Liberosis (WIP)

[Decay]

 

Liberosis is a current WIP solo project of mine. It aims to bring the spirit of NeonDM to vanilla doom by making extensive use of palette edits and colour.

 

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If you liked Bourgeois Megawad, you'll probably like this as it follows the same principles and brings over the wonderful weapons. Short, punchy maps.

Weapon changes

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Pistol: Faster rate of fire, 100% accurate

Shotgun: Slightly increased rate of fire

Super Shotgun: vanilla

Chaingun: very fast rate of fire

Rocket Launcher: Faster projectile speed

Plasma: Faster projectile speed

Chainsaw/berserk: OP as FUCK

 

 

Old - maybe I will still do this, maybe not.

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Skill settings

 

This wad will implement 3 distinct skills. They are not reflections of actual difficulty, rather they are different game modes and change the map pathing/geometry/thing placement. Each skill category will be a different route/experience.

 

Skill 0/1 - Slaughter-esque style play. I've never made a slaughter map, I don't particularly like slaughter maps, but if you like killing a lot of demons, this skill is for you

Skill 2 - Doom 1 PSX style (no SSG, few doom 2 monsters)

Skill 3/4 - Standard Doom 2

 

Demo example

 

What is to come?

Total of 7 maps, most on their way to completion

Ideally an original soundtrack. That may take time but I want it to be a key part of the experience so I will eventually get there.

More complete and separated resource pack for others to work with

 

 

Inspirations for this project: NeonDM, Dark All Day by Gunship, Subdivisions by Rush, SpaceDM9.pk3

Tested in: DSDA Doom, zandronum, zdaemon

 

Last but not least, I have a demo called Protosis that you can download here. These maps aren't in their right slots in the demo, but I'll update the topic as more gets done. Let me know if you have any feedback or critiques! I don't have a vanilla port to test in, so my baseline right now is DSDA Doom for the demo, but the full release will be vanilla compatible. For set ups, it is complevel 2

 

Some screenshots. It's busted as fuck as I mistakenly linked from discord and it fucked the formatting but alas.

 

Come discuss the project here: https://discord.gg/gnYcnMvWav

 

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Edited March 2 by Decay

[Endless]

I love torches. I love colors. I love Doom. And this too.

[Biodegradable]

Hell yeah, Decay!

[Doomkid]

This is gonna be a fun one, people. Watch this space!

[Dragonfly]

Oh hell yea! 

[Bobby :D]

Now I wait for the day I can beat up my friends, in Neon! (vanilla that is :)

[princetontiger]

Nice space theme

[Redneckerz]

That first pic is so mesmerizing. Love it already.

[TheGreenZap]

I love Bourgeois, so I’m lookimg forward to it Decay!

 

 

 

[Decay]

Thanks for the kind words. Seeing as this is my first SP focused set (Bourgeois was primarily DM focused and then SP added after) any critiques of potential game play flaws or improvements is good. Particularly with the secondary skill settings!

[Flambeau]

looking forward to this

 

[Biodegradable]

Had a go at the demo, mate. It's about as nasty as I expected, but now it's also beautiful. I love the texture work :^) Combat is vicious, but fun and the progression has that fun, corkscrew charm I've quickly come to enjoy from you. I can't wait to see more!

 

 

[Decay]

Thanks for the vid, looks like the doom 2 game play seems pretty straight forward. I could probably add a bit more intensity into the latter half of the level and a bit more teeth to the end trap, but since this is supposed to be map02 anyway maybe not too much. I could maybe add another stim pack or medikit toward the end as well. I'm not sure yet but this is valuable feedback, thank you! Let me know if you try the other game modes/skill levels, they should be approximately equally difficult but completely different game play.

[magicsofa]

Looks neat... gotta say the choice to make difficulty settings wildly different seems a bit "risky" to me. Especially since you're making the easy modes slaughter-esque, the medium mode easy, and the hard mode medium. Wouldn't it make more sense to have UV be slaughter style? There's no difference between HNTR, HMP, and UV so why mess up the order there? Is it just because you want there to be an 'easy slaughter' mode with the double ammo and half damage?

[Muusi]

The demo is beautiful!

[Decay]

23 minutes ago, magicsofa said:

Looks neat... gotta say the choice to make difficulty settings wildly different seems a bit "risky" to me. Especially since you're making the easy modes slaughter-esque, the medium mode easy, and the hard mode medium. Wouldn't it make more sense to have UV be slaughter style? There's no difference between HNTR, HMP, and UV so why mess up the order there? Is it just because you want there to be an 'easy slaughter' mode with the double ammo and half damage?

They should be all equally difficult, and I'm trying to cater to different play styles and offer up more than a single way to play the maps to get more mileage out of them. Doom 1 mode isn't really an easier mode, it should be difficult in it's own right. If it's too easy, I'm hoping to hear that so I can adjust it accordingly. Even nightmare should be manageable for this wad.

 

I would do a different mode/style of play per skill level if such a thing was offered for vanilla, but unfortunately you only get 3 skill levels for 5 options. I chose "slaughter-esque" for 0/1 so people could try it with the half damage/double ammo, then if they decide it's too easy they can up the difficulty a bit by choosing skill 1. As I said in the first post, I also don't really like slaughter/killing lots of demons, it is boring and tedious to me. I greatly prefer iwad style game play, and prefer more pacifist style play or UV-Speed style running. If people don't like the different modes and find UV/NM too hard, I don't know what to say because compared to things I've played recently this should be a cakewalk for people.

 

 

[DOEL]

I'm super happy excited for this. The custom weapons, aesthetic, and the skill level thing - all cool as hell

[Arrowhead]

Will definitely be keeping an eye on this! Neon DM had a great look, definitely pumped for more stuff in that aesthetic ballpark.

 

Big fan of colorful WADs.

[Korozive]

Following \o/ :o)

[Doomkid]

Decay, at some point I'll be happy to adjust the difficulty screen to actually say the correct things rather than "I'm too young to die" etc. Drop me a line when you need that done/have decided on the titles of each setting.

[thestarrover]

I truly like the design and the amazing colors! 

[DOEL]

Would it be possible to make a mod so you can use Bourgeois DM weapons in other WADs?

[Decay]

@Doomkid could probably oblige you. The current version of bourg weapons is palette changed to fit Liberosis' palette so not too useful.

[xX_Lol6_Xx]

Very, very good, I love it

[Doomkid]

@DOEL I’ll make a stand-alone version of the Bougeois guns within the week!

[DOEL]

@Doomkid @Decay hell yea the BourgDM guns make the chaingun and shotgun so much more useful. I'll definitely be using it for some co-op action 🤓 I just finished Bourgeois DM in single player and gotta say what a good time it was. I loved the intermission texts too

Edited July 4, 2021 by DOEL

[Decay]

You should give the demo map posted here a try as well. It should feel very much like Bourg.

[DOEL]

@Decay just finished it, looks so good. wish I could've figured out the secret though 😭

[Decay]

Did you enjoy the game play? Did you try the other game modes I outlined on the first post?

[DOEL]

@Decay I didnt even think to try the difficulty settings! ill go back and give em a try and let you know. for UV map 01 I like that it's heated up quickly, kept me on my toes but casual enough for a starter