Live Through DOOM - Survival Gameplay mod

Ah, the good old Doom, those were the days. Played it since I was I child. But what changed from back then? Graphics in gaming became more beautiful, year after year, and the gameplay evolved. Replaying doom felt nostalgic, but not as creepy and hard as the first time, when I couldn't aim and ended up wasting a lot of ammo for no reason. It was still a lot of fun but something was missing... the survival horror atmosphere, the sense of costant danger... gone. Is anyone with me here? Ah, those were the days... but modern gaming brought some nice things too. Just think of Brutal Doom, the awesome mod from Sergeant_Mark_IV. Adds so many good gameplay mechanics and eyecandy... So what to do? What to do?

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It's a STAND ALONE GZDOOM-only mod that merges Brutal Doom's modern gameplay with many new features that will make it closer to a survival horror game and give a sense of novelty and replayability to the good old games AND custom maps!

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FULL CHANGELOG HERE

(uses SGT_Mark IV's Brutal Doom as a base):

• BRAND NEW CRAFTING SYSTEM:

• Fully animated crafting station, immersive reagents combining system, and LOTS of craftable items. Full current recipes list HERE
  
  

• IMMERSIVE SURVIVAL EXPERIENCE:

• Lots of new atmospheric sound to make your surroundings creepier, plenty of new animations for performing a lot of actions like: bandaging yourself, injecting stimpacks, wearing gas masks, tripping on the ground due to severe wounds, coughing, checking your ammo, new sounds for simulating the player's reaction to different types of wounds, tiredness, etc.
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• QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS:

• You can assign weapons to a "favorite" slot, and link different throwable explosives to the "quick toss grenade" keybind. Custom HUDS give you all the informations you need to play the mod without cluttering your visibility (useless elements of the HUD will disappear when you don't need them)
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• HORROR ATMOSPHERE:

• Customizable lighting settings to set your ideal mood; Creepy ambience sounds that play randomly during your playthroughs; A lot of new sounds for monsters, to make them more unsettling.
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• AMMUNITION REBALANCE:

• Ammo spawns completely overhauled to be more scarce on most difficulty levels, including the maximum you can carry.
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• REVAMPED GAMEPLAY BALANCE:

• Most weapons now do more damage but ammo will be more scarce, or weapons will have a heavier recoil. Most mid-to-high tier monsters are generally more resistant, although they'll have weakpoints. Some of them will even have armor values, so be sure to pick the right weapon to dispose of them efficiently!
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• LOTS OF NEW WEAPONS:

• Revolvers, claymore mines, unstable chemical vials etc. Most of old weapon have also be rebalanced, reskinned or overhauled with new fire modes and handling, for a more realistic and smart gameplay feel, where each weapon will have its own purpose in the game and the right situation to be used in.
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• BLEEDING WOUNDS, POISON, LACERATIONS:

• You can now suffer from bleeding wounds inflicted by claws and bites, and you will also bleed to death if Your health conditions are too poor. Different items like bandages and medical supplies can stop the bleeding with a FULLY ANIMATED HEALING action. You can also be poisoned by certain enemies, poisonous gas and nukage (although the last one can be disabled from the options if some player thinks it's too much for them). This will lead to coughing blood, temporary blurred vision, loss of balance, etc.
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• FUEL AND DURABILITY:

• Melee weapons won't last forever: the chainsaw, the axe, and the new Knife will have durability and fuel. You can use FUEL TANKS to refill chainsaws, flamethrowers and napalm launchers, or carry them with you for when you actually need them... or you can just shoot them and watch the world burn.
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• SUPPLY CRATES:

• Find keys on former humans' corpses and use them to get some useful equipment! (with a custom 3D voxel made from scratch)
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• SACRIFICAL ALTARS:

• Find a sacrifical dagger and then search for a beating demonic heart to sacrifice at an hell pillar to acquire demonic powers!
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• RANDOMIZED LOOT:

• Ammo, health, weapon and artifact spawn points are now randomized. You'll never find the same stuff in the same map, but you'll also never find a BFG instead of a Shotgun. I tried my best to make this partial randomization balanced.
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• RANDOMIZED MONSTERS:

• Many enemies now have rarer variants, with the chance to spawn in place of the normal ones. Some monsters will also spawn under specific conditions. For example, be careful when venturing in dark areas or hellish/volcanic enviroments!
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• MANY NEW USEFUL ITEMS:

• Both in the form of istant pickups and items to be used from your inventory: flares, bandages, portable sentry turrets, night visors, armor moduels, experimental battle drugs, and many more!
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• MANY DIFFICULTY SETTINGS:

