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Projects & Creative / MM8BDM HyperFighting

« on: December 14, 2022, 11:36:57 PM »

MM8BDM HyperFighting

So what the hell is this?  On a basic level this is a mod that attempts to revamp many elements of classic gameplay to speed it up and give it more overall fluidity.  I felt the vanilla gameplay experience was lacking in some what, and this is my attempt to try to add some kick things up a notch!

Features:

Armor - Small armor pickups are added to every map automatically.  Reduces damage taken and provides the ability to prepare for battle!
Movement - Players have a higher jump and faster movement speed.  In addition, the new slide ability lets you evade attacks at the last moment or make a full speed jump.
Weapons - Nearly every weapon has been tweaked in some way to increase the speed, damage or receive a complete overhaul to give it a unique role.  Spam style items and weapons are also toned down.
Shields - Shields are now swappable.  Want to regenerate with Plant Barrier on the offense? You can! Want to absolutely wreck opponents with Star Crash and Fire Storm?  You're a monster, but have at it!
Auto Swap Empty Weapons - With this option enabled, when you deplete a weapon, you'll swap to the next weapon in the same category (if available)
Energy Balancer - All players start with the Energy Balancer by default!  The item is replaced with new Energy Saver which cuts your special weapon ammo consumption by half! (Or doubles your ammo....same thing)
Customizable pickup icons - Weapon energy and health icons can now be changed to any style from MM1-MM8, or just be based on whatever game your playing! (Plus a few extras!)
Item 1 placement choice - Front? Under? Situationally dependent? You can choose now!
Assist HUD orientation- Want your health vertical, but your assist to be horizonal? Or the other way around?  That can be arranged (Note this can cause some weird issues with other mods)

There's also bug fixes, item changes, balance tweaks and more!

!!!BETA VERSION!!!
https://static.allfearthesentinel.com/wads/hyperfighting-3a-beta4a.pk3

Constructive feedback is welcome!

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Closed / [Minor] Small music script bug

« on: November 11, 2017, 06:06:23 PM »

This one is kinda small and obscure, but it's worth noting.

The cvars used for boss music (ex.mm8bdm_map_bossmusic) aren't cleared when you do a "map" change.  (changemap and nextmap are fine)  As a result, with some maps that don't have this cvar defined but use PAR to specify the boss music, it's possible it will play the boss music from the previous map instead due to how the script works.

To replicate the bug, choose any map from the core that uses the cvars, then MAP to something from a map pack that doesn't have it's own boss music script. (CTF packs for example) and play till the boss music would trigger.

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Closed / mm8bdm_hitconfirm

« on: November 02, 2017, 05:15:59 PM »

Captain, she does nothing!

Seems you left in a 'feature' that was never completed.  Exists in the menudef, but no where else, thus lists 'unknown' in the actual menu.

Whomever is double checking this is failing horribly at their job.

(Thx for moving this to the proper spot The_Broker)

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Closed / Laser buster gets a bit ....anemic (visual bug)

« on: August 24, 2017, 07:57:01 PM »

Laser buster's projectile get's a bit .....pathetic as it travels

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The beginning looks okay, but the right's a tad odd....however.

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After it travels a short distance, it becomes traveling ...dots.  The hell happened here?

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Closed / Proto Buster Shield + Weapon switching

« on: August 21, 2017, 08:13:27 PM »

Small, but annoying bug

1.) Select Proto Buster
2.) Have another fast firing weapon in inventory (Ex. Thunder Bolt)
3.) Quickly switch and fire to secondary weapon
4.) Note how the shot is blocked by the now unequipped Proto Shield

It's a small window, only 2-3 tics.

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Closed / [Suggestion] Teleport FX copies translation of player

« on: August 21, 2017, 07:58:05 PM »

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Found it weird that whenever you use an escape unit or teleport, the leaving teleportation FX was always the Mega Man blue colors.  I think this makes the effect much nicer overall.  (Though perhaps teleporters shouldn't use the escape upward teleport? I dunno, does look cool though)

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Closed / Oil Slider oddity

« on: August 07, 2017, 07:15:26 PM »

Good day.

