A4 changelog

General:

-When using max health altering cvars, old limits would still be respected thanks to 'healthing' being super bugged

Doom:

-Spider Masterminds now have fixed sprites which allows them to have clean translations much like the event images. Thanks you NEON for these new sprites!

Hexen

Wendigo(and Yeti too): The Wendigo's 'See' state didn't loop and jumped to 'Idle' which is why they would incessantly make their active sound. Also removed and redid redundant code for both monsters

Strife

Programmer: Programmers limit per round was set to 4, not 5

Chex:

Flem Spore(Upgraded): Created sprites to differentiate between upgraded and unupgraded spores

Flem Spore(Upgraded): Upgraded Flem Spores now have the chance to spawn Larva, Armored Bipedals, Cyclops, Quadrumpus and Stridicus

Common Flemoid(Upgrade): Raised the cost of the upgrade from 30 to 30/10

Common Flemoid: By default, Common Flemoids now have their original split upgrade and spawn normal spores

Armored Bipedal: By default, Armored Bipedal Flemoids now have their original split upgrade upgrade and spawn normal spores in their missile states

Stridicus (Upgrade): Raised the cost from 30/10 to 30/15

Stridicus: By default, Stridicus now have the original legacy upgrade with the exception of the death state only spawning 2 spores instead of 4

Flem Mine: Added the 'MaxTargetRange' property to mines and set it to 1000 units. Hopefully this curbs the random player kills from across the map with stagnant mines

Super Cyclops Flemoid: Increased Super Cyclops' damage by 1/3 and lowered their painchance by 2/3

Maximus: Maxmius now partially hit ghosts the same way Super Cyclops do (1/4 second doesn't, 1/4 does repeat), dropped their cost from 50/15 to 40/12, and increased their rate of fire

Flem Meteor(Upraded): Upgraded Meteors now have the chance to spawn upgraded spores

Slime Carrier: Slime Carriers now have the chance to spawn upgraded spores

Flembomination: Flembos now have the chance to spawn upgraded spores

Lord Snotfolus: Snot Lords now have the chance to spawn upgraded spores. They also had different 'See' states in TLMS compared to LMS before giving up. The TLMS version is now the default

Bipedal Flemoid: Bipedals health on the messages said 150 instead of 140

Virus:

Mesh Flier: Dropped Meshies painchance, and increased the amount of damage done by their missiles and explosions

Previous Version Bugs:

Heresiarch: When using the remover, Heresiarch's cubes would just drop to the ground and stay there indefinitely

Vanilla Pain Elementals that were retrofitted dropped 2 blue mana bottles

Pain Elemental(s): Thruspecies caused summonballs to create 2 Pain Elementals instead of one

Death Wyvern: Reverted the previous versions changes back to how 3.0 was

Heresiarch: Modifications were done to the Cube scripts to curb glitching that may have occured

Spectre B: Increased the cost from 80/42 to 80/45

-Chex 'corpses' wouldn't disappear upon being successfully revived



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    Global:

    -Spawned monsters now face the same direction in which they were summoned. This actually radically improves the AI of the mod

    -Implemented something I'd like to call the 'XDeath Rule' across the entire mod. What this means is if a low tier monster that can be revived gets gibbed, they can no longer be revived as the corpse has been destroyed. This isn't too different than what Doom has already had to begin with only now it's applied to every class. However, Mid-Tier monsters are the exceptions to this 'rule.' Chaingunners, Cacodemons, Undead Knights, Wraiths, Chaos Serpents, Swamp Stalkers, Templars, Reavers, Order Turrets, Quadrumpus, Stridicus, and Mills can still be revived despite a gibbed death. Eventually a lot of monsters will have attacks that are guaranteed to gib to help balance this further, but that'll have to wait until a later revision

    -All weapons now have their appropriate tag names and no longer default to 'Shotgun'
    New Translations: Arch-Vile(All), Crusaders(All)

    -Hopefully fixed all the projectile in projectile obituary bugs for the Iron Lich, Wendigo, and Barrage Weredragon... again

    -Monsters that don't bleed left blood splatters\decals on the walls

    Doom

    -Restored the original Chaingunner attack sound, Cyberdemon walk sound, Spider Mastermind walk sound, and Arachnotron walk sounds

    -Pain Elemental(Both): Redid Pain Elementals completely. Removed the FRIGHTENED flag completely so they don't run away. Now they perform a check where if they're closer than 400 map units, they will have the flag MISSILEEVENMORE which makes them way more useful in an actual fighting situation. They are no longer pushable either. Dual Elementals now have the limit of 60 as well.

