Corruption - [35 Map MBF21 Megawad] - (Idgames Pending, Final Update(TM))

[NinjaDelphox]

Decades of peace have passed on the planet Elysia, with one half of the planet belonging to the UAC, and the other belonging to demon kind. One day, a meteor crashes into Mount Esthar, the largest volcano in the demon realm, shaking the planet to its core. An alien parasite slithers its way from the meteor infecting all of demonkind. As things seem like they couldn't get worse, Mount Esthar suddenly erupts, spreading corruption over most of the planet killing all UAC personnel on the planet. Your mission is to travel to Elysia, search for any UAC survivors, and terminate the alien parasite.



Corruption is a thirty-five level MBF21 mapset created by @NinjaDelphox, @EVILNECK, and @Arsinikk, comprised of detailed and action heavy maps inspired by Back to Saturn X2 and Hell Revealed II, along with other games such as Final Fantasy, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, Metroid, Resident Evil, and Mega Man.

Extensive sprite, sound effect, and dehacked changes have been created and used for Corruption to tie in with its story and provide a much more unique experience than a standard Doom II mapset. A lot of attention to detail has also been paid to various source port extras such as GLDEFS, custom obituaries for monsters, edited menu graphics, additional enemies in the ending cast call, and much more.

Every Map has been designed to be able to be pistol started, but I highly recommend not doing that on a first playthrough. Normal mode is the intended way to experience the game, but medium and easy difficulties have been implemented, as well as a new harder difficulty called “Xtreme” (Ultra-Violence Plus).



Made with the Doom II IWAD.

Corruption has been tested with:
DSDA-Doom (0.24.3, 0.25.0, 0.25.5) [Most recommended]
Woof! 10.5.0
Eternity (Devbuild, 4.03)
Zandronum 3.1

ZDoom 2.6.1
Odamex 3.10.0 (Currently broken, does not support A_LineEffect, has issues with bossdeaths due to reading ZMAPINFO but not decorate, and other misc. problems)
GZDoom (4.9.0, 4.10.0)

Doom Retro from my limited testing does not seem to support umapinfo bossdeaths (At least they don’t work with the current implementation like in every other port).

Run with the widescreen assets patch for 16:9 art and status bar.

 

Run with Corruption_Lights.pk3 for GLDEFS.

Spoiler

Possessed
-Shoots a burst of 2 hitscan attacks, same as the vanilla zombieman otherwise.


Gremlin
-Regular projectile is faster than the vanilla Imp fireball.
-At 15 or less health, they will use a stronger and faster fireball.


Devil
-Slightly faster than the vanilla pinky, and bites faster.
-Spectre bites at the same speed, but has the same movement speed as the vanilla speed. Becomes visible once dead and becomes invisible again when resurrected 


Caco Demon
-Shoots a faster projectile than the vanilla counterpart
-At 100 or less health, its eye will become red, and they will attack with a larger ball that is stronger.


Lord of Esthar
-At 200 or less health, they will throw stronger and faster projectiles.


Nobleman of Esthar
-Same as the vanilla Baron, does not throw a stronger projectile at low health.


Resurrected
-At 100 or less health, they will shoot a considerably faster and stronger homing rocket.


Mammoth
-Shoots faster projectiles than the vanilla counterpart
-At 150 or less health, their eyes will become red. This has no effect and is visual only.


Spider Unit
-Shoots faster projectiles than the vanilla counterpart
-Will gib if killed with -150 health or less


Encephalon
-Much lower pain chance than the vanilla counterpart, stun also lasts longer.
-Shoots at a rate much higher than the vanilla counterpart.


Proto Behemoth
-Much lower pain chance than the vanilla counterpart. Stun lasts longer than vanilla, and has 6 possible colors to flash when stunned.
-Fires rockets faster than the vanilla counterpart. Rockets have an increased movement speed.

Player rockets, Plasma, and BFG projectiles all move faster as well.
The pistol and chaingun are faster and always accurate.
The fist has increased range, and the chainsaw cuts incredibly fast.
The plasma rifle no longer has a recoil after letting go of fire.


 

Spoiler

Venemous Caco Demon
-Has more health and moves considerably faster than a regular Caco.
-Attacks with 2 Mancubus Fireballs and a Caco fireball. Will rapidly bite in melee range.