1.) Fire Oil Slider
2.) Continue to hold Fire
3.) Pickup Oil Blob
4.) Notice how ammo bar flashes while you continue to fire shots
5.) Release Fire
6.) Slide begins

Doesn't seem like intended behavior.

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Closed / Energy Balancer bug

« on: August 06, 2017, 02:53:11 AM »

Good Day

This:

Code: [Select]

If(CheckInventory(weapons_ammo[ThisWeapon][1]) == GetAmmoCapacity(weapons_ammo[i][1]) || ThisWeapon < 0) Should read:

Code: [Select]

If(CheckInventory(weapons_ammo[ThisWeapon][1]) == GetAmmoCapacity(weapons_ammo[ThisWeapon][1]) || ThisWeapon < 0)
I'm sure I don't need to explain any more.

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Closed / Spikes (Spineys) and Count Bombs broken in Possession

« on: June 26, 2015, 02:15:57 PM »

Thanks Fyone for the heads up on this.

Spineys/Spikes that spawn a damager and Count Bombs are currently broken in Possession.  Once the match starts the objects that both these props create are wiped from the map but the props themselves do no re-enter their spawn state.  The result is that they both no longer function correctly.  It's possible there are other world objects that are broken, but there are the two that I've checked and confirmed as problematic.  Also....Possession...WHY?!!?

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Projects & Creative / Mega Man 8-Bit Death....SMASH! v2a

« on: September 17, 2014, 02:40:45 AM »

Update!: v2a is live

Grab it here! http://www.mediafire.com/download/kl4n85pnfap8emp/8BitDeathSmash-v2a.pk3
Changelog:

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- Hits are now based on the direction you were hit from rather than always throwing you backward (This was interesting to code, lemme tell ya)
- Rapid hitting weapons will no longer toss you back on the first hit, instead all the damage stacks and the resulting total is used (might be nerfed in the future)
- Rewrote the double tab script to hopefully be a bit better under laggy conditions.  Double jump now requires a single jump press in the air.
- Air dash now has slightly upward thrust when used.
- Dash speed now based somewhat on character speed.
- Double jump based on character Z Jump attribute.
- Points in timed mode altered:  Any death takes a point, not just self deaths.  Basically just mirrors Smash Bros in it's scoring method.
 

So what happens when you take MM8BDM and apply the rules of Smash Bros? Well, you get this mod!  

The mod plays as such:

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- Hits will send the player backward and upward.  Strong hits will apply immediate force, akin to Smash Attacks.  Weaker attacks will not move the player, but can rack up damage quickly (damage bonus) and eventually push the player back.
- Players can double tab UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT and JUMP to boost in that direction.  This is a bit lag dependent, so lower ping does help.  Only two actions can be performed in the air before landing. (Ex. Two Jumps, Dash + Jump or Two Dashes)
- Players die if they fall off the stage, are hit too far off the stage or come too close to a skybox after being hit.
- Points are tallied and shown every time you die and at the end of the match along with the match winner
- Deathmatch/TDM with Time are supported as the "Timed" mode
- LMS with Stock is supported (With or Without a time limit)
- TLMS is not officially supported, but it does work sorta.
- Music is a mix of 8 bit and non-8-bit music because why not.
- Thanks for SmashBro, Ukiyama, Nemu, Megaman, Ivory, CutmanMike and Rozark for letting me include (and occasionally mutilate) their levels in this mod.[/list]

Grab OLD v1  here

Constructive feedback is always welcome.

Credits:
BROS00 - SmashbroPlusB
BROS01-BROS09 - Rozark
BROS10 - Ukiyama
BROS11 - Ivory (From Legacy IPack, Used with permission)
BROS12 - Megaman
BROS13 - Nemu
BROS14 - Cutman Mike (From v2c, Used with permission

On a side note: Any map that has pits and a skybox can technically be played in this mode.  The perimeter kills won't work, but sky and pit kills work as well as 255 damage hazards.

