Alcazar [6 Halloween Boom Maps]

Ok, I will play the shit out of this, probably tonight. Thanks guys.

Love the colors and textures! And an interesting, unusual theme as well. Good job, you guys! 🧡💜

OH this looks class!!

I really like the look of these maps! I think maps focusing on these colors can easily look garish, but you've managed to avoid that with the deep hues, moody lighting, and earthy tones balancing out the highlights. (I realize that applies to Wormwood as well, so I guess what I'm saying is that you've done a great job carrying on the aesthetic.)

Really fun wad, i hope i can find a demo or a youtube video for the last map.

Beautiful maps, difficult fights, all the stuff i like !

congrats on the release

Great set, got jumpscared by a random caco near the ending of map 05

18 hours ago, Hasamnas said:

Great set, got jumpscared by a random caco near the ending of map 05

That's hilarious, how he even managed to go all the way there xd

I will probably monsterblock it though to prevent maxers from spending 20 minutes looking for the adventurous caco like this one.

Absolutely loved this one all the way through, thanks for making this!

I have this downloaded, will likely play it even though spoop season is done.

RC2 is out. We're anticipating one more before this goes to idgames.

Are you supposed to jump in map06? I'm kinda stuck in that map trying to use only the jump orbs. I can only get so far, most precisely when you get close to a bridge you can't get under.

1 minute ago, Muleke_Trairao said:

Are you supposed to jump in map06? I'm kinda stuck in that map trying to use only the jump orbs. I can only get so far, most precisely when you get close to a bridge you can't get under.

No advanced port features like jumping or crouching (or even freelook) are needed. In fact, they may break some maps, so they shouldn't be used.

Not sure what bridge do you mean, but if you post a screenshot I may give a hint/advice about intended progression.

12 minutes ago, Ravendesk said:

No advanced port features like jumping or crouching (or even freelook) are needed. In fact, they may break some maps, so they shouldn't be used.

Not sure what bridge do you mean, but if you post a screenshot I may give a hint/advice about intended progression.

I usually don't ask for directions, and I think I'm missing something right on my face. A hint would be really appreciated, thank you, Ravendesk!

I'm running the WAD with GZDoom 4.11.3.

This is the bridge I was referring to:

2 minutes ago, Muleke_Trairao said:

This is the bridge I was referring to:

7 minutes ago, Ravendesk said:

  Reveal hidden contents

You need to walk on the wooden platforms along the side of the bridge to get to the other side of the building and then do a series of jumps there:

 

Might be worth noting that this series of jumps may not work correctly if infinite monster height is disabled, so double-check that as well.

 

My response is below:

9 minutes ago, Muleke_Trairao said:

My response is below:

That's how this part is intended to be done:

5 minutes ago, Ravendesk said:

That's how this part is intended to be done:

  Reveal hidden contents

If this is not working for you, that would unfortunately mean that it's a gzdoom compatibility problem, and in that case I can only recommend switching to dsda-doom for this particular map.

 

 

Oh... then it's something about GZDoom, yeah, because I triple-checked my comp settings.

I've seen your video now. Thank you for all the help and patience, Ravendesk!

2 hours ago, Muleke_Trairao said:

Oh... then it's something about GZDoom, yeah, because I triple-checked my comp settings.

 

I've seen your video now. Thank you for all the help and patience, Ravendesk!

Ok, tested it myself with gzdoom now and this is indeed the behaviour even with boom (strict) and infinitely tall monsters. Indeed if you want to play this map, you have to use dsda-doom currently.

The way jumporbs work is that they basically melee attack you when you come close to them, and their melee attack is an archvile attack (btw this is different to how jumprobs are done in jumpwad, where they are just TOUCHY - because jumpwad is MBF, and we are Boom and Boom doesn't have TOUCHY flag for things).

However, I would have expected that infinitely tall monsters should still have infinitely tall melee attacks in strict boom compatibility in gzdoom.

@Graf Zahl Hi. Maybe you can tell, if this is a bug in gzdoom, or expected behaviour?

TL;DR we have dehacked non-solid things (jumporbs) with melee attack that hits the player when he comes close.

In gzdoom player can currently walk over these non-solid things if he is above them without being attacked. In dsda, he is getting attacked no matter the height. We are testing with Boom (strict) compatibility.

Here is decohack code of jumporbs for reference:

thing free 24
thing WolfensteinSS free states
auto thing JumpOrbFloor "Jumping orb (floor)"
{
//$Category User-defined/JumpingOrb
	ednum 84
	Radius 4
	Height 16
	Health 999999
	Mass 100000
  	Speed 0
	PainChance 0
  	ReactionTime 1
  	clear sounds
  	clear flags
  	clear states
	States
	{
	Spawn:
		SSWV AA 10 BRIGHT A_Look
		Loop
	See:
		SSWV ABCDEDCB 4 BRIGHT A_Chase
		Loop
	Melee:
		SSWV I 6 BRIGHT A_VileAttack
		SSWV J 6 BRIGHT
		SSWV K 6 BRIGHT
		SSWV L 6 BRIGHT
		SSWV L 50
		Goto See
	Death:
		SSWV L -1
		Stop
	}
}

RC3 is out now. All reported GZDoom issues have been handled, and the WAD is now completable front to back in that port.

Download is in the OP.

1 hour ago, General Roasterock said:

RC3 is out now. All reported GZDoom issues have been handled, and the WAD is now completable front to back in that port.

 

Download is in the OP.

link isnt public, says i need access.

4 minutes ago, Terrcraft said:

link isnt public, says i need access.

Should work now

1 minute ago, General Roasterock said:

Should work now

it does thx

Alcázar is now on idgames. Download link on the OP has been updated.