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Payback enemies is a modern enemy replacer set in a gritty urban setting where organized crime
and gangs' rule and regular folks live in fear. It's designed to work in conjunction with my payback
weapons mods but should be compatible with pretty much anything that's not a monster replacer.
PLOT
Spoiler:
it's a week into the future and things are going downhill fast, not long ago everyone was happy and
dancing in the street but that all changed when he turned up. A flashy tycoon with buckets of money
and no morals moved into town and started making moves. He rallied every crooked thug and scumbag
under his banner luring them with money, drugs and guns until they broke, anyone who didn't was broken
with good old fashion violence.
Old hatreds were forgotten as gangs, mobs and punks rallied together for the greater good (profit).
Boosting The Shadowy figure's already impressive army of foreign mercenaries and loyal guards.
The police are to scared to do anything and the government is looking the other way, so someone has
to do something, You??
SCREENSHOTS:
Spoiler:
THIS IS MORE OF TEASER GALLERY- try them out for yourself.
SOME NOTES:
-full enemy replacement roster
-insane amount of enemy and color variants
-burn deaths, weak deaths, mutiple deaths
-sounds are average (not my area) but good enough
-all tracers/projectiles no hitscan
-two versions, one with GROUND only enemies and one with more classic AIR enemies (souls and cacos)
-some enemies are resistant/immune to fire weapons
-some of the boss enemies have the ambush tag set (this can conflict with some maps that activate them far away) removed this for compatiblity X versions now without this
ROSTER:
Spoiler:
TRASH -replaces Zombiemen
low level thugs with pistols. barely a threat
THUGS -replaces DoomImps
weak thugs with pistols, some have machine pistols or revolvers.
bad in groups but still barely a threat
SUITS -replaces Shotgunguys
organized thugs with pistols, machine pistols, revolvers and shotguns.
like to think they mean business but you should be able to take them down
TERRORISTS -replaces WolfSS
tooled up paid killers with silenced smgs and machine pistols.
not idealists, there here for the money
SMUGLERS -replaces Chaingunners
armed up smugglers from eastern Europe, bit more dangerous
come with assault rifles and smgs and like to go full auto.
MUSCLE -replaces Demons
big muscles, small brains. great for hitting stuff or intimidation
the smaller ones might use pistols, and they all take a bit to put down
NINJAS -replaces Spectres
every villain needs some Ninjas, come in weak brown, average grey
and elite red versions. mostly melee but also favor silenced smgs
GNOMES -replaces LostSouls
radiation stunted sewer dwellers who like dark places and double
barrel shotguns.
-ALT DRONES (AIR) -replaces LostSouls
simple pistol caliber armed remote drones, great accuracy and mobility
but pretty fragile
HITMEN -replaces CacoDemons
old school mob triggermen in smart suits and fancy hats.
the like automatics and shotguns to ruin your day
-ALT JETPACKERS (AIR) -replaces CacoDemons
experimental jetpack mercenaries armed with two machine pistols.
they were fire proof hazmat suits, but are reasonably vulnerable to regular
attacks. they jank around and also have sub standard accuracy.
WARDOGS -replaces Revenants
Carbines, smgs, shotguns and sniper rifles, clad in combat gear.
Most of them are drop outs or pretend soldiers but still have enough training
and weapons to give you a harder time
VIPER MERCS -replaces HellKnights
The Japanese Viper mercenary Corp are the high trained and armored killers
working as bodyguards and shock troops. Led and trained by a Elite core
of Crimson Guards. all favor carbines and shotguns. and the Crimson guard
have increased fire resistance.
BIKERS -replaces Arachnatrons
punk bikers on metal steeds. only lightly armed but have great speed
reasonable defense and heart throbbing noise.
ROCKETEERS -replaces Mancubus
demolition and anti-tank specialists armed with rocket launchers.
they go down easy enough but their rockets are dangerous.
CRIMSOM GUARD -replaces BaronOfHell
The elite of the elite Crimson Guards. clad in armor, and armed to the teeth.
there suits are fire resistant or fire proof and all favor accurate full auto
weapons.
BRUTES -replaces PainElementals
big lads with bad tempers, some like dual pistols or double barrel
shotguns. the worse are pyromaniacs and go nuts with flamethrowers.
mostly used as a roadblock made of meat.
KAPPA ASSAULT UNITS -replaces Archviles
genetically modified and augment loyal bodyguards.
armed with dual machine pistols and likes to blanket you with fire.
clad in polymer bodysuits which are fireproof and damage resistant.
