Heretic Enhanced seeks to amplify the classic Heretic experience with improved and realistic visuals, lighting, and combat. Various SFX have been taken from Brutal Doom (with Mark's permission), to make Heretic a more visually pleasing and exciting experience with improved decorations and magical effects. Weapons have been brutalized with the 1D8 damage values replaced with static values and recoil plus screen shake effects to make them feel more powerful. While all monster projectiles have been enhanced to be visually pleasing along with particle spawns when they collide with an object.
This Heretic addon adds or modifies:
- Brightmaps for every monster and weapon
- Dynamic lights for all projectiles, fire, explosions, and magical SFX
- High definition liquids, splashes, fire, particles, and explosion SFX from Brutal Doom
- Staff & StaffPowered can perform up to 4-hit combos with primary and altfire combinations
- GoldWand fire rate has increased along with the ammo capacity
- GoldWandPowered now fires like a Quake lightning gun
- CrossbowPowered now fires like a railgun
- BlasterPowered now fires like a shotgun
- HellStaffPowered now fires like a BFG along with the BFGSpray
- FireMace has been replaced with the RavenStaff from Hexen II
- RavenStaff fires a horizontal spread of five explosive projectiles
- RavenStaffPowered fires a horizontal spread of five seekermissile ravens which rip monsters apart
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Brightmaps: Bloodwolf
Graphics/Decal: Water splash decals from Brutal Doom
Graphics/Hires: Lava flat from Brutal Doom
Sounds/RavenStaff: Raven Software
Sounds/Staff: Fast attack sounds from Brutal Doom
Sounds/World: Torch and big splash sounds from Brutal Doom
Sprites/Decorations: Heretic sprites that have been chopped up and modified by Bloodwolf
Sprites/Flames: All from Brutal Doom
Sprites/Flares: All from Brutal Doom
Sprites/Misc: Heretic sprites with a blur and neon glow effect applied by Bloodwolf
Sprites/Monsters: All monster and projectile magic/explosion effects have had a blur and neon glow effect applied by Bloodwolf
Sprites/Monsters/Mummy: FX15* Lost Soul without flames by Jekyll Grim Payne modified by Bloodwolf
Sprites/Particles: All from Brutal Doom
Sprites/SFX: All from Brutal Doom
Sprites/Smoke: All from Brutal Doom
Sprites/Teleport: Heretic sprites with a blur and neon glow effect applied by Bloodwolf
Sprites/Weapons: All weapon and projectile magic effects have had a blur and neon glow effect applied by Bloodwolf
Sprites/Weapons/RavenStaff: Neoworm, Raven Software
Textures: Flat517 has been replaced with Hexen's ice texture
Textures/Liquids: All from Brutal Doom
Ammo.txt: RavenAmmo from Ghastly_dragon and all other modifications by Bloodwolf
Animdefs.txt: Liquid animation defs from Brutal Doom modified by Bloodwolf
Artifacts.txt: Timebomb has had Brutal Doom's explosivebarrel effects added to it
Beast.txt: Beastball has had Brutal Doom's flametrail and explosion effects added to it
Blaster.txt: Code modified by Bloodwolf
Blood.txt: Created Mummyblood (dust) using smoke from Brutal Doom
Clink.txt: Brutal Doom's explosivebarrel effects added to the monster's death
Crossbow.txt: Powered projectile turned into a railgun shot with Brutal Doom's railgun effects
Decaldef.Terrain: Added Brutal Doom's decaldefs for water splash effects
Decaldef.txt: Code modified by Bloodwolf
Decorations.txt: Added Brutal Doom's fire and particle effects to Heretic's decorations
Dsparil.txt: Added Brutal Doom's particle and explosion effects to projectile and Dsparil's death
Fire.txt: Added many Brutal Doom fire and lava actors
Flares.txt: Added Brutal Doom flare actors
Gauntlets.txt: Code modified by Bloodwolf
GLDefs.txt: Ravenstaff definitions by Ghastly_dragon
Others created by Bloodwolf after Brutal Doom's style
GoldWand.txt: Code modified by Bloodwolf
HereticImp.txt: HereticImpBall has had Brutal Doom's flametrail and explosion effects added to it
HereticMisc.txt: Pod has had Brutal Doom's explosion effects added to it's death
Ironlich.txt: Monster's death and projectiles have had Brutal Doom's fire and particle effects added
Knight.txt: Code modified by Bloodwolf
Minotaur.txt: Projectiles have had Brutal Doom's flametrail and explosion effects added to them
Mummy.txt: MummyFX1 has had Brutal Doom's Lostsoul effects added to it
Particles.txt: Added Brutal Doom particle actors
Phoenixrod.txt: Projectiles have had Brutal Doom's effects added to them
RavenStaff.txt: Code by Ghastly_dragon with slight modifications by Bloodwolf
Scripts.txt: Added Brutal Doom's floortype checker for splash effects
Skullrod.txt: Code modified by Bloodwolf
Smoke.txt: Added Brutal Doom smoke actors
Snake.txt: Projectiles have had Brutal Doom effects added to them
Splashes.txt: Added Brutal Doom splash actors for the applicable liquids
Staff.txt: Code modified by Bloodwolf
Terrain.txt: Code modified by Bloodwolf
Textures: Remapped lava textures to Brutal Doom LAVAFL texture
Tokens.txt: Tokens for L and R strikes with the staff and "isover..." tokens for splash effects from Brutal Doom
Wizard.txt: Projectiles have had Brutal Doom's effects added to them
Looks good! Any chance of making something like this for Hexen? :3
I thought about it, recently played through Hexen as a fighter and then started working on Death Knights of the Dark Citadel as a Cleric and said, "screw Hexen'. I was not having fun so, I don't see myself ever returning to Hexen specially DKDC.
Looks cool! Not entirely compatible with Reikall's Heretic Voxels but the new sprites and effects are worth it :)
Very nice and the effects are amazing! Is there a chance to add an optional addon to have the original Firemace (but better balanced for this mod) instead of the Ravenstaff?
Idk how I would make it better. I think the firemace is a just silly dumb weapon like Raven ran out of ideas for what to make the last weapon and came up with that goofy thing.
We need an universal water /liquid enhancer for heretic !