Korax Mod 5.0 file

Korax Mod 5 is single player only. We made a mod 10+ years ago that allows you to play cooperative with your friends in some Hexen and Heretic maps, it's called Korax Arena.

I just uploaded a short video showing how to install Korax Mod 5 if you have Hexen from Steam.

What is the exact resolution you are trying to set? Can you post a screenshot of the setup tool after you entered the numbers for height, width and aspect ratio and the tool says configuration saved but before you hit Enter to return to the main menu?

1) There are no switches there any more, unless you play on Old school RPG complexity.
2) The stairs rise at the same point as always, when you push buttons in the latter half of the Guardian maps.
3) The seventh portal opens either 30 seconds after you enter the map (complexity Off), or after you throw the first switch on Guardian of Ice (the one that creates the portal back) (complexity Standard), or after you solve 1/3 of the initial puzzle (pressing one of the three third of puzzle switches on either Guardian of Fire or Guardian of Steel) (complexity Old School). At that point, you can grab the Wings of Wrath, fly up to the central structure in the map, and throw any switches you want.

The central structure of the Seven Portals map has a total of 5 switches: 2 that look like the puzzle switches and open a door each on the Guardian of Ice, and 3 with a bull's head on them which all needed to be pulled in vanilla Hexen to open the seventh portal.

The puzzle switches are still there on all complexities, as they are needed to enter some areas of the hub. The three switches for the seventh portal are hidden on RPG complexity Off and Standard. They are still there on Old school, but don't need to be pulled.

Also, the Wings are not a requirement, they are just making your life easier exactly like in vanilla Hexen. The only difference is you get access to them much earlier in most hubs.

Important: scripts have been modified in all maps to allow the player to skip many puzzles. However, every single puzzle and sequence can still be completed in the exact same way as in vanilla Hexen, if you wish to. You can first solve the 3/3 puzzle behind the first Fire and Steel doors, then enter the second Ice door, unlock the second Fire and Steel doors, solve 2/2 of the other puzzle, raise all 3 sets of stairs, and make the "stones grind" on the Seven Portals map, allowing access to the Bright Crucible. What has changed is that due to new built-in shortcuts (and crouching) you can now explore hubs in a completely different order than in vanilla Hexen. After finishing the revamp, I spent weeks trying to break things by choosing unexpected routes and so built in a lot of contingencies. If you think you are really stuck, send me the savegame and I'll check.

Thanks for the feedback!

I'll investigate the Spirits Within message issue.

The sidekicks are not dumb, they just don't care. ;) Make sure to avoid their line of fire, at which point you'll see you can just let them take care of the area they patrol.

Afrit Leaders don't regenerate health, they just stop taking damage for a short time.

As for mists, in many places you should be able to jump over them or edge out of the way. Monsters take damage from the mists too, which you can use to your advantage (especially toxic mists, which stunlock some enemies).

You made the right decision: just play the difficulty setting that feels comfortable, no matter what it's called.

Some math regarding those Magma Serpents: if all three of the fireballs of a Magma Serpent attack hit you, they cause 240 points of unmitigated Fire damage. This is reduced by 20 percent if you picked an armor in camp that has no fire resistance, and by 80 percent if you picked the fire resistance armor. Fire is the most common damage type for which there is a resistance available, so when in doubt, ALWAYS PICK FIRE! :) In that case, a full hit would be 48 damage, which should be nowhere near lethal by that point.

Porting to GZDoom would mean cutting half the unique features, starting with the monster AI which is at the core of the Korax Mod 5 experience (try playing vanilla Hexen after KMOD5 and you'll surely see what I mean).

I've found the "issue" with the Spirits Within messages:

1. If you don't have enough Faith, it says so (this is correct).

2. If you have enough Faith, it checks your player level and your charisma and sets a maximum power for the spell based on those.

3. If there are more corpses within range than the maximum power of the spell, it'll say "spirits within failed" but still cast it, activating some of the corpses and not deducting Faith

4. If there are fewer (incl. zero) corpses within range than the maximum power of the spell, it'll say "spirits within activated" and deduct the Faith cost, regardless of whether any corpses have been popped.

I'll improve the gameplay logic and messaging of this for KMOD 5.1.

Thanks for your feedback. With "code", do you mean DECORATE?

Have you watched the video how to install it?