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A near-final beta. Will only run if the system clock is between September 27th, 1995 and October 29th, 1995.
Known Changes#
Cheat Codes#
- MARTEK - God mode
- ANGEL - No clipping mode
- CONAN - All weapons
- MCCOY - Full health
- JANITOR - All keys
- NOISE - Sound debug information
- TICKER - FPS counter
- GREEDY - 25 of each item
- PUZZLER - All puzzle items
- GATExx - Level warp
- DELIVERANCE - Pig mode
- CARNAGE - Kills all enemies
- RAMBO - Removes all weapons
- QUICKEN - Kills you if written thrice
- ZELIGx - Change player class
- MRJONES - Version information
- WHERE - Coordinates
- INIT - Restart level
- REVEAL - Changes automap mode
- WEWIN - Win the game
Interesting to note that the God Mode and All Weapons cheats were changed to be the Kill You and Remove Weapons cheats in the final game.
Textures#
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Door handles are missing to this metal door texture.
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The skull on Chris' headstone was misaligned.
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Ben's headstone once had a cat head engraved in the prototype.
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The Justifier's conversion to the Wraithverge was reflected late on this stained glass texture.
Graphics#
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Ditto.
Sounds#
Dragon attack#
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The final recycles the sound of the mage's Bloodscourge weapon to save 16kb of memory.
Gong#
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Pitch alteration.
Fly Buzz#
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Item Respawn#
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Unused Sounds#
Labeled MenuMove. Presumably, this would have played if you moved the menu cursor.
Misc.#
- There's a flashing "BETA" message on the screen throughout gameplay.
- The ENDOOM doesn't show up upon quitting.
- The ENDOOM in the WAD is still Heretic's, but with gag nicknames for the staff section.
- No music during the Loading screen.
- There is no ETHEREAL TRAVEL, LOADING or SAVING popup boxes that appear.
- You cannot shatter frozen monsters.
- The electric spark from Timon's Axe is rendered with translucency, as opposed to opaque in the final.
- Walking through the end portal in Dark Crucible will bring up a message politely asking you to type WEWIN to see the ending, instead of automatically starting it.