Samsara - No longer under active development.

[TerminusEst13]

And v0.21 is released. The majority of this stuff is mostly QoL stuff, little polishes and enhancements that make everything neater and shinier. Still, it's not without some big stuff--bots for Zandronum players, LMS support, and the Super Large Zorcher!

As always, please enjoy, and thank you all for your support.

SECURITY OFFICER

Wow. You put quite a bit of thought into that, haha. It's pretty interesting to read over, too--it's really nice to see what people would like, not to mention pretty good info. :D



EDIT:
WHOOPS turns out there was a big ol' bug with B.J. caused by a typo. Sorry about that.

EDIT 2:
WHOOPS TURNS OUT CORVUS SUDDENLY IS ORGASMING OVER HELLSTAFF AND CHEXTER SUDDENLY STOPS TAKING DAMAGE WHY DID THIS SHIT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO BREAK

[Animal Mother]

The weapon HUD now overlaps the inventory icon. And it doesn't automatically go away when bringing up the automap.

[Aqua Kitty]

At first I was about to ask about the Weapon bar. After perusing the change log, I discovered it can be toggled now.

For some reason BJ's weapon bar is always on no matter what.

[TerminusEst13]

That would be the aforementioned big ol' B.J. bug.
Please download v0.21c.
Sorry.

[TerminusEst13]

And v0.22 is out. For a primarily-DM-focused mod, it was kind of embarrassing that I'd been neglecting attention on the DM front...and it showed. There were some pretty blatant imbalances and problems that generally made DM play kind of a big ol' hassle!
But, well, thanks to some very patient pr0 players (who I'm sure had far too much fun mopping the floor with me) and some back-and-forth discussion as to how stuff could/couldn't work, I've spent the majority of this update doing balance stuff for DM play. Thank you all for your patience, and hopefully this is a less Duke-and-B.J.-are-god-tier build.

Thank you all for playing. I look over the drdteam file management, and with every update there's more and more downloads--when I first started there were barely 34 downloads, but with the last release it was almost 275. Wow. Thank you all very, very much for this--I'm just copying and pasting half the ZDoom wiki in a single mod, but seeing people genuinely enjoy this is just...an amazing treat and a half.
I appreciate everyone's feedback, suggestions, and criticisms, and I'm very happy to try and make this better with every update. If there's no other major problems with this release, then I'll be able to put the final hero in 0.23.

[Disguise]

I tried it out a couple of days ago, and I must say this is pretty neat! It reminds me of the Generations Arena mod for Quake III Arena.

I guess, you are adding the Strife guy too, right?

[Catastrophe]

Can you make doom weapons behave how they used to? (EG old animations?) The new animations are really annoying.

[TerminusEst13]

I tried it out a couple of days ago, and I must say this is pretty neat! It reminds me of the Generations Arena mod for Quake III Arena. I guess, you are adding the Strife guy too, right?

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy it. Strifeguy probably isn't going in, simply because he's way way way too powerful compared to the others. If I can figure him out, though, he's certainly a candidate after the seventh.

Can you make doom weapons behave how they used to? (EG old animations?) The new animations are really annoying.

What's annoying about the animations, if I may be curious? The behavior should be exactly the same, the only difference should be that there's in-between frames.

[Catastrophe]

It's just that more experienced players are used to the good ol' choppy sprites, it just throws a lot of us off because of it. (Also, isn't it supposed to be as close to the original as possible? :p)

[TerminusEst13]

Well, the last thing I want is to trip up the pro players! I'll see if I can make the smooth animations toggle-able, probably defaulting to off.

[Death Egg]

Any hints as to who the final hero is going to be?

[TerminusEst13]

He was from a game very ahead of its time, innovative in so many ways, but now unfortunately piled in obscurity due to engine shenanigans. Even now, however, it still holds a rabid cult fanbase that continues to mod it even today--and rumors of a revival on the horizon have given the fanbase a new hope.

Not Strifeguy or Caleb.

[Cruduxy]

Lo wang?

[Ichtudirweh]

Ugh, so your not going to add the Strifeguy? I loved playing your wad on a heretic server, but I really wish I could play as the Strifeguy. I recently discovered the lost beauty of Strife a few months ago, and just completed a playthrough on the best ending. If he's overpowered, can you possibly tone down his attack damage on most of his weapons? I know the complete sigil is like a BFG on steroids, but damn I really want to see the Strifeguy to be a playable hero class. Perhaps you could lay out the indiviual sigil pieces as pickups in the wadfile? And maybe have the sigil pieces reset for each time you advance into a newer level? I think that would be pretty fair. If weapons like the mauler or the grenade launcher are too powerful, then why not make the damage similar to the other player classes? Basically the mauler is like a SSG, so just tone down the alt fire on the mauler or just eliminate it completely. I would also love to see strife's powerups to be in use, like IE the teleport beacon with the rebels would be awesome to use. I beg for you that you add the Strifeguy, after you release this unknown hero class in your next release. Thanks :D

[Balrog]

He was from a game very ahead of its time, innovative in so many ways, but now unfortunately piled in obscurity due to engine shenanigans.

