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Korax Mod 5.3 is now available on SourceForge and ModDB. New loot bag system Instead of specific monster types dropping predefined items, all monsters now have a chance to drop loot bags of varying sizes Adventurer’s Pouch: can contain mana, a few silver, and low-tier artifacts like a Flechette Adventurer’s Sachel: in addition to the pouch contents, it can also contain some instant health or food, a gold bar or two, and mid-tier artifacts like a Porkelator Adventurer’s Knapsack: in addition to the pouch and satchel contents, it can also contain a large amount of gold, a top-tier artifact like an Icon of the Defender, and even a highly valuable potion that permanently increases your stats Quality of Life improvements Fixed the root cause of the long-elusive bug that caused the world and interfaces to sometimes recall the wrong player class or RPG complexity upon loading a saved game You can now start the game in any episode: after setting up your character, you pick your starting hub and will be automatically leveled up and outfitted to an appropriate degree Armorer’s hammer can now always be used, regardless of the condition of your armor, and it repairs a percentage depending on difficulty and RPG complexity Upon leveling up, the player now receives some mana. The amount depends on level, difficulty and RPG complexity On higher RPG complexities, leveling up also reduces the player’s Hunger and Fatigue by an amount determined by difficulty and RPG complexity New menu options to automatically assign points on leveling up, to select the detail level of the loot bag pickup message, and to set the threshold where you can start using Armorer’s Hammers Limited Deathkings support You can now play through the Hexen expansion Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, starting the game in any episode you want You start at a high level, with all your weapons/spells/class abilities, as well as a few useful artifacts in your inventory Instead of shops, you can spend your money to replace your armor with a brand new one any time Not being able to modify the maps means the total number of monster variations is limited to that of the original Hexen; to shake things up, the following changes have been made: Standard Ettins have been replaced with Ettin Commanders (whose damage and health has been lowered by about a third) Centaurs have been replaced with Flame Centaurs Slaughtaurs have been replaced with Spectral Centaurs Afrits have been replaced with Afrit Leaders Dark Bishops have been replaced with Dark Cardinals (whose health has been slightly increased) Death Wyverns had their health massively increased

The Scattered Evil 2.4.1 patch is now available on SourceForge and ModDB. Issues fixed: Removed the debug conversation option from the Church and Arcanum quartermasters that allowed the player to gain ranks Fixed the start position when arriving on the Isle of the Ancient Kings from Thystes (due to how the engine works, this fix only applies to savegames where the player hasn’t yet visited this location)

New playthrough videos: 1. Class: Cleric; RPG Complexity: Standard; Difficulty: Medium 2. Class: Fighter; RPG Complexity: Off; Difficulty: Hard