Baron of Filth
-More health than a Hell Knight, Less than a Baron.
-Throws 2 projectiles rapidly, and has a higher movement speed than the other nobles and lords.
-Will charge at the player when stunned or in melee range.


Super Mastermind
-A boss only appearing in 1 Map


Eligor, the Unknown King
-A boss only appearing in 1 Map


Phantasm
-A rare creature, kill them all to find a secret!


Ashtar and Jaquio
-Part of the Final boss, required to be killed to damage the Parasite.


The Parasite
-Final boss of the game

 

Spoiler

===Cluster 1: Dire Pollution===
1. Pollution - NinjaDelphox - High Speed Lift, Mega Man Zero 3
2. Nukage Outflow - NinjaDelphox - Tallon Overworld 2, Metroid Prime
3. Toxin depot - NinjaDelphox - Organic Line, Mega Man ZX Advent
4. Discharge - NinjaDelphox - Hell’s Gate Open, Mega Man Zero 3
5. Marshlands - EvilNeck - Upper Brinstar, Super Metroid
6. Decomposition - EvilNeck - Sandy Maridia, Super Metroid

===Cluster 2: Corrupt Vestige===
7. Undergrowth - NinjaDelphox - Nettori Battle, Metroid Fusion
8. Sector 2 - NinjaDelphox - Sector 2 [TRO], Metroid Fusion
9. Twilight Zone - EvilNeck - For Endless Fight III, Mega Man Zero 3
10. Subterranean Hell - NinjaDelphox - Wasteland, James Paddock
11. The Grotto - EvilNeck - Stormwater, James Paddock
12. Abandoned Mire - EvilNeck - Killing Spirit, Metabolist

===Cluster 3: Emerald Eclipse===
13. House of Sacred Remains - NinjaDelphox - Demon Seed, Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse
14. Eternal Corridor - NinjaDelphox and Arsinikk - Phazon Mines, Metroid Prime
15. Hellcinerator - Arsinikk - Into the Hellfire|Into Arsinikk’s City, Arsinikk
16. The Dark Chapel II - NinjaDelphox - Malak’s Labyrinth, Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
17. Putrefaction - EvilNeck - Tower of Science, Castlevania 64
18. Necrosis - NinjaDelphox and EvilNeck - Rainbow Cemetery, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

===Cluster 4: High-Tech Gateway===
19. The Observation Tower - NinjaDelphox - Final Weapon, Mega Man X4
20. Barrel Plant - NinjaDelphox - Reborn Mechanics, Mega Man Zero 3
21. Reservoir Facility - NinjaDelphox - Cold Smile, Mega Man Zero 3
22. Fracture Terminal - NinjaDelphox - Encased, James Paddock
23. The Vile Peaks - NinjaDelphox - Arrival on Crateria, Super Metroid
24. Faultline Station - NinjaDelphox - Junkie Smack, Mark Klem

===Cluster 5: Charon Skies===
25. Cyclospora - NinjaDelphox - Anti-Soul Mysteries Lab, Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
26. Thalassemia - NinjaDelphox - Sacrifice, David Shaw
27.              - NinjaDelphox - Sigma 1, Mega Man X6|Discolored Wall, Castlevania: Bloodlines
28. Haemodialysis - NinjaDelphox - Mirage, Mark Klem
29. Baaj Temple - NinjaDelphox - Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec, Final Fantasy VIII
30. Mount Esthar - NinjaDelphox - Pendulum, Psyrus

===Secret Cluster 1===
33. Unknown Tomb - NinjaDelphox - Silent Prison, Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
31. Cursed Heat - EvilNeck and NinjaDelphox - When the Sun won’t Rise Anymore, Thyrbse
32. Area Zero/Sunleth Waterscape - NinjaDelphox - Esperanto, Mega Man Zero 4

===Secret Cluster 2===
34. CUMMMFPK - NinjaDelphox - Overloaded, Mega Man ZX Advent
35. Credits Map - NinjaDelphox - Separate Paths|March of the Dreadnaughts, Final Fantasy XIII



For the full list of credits, check the text file.

Testing:
@NinjaDelphox
@Arsinikk
@EVILNECK
@thiccyosh
@Large Cat
@TheNoob_Gamer
@TwoFoxSix
@finnks13



Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S35KiND6Y9_nn870ycxJDpwmeYBm0E6l/view?usp=share_link
idgames: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/megawads/corruption

Edited March 3 by NinjaDelphox

[General Rainbow Bacon]

Doesn't work with Gzdoom 4.10

 

Script error, "Corruption.wad:ZMAPINFO" line 470:
SC_GetNumber: Bad numeric constant "true".

