Rust and Bones - (v1.5) Mar/23

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

UAC has broken our world beyond repair.
They say hard times create strong people. Things will have to be solved the old ways.

There was a time when guns were made of metal and wood,
soldiers were made of blood and sweat,
and after the war is over, all that's left beneath the remains is...
Rust and Bones.

Welcome to my 29th mod!

This is a power-fantasy mod, directioned to people with thirst for stronger guns and harder challenges, or some easier way to suceed in maps. Highly inspired by Black Magwell, by Skelegant, but with my own twists on it until it turned something else.

Expect breakable decorations, beautiful liquid textures, awesome weapon feedback and sound, as well as astonishing spriteworks made with the help of many legends in the community!

Compatible with Hexen and Heretic, as most of my mods!

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Your arsenal consists of a linear selection, and very little gimmicks; basically a mod where you only need to know Mouse1 and Mouse2. You shoot stuff down, and that's more than enough.



Knife - Slot 1
Your trusty knife. It's already strong enough to take down hitscanners in one or two hits. Can be enhanced with berserk.

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Chainsaw - Slot 1
Your old friend, drowned in blood from so many battles. Not enhanced by Berserk, but fast enough to tear down many monsters.
If by any chance you think it is too powerful with infinite ammo, go to the options menu and enable it to use fuel!

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Revolver - Slot 2
Your sidearm. And when i say "sidearm", i'm not joking; This revolver will prove useful for you in many situations. If you by any chance are wielding the shotgun, super shotgun, battle rifle or grenade launcher, press Altfire to discharge your revolver on monsters and maybe save your life before reloading.

Tip: Your revolver is ALWAYS 100% accurate on the first shot!

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Shotgun - Slot 3
The workhorse of the mod. Fire, pump, fire again. Six buckshots of pure joy.

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Super Shotgun - Slot 3
Here, the Super Shotgun uses a different ammo as a way to, both use the normal shotgun and save ammo for stronger monsters.
BUT, if you don't like it, and want it to use normal ammo, you can go to the options and change its ammo type on the fly!

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Battle Rifle - Slot 4
Your starter weapon along with the revolver. No need to wait until you get a chaingun. 30 shots before reloading.

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Grenade Launcher - Slot 5
The Blooper will get you places if you learn how to master its arch and fire it properly.
To compensate for the single shot before reloading, your firepower is stronger than usual.

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Minigun - Slot 4
A faster alternative for the chaingun, albeit with way less accuracy.
Use it only if you feel confident that your shots are going to make minced meat out of monsters.

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Incinerator - Slot 6
This gun is a short-ranged flamethrower, but strong enough to melt the monsters you see around.
Useful if you think the last weapon consumes too much ammo, or if you don't have anything powerful yet.

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Calamity Blade - Slot 7
The last UAC creation before migrating to the now almost extinct plasma weaponry.
Charges and fires a big horizontal wave able to burn and obliterate monsters on its path.

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Secret Weapons:





You also have a few secret toys to play with.
If you're eager to obtain them, get 100 kills with the knife, 200 kills with the shotgun, and 300 kills (!) with the Grenade Launcher.
You won't be disappointed.

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Powerups behave almost the same as in Doom, except for one: The Blursphere in this mod is replaced with a Max. HP enhancer.
Each time you grab one, it expands your maximum life in 5 points.

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Almost the same as vanilla Doom. Main differences are: Your health and armor bonuses can stack up to 300 points, your base medikit heals 30 points, and your Megasphere does not give you armor, just 200 health.

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(Played on Scorching Earth, MAP09)


(Played on Speed of Doom, MAP02)


(Played on Hellbound, MAP03)


(Played on Doom II, MAP12)

With all that in mind, have fun and JUST PLAY IT ALREADY!!!

[AliciaPendragon]

oooooo

I'll have to give this a try

[OptimusCj113]

TIME TO RUST SOME BONES

[SaucepanSF]

quick thoughts:

the good, or things that stuck out
-good performance
-pistol sound is incredible (update as i keep playing: ALL sounds in this mod are impressive)
-movement feels nice
-alt fires are yay
-lol moments with some of the text stuff
-death screen/text
-explosions

the bad
-nothing

is armor working as intended? when i pick up bonuses nothing shows on the hud, just health.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Well thanks a lot!

I don't like updating mods so soon and with so little stuff after release, but these QOL's will make your experience better, i promise you!

Here's the changelog:

03/03

- New sound for secret weapons pickup;
- Secret weapons now replace the older counterparts;
- Fixed the props 'gibs' not turning into flat sprites;
- Armor numbers now also have the 'fillzeros' flag on the HUD;
- Restored the old menu sounds that were unused prior to release;
- New sprites for the Medikits using Duke Nukem textures and colors;
- Fixed Battle Rifle displaying ammo on inspection when out of bullets;
- Fixed the Hunting Shotgun having the same stats as the normal shotgun;
- You don't need to click twice in order to fire a shotgun mid-reload now;

Have fun!

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Mod was updated to v1.2!

