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[Omega Tyrant]

With the official release of DRL version 0.10 (we ended up skipping 0.9.9.9 completely), many of the suggestions in the compilation thread for 0.9.9.9 have been implemented, so now I'm starting up a new thread for 0.11 to organize the suggestions and feature requests that weren't implemented nor shot down, as well as to list any new suggestions/requests that come through.

I'll be maintaining this thread again, and any new suggestions from anyone else is welcomed, no matter how mundane or outlandish the suggestion may be. Before suggesting anything though, keep in mind that future updates to DRL will be more conservative compared to JHC and is fairly complete design-wise as it is, so if you have any ideas for drastically new features or mechanics, they may be more suitable to request for JHC. Additionally consider the feasibility of being able to implement the suggestion, and try backing your suggestions with well-reasoned points, while being open to any feedback your suggestion gets. I'll also note that I do not have any authority with the game nor am I a member of the ChaosForge dev team, and Kornel has the final say on any idea, so my own ideas are not above anyone else's, I'm just a passionate player organizing this and offering feedback.

Changes

This thread will be organized into separate posts for changes (which itself will be organized into bugs/exploits/fixes, traits, equipment/items, enemies, special levels, and miscellaneous), everything for badges/medals, and new content ideas. A suggestion marked with an "X" in its box and colored light blue means it has been implemented; a suggestion marked with "~" and colored light green means it has been partially implemented; a suggestion marked with "-" and colored pink has been soft rejected but may by partially implemented in another way; a suggestion marked with "?" and colored light yellow means an attempt was made to implement it but needs more testing to confirm it is working properly, or otherwise marks an "issue" whose current status is currently not fully understood; and a suggestion that is struck through and colored red has been officially rejected by Kornel. Each suggestion will additionally have links to the posts explaining the justification for the change and other discussion regarding it.

Bugs/Exploits/Fixes

[ ] Bug: If you complete a special level on Nightmare/Angel of Darkness and then exit with any respawns alive, the exit text and mortem history text gives you the level's completion messages, and you'll earn any badges/medals that require completing the level, but the game doesn't actually count the level as completed for Conqueror purposes. 1

[ ] Bug: Formers/Nobles will sometimes not use items at low health for unclear reasons. 1

[ ] Bug: Lost Souls, Elementals, and Cyberdemons will not aggro when you hit them out of their vision, and Souls will not retaliate when hit by other enemies. 1

[ ] Bug: If dualgunning with a Nanomachic Pistol in the prepared slot, it may be unable to fire. This may be related to the Bullet Dance bug. 1

[ ] Bug: Fix the cause of this unusual crash that may be caused by aim shooting while dualgunning, but may have been fixed when the Bullet Dance bug in the betas was fixed. 1

[ ] Bug: If too many sounds play in quick succession, the music can get turned off until you enter a new floor or save and reload. 1

[?] Bug: If a flood event occurs on an island level, it's possible to start in the middle of lava. 1 (This may have been fixed in the old 0.9.9.8 beta, neither I nor Icy have ever experienced this and no one has reported it happening yet since development renewed, and the hard restriction on no longer spawning in any fluid should have fixed if it's still in the game.)

[?] Exploit: The Spider Mastermind can get stuck when shot across the bottom or top middle pillars, making it only able to go up and down. The AI might need to be adjusted. 1 (This may have been fixed in the old 0.9.9.8 beta, and the AI was adjusted farther in the 0.9.9.9 betas, needs more thorough testing to confirm.)

[ ] Fix: The item reveal mechanic when all enemies are dead does not work in Nightmare, it should activate when all enemies are dead at the same time, or after each individual enemy has been killed once. 1

[-] Fix: Damage calculation on direct hits with explosive attacks seem to happen after knockback is applied, resulting in direct explosive hits doing less damage than they should, or possibly no damage at all. 1 2 (Confirmed to be an intentional design choice, but a direct damage component on explosive hits may be added?)

[ ] Fix: The new screen shaking effect should have its intensity based on the strength of the inciting projectile/explosion, rather than shaking at the same intensity regardless. 1

[ ] Fix: The warning messages for Enraged Timer should be colored. Additionally when Enraged Mode is triggered, have the screen shake and the act sound of all remaining enemies in the level play to replicate the "angry roars" the game says you hear. 1

[ ] Fix: The character info screen doesn't account for equipped ammo boxes with its displayed reloading speed, when it should.

[ ] Fix: Ironman's trait description is unclear with it stating you get +20% max health, which isn't fully true as Marines still only get +10 HP rather than 12 HP, so it should be reworded to state +10 HP. 1

[ ] Fix: The Marine's bio still states they get +20% fire/plasma/acid resistances, when they have been nerfed to +10%.

