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Funny you mention some of those things regarding Blaz's sword. I intend on changing up how powering up works in the very near future where it'll be automatically triggered and instead of being consumed on use, it'll be a timer you can extend by continuously hitting enemies, giving you more time and HP in return this will also apply to the fists. Because I'll be doing this new system, I'll be moving the sword throw command to the reload button. In fact the only reason why I didn't do it with v1.5.2 is I've been working at all this stuff enough and I needed to give myself a break.

You're better off treating Blaz's subweapons as tools to set up for making things easier to fight in melee, with the exception of the lance, that one's purely a ranged weapon. Removing the free melee swing from the hammer was intentional to prevent players from leaning on it constantly like a crutch, you get one attack and that's it. Finally, I will not be adding anymore buttons, the mod suffers from that enough as is.

I've had a lot of people complain about losing Doomslayer's bombs and only having the daggers. I might swap the daggers out with the bombs in the future, though this would require some adjusting with the healing effect, most likely lessening its effectiveness with single targets. He'll be getting some more changes in the future as well, as I'm dissatisfied with the "drop ammo on kill" system, I'm going to switch it over to gaining MP on melee strike similar to how Blaz works, and he'll have a two mana pool like Hexen for his arsenal.

Also as new as everything is, I would advise against playing Knightmare until you acclimate to the new mechanics.

I'm definitely not done with this project, and I'll be making sure things feel right.

Chasm9871 year ago

I did notice that the subweapons and buster were changed to enhance the melee combat, but doom's level design doesn't really compliment that so it can get pretty difficult to deal with certain enemies when they keep distance, so i get how difficult it is to make Blaz be focused on melee when the game is doesn't help. Also maybe the hammer could have a different effect on melee, like deal slightly more damage and do the aoe damage on the melee hit instead of doing the animation twice.

Anyway, i hope you're doing good and good luck on working on this,.

Combine_Kegan1 year ago(+1)

Making the hammer melee just be an explosive attack and then triggering the cooldown isn't a bad idea, honestly. You're also absolutely right about the issues with some maps insisting on ranged combat with super out reach enemies where I have issues dealing with that even with the failsafes I've added. I'm sticking to my guns here though, or swords in this case. One day when I break away from the Doom engine and go into standalone games, I won't have that problem.

I appreciate your patience as I continue to adjust everything and flip this mod upside down for like the 4th time. With any luck with the next upcoming update I can further finetune Blaz and get things feeling good.

Kalsonic1 year ago (2 edits)

Can attest to Blaz feeling out of his depth in some maps, especially those that are slaughter-heavy. Due to his melee-centric design, his melee attacks don't feel adequate in dealing with huge hordes of enemies (think Okuplok, Death in Excess, Rush). He lacks the power and AoE needed to have a similar impact that the rocket launcher and BFG does.

These days I prefer to play on the Knave difficulty for a more casual playthrough, and somehow it's still quite easy for Blaz to be overwhelmed by a horde.

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