Hexen and Hexen II are some of my GOAT games.

Many players overlook a very interesting item: mystic ambits.

These are available in multiplayer coop and provide very nice AOE party effects.

Mage, gives mana

Fighter gives AC

Cleric heal

Now, the classes in H2 would work nicely in H1 as long as damage numbers, weapon speed, movement speed etc. are adjusted.

There are a lot of interesting effects which could work with an ambit:

Heal over time, phasing, deflection, etc.

Which abilities would you add to the hexen 2 classes? Just an idea, but:

Paladin - Brief party damage boost

Crusader - brief AOE heal over time

Necromancer - summon a minion for a brief time

Assassin - AOE runspeeed boost OR AOE aggro dump

Demoness - brief party gliding or flight?

And optionally:

Corvus - brief party deflection

Thoughts, ideas?

Playing HeXen on PC with a high-res mod enabled (I think the mod is called Hexen 2020?). But even un-modded I cannot read the map. The lines are way too thin and almost the same color as the background. Anyone have a fix for this?

I have typically always used Icon of Defender and just cheese them, but recently I've been going for legitimate duels with them. My first time beating all three without dying once was with the Mage and I used arc of death on Zedek while staying on the opposite side of his starting pyramind and using discs of repulsion for his scattershot - ended that fight with 3hp

Used Bloodscourge on Menelkir combined with discs of repulsion for his own Bloodscourge - he only hit me once but it took me down to 20 health or so

Traductus I just spammed discs of repulsion on until his own wraiths killed him.

I know with the Cleric you can just spam three or four Wraithverge shots and then use discs for protection while your wraiths kill each one. Fighter I'm not too sure on the best strategies. Any ideas

Is there a way to play hexen 1 with splitscreen co op? On pc of course.

I played Hexen a ton as a kid on the N64 I’ve spent years looking for games that felt like it or reminded me of it, but I couldn’t remember the name, but today I have finally found it. I am super excited to download the pack on steam tonight and try them again!

Hi, I'm playing Hexen II (coop) and for some reason i'm losing level/exp once in a while -- without any specific trigger or pattern.

I'm playing in the Hammer of Thyrion source port (latest version) and coop + hamachi (my friend is the host of the world) as an Assassin

I'm lv 5 right after War bossfight and he is lv 8 -- i was supposed to be the same lv as him lol

any idea what it could be? i could solve the problem by cheating and setting my lv to 8 but i want to know the root of the issue

As the title says, looking for great vanilla WADs for Hexen that would also hopefully fix/tweak the original’s gameplay loop/confusing nature. Been wanting to get back into it but not have a walkthrough to enjoy the game.

Looking forward to what the community has done :)

Title. I would love to do this as I have FoV 125 on every Quake 1 game. Thanks a lot. Using the Hammer of Thyrion source port btw.

Do you guys think they’ll ever port this game over there to play on current consoles? And it should be the N64 version, since the soundtrack is awesome.

If not, there should be.

Mine is Mage.

I always do this. In fact I am looking forward to after I beat death kings to try Hexen II, and I'm excited that it has binding options for all the items. Any games with inventories, even Dukem or Skyrim, I just never use anything in the heat of battle.

I am too concentrated on trying to keep moving that my brain just doesn't think of using anything except the healing items, I just don't like switching inventory items during fights, takes my mind off moving and shooting.

I'm sure some of y'all know about Quad, the OpenTouch project's platform for Q1-3 and likely know it can also run Hexen 2. Problem is my files won't work by themselves and neither will the patches, the game simply refuses to launch either way. Any help would be appreciated, .

Basically title :)
I know that Hexen heroes have their unique names, but what about Hexen 2?

For people who played HeXen before the internet took off, how did you figure out certain things without a guide?

My girlfriend and I started playing the N64 version of HeXen together and made a co-op save. We got maybe an hour or 2 in before we decided to save and quit. Then out of curiosity, I went to the main menu and changed the graphics setting from "smooth" to "zoom" and started a new single player save. We liked the way the game looked a lot more with zoom but we can't seem to find a way to change that setting in our existing co-op save because we can't access that setting in game. Every time I change the setting on the main menu then load our save, it looks like it also always loads the original config I had when we started playing.

Is there anything I can do to update the config for that existing save? I'm wondering if there's some other way to load saves that isn't obvious to me lol

Hello my brethren, so after dabbling with open touch on android and loving the doom mods I discovered hexen and I'm wondering if there are any gzdoom mods for hexen that would livin up the game a bit? So far I'm using the HD 2020 mod with the wrath of cronos mod and it's pretty good but..... I'd like to add some better animations if possible? Maybe explode their heads and more gore. Killing stuff is not very satisfying imo especially when it's the same enemies over and over. Any recommendations?

So a long time I ago I played the mod while it was in it's earliest stages and I was wondering how is it 's development progressing or was it cancelled?

Each time I revisit this game I play all three classes through. I find cleric to be the easiest but I like the weapons of the other classes more. Sure wraithverge is toasted but I barely ever get to see a guy blow up in front of me as I do with bloodscourge or quietus. Speaking of quietus I think some people vastly underrate it. It's not as flashy but it's basically a shotgun which when combined with the fighter's speed and armor can be stupid useful. Being said I think I like the mage most overall. Coolest weapons in my opinion. His 2nd and 4th weapon require some skill to maximize effect but they're great and fun to use