Scattered Evil 2.4 released Scattered Evil 2.4 is now available on SourceForge and ModDB. New rank and reputation system Completing quests for your own order increases your rank, completing quests for the other orders increases your standing with them Instead of having to complete a specific NPC's quest for a specific spell or weapon, these are now sold by quartermasters, requiring a certain rank or standing Learning new class abilities is now tied to rank instead of specific quests On Old School RPG complexity, an alternative way of advancement is to bribe officials New loot bag system Instead of specific monster types dropping predefined items, all monsters now have a chance to drop loot bags of varying sizes Adventurer's Pouch: can contain mana, a few coins, and low-tier artifacts like a Flechette Adventurer's Sachel: in addition to the pouch contents, it can also contain some instant health or food, a gold bar or two, and mid-tier artifacts like a Porkelator Adventurer's Knapsack: in addition to the pouch and satchel contents, it can also contain a large amount of gold, a top-tier artifact like an Icon of the Defender, and even a highly valuable potion that permanently increases your stats Dungeon updates Most dungeons received a facelift, using over a hundred new textures Many dungeons received some tuning and a few dungeons received new shortcuts Ruins of Thryas rebuilt from scratch New soundtrack for the Dark Conclave Interface changes The Character Sheet, a new chapter in the Journal, shows your rank, standing and ability scores, replacing the Character Update screen The Character Creation screen now uses the same visuals and the same dynamic navigation as the Journal New menu options to automatically assign points on leveling up, to select the detail level of the loot bag pickup message, and to set the threshold where you can start using Armorer's Hammers Quality of Life improvements Armorer's hammer can now always be used, regardless of the condition of your armor, and it repairs a percentage depending on difficulty and RPG complexity Upon leveling up, the player now receives some mana. The amount depends on level, difficulty and RPG complexity On higher RPG complexities, leveling up also reduces the player's Hunger and Fatigue by an amount determined by difficulty and RPG complexity Locks are now easier to spot, especially in dark areas Added lodging options to some outlying towns in the north and south. Together with the chance of food drops from monster kills, this should greatly reduce the pressure on the player to make extra trips to a city to recharge Miscellaneous It's now snowing in the northern mountains Torn banners are now waving in the wind and can be punched Additional conversation clues in the first town on where to find further advancement opportunities Banking now unavailable when RPG complexity is set to Off Tornado damage and cost increased Ghost hit points greatly reduced Bugfixes Fixed the root cause of the long-elusive bug that caused the world and interfaces to sometimes recall the wrong player class or RPG complexity upon loading a saved game Fixed the damage scaling of some spells Horses' neigh is now audible

Scattered Evil 2.3 is now available on SourceForge and ModDB. Features: Hundreds of all-new custom textures have been added, giving every single town a major facelift Fully animated 3D models for Dark Bishop, Dark Cardinal, Dark Advisor Humans are now taller (both the player and NPCs) Walking NPCs can now be pushed out of the way Shop signs are now swinging in the wind Minor bugfixes

Scattered Evil 2.2 is now available on SourceForge and ModDB. Journal Redesign The Journal has been rebuilt from the ground up - not just visually, but also in functionality. Sleeve The left quarter of the Journal view stays the same on all pages, showing general information. Character Information: the player's name, class, and alignments Player Assets: a dynamic list of the monetary value of the cash in the player's bags, items in his inventory, and his bank account Armor: the type of armor worn, current durability as both absolute value and percentage left, any resistance gems embedded Keyring: list of all keys in the player's possession Chapters All chapters are now single pages with dynamic overlays that change the displayed content when moving the focus to another list item. Main Page: when opening the Journal, the right three-quarters of the Journal view shows a grid of icons that allow access to the different sections (size and number dependent on RPG Complexity) Quests: a dynamic list of active, completed and undiscovered quests; hovering over a quest's title displays a short description of the current quest stage (where to go, what to do) and a map sketch of the surrounding area to make it easier to find a location Atlas: high resolution maps show the province and some of the regions in great detail; you can now choose to display the hero's custom notes as usual or the official place names instead Arsenal: a dynamic list of weapons, spells, cantrips, prayers, and martial skills; hovering over an item's name shows information about the weapon/spell or who to talk to if you haven't acquired it yet Codex: a compendium of information about the world and its denizens; hovering over a topic will display a detailed entry on the subject Notes: a section appearing only if RPG Complexity is set to Standard or Old School, it displays currently relevant notes for pending tasks and for Mansion collections; notes are removed after the associated task or collection is complete Crafting: see the next bullet point New feature: Crafting Herbalism: find and harvest different types of herbs all over Charybdea Alchemy: mix the right combination of herbs to brew powerful potions This feature is disabled when RPG Complexity is Off Treasure improvements Treasure chests can now be found in a larger selection of dungeons In addition to finding them hidden in dark corners, treasure keys now also drop from certain foes The content of treasure chests is randomized for each new game (saving before opening a chest and then reloading won't change the contents) Treasure chests have received visual updates to make it easier to recognize them and to make it clear when the player is already in the process of unlocking a chest There is now a lot more gold hidden in secret rooms RPG Complexity differentiation When RPG Complexity is set to Off, dungeons now include a significantly larger number of health and mana pickups, making shopping less mandatory; the number of pickup items also slightly decreases when going from Standard to Old school complexity On Old School complexity, you can now find treasure (mostly gold and herbs) in towns as well Revamped key management There are now clearly visible standardized locks wherever a key can be used Locks and keys are unique throughout the entire game, so there is no way to use the "wrong" key on a lock or doing it in the "wrong" order Locks and keys now have distinctive animations so it's always clear whether a lock needs a key, is in the process of being opened, or is already open These changes also fix previous issues with some keys disappearing from the player's inventory Miscellanous fixes and improvements Ability score updates have been moved to a dedicated Character Update Screen Greatly reduced the difficulty of Vermin Hovels on Hard and Nightmare skills All monsters that drop a specific quest item or trigger an action upon their death are now protected from being morphed and thus accidentally blocking player progress Fixed the vertical position of many pickup items that were hovering too close to the floor Reorganized some of the Options submenus, including the addition of "Display Settings"; also added a few new settings and removed some old ones