    Heretic:

    D'Sparil: D'Sparil stage 2 can now spawn up to 16 Disciples instead of 12

    Hexen

    Menelkir: Increased Menelkir's health from 650 to 900 and slightly increased their firing rate

    Heresiarch: Thanks to both Avernus and Gui, the Heresiarch has been completely decoded and now is able to be balanced. The HP determines what attack does with 1/3 being more liekly to shoot red seeker balls, 1/3 more likely to shoot purple balls, and 1/3 likely to summon Bishops if they're far enough otherwise its more apt to do purple attacks. The projectles themselves have been weakened a bit, but I'm sure this will need extensive testing to really be ironed out. The max Bishop count that the Heresiarch can make is also set to 10 for now. Again a big thanks to Avernus and Gui!

    -Restored the missing Reiver sight sound

    Strife:

    Strife mech monsters now spawn the proper 'blood' from the game (spark/fire upon impact)
    Crusaders, Order Bishops, and Inquisitors now all make the unique Strife sound for their steps instead of the generic large clop from before

    Stalker(Both): Stalkers can no longer be resurrected. However, they're still affected by the repair drone

    Order Bishop: Order Bishop's height is now 100 up from the default 56. Also dropped the damage the missile does from 9 to 7 and dropped the explosion damage from 64 to 48. If this is too much then next release will increase the attack again

    Programmer: Completely remade the Programmer's Projectile. It doesn't inherit which means it no longer does teamdamage, and now the individual bolts/radius of the spot have been adjusted so it's more effective. Also restored the Programmer's melee state along with increasing the missile chance

    Spectre A: Lowered the chance to attack, the double bolt, but increased the strength of the projectile to compensate. Dropped the price down to 70/40 as it was originally due to the rebalance

    Spectre B: Upped the chance to attack, made the attack shoot twice in the frame, and increased the strength of the bolt. Dropped the price down to 80/42 due to the rebalance

    Entity: Wrote out all of the Entity's attacks so they no longer share attacks with other Strife heroes and each Sigil attack has been adjusted to better suit the monster. Also abandoned the random choice for an attack in favor of using distance to have a higher chance to do certain attacks depending on where the Entity is vs the target. This makes the Entity more reliable and consistent to balance

    -Fixed all of the misplaced/generic Strife lightning obituaries

    Stalker(Upgraded): Upgraded Stalkers when hit with the repair drone would come back as the unupgraded version

    Programmer: For whatever reason, the programmers death state went ahead to a non existent frame 'Y' when it should have stopped at 'X.' Now the corpse should remain on the field and fade properly as intended

    Chex

    -Chex monsters that can be revived now leave a 'mini figure' of themselves that let players know where their corpses lie

    Flembomination: The Flembomination summonball was too big for the monster. They should now be less temperamental to spawn

    Virus

    Prism: XDeath state didn't spawn mana upon Prism's death

    Land Carrier(All): Land Carries summonballs radius was way smaller than it should have been. LCs should be way less temperamental to spawn now especially against a wall


    General:

    -Doubled the height of mana, and item pickups from the default 16 to 32

    -Now every monster that drops blue mana upon death (minus the mine) will have an HPBar. Should have done this one years ago

    -If you hold down fire when using the teleporter, the second projectile file will be a ranged one. This applies to all classes with the except for Virus

    -Added in BRIGHT to all the lighting sprites used in the main pk3. This includes all the torches, lights ect. Also added in missing GLDefs to a few said objects

    -Now when a hero is made a message will be logged to console indicating said monster. Colors have been applied to the text to further tell 'em apart as well

    New Translations: Doom Imp(C), Lost Soul (G,R), Cacodemon(Y),Iron Lich(Y), Afrit (B, G, R, S),Hexen Bishop(all(including making the blur shadowed(but not painstate. UGH.))), Wendigo (R, Y), Meshwalker(Y), Hexen Teleporter(all), Strife Teleporter(all), Team Teleporter(all)

    Virus:

    Mill(DeathBlaze): Added an antenna on top of DB Mills so they're easier to tell apart from normal Mills

    Balance:

    Doom:

    -Dropped the number of Chaingunners to Revenants to 8, and increased the number of Revenants to Mancubus to 7

    Hexen:

    -Wendigo/Yeti: Wendigos remain exactly the same while Yetis, their upgraded counter part, can no longer hit ghosts in any capacity. The shards now pass through ghosts just like the main projectile

    Death Wyvern: Dropped the mana cost from 70/55 to 60/55 & raised the damage of the fireball to 10 due to the Leaders new balance

    Strife:

    Programmer: Removed the 'Close Enough' state and reworked the 'Frightened' flag check in 'See' as per Avernus' recommendations. This should hopefully balance everything out now at least until the spot lightning is decoded...

