Friday, February 23, 2018
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DOOM Retro v2.6.7

DOOM Retro v2.6.7 is now available. It may be downloaded here, and its release notes are as follows:

  • Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
  • The format of savegames has changed, breaking compatibility with previous versions of DOOM Retro.
  • A bug has been fixed whereby skull keys picked up by the player wouldn’t be displayed in the status bar in some instances.
  • Entering give keys in the console will now give the player all keycards and skull keys, rather than just those present in the current map.
  • Entering give keycards or give skullkeys in the console will now give the player all keycards or all skull keys.
  • Minor changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
  • Walls, ceilings and floors with missing textures will now be rendered in white rather than not at all.
  • A bug has been fixed whereby some skies weren’t being rendered correctly when the mouselook CVAR was off.
  • Blood splats are now lit correctly when the r_textures CVAR is off.
  • The brightmap of the COMP2 texture has been improved.
  • As originally intended in Vanilla DOOM, the DSFLAMST sound effect will now be played when an arch-vile attacks the player or another monster.
  • The AI of monsters has been improved when on or next to a lift.
  • How far away a monster is vertically from the player during its melee attack is no longer taken into account if the infiniteheight CVAR is on.
Friday, February 9, 2018
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DOOM Retro v2.6.6

DOOM Retro v2.6.6 is now available. It may be downloaded here, and its release notes are as follows:

  • Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
  • A bug has been fixed whereby the wall textures visible beyond a moving sector would shift slightly.
  • Improvements have been made to how blood splats are spawned.
  • Entering text in the console has now been improved for non-US keyboard layouts.
  • Minor changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
  • Early versions of DOOM Shareware will now run without quitting with an error.
  • When the player’s health or ammo is low, now only the values themselves will flash in the default widescreen HUD.
  • Multiple keycards and skull keys are now positioned better in the default widescreen HUD.
  • A bug has been fixed whereby keycards and skull keys weren’t appearing at all in the alternate widescreen HUD.
  • Keycards and skull keys in both the default and alternate widescreen HUDs now appear in the order they were picked up by the player.
  • Minor improvements have been made to the alternate widescreen HUD.
  • A bug has been fixed whereby a monster’s position would be interpolated when teleporting if the vid_capfps CVAR was a value other than 35.
  • Giving the player and monsters infinite height can now be toggled on or off using the new infiniteheight CVAR. This CVAR is off by default and on when vanilla mode is enabled.
Friday, January 26, 2018
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DOOM Retro v2.6.5

DOOM Retro v2.6.5 is now available. It may be downloaded here, and its release notes are as follows:

  • Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
  • A bug has been fixed whereby the wrong description would be displayed when entering a CVAR without a value in the console.
  • The rendering of two-sided textures has been improved.
  • The widescreen HUD has been completely redesigned and now includes the player’s face instead of a medikit.
  • The r_althud CVAR is now off by default.
  • When the r_textures CVAR is off, shadows cast by monsters are now still translucent when the r_shadows_translucency CVAR is on, and BOOM-compatible translucent wall textures are now still translucent when the r_translucency CVAR is on.
  • A crash will no longer occur when picking up an invulnerability power-up on the same map after loading a savegame.
  • The playername CVAR is now used instead of “OUR HERO” when displaying the player in DOOM II’s cast sequence.
Friday, January 19, 2018
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DOOM Retro v2.6.4

DOOM Retro v2.6.4 is now available. It may be downloaded here, and its release notes are as follows:

  • Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
  • A bug has been fixed whereby an error would be displayed when trying to load doom1.wad.
  • A new restartmap CCMD has been implemented that restarts the current map.
  • Minor changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
  • Further improvements have been made to the console’s autocomplete feature.
  • A bug present in Vanilla DOOM has been fixed whereby the player would sometimes bounce off walls.
  • The unbind CCMD will now also accept an action as its parameter, unbinding all keyboard, mouse and gamepad controls bound to that action.
  • The resetall CCMD will now also reset all bound controls to their default actions.
  • A bug has been fixed whereby the bottom edge of spectres and their blood weren’t drawn correctly in some instances.
  • The effects of changing the r_blood CVAR between all and red are now immediate.
  • Movement of the player arrow in the automap is now smoother.
  • The vertical axis of a DirectInput gamepad’s right thumbstick when looking up and down will now be inverted when the gp_invertyaxis CVAR is on.
  • The shadows cast by the monsters in DOOM II’s cast sequence are now more consistent with how they appear during a game.