Elementalism Phase 1 Full Release v1.3 file

Holy **** it's here

Nice, congrats on the release!

I remember earlier plans were for all the weapons to be replaced with new, thematic ones, not just the BFG. Is that still an eventuality or will the arsenal stay mostly Doom 2's?

I was very excited for this mod, so today I downloaded it and gave it a rather thorough testing. The visuals are gorgeous, but there is a bit of a stuttering problem in all of the outdoor areas... that is to say that they run a bit on the choppy side... and this is on a PC that has been running Elden Ring on maximum settings with no issues. I used the OpenGL renderer, but I also tried it using the OpenGL ES renderer. With OpenGL ES there is no stuttering or choppiness, but the visuals are messed up in places, such as the shafts of light in the caves, which look cut in half. Those look normal in regular OpenGL. I could not test with Vulkan, since for some weird reason Vulkan always freezes GZDoom whenever I select it as the renderer (though it works with Wolfenstein: Blade of Agony's version of GZDoom). In any case, if it is possible to solve the stuttering an choppiness in Elementalism when using OpenGL I would most certainly call this mod a masterpiece. I loved the Aztec-themed Earth area especially! It is just too bad I could not play more due to the mentioned issues.

I was very excited for this mod, so today I downloaded it and gave it a rather thorough testing. The visuals are gorgeous, but there is a bit of a stuttering problem in all of the outdoor areas... that is to say that they run a bit on the choppy side... and this is on a PC that has been running Elden Ring on maximum settings with no issues. I used the OpenGL renderer, but I also tried it using the OpenGL ES renderer. With OpenGL ES there is no stuttering or choppiness, but the visuals are messed up in places, such as the shafts of light in the caves, which look cut in half. Those look normal in regular OpenGL. I could not test with Vulkan, since for some weird reason Vulkan always freezes GZDoom whenever I select it as the renderer (though it works with Wolfenstein: Blade of Agony's version of GZDoom). In any case, if it is possible to solve the stuttering an choppiness in Elementalism when using OpenGL I would most certainly call this mod a masterpiece. I loved the Aztec-themed Earth area especially! It is just too bad I could not play more due to the mentioned issues.

Update: I decided to try Elementalism using GZDoom v4.6.0 which was the version Blade of Agony uses, the one I can use Vulkan in. I played extensively in v4.6.0 with Vulkan as the renderer and all was perfect. No stuttering or choppiness whatsoever, and all visuals were correct. So, yeah this is indeed a masterpiece! But you just might want to include a mention that Vulkan may be the preferred renderer for folks to choose when running this.

Myself, I read the above posts and tried what they said to do in them, I downloaded GZDoom version 4_6_0 and I set it to use Vulkan. I played through the first two levels of the Earth realm with no problems whatsoever. But when I got to "E3: Betwixt the Thicket" I did encounter a serious bug. I went into the underground part of the level, got the red and blue keys, and eventually was able to teleport to where the yellow key was. All was pretty normal up until I wound up back in the outside part of the level, where a new wave of foes had spawned. I was in the process of blasting them when I got a hard freeze while fighting a Revenant. Hard freeze, as in I had to actually restart my PC. My PC is only a year old, my graphics card is an NVIDIA GTX 1660 Super, and like the above poster I have not any problems running the latest games, like Elden Ring (I think everyone's playing that right now! Lol). So, there does seem to be an issue with this mod. I've run all kinds of intensive Doom mods previously, including the Doom Slayer Chronicles, and I had no freezing. I did notice that even with Vulkan, there was some minor slowdown of some sort on the Betwixt the Thicket level, so using Vulkan does not seem to fix ALL of the reported stutter. Which is sad, beacuse this is otherwise a truly amazing mod with a lot of potential. The first area reminded me a bit of the Ancient Aliens mod someone did a while back (just a little bit), which is something I liked a lot about it. I was playing in order, so I have no idea if there are freezing issues in the Water or Fire realms, but definitely Earth has that bug.

OMG! This mod is amazing! I feel like I was transported to an actual place. You guys did an amazing job. And I'm so glad the Doom modding community ius still going strong. Great job to everyone who worked on this. I have had no issues whatsoever so far.

Edit: Hmmm, it says I'm a guest, but I registered AND confirmed my email. Anyway, it's anim8r99. Shout outs to Xoap, Toke, 999cop, Picklehammer, Fodders, and all the other folks I used to Doom with. Hope u r all well.