• Choose your ideal playstyle! This mod is NOT conceived to be played at normal difficulty settings (Hurt me plenty, Ultraviolence, etc.). You still can, but an experienced player will probably find them too easy, or with too much generous equipment spawns.
  If you're a newcomer to this kind of gameplay, I recommend you to play on "Lone marine" or "Blood Marathon". If you're looking for a real survival horror experience, try "We Unhappy Few" or the easier (but still challenging) "Scavenger".
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• NEW PLAYER CLASSES:

• Play as a revamped version of Brutal Doom's old classes, or search for a real challenge trying the "Survivalist" or "the Scientist"! Each own with their own gameplay style, pros and cons.
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• REWARD CRATE:

• Kill every monster in a map to receive a crate full of useful items and/or ammo that you can carry around before opening! Can be a lifesaver when playing in Survivalist mode. This feature can also be turned off, for the most daring ones!
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• REBALANCED ARMOR:

• New armor types, with different damage absorption percentages. The higher the tier, the less the pain! Also, armor has a crucial role in mitigating/nullifying the effects of bleeding wounds. You can even mount special modules on them to give them further special functionalities, like a portable life support module that will slowly heal your wounds, or a motion sensor to keep track of your enemies' position! Be aware though: if your armor breaks, so will the modules mounted on it. Craft some armor shards or scavenge for some armor bonuses to repair it!
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• MANAGE YOUR LIGHT SOURCES:

• This mod is intended to be played with dark lighting settings. If you do this, you'll still find a couple of way to see where you're going: flashlight now consumes " energy cells" over time, or if you find some, you could recharge them with lithium batteris. Flares can be dropped on the ground or you can light one up and take it with you...and night vision goggles are finally useful! (Of course you can cheat with the gamma correction but... meh. Should you play this mod if you want to do that?)
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• MANY, MANY NEW 2D SPRITES AND SOUNDS:

• A lot of old sprites and sounds have been replaced, and there are also completely new ones fit the new items and ammunitions included in this mod.
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• REWORKED BERSERKER PACK:

• You become a mindless and almost unstoppable beast for 40 seconds, then you'll start to feel dizzy... better find a place to catch your breath!
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• BUG FIXES:

• Lots of them. And still not enough. Oh no, no, very far from it.

Launch this with ZDL or another mod manager for Doom. Once the game is launched, there are some things I advise you to do before playing (In the future I plan to make most of these operations automatic):

- LIGHTING:

Go to the MOD OPTIONS, then from the LiTDOOM options, take advantage of the included light & fog mod to make your doom look perfect to you. The mod adds many items like flares and ACTUALLY USEFUL night vision goggles, so if you want to play the mod as intended, set your game to leave the dark areas of the levels actually dark... or not. Your choice.

- CUSTOMIZE YOUR KEYBINDINGS:

There are some new commands from brutal doom and other ones that will cut some features out if you don't use them. Also remember to rebind inventory navigation keys.

- If you want to use the "full helmet" HUD (from the Brutal Doom's Player Options) you may have to scale it to fullscreen (from the hud scaling options). This is how you do it ---> CLICK HERE

• Collectable data logs that you can read from your personal in-game infopad, explaining the new implemented gameplay features of the mod in a very lore-friendly way.
  
• Difficulty settings rebalance (there are too many hard and unnecessary ones I use for experimenting).
• Better Hitboxes for some monsters.
• More items, more weapons, more mechanics, more monsters, MORE EVERYTHING!
• Bug fixes... yeah, more of them. They NEVER STOP.
  
  
  

• ***** SEPULCHER-BLACK
  ***** Dark Ambient Music
  ***** PSX soundtrack
  ***** Doom Ambient Pack
  for SPOOKY ambient music.
  
• ***** IMMERSE
  The leaning feature really helps while exploring infested techbase corridors...
• ***** ANY map pack that doesn't alter gameplay, monsters and stuff like that. You could try merging them, but expect troubles.
  
  
• ***** Most graphics, textures, and other visual mods and addon are completely compatible with this.

• ***** Gameplay mods, Total Conversions and other standalone gameplay mods (duh).
  
  
• ***** Map packs with bad game design: ok, jokes aside. This mod is not balanced to let you survive when you are forced to stay in a 3x3m space with hundreds of monsters teleporting behind you. Many mappers do that kind of stuff.
  
  
• ***** Slaughter maps: please don't do that to yourself.
  
  

Full credits can be viewed inside the mod's main menu. Tell me if someone is missing from the list.

I'm still a very inexperienced modder, but I'm doing my best to improve. Right now the mod is still in beta, so it has many flaws that I plan to refine with enough time. Your help will be very appreciated: if you encounter bugs, problems and other things you "would have done better" feel free to give me feedbacks, critics or ask me anything, and I'll surely give you my attention.

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