Project Brutality 2022 Enhanced

Project Brutality 2022 Enhanced is a full gameplay and content overhaul for Doom and Doom II, built for UZDoom. Glory Kills, Project Survival Fodder/Passives, Monster Pack–style enemies and weapons, Cat's Frozen content, and the main roster are all included in this package—load only this folder with UZDoom; no extra companion files are required.

For the latest upstream mainline mod, see pa1nki113r/Project_Brutality. This repository is the Project Brutality 2022 snapshot maintained here.

Engine: This release targets UZDoom, the actively maintained fork in the GZDoom family. Please use a current UZDoom build (see Requirements). Older or unrelated source ports are not supported.

Requirements

• UZDoom 4.13 or newer. Development tracks the UZDoom 4.14.3 line. Install a release from the Releases page. The mod needs modern UZDoom features.
• An IWAD — doom.wad, doom2.wad, tnt.wad, plutonia.wad, or Freedoom Phase 1+2. Retail IWADs are available from the Steam classics bundle or GOG (Doom II + Final Doom, The Ultimate Doom).
• Mobile (Android / iOS) is not supported. There is no supported UZDoom build on those platforms with the feature set this mod needs.

Installation

1. Install UZDoom 4.13+ from the UZDoom releases and unpack it somewhere convenient.
2. Download this repository (Code → Download ZIP) or clone it.
3. You should have a folder (for example Project Brutality 2022) that contains gameinfo.txt and the rest of the mod data. The mod ships as a loose folder, not a single packaged file.
4. Launch with that folder on the command line:

uzdoom.exe -iwad doom2.wad -file "Project Brutality 2022"

You can also drag the folder onto uzdoom.exe or add it in a launcher such as ZDL, DoomRunner, or SSGL — set the engine path to your UZDoom binary.

What you get

Glory Kills and finishers are a major part of the fantasy: when enemies are weak enough, you can stagger them and rip into cinematic kills—in first and third person, with different animations across vanilla demons, Brutality variants, and many extra / Monster Pack enemies. Layered on top are the Crucible, Blood Punch, shoulder cannon burn and freeze shots, pinata-style rewards, and a Glory HUD for fuel, punch charges, and launcher cooldowns. Turn the system on or off and tune it from Options → PB 2022 Enhanced; use Glorykill Options for HUD, range, and finer behavior.

Experimental weapon executions add an optional second finisher path. When the demon you're aiming at is close and badly wounded, supported weapons can trigger their own first-person finishing animation through Quick Melee or User2—separate from the stagger / Glory Kill chain, and only on weapons that ship with one. Toggle it under Options → PB 2022 Enhanced → Finishers, Gore, Taunts → Experimental weapon executions.

