Player Classes

Nephrite Doom has several main characters which are playable as classes each with their own abilities and arsenal.

Status Effects

Each character makes use of one or more of these status effects.

Special Abilities

Each character has a special ability that is either passive or is activated at any time using the new Special Ability 1 and 2 controls added by this mod.

Unique Ammo

Each character uses their own set of ammo having a primary type of ammo for each of their weapons and then a special secondary type of ammo which they generate through their attacks, etc.

Item Spawning

Weapons and ammo used by each character will spawn on top of vanilla (Doom/Heretic/Hexen/etc) weapons and ammo as well as modded weapons and ammo if they extend vanilla items. Those with zscript experience can easily extend the spawner for compatibility with other projects.

Coop Features

All characters are designed with multiplayer coop in mind but also work independantly for single player. There are also Beacon and Teleport controls added where any player can begin a beacon so that their team mates can teleport to them.

Monsters

Nephrite Doom comes with a few unique monsters some are exclusively used by the player classes as minions, etc. There is also the Nephrite Monster Pack which contains a wide collection of monsters from other mods and games, these are not unique work to this mod.

Random Spawner CVARs

The Nephrite Monster pack includes a random spawner that replaces vanilla game monsters (Doom/Heretic/Hexen/etc) with randomly selected monsters of similar size, strength and mobility. There are also CVARs available to restrict and select the weights which monsters are using, by default these are all set to 10, setting them to 0 will disable that group of monsters, other values will adjust the random weight where for example a weight of 8 is more likely to be chosen over a weight of 3: spawner_nephrite (monsters from other mods and Nephrite), spawner_doom, spawner_heretic, spawner_hexen, spawner_blood.

Maps (Still In Planning Stage)

Very little progress has been made on maps so far but many map series have been planned out. Each set of maps (or episode) will feature a story, from character back stories to adventures shared by one or more of the characters. Each map will be designed with coop in mind but will be playable in single player also. There are also Origin series of map sets which will cover key moments of each character's back story as well as introducing each of their abilities acting almost as a tutorial.

Malevolence - A map series following all characters as they find themselves on a spaceship that has just docked onto a satelite invested with demons, these maps will feature outer space levels, city levels and hell levels as well as some other special themes. This map series will also be playable without Nephrite as it just makes use of vanilla Doom spawns and doesn't depend on any character abilities. Requires jumping and freelook strongly recommended.
Trial of The Elements - Lycanite redescovers the distant past of his home land: Reteric on planet Vaultar along with the rest of the characters as he retraces the ancient trials of his ancestors that were lost for centuries. High fantasy setting.
Lycanite Origins - Covers Lycanite's history featuring areas of his home world Vaultar as well as the many worlds he travels to and from in a fantasy setting featuring temples, various natural biomes to the darkest corners of hell.
Undulate Oak Origins - Witness the last moments of Oak's home universe before it collapsed around him, then follow him on his adventures.
Mogdread Origins - Follow the rise of the lord of flames himself as he liberates his headquarters from invaders before being pulled away on adventures with Oak.
Chozo Origins - In Chozo and Lycanite's universe, Earth has long fallen into a disgusting state of undeath, very little of true humanity remains, the rest corrupt, dead or far, far away in the new worlds. Follow Chozo as he hones his Necromancy on his quest to end the Cabal.

Lore

Nephrite Doom has a vast lore under development.

Worlds

Nephrite Doom will contain maps that follow stories across vast worlds ranging from magical planets to a demonic multiverse.