CRIMSON GRENADIER -replaces Cyberdemon
oversize armored brutes with rotary grenade launchers.
their armored suits give them complete resistance to fire and non-lethal damage
CRIMSON MINIGUNNER -replaces SpiderMasterMind
oversize armored brutes with miniguns.
their armored suits give them complete resistance to fire and non-lethal damage
Full credits list included inside file in credits.txt should be up to date and
accurate, but if you think its not let me know and I will fix it asap.
I want to specially thank WildWeasel for letting me use his tracers in this again.
They are my favorite projectile tracers and I feel this would be lesser without them.
Final note, like all my projects if anyone wants to use any of my sprites from this for anything
else they are more then welcome to, no permission needed. but keep in mind most of them are built
on other peoples stuff and please credit them and if they ask you not to use it respect them.
Last edited by DeeDeeOZ on Thu May 25, 2023 5:32 am, edited 2 times in total.
Congrats on the release! I think it was wise that I wound up postponing my videos featuring Payback, as I thought Hell From Earth wasn't quite jiving with the characters in your mod. Will see what maps I can pair these two with soon!
Matt Eldrydge wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:09 am
Congrats on the release!... Will see what maps I can pair these two with soon!
Thanks. I'll be interested to see what you pick. I've been having a good time with the older Hellfire series of maps and vanilasky is great but a bit of a long slog. there has been some nicer modern/urban stuff being worked on lately aswell.
Unregret wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 6:15 pm
Perfect for main character mod!
Thank you. Nice to hear, hope people have fun getting some payback.
Always great to get some feedback so thanks again.
I think that Bruiser & Archvile replacements that are located in the monster rooms outside of the map doesn't getting alerted by noise, so it it impossible to get 100% kill on some maps...
RastaManGames wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 6:04 pm
I think that Bruiser & Archvile replacements that are located in the monster rooms outside of the map doesn't getting alerted by noise, so it it impossible to get 100% kill on some maps...
I haven't noticed any trouble with this, but understand that it could be problematic. so removed the AMBUSH tag from the below versions. (Stuck them on as alterative downloads on OP as well)
-main reason they were set to ambush is to avoid them yelling their see sounds across the map, also because they don't have any ambient noises them getting the drop on you can be pretty bad.
I know that this may be hard to implement, but you might just made an option to disable their Ambush flags or enable it via mod's options menu, since it is gonna be a painful to update not 2 files, but all 4 of them...
RastaManGames wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2023 11:12 am
I know that this may be hard to implement, but you might just made an option to disable their Ambush flags or enable it via mod's options menu, since it is gonna be a painful to update not 2 files, but all 4 of them...
very sensible idea , still not the best at coding so might be harder for me then it actually is,
will aim to get this implemented when I update it next.
Awesome another human only monster pack consider me
Downloading it. How many variants do you have? Looks like near 250 or higher than that. Also can both the ground and air version can be used at the same time?
Dr_Cosmobyte wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 4:20 pm
DeeDee, do you have Discord?
Currently no, (This is pretty much the only place I have any online presence)
But I've been considering it for awhile, and now might be a good time
antpostal wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 6:49 pm
.Awesome another human only monster pack
.How many variants do you have? Looks like near 250 or higher
.Also can both the ground and air version can be used at the same time?
-Thanks, we need as many as we can get, I'm all for smashing hellspawn but its nice to have some humans for modern maps/weapon sets
-there's 72 different enemy types but with the color variants its up to 447
-it actually stuffs up and gets mad at some repeat coding, I plan to update this at some point with a option menu that lets you choose which ones you want (really need to work on my code skills) so there really only needs to be one version.
but for now, if you have Slade you can just copy and paste the 2 different SOUL and CACO spawns together. all the assets are the same in both files.
Not to familiar with slade I just how to change value numbers like enemies health, damage received or take etc. Im just curious and wanted to try the full roster both and ground and air. Do I need to just load the air version or both of them? I’m giving it a try either way. Bc I got good wads to play that’s perfect for them in a urban theme wad.
just run the AIR or GROUND version, it's the same file with four words changed
Actually just use this if you want everything included, doesn't need the other files https://www.dropbox.com/s/jeak6dxre22th ... x.zip?dl=0
it really comes down to if you want flying enemies or not, I'm not a big fan of them but some people are.
and some maps require them if you want 100% kills.
Great stuff. The enemy variety is good here. It’s alittle hard to hear them when you kill them but other than that they are pretty good. Hope to see future updates for more roster updates
This is really rad, and I do love playin with them with the Payback weapons pack or just switchin it up with different weapon mods. All around, just a really fun mod to test out with weapons and even map packs. Diabolus EX is a really good map if you wanna feel like you're John Mcclane scaling up a tower.
, still not the best at coding so might be harder for me then it actually is, 
