DOOM Retro v2.2.2

• One IWAD or PWAD may now be specified on the command-line without the need for the –iwad or –file command-line parameters.
• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• The am_followmode CVAR no longer appears in doomretro.cfg.
• A bug has been fixed whereby the case of map titles in the console would be displayed incorrectly in some instances.
• The movebob CVAR now only specifies the amount the player’s view bobs up and down when they are moving. The amount the player’s weapon bobs up and down is now specified using a new CVAR called weaponbob. Both CVARs are 75% by default.
• The savegame CVAR, that specifies the savegame currently selected in the menu, can now be accessed from the console.
• The map CCMD can now be used with the first and last parameters when a game hasn’t started.
• Several new monster name variations can now be used with the spawn CCMD.
• A play CCMD has been implemented that allows any music or sound lump to be played.
• A bug has been fixed whereby marks couldn’t be added to the automap when rotate mode was off.
• The filename displayed when taking a screenshot while am_external is on is now fixed.
• The “picked up” player messages are no longer displayed when using the give CCMD.
• The position of flashing keycards and skull keys in the alternate HUD when the player tries to open a locked door has been fixed.
• Taking screenshots can now be bound to a key other than PRINTSCREEN using the bind CCMD with the new +screenshot action.
• Parameters can no longer be entered at the end of CCMDs that don’t use them.
• The player’s view will no longer jump slightly when dropping down between two liquid sectors greater than 24 units apart.

DOOM Retro v2.2.1

• DOOM Retro is now back to supporting Windows XP again.
• A crash will no longer occur when pressing the PRINTSCREEN key to take a screenshot on a display with an aspect ratio less than 4:3 (such as 1280×1024).
• A missing texture has been added to linedef 445 in E3M9 in doom.wad.
• Messages are now paused while the console is open.
• A bug has been fixed whereby IWADs weren’t being identified correctly.
• The player’s view is now only lowered if they are actually touching a liquid sector.
• Bobbing liquid sectors will now animate correctly if adjacent to a masked texture.
• The centerweapon CVAR can now also be entered as centreweapon.
• The centered value for the vid_windowposition CVAR can now also be entered as centred.

DOOM Retro v2.2

• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• DOOM Retro’s settings and savegames are now placed in C:\username\DOOM Retro\.
• “.wad” is now removed from savegame folder paths.
• Entering r_gamma off in the console now works correctly.
• Player messages and the automap title are now less translucent.
• Monsters will no longer be alerted when the player punches thin air. They will still be alerted if the player punches a wall, however.
• A bug has been fixed whereby obituaries in the console would be incorrect in some instances.
• Support has been added for MUSINFO lumps.
• Support has also been added for music changer map objects.
• The translucency of health bonuses has been reduced from 33% to 25%.
• A slight change has been made to the background noise effect in the console.
• Screenshots are now saved as PNG files rather than Windows BMP files.
• The full path of the file is now displayed in the console when a screenshot is taken.
• The player’s view will no longer briefly change before the screen wipes when exiting a map.
• The view border is now displayed correctly for PWADs such as valiant.wad and aaliens_rc2.wad.
• The positions of the shadows of some monsters have been improved.
• The flats SLIME09 to SLIME12 no longer animate as liquid in Ancient Aliens.
• The help CCMD will now open the console section of the DOOM Retro Wiki in the default browser.
• There are now ammo, armor and health CVARs that allow changing the player’s ammo, armor and health to specific values.
• The texture offset of linedef 638 in MAP10 of DOOM2 has been corrected.
• The compiler used to build DOOM Retro, and its version, are now displayed in the console at startup.
• A bug has been fixed whereby pressing a mouse or gamepad button at startup in the brief moment before the splash screen appears would cause the screen to stay black.
• Several visual aspects of the console have been redesigned.
• The markers are now smaller in the health and armor bars in the alternate HUD.
• If the player has more than 100% health, a second marker will appear above the health bar in the alternate HUD.
• The armor bar in the alternate HUD is now slightly thinner, and divided into five rather than four sections.
• The larger digits used in the alternate HUD are now consistent with the smaller ones.
• The screen’s green haze when the player has the radiation suit power-up will now be visible if the player also has the berserk power-up, their fists selected, but the r_berserkintensity CVAR set to 0%.
• The default gamepad sensitivity has been increased from 32 to 48.
• Corpses are no longer teleported if the kill CCMD is used.
• Player messages are now always yellow in the console.
• Color CVARs are now set to their defaults, rather than the closest valid value, if invalid at startup.
• C++ style comments are now allowed in MAPINFO lumps.
• The correct colors are now preserved in the automap, the console and the alternate HUD if a PWAD contains a custom PLAYPAL lump. (An example of such a PWAD is skillsaw’s recently released MegaWAD, Ancient Aliens.)
• A bug has been fixed whereby parts of the super shotgun would be transparent in Ancient Aliens.
• The r_corpses_color CVAR is now validated at startup.
• If am_external is on but there’s only one display found, there will no longer be a crash if the graphics system is restarted.
• The number of logical cores and amount of system RAM is now displayed in the console at startup.
• ZDoom’s obituary strings are now ignored in DEHACKED patches so warnings aren’t displayed in the console at startup.
• A bug has been fixed whereby a frame would be skipped when rotating monsters in the DOOM II cast sequence.

