                            SANE WEAPONS v3.0

                        A DeHacked Weapons Patch


NOTE: THIS PACKAGE REPLACES SANEWP20.ZIP

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Do you want a weapons patch that makes some of the add-on PWADS survivable?

Would you like a chance to get through those PWADS that throw 2 or 3 Cyber
Demons (or worse) at a time at you without cheating?

Would you like to be able to make it past some of the large groups of Barons and
etc. that Doom II throws at you.

Do you hate weapon patches that turn the guns into insanely fast weapons that
pretty much destroy the game play balance of Doom or Doom II?

If so you're like me.  So I decided to try my hand at making my own DeHacked
super weapons patch.  Mainly I wanted more weapon cycle speed without the insane
speed-up of patches like SUPWEP16.DEH or SUPWEP20.DEH.

Basically all of the weapons have been sped up to a degree.  The BFG 9000,
Plasmas gun, and Rocket Launcher have been only mildly sped up.  Faster yes.
Pseudo machine guns, no.  It does help in making encounters with Cyber Demons or
worse more survivable.

In addition the max limit of carryable ammunition for each weapon was increased
65,535.  Why?  Well, truth be known, I'm a terrible arcade game player and I
just got tired of continually having to backtrack looking for ammo clips etc.
when I inevitably ran out of ammo.  Even with this absurdly high limit of ammo
I'm usually short of ammo.

The two most dramatic changes are with the Combat Shotgun and the Super Shotgun.

The Super Shotgun, with this patch, is now about as fast as ID's default Shotgun
and still uses its default graphics.  I don't know about you, but I found that
the Super Shotgun in Doom II was so slow as to be almost useless.  This patch
makes it useable without totally ruining game play balance.

The Combat Shotgun is much faster.  Imagine yourself as Arnold in Terminator II,
with all that strength, pumping that slide action like you only dreamed about.
While it is considerably faster, neither is it so fast that you might as well
call it a machine gun.

I guess the best thing I can say is, try it.  I think you'll like it.

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THE TECHNICAL STUFF
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This patch requires DeHacked and was designed for use with Doom II.  The
patch works with Doom v1.666 through v1.9.  The SANE1.DEH patch might work with
earlier versions of the Doom engine but that is something I have not tested.

The patches will work with Doom I.  Although I haven't tested this I think
DeHacked will automatically discard any portion of the patch that is specfic to
Doom II so there should be no problem.  If not than you will have to do some
fiddling in DeHacked due to the changes I included for the super shotgun.  That
shouldn't be a problem though as the new format of DeHacked v2.3 makes it easy
to look at SANE2.DEH and see exactly what changes you need to make.


WHAT THIS PACKAGE CONTAINS
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SANE1.DEH   - requires DeHacked v2.x - for Doom v1.2 thru v1.666
SANE2.DEH   - requires DeHacked v2.3 - for Doom v1.9


GENERAL NOTE
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DeHacked is NOT included so you'll have to get it on your own.  You can find it
at ftp.cdrom.com in /.5/doom and I'm sure it's also at other sites.

Drop me some mail if you like the patch, or have other comments.  I'd like to
hear from you.

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Paul G. Stout
coasty@cyberspace.com