• Player and systems: Movement (dash, slide, ledge grab), Explosive Movement (rocket jump and plasma climb — PB 2022 Enhanced → Explosive Movement), tactical weapon feel, layered gore, HUD, weapon-special wheel, and related flows.
• In-game codex (PDA): Press BACKSLASH (rebindable) to flip through Weapons, Monsters, and Equipment. Entries unlock as you pick up gear or kill enemies; progress persists across saves. Pick an entry for its dossier and a small looping preview. Time pauses while the codex is open. Optional plain-text layout: PB 2022 Enhanced → UI and Feel. The same submenu offers PDA XP & reward spin (single-player) (default Off): when On, kills grant XP, rank-ups award spendable reward points, and—with the usual blocky PDA home layout—a Reward Spin tile appears on the left; each spin costs 3 points and tries to grant a weapon you do not already carry and that is not already unlocked in your PDA weapon codex (the roll rerolls within the pool); if nothing qualifies, points are refunded. With the toggle Off, the codex is unchanged and no spin panel appears.
• Achievements (single-player): PB ships a built-in achievement system (based on Vortex Universal Achievement System, MIT). Goals track combat, bosses, Glory Kills, PDA codex progress, movement, secrets, multi-kill shots (explosives, railgun, BFG, snipers, plasma, equipment), and Explosive Movement feats (rocket jump / plasma wall climb when those options are on). Unlock toasts appear as you play; browse everything under PB 2022 Enhanced → Achievement Settings → PB 2022 Achievements, or bind Achievement Menu in Customize Controls → PB 2022 Achievements. Turn the feature off with Achievements in PB 2022 Enhanced (disabled in multiplayer). Do not load a separate Vortex achievement WAD on top of this folder.
• Combat depth: Brutality-style damage and reactions, plus the weapon and monster variety below—all adjustable from PB 2022 Enhanced and related submenus.
• Content breadth: Large weapon roster, extra monsters, kill streaks, power-up hooks, and announcer support.
• Configuration: Use Options → PB 2022 Enhanced (same screen from the main menu, bound to P when available). That hub groups Gameplay Settings, Weapon Settings, Global Settings, Visual Settings, the Finishers, Gore, Taunts block (including Experimental weapon executions and Glory Kill), Explosive Movement, UI and Feel (damage numbers, tactical motion, weapon HUD modes, PDA blocky layout, optional PDA XP & reward spin for single-player, kill streaks), and Content Packs. Deeper monster and spawn options also live under Global Settings and Monster Pack Settings.
• Gore and debris: Core Project Brutality gore plus Nash Gore. 2022 Enhanced Brootality (Options → PB 2022 Enhanced → Finishers, Gore, Taunts) is the single On/Off switch that adds Brutal Doom 22 mist and meat, Brutal Pack V10 death extras, and extra blood pools and trails on top of the base mix — no per-pack sliders to fiddle with. AccuDeath (by Airehnr66) is also included: kills from fire, plasma, and electric attacks can tint corpses and add light particle death FX on top of the normal gore stack (on by default; turn off under Options → Gore/Debris Settings → AccuDeath (corpse tints)).
• Shield Saw: Standard equipment—you start every new game with it. Quick Melee throws the ricocheting saw at range (close targets still get normal melee), and Recall Shield Saw brings it back.

Possession finishers

Some fatalities briefly turn you into the demon you just killed. The rides are short and invulnerable.

• Cacodemon — matching glory-kill finish puts you in its body: you float, fire cacodemon shots, then drop back when the timer ends.
• Spider Mastermind — you stay on its chassis: walk it around and spray the chaingun until the timer ends.
• Cyberdemon — after the cyber fatality you shoulder its rocket arm, launch cyber rockets, then dismount with a shock burst when time runs out or you alt-fire.
• Mancubus family — after a standard mancubus / Daedabus / Volcabus fatality you get dual flame cannons, alternating left/right fireballs until the timer ends or you alt-fire.
• Arachnotron — the right finish seats you on its plasma turret (third-person view) until the rig tears apart.
• Revenant — revenant fatalities can roll into a third-person rocket-backpack ride: homing rockets fire on a short cadence while the chase camera stays active; leaving the ride restores the normal view.

Item pickups and armor variety

• Colored health and armor bonuses, stimpacks, and medikits use DarkShadow's Custom Shards & Potions content. Optional Red Armor (60% protection, 250 points) can appear when the blue-armor spawner rolls a heavy pickup (Gameplay Settings). Soulsphere, megasphere, and premium armor extras still use the Item mutators toggle in the same menu.

Included weapons

Weapons are grouped by their in-game number slots. Individual spawn toggles live in Weapon Settings / Add-On Toggles where available. Glory Kill tools such as the Crucible, shoulder cannon actions, Blood Punch, pinata pickups, and related HUD pieces are separate systems, not normal numbered-slot weapons.

Slot 1 — Melee & blades

• Bare Hands — fast close-range melee, kick, and execution starter.
• Axe — heavy melee pickup for chopping through low-tier enemies.
• Chainsaw — classic fuel-fed saw with Project Brutality gore and chainsaw-spawner variants.
• UAC Nanotech Energy Beam Katana — energy blade with quick melee integration and barrier-style behavior.
• Argent Sith Beam Katana — argent blade variant with its own energy attacks and shield/barrier handling.
• Tiberium's Soulblade / Vorpal Blade — exotic blade with charged and special attack behavior (see CREDITS.txt for attribution).
• Dragon Slayer — heavy energy-melee / bolt-repeater with empowered strikes and an Alt-Fire nail volley. Uses a hidden wear pool that drops with slashes and volleys; the blade breaks at zero wear and a duplicate pickup refills wear. Obtained only from Obsidian Ravager kills (cyber-tier spawns can roll the Ravager); it is not placed by chainsaw map weapon spawners (see CREDITS.txt).
• Shield Saw — not a separate weapon slot entry; granted on spawn like other starter gear. With the saw “charged,” Quick Melee throws it at range; Recall Shield Saw pulls it back. It no longer drops from the chainsaw map spawner and is not shown on the HUD inventory strip.

