you gain no advantage. your shots are delayed. i was hoping for something like FEAR slowmo

[Xortts]

I sometimes get a bug where it freezes me in place

Are you using any other mods or wads? On which map?
Where you standing on the floor or on top of an enemy when it froze you in place?

Any way to get the wall decal animations to slow down? Currently they are unaffected.

(decals on walls can have animation - like the plasma/BFG decals, or BloodSmear1/BloodSmear2)

Did a little bit of research and testing, and unfortunately hit a dead end..
I just tried 'slowing' it down by pausing the ticking of the thinker (changing stat num from STAT_DECALTHINKER to STAT_STATIC) so it ignores the tic function. However, it seems that once the animation starts, there is no way to stop that timer.
Let's just say the animation has 10 frames / tics, I paused it at the first one by changing the statNum to STAT_STATIC, waited maybe 200 tics, and then changed it again to STAT_DECALTHINKER and instead of resuming on the 2nd frame, the animation ended and the decal got deleted. What's wierd is that the first frame stayed until I resumed the ticking, it didn't change its opacity or anything.
Also the className of the decal is 'DecalFader' but when I try to reference it, it throws 'Unable to resolve DecalFader as type' and there is no documentation of that class anywhere..

Any ideas?

its cool. i like how you have to replenish it by killing enemies, the sounds effects from Max Payne....but it slows it down TOO much.... you gain no advantage. your shots are delayed. i was hoping for something like FEAR slowmo

You can change the multiplier of the slow down on the options menu. Although it does change the player speed as well, maybe in a future update I will separate that multiplier so that the Player has a different speed in bullet time (like going a little bit faster)