[NinjaDelphox]

Oh I messed up the Lightning portion for Map 23 in ZMapinfo when I was going through everything earlier, thanks for pointing it out! Fixed now, updated file on the same link.

[LuciferSam86]

Oh super sweet.  I loved Hellcinerator, and I'm going to play this for sure. :)

[epicyolomaster420]

I love the look of some of these maps!

I'll try to play it soon-ish, but can't make any promises (I'm currently wrapped up in an Ultimate Doom project just as ambitious as this, called Cleanout, of whom I am both the project lead and largest map contributor)...

Congrats on the release!

Edited December 30, 2022 by epicyolomaster420 : fixed typo

[nickxcom]

Whoa! This looks great! Going to try and play through this over the weekend :)

[LuciferSam86]

Oh, a question: I remember map 15 on GZDoom did not have the custom colormap in the library with the hardware-accelerated renderer. Does that still apply?

[NinjaDelphox]

Just now, LuciferSam86 said:

Oh, a question: I remember map 15 on GZDoom did not have the custom colormap in the library with the hardware-accelerated renderer. Does that still apply?

Pretty sure the answer is yes, haven't looked at it with the hardware renderer in a long time though. Doubt that feature has been added.

[Floowand]

idk how to feel about this "maps inspired by Back to Saturn X2 and Hell Revealed II"

[NinjaDelphox]

17 minutes ago, Floowand said:

idk how to feel about this "maps inspired by Back to Saturn X2 and Hell Revealed II"

I wouldn't look too deep into that, they're just where most of my ideas come from for certain aspects of levels and how the story is handled, the gameplay of Corruption isn't really like either at all.

[Arsinikk]

20 minutes ago, LuciferSam86 said:

Oh, a question: I remember map 15 on GZDoom did not have the custom colormap in the library with the hardware-accelerated renderer. Does that still apply?

This is unfortunately a limitation of GZDoom's Hardware renderer and not something I can fix.

 

It would be more accurate to say the the library uses a custom palette rather than a colourmap. The way it works in software renderers is that it is like the library is "underwater", and while you under water in that section, it remaps each colour of the normal doom palette to the new "underwater" palette.

 

The problem is that GZDoom's Hardware renderer only uses the first screen of the main PLAYPAL palette, and doesn't remap any of the colours to other palettes. This includes Invulnerability, Rad suit tint, Pain palette flashes, item grab palette flashes, and any underwater palettes.

 

This is the reason why it's really difficult to have custom rad suit, invulnerability, or pain/item grab palette changes in Hardware, since the actual palettes in the PLAYPAL except the first one are ignored, and for the ones that are editable, you must use DECORATE and are still stuck with a severely limited amount of colours to choose from. I don't quite know how GZDoom's underwater palettes work, but it basically picks a colour from that specific palette and tints the screen with it.

[LuciferSam86]

Hey Ars. I see, no problem :) I'll use DSDA . Thanks for the explanation. 

 

 

 

[TheShep]

oh mamayama this is sounding rather tite

[Caleb13]

I encountered two bugs in MAP01 while playing on UV in Gzdoom 4.10.0:

-A chaingunner and a hellknight were stuck on berserk secret pillar.

-One of the monsters closets was broken, see the screenshot. When I noclipped there, it looked like an archvile teleported above the revenants there, possibly because of messed tags?

 

I don't plan to play further because all the custom monsters and sounds are just awful. I know the "mutated monsters" are part of the story, but is there a chance you'd release a cleaned version later? I tried to clean it myself (like I do quite often), but Decorate changes and sprites are too numerous in this case.

 

 

[NinjaDelphox]

1 hour ago, Caleb13 said:

I encountered two bugs in MAP01 while playing on UV in Gzdoom 4.10.0:

-A chaingunner and a hellknight were stuck on berserk secret pillar.

-One of the monsters closets was broken, see the screenshot. When I noclipped there, it looked like an archvile teleported above the revenants there, possibly because of messed tags?