Slot 2 — Sidearms & personal defense

• UAC .45 Pistol — starter sidearm with weapon-special options for pistol behavior.
• Revolver — high-impact sidearm for heavier single shots.
• Maschinenpistole 40 — compact automatic ballistic weapon.
• UAC-17 SMG — fast sidearm-class automatic with weapon-special handling.
• UAC Ballistic Shield Module — inventory upgrade (icon 5L1DI0) from riot-shield sergeants; not a weapon-slot gun. With the module, open Weapon Special on the .45 Pistol or Fire Axe to toggle ballistic shield + pistol (block, bash, shielded reload) or shield + axe loadouts. Settings: Weapon Settings → Ballistic Shield Module (optional fire-axe requirement for the axe loadout).
• Hell Pistoler — demon sidearm with a special wheel for Hell Rounds, Shrink Beam, and rate-of-fire toggle behavior.
• Desert Eagle .50 — heavy pistol for high-damage precision sidearm shots.

Slot 3 — Shotguns

• Shotgun — pump-action workhorse with shell management and shotgun special modes.
• Auto-Shotgun — faster shell-fed shotgun for sustained close-range fire.
• Sawed-Off Shotgun — classic double-barrel burst damage.
• Commander Shotgun — combat shotgun with its own ammo/mode logic.
• UAC XHAS-SP Lady Golide — heavy automatic shotgun platform.
• X12 Shotgun — special shotgun with Project Brutality shell handling.
• Quad-Barrel Shotgun — four-barrel burst weapon with special-wheel behavior.
• Marauder Shotgun — Marauder-style super shotgun variant; uses a hidden wear pool (not reserve shells) that drops by one per meaningful shot, breaks the weapon when empty, and refills wear to max if you pick up another copy while still holding a depleted one. Marauders sometimes leave one on death; scripted fatality floor spawns are only ~50% likely.
• Cryo Shotgun — TeiTenga C-2-1 pump shotgun (Project Brutality Weapons Pack art) with five Weapon Special fire modes: cryo buckshot and ADS ice spears (default), cryo pellet burst, cryo orb, electric bolt, and cryo wind cone. Uses cell reserve plus internal magazine for buckshot; alt modes draw from shells, cryo cells, or cryo cannon fuel pickups. Rolls from shotgun, plasma-rifle, and BFG weapon spawners; legacy map placements for the former three Cat's Frozen cryo guns still resolve to this weapon.

Slot 4 — Rifles, precision & support

• UAC-30 DMR — marksman rifle with upgrade/dual-wield style support.
• UAC-41 Carbine — flexible rifle with special-wheel fire modes.
• Chex Quest Assault Rifle — optional Chex-themed rifle variant.
• XM-21 Rifle — sniper/marksman add-on included with dedicated ammo handling.
• Fusil Rifle — compact automatic rifle with a 24-round internal magazine; Alt-Fire aims and Weapon Special swaps into its sidearm stance.
• Light Machine Gun — belt/magazine support rifle for sustained automatic fire.
• Metal Sniper — heavy precision rifle with custom ammo and unload behavior.
• UAC-320 Heavy Machine Gun — older heavy automatic platform.
• UAC M1893 Lever Action — lever rifle with a weapon-special wheel for .357 vs .444 Marlin calibers. Hell Mod upgrades (T3/T4 map drops) unlock a third wheel option to toggle hell rounds—Demon-Tech projectiles on hip-fire and ADS; T4 fires caustic slugs. Disable Hell Mod drops under Gameplay Settings if you do not want them in the loot pool.
• Pro-Surv Ballista — precision projectile weapon for heavy single shots.
• M41A Pulse Rifle — pulse rifle with weapon-special wheel: 12-gauge or 30mm underbarrel Alt-Fire, plus optional dual-wield.
• Battle Rifle — modern rifle with magazine handling and tactical ready/fire flow.