Scattered Evil 2.1 is now available on SourceForge and ModDB. High resolution HUD The HUD is now rendered in 1920x1200 instead of the legacy 640x480. Besides the improved visuals, the higher resolution also allows for more information to be displayed in the same space A new HUD options menu has been added, allowing customization of over a dozen different display aspects The HUD now has three different modes: classic (Hexen style status bar), compact (a minimalistic set of icons in the lower right corner), and none. These modes are independent of the screen size setting and you can toggle between them using the HUD options menu The class abilities (martial skills/prayers/cantrips) are now stored in a scroll that can be unrolled to pick the active ability When RPG Complexity is Off, the status bar mode replaces the nonfunctional weight, hunger and fatigue counters with a panel showing the current values of all six ability scores The conversation screen now uses more screen estate if the HUD mode is set to compact or none For the more technically minded: the numeric counter function has been completely rewritten, allowing the rendering of numbers in four different sizes, up to nine different colors, optionally as percentages, with custom vertical alignment (left/right/centered) and a built-in protection against overflow (large numbers are truncated, e.g. 105000 becomes 105k) Afrit family models All afrits now have a fully animated 3D model with a unique skin, making it easier to distinguish them from each other It is now always clear when an afrit is invulnerable: it visibly turns to stone Afrit Martyrs now have a distinct spinning animation when they are homing in on you, making it easier to recognize and sidestep Afrit Dominators now invoke their invulnerability a lot less often and have gained a powerful melee attack Morphing changes In addition to the Porkelator, the player now has access to Morph Ovum as well Morphing a monster is now permanent, making morphing a tradeoff between an easy kill and loot/experience The player is now immune to morphing effects Morphed pigs and chickens now have animated 3D models Inventory and item changes Beyond getting a new look, the inventory navigation now has a more natural feel to it The inventory has been modified to only include artifacts that can be used directly Gold and treasure keys are now shown on the status bar New food type: roast chicken. Restores a large amount of health without adding fatigue Armor repair kit restoration limit upped by 25% Dark Servant has been removed from the game Banishment Device has been removed from the game Deprecated and legacy artifacts have been removed from the game Character and player changes The character creation process has been overhauled: rerolls are now standardized across classes, with the sum total of all attributes always the same When RPG Complexity is set to off, the number of character creation steps is reduced from seven to four, speeding up the process of getting into the game. You are also automatically granted a high starting value for each ability score, removing the need to worry about gaining levels early on On Old school RPG complexity, the player now starts without his first class ability and needs to find a representative of his order to learn it The player now has a 3D model as well, viewable in mirrors (e.g. in Thystes Academy). Currently standing/walking animations only Class ability changes Create Mana cantrip won't cast if the player has full mana stores Spirits Within fixes and optimizations Healing prayer won't cast if the player is at full health Phalanx cost increased, but the player can now slowly walk while it is active; berserk and phalanx can't be used simultaneously any more Class ability sounds can now be turned off Miscellaneous fixes and improvements New visual settings menu added to toggle screen tint and flash effects There is now a cooldown option available for auto health usage Ettin Commander's damage greatly reduced Lava Dweller's damage greatly reduced Dark Advisors don't resurrect on death any more Heresiarch damage skin added Gimme cheats for artifacts and class abilities have been improved so they only provide the intended items