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MM8BDM Discussion / [Tip] Zandronum and Gaming Mice

« on: January 24, 2013, 09:24:19 PM »

Ok, so I've been dealing with a problem that's been pretty damn rage inducing so I wanted to share what I found out.  It seems that Zandronum may have an issue with gaming mice (Razer mice, high end Logitech, Roccat etc) that have a polling rate of 1000HZ.  What ends up happening is that after a quick movement, the buttons will not respond or will get stuck.  So there will be times you press fire and nothing happens, or your firing will get locked.  The solution is a simple one, select a polling rate below 1000HZ and the problem goes away.   I have no clue why this is an issue, but at least the fix is simple.

DTDSphere (yay DTD!) has a great video in this post detailing the issue
http://zandronum.com/forum/printthread.php?tid=311

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MM8BDM Discussion / Mess's Zandronum / Skulltag Launcher

« on: October 10, 2012, 10:05:00 PM »

I posted about this in the Zandronum topic, but since I've been updating it a little bit, I figured it could use a topic of it's own.

A MM8BDM Launcher that works with both Skulltag and Zandronum written in VB.NET. It requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and is only Windows compatible.

Here's what it does:
-Automatically detects the presence of Zandronum.exe and Skulltag.exe (thus allowing you to switch between engines)
-Add/Remove WADS/PK3s and reorder them as you wish
-Creates a Zandronum ini file from your skulltag ini file if Zandronum is present with Skulltag (Copies your settings)
-Allows you to join a server (Either skulltag or Zandronum, choose the correct engine)
-Can select the main PK3 for the game (Defaults to MM8BDM-v2c.pk3) so it's possible to use with v1a or even the SGC demo
-Can host servers (Can also be used to host DOOM/HERETIC/HEXEN if ya know what you're doing)
-Probably crashes a lot....also probably bugs, you have been warned.

Here's what it does NOT do
-NOT a replacement for the main launcher. This is merely something so people can mess around with Zandronum before the official v3a release. (Also, 64 player Cutman, lul)
-Does not make bacon

As always, the standard warnings apply: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I will not be held responsible if this blows up your computer, opens a black hole in your living room etc etc etc.

3b Notes:
-Double click the iwad or main wad text fields to bring up a file selection menu.

Download v3b here

To use, extract this into your MM8BDM folder and run as you would the normal launcher. To use Zandronum, install Zandronum to your MM8BDM folder as well.

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Help & Editing / Re: I can't see walls on on my map! (help with doombuilder)

« on: May 09, 2011, 06:28:15 PM »

It's the transfer heights linedef action you have on the side of the river.  That's causing your issue.

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Projects & Creative / [Game Modes] Roboenza mods + Other Creations (Upd. 9/8/13)

« on: April 01, 2011, 04:22:30 AM »

*NEW*
Roboenza Swarm: v1a - http://www.mediafire.com/download/f4twaub3ww68auk/RoboenzaSwarm-v1a.zip

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Description: Ever play Infection in Halo? This is basically that.  The mode is played in Deathmatch.
Notes:
- Infected players have 100 health on spawn, doesn't matter if you're the first or last infected player
- Infected players are 20% faster than normal players.  Alfire is a super jump (like Rage Robo) on the ground.  In the air, it's a boost in the direction you're aiming.  It takes about 15% of your current health to use
- Infected players do not infect others on touch like in Rage Robo.  Infected players must kill surviving players.  On respawn or late joining, players are infected automatically.
- A global timer determines the round result.  It starts at 1:30 and for each new infected player, 20 seconds are added.  For each infected player killed, 10 seconds are removed.  When the timer hits 0:00, all infected players are killed and the survivors win.  If all players are infected, then the infected players win (duh)
- Rage rules still apply (2 infected kills -> Rage, 5 kills -> spread)  This may change in future versions.
- With more players, more infected spawn at the start of the round.

