[Old thread] Chaos Generator Upgraded Ver. M

[Jdude330]

Cedrian, I get it, I am just saying that its very unlucky for me.

[Necro_Ninja]

...Is there a way to set the master selection to be random?

It's usually just one person the entire time until they leave... (unless that's a bug)

[Beed28]

Currently, the Master picker chooses the player with the lowest "player number", and if the player leaves or spectates, it picks the player with the next "player number", skipping over any bots, and so on.

[Retro Pikachu]

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My game doesn't work.  I put the file in the "skins" folder and the error message

Script error, "chaosgenerator-2_upgraded_vHell.wad:DECORATE" line 240:
Parent type 'ConfettiSpawner' not found in ConfettiSpawnerParty
Script error, "chaosgenerator-2_upgraded_vHell.wad:DECORATE" line 253:
Parent type 'RandomWeapon' not found in RandomWeaponParty
Script error, "chaosgenerator-2_upgraded_vHell.wad:DECORATE" line 390:
Parent type 'Eddie' not found in EddieRained
Script error, "chaosgenerator-2_upgraded_vHell.wad:DECORATE" line 425:
Parent type 'RandomWeapon' not found in RandomWeapon2
Script error, "chaosgenerator-2_upgraded_vHell.wad:DECORATE" line 565:
Parent type 'QuickBeam' not found in QuickBeam3

came up.  After that, I selected "add file."  The luck wasn't any better.  What's wrong?!

[GameAndWatcher]

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My game doesn't work.  I put the file in the "skins" folder and the error message

Script error, "chaosgenerator-2_upgraded_vHell.wad:DECORATE" line 240:
Parent type 'ConfettiSpawner' not found in ConfettiSpawnerParty
Script error, "chaosgenerator-2_upgraded_vHell.wad:DECORATE" line 253:
Parent type 'RandomWeapon' not found in RandomWeaponParty
Script error, "chaosgenerator-2_upgraded_vHell.wad:DECORATE" line 390:
Parent type 'Eddie' not found in EddieRained
Script error, "chaosgenerator-2_upgraded_vHell.wad:DECORATE" line 425:
Parent type 'RandomWeapon' not found in RandomWeapon2
Script error, "chaosgenerator-2_upgraded_vHell.wad:DECORATE" line 565:
Parent type 'QuickBeam' not found in QuickBeam3

came up.  After that, I selected "add file."  The luck wasn't any better.  What's wrong?!

First of all, vHell is outdated.
Second of all, I don't think the current version of the Chaos Generator is compatible with the current version of 8BDM.
Finally, you don't put the file in the skins folder.

[Beed28]

The recent version of Chaos Generator should be compatible, at least, I haven't been having problems with it ever since the Evil Yashichi population explosion (which I since fixed) caused by the MM8BDM-v3a upgrade. Ver. Hell, on the other hand, was released as an April Fools' joke for April 2013.

Oh yeah, and certainly do not load mods with the skins folder, no matter what. Only put skin packs and music packs in there. Nothing else.

[Beed28]

Consider this my parting gift.

(Download from Sendspace)

Changes in Ver. H

(click to show/hide)

* CHAOSHUB: Map updated to the newer UDMF format. We hope this means something.
* NEW BASE WEAPON: Can now replace the buster with the new MM8BDMv4 weapons except Lightning Bolt and Treble Boost.
* PARTY DEATHS: Updated with MM8BDMv4 items and weapons.
* EDDIE STORM: Can now give out MM8BDMv4 weapons. Their teleporting exit effect that was broken was also fixed.
* JELLY WORLD: No changes, but due to engine bugs at this current time, Jelly World won't bounce stuff into the air on maps using the newer UDMF format. Use the MM8BDM Legacy Pack by Linnie if you still want to bounce, as those maps are still in Hexen format.
* KYOROWN SWARM: Spawning rate reduced.
* GUTSMAN G RAMPAGE: He should no longer toss players into certain instant death areas such as pits and lava, depending on Block Monster linedefs.
* EVIL YASHICHI: Should now correctly spawn from where the map's actual Yashichi is placed. Also introduced its two distant cousins.
* INSTAGIB: The DOUBLE SPEED and REVERSED CONTROLS reels now take the new Instagib speed increase in consideration.
* Fixed Time Stopper overlay.
+ Added new section to CHAOSHUB which allows the current master to choose what weapon replaces the Mega Buster for when the NEW BASE WEAPON reel pops up. The selection works like picking a reel and is thus reset back to 'random' when the reels are reset through the reset portal or for when the server moves back to CHAOSHUB again. Weapons that are darkened cannot be selected to be the new base weapon, such as Time Stopper or Astro Crush.
- Removed Rollbrine.

