Hexen: Veil of Darkness (UDMF Mapset, GZDoom)

[Captain Toenail]

 

In a world shrouded in darkness, where the forces of evil hold dominion, one hero must rise to the challenge.

 

Prepare for an epic journey into the heart of darkness with 'Hexen: Veil of Darkness' - a fresh and fiendish hub adventure utilising the power of GZDoom's Hardware mode.
                          

In this corner of Cronos, a shadowy sorceress, the notorious and macabre Mistress Nox, has acquired the Chaos Sphere. With its dark power at her disposal, she's been busy building an army of abominations, casting the world into eternal twilight.
                          

You are the chosen one, a hero marked by the Gods themselves. Your divine quest? Venture through treacherous swamps, delve deep into haunted forests, explore creepy castles and dungeons, and ultimately unlock the enigmatic portal to the Shadow Realm.
                          
Prepare thyself for:
                          

• New and nastier adversaries to conquer.
• Shiny new items to master and wield.
• Puzzles to perplex and ponder.
• An intricate hub world for you to get lost in (in the best possible way).
• Interact with exciting new 3D objects - including crates that beg to be smashed and treasure chests that need unlocking.

                          
                          
Note: You do not need to load lights.pk3 or brightmaps.pk3 - these are included in the file.

Dynamic lights must be enabled or you will be doing a lot of squinting and fumbling about.

 

 

 

Download:

 

GET THE LATEST VERSION HERE - 1.5

https://www.moddb.com/mods/hexen-veil-of-darkness/downloads/hexenvod-1-5

 

other downloads:

Spoiler

 

Quick patch for Walpurgis users (load after everything else)

https://www.moddb.com/mods/hexen-veil-of-darkness/downloads/vod-walpurgispatch-11

 

Version 1.4 (previous release)

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/hexen/g-i/hexenvod

or
https://www.moddb.com/mods/hexen-veil-of-darkness/downloads/hexen-veil-of-darkness-14

 

 

 

 

Let me know if you encounter any bugs or other issues. Enjoy! :-)

Edited January 19 by Captain Toenail
Updated download link to version 1.5

[Not Jabba]

Exciting! Wasn't expecting this at all, but it looks awesome.

Edited October 17, 2023 by Not Jabba

[Muleke_Trairao]

Time to get back to HeXen, I guess!

[ClumsyCryptid]

Ah sweet, I'll probably stream this on my YouTube in like a day or so.

[Desfar]

Not only does it look fun to play, I can already tell I need to study how you made the levels look so good!

-Edit-

"Known Bugs:  Suicidal flying fish"
Lmao, relatable 

Edited October 17, 2023 by Desfar

[Lippeth]

Excited to get into this!

[Baskiat]

 

 

beautiful! played like 3min and can see it's a master piece!

[Graf Zahl]

1 hour ago, Captain Toenail said:

         

Note: You do not need to load lights.pk3 or brightmaps.pk3 - these are included in the file.

 

 

 

Just one piece of advice: Unless you have a very good reason to do this - please don't!

This will cut off your mod from all potential future improvements on the original lighting system, as it happened with several mods when we implemented attenuated lights.

 

Instead use the gameinfo settings 'loadlights' and 'loadbrightmaps' to force loading of these two files. They were specifically added to enable mods to autoload them (or in rare cases where these features won't work, to disable them)

[myolden]

Loaded this up and played for around 30 minutes and I have to say I am very impressed! Definitely going to come back and give it a thorough playthrough when I have the time.

[Murdoch]

Been a long time since I have played Hexen seriously, this might be a good excuse to change that soon. Shots look great.

[RonnieJamesDiner]

Damn, I still haven't played Hexen but this looks gorgeous. Congrats on the release!

[Wo0p]

2 minutes ago, RonnieJamesDiner said:

Damn, I still haven't played Hexen but this looks gorgeous. Congrats on the release!

Same, makes me jelly! 

 

Likewise gratz on release, looks absolutely fantastic visually :O

[dmh094]

This may be the thing that gets me to finally play Hexen 😂😂 looks awesome. 

[Death Bear]

Captain Toenail AND Hexen! Hell yeah!!! Let’s GO!!!

[Somniac]

This looks tasty, excited to try it!

[Lila Feuer]

First Hexen thing I'm playing when I get around to it!

[Gaia74]

holy mother, finally hexen getting love! 

[taviow]

Wow, this looks genuinely lovely. I miss Hexen and there's very few things scratching that itch. I'll give this a try for sure.

[Muleke_Trairao]

When using the Disc of Repulsion against that new grappling hook enemy, I have noticed that he can die instantly if pushed into a wall. Maybe that's intended? If so, that's a pro tip!

 

It's been a while since I last played Hexen, so I don't know if this can happen to some of the vanilla enemies.

 

Been playing VoD for around 2 hours now on Cardinal difficulty with a Cleric. This is some hard shit, not gonna lie!

[Jimmy]

Hell yeah, pumped to play this!

[129thVisplane]

hexenhexenhexenhexenhexen lets fucking goooooooooooo treacherous swamps? crystal caves? sign me up!!!!!!!!!! im loading this up right the hell now

[Bri]

Damn, this looks exciting!

[Desfar]

Update: Prolly a third or halfway through.
Its so good it hurts.
Really highlights the difference in mapcrafting ability between new hands and the experienced.
 

[Captain Toenail]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Really appreciate it. :-)

 

20 hours ago, Graf Zahl said:

Instead use the gameinfo settings 'loadlights' and 'loadbrightmaps' to force loading of these two files. They were specifically added to enable mods to autoload them (or in rare cases where these features won't work, to disable them)

 

Thanks for the tip Graf, this definitely sounds like a better idea - I'll keep this in mind for the next update.

 

15 hours ago, Muleke_Trairao said:

When using the Disc of Repulsion against that new grappling hook enemy, I have noticed that he can die instantly if pushed into a wall. Maybe that's intended? If so, that's a pro tip!

 

This was not intended but sounds like a neat trick to leave in.

[Lila Feuer]

Collision in Hexen is a fickle beast, you could kill enemies by repulsing them into walls in vanilla, it seems to depend on some kind of velocity and range factor.

[NeoWorm]

This is what I hoped people would use my resources for.

Edited October 18, 2023 by NeoWorm

[Lemon King]

This is awesome. Liking the map style too.

[Muleke_Trairao]

Just finished it. Around 6-7 hours of gameplay time, counting deaths and savegame loads.

 

Absolutely amazing stuff! I got lost and died a bunch of times during my playthrough, but the overall experience with puzzling, combat, and location variety kept me through it til the very end. This is Cacoward material, hands down!

[Red Recluse]

Towers together castles of the spirit welcome evil return.   

[Master O]

@Captain Toenail:

 

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/133079-cacowards-2023-mentionation-thread-you-dont-need-to-post-myhouse-again/?page=11&tab=comments#comment-2719288