Death Foretold (D4T) 2.5 file

It only took two years! Finally an update that fixes the major bugs, and brings a ton of changes and QoL improvements!

Changelog

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V2.5 (11/16/19)

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* Doomslayer and Sentinel player skins for PvE and PvP
* 8 new glory kills
* New "Medal" system for "Completionist" tracking and indication
* Many item sprite improvements
* Toggleable PvE & PvP Damage Numbers
* Toggleable PvE & PvP hitbeeps
* Toggleable PvE & PvP hitmarkers
* PvP balance completely overhauled
* Dynamic monster scaling in PvE
* Powerup duration HUD indicators

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Balance
* Complete overhaul of PvP balance:
- All weapon/equipment damage increased
- All Demon Rune damage increased
- Players always spawn with equipment (configurable)
- Player spawn stack increased
- Many tiny misc changes
* Removed Hellshot from PvP and PvE
* Removed Repeater from PvP and PvE
* Removed Vortex Rifle from PvP and PvE
* Lightning Gun alt-fire uses same ammo amount and deals (on direct impact) same damage as primary.
* PvE Rocket Launcher damage increased, projectile speed decreased
* PvE Grenade Launcher "Selective Explosion" reworked to "Ionized Grenades": it makes monsters spawn armor shards sometimes
* PvE Chaingun's primary fire windup is almost not existent when having "Gatling Rotator" mod equipped
* PvE Chaingun's alt fire when using "Gatling Rotator" heavily buffed, it also wastes less ammo
* PvE Reaper is a new class of weapon with unique ammo dropped by monsters only
* PvE Reaper upgrades reworked
* PvP Reaper is now a power weapon
* PvP Mobile Turret (power weapon) is much more viable thanks to damage and spread tweaks
* PvE Lvl3 Syphon grenades allow overheal (up to 200 hp max)
* PvP Cyberdemon and Mastermind (runes) laser attacks are heard from much farther away
* PvP Cyberdemon and Mastermind (runes) laser attacks buffed, both have AoE, on the beam for the former and on the puff for the latter
* PvP Summoner rune primary charges much faster
* PvP Mancubus rune primary fire deals more damage the longer the impact distance from the shooter
* PvE Cyberdemon and Mastermind runes now induces fear on monsters
* PvE Pain Elemental Rune's Lost Souls time out after a while
* PvE Cyberdemon, Revenant and Demons no longer infight because of explosive attacks
* PvE Cyberdemon secondary attacks damage increased
* PvE Mastermind plasma balls are faster and spread reduced
* PvE Summoner damage, summon chance and summon type buffed
* PvE Pain Elemental is a big dodgier now (sometimes strafes around)
* PvE Hell Razer's attacks and health buffed. He's no longer a pushover
* PvE Mancubi no longer infight between them
* PvE Shieldguys now drop Static Rifle and rarely its upgrades
* PvE Imps no longer drop any upgrades
* PvE Zombiemen and Nazis drop their upgrades more often
* PvE monsters overall drop upgrades more often
* PvE Revenant will rarely drop Grenade Launcher and its upgrades
* PvE Shotgunguys will very rarely drop SSG
* PvE Arachnotrons will rarely drop Plasma Rifle
* PvE Harvesters will rarely drop Lightning Gun
* Added dynamic boss health scaling in PvE (based on player's power)
* PvE Dead Elite Guards are much more generous with the weapons they drop
* Hard skills now spawns less ammo, but starts player with a chainsaw and fuel is a bit more common

Quality of Life
* Added "Mod options" in main menu, with keybindings and the newly added options
* Added tips for binding keys at relevant moments (e.g. "Bind -Throw Grenade- in Mod Options" when key is unbound)
* Replaced "Glitch" FX for "Visor crack" when taking damage while having armor
* Added powerup duration indicators in the HUD
* Added PvE hitbeeps for all weapons (different than the existing PvP hitbeep)
* Added Hitmarkers for all weapons in PvE and PvP
* Completely recoded "Regeneration" powerup; now it heals much faster, and also regens armor when health is full
* Tweaked gore for a chunkier-but-still-performance-friendly look
* Improved Lightning Gun's 1st person beam sprites
* Lightning Gun's 3rd person beam FX made less obtrusive for the shooter and the observers
* Added "D4T_xxxx" aliases for various modes (e.g. D4T_FFA, D4T_COOP, D4T_LMS, etc)
* Field drone drops upgrade when you press +use (or you can still shoot it)
* Greatly reduced view pitch changes when using the Cacodemon rune alt fire
* Improved hit detection for spectre rune's alt fire (behaves better even if playing with big ping)
* Added a crown for the 1st place in PvP games
* Adjusted weapon position in the weapon bar to better indicate current ammoAdded Overstack bright bars in HUD
* Players are always bright for better visbility in PvE and target acquisition in PvP
* Added pickup messages (reflects in console) for modules, upgrades, equipment, backpack leveling
* Changed name of "item respawn" sound (that wads that replace the default one won't affect D4T; I'm looking at you WOS.wad)
* Added PvP "fragbeep"
* PvP enemy demon rune healhbar also shows which demon is currently active
* PvP Bots greatly improved
- They jump more often
- They (sometimes) actively try to pick powerups and demon runes
- They (mostly) know how to use demon runes
- They use equipments sligthly better
- They stay immobile doing nothing much less often