[ ] Fix: In Scavenger's trait description, update it to clarify that melee weapons, armors, and boots can be scavenged. 1

[ ] Fix: Angel of Humanity's and Archangel of Humanity's descriptions should clarify that Marines start with 12 max HP rather than 20. 1

[ ] Fix: Charch's Null Pointer shows that its damage is 0d0, when it's actually 10d1. 1

[ ] Fix: The infinitely spawning Nightmare Demons and Nightmare Cacodemons when equipping the Dragonslayer and Berserker Set severely complicate clearing special levels with said equipment. Either they shouldn't count towards a special level's completion, their spawning should be disabled in special levels, or they should have a spawning limit of some sort. 1

[ ] Fix: Archangel of 666 shows both in-game and in the high scores that it's Ao100. 1 2

[ ] Fix: Repeated sounds (such as from several enemies being hit at once) can still get too loud, the sounds should be better staggered out instead of stacking all at once on each other, or perhaps add a limit of some sort that prevents the same sounds from being stacked too loudly on each other. 1 2

[?] Fix: Ensure bridges that go over rivers are not blocked off by walls or rooms without doors. 1 2 (An attempt at smarter bridge placement was made, but needs testing to see how well it works.)

Traits

[ ] Make masteries less restrictive in general. 1

[ ] Nerf Survivalist (needs discussion), as it has become too tanky after the Tough As Nails buff. Either Survivalist should lose the doubled healing effect on Medkits and health globes, or TaN's new resists could be toned down in some way (such as making the first two levels give +5% resistances and +10% on the third level for +20% max). 1

[ ] Nerf Entrenchment. Regardless of if the aforementioned TaN nerf happens, Entrenchment should replicate how it works in JHC with needing to "build up" its resistances rather than instantly starting at +50% (it should be +20% resistances for the warming up stage, +30% resistances for the second stage, and then +50% resistances for each chainfire volley after until it ends). 1

[ ] Buff Bullet Dance by reducing its firing time penalty to +20%. Also perhaps consider the additional perk of reloading faster when dual gunning. 1

[ ] Change Badass' permanent knockback reduction to increasing powerup duration, as it works in JHC, to make it more unambiguously useful.

Equipment and other Items

[ ] Add sounds for all actions for exotics/uniques/artifacts. 1 2

[ ] Allow Technicians to add a single mod or basic assembly to the following unique armors: Medical Powerarmor, Necroarmor, and Shielded Armor. 1 2 3

[ ] Buff the Chaingun's accuracy to +3. 1

[ ] Increase the Blaster's generation weight to 4. 1

[ ] Decrease Charch's Null Pointer ammo consumption to 5 cells per shot, as it currently consumes too much ammo to be a remotely practical weapon.

[ ] Increase the Medical Powerarmor's generation rate to 3 (matching the similarly powerful Necroarmor in rarity). [1

[ ] Let Mega Buster use alt fire to switch modes, but you have to collect all the damage types (making it work more similar to Mega Man, as well as giving it some chance to be a practical weapon). 1 2

[ ] Increase the Mjollnir's generation rate to 2 or 3, as it's far from strong enough to justify being one of the rarest uniques in the game, especially as it's unable to spawn in vaults nor in any special level. 2 3

[ ] Allow Subtle Knife kills to count as "knife kills". Additionally modify it to spawn sooner and be less rare (such as a depth of 7 and weight of 2), as it too is far too weak to justify being one of the rarest uniques and being unable to be found in vaults/special levels. 1

[ ] Buff the Assault Rifle, as it's currently worthless compared to just applying the requisite Agility Mods on their own. See the linked post for details on the suggested changes as they are extensive. 1

[ ] Farther buff Ballistic Armor by having it retain any plasma and acid resistances the base armor has. 1

[ ] Change the resistance values that Technical Mods add to boots to be +20% acid and fire resistances while removing the other useless resistance buffs, rather than using the same values they apply to armors. The plasma resistance boost can be kept at +10% or also be changed to +20%. 1

[ ] Buff Agility Mods to give +2 accuracy when applied to melee weapons instead of only +1. 1

[ ] Allow Firestorm and Sniper mods to be applied to melee weapons (needs discussion on exact effects). Current ideas are a Firestorm mod will turn their damage type to fire so they can gib much easier, in addition to possibly increasing the lower of damage die or sides by +1 too, and a Sniper mod will give them the autohit property. 1

[ ] Allow Firestorm mods to be added to explosive weapons with an explosion radius of 1 and 2. If done, consider making the mod give them only a +1 radius boost rather than the usual +2 boost. 1

[ ] Allow Firestorm mods to be added to Shotguns, with the effect of increasing their spread size by +1 with no sacrifice in dropoff damage. 1