While packaging KMOD 5.2, I found the root cause in 5.1: the file "base.txt" was missing in the kmod subfolder. The reason I wasn't able to reproduce this issue is because I use the setup utility to define the wad file location (why waste space on extra copies?), and the utility (over)writes base.txt.

Korax Mod: 20th Anniversary Edition Korax Mod 5.2 is now available on SourceForge and ModDB. Korax Mod 1.0, the first ever gameplay mod for Hexen, was released exactly twenty years ago on June 14, 2001. To celebrate this occasion, a special 20th Anniversary Edition has been released today that includes a unique in-game menu called "Anniversary Extras", containing a short history of Korax Mod, a long-lost interview, and player feedback from the early years. Improvements and fixes: The inventory and spellstrip movement bug has been finally fixed When RPG Complexity is set to Off, instead of the useless weight/hunger/fatigue indicators a new overlay is shown, displaying the current values of all six D&D abilities Healing prayer now doesn't deduct Faith if the player is at full health Create Mana cantrip now doesn't deduct Magic if the player has full mana stores The default roll is now more suitable for the early game Feedback messages for class abilities are now always displayed in the top left corner All class abilities now respect the sound setting Improved the behaviour of the gimme cheats for gaining levels and acquiring all class abilities

Sidekicks have been buffed in Korax Mod 5.1 and this uncut recording shows how they kill Korax and all minions in the Dark Crucible in less than 6 minutes, with you just hanging back, watching, and gaining experience worth over a dozen levels.

Yes, up to 3.0 beta KMOD used jHexen. The first time I played Hexen in 1995, I got stuck on the badly designed Guardian of Steel puzzle (adding a feedback message to it was one of the script modifications in KMOD 5.0). After hours of running around frustrated, I dropped the game for months and went back to Heretic. It was only a year later that I finally got through that horrible first hub and when I entered Shadow Wood, my opinion of the game drastically changed, as the second hub has the best dark fantasy imagery of any 3D game from the DOS era. This is one of the reasons why you don't need to solve a single puzzle when playing on RPG Complexity Off, you just wait 30 seconds for the final portal to open so you can leave the worst design mistakes of the game behind and proceed to the actual good parts.

New gameplay video: watch the Fighter hack and slash his way from Winnowing Hall to the Necropolis in less than 20 minutes.

Quoted from https://www.koraxheritage.com/korax-mod/manual/#Starting_Ability_Scores Strength: Increases the power of melee (physical) attacks. Increases movement speed. Dexterity: Increases the power of ranged (physical) attacks. Increases the speed of physical attacks (melee and ranged). Increases casting speed. Could be either hexen.wad or textures.pk3 being corrupted (or missing). Quoted from https://www.koraxheritage.com/korax-mod/manual/#Troubleshooting Mouselook stops working after Alt+Tabbing out of the game and back in Once the game window is in focus again, press the Alt key and mouselook should start working again. Generally yes, but 100% guaranteed to not have issues are only savegames in camp. Savegame limitations on maps you entered at least once are not specific to Vavoom, ZDOOM or any other port, this is how the WAD map format works.

You literally just described the crevice I talked about previously. Really? All of them. As I said last time, the questions I didn't answer I skipped because they are conscious design choices and not bugs. There is one question though that you deleted in one of your edits that I will answer, where you asked whether I hate the fighter. Not only do I not, it's my favorite class and one of the most unique features of Hexen. Maybe it's because I play the class differently, you can compare your playstyle to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut4o8SUIBZk