* levels: fix map12 softlock.
to replicate:
- warp to map12
- do NOT try to get the blue key yet
- get the storeroom berserk secret, then go get the plasma rifle in the east
- go back and try to get the blue key
expected:
- the blue key is now on a raised lift. use it to lower it and get the key.
actual:
- the blue key is now on a raised lift. you can't use it, because in vanilla the walk lines that open the trilobite closets, etc., block your use attempt.
This PR moves the relevant switches for the lifts - plural, to keep both ends consistent - to the sides so you can always hit them.
I've also fixed the bridge flat pattern (it's implied to be collapsed but there's no explanation for the gaps on the ends) and also some of the SUPPORT2 textures behind some of the lifts in that pre-key area, and made the bridge lift flats into something that looked a little bit more like intentional structures than a default grey flat.
* levels: fix map12 HOM.
There was a reason why those lifts were defined with so few linedefs.
Those huge spans of DOORTRAK still looked awful at low resolution though so I swapped them out for some hopefully vertical-looking bits of tekwall.
#888 didn't actually add the new flats to the build instructions.
Now that they are usable, I've updated the Map26 crushers to use the bodies flat that I'd originally wanted instead of the skulls.
If you pistol start this map, on the teleport into the tower you will be forced to get helplessly shredded by serpentipedes while you're switching to the polaric that's right at the destination. A second one has been added on the platform with the backpack that leads to the teleporter, and the current one has been flagged as multiplayer-only.
Right after this is the blue key, which cannot be retrieved without taking damage from the hurtfloor below. There's no reason to be anywhere near this pit after the blue key so the double telepads doesn't even make sense, except to warp the occasional spider into the starting room which just looks silly. To address all these issues, there is only one pad, right next to the rocket launcher switch, which lines are monster blockers, and the blue key platform is now *higher* than the ledge you reach it from so you can see it moving, retreat back into the tower, and go back to the RL platform and reach the telepad without touching the lava.
The medikit with the blue key has been moved into the main ground area in the northwest.
The jump from the wood tower onto the teleport to get into the stone tower is now surrounded by monster blocking lines.
Got rid of two things that seemed intended only to spite the player:
- the sub-shotgun in the green room, which would cause a weapon-switch just as you face the painlord at the top of the lift, is now just two packs of shells.
- all four doors of the minigunner shack are usable. (They are also equally lit, unlike previously when one of them was slightly darker and it wasn't the one that was usable.)
Added a radsuit and medikit to the back of the green building, so that exploring that area isn't merely unmitigatedly punished.
Added a visible light source to each of the indoor areas.
The messages hadn't been checked for length. Fortunately caught relatively early because the only string that shows up in vanilla (and thus would cause a crash) is also one of the longest ones.
I've also amended two things in the text itself:
1. big burly violent guy who's all about freedom and blaming scientists for things is...... not something that's aged well. And when a corporation is involved you know it's the investors pushing for the bad thing and not the actual researchers on the ground.
2. that other quit message literally reads like you're goading someone into suicide IRL, in the current environment where everybody's depressed and a lot of us have lost important people to plague or war or medical neglect or workplace accidents or violent bigotry or any combination thereof. I've taken the liberty to rephrase it so the emphasis is on what I think was intended.
Threw in a replacement for "exit to DOS" as well.
I was grossly overthinking the issue of needing to prevent the player from proactively maneuvering before the action begins. Someone who's played the start a couple times would be able to do that anyway.
E3M1: Rearranged the two "spinal columns" inside the first entrance. The chamber is larger and the columns are not perfectly octagonal (both to align the textures and to get rid of the fake contrast) and one of them is significantly larger than the other.
E3M6: replacing the (not even working right, you could see the floor moving) flat bleed rising painlord with one that warps into that spot. Changed the textures inside the hatchling fireplace so you're seeing fire everywhere from the inside.
E3M7: Slapped some textures onto the otherwise flat bleeding temporary monster blocker. The difference is barely noticeable even if you're deliberately looking for it.
