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Hero Goat

A sword wields no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage

"Hey! Listen! It's time to wake up and begin your quest!" That's what the shiny flying thing told me before leaving without any other explanation... So I took my sword and my shield and started to explore the world to find what was going on.

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FEATURES
- Hero Goat: You can use a sword and a shield.
- Hero Sword: [Locked] You have a Hero Sword and a Mirror Shield.
- Hero Theme: Play the music of heroes.
- Hero Vision: [Locked] You see the world as a drawing (Borderlands style).

KEYBOARD CONTROLS
- [LeftClick]: Swing attack.
- [LeftClick]: Hold to charge a Spin attack.
- [LeftClick]: Release for a Spin attack.
- [RightClick]: Use shield.

GAMEPAD CONTROLS
- [RT]: Swing attack.
- [RT]: Hold to charge a Spin attack.
- [RT]: Release for a Spin attack.
- [LT]: Use shield.

CHARACTERISTICS
- The sword attacks will throw away everything you hit.
- The sword attacks do real damages to MMO enemies and GoatZ Zombies.
- Holding the sword will not do any damage.
- When the spin attack is ready, you hear a sound and your sword glow.
- The spin attack is twice as powerful as the swing attack.
- The shield can block objects and sword attacks.
- When shielding, your speed is limited.
- You can't use your sword and shield when ragdoll or when driving.
- To unlock it you need to find the Hero Sword pedestal.
- There is one pedestal for each player using the Hero Goat mutator.
- The Hero Sword is twice as powerful as the normal sword.
- Every time you do a swing attack, a laser sword will be shot.
- You can't shoot laser swords if you have been ragdolled within the last 10s.
- Laser swords will fly forward until they hit something and do the same damages as a swing attack.
- Using the Hero Sword will also give you a Mirror Shield.
- The Mirror Shield can reflect laser swords.

EASTER EGGS
- If you are really hopeless, a faery companion will come and help you.Hopeless people lie on the floor and stop moving.
- The faery knows where is the Hero Sword pedestal, so if you hear it talk you may be looking in the right direction.
- If you manage to find the Hero Sword pedestal alone (without faery), you will deserve to use the Hero Vision.

KNOWN BUGS
- The sword can sometimes pass through people without touching them.
- The shield may fail to block some attacks.
- The sword speed trail effect can sometimes become glitchy.
- The laser swords can sometimes fail to hit things.
- The mirror shield can sometimes fail to reflect laser swords.
- The sword pedestal can sometimes be generated in unreachable places. Restart map to fix.

DEV NOTES

Originally posted by Update 1 (14/11/2015):

- Fixed compatibility with GoatBread.

Originally posted by Update 2 (29/01/2016):

- Fixed compatibility with Payday.

Originally posted by Update 3 (07/06/2016):

- Fixed compatibility with Waste of Space.

Originally posted by About this mod:

I'm finally done with this mod :D I can't remember the longest time I spent on a mod already, but this one took me a long time for sure X) Good thing that I didn't try to add this in the MMORPGoat mod as I was planning to do or it would not be out yet... Anyway I really wanted to make this mod as good as possible so I took the time needed for that :p
There was a few challenges for me to solve in this mod: First, making a usable sword and shield. Making them actually collide with people and objects and only when I wanted to (no collision when they are on your back) was not as easy as it seems. Anyway after finding the correct functions I got it working and that was really enjoyable to play with ^^
As you probably noticed, I literally copied the attacks of Link in the classic Zelda games, and I tried to make my version as close as possible to the original ;) That's why I also added a master sword upgrade system (the Hero Sword) with a pedestal randomly placed in the world. For more fun I added a "repulsion" effect on this pedestal, so that only goats who deserve it can get the Hero Sword! Understand: only goats using the mutator can actually take the sword.
Then I started to work on the most fun part of this mod: the laser swords :D Still trying to mimic the original Zelda mechanisms, I made the Hero Sword "shoot" laser copies of itself. I had some trouble to make those swords actually fly properly and in the right direction, but after messing enough with their physics properties I eventually got a satisfying result.
And finally, since the last game update I knew that the cel shading effect (or Borderlands effect, or whatever) should now be working so I really wanted to include it in this mod (as some Zelda games also use this kind of graphisms). The first thing I saw when I tried it was a big blue and white default texture in fullscreen XD Which means the visual effect was not correctly configured to work in this game... Anyway I wanted it really hard so I started messing with the post process effect itself in the editor until I found a way to make it correctly visible ^^ After that I spend a lot of time tweaking the parameters of the effect to get something good looking: at the beginning almost all the screen was black in the foreground because there as way too much lines drawn everywhere >_< In the end, the solution came from SKaa3w (a big thanks to him!) who posted a customized version of this visual effect on the unreal forums[forums.epicgames.com]. That version was almost rendering perfectly on Goat Simulator, I only modified it a bit to adjust the size of the black lines and have a really good looking result ^^