[ ] Give Sniper mods an effect for Shotguns, instead of doing nothing. One idea is each Sniper mod applied to a Shotgun will reduce its dropoff rate, which can be either by a flat 1% reduction with each applied Sniper mod (so a basic Shotgun will have its dropoff damage reduced from 7% to 6%/5%/4% per tile from each applied Sniper mod), or can be a one-fourth reduction so normal and wide shotgun blasts can get more mileage from them (this would result in a wide blast having its dropoff rate reduced from 10% to 8%/6%/4% with each Sniper mod, while a normal blast's dropoff would be reduced from 7% to 5%/4%/3%, and a focused/plasma blast's dropoff would be reduced from 5% to 4%/3%/2%). 1

[ ] When a third Sniper Mod is applied to a ranged non-shotgun weapon, have it give the autohit property instead of doing nothing. 1

[ ] Allow the Lava Element to appear as a randomly spawned item. Make its spawning weight 2 or 3, and perhaps give it a spawning depth of 30+ so it can only randomly appear in A100/666. 1

Enemies

[ ] Add sounds for Nightmare enemies, Elite Formers, Lava Elemental, Agony Elemental, Arena Master, and Apostle. 1 2

[ ] Add sounds for enemies spawning, enemies reviving, and Archviles charging their attack. 1 2

[ ] Add corpses for the Elite Formers and Lava Elemental. 1

[ ] Nerf the durability of Nightmare Cacodemons as they're too tedious to kill for the type of enemy they are. This can entail either removing their fire and acid resistances, reducing their innate armor to 1, or giving them a -25% bullet and shrapnel resistance to make their vulnerability to physical weapons more significant. 1

[ ] Allow the Angel Of Death to spawn in very deep floors of A100/666. Its spawning depth can be either 80+ or 90+. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

[ ] Modify the Spider Mastermind's flinching threshold to be difficulty-dependent, so on harder difficulties it'll be more difficult for players to stunlock her to death. Suggested damage values would be keeping the flinching threshold at 20 damage for HNTR, but change it to 15 for ITYTD, 30 for HMP, 40 for UV, and 50 for N!. 1

[ ] Also possibly allow the Mastermind to appear in very deep levels of A100/666?

[ ] Buff the Apostle to always teleport after being hit, or at least make its teleportation much more frequent so that it doesn't repeatedly weakly melee the player after they get in once. Also when it dies in A100/666, kill all enemies and end the game like JC. 1 2 3 4

[~] Change hunting AI to not ignore items and armors (if implemented, Cyberdemons may need their ability to use items removed or medpacks may need a healing limit of 110 HP to keep them from being potentially too obnoxious). 1 2 3 4 5 6 (Hunting AI still ignore items, but Cyberdemons have altered AI where they'll not hunt in A100, so they can pick up items and armors there)

Special levels

[ ] Most special levels should have their clear condition require killing every distinct enemy once rather than having enemy dead at the same time, so that they are much less tedious ordeals to clear on Nightmare and in Angel Of Darkness. Only The Wall/Containment Area, The Vaults/House of Pain, and The Mortuary/Limbo should be exempted from this change, since Archviles are a key component of those special levels' challenge. 1

[ ] Many special levels should have their enemy loadouts altered on the harder difficulties to utilize the newly added batch of enemies, and some should see rebalancing on even the lower difficulties. See linked post for comprehensive details on exact suggestions. 1

[~] When special levels are destroyed by a nuke, disable any traps/subsequent enemy spawns they may have from triggering and have the game register them as cleared (this includes Containment Area, City of Skulls, Abyssal Plains, House of Pain, The Lava Pits, and Mt. Erebus) 1 (Nuking Containment Area and Abyssal Plains now counts as clearing them and disables their respective traps, but the other special levels still have their enemy spawns after nuking remain).

[ ] Allow Hell's Armory and Deimos Lab to appear on ITYTD (but remove one of the Shamblers in the latter level so it's not a death trap for newbies). 1

[?] Have The Wall/Containment Area open up after all enemies are dead to prevent softlocks if you use a Phase Device. 1 2 (Kantarza made an attempt at this, needs testing to see if it works)

[ ] Replace the redundant Missile Launcher in City Of Skulls/Abyssal Plains and make these levels potentially more appropriately rewarding. What to replace it with needs discussion, but the current suggested idea is a random guaranteed exotic armor, since none of the current Deimos special levels give a good armor reward. Alternatively, it can instead be a random guaranteed exotic non-BFG ranged weapon, though this idea is less preferred as Hell's Armory/Deimos Lab already has a very high chance of rewarding exotic/unique ranged weapons. 1 2

[ ] In The Vaults, have the two teleporters in the center vault have their teleport destinations be on opposite ends of the map, so when playing on Nightmare, a player cannot easily camp the teleport locations to safely kill each of the center vault's Nightmare enemies or at least a good chunk of them before the Enraged Timer starts running low. 1

[~] If you don't have the Arena Master's Staff, you can softlock in House Of Pain on Nightmare and in Angel Of Darkness from dead enemies reviving while you're locked in another room, so something should be done to prevent this softlock. 1 (Enemy respawning has been disabled on the level altogether for the timebeing, may be temporary if another solution is figured out to prevent softlocks while enabling respawning.)