DOOM Retro v2.1.3

• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• Scrolling up in the options menu now works correctly.
• The playername CVAR is reset to its default if it’s empty at startup.
• The fixes that DOOM Retro applies to maps in the official DOOM and DOOM II IWADs are now listed in the console when a map is loaded and –devparm is specified on the command-line.
• The default mouse sensitivity has been increased from 24 to 32.
• The health cross in the alternate HUD is now squarer.
• An armor count is now displayed in the alternate HUD.
• A bug has been fixed whereby keycards and skull keys weren’t positioned correctly in the status bar in some instances.
• The brightmap for the SW2BRNGN wall texture is now fixed.
• Blood splats are now always spawned for monsters that bleed when using the kill CCMD.
• Monsters will now be alerted when the player punches a wall or the air.
• The full map title of John Romero’s new map, E1M4B: Phobos Mission Control is now displayed in both the console and AutoMap.
• The player’s view will now bob up and down if they die on a liquid sector.
• Improvements have been made to the accuracy of “Weapon accuracy” in the output of the playerstats CCMD.
• The corpses of monsters are no longer spawned if “No monsters” has been set.

DOOM Retro v2.1.2

• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• Changes have been made to the format of savegames that breaks compatibility with previous versions of DOOM Retro.
• Any momentum from the player is now stopped when exiting a map so updating the exit switch is smoother.
• The r_shakescreen CVAR is now a value between 0% and 100%, instead of just on or off. Its default is 100%.
• A bug has been fixed whereby some screen resolutions weren’t displaying correctly in the console at startup.
• DOOM Retro’s settings and savegames are now placed in C:\username\AppData\Local\DOOM Retro\. Remember, to change settings, open the console using the ~ key when DOOM Retro is running.
• Monster counts in the playerstats CCMD are no longer increased if “No monsters” has been set.
• Hanging decorations will no longer drop to the ground when over a liquid sector that moves.
• The direction items are dropped when a monster is killed is now better randomized.
• A bug has been fixed whereby pressing the ENTER key to close the help screen would cause the screen’s aspect ratio to be set incorrectly.
• The effects of changing the r_translucency CVAR are now instantaneous.
• A stray black pixel has been removed from under “N” characters in the menu.
• The WINDOWS key can no longer be pressed when fullscreen, as intended.
• The Windows screensaver is now disabled while DOOM Retro is running.