Here's the changelog:

09/03 (v1.2)

- Fixed Hexen compatibility;
- New startup image by Skelegant!
- Added a 30+1 system to the rifle;
- Imbued Remains(powerup jars) are animated now;
- Revamped most decoration sprites and added some more;
- Added a inspection animation for the Hunting Shotgun;
- Now the Hunting shotgun doesn't need to click twice to fire mid-reload;

[Max Dickings]

Wow, this is fantastic. I have no criticisms. I do want to praise the alt-revolver system and the choice to separate shotgun and SSG ammo.

Minor nitpick, I think the HUD could use a little tweaking. I feel the mugshot should be to the left of the health/armor instead of on top of it, would align everything more horizontally as opposed to it being the tallest point of the HUD, if that makes sense. And I like the ammo reserve being a bar as opposed to hard numbers, but something about only one side having a semi-circle without one on the left is messing with my head - maybe an option to show health/armor as mirrored semi-circle too?

I do have a technical question however. Is the Disable Ricochet option not working? I've tried it with no other mods loaded, changed the setting and saved etc, still seems to generate small red beams/lines from the walls when firing. Or is this a different option?

Thanks!

[BLSZDOOM]

you know what would be cool?if the revolver speed loader was only used when its empity and partial reloads reloaded bullet by bullet like hyperexia survivor shooter for example or as a certain spetsnaz would say:exhilarating reloads.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

I do have a technical question however. Is the Disable Ricochet option not working? I've tried it with no other mods loaded, changed the setting and saved etc, still seems to generate small red beams/lines from the walls when firing. Or is this a different option?

Turns out it seems to not work, really O_O

I don't know for how long this was overlooked, thankfully it's easy to fix.

Minor nitpick, I think the HUD could use a little tweaking. I feel the mugshot should be to the left of the health/armor instead of on top of it, would align everything more horizontally as opposed to it being the tallest point of the HUD, if that makes sense. And I like the ammo reserve being a bar as opposed to hard numbers, but something about only one side having a semi-circle without one on the left is messing with my head - maybe an option to show health/armor as mirrored semi-circle too?

you know what would be cool?if the revolver speed loader was only used when its empity and partial reloads reloaded bullet by bullet like hyperexia survivor shooter for example or as a certain spetsnaz would say:exhilarating reloads.

All valid criticisms! I like the idea of putting the mugshot left to the numbers, and i like the idea to enforce individual reloads for the revolver, so you have more reasons to use it. I don't know what could be used instead of a semi-circular bar for the HUD though.

And since that question was already sked before outside this thread, no, i'm not considering numbers as ammo reserve. Too much unindentified-information on screen already.

But thanks for the feedback! More stuff to address on v1.3. For the next update, i buffed the revolver a tiny bit and added some more stuff to compliment the gameplay.

[Max Dickings]

Glad I could help with the ricochet, I'm also kinda glad to hear it was an error, was driving myself crazy thinking I was doing something wrong haha.

All valid criticisms! I like the idea of putting the mugshot left to the numbers, and i like the idea to enforce individual reloads for the revolver, so you have more reasons to use it. I don't know what could be used instead of a semi-circular bar for the HUD though.

And since that question was already sked before outside this thread, no, i'm not considering numbers as ammo reserve. Too much unindentified-information on screen already.

But thanks for the feedback! More stuff to address on v1.3. For the next update, i buffed the revolver a tiny bit and added some more stuff to compliment the gameplay.

And just to clarify I like the lack of numbers, I enjoy the reserve ammo not being a number, I was instead suggesting you take the same approach with health and armor - displaying those as a bar/semi-circle as well. But again, just a nitpick/preference.

Cheers though looking forward to 1.3!

[-Ghost-]

Do you think you'll add more upgrades/extra weapons as time goes on? Would be cool to get a more tactical rifle as a rarer upgrade kind of like the Hunting Shotgun.

[LossForWords]

New HUD.
How we feeling on this one?
Regular HUD on top, alternative HUD on the bottom.

Mugshot's still here, it's just that the toggle is off.

[Max Dickings]

I like the bottom, I personally don't see a need for a visual reminder of what ammo type each weapon is as they're fairly obvious.

What would the colors be on the left side of health and armor? Is yellow armor and orange is health?

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Rust and bones updated to v1.3!

As promised, lots on changes here, enjoy!

Changelog:

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15/03 (v1.3)

- New water textures;
- Added Revolver ammo box;
- Fixed a frame on the candle;
- Barrels are not pushable anymore;
- Reduced Revolver ammo spawn chance;
- New sound for Hunting Shotgun reload;
- Increased Revolver damage just a tiny bit;
- Added a new prop sprite for the Candelabra;
- New sound for the Super Grenade Launcher rotate;
- Fixed Candlestick prop blocking the way of players;
- Changed the automap colors into something more vanilla;
- Added a script to cancel Hexen monsters from respawning;
- Fixed Super Grenade Launcher not giving ammo when picked up;
- Fixed the Ricochet CVAR not working properly (Thanks to Max Dickings);
- Added a new script that makes the flamethrower scorch enemies when killed;
- Thanks to LossForWords, HUD is way better now, with more options and positions;

[AliciaPendragon]

Any chance you'll add an upgrade for the revolver, super shotgun and machine gun

alongside maybe a rare chance to find a plasma rifle and/or bfg?