[ ] In House Of Pain, make using the Arena Master's Staff required to access the Large Health Globes on the level. 1

[ ] Make it more immediately apparent to newcomers that you can't shoot in Unholy Cathedral, whether through having a lone Lost Soul at the start that will immediately let players safely realize it without meaningfully changing the way the level plays, or having a message at the start that outright tells them. 1

[ ] Add ammo pickups to The Mortuary and Limbo, to compensate for respawns no longer dropping ammo. Current idea is an ammo box in each corner, and double them on Nightmare. 1

[ ] In The Lava Pits and Mt. Erebus on Nightmare difficulty, remove the last Radsuit, so that there is no Radsuits on the level at all. 1

[ ] Disallow nukes from being activated in Hell Fortress altogether. Additionally have any active powerups get turned off when entering Hell Fortress, so you cannot take an Invulnerability or Berserk stack into Hell Fortress to trivialize it. 1

[ ] Improve the Apostle fight in Hell Fortress. Suggestions include giving it unique entrance text, unique victory text, and have the fight spawn a ton of corpses of strong enemies when entering the level, so that the Apostle's resurrecting capabilities get utilized. 1

Miscellaneous

[ ] Reduce the EXP multiplier on Nightmare to x1.1, to compensate for the newly added enemies that give greater EXP yields and addition of a new special level pair. 1

[ ] Expand the amount of possible Dual Angel combinations, every combination that isn't outright incompatible should be allowed. 1

[ ] Infighting could use some more exceptions. Namely, add a flag that disables infighting in boss levels and certain special levels such as Mortuary/Limbo, disable infighting when Enraged Mode is triggered or disallow hunting enemies from infighting, and if possible, prevent enemies in a spawned monster group from infighting each other). 1

[ ] Have dying to John Carmack count as a normal death instead of as a partial win. 1

[ ] Add method for guaranteed Berserker Armor and Dragonslayer in Angel of 100 / Archangel of 666, so that full wins in A100/666 aren't terribly luck-based. 1 2 3 4

[ ] Give EXP for pulling levers (but consider disabling this bonus if the player has Intuition) 1

[ ] Make single enemy type levels be able to have Nightmare enemies at sufficiently high level rolls, just like how caves can. Also if the Angel Of Death and Spider Mastermind were to be added to A100's possible enemy spawns, perhaps make a special single enemy  level also feature them (with the latter being a cave level).

[ ] Add unique level feel messages for Nightmare enemy-only levels. 1 2

[ ] Adjust armor and ammo crates to have their drop tables improve at deeper depths, or add "enhanced" versions of these crates with improved drop tables that spawn at deeper depths. 1 2

[Omega Tyrant]

Medals, Badges, and Rankings

This post is for everything regarding medals, badges, and rankings. This is primarily fixing redundant or realistically unwinnable medals/badges, fixing badges that are too easy or uninteresting in their challenge, and bringing up the count of Angelic badges to be equivalent with the count of the other badge tiers. Any ideas for new medals and badges will also be here though.

[ ] Add color-coding to medals and badges in mortems at the end of a game. 1 2

Medals

[ ] Change Shotgunnery Cross, Marksmanship Cross, Malicious Knives Cross, and Sunrise Iron Fist to each require at least 1 kill with the respective primary weapon (so a Shotgun kill for Shotgunnery, a Pistol kill for Marksmanship, a Knife kill for Malicious Knives, and an unarmed kill for Iron Fist), so that you can't cheese obtaining them in a fist-only or pacifist run. 1

[ ] Allow Gargulec Medal to be obtainable alongside Gargulec Cross if you haven't already achieved it prior, like how it works with other lesser versions of other medals. 1

[ ] With the Fallout and Klear Crosses, do not count multiple nukes activated on the same floor as separate instances of nuking (i.e. require players to actually nuke 3/6/12 distinct levels and not just spam Angel Arm a dozen times on a single floor with Invuln to get all of these medals).