After looking into it, this is because the "spawnmulti" skill parameter for UV+ doesn't look at Boom's "Not cooperative" monster flag, so it is spawning monsters stacked on top of each other. I don't know enough about ZDoom stuff to know if there is a way around that, maybe @Graf Zahl knows, looking at the wiki for Skill definitions, there doesn't appear to be any way to disable those Boom flagged monsters.

[Firedust]

Stunning screenshots! How much harder is Extreme than Normal btw? And why is the title of map 27 blank?

[NinjaDelphox]

12 minutes ago, Firedust said:

Stunning screenshots! How much harder is Extreme than Normal btw? And why is the title of map 27 blank?

Xtreme varies by map, I would say Map 27 coincidentally happens to be the hardest level on Xtreme. Map 27 does have a name, but you don't get to see it until it is completed because it would spoil the main gimmick of the level ;)

[NinjaDelphox]

Tomorrow there will be a small little update fixing some minor issues I have found in a few maps, and also a slightly expanded version of Map 33. Mostly texture alignment and other misc. fixes that won't be noticed all that much.

Also figured I'd share some screenshots of the WIP Map 34!

 

Spoiler

 

[NinjaDelphox]

Well the update came out much later than I wanted due to my power unfortunately being out for basically the whole day, but I finally have this small update ready! Same link as OP, just minor fixes for some maps, and a small expansion to Map 33.

[NinjaDelphox]

23 hours ago, NinjaDelphox said:

Well the update came out much later than I wanted due to my power unfortunately being out for basically the whole day, but I finally have this small update ready! Same link as OP, just minor fixes for some maps, and a small expansion to Map 33.

Well I just realized I'm an idiot an never included the updated Mapinfos for Map 33, which added a bossdeath to allow the player to leave a certain area, make sure to download the latest version from the OP, sorry for the inconvenience.

[Bozzy]

What kind of difficulty do you think your WAD is? if you could compare it to another WAD i may have played.  Lets just say i couldnt beat Sunlust Map 30 so will this be doable for someone like me? though i could always play on lower difficulties.

[NinjaDelphox]

57 minutes ago, Bozzy said:

What kind of difficulty do you think your WAD is? if you could compare it to another WAD i may have played.  Lets just say i couldnt beat Sunlust Map 30 so will this be doable for someone like me? though i could always play on lower difficulties.

I would say this mapset is more of a middle of the road difficulty, if you could get through all of Sunlust but Map 30 you can definitely still beat this on normal, but if you find the later maps more difficult (19 and after) I would recommend going to medium or lower.


Thanks to @Vile a whole bunch more issues and minor things have been fixed! A new updated invulnerability palette has been added, created by @Arsinikk, along with minor fixes to Map 02, 05, 09, and 14. Maps 10 and 11 have had a little bit of added ammo in certain areas. Download the newest version from the OP.

[NinjaDelphox]

Now we have yet another set of slight bug fixes and updates to maps! Currently the title demos are out of sync due to these changes, but will be fixed when Map 34 is finished since they aren't the most important thing in the world (And there could still be more fixes later on) Download the newest version from the OP.

Full changelog:
 

Spoiler

Map 31: Untagged an extra secret sector

Map 19: unblocked monster blocking lines in front of the exit doors

Map 20: Added 15 rockets, fixed timing of Green Caco spawns

Map 21/36: Fixed 4 broken teleports, monsters now correctly teleport in when you press the red switch

Map 23: Added 100 cells, new secret with 80 cells, you can now telefrag the cyberdemon by the red key

Map 24: Removed an incorrect flesh tree and replaced it with Bloody Mess 1, untagged an extra broken secret, Arch Vile Jump soulsphere has been replaced with an invulnerability, minor change to yellow key area

Map 25: Fixed some minor visual issues, untagged a broken secret, slight visual changes

Map 26: The optional fight now requires a secret blue key to enter

Map 27: Now shows the whole automap, has more health and rockets, slight visual changes

Map 28: Made the BFG invulnerability visible before actually grabbing the BFG

Map 29: replaced some firewall textures with a purple fire wall

Map 35: Fixed a missing texture

Other changes:
The pain chance of Cyberdemons has decreased significantly
Fixed the duration of a state

 

[pampoo79]

google keeps fucking with me, I guess I'll have to wait for the idgames upload

[NinjaDelphox]

4 hours ago, pampoo79 said:

google keeps fucking with me, I guess I'll have to wait for the idgames upload

Is something wrong with the link? Or is it an issue specific for you? If it's the latter I could upload a temporary download to doomworld.