Rage Roboenza: 5a Mediafire mirror - http://www.mediafire.com/?q4b6u2jg7ffxx4p

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So I was screwing around with ways to change the style of play of Roboenza.   I never liked that playing as a zombie felt more like running around like a slow moving target that ate bullets for breakfast.  So I came up with something I like to call Rage Roboenza.

v5a -
- Compatible with v3a
- Recoded many ACS elements
- Infected players are now the same speed as normal players, but have increased recoil and slightly increased slowdown on 'hitstun' weapons
- Item1 replaced with Wire Adaptor (Item1 uses THRUSPECIES so it can crash....that and wire is awesome)
- Players are infected immediately if they respawn in a game with multiple lives if they 'suicide'
- Infected now use the 'zombie' skin.  This is because of a restriction in Zandronum and will be reverted once it's resolved.
- Infected super jump now takes 15 health
- Infected players can regain time by picking up weapon energy
- Normal Players also drop energy / cures when they die
- Eliminated separate Powered Up version.

Special thanks for mrjnumber1 for his help on the cure sprite

Bot Apocalypse - v2a Mediafire - http://www.mediafire.com/download/adodlbjysbmfia0/Botapocalypse-v2a.zip

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Description: A team based mode of CPU players (Bots) vs Human Players in TLMS.  One human player is assigned to the Bot team as it's leader (because bots are dumb).  If there are enough players, the bot leader gets a health boost to compensate (with a notification message).  The Bot leader also drops an etank when killed.  The last survivor will get the rage rune.


Q&A:
Q: I thought SickSadWorld was working on this very thing.  What is this?
A: SickSadWorld finished his just recently.  You can obtain his version HERE.  He had originally started this project a while ago but ran into what he referred to as a glass ceiling.  More recently I ran across some old code of his that he had sent me and I figured I'd mess around with it and my autobots wad and see if that would yield anything useful.  In the end, we both were able to make this work, albeit in somewhat different ways.  So I'd like to give a special thanks to SickSadWorld for allowing me to use his work as a base for this project and for encouraging me to release it.  Also thanks to SaviorSword for his input on the mode as well as the idea.

Version Notes:v2a - changelist
- Compatibilty with v3b
- Bot Leader gains +25 health per each player they kill on the blue team
- Various small optimizations
- Note: Boss music is a bit glitchy when combined with the TLMS boss music script.

v1f - changelist
- Various attempted bugfixes to resolve some lag that was created by the server adding too many bots
- Bots always Blue Players +4
- Bots will no longer try to switch weapons in YD's Classes mod.  This prevents the mode from crashing.

v1e - changelist
- Bot Leader created when there are a total of 3 players instead of 2.  This also means players don't get any bonuses (ex. rage) till there are at least 3 players
- Bots can now change weapons and use some items.
- Bot Leader Health decreased by 50, but will get bonus health immediately
- Treble adjusted to switch targets
- Bots can no longer pick up items/weapons
- Bot leader will not be the same person twice in a row.
- Small bug fixes

v1d - changelist
- rewrote bot add / remove script
- new timer system.  Controlled by the server timelimit cvar.  Can be set to anything or disabled if the server prefers.
- new apoc music as suggested by Ice-IX (Roc's Creation)
- Bass Buster now replaces Dive missile.  Bots also get Bass Buster.

v1c - changelist
- more attempts to fix the bandwidth issue
- better randomization for choosing bot leader
- better bot randomization, won't always choose megaman on a map change
- dive missile and magnet missile can be obtained by eddie and won't be replaced.

v1b - changelist
- Fixed a bug that *may* have been creating a massive bandwidth spike.
- Bot count reduced slightly (by 2) on higher playercount games
- Bot leader gets bonus health at 4 blue players instead of 5
- Notification when bot leader has been defeated
- Etank -> MTank.  We like ammo.
- 5 Minute round timer.  If the round goes on for more than 5 minutes, meteors will start spawning over members of the blue team at random.  Thanks to Lego for letting me use his astro crush sprites.
- Junk Shield swapped for eddie
- Red players drop small health when killed.