This is the same solution I've proposed to address #920 and was planning on posting this only after some resolution was reached about that, but others have confirmed this does look way cooler than the original exit sign so here we go.
Map20: Just added textures to the lava jump and made the sectors thinner. No one's going to see them outside of deathmatch without noclipping anyway.
Will just leave the hole in the red arena ceiling where it is - players don't look up anyway.
The little red button in the closed-off brown metal area also uses flat bleeding (which frankly I'd taken as precedent to let me do this with the other stuff at all). Turns out it's perfectly visible with the light reduced to the surrounding area so I have done that (and also added some downwards movement of said button).
Map29: Moved the spectres out of LOS.
The only big pack available now is on the "outdoor" revenant platform.
You still get a total of 280 in singleplayer, which is still way more than you need but at least not enough to kill every enemy with the plasma rifle alone.
C3 restructured and C5 rewritten by @shinobody with edits by me, C6 loosely based on @shinobody's rewrite that had interpreted the map as a barracks instead.
Changing armors to match the new color scheme.
Basic armor is yellow (since no armor is green and big armor is red)
Also reshaded the new red armor shards to look nicer.
Addresses #916 by moving the entire starting corridor out of LOS with the monsters and moving all the player starts accordingly.
I've also recessed the doors in both those western corridors just to make them look a little more plausible.
**E1M2**
Addressed #916. Instead of having those three goons face you differently on hard, you just get more enemies (also facing away from you) in that room.
**Map10**
Addressed #916. I'm doing these two maps just because they were already updated recently so we might as well go all the way.
**Map11**
Addressed #916.
Made the colour door stripes go all the way down, because we can't fucking look up in vanilla and the things are invisible when you're right up at the door in question.
Lowered the switches just beyond the red door to eye level.
**Map26**
The bridge switch was a bit hard to find. It's been moved to the panel next to the pantry.
At some point I'd somehow forgotten to deal with ceilings, resulting in misaligned and mismatched stuff everywhere. Hopefully it's all been dealt with now.
Added some details to the grey tunnel and made the green torch in the wood tunnel present in single/coop as a light source.
"deep into its territory" deserves to be its own line, especially to help emphasize the line I'm making these changes to include.
I also keep wanting to say "armies", plural, for some reason. Which at least works to explain all the infighting...
Someone just quoted the "no human has ever survived here" unprompted on Discord. If it's that memorable let's keep it.
"Man" for this in the two thousand twenty third year of the common era was still a bit cringe though.
Reposting #868 because that was way too many commits.
The current ones have lots of sentence fragments that are somehow austere in tone while still having lots of unnecessary words - a combination that doesn't exactly flow too well. This is an attempt to rewrite a lot of them while trying to keep all the critical elements of each.
A lot of the "it doesn't matter, who cares" / "oh. a trap. AGAIN." talk also felt like it would pull the reader out of the game, however in-character it was clearly intended. (I understand it's inspired by "where's your fat reward and ticket home" from Doom E1 but if you look at all the other id intermission texts things are much more triumphant and hopeful in tone - D2's "There must be a way to close it on the other side. What do you care if you've got to go through Hell to get to it?" is more bravado than despair.)
Replaced some things that create expectations of specific things to be found in the very next map but aren't there - the Map06-7 lift (you start on a teleporter pad), the Map11-12 platform bolts (you start just inside the door), the "massive doors" of the Military Labs (you start on the end teleporter immediately after E1M8), etc..
"Dissipitates" isn't exactly release-quality standard diction.
Some lines were rearranged so that natural sentence and phrase breaks coincide with line breaks - everything has been tested on Chocolate, it seems we do have more room to work with than the previous writers seem to have thought. (If someone out there *specifically intended* to make sure the sentences spill over into the next line in the absence of a paragraph break I'm willing to listen to reasoned argument about it.)
I have, of course, left the iconic final three lines of Phase Two untouched.
