The Crooked Realms - Episode 1: Area 51 v1.3 file

PATCH NOTES

- v1.3 -

General

• Added Skulltag and Realms of the Haunting Textures
• Converted all non UDMF maps to UDMF
• fixed various textures/texture alignments in all maps
• Fixed monster difficulty flags in some level
• Improved blood portals

TCR_BD

• Fixed issue where flamethrowers and demon runes randomly replace infrared goggles
• Fixed issue where Belphegor gets replaced by BD's Belphegor (who is kinda broken)
• Wolfenstein SS Troops are now replaced by BD's Nazis instead of Evil Marines (for episodes 2, 3, and 4)
• Gave BD's gas ammo pickups an actual sprite instead of them being invisible (I'm surprised that Mark hasn't fixed that himself yet since its a droppable ammo type)

E1M0

• Expanded and added new Actors to Monsters and Objects
• Replaced room label texts with floor labels
• Added floor labels in front of each monster in Monsters room
• Replaced the Summoning room with a Music room (since you can just summon stuff in the Monster Arena area)
• Redecorated and added more backpacks to Weapons room
• Added new stuff to Geometry room
• Added new textures to Textures room

E1M1

• Added torches to lava/nukage area
• Remade intermission screen to reflect the level's changes

E1M2

• fixed broken nodes near exit room

E1M3

• Added lamps to blue key room

E1M4

• Fixed issue where Brutal Doom gibs broke the red key trap (Update: jk it's still broken hhhh idk how to fix it since it seems to be an issue with how BD handles it's gib system. Just try not to use explosives to clear that room, sorry. You can still get the red key tho, but you miss out on the rocket launcher in that level.)

E1M5

• Added two Chaingunners behind yellow door
• Added lamps to conveyor belt room
• Removed pointless red doors in red key area
• Removed pointless locking bars outside of water room
• Improved look of blue key room

E1M6

• Added widows to silver Hell Knight room in start building
• Improved "blood pool" swimmability
• Replaced ramps with ladders in lava trench

E1M7

• Replaced trapping mechanism in X Arena rooms with simple lowering teleporters

E1M8

• Fixed unreachable secret issue

E1M9

• Improved fireplace
• Fixed green armor in bathtub issue
• Added ceiling lights to hallway and kitchen
• Improved look of the bathroom

Note: When playing with BD the Cyberdemon might not teleport in when flipping the switch in Linda's grave sometimes. Idk why this is but it doesn't really break anything, you just get to skip that fight and save some cells.

E1M10

• Added more ammo pickups
• Added second healing pool
• Added dead Barrons to Quake church area
• Fixed broken nodes in Astral Dreadnought arena

-v1.2.1-

• Made Ragesphere get replaced with BeserkPack for TCR_BD.wad (Because the demon rune isn't all that great :p).

- v1.2 -

• Added Brutal Doom compatability (TCR_BD.wad, a handfull of sprite/actor renaming, and the issue of E1M9 breaking at the start).
• Changed a handful of small issues in various maps.
• Updated the look of some areas in E1M8
• Added a testing and debugging map (E1M0).

-v1.1-

• Added extra ammo and weapon pickups to E1M2-E1M8.
• Changed a handful of textures and geometry.
• Made not-so-obvious secrets more obvious like the rest.

Happy Valentine's Day AGAIN! It's hard to believe it's been 3 years since I started working on TCR and 1 year since the last update. I didn't even realize that Alpha 1 was ALSO released on Valentines day last year until now lol. I know it must seem like a really long time for a single episode, but a lot has been going on in my life during it's development. Things ranging from post-high-school-graduation depression to doing yard work for money and getting my drivers permit, and E1M10 took way longer to finish than it should have so you better appreciate it. I could go on and on about all that, but I know that's not why you're here.

Change Log: from Alpha 1 to Episode 1

-Maps-

• Map 6 and 7 have been removed and are getting a major makeover for the opening maps of Episode 2
• Maps 1-5 have also received several enhancements to both visuals and gameplay
• Maps are now organized into proper episodes
• Maps 1-5 are now E1M1, E1M3, E1M6, E1M7, and E1M8
• 3 maps from "Just Levels" were given a fresh coat of paint and are now filling the gaps between the original maps. ("Just Levels" was a side project for Ultimate Doom that I started during TCR's early development. It was shortly abandoned after only 3 maps were made. I decided to refurbish them and give them a new home. uwu)
• Added secret and super secret levels that will knock your socks off! ;D (Still surprised that Alpha 1 had a secret exit but no secret levels yet. What was I thinking?)
• Added a bunch of new things that will be fun to mess around with (don't want to give away too much).
• Added difficulty flags for all monsters (it was honestly really confusing to do so if there are any problems with it, let me know).

-Menu Stuff-

• Added new title, intermission, and story screens.
• New title music that I composed myself. ;3
• New M_DOOM graphic for the menu
• Added new difficulty/gamemode to skill level list: Speed Demon! - Fast monsters and 2x the value of health items (Just thought it was a fun idea).

-Other-

• Condensed WAD files into fewer WAD files to improve load time. (That is what that does, right?)
• Condensed story text to fit 4:3 aspect ratio
• New start-up banner text
• Included credits text files in both the ZIP and PK3 files (if I forgot to credit anybody please let me know).

I think that's everything, but I'm probably forgetting something important lol.

-What's coming next?-

• Episode 2 (obviously).
• Coop support? (It may be tricky because of the way some traps and scripts are set up, so we'll see).
• Maybe a fancy Hexen-styled start-up screen?
• Deathmatch maps made from 2 levels from each episode (let me know which maps from E1 you think would work best).
• Brutal Doom compatibility (It messes a few things up currently in a rather annoying way).
• Probably other small goodies idk.

-Notes-

• This was tested with GZDoom 3.5.1. I'm sure it will work just fine on whatever the latest version is, but I do not know if it will work with Zandronum. Things may break, so use at your own risk! (You should totally let me know if there are any issues though so I can maybe fix it).
• TCR is intended to be rendered in OpenGL. If you're gonna run it in either Software or Softpoly mode, be aware that it may break some textures.
• Since Brutal Doom isn't exactly compatible with TCR yet, you're better off using Sergeant_Mark_IV's Bolognese Gore Mod for now.
• Any feedback/bug reports are most appreciated so please let me know in the comments!

I believe that's everything I have to report. Thank you all for checking out The Crooked Realms and for all the support. I've honestly been feeling way more motivated to work on this than I ever have before. Hopefully y'all won't have to wait until next Valentines Day for the next installment of TCR. No promises though lol.

Oh and one last thing. I got another little side project going on for Doom II (hopefully I'll actually finish this one). It's too early to talk about it in detail, but I'm sure it will be a graveyard smash! ;3