DOOM Retro v2.1.1

• Pain elementals can now shoot lost souls through two-sided walls that have the ML_BLOCKMONSTERS flag, as is possible in Vanilla DOOM. (An example of this is at the end of MAP04 in requiem.wad.)
• The screen will no longer briefly flash if the player has a berserk or radiation shielding suit power-up and then loads a savegame or starts a new game from the menu.
• The time taken to complete a map is now restored correctly when loading a savegame.
• A bug has been fixed whereby a map would become corrupted if the player triggered a generalized line with no tag (such as when the player takes the “plunge” in MAP08 of jenesis.wad).
• A crash will no longer occur when using the maplist CCMD.
• Multiple STBAR lumps are now better handled. (For example, now the correct status bar will be displayed if JPCP_HUDjpn.wad is loaded along with JPCP_1st.wad.)
• Double-resolution yellow and grey digits will no longer be displayed in the status bar if a STBAR lump from a PWAD is used.
• The correct WAD is displayed in the output of the mapstats in DOOM II: Hell On Earth if nerve.wad is also present.

DOOM Retro v2.1

• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• Support has been added for the SWITCHES lump.
• Fast monsters can now be enabled by using the fastmonsters CCMD. Also, –fastmonsters as well as just –fast can be specified on the command-line.
• Warnings displayed when parsing DeHackEd files and lumps are now only displayed if –devparm is specified on the command-line.
• Automatically loading the last savegame when the player dies can now be disabled by using the autoload CVAR.
• The intensity of the red haze effect when the player has the berserk power-up and their fists selected can now be changed using the r_berserkintensity CVAR. The default is 33%.
• Player sprites may now be translucent if they are replaced in a PWAD by using Translucent = 1 for the relevant frame in DeHackEd files and lumps.
• Thing flags specific to DOOM Retro can now be changed using Retro Bits instead of Bits2 in DeHackEd files and lumps.
• A bug has been fixed whereby the use of unknown music names in MAPINFO lumps would cause a crash.
• The s_musicvolume and s_sfxvolume CVARs are now corrected at startup if invalid.
• The faceback CVAR has been renamed to facebackcolor.
• The extraneous brown pixel in the super shotgun is no longer removed if the weapon is changed in a DeHackEd file or lump.
• Further improvements have been made to the appearance of the rocket launcher's muzzle flash.
• DoomEd numbers are now allowed as the parameter for the give, kill and spawn CCMDs.
• The translucency of the super shotgun's muzzle flash is now disabled when the r_translucency CVAR is off.
• A bug has been fixed whereby monsters would not respawn correctly when playing using the Nightmare! skill level.
• The shadow of the player's corpse is now removed when resurrecting using either the resurrect CCMD or the iddqd cheat.
• The console is now hidden when using the iddqd cheat to resurrect the player.
• The screen now goes to black sooner when starting DOOM Retro.
• DOOM II's cast sequence now works correctly when using SMOOTHED.WAD.
• The console can no longer be opened during a screen wipe.
• The bottoms of things that bob in liquid now animate.
• A bug has been fixed whereby no monsters had lower pitches when the s_randompitch CVAR was enabled.
• The error message displayed when doomretro.wad is invalid has changed.
• bfg is now allowed as a parameter for the spawn and give CCMDs.
• A bug has been fixed whereby the player was unable to switch back to the selfie stick once obtained in InstaDoom.
• The last savegame will no longer be automatically loaded when the player dies of the pistolstart CVAR is enabled.
• Individual monster kill counts used by the playerstats CCMD are now retained in savegames. Please note that this breaks savegame compatibility with previous versions of DOOM Retro.
• The speed of the player can now be changed using the turbo CVAR. Functioning like the command-line parameter of the same name, it can be a value between 10% and 400% and has a default of 100%.
• A bug has been fixed (that is present in Vanilla DOOM) whereby the player would go in reverse when running if their speed was set to a value greater than 255% using the –turbo command-line parameter.
• Monsters can now respawn when playing a skill level other than Nightmare! by using the respawnmonsters CCMD. The –respawn command-line parameter has also been reimplemented, and –respawnmonsters may also be used.
• The value set by Max Health in DeHackEd files and lumps is now only applied to health bonuses.
• 100 extra things (numbered 152 to 251) have been added for use in DeHackEd files and lumps.
• Things with the same (x,y,z) coordinates now bob in sync with each other if they are in liquid.
• The arachnorbs in valiant.wad are now killed when using the kill CCMD.
• Map names changed using a MAPINFO lump are now shown in the output of the maplist CCMD.
• The WINDOWS key can no longer be used at any time when fullscreen. It can only be used when in a window, and the game is paused, or the menu or console is open.
• Wall textures that are both animated and translucent can now be rendered correctly without causing a crash.
• The E key may now be pressed as an alternative to SPACE to use doors, switches, etc. It is bound to the +use2 action.
• When the vid_showfps CVAR is enabled, the frames per second is now displayed correctly while the screen shakes when the player is injured.