[ ] New: Experience Token - Reach experience level 15 (excludes Angel of 100 and Archangel of 666). 1

[ ] New: Aurora Star - Find 10 uniques or more in a single game (Allow all challenge types). 1

[ ] New: Technician Medal - Create 15 or more different assemblies in a single game. (Allow all challenge types) 1 2 3

[ ] New: UAC Cross - Kill 2,500 or more enemies. (Allow all challenge types) 1 2 3

[ ] New: Marathon Medal - Complete Angel of 100 in under 2 hours of real time. 1

[ ] New: Sereg's Medallion - Complete Angel of 100 on UV or N! in under 1 hour of real time. (Upgraded version of the former, named after DRL's most infamous sprinter and who has a recorded instance of beating A100 on N! this fast.)

[ ] New: Boss Slayer Cross - Clear a boss floor and exit alive. (Boss floors are a special level type that only appear on UV/N! in late A100, where all enemies are one of the boss monsters, which can be either Bruiser Brothers, Shamblers, Agony Elementals, Lava Elementals, or Cyberdemons. This does not include Phobos Anomaly, Tower of Babel, Dis, and Hell Fortress). 1 2 3 4 5 6

[ ] New: Unexplored Star (or alternatively Medal of Chance) - Visit no generated levels and win the game. (Excludes Angel of Confidence, Angel of Overconfidence, Angel of 100, and Archangel of 666) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

[ ] New: Keen's Helmet - Clear Hell Fortress without getting damaged. 1

[ ] New: A medal for completing a Conqueror run in any of Angel of Red Alert, Darkness, Impatience, Purity, and Masochism (name needs discussion). 1

Badges

[ ] Disallow Dual-Angel challenges for all badges that require performing a feat on a specific challenge. This includes Berserker Bronze Badge to Pacifist Bronze Badge, Berserker Silver Badge to Pacifist Silver Badge, Berserker Gold Badge to Arena Gold Badge, Berserker Platinum Badge to Everyman Platinum Badge, and Reaper Diamond Badge to Arena Diamond Badge. If this isn't done, some of the more egregious badge "loopholes" should be fixed, such as any badge that requires a medal should actually require the requisite medal (e.g. the Destroyer badges should actually require their requisite Untouchable medal, so that you cannot easily cheese them in AoOC). 1 2

[ ] Allow previously obtained badges to appear in mortems, and keep count of them. To prevent the awards section of UV/N! mortems from becoming absurdly large, have only the highest tier of each badge appear on the mortem (but still count the lower tiered badges as being earned). 1 2

[ ] Have more badges require at least a standard win, rather than any win. Current suggestion is every Gold, Platinum, and Diamond badge that requires winning the game should require at least a standard win, with the exceptions of those that already require a full win and Pacifist Gold. 1

[ ] Have higher rankings require more of the previous tier badges (get to needing 15 Bronze, and then a few rankings later, start requiring them again for 18 Bronze, 21 Bronze, etc). 1

[ ] No-Life King ranking should require all badges of every type. Currently it only requires Angelic Badges. 1

[ ] Change Heroic Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum/Diamond Badges to require 10%/30%/50%/70%/90% of whatever the medal count ends up in the next version, so that the series remains proportional rather than it remaining based on the smaller medal count in old versions. 1 2

[ ] Add a new set of badges for House of Pain, since the Scavenger series doesn't work for it (as it doesn't require luck to complete without the Staff). You can read my linked post for ideas on what do for the badges. 1

[ ] Add a new set of badges for The Chained Court (needs discussion on badge requirements, linked post has my current ideas). 1

[ ] Add a new set of badges for Phobos Lab and Military Base (needs discussion on badge requirements, linked post has my current ideas). 1

[ ] Add a new set of badges for Hell's Armory and Deimos Lab (needs discussion on badge requirements, linked post has my current ideas). 1

[ ] Veteran Bronze Badge - Change this to requiring a standard game so that it's at least a bit different from Medal of Prejudice. 1

[ ] Speedrunner Bronze Badge - Change this to 40 minutes so that it's a little different from Compet-n Silver Cross. 1

[ ] Arena Bronze Badge - Change this to requiring a standard game so that it's at least a bit different from Hell Champion Medal. 1

[ ] Gatekeeper Gold Badge - Change to passing Phobos Anomaly on Hurt Me Plenty difficulty without taking damage, so that it isn't practically the same as Cyberdemon's Head and is less trivial. Alternatively, change it to both passing Phobos Anomaly + clearing Tower Of Babel without damage on at least HNTR. 1 2

[ ] Marksman Gold Badge - Change to requiring HMP instead of UV, as it doesn't make much sense for this badge series to skip HMP, and there isn't much reason to go for this badge instead of jumping straight to Platinum when it's not that much more difficult than the current Gold requirement.

[ ] Lightfoot Gold Badge - Add the additional stipulation of requiring clearing the game in under 40,000 turns, as AoLT is bit too easy of a challenge to require just beating the game and it leads to a more natural progression towards Lightfoot Platinum's requirement of under 20,000 turns.