Slot 5 — Heavy automatics

• Mach-3 Minigun — sustained bullet hose with upgraded/triple-barrel style paths.
• UAC-240 Perforator Nailgun — nail-firing heavy automatic with its own firing-state handling.
• MG-42 — high-rate classic machine gun.
• Neo HMG — heavy machine gun with an Alt-Fire shield that can detach into a temporary deployed energy barrier.

Slot 6 — Launchers

• Super Grenade Launcher — automatic grenade launcher with selectable grenade behavior.
• Rocket Launcher — rocket launcher wired into the Explosive Movement rocket-jump path.
• Paingiver — launcher-class heavy weapon for pain/area damage.
• Excavator — launcher/special weapon with mode-specific ammo behavior.
• Mastermind's Chaingun — boss-derived heavy chaingun; wear drops once per dual-rocket salvo, weapon breaks at zero wear, duplicate pickup refills wear. Obtained from spider mastermind kills (chance-based drop), not from rocket-launcher map spawns.
• Cyberdemon Missile Launcher — cyberdemon-style missile launcher; wear per two-rocket burst, break + duplicate-pickup refill like the chaingun. Baalgar / cyber boss death tables and the flying cyber-arm gib can spawn it with a chance (respects pb_NoPB_CyberdemonRLWeapon on the gib path).

Slot 7 — Energy rifles (non-plasma line)

• Cryo Rifle — freezing rifle for slowing or locking down enemies.
• MKIII Railgun — precision rail weapon for piercing high-damage shots; Alt-Fire toggles the scope zoom when you are not scoped. Hold Reload and press Alt-Fire to deploy a holographic decoy (same behavior as the Cat's Frozen equipment holo: line-of-sight anchor, animated decoy, monster retargeting).
• UAC-UM-32P Biological Acid Launcher (Unengager) — primary fire spits sustained acid slugs for damage and area denial; hold Alt-Fire for a Daedabus-style slime stream (same liquid feel as the enemy arc, fired as your own stream projectiles). Uses PB_DTech cells. Acquisition: rare death drops from Daedabus and Belphegor only — it is not rolled from plasma-rifle map weapon spawns (there is no longer a menu toggle for map placement).
• UAC Mancubus Flame Cannon / Daedabus Slime Cannon — monster-tech cannon with flame/slime-style attacks; wear ticks down with fuel spends on primary, alt stream, and slime modes, breaks at zero, duplicate pickup refills wear. Mancubus-family enemies (including Daedabus / Volcabus and Glory-Kill wrappers) sometimes drop it; it is not rolled from plasma-rifle map spawns.

Slot 8 — Plasma & heavy energy primaries

• UAC-M1 Plasma Rifle — plasma rifle with single/dual weapon-special support and plasma wall-climb behavior.
• UAC-M2 Plasma Rifle — alternate plasma rifle using the same movement-friendly plasma impact family.
• UAC Prototype Dark Matter Rifle — magazine-fed plasma orbs; chargeable Alt-Fire (super plasma ball vs gravity singularity via Weapon Special), standard cell reserve plus internal magazine, plasma wall-climb on primary impacts; rolls from plasma spawners with an optional Weapon Settings toggle.

Slot 9 — Super-weapons

• Black Hole Generator — singularity weapon for heavy crowd control.
• Unmaker — demonic super-weapon for high-end energy damage.
• BFG9000 MK IV — BFG-class room clearer.
• BFG 11K Prototype / BFG Beam — beam-style BFG super-weapon entry.
• Stormcast — lightning staff (Schism lineage; see CREDITS.txt). Slot 9, one shared charge pool; chords replace the old weapon-special wheel.
  • Primary — staff lightning / melee (needs charge; Berserk upgrades the strikes).
  • Alt-Fire (hold) — build charge; release to cast a bolt scaled to charge.
  • Primary while holding Alt-Fire — orb attacks (stronger orbs at higher charge).
  • Use Equipment while charging — stunwall (bigger at higher charge).
  • Weapon Special (hold) while charging — Arc of Death at higher tiers.
  • Reload (tap) while charging — lightning warper (caps show as on-screen messages).
  • Alt-Fire in the air — hover flight; Alt-Fire in that state fires a quick lightning burst.

