I’m hoping it’s this weekend, but at any rate the next demo update will be to add in the game actually ending. You know, that old chestnut.
I STILL need playtesting to be done before I add more to the demo! Join the Discord and see if pre-5.0 UZDoom can handle it!
discord.gg/xUYB8wQY
Playing the latest Age of Mythology: Retold expansion, which is great. Age of Mythology definitely influenced the inclusion of Faction Abilities and the Tier progression in ZDoom Wars 2. Really brilliant game.
Flashback to my top wads. I still stand by this list!
Going to attempt to code in victory and defeat for real this weekend. It’ll be simple enough. It’ll only work for FFAs (and thus 1v1s) at the moment. I’ll have to learn how to detect if it’s in team mode later and rejigger things. Either way, the game will function as expected.
Coded Strife’s full steamroll mechanics. A reminder:
Strife is now settled as a Booming faction. With each capture point their Faction Abilities recharge faster, the Commander’s health regens faster, AND with enough points you get an additional Favor trickle. So late game they’ll be a nightmare!
Originally I was working on this with my brother Derek. He got diagnosed with cancer a 2nd time and was unable to code, then passed away. A couple community members (so far) are stepping in to do the work he was going to do (he was a real programmer). I am eternally grateful to the Doom community.
My main goal this weekend is to finish Hero menus. After that I have some maintenance tasks including adding in Strife’s full Steamroll feature. With that, bonus damage on fresh magazines, and swappable weapons, they’ve got plenty going on, more in parity with the other factions.
It’s 4/20, gotta weed post okay okay okay
Top 5 Weed-Smoking Heroes:
5. Mastermind (thinks she so fuckin’ smart)
4. Maulotaur (chronic IBS)
3. D’Sparil (says its for mystic shit)
2. Felix (smokes up the cockpit all the time)
1. Entity (is the weed)
That is all.
The hero of Strife standing before the fallen Entity.
Tell me you can’t grind it up. It’s already smoking, for God’s sake
It’s 4/20, gotta weed post okay okay okay
Top 5 Weed-Smoking Heroes:
5. Mastermind (thinks she so fuckin’ smart)
4. Maulotaur (chronic IBS)
3. D’Sparil (says its for mystic shit)
2. Felix (smokes up the cockpit all the time)
1. Entity (is the weed)
That is all.
Okay, so I kind of missed working on this over the weekend during my break. I’ve got a decent but doable to-do list now!
Don’t tell anybody, but the initial standard Moon Phase for Hexen is longer than it is later on in the cycle to better coincide with the rough 5 minute mark for six gens and tier 2, so you can promptly march off. I have no idea what that means for the local moon’s orbit.
Imagining people seeing this going “THE FELIX CAN FLY?!”
Yes, it’s hilarious. Its Ult alternatives are siege mode (temporarily super enhanced regular attack but turns slowly) and then a huge radius attack speed buff for allies.
Yes I’m reducing the rate of banter. No l wasn’t gonna re-record matchup one to premier the new dialog system.
I knew I’d do this since I’m taking a day off. TWO MORE HERO MATCHUPS:
D’Sparil vs Iron Lich:
youtu.be/1Q67Cec6oX0?...
Felix vs the Deathkings:
youtu.be/mCFltZbRSrk?...
Next week we finish round one!
Okay, I got the match recorded and by god do I have to make the banter rate lower. But I am NOT doing that right now because I am gaming the rest of this weekend, damnit
This weekend it’s D’Sparil vs the Iron Lich and the Felix vs the Deathkings! Big price disparity on the former, much muddier question on the latter. Next weekend we’ll finish round one!
Realizing I DO have to do a matchup for the Hero Tournament, so I will be doing that BUT OTHERWISE I’m taking a break this weekend!
No promises on progress this weekend. Super burnt out at work so I might take the weekend off. NEXT weekend I’ll finish the menus and move on. Promise I’m not just doing dialog (it’s just super easy for me to work on)!
Sorry for the outages yesterday, D’Sparil zapped the servers
In general the fantasy characters are leery of the robots, and the robots are like “Dude I fucking HATE magic”
Dialog-wise, I decided D’Sparil really hates machinery and tech. He has a Talent called Spurn that stuns mech enemies (originally titled Spurn The Machine), so it seemed right. He’s all in on magic, folks!
To stay abreast of happenings, join the Discord! It’s still small, but hopefully as the demo becomes more full featured people will join up. They’re fun folks!
discord.gg/MmEPfD8G
Decided I’m beefing up Strife’s barebones steamroll mechanic. Rather than just having faster faction ability recharge with each point, the player will regen more health and get a small favor trickle at 3+ points. With that, weapon-swapping, and the damage+ on new magazines, they should be good!
I’m back at it writing an entire rejoinder system for the possibility of a bit of back and forth dialog between heroes. It’s easy to do now that I have the original system in place!
It rules.
New dialog system complete! I already recorded one tournament matchup for next week and I ain’t redoing it, so the second one will feature the new system. It’s slick. 406 pieces of unique dialog (so far!)!
Last matchup of the weekend is live! Best one yet by far!
youtu.be/ov2PHdsQtGk?...
First tournament matchup is live! Next in an hour.
youtu.be/oCU1wA2NBXs?...
With help from a real Chad, I’m redoing the dialog system you’ve seen in the tournament. So the second matchup of next week will debut that system, where the dialog appears over the Hero’s head. It will ALSO have the targeted banter (lines meant for specific matchups). Again, minor detail, but cool!