KickAss Duke or KADuke is a gameplay modification, enriching Duke Nukem 3d with a large amount of features.
The major cores are weapons, inventory and gore, featuring +30 weapons and +10 items, new and old ones but all recoded, while violence got very improved with physics and more particles and effects.
Also, KADuke gives D3D a bit of modern-rethinking, due to many modern games, mods and TCs in last 10-15 years which served as inspiration; at the same time it proposes to bring back some Lameduke/beta scrapped materials and ideas.
All the new items replace randomly original pickups , so no map is touched. It is designed for playing original episodes and usermaps.
This mod will be gradually enriched of many features planned (and mostly done, but put away ATM), like new enemies, other gore features, items, weapons, maybe some maps and episodes with special objects; so, many updates are expected. There will be some fixes and suggestions to follow, for sure.
A more complete list of KADuke features:
- more than 30 weapons in total, where the original 9 have been improved... various features: legit alien drops, reloading, alternate fire, shared/multiple ammo, recoil, diminishing accuracy, better bobbing, status-inflicting
- Improved melee fighting , replacing slot 1 Knee with fists, kicks and WASD combos
- 11 items for the inventory, recoded from zero
- The "Brutal Engine" : MORE blood, stayput jibs and pools, physics on corpses and jibs with explosions, hit detection with injuries (only headshots for the moment)
- New sounds and visual effects, expecially for weapons
- New KADuke-brand HUD
- Various improvements to enemies
- Various gameplay enhancements: step sounds, stamina, double tap evasion, lookleft/right
- Some aestethic improvements
- KickAss options menu : violence settings, hud and crosshair settings, item drop mode and so on
- The "Djuke Box" for selecting music from other levels while playing
- Various fixes
Also check KADuke thread on Duke4.net.
Do not forget the readme file for important infos, expecially for installation and controls.
Now go and enjoy new badass methods for ass-kicking !!
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KickAss Duke is a general enhancement mod featuring 30+ new weapons and items, a new gore system (which fans of the many Brutal DOOM-adjacent submods out there will be right at home with), as well as more particles and effects for a visual spectacle in every gunfight. Designed to be as modular as possible and for maximum compatibility with the original maps and custom maps, it's a great addition to many of the custom level packs available for DN3D.
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If you're a long-time Duke Nukem fan or someone who recently played DN3D, and just wanted more Duke, then the WG Mega Pack has you covered in spades - thirty seven new levels across four episodes, including a deathmatch map for the competitively inclined, play within the vanilla DN3D sandbox and find creative ways to teach an old Duke new tricks.
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Fans have already been doing remarkable work with the released build of Duke Nukem Forever dating back to 2001, and other Duke Nukem titles like Endangered Species or DN3D: Reloaded have also been in the minds of modders and may yield similarly impressive restoration efforts as time goes on. One thing remains certain - even after all these years, we can still bet on Duke.
Files
KickAssDuke 1.14
Patch 35 commentsSmall patch with some improvements to the controls section and a few fixes like missing (custom) Skyboxes and some crosshair stuff.
KickAssDuke 1.13
Patch 22 commentsMid-patch with some critical fixes that needed to be done - issues on Anarxitical City, Android support, controller support, compile failures
KickAssDuke 1.11
Patch 1 commentFirst patch after 1.1 version, solving various bugs and adding a few improvements.
KickAssDuke 1.1
Patch 15 commentsA big update with many improvements, six new weapons and a bonus episode !
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Hi there to all Dukers!
This is the year i'm going to invest more time on this project, both in development and in more medias, as i did not before. I also want to thank everyone who is supporting and liking this project, it also went on front page of Duke mods for 27th anniversary and it's some kind of "achievement" i did not expect about, as the success of the mod as well. It's still an ongoing adventure after 4 years and after ups and downs, but i keep working when life allows me to do that ;)
So let's talk about the upcoming features for the very next release, long-time asked and never discussed:
- Global major polishing
The mod is actually "ancient", as it has some assets and code from its very early days in 2007. I want to give HUD a more clear show of informations, expecially about different modes or ammunitions, and weapons have clearly different effort spent on them at the actual state, so some will receive their art polished (or remade), or a functionality revamp like reloading feature or alt-fire.
I also want to rewrite much of the code for better management, more functionality, bug fixing and getting advantage of Eduke features i did not explore yet.
- More weapons
Six new weapons along with proper ammunitions: Microwave Gun, Lightning Gun, Laser Beam Cannon, Photon Gun, Multi-Warhead Mortar and Sticky Mine Launcher.
- KickAss Tour episode revamp
A +35 episode can be a quite long obstacle to be completed, so i want to split it into different smaller episodes which can be started from a common hub.
- Inventory slot system
Inventory items are going to increase in number in next updates, so i want to introduce a slot mode to assign the predefined quick keys to other items.
- Improved weapon selection
I took inspiration from some user advices/request to give two more different ways to select weapons: one where weapon is first chosen then drawn (like HL) and one cursor-based, like the ring in modern games.
- More alien elements
Some elements are not expected to be found in alien worlds, so the auto-replacement will now include the notorious Scorpion Tank (from pig tank), Lizard Sniper (from pig cop) and alien access panels/keys.
- More game options
For sure there will be an option for disabling stamina (Ah, yes) with some gameplay re-balance, and to remove recoil as someone had little seizure with screen shaking
This is what i want to do for the next release but a LOT of new content is expected for the future updates, so keep kicking arses and stay tuned ! Thank you again !
Groovy! I like the stuff about new enemies(?). I've seen a lot of sprites of edited DN monsters out there. A pity I never seen them in any mod.
New enemies and variants will surely come, but i planned to put the most of them in the very last updates, which will be focused on alien content.
Sweet! Wish I could help on it somehow but I don't know **** about spriting or DN3D modding, besides some basic map edits.
Hey RichardStorm will the game options possibly be added to the Duke3D Main Menu for Eduke32? Just asking IMO.
It can be done, but it's a waaay more complex branch of code i did not deal with yet.
What edition of Duke 3d is this for (atomic, megaton, world tour)? I ask this because the skybox fallows the screen in a weird way. Maybe it's the graphics settings (polymer or polymost)?
It is designed for Atomic version running on Eduke32 (the one included in the mod package), and i recently "forced" polymost renderer to avoid visual bugs and resource issues.
Still wondering what's coming on the next update.
Just made a mega post, enjoy ;)
Hey RichardStorm, i have a suggestion. Would you like to help with RPD Guy on working on a Brutal Duke mod for Eduke32?
Hey there - we used to talk about merging our mods a very long ago, before he released his mod; now i don't know that mod status, i might check with him