Slot 0 — Demon-tech pair

• UAC-M3 Flamethrower — flame weapon for burn damage and crowd control.
• Demon-Tech Rifle — demon-energy rifle with charged energy behavior.

The disabled Demon-Tech Minigun and Demon Exterminator sources remain on disk for possible future repair, but they are not part of the active player roster.

Equipment

• Freeze Nade
• Hook
• Molotov
• StunGrenade
• Void Grenade
• Freezebot
• ElecPod

Cat's Frozen equipment additions (always-on; no per-piece toggles). The Project Brutality backpack pickup also has a ~20% chance to grant a random Cat's Frozen equipment ammo charge.

• Snow Caster — handheld cone-burst that lays cryo wind + ice particles in front of the player.
• Ice Wall — generator that drops a temporary line of cryo barrier segments.
• Holographic Decoy — places a flickering decoy that pulls monster aggro.
• Tesla Turret — friendly chained-lightning turret (won't take damage from your shots).
• Flame Turret — friendly flame-cone turret (same rule).
• Freeze Mines — proximity cryo mines; they won't trip under your feet, but you can rocket-jump off them when shot or when monsters set them off.

Shield Saw

Shield Saw is included with Quick Melee rather than taking a weapon slot. You begin with the saw on a new game; map-placed pickups still work if a mapper adds them.

• Quick Melee near enemies uses the usual close-range melee.
• Quick Melee at range throws the saw as a projectile.
• Recall Shield Saw (default T) calls it back.
• Level transitions while the saw is still out refund it so it is not lost.

The vanilla chainsaw spawn point no longer rolls a Shield Saw drop—the saw is default kit, not spawner loot. There is no separate spawn-toggle menu entry.

Monster roster

This section is a reader's map of enemy tiers and families—not a spawn manifest. Maps still mostly place vanilla Doom edits; pack rolls layer extra variants on top. Higher tiers skew toward late maps, boss slots, and optional pools. When PB 2022 Enhanced menus mention Monster Pack rolls or disable new enemies, those same gates decide whether the extras below appear.

Glory Kills and cinematic finishes apply across these tiers—this list only names who shows up, not how those kills unlock.

Tier 1 — Grunts & fodder

Low-tier pressure, hierarchy fodder, and most of the wandering cannon fodder you clear between arenas.

Passive hazards from the same packs can share floors with Tier 1 without being “troops”: pus pods, mimics, ceiling tentacles, hangman traps, and other Project Survival set‑dressing monsters still read as grunt‑tier threats because of how little space they need to ruin your day.

Those hazards are optional encounters—many maps never place them—but when they appear they still credit Project Survival authorship alongside the wandering fodder listed below.

• Project Survival fodder — the standard fodder backbone of this build. Shambler, Puker, Blighter, Screamer, Burster, Spiker, and Cyber Fodder (CyberFodder) are the default Tier 1 reinforcement roster, not an opt-in pool: every zombieman, shotgunner, chaingunner, imp, pinky, and spectre spawn rolls extra PS fodder alongside the classic enemy, and PS fodder ignores the broader disable new enemies switch because it is treated as core content. Distribution skews toward variety — Shambler ~20%, the other five each ~16% — so the supporting cast carries the visual identity of the fodder layer instead of one face dominating. Trite pods on floors or ceilings burst into throngs of small Trite critters (Trite) for swarm panic. (Project Survival by The Pope of Dope / ThePopeOfDope — see CREDITS.txt.)
• Zombieman family — pistol grunts, rifle grunts, carbine specialists, plasma zombies and their trooper-weight sibling, helmeted Phobos-style guards (pistol and rifle versions), and lab-coated scientists who still count as rank‑and‑file despite their animation set.
• Shotgun sergeants — classic shotgun guys plus helmeted variants, quad‑shot and auto‑shotgun heavies, riot‑shield sergeants (PB_RiotShieldGuy — always drop the ballistic shield module on death; see drop table below), rocket‑salvo zombies, demon‑tech shotgun troopers, and Z‑spec squads built on the same sergeant chassis.
• Chaingun commandos — modern chaingunners next to the slower classic chaingunner rig; expect helmet chaingunners and nailgun‑style majors when spawns budget extra spice.
• Nazi soldiers — Wolfenstein‑flavored SS rips drop wherever Nazi episodes or replacement tables still call for them.
• Imp family — everyday fireball imps, frost‑breathing ice imps, infected savage imps, four themed dark imps (Nami, Nether, ST, Void), and three nightmare palette variants (DNImpVariant1–3) that read as imp squad remixes at a glance.
• Horrorspawn line — Monster Pack mutant spawner chain that can vomit fresh runners, screamers, bursters, decapitation variants, and other horror-themed zombies into low tiers while keeping the encounter readable as “grunt tier, louder.” Slimmer footprint than the PS fodder backbone above so the two layers don’t step on each other.
• Monster Pack zombie armor — Hunger gaunt bruiser (console spawn name Hunger), treaded Zombie Tank (ZombieTank), up‑armored Zombie Tank Elite (ZombieTankelite), shoulder‑gun plasma and missile tanks (ZombiePlasmaTank, ZombieMissileTank), and the jetpack Zombie Flyer (PB_ZombieFlyer) for aerial harassment.

