Blade of Agony on steam

[Tom]

is there any way to play Blade of agony on steam, that keeps track of the time that i played it?

[Gameo]

put the source port in the steam folder BASE where dosbox.exe is, delete or rename dosbox.exe and rename gzdoom.exe or whatever source port you're using to dosbox.exe and run the game through the steam shortcut
Note that if you ever validate the steam files it will replace it with the original dosbox.exe

[Tom]

Blade of agony seems to be standalone, and even if i replace the dosbox with the renamed gzdoom .exe, BOA doesn't appear anywhere.

[Gameo]

open the gzdoom{user}.ini file created when you ran gzdoom, scroll down just a tad till you see [global.autoload], under that type Path=boa_c2.pk3
Save the .ini and close it, then run the game
Be sure to have the blade of agony file (boa_c2.pk3) in that folder so the .ini can read it

[Butane]

Cant remember exactly how I did it but it works. I believe I just renamed the exe files and added launch options on Steam https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=945714573

[Comissar person[FIN]]

oh btw if ur truly looking to mod your doom with more than 1 mod and try to play several mods like Bao today, brutal doom with ultimatedoomvisor mod tomorrow and err... trailblazer after it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OQYb_pCIeY get this app it will change ur world

[Comissar person[FIN]]

tho id like to know how to make steam recognize zdl and count the hours and enable overlay,

[Tom]

Originally posted by Gameo:

open the gzdoom{user}.ini file created when you ran gzdoom, scroll down just a tad till you see [global.autoload], under that type Path=boa_c2.pk3
Save the .ini and close it, then run the game
Be sure to have the blade of agony file (boa_c2.pk3) in that folder so the .ini can read it

Thanks for your help! Glad to see someone explaining a rookie like me how to mod Doom.

[Comissar person[FIN]]

if you need good doom mods ask me

[Tom]

Originally posted by SEWER HOOVY:

if you need good doom mods ask me

yeah i might need them, after finishing vanilla doom i only played brutal doom and now i'm playing this. What other good mods should i get?

[Gameo]

Alien Vendetta is one of the best I've played, really enjoyed Hell2Pay as well. Hell Revealed/2 are also decent, honestly there's so many mods for DOOM it's hard to keep up.
Check out Quake Champions DOOM Edition, Hunter's Moon, Alien Trilogy TC, Doom Slayer Chronicles, Golden Souls, Pirate DOOM, Knee Deep in ZDOOM, Scythe 2, Unloved, Winter's Fury, Valiant just to name a few

[Comissar person[FIN]]

all in due time lad, hes only talking about some of the notable ones... but with zdl you can mix stuff, project msx is good gameplay mod with fine tuned weapons and dakker and crackker tho the development has stopped, even in its current state that gameplay mod is frigging awesome, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek50U1K1FYA also the map pack is brutaldoom starter edition and i have ambient sound mod i forgot the name, i have so many mods,, mappacks....hard to keep up

[Gameo]

You do not need ZDL to do anything, ZDL is just a GUI to do what the .ini file already does.
You can put as many path lines in the .ini as you please as long as they aren't conflicting mods.

There's a ton of mods that aren't level wads that can change the game in various ways, HUDs, things like Beautiful Doom, Smooth Doom, Droplets, Ketchup, BD Monsters, etc.. total conversions.
Doom has unlimited content and still being incredibly active as far as modding goes still to this day

[Comissar person[FIN]]

he will do what he wants to do, doing it by hand editing ini.files or using simple program

[Comissar person[FIN]]

tho i must say avoid going up wad, unless you are fan of metrick f*ckload monsterclosets in very tight spaces

[Comissar person[FIN]]

and i can only recomend back to saturn x for doom 2, works well with many gameplay mods