[ ] Daredevil Gold Badge - Add the additional stipulation of requiring 100% kills, as it's too easy for a Gold badge that can be quickly won by just spamming fast attempts until you get lucky.

[ ] Arena Gold Badge - Perhaps change this to beating Hell's Arena on UV in any challenge(s) but AoMr, AoSh, AoMC, AoLT, or AoPc, as since due to SoG's upcoming change that makes Pistols much stronger in the early game, beating Hell's Arena in AoMr is no longer a difficult feat, while beating Arena in AoSh, AoMC, and AoLT is also too easy for a Gold, and it's of course impossible in AoPc.

[ ] Longinus Gold Badge - Perhaps add the stipulation to beat Unholy Cathedral without Berserker or Malicious Blades? As is, this is the most free Gold badge by far, and it makes no sense to put it on par of an achievement as beating Mortuary or Limbo (as Reaper Gold requires).

[ ] Berserker Platinum Badge - Remove the kill count requirement, so that it isn't too similar to Gargulec Cross. 1 2 3

[ ] Shottyman Platinum Badge - Change to requiring Ultra-Violence and winning the game without a Shotgun or Generalist mastery, as currently if you're able to beat AoSh on N!, you should be able to do so with 80% kills and will thus usually skip this badge to go straight to Shottyman Diamond, while this will also make for a more interesting challenge (at least if you don't Sereg it).

[ ] Hunter Platinum Badge - Change to requiring Ultra-Violence and needing 75+% kills, as there's little reason to go for this badge instead of jumping straight to Hunter Diamond and UV is nonsensically skipped in this badge series. 1 2 3 4

[ ] Centurial Platinum Badge - Change this to require the Experience Medal in addition to UV difficulty, so players will have to kill a large chunk of enemies along the way and to have a more natural progression to the proposed Centurial Diamond change.

[ ] Everyman Platinum Badge - Change it to requiring 100% kills, so that it isn't the same as Thomas' Medal. 1

[ ] Longinus Platinum Badge - Change it to beating Unholy Cathedral without Brute on any difficulty or at least without Brute on HMP, as it's currently a very uninteresting badge and a freebie for Nightmare players. Also disallow Angel of Max Carnage and Light Travel from being able to earn it since they trivialize it. 1

[ ] Berserker Diamond Badge - Remove the kill count requirement and instead require the newly suggested medal "Unexplored Star/Medal of Chance" for a more unique and fitting challenge. 1 2

[ ] Marksman Diamond Badge - Change this to require the Explorer Pin in addition to Nightmare difficulty, as with the upcoming SoG change and buffs to the Pistol masteries, AoMr has gotten significantly easier, and so an additional stipulation is needed for an appropriate Diamond-level challenge.

[ ] Centurial Diamond Badge - Change this to require the Experience Cross in addition to Nightmare difficulty, so that it isn't the same as Dervis' Medallion and so that players must kill most enemies in A100 instead of stair diving the back half of the challenge. 1

[ ] Daredevil Diamond Badge - Change this to require 100% kills, as it is too easy for a Diamond badge, and it makes little sense to require less kills in AoOC than what Elite Diamond requires (which is 90% kills in a standard game). 1

[ ] Longinus Diamond Badge - Disallow Angel of Max Carnage and Light Travel from being able to earn it, since they make the badge much easier. 1

[ ] UAC Angelic Badge - Change to requiring Ultra-Violence, as it is realistically unwinnable, especially now that the Enraged Timer + patrolling enemies means that extensive camping strategies the badge would have required are no longer viable. 1 2

[ ] Speedrunner Angelic Badge - Change to requiring 10 minutes or less, as it is realistically unwinnable, to such an absurd degree that it may not even be possible with TAS. 1 2 3

[ ] Demonic Angelic Badge - Change to winning a standard game on Nightmare with 100% kills and Untouchable Medal or even an Untouchable Pin, as it is an even more absurdly impossible version of UAC Angelic. Perhaps consider something else entirely, as long as it's changed to something that's realistically possible and isn't just a harder version of another Angelic badge. 1 2 3 4

[ ] Shottyman Angelic Badge - Change to requiring 100% kills, as it is too easy for an Angelic Badge, even with the Nightmare changes that eliminates the cheese of farming respawns to buff the kill count. 1 2

[ ] Pacifist Angelic Badge - Change to requiring Nightmare and remove the kill count requirement, as it is realistically unwinnable without absurd save scumming, especially now that proper infighting being added makes it incredibly unlikely to get through more than just a few floors without something dying. 1

[ ] New: Heroic Angelic Badge - Achieve all medals. 1 2 3

[ ] New: Destroyer Angelic Badge - Complete Angel of Max Carnage + Angel of 100 on Nightmare with Untouchable Pin. 1

[ ] New: Hunter Angelic Badge - Complete the proposed Archangel of Darkness on Nightmare. If this challenge isn't created, instead go with completing Angel of Darkness on Nightmare as a conqueror. 1 2 3

[ ] New: Daredevil Angelic Badge - Complete Angel of Overconfidence + Angel of Darkness on Nightmare with 100% kills. 1

[ ] New: Gatekeeper Angelic Badge - Clear Phobos Anomaly, Tower Of Babel, and Hell Fortress on Nightmare without taking damage in any of those three levels, while disallowing Angel Of Max Carnage and Light Travel. Only add this badge however if the suggestion to disallow the activation of nukes and disabling of powerups in Hell Fortress is implemented.