The Hunted - v2b - http://remote.gouhadou.com/files/TheHunted-v2b.zip

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v2b - changelist
- Target Health now represented with health bars (boss health on right)
- List of players targeting you now displayed on the left so it's easier to keep track of who's coming for your head
- Removed frags from being tracked.  Will revert this back in future versions
- Various tweaks for v3b

v2a - changelist
- Penalty System for fragging the wrong players (default: 3), can be altered by "set penaltylimit #".  If you hit the limit, you lose a point.
- Penalty points are reset for killing a person targeting you, or killing your target.
- Basic system implemented to judge the distance between you and your target.  Should help finding players easier.
- Health gain changed to 25 health even if the player you killed is both your target and targeting you.

v1b - changelist
- Boss music changes when 1 point remaining (for stock maps uses respective music, for custom maps it randomly chooses a boss theme)
- Some health restored when you kill your target OR the player targeting you
- Score list at end of match

Description: A Deathmatch mod.  Hunt down your target while avoiding being killed by player(s) targeting you.

Rules:  Players score points by killing their target.  Multiple people can have the same target.  There is no penalty for killing anyone else currently.  If you kill the player(s) targeting you, then you reset their target.  The objective is to get to the pointlimit before other players, frags don't count.

Screw Scramble MINUS - v1b - http://www.mediafire.com/?kyuu0nhmr2dy0uy

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Description: It's Screw Scramble! (Isn't that great?......anybody?) With Mike's permission, I've altered Screw Scramble. Here are the changes from the base mode:

-Big Screws (10 screws) can drop
-More screws drop (various factors impact how many screws you drop)
-Auto and Reggae will no longer fall into pits (will respawn)
-Auto and Reggae appear on the auto map
-Removed speed change upon obtaining screws
-Screws needed for the runes balanced for each team
-New Runes (Haste and Drain)
-Higher level rewards (ex spread) won't be overwritten by lower ranked ones (ex haste).  Instead you get an M-tank.
-Victory music and who contributed the most screws shown at the end of the round.

Screw Rewards
1-9 - 10 Health restored
10-19 - M-Tank + 25 Health restored
20-29 - Haste Rune + 1 W-Tank + 50 Health restored
30-39 - Rage Rune + 2 W-Tanks + 75 Health restored
40-49 - Drain Rune + 2 W-Tanks + 90 health restored
50+ - Spread Rune + 3 W-Tanks + 100 health restored

If at any point you turn in screws and you already have that rune or better, you get a m-tank instead.

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MM8BDM Discussion / Rules for Deathwind's Servers

« on: February 11, 2011, 05:44:57 PM »

Ok, so I decided to jot down some rules that I'm going to start enforcing on my servers.  Primarily these are things the either bug other players or myself and thus I feel that it needs to be addressed.

1.) No racist or otherwise discriminatory language.  That means no n****r or f****t.  If you want to spout this crap, go play XBL.

2.) If you play Roboenza, you will be a zombie.  Do not spectate because you were chosen to be the lead zombie.  That's game mode, deal with it or go play something else.

3.) No using exploits that were not intended by design, or sanctioned by CMM (Item-1 trap for example is okay).   This includes Gyro canceling and Leaf shield canceling.  If you bound a key to do this, then that's not allowed.

4.) Be respectful to other players. There's a line between joking and outright being hostile.  This is to keep things civil.

5.) Do not abuse level flaws.  Metal man's hole of shame....need I say more? This goes for all game modes, play the damn mode as it's intended or don't play.

6.) SR/40/50 is prohibited - This is effectively a speedhack.  This will earn you a permaban.

7.) Roboenza Only: Do not Item-1 trap survivors.  Come on guys, this is a real dick move, knock it off.

I will kick/ban folks for violating these rules depending on the severity of the offense.  (Kick generally means knock it off, ban means gtfo)

If you disagree with any of these rules I am willing to listen, and I am also willing to expand upon this if need be.


Thank you for your time.