[NinjaDelphox]

Back with another update, this *should* be the final update before Map 34 and the Zandronum patches update for RC2. A whole lot has been fixed and few minor things have been changed. All currently known issues in the maps have been resolved (At least I hope, can't wait for something obvious to be broken lmao). Full change log below, download the newest version from the OP.

Spoiler

Map 01: Cleaned up automap slightly

Map 11: New Super Shotgun Secret at the start

Map 13: New secret area, added a forced purple eye teleport

Map 14: Slight difference for the exit, no longer a forced death exit

Map 15: Fixed some issues, added a deathmatch area

Map 33: Added deathmatch starts and weapons

Map 31: Slight visual changes, made it much harder to escape from the yellow key fight

Map 16: visual changes, new secret

Map 17: Slight visual changes, added some enemies

Map 18: Slight visual changes

General changes:
The chainsaw now wakes up enemies just holding it
Fixed errors in texture2 for animated textures
Slight updates to decorate in both the main wad and Zandronum patches (Still unfinished currently)

 

[pampoo79]

With GZDoom 4.9 I get this error "Corruption.wad:DECORATE line 1057:Sprite names must be exactly 4 characters and with Zandronum (using all 3 wads) I get "Script error, "Corruption.wad:DECORATE" line 396: Invalid state parameter a_settranslation"

 

this project does not like me

[NinjaDelphox]

34 minutes ago, pampoo79 said:

With GZDoom 4.9 I get this error "Corruption.wad:DECORATE line 1057:Sprite names must be exactly 4 characters and with Zandronum (using all 3 wads) I get "Script error, "Corruption.wad:DECORATE" line 396: Invalid state parameter a_settranslation"

Thanks for pointing this out, I was just about to post a new update, so I got it fixed up. I honestly recommend using anything but a ZDoom port until everything is finished because they will always be behind in terms of the decorate and stuff, and Zandronum and old ZDoom currently doesn't work at all.

Now speaking of that update, enough stuff has been added since the previous "last before RC2" update, so I figured I'd just post it and call it RC1.5. The cyberdemon has received a new pain animation that comes with 6 random variations, with the sprites being created by @EVILNECK , and updates to the radiation, pain, and item pickup palettes. The radsuit has also received a new sprite, and there are minor dehacked changes, along with some progress with decorate updates. See the full changelog below, and download the newest version here (Same link as OP).

Changelog:
 

Spoiler

Dehacked:

Lost Soul damage has increased by 1
Lost Soul is now translucent
Sphere powerups are no longer translucent
Imp fireballs now have a speed of 12
Cyberdemon pain chance has increased from 1 to 5
Cyberdemon now has 6 randomized pain animations, all of which last 18 frames, with blue being the most common (Sprites posted below)
Cyberdemon death animation is now full bright (New sprites below)

Maps:
Map 7: Added 2 Cyberdemons (Normal/Medium), 8 Barons (Easy)
Map 9: Visual changes after the blue door
Map 13: Visual changes in the northwest room
Map 14: Visual changes in the rocket launcher room
Map 19: Enemies now spawn in the 4 wings of the map after all switches are pressed and can lower the lifts, replaced 2 Arch Viles with Hell Knights, added invulnerability under the Cyberdemon.
Map 23: Moved the automap and made a new secret for it
Map 24: The start room closes once you leave it, added 2 Arachnotrons and 2 Arch Viles
Map 25: Visual changes to the red key and exit areas.
Map 29: replaced all FIRELAVA textures with purple versions, flat changes in the yellow key and chainsaw room

New Sprites:





























A decent amount of progress has been made in updating the GZDoom decorate, missing the new cyberdemon animations and a spawner for an enemy, but is otherwise mostly caught up to the dehacked. The Zandronum version has not received any updates and won't until everything is working properly on GZDoom.

Also, for progress on Map 34, a new area is currently being worked on, the map is probably like 45% done or so.

 

[Evil_Ascended]

Almost same error as with pampoo79, except I am running with GZ 4.10

[NinjaDelphox]

1 hour ago, Evil_Ascended said:

Almost same error as with pampoo79, except I am running with GZ 4.10

Thanks, got it fixed, link has been updated.