DOOM Retro v2.0.5

• Bugs have been fixed whereby using map next in the console would warp the player to the next episode rather than the next map, and map ExMy wouldn’t warp at all.
• 100 additional sprites, named SP00 to SP99 and numbered 145 to 244, have been added for use in DeHackEd lumps.
• The amount of negative health a monster must receive to be gibbed can now be changed using a Gib health parameter in DeHackEd lumps.
• An invalid character will no longer be displayed in the console when changing the music or SFX volume in the menu.
• A bug has been fixed whereby when adjusting the SFX volume in the menu, the music volume was being displayed in the console instead.

DOOM Retro v2.0.4

• Using an A_FireOldBFG code pointer in a DeHackEd lump will no longer cause the game to freeze.
• The following improvements have been made to HacX: Twitch ’n Kill support:
  • The correct status bar is now displayed.
  • The projectiles of the nuker are no longer translucent.
  • The smoke trails have been removed from the projectiles of the photon ’zooka.
• The “B” in John Romero’s E1M8B.WAD is now displayed when the map starts, and in the automap.
• Dead players can now trigger actions that allow them to exit a map.
• The total number of monsters, and the percentage killed, are now displayed for each type of monster in the output of the playerstats CCMD.
• The position of keys when using a custom status bar has been corrected.
• CCMDs and CVARs now appear in the correct order when pressing the TAB key in the console to autocomplete.
• The brightmap for the SW2METAL wall texture has been fixed.
• SLIMExx flats will no longer animate as liquid in EPIC2.WAD.
• A small icon is now shown next to each warning in the console.
• The STARTUP5 string is now displayed correctly in the console when playing Freedoom.
• The SDL2_mixer.dll file supplied with DOOM Retro is now compiled with libmad 0.15.1b, fixing the tempo of some MP3 lumps. Consequently, smpeg2.dll is no longer required.
• A bug has been fixed whereby using the map CCMD would cause the game to crash in some instances.
• The selected episode or expansion in the menu is set as necessary when using the map CCMD.

DOOM Retro v2.0.3

• “Pistol start” gameplay is now supported. By using the pistolstart CCMD, (or specifying –pistolstart on the command-line), the player’s health, armor, weapons and ammo will be reset at the start of each map. Also, a PISTOLSTART definition may now be used in MAPINFO lumps.
• The muzzle flash of the player’s rocket launcher has been fixed.
• The +menu action can now be bound to a key, with esc being the default.
• The +console action can now be bound to a key, with tilde being the default.
• The amount of bobbing has been reduced for higher values of the stillbob CVAR.
• A bug has been fixed whereby successive movement keys would not register if a cheat existed that started with a movement key (as is the case in HacX: Twitch ’n Kill).
• The armor bar in the alternate HUD is now slightly lighter.
• A bug has been fixed whereby map names from MAPINFO lumps weren’t being displayed.
• The map title and author of John Romero’s recently released E1M8B.WAD is now displayed when the map starts, and in the automap.
• The GOTREDSKULL string may now also be spelled as GOTREDSKUL in DeHackEd lumps.
• Pressing ALT + F4 to quit DOOM Retro now works again.
• Stylized quotes are now used in place of double quotes in the console.
• Text in the console is now slightly translucent.
• A random static effect has been applied to the console’s background.
• The effects of changing the vid_windowposition and vid_windowsize CVARs while in the console and in a window are now immediate.