As the changelog states, Jelly World is currently broken in UDMF maps. Use the MM8BDM Legacy Pack if you still want the good ol' Jelly World bounciness, as those maps are still in Hexen format.

Also, just a warning; the new single player bosses are untested.

[BiscuitSlash]

Here's a bunch of new ideas for chaos effects that I recently thought up.

Effect name: Electrical Discharge.
Icon: Elecman and Plugman feeling ill.
Causes: All players run low on power due to an electrical based problem. This causes all players to occasionally emit minor sparks (purely cosmetic) and have their health bar drained at a very slow rate. Players may also get small occasional blips in speed, but only acts as a very minor inconvenience.

Effect name: Melee is best.
Icon: Protoman using Charge Kick and Megaman jumping while using Slash Claw.
Causes: All weapons that are not Melee weapons or very close range weapons (such as Wave Burner) get replaces by one of those weapons.

Effect Name: RNC Hard
Icon: Dark Green Megaman covering his face. MM6 has a sprite for that.
Causes for players: Buster colour changes from blue and cyan to the dark green that is in the Rockman No Constancy hard mode. Players recieve double damage from everything and a classic series knockback that leaves them helpless for a second and easily exposed to combos.
Causes for bots: Recieve half damage from everything.

Effect name: Shiny world.
Icon: Crystalman posing with the icon being sparkly.
Causes: Add a colour filter to make everything look shiny. Also make sparkles appear in places.

Effect name: Huge Knockback.
Icon: idk
Causes: All players receive large knockback from everything they get hit by. The knockback direction is opposite to the side that they got hit. This effect cannot be used with RNC hard.

Effect name: Jump! Jump!
Icon: That warning symbol from Frostman's stage. You know the one.
Causes. Every 5-30 seconds the "Jump! Jump!" warning symbol will show up in the corner of the screen, complete with sound effects. After this, the floor gets coated in electricity or something and does around 20 damage.
Problem with this effect is that it wouldn't be complete without somehow implementing the "Slide! Slide!", yet the game doesn't having sliding so iunno what to do here.

Effect name: Hide and seek.
Icon: Searchman in front of a bush. Tenguman hiding behind it.
Causes: Loads of bushes fall from the sky and/or ceilings, making it harder to see things, including other players.

Effect name: ?
Icon: A Cyber-Elf, from Megaman Zero series.
Causes: Every player gets a cyber elf following them around. These cyber elves shoot small, low damage bullets at other players.

Effect name: ?
Icon: 100 Watton and Dompan
Causes: The lighting in the stage dims down. 100 Wattons and Dompans start appearing. Destroying 100 Wattons will reduce the map brightness and destroying dompans will increase it. The brightness will always gradually change to a certain level, like Brightman's stage in RM4MI.

Also I would like to suggest something about the wavebike chaos effect. As it stands, it makes the game borderline unplayable and not very fun. However, rather than completely scrapping it....

Effect name: Permanent rocket boards.
Icon: Megaman on one of the rocket surfboards from Megaman 8.
Causes: Everyone is constantly moving forward due to them standing on rocket boards. These boards only move at around half the speed of wavebikes and do not speed up when in the air.


It's up to Beed28 to decide what gets done with these ideas.

Also, this mode needs a permanent host such as [BE]. This mode is really fun and deserves to be played more.

[-FiniteZero-]

For the Cyber Elf one, you could call it "Another Option", since the little balls that follow you and fire shots in Gradius are called "Options".

[Goomba98]

Party Deaths is broken. For every weapon it tries to spawn, the log says "Jump target '(weapon name)' not found in randomweaponparty" and the weapons don't appear. Non-weapon items spawn perfectly fine, though.

[MattNoack]

Beed28, I tried to follow the links you provided to sendspace to download the chaos generator, but each time I get a message saying the file i requested was not available.
Maybe try reuploading the file?

[Demitel]

Is there even chaos generator servers anymore? Or anyone play this?

[Beed28]

I doubt it, sadly.

When I ever do update it again, which is when hell freezes over (that'd actually be awesome to see), one of the things I'll have to do is include edited versions of every map from the vanilla game to give every sector a dummy tag just so that a certain chaos effect can work again. I'll need permission.

[Russel]

Go take a look at Cocytus. It's a part of Hell that's beyond frozen over.

Regardless of what you do, Jelly World will cause a rather vast amount of latency among players of the game. I recall years ago when I hosted Chaos Gen upgraded with possession, there were a vast amount of issues with high ping and the like due to some of the more consistent effects.

Just some food for thought.

[Beed28]

I'll have to look into that. Then again, some scripts currently in are incredibly hacky and unnecessary (I'm going to nuke the frag counter script, for one. What was going through my head with that addition?).