Tier 2 — Pinkies & cyber demons

Melee bruisers and the Monster Pack’s pinky-adjacent showcase demon.

Expect tight corridors to amplify every charging demon—these enemies punish corners and doorways harder than zombies ever could.

• Pinkies and spectres — stock pink demons, nearly invisible void spectres, stompy mech demons, and oversized mean demons that keep pinky AI but hit like mini‑bosses.
• Classic spectre — the vanilla half‑visible twin still shares spawn tables with pinkies when maps call for it.
• Cracko Demon — Monster Pack floater that mixes blue‑lightning offense with cacodemon‑scale HP (CrackoDemon).

Tier 3 — Mid-roster horrors

Mid-weight specials: walkers, floaters, and the missile ballet tier.

This tier is where projectile density spikes—open yards favor mancubi and cacos, while tight tech bases turn arachnotrons into lane denial.

• Arachnotrons — plasma walkers span stock, elite chrome trims, infernal red edits, and the plant‑chassis Arachnophyte experiment.
• Aracnorb — gravity‑ ignoring plasma jellyfish cousin to arachnotrons (Aracnorb).
• Mancubus family — flame belching fatsos, slower Daedabus arc‑casters, and lava‑themed Volcabus variants sharing the fatso slot behaviors players already fear; they occasionally drop the Mancubus Flame Cannon pickup (chance-based DropItem, not guaranteed). Daedabus can also roll a rare Biological Acid Launcher (slot 7) on death.
• Cacodemons and pain elementals — meatball cannons plus vanilla pain elementals, infernal caco stand‑ins, and suffering elementals that behave like souped‑up pain mothers without stealing the boss spotlight.
• Other floaters — Watchers as silent floating eyes, Overlords as oversized aerial tyrants, Phantasms as smoky lost‑soul upgrades, classic lost souls, and Afrits as winged harassers in the same sky‑pest bucket.
• Monster Pack elementals — Helemental storm pillars (Helemental) and drifting ESoul wisps (ESoul) that peel off larger fights or environmental kills.
• Revenants and cousins — guided missile revs, beam‑lance Beam Revs, and frost‑themed Draugr skeletons sharing homing DNA.

Tier 4 — Hell nobility

Heavy hitters below proper episode bosses—arena anchors and caster nightmares.

Knights and barons eat rockets; arch‑viles eat your patience. Bring plasma, corners, and priority target discipline.

• Knights and barons — hell knights, barons, cyber‑knight/baron/paladin hybrids, sprinting Belphegors, and Infernus bruisers that still respect Baron‑tier spacing. Belphegor can rarely drop the same Biological Acid Launcher as Daedabus (see slot 7).
• Arch-viles and specialists — flame arch‑viles, ice arch‑viles, flesh‑summoning wizards, and Hellions occupying the same raise‑and‑burn psychological lane as vanilla arch‑viles.
• Marauder — Eternal‑inspired hunter demon with shields and shotgun snap‑shots; counts as a noble‑tier duelist when he crashes a fight. He sometimes drops his Marauder Shotgun (weighted death drop; bonus weapon props after certain finishers are also chance-based).
• Hierophant — Monster Pack mastermind‑scale glass cannon that trades armor for offense (Hierophant).