    Entity: Dropped the Sigil 3 spread shot damage from 15 to 9

    Chex:

    Cyclops: Removed the +PUSHABLE flag from the attack and see state that disables it. Going to gauge how this goes

    Virus:

    -You now are able to select which level/grade of units affected by the ground upgrade you'd like after purchasing by using altfire. For example: You've unlocked level 2 ground units and if you hit altfire, you will be able to switch between level 1 and 2. This does lead to a lot of the subsequent balance changes, but hopefully everything is coherent and doesn't break the flow of gameplay...

    -Adjusted the explosion damage from Virus so they now correspond to whatever level the monster is. The original explosion is now level 3, and the level 2 explosion I've made is now the default explosion for other Virus units not affected by the upgrade

    Turret(Upgraded): Level 2 turrets now fire faster, and have an increased chance of firing while level 3 now hit ghosts. Due to this change, level 3 Turrets have went up in price and now cost 10/3

    Turret(Spreadshot & Upgraded): Level 2 turrets now fire faster, and have an increased chance of firing while level 3 now hit ghosts with one ball and shoot the level one projectile for the other. Due to this change, the costs are now 14/1, 15/2 and 16/3 for each of the levels

    Treadmill: Treadmills are no longer able to be resurrected

    Treadmill(Upgraded): Level 2 and 3 Treadmills now have increased rates of fire. Because of this, the costs for each level are now 35/7 and 40/9 respectively

    Virus: Virus' projectiles now drop the fleck as they fly along in addition to being charged. Also boosted the radius from 10 to 13

    Meshwalker(Upgraded): Level 2 and 3 Meshwalkers now have 1550 and 1700hp while getting increased firing rates per level. Again due to said changes the costs for level 2 and 3 Meshwalkers are now 50/12 & 55/14

    Leader: Redid all three of the Leader's attacks so now the red blaster and missiles have way more pep and impact than before. Subsequently I had to increase the cost to 75/55 to compensate because now the Leader is bad to the bone

    Felix: Redid all the attack projectiles and increased the power and output of the Felix overall. Now the Felix does some great range dumbfire... especially the alpha strike

    Felix(Upgraded): Level 2 and 3 Felixes now have 4750 & 5000hp while gaining higher firing rates per level. Due to this, costs for the Felix at level 2 and 3 are now 80/75 & 90/80

    Land Carrier(Upgraded): Level 2 and 3 Land Carriers now summon 75 and 100 pairs of Drones while gaining +2 projectiles in the concentrated attack per level while having increased firing rates. The cost for level 2 & 3 Land Carrier's now are 115/105 and 130/110

    Bugs

    Doom:

    Arch-Vile(s): Arch-Vile's, as well as Pulse, had a radius of 64 on their summmonballs. It should have been 20. Now Vile's will be less prone to missed spawns. Also attempted to redo the FRIGHTENED flag system so the Vile doesn't just take off and never return to the battlefield

    Heretic:

    Mummy: Apparently this engine doesn't know how to inherit and upgraded Ressed Mummies would call for a Deathstate that should be inherited but wasn't

    Ophidian: The Cost message said 31/8 and not 32/8 as it should have read

    D'Sparil(Serpent): In the 'See' state, D'Sparil had an ill defined jump that is more than likely responsible for many teamkills/owner kills over the past several years. This should curb said issue

    Hexen:

    Wraith: The Reiver cost was 10/3 and not 12/3 on the fullscreen hud

    Strife:

    Macil: LMS Macil's didn't properly loop in their firing state meaning they wouldn't have rapid fire as they should have

    Chex:

    Quadrumpus: Quadpumpus vanilla projectiles didn't leave a decal on a wall

    Virus:

    Spreadshot Turret: Level 2 Spreadshot summonballs weren't translucent and the summon sound didn't play. Talk about game breaking bugs. The cost message also said they cost more than they did

    Felix: The hud messages and new hud erroneously stated that the Felix could partially hit ghosts. This is not true because the Felix CAN ALWAYS hit ghosts

    Land Carrier: Level 2 & 3 Land Carriers were said to have spawned 100 pairs of Drones when they only made 50