After this, you'll hear sirens every 5-10 minutes or so, and you'll have to reach the nearest shelter as fast as you can. things that slaughter anything they happen upon. At one point, shortly after you acquire the key that is necessary to open them, alarm will go off and you will have a minute or so to reach a nearest "shelter", after which screen goes black and map is filled some sort of invincible. Early on you'll notice these crypt-like underground rooms that are scattered around the map: these are so-called "moon shelters". In the end, I'm not sure how I feel about this one.Īimless backtracking in definitely the biggest issue here. There is some 3D geometry here and there, and Tormentor's own fog effect is put to extensive use. Textures come almost exclusively from Blood, detailing is solid if often sparse. Decent chunk of enemies consists of typical Realm667 bestiary, and some of those can be a bit annoying - like say modified revenant that insists on respawning after death. You'll encounter some of the classic (more or less modified) Blood baddies like cultists, spiders and zombies. Also, large chunk of standard Blood arsenal is simply missing. Flare gun is replaced with a revolver, tommy gun's secondary fire now consist of shooting multiple bullets in a straight line, pitchfork can be thrown at enemies (which also means that you can lose it, locally there is a couple of spare ones lying around). While we're at it, weapon behavior is apparently mostly based on (infamous) ZBlood, so you really shouldn't expect a faithful re-creation of Blood arsenal. Ammo is in relatively small supply, and for the most part you'll be stuck with pitchfork, revolver and a shotgun. There will be quite a bit of it regardless, map is huge and there is ten or so keys and various items you'll have locate and collect before you're done.Ĭombat-wise, it can be rather hard, and author obviously aimed for survival horror style of resource starvation. Also, they tend to contain hints towards solution of puzzles or location of keys, so you better pay attention to them if ya want to minimize aimless wandering. They are fun enough to read, and are done in appropriate style. Solid gothic horror atmosphere, story is told through various notes you'll find scattered through the map.
You start on a foggy shore, with a path leading to a dark forest, through which you continue to titular city (which is mostly fun to explore, at first), with side paths leading to a church and a lone farmhouse. Since I went through something of a Blood-playing spree during the last two months or so (thanks in no small part to Ninja Destroyer and his reviews of various fan-made Blood episodes), I decided to give one another try.Īnyway, while it consists of a single map, that map is quite large. I actually made several attempts to play through this TC in the past, however I never finished it until now. I love gzdoom and probably do most of my idtech1 gaming there, but if it's your first time playing chocolate- will be more accurate and should allow a wider variety of keybinds than vanilla.Single-map Blood-inspired GZDoom TC by famous Tormentor667. In Heretic this means that you need to aim up to hit flying monsters for example. Gzdoom defaults to not using this behavior. You could also shoot below or above a monster and still hit them. If you're not aware, "actors" (monsters, barrels, etc.) were infinitely tall in Doom engine games so you could not run off a cliff for example if a monster was right below you.
#Hexen mods zdoom software
It also defaults to using openGL instead of the software renderer so things won't distort when you look up and down. It allows looking up/down in Doom and jumping in Heretic for example. Just keep in mind that gzdoom is one of the less "faithful" engines. If you put your wads in that folder you will be prompted to pick which iwad to use when you run the program. One of the default paths is the program directory, but you can change it to whatever you want. If you look in the gzdoom settings file you'll see that there is a setting for iwad path. They can be selected through the MIDI Device entry of the sound options menu. Heretic, Hexen, Strife, Chex Quest and even Hacx are all supported. Now you can use a variety of software synthesizers (FluidSynth, GUS, TiMidity++, WildMIDI) for playback, which make using custom MIDI instruments possible. Gzdoom will actually play any game that runs on the Doom engine.
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