Tier 5 — Bosses

Icon of Sin‑adjacent threats and custom megabosses.

These fights reserve the spotlight: huge hitboxes, splash damage, and arena‑wide sound cues. Save rockets, cells, and breathing room.

Some boss‑scale fights still reuse Doom II encounter vocabulary—two cyberdemons on a wide staircase still means “empty the backpack,” regardless of which cosmetic variant spawned.

• Classic Doom bosses — cyberdemons, spider masterminds, Annihilator missile brutes, Demolisher mastermind variants, and Juggernaut‑class spider edits sized for map climax fights. Baalgar (replaces the stock cyber) and related cyber gib FX can sometimes yield the Cyberdemon Missile Launcher; masterminds can sometimes drop the Mastermind's Chaingun (see weapon list above for wear rules).
• Monster Pack megabosses — Hellduke cyber‑duel (Hellduke), Hellsmith forge terror (Hellsmith), Director spider mastermind remix (Director), and Aracnorb Queen swarm mother (AracnorbQueen).

Cat's Frozen frost roster — Frost Baron rides Hell Knight / Baron spawns, Cryocubus rides mancubus tables, Frostbrain rides cacodemon tables, and Cryotron rides arachnotron tables. They are standard always‑on cryo guests unless disable new enemies hides the broader optional roster. (SchrödingCat / Cat's Frozen Addon — see CREDITS.txt.)

Frozen-solid corpse statues are a separate Cat's Frozen presentation layer: most monsters killed by ice or cryo damage can leave an authored frozen prop—not only the four frost monsters listed above.

Realm667 community guests — Blood Ghost and Blood Skull are Lost‑Soul‑tier flyers folded from the Realm667 resource line (PB_Realm667_BloodGhost, PB_Realm667_BloodSkull) — see CREDITS.txt / DetailedCredits.txt for authors.

The in-game PDA codex mirrors many of these families with dossiers that unlock as you kill matching creatures—use it when you forget which cryo cousin interrupted your Baron fight.

Unlocked codex rows persist across saves, so long campaigns slowly fill out the same roster this guide outlines.

Monster-sourced weapons, modules, and drop chances

These are not rolled from normal map weapon spawners unless noted. DropItem "Class" N means roughly N / 256 chance per death roll (engine picks one drop from the monster’s list). A_Jump(128, …) is a 50% branch. Omitted probability = always when that drop is chosen.

Source monster(s)	Pickup / module	Death-drop chance
PB_RiotShieldGuy (riot-shield sergeant)	RiotShieldPickup → PB_RiotShieldModule	100% (guaranteed module when the sergeant dies)
PB_Mastermind, PB_MastermindGK	MastermindChaingun	72 / 256 (~28%)
CyberdemonBoss (Baalgar / map cyber boss)	PB_CyberdemonRL	64 / 256 (25%)
Cyber arm gib (XDeathCyberdemonGun, fatality / gore)	PB_CyberdemonRL	50% if pb_NoPB_CyberdemonRLWeapon is off
PB_Marauder, PB_MarauderGK	MarauderSSG	80 / 256 (~31%)
Marauder scripted fatality floor props	MarauderSSG	50% (A_Jump(128, …))
PB_Mancubus, PB_Daedabus, PB_Volcabus, GK fatso variants	MancubusFlameCannon	56 / 256 (~22%)
PB_Daedabus	BioAcidLauncher (slot 7)	44 / 256 (~17%)
PB_Belphegor	BioAcidLauncher	36 / 256 (~14%)
PB_ObsidianRavager (cyber-tier spawns)	PB_ObsidianDragonSlayer	Always on Ravager death (unless pb_NoDragonSlayerWeapon)

Spawn rate vs. drop rate: Riot-shield sergeants are an extra shotgun-guy variant from ShotgunGuySpawner (weighted A_Jump into RiotShieldGuyPack — e.g. 16 / 256 on one early tier, up to 36 / 256 on another). That controls how often the enemy appears, not whether the module drops (always once you kill one).

give all / idfa: Monster-drop guns and the ballistic shield module are excluded from bulk cheat grants; use give <ClassName> or play the drops above.