Check. (not sure about engine shenanigans)

Even now, however, it still holds a rabid cult fanbase that continues to mod it even today--

Check.

and rumors of a revival on the horizon have given the fanbase a new hope.

Check. (It's probably going to be disappointing, though.)

Not Strifeguy or Caleb.

For Carnage, Apply Within

[XutaWoo]

Phosphorus grenades. Remove 'em, there'll be no reason for the grenade launcher to be in there. Keep 'em in, they're overpowered no matter how little damage they do.

Also, the Sigil would be incredibly hard to balance since it has to be powerful enough to be worthy enough in singleplayer, Survival, and LMS but weak enough to be not overpowered in everything else. Why? Well, when you have a ton of health everywhere, it's free. You literally have infinity ammo in maps where you can constantly find health, and health is a lot more common than megaweapon ammo.

So yeah, he's made it pretty clear why Strife won't be in.

[Ichtudirweh]

Well, instead of the sigil draining health, why not make it share the energy ammo with the mauler and flamethrower? Kinda like how the BFG shares ammo with the plasma rifle. Make it so that it drains an incredibly high amount of ammo. If he try's hard enough, im sure you could make Strife balanced with all the other characters. If you really want balance, why not just remove all of the secondary weapons firing modes? That seems fair to me.

[Llewellyn]

Phosphorus grenades. Remove 'em, there'll be no reason for the grenade launcher to be in there. Keep 'em in, they're overpowered no matter how little damage they do.

Also, the Sigil would be incredibly hard to balance since it has to be powerful enough to be worthy enough in singleplayer, Survival, and LMS but weak enough to be not overpowered in everything else. Why? Well, when you have a ton of health everywhere, it's free. You literally have infinity ammo in maps where you can constantly find health, and health is a lot more common than megaweapon ammo.

So yeah, he's made it pretty clear why Strife won't be in.

Actually, most of those points aren't really that valid.

• Sigil: Yes it's powerful, but you don't have to give them the MAX SIGIL, you could easily use the lower powered sigil attacks with a bit more health drain. Also, Sigil damage ignores armor (not really but I don't think it did a whole lot to armor vs health.) The only reason you could spam it any at all in the original Strife was because you could carry a BUNCH of health on you at any one time and it was automatically used, in this case like multiplayer, you would only be able to fire one or two shots before you were either killed, or had to run back with your tail between your legs to get health. Actually, compared to the BFG that would be really underpowered. Actually, I take back what I said about MAX SIGIL. Sigil 4 was like a straight line shot (you never get 5, the game ends) vs 3 which was like an AOE shot.
• Grenades: The normal grenade launcher is a bit faster than the one we have now, but it is a REALLY easy weapon to kill yourself with. I've got a lot of StrifeDM experiance in that department... also, the explosion radius is nowhere near the doom rocket size.
  Phosporus grenades could easily just have their timer reduced. The whole point of them in the original Strife wasn't to kill everything in the room, but to block off an area and lure enemies into a fire-trap.
• Mini-missiles: These would be quite powerful, but they don't have a large explosion radius, fire slower than the doom rocket launcher and travel just about as fast, don't kill on hit if you have armor :P
• Flame thrower: Very nice close quarters offencive weapon, like a long, useful chainsaw
• Assault rifle: Very strong, very innacurate with base accuracy. A targeter makes it a very strong weapon.
• Crossbow: Unless you've got poison bolts or a hallway where they can't dodge your bolts, you're going to be killed right quick. Poison bolts are OP and should be very sparse.
• Mauler: I waited for this one last because it's underrated. The mauler is pretty OP at any range (in deathmatch atleast, don't try to snipe in Strife SP) and can take out whole groups of enemies at a cost of health and ammo. It's like a bfg that goes in every direction, except it only goes a few feet and doesn't aim up and down.

Also, the weapons didn't have an altfire, you had two different "guns." You might make altfire switch to the other one though.

[Aqua Kitty]

He was from a game very ahead of its time, innovative in so many ways, but now unfortunately piled in obscurity due to engine shenanigans. Even now, however, it still holds a rabid cult fanbase that continues to mod it even today--and rumors of a revival on the horizon have given the fanbase a new hope.

Not Strifeguy or Caleb.

Rise of the Triad?

[Empyre]

The Avatar from Ultima Underworld (came before Doom, but had 3D floors and slopes)? ;)