DE-GRINDER! Remove tedium from your DOOMing, make Slaughtermaps easier

[Doomkid]

Have you ever been playing through a map, and thought that despite being fun, it was a bit of a grind?

 

Well, fret no longer! Introducing...

 

 

 

DE-GRINDER is a simple little mod, compatible with vanilla Doom & all source ports. It cuts every single enemy's health directly in half, other than the Icon of Sin/Romero head, meaning WADs where you have to go through wave after wave of meaty baddies will take substantially less time. Cut down on the slog without cutting down on the fun!

 

This also provides a great set of training wheels for players who may struggle with difficulty in certain Doom maps. If you are new to the game, or maybe just new to slaughtermaps, this will help get you up to speed and allow you to enjoy WADs that would normally a bit too much to bite off.

 

I have included a secondary version, simply called DGRIND2, that also reduces the ammo pickups (other than rockets since that's impossible in vanilla) to help maintain consistency. This is only for the players who are concerned about levels becoming too easy with the weaker baddies.

 

Note: the .DEH file is ONLY needed for Vanilla or Chocolate Doom. Advanced source ports such as PrBoom+ or ZDoom-family ports only need the .WAD file.

 

Download DE-GRINDER here: https://doomshack.org/uploads/DGRINDER.ZIP

 

Enjoy!

[TheNoob_Gamer]

Looks fun!
 

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Will surely go well with Fragile-Violence :)

 

[elend]

Haha, damn. My new go-to companion WAD for slaughter maps! Finally I can play them, too! Maybe...

[Doom_Dude]

Ahhh cool idea Mr. Doomkid and I like the logo.

Edited July 1, 2020 by Doom_Dude

[Andromeda]

Now I can finally OHKO Cyberdemons with the BFG :)

[VanaheimRanger]

I am 100% behind this idea!  I'm coming for you Sunder!

[Doomkid]

Oh man, it really makes wads like that a breeze. If I hadn't already taken the name Powertrip for RR2, I would definitely have used it for this!

[xvertigox]

This mod is a great example of how important presentation is when it comes to mods. This is a functionally simple mod but if somebody made a small, text only post with boring name I wouldn't give it a second look. Great work @Doomkid

[UndeadRyker]

Nice! It can also be great for learning your way around a map on its harder difficulty placements by actually playing it instead of constantly dying or cheating. I think it would also be cool if there was an optional addon on top of this that also cut your max health in half!

[FrancisT218]

This ought to help get through stuff like Akeldama faster, as well...

 

However maybe do a version that cuts health/armor pickups too, something like: +15% medkit; +6% stimpack; 60% green armor; 120% blue armor; +60% supercharge; 120%/120% megasphere; Berserk boosts health to 60%; invuln/invis last 20 sec instead of 30 sec; max health/armor is 120%

Edited July 22, 2020 by FrancisT18

[Endless]

Now I can play Holy Hell Revealed.

Oh wait

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My potato laptop cant

 

Edited July 23, 2020 by Endless

[TheNoob_Gamer]

29 minutes ago, Endless said:

 

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My potato laptop cant

 

Try switching to PRBoom+ for a while then ;)

[Nevander]

Excellent and simple idea. Bullet sponge and tanky monsters are sometimes no fun at all especially in large numbers. Reducing health of monsters is a great way to make crazy slaughtermaps more balanced, perhaps dare I say enjoyable.

[TheNoob_Gamer]

4 hours ago, FrancisT18 said:

 

However maybe do a version that cuts health/armor pickups too, something like: +15% medkit; +6% stimpack; 60% green armor; 120% blue armor; +60% supercharge; 120%/120% megasphere; Berserk boosts health to 60%; invuln/invis last 20 sec instead of 30 sec; max health/armor is 120%

That will sacrifice multiport compatiblity as Vanilla Dehacked is impossible to achieve such things.

[Good-Old]

On 7/1/2020 at 4:19 PM, TheNoob_Gamer said:

Looks fun!
 

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Will surely go well with Fragile-Violence :)

 

1\2 hp XD

[Clippy]

I'm going to have to rename my 2 cyberdemons map to "2 half cyberdemons"

[DuckReconMajor]

If you wanted a re-match of Duck vs Sunder MAP01 all you gotta do was ask! And make a mod that gives all the enemies half health.

 

 

[Andromeda]

7 minutes ago, DuckReconMajor said:

If you wanted a re-match of Duck vs Sunder MAP01 all you gotta do was ask! And make a mod that gives all the enemies half health.

 

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That hell knight double kill at ~3:00 was beautiful!

[elend]

Is this actually working, I still can't beat Sunder Map01. xDDD FML.

[Clippy]

 

[Endless]

Hey hey, sorry for the bigass necrobump, but I was wondering if a push for a Heretic version would be possible? Would be great to have it, since Heretic suffers even more from way too tanky enemies than Doom.

[Shepardus]

14 minutes ago, Endless said:

Hey hey, sorry for the bigass necrobump, but I was wondering if a push for a Heretic version would be possible? Would be great to have it, since Heretic suffers even more from way too tanky enemies than Doom.

I think the main problem is what editing standard would you use. Barely any source ports support HHE, Heretic's DeHackEd equivalent. If you target ZDoom it'd be simple though, I think Ultimate Custom Doom can already do this (not to mention there are other Heretic gameplay mods such as The Wayfarer's Tome).