[ ] New: Purist Angelic Badge - Complete Angel of Purity + Angel of Light Travel on Nightmare. 1

[ ] New: Apostle Angelic Badge - Kill the Apostle in a standard game on Nightmare. 1

[ ] New: Sunrise Angelic Badge - Complete Angel of 100 on Ultra-Violence with 100% kills using only Fists. 1

[ ] New: Reaper Angelic Badge - Complete The Mortuary/Limbo in Angel Of Humanity on Nightmare. 1

[ ] New: Scavenger Angelic Badge - Clear The Vaults by luck in Angel Of Light Travel on Nightmare. 1

[ ] New: Arena Angelic Badge: Complete Hell's Arena in Archangel Of Humanity on Nightmare. (Needs discussion) 1

[Omega Tyrant]

New Content

This post will cover all suggestions for new content to add to the game. It is organized by general features, equipment/items, enemies, new challenges, and miscellaneous stuff (a traits and special levels section could be added too if Kornel says they're on the table and anyone has decent suggestions for them).

Features

[ ] Have the trait selection screen be more color-coded (example by Mader Levap): 1 2

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[ ] Add a toggle in the settings that turns off the powerup overlay filters of Berserk, Invulnerability, and Envirosuit. 1 2

[ ] When playing Nightmare or Angel of Darkness, have a message that informs you when every unique enemy on the floor has been killed at least once, so that a player going for 100% kills but not meticulously disposing of every corpse doesn't need to keep bringing up the player info screen to check when they have gotten 100% kills on any floor. Also maybe consider adding a visual indicator to respawned enemies to help immediately discern them, such as some dull-colored aura? 1

[ ] Have the player info screen display the amount of ingame time the player has spent on the current floor, to make it easier to track the Enraged Timer and other time-based events. 1

[ ] Add trap rooms. These would have a powerup/exotic/unique item inside, and when picked up, has a randomized chance of spawning enemies similar to a summon enemies lever, or floods the room with acid, lava, or blood. The weight of the powerups/exotics/uniques would not impact the rest of the floor, and any enemies spawned by the trap will not give EXP. The chance of the trap activating can be affected by depth level and/or difficulty. 1 2 3 4 5

[ ] Add a replay system to record and playback runs. 1 2

[ ] Consider adding an option to change your name ingame? 1

Equipment, assemblies, and other Items

[ ] New exotic: Acid-Proof Armor, which is 3 Protection, 95% Acid Resistance, -10% movement speed, everything else normal. (Could alternatively be named "Baron's Hide" to have a more flavorful name) 1 2

[ ] New exotic: Glass Armor, which is 0 Protection, 50% Durability, 50% all resistances. 1 2

[ ] New exotic: Glass Shield, which is 0 Protection, 50% Durability, 80% all resistances, cannot be repaired, cannot be modded, doesn't degrade. 1 2 3 4

[ ] New unique: Dimensional Boots, which is 4 Protection, -30% Move Speed, +30% Knockback, and when worn, you move two tiles for each movement rather than the usual one tile. 1

[ ] New unique: Big Fucking Shotgun, which is a shotgun with 40d5 plasma damage and a new "BFS" shotgun blast type with a max range of 10, spread of 5, and dropoff reduction of 10% per tile. However it has a clip size of 40 and requires 40 cells to shoot, has a 2 seconds firing time, and a 4 seconds reload time. (In effect, this weapon is a more faithful mechanical recreation of Doom's actual BFG). Also make it moddable by Technicians.