Holy good god xD

I totally love this mod... a lot of parts remind me of that old game Eternal Darkness, especially once you get into the underground regions of the Earth realm with the lost city and all that. Me, how I got mine to work is I just use the latest version of GZDoom (1.7.1, I think it is up to now). A bit of advice to the above two novel-length guest posters: 1. If you've installed Reshade before for OpenGL and then try to run Vulkan it will crash on loading GZDoom. Me, that is why I use two installed instances of GZDoom and have Reshade for both but on one it is set up for OpenGl with the other being exclusively for Vulkan. I only play Elementalism on the Vulkan variant of GZDoom version 1.7.1, which solves any and all problems. And 2. Do not try to play this mod on an older version of GZDoom such as the 1.6.0. version. I tried that too, with horrible results. I hope my humble advice helps! Anyway, this mod is incredible... it actually feels like I am playing a whole new game. Thanks for creating this work of video game art! :)

add support for gameplay mods please, i played this with guncaster and it rocks

Hmmm, it does appear that there really IS a freezing issue with this mod. For me, it just happened in the Lost City level, in the huge outdoor segment (I think it is the fourth Earth level). I had gotten the yellow key and fought a small army of demons afterward, and I was just sort of walking around, going up the ramps and working my way back through the area when suddenly a hard freeze hit. The same kind of freeze that the two rather long guest posts talked about, where it made it so I had to restart my PC. I was sad to experience this, since I had just been thinking how amazing that level looked when this happened. I do hope this can be fixed, since otherwise Elementalism is pretty much flawless. :)

Now this is wild

Is there a way to skip the text intro? I like the lore, but I don't need to re-read it every time I restart the mod.

Hi do u have a discord server?

a big problem it's way to laggy it's basically unplayable espacially the fire world

Finally! I figured out exactly what was making my game freeze. It was my silly video card driver, which I had neglected to update since practically *forever*. I updated it last night, tried this mod again, and it was perfect this time... no freezing whatsoever in any of the levels. Prior to the video card update, I had freezing in the game Remnant - From the Ashes too but now that also works without any issues. So, thank goodness for that! Elementalism is a really super fun mod now that I was able to delve into it big time... very hard to pick a favorite level from it per se. I think the elemental wand is awesome... the semi-scarcity of its' powers makes using it very strategic, which is interesting. And the custom UI is cool, I like mods that add interesting new touches like that! I have not beaten this mod yet, but so far it is an amazing journey. Thanks again for making it and uploading it for us to play!

what is the difference between this version and version 1.01?

I have issue using it with newest project brutality 3.0
When I take the magic staff the stones starts to glow, but while it is happening and also after that, my character just starts sliding on the ground all the time I'm unable to move properly just hitting walls, and I cannot enter any portal. After several dashes my movement is totally blocked.

i, gonna try running this under qcde, hopefully it wont load over anything important

How many Ram I Need to Play this Mods?

why not make this compatible with weapon mods, i mean the weapons are practically vanilla except the scepters who can be changed to become standalone weapons

When playing with Final Doomer, everything works fine except the starter pistol. It just stays as the default version but picking up bullet ammo doesn't give it more ammo, just the chaingun slot

I can't ******* believe that I'm still having problems with gzDoom in 2023... Year after year the same CRAP...

I wanted to load your map with gzdoom latest version, already configured with Reshade+Vulkan. Everything working fine (testing with Mapwich which is a heavy mod)

Something in the PK3 file itself, or something in gzdoom (I don't know), is forcing this specific Elementalism mod to only load using OpenGL. It refuses to load using Vulkan, which I use in my laptop to avoid framerate slowdowns (very effectively might I add, **** you)

What could be the cause of this specific mod "forcing" OpenGL? How can this be changed?
I already tried opening the mod in Slade and can't find anything that would fix it. I was able to enable the IWAD selection screen once again (in that screen I can specify Vulkan in the button) but even then seems like the mod will load Vulkan and ignore my Autoexec commands (framerate counter on corner of the screen in this case, it's the only thing I have inside my Autoexec.cfg)

Why would a Doom mod like this ignore my Autoexec.cfg file?
It must be the first time in all these years that I see something so utterly bizarre happening in the gzdoom modding scene. And I've seen plenty over the years.
Any suggestions?
I wanna try your mod, but I won't use gzdoom stock settings. I wanna use Reshade to bumb up Contrast, Saturation and Sharpness. There's no reason for me to have an INFERIOR experience while playing Doom mods in general. Absolutely no reason.

Short version:
The mod seems to be forcing my gzdoom to load only in OpenGL (I need Vulkan, otherwise my FPS is 13 on the initial screen)
How can I avoid that happening?

And why is this mod ignoring what I have inside my Autoexec.cfg file?
How is this even possible?

Thank you!! Playing Doom Since 1994!! and still fun!!!.

Does this have coop support?