Fixes
* Lightning Gun alt-fire only creates AoE tip when hitting a surface or an object (instead of doing it mid-air)
* Fixed Fists animation flickering in all net games
* Fixed blood spurts always playing the same animation with HAR or other rapid fire weapons
* Fixed a bunch of "endless loop" warnings in Zandronum
* Fixed BFG alerting monsters when trying to alt fire without an upgrade
* Fixed crashes on GZDoom 4.x when demon-rune unmorphing
* Fixed crashes on GZDoom 4.x when using Personal Teleporter equipment
* Fixed Grenade Launcher getting no benefit when using Haste powerup
* Fixed Syphon grenades allowing to "suck health" from oneself and teammates
* Fixed Shieldguy's shield sometimes staying up even after owner died
* Fixed player corpses rarely looping weapon sounds
* Fixed players rarely keeping the demon HUD after unmorphing
* Fixed Gauss Cannon shots being blocked by shield wall in PvE
* Fixed Lost Souls not spawning any flames in net games
* Fixed SSG, LG and Static Rifle pushing players in Coop
* Fixed incompatibility with "Last Man Standing" gamemode
* Fixed lock on reticle not showing up in cornered HUD
* Fixed player being frozen on E3M1 if glorykilling Cyber on E2M8
* Fixed players sometimes losing their "completionist" rewards under specific circumstances
* Fixed PvP Revenant Rune alt fire not producing explosion sounds
* Fixed armor icon not appearing in HUD when armor was picked
* Fixed Plasma Rifle projectile impact FX appearing in bad Z-coords when hitting a some walls in net games
* Fixed static rifle not playing some variation firing sounds it was supposed to
* Fixed Hell Razer sometimes still playing attack sounds after being gibbed
* Fixed Syphon Grenade being blocked by coop players
* Fixed Berserk not healing to max when player has gotten health increased from rewards
* Fixed PvE Plasma Rifle not showing active module HUD text
* Fixed PvP weapons not showing active module HUD text
* Fixed some (not actually correct) "endless loop" warnings in zandronum net games

Misc
* Doomslayer skin for players (sprites by AbyssWalker)
* "Sentinels" player Skins (sprite edits by Ivory Duke & RoosTer)
* Greatly improved sprites for most pickups (by Franco Tieppo)
- Health
- Armor
- Ammo
- Weapons
- Powerups
- Equipment
- Keys
- A ton of small changes to others
* Added 4 glory kills (by Strongbelly, new sprites by Franco Tieppo)
* Added 4 brand new glory kills (sprites by Franco Tieppo)
* Added new menu cursor by Strongbelly
* Slight size increase for all pickups (health, armor, ammo, weapons)
* Optimzied Lightning Gun performance for net games
* Un-split Lightning Gun damage tics, to better illustrate the damage per tic
* Possesed Security (Shieldguy)'s shields now change color based on its health
* Optimized all Gauss Cannon's FX performance for net games
* Optimized all Static Rifle's FX performance for net games
* Slight optimizations for Fists performance in net games with lag
* Optimized a lot of FX for performance in net games
* Optimized bot behaviour for better performance in net games
* Keys picked up in coop games are now shared to all players
* Players that die permanently on survival will now drop all their upgrades for other players to pick
* Backported QCDE's bot backfill feature (turn off with "sv_minplayers 0")
* Health and ammo overstack degeneration tickers are now separate
* Slight adjustments to gore sounds
* Added "equipment regen/ready" sound
* Added "backpack level increase" notification in HUD
* QCDE's OST music pack is compatible with D4T now
* Optimized many ACS scripts for better performance in net games
* Changed Static Rifle's impact sound
* Added syphon grenade explosion sound, and no longer forces pain on monsters
* Better animation for Reaper's "ready alt fire" sequence
* And another billion little changes/fixes/adjustemt that aren't even worth mentioning