[ ] New assembly: Scouting Armor (any armor + AS), which is original with +1 Vision, +10% speed. 1

[ ] New assembly: Blastproof Armor (any armor + TF), which is original with half damage to explosions, +30% knockback. 1

[ ] New assembly: Sniper Rifle (Chaingun + BAS), which is original with auto-hit property. (Also a reference to Doom's actual Chaingun being a perfectly accurate sniping weapon when two-tapping it). 1 2

[ ] New assembly: Laser Blade (Combat Knife + BTN), which is 5d5 plasma damage with 0.8 sec firing speed, -2 accuracy, and when equipped, it has the ability to reduce any plasma hit that deals less than 5 damage before armor/resistances to 0 (or if that is too difficult/annoying to program, alternatively just have it give +50% plasma resistance when equipped). Also make it indestructible, so its throwing altfire can be utilized without risking losing it. 1

[ ] New set: Tactical Set (Tactical Armor + Tactical Boots), which gives Dodgemaster. 1 2

[ ] New set: Bruiser Set (Acid-Proof Armor/Baron's Hide + Acid-Proof Boots), which gives 100% acid resistance. 1

Enemies

Currently no new ideas

New challenge ideas

[ ] "Angel of Gladiating" and "Angel of Labyrinth" (or any other appropriate name): The former challenge will have all floors be Arena-type levels, and the latter challenge will have all floors be mazes. Alternatively, the challenges can be combined together and caves could be thrown into the mix for a "hard level types only" challenge. 1

[ ] "Angel of Misfortune" (or any other appropriate name): Every floor will have a level event. 1

[ ] "Angel of Spilling" (or any other appropriate name): Your inventory will be reset to the starting loadout upon entering every floor, emulating the popular Pistol Start challenge in Doom. The starting loadout may be modified to give you more of the standard weapons and some ammo for them, so that you're not practically forced to use Pistol builds. Exotics/uniques may also have increased chances of spawning to compensate for the temporary equipment, and an exception to resetting inventory could be made when entering boss and special levels, so that they all remain beatable. 1

[ ] "Angel of Turbo" (rudimentary placeholder name, can be replaced with something better): All enemies are 20% faster, recreating Doom's own "fast monsters" setting that DRL currently lacks an equivalent to. An Archangel version can also be made that makes enemies even faster.

[ ] "Archangel of Darkness": You have a vision radius of 4 and enemies revive, but you gain x2.5 experience. 1 2 3 4 5

New level events

[ ] "Mortuary event": All enemies will immediately die when entering the floor (and not give any EXP in the process), then a random number of Arch-Viles will be spawned around the floor (and especially bad level rolls on UV/N! could spawn Nightmare Arch-Viles). Also disable the "reveal enemies" mechanic and stair sense in this event. 1

[ ] "Max Carnage event": Emulates Angel of Max Carnage for a single level, i.e. the player and enemies always deal maximum damage while having +12 accuracy. Particularly bad level rolls should instead have a "Snake Eyes" event, where only enemies always deal maximum damage and have +12 accuracy. 1

[ ] "Masochism event": Emulates Angel of Masochism for a single level, i.e. the player will be unable to heal through conventional means until they exit the floor. To prevent a player from getting screwed by entering such a floor at low health, have the player get supercharged upon entering the floor. 1

Miscellaneous

Currently no new ideas

[Trar]

New uniques:

* M6D Magnum, from Halo: Combat Evolved. Very powerful, 12 round magazine, has a zoom feature (could be represented as increased accuracy).

* MA-75 Assault Rifle/Grenade Launcher, from Marathon. 52 round mag, can fire grenades (could use rocket ammunition).


I'm not sure if I should suggest uniques from other Doom games like the Unmaker or Crucible, given that DRL's meant to represent the first Doom game, but it does have the super shotgun so idk.

[Omega Tyrant]

New uniques:

* M6D Magnum, from Halo: Combat Evolved. Very powerful, 12 round magazine, has a zoom feature (could be represented as increased accuracy).

* MA-75 Assault Rifle/Grenade Launcher, from Marathon. 52 round mag, can fire grenades (could use rocket ammunition).


I'm not sure if I should suggest uniques from other Doom games like the Unmaker or Crucible, given that DRL's meant to represent the first Doom game, but it does have the super shotgun so idk.

I remember the former idea before and being concerned it would outclass the Trigun without a big firing speed penalty, but with the SoG change making reaching minimum firing speeds no longer possible, even if it holds the same power as the Trigun it wouldn't outclass thanks to the Trigun's firing speed advantage. Just increased accuracy would be boring though for a Unique, perhaps it could have a special type of aimed shot that has autohit (thus making it guaranteed to always hit against in-vision and out-of-vision targets, at the expense of doubled firing time). A special pistol that does encourage more aimed-shooting would be a niche that's currently unfulfilled.

As for the latter, I would need more information on how it would actually function, but if it's supposed to be firing grenades, that may be something better off proposed for JHC, which has grenade launchers as a separate type of weapon class with its own ammo type (being well, grenades).

And I think more weapons from other Doom games would be neat. I personally would really like the Unmaker and it would be my first choice if I got to choose a new unique, but haven't formally proposed it as I'm unsure how to replicate its progression system in DRL and not just make it a souped up Hyperblaster out of the box.