[William Gee]

I have put together 33 of my levels into a GRP file making 5 episodes.

Episode 1 WG THE ABYSS 4 levels (Requires eduke32) SP
Episode 2 WG Space 8 Levels SP DM COOP
Episode 3 WG REALMS 5 levels SP DM COOP
Episode 4 WG City 1 level (Requires eduke32) SP
Episode 5 WG DUKE MATCH 15 Levels DM

Download here https://www.moddb.co...ds/wg-mega-pack

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[Ninety-Six]

Does this release have the updated AlienX in the WGSpace episode?

[William Gee]

Ninety-Six, on 27 June 2021 - 06:45 AM, said:

Does this release have the updated AlienX in the WGSpace episode?

Yes the updated AlienX is included.

Here is a shot of the Episodes menu.

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[Ninety-Six]

Sweet.

I'm glad WGR1 is still a part of this. We might have Demon Throne now, but those levels are still just as fun with the classic roster.

[William Gee]

I played the original WGRealms recently and it was a completely different experience from the demon throne version. + there are alot of differences, I changed lots of things removing and adding stuff when adding them to demon throne. So the original definitely still has its place in a alternate Duke3D reality with more tech stuff and slower gameplay. It was interesting and fun to play tbh, a good experience.

I did change the boss though to the cyclops, and added the episode4 boss to the end of WGCity, so now you get to kill all 4 bosses.

[Ninety-Six]

William Gee, on 27 June 2021 - 04:39 PM, said:

I did change the boss though to the cyclops, and added the episode4 boss to the end of WGCity, so now you get to kill all 4 bosses.

Fair enough.

Incidentally, is there a method to the episode order? Or was it just kinda arbitrary?

Not important; just curious.

[William Gee]

After your decent in episode 1 you end inside an alienspacehip, like in E1L5 after that you start the next episode in space, once complete duke goes home to find it is smashed, and then enters wgrealms.
The one strange thing is ending WGRealms in the Egypt realm and then starting in WGCity.

[Merlijn]

Great to see this released in 1 neat package! Did you also do updated on WGspace or kept the maps as they are?

[William Gee]

Thanks!
WGSpace is still the same apart from the updated ALIENX.

I could update the episodes in the future, but first I wanted to package them all together.

[William Gee]

I never expected it but this pack got onto the front banner of MODDB.COM.

[Ninety-Six]

wow.

good job, dude!

[Maarten]

Congrats!!

[William Gee]

Thanks.
After doing some playtesting I found some issues with a couple midis and sounds not working cause the name was too long when I added them to the GRP. I just fixed that and uploaded V1.2.

[NightFright]

Just when I wanted to inform you about it. Noticed it when converting the pack to zip format for the EAC. Anyway, great to see some of your best addons compiled in such a neat package! I see some compromises had to be made, such as removing custom weapons from WGR1, but I guess they were optional in the first place and you won't miss them.

[William Gee]

Yeah those weapons really didn't suit the package, I did think one day I may add some custom weapons but for now just release the pack. I might even add extra levels and secret levels to the current episodes at some point. And maybe add a final end episode. But not atm.

[William Gee]

I have added WGFANG to the 6th Episode.

https://www.moddb.co...ds/wg-mega-pack

[William Gee]

Edit: Updated the package with a fixed WGSpace3.map WGMEGAv2.1

[Ninety-Six]

Took me a while but I finally got around to playing through the entire pack. I was happy to see that most of the levels still held up, especially WGR1 which I was always a fan of. A shame about the missing SFX and weapon sprites, but they were hardly essential. Fighting all the bosses was also a nice change from the originals.

Did encounter a few bugs, though.

Spoiler

1. In Astro Core, a lot of the metal scaffolding had collision on the wrong side, so I would go through them and get trapped inside.

2. In Temple Cress, in the trap room with the four switches, I was trying to press the switch to reveal the four shootable exit buttons, but instead I re-lowered the passage wall, which wouldn't re-open, so I was stuck again.

3. The Cycloid boss in Temple Cress couldn't move.

4. There were some inappropriate SFX in WGRealms, where the bar music would play instead of what I think were supposed to be nature sounds.





Also the garage in the DM map based on WGR1's first level.

[Aleks]

Ninety-Six, on 05 January 2022 - 10:09 PM, said:

1. In Astro Core, a lot of the metal scaffolding had collision on the wrong side, so I would go through them and get trapped inside.

I think this isn't a map bug, but a general clipping problem, not sure if from EDuke32 or original Duke. Some of the tiles in the game are labeled as "MaskwallXX", these are mostly metal fences, trusses, scaffolding elements, catwalks etc. that have a significant part of them using the pink transparent color. These tiles have a fixed cstat number giving them a "unique" property of always being blocked, but not hitscan-sensitive (while also overriding any other cstat bits the mapper might add, hence e.g. can't make a proper shadow from them as the transparency bit will also be gone). It seems that in the case of structures with "walls" made with these sprites, despite being completely sealed, Duke can still sneak through from certain angles and get trapped inside them. I've had a few problems like that in Submachine, the solution I used was putting an invisible sprite (or a bunch of invisible sprites) inside the structure, blocking them and giving them larger clipping distance with Alt+D (max value seems to be 128 or 255), so the player technically won't be able to even touch the maskwall sprites.

[William Gee]

Thanks for playing through the lot...
I will try to fix those sound bugs.

As far as I could tell the cycloid is stayput monster? Unless its getting stuck, I remember trying to fix that but gave up.

[Ninety-Six]

William Gee, on 06 January 2022 - 09:59 PM, said:

As far as I could tell the cycloid is stayput monster? Unless its getting stuck, I remember trying to fix that but gave up.

Isn't it something about him only able to walk on floors with a certain lotag, or something like that?

[Aleks]

Ninety-Six, on 07 January 2022 - 12:51 AM, said:

Isn't it something about him only able to walk on floors with a certain lotag, or something like that?

Yeah, Cycloid will only walk on sectors with Lotag 3, so you can set up the route/area for him very precisely.

[William Gee]

I was completely unaware of that! Cool!

[William Gee]

UPDATE :V2.2

1) Fixed sound bug in E3 L3 open season.
2) IMPROVED MOVEMENT OF BOSS IN in E3 L5 Temple cress.
3) Added WGSpace3 dedux in E2 L3 ICE MOON.

https://www.moddb.co...ownloads/wgmega

[jkas789]

You legend!

[William Gee]

Thanks!

WGSpace1.map was released in Oct 2002 so this pack is close to 20 years in the making.

[William Gee]

Something I am working on... The 4th and final episode containing the rest of my levels.

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[jkas789]

I decided to play through the Mega Pack again, thought this time with the voxel pack enabled. Just as a PSA to anyone else trying it out with it as well, while it looks hella good with voxels some switches get spoilered and there is some wacky rotated voxels going on. So maybe you should pass on using voxels on this one. Now I'm gonna try to play it with either Phredreeke's ERP (with voxels disabled) or the Duke Nukem Upscale pack.

Cheers.

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[Ninety-Six]

jkas789, on 12 April 2022 - 06:42 AM, said:

some switches get spoilered

That's the achilles heel to the entire voxel pack, really.

[William Gee]

UPDATE :V2.5

1) Made red hand switches and EGYPTIAN switches invisible for voxils.
2) Added WGRealms skyboxes from the old WGR HRP pack.



https://www.moddb.co...ds/wg-mega-pack