The base zombie, imp, pinky, floater, revenant, noble, arch‑vile, and Doom boss rosters come from Project Brutality and the Monster Pack line — see CREDITS.txt and DetailedCredits.txt for full per‑creature authorship.

Settings and controls

• Options → PB 2022 Enhanced — every PB-specific menu lives here (also reachable from the main menu). Submenu inventory is in What you get → Configuration above.
• Options → PB 2022 Enhanced → UI and Feel — includes PDA Blocky Layout and PDA XP & reward spin (single-player). The XP/spin switch defaults to Off; when On, only single-player games accrue XP and reward points from kills, and the blocky PDA home screen gains the Reward Spin panel (see What you get → In-game codex (PDA)). Multiplayer matches ignore this path so co-op and deathmatch stay unchanged.
• Options → Customize Controls — keybinds under Project Brutality, Project Brutality - Interactions, and Glory kill (Crucible / shoulder-cannon actions).

Useful console cvars for bisecting or performance work:

• pb_classicmonsters — classic vs. Brutality-style monsters.
• pb_disablenewenemies, pb_disablenewguns, pb_disabledecorations, pb_disablemapenhancements — gate the major content blocks on/off.
• pb_lowgraphicsmode, pb_bloodamount — lighter visuals and gore for low-end machines.

Feedback and bug reports

For problems with this project, use the Project Brutality Discord. Please confirm the issue is reproducible with only this mod loaded (no extra weapon or gameplay packs) and that it has not already been reported. Read channel rules and pins first.

Sources and important third-party lineage

This build layers several community sources into Project Brutality’s own systems. Full names and per-asset notes remain in CREDITS.txt and DetailedCredits.txt.

Area	What we ship / how it is used
Realm667	Many monster and prop bases and edits from the community resource site; authors are credited per creature and in the detailed lists.
Monster Pack line	Extra monsters and spawns (for example Crackodemon, Hellduke, Helemental, Hierophant) included in the main mod alongside standard Project Brutality enemies.
Brutal Doom — El Diablo Edition	Extra first-person executions and finisher art wired through Glory Kills—not a standalone El Diablo total conversion.
Project Brutality Legacy (lineage)	Older-style execution triggers and handoffs included in the main monster set so classic prompts still work with current Project Brutality.
Brutal Pack (e.g. V10 class packs)	Used in development as selective art and finisher reference; this repo does not ship the Brutal Pack in full—only what was adapted into Project Brutality 2022’s roster and Glory Kill flows.
Brutal Doom 22 (BDv22)	Optional-style gore assets and handlers packaged under their own names; enabled through 2022 Enhanced Brootality. Credit Brutal Doom 22 as a project and respect its license if you redistribute those assets.
Brutal Pack V10 (BPv10) gore	Humanoid and imp-family death extras (burned bodies, carbonized remains, torsos, organs, splats); enabled through 2022 Enhanced Brootality. Sprites credited to AWEZ; respect Brutal Pack licensing if you redistribute.
Cat's Frozen Addon (SchrödingCat)	Cryo slowdown, frozen-solid corpses, four frost monsters, six extra equipment-wheel tools plus Freeze Nade, and the Cryo Shotgun (slot 3) with five weapon-special fire modes—always-on standard content. Cryo cell and cryo cannon fuel pickups still appear for the shotgun's alt modes. Asset attribution: SchrödingCat plus addon-listed contributors (Sergeant_Mark_IV, IDDQD_1337, TypicalSF, Eriance/Amuscaria, Electro7777, Captain Toenail, Rifleman, Gothic, Thanuris, Ganbare-Lucifer, DeVloek, Bloax, ZZrionTheInsect, Xaser, Ethril). See CREDITS.txt for the per-piece breakdown.

Credits

Project Brutality 2022 builds on Project Brutality and the work of that team and their contributors. It also includes Glory Kills and Monster Pack-line content, third-party systems such as Nash Gore (Nash Muhandes, modified here), and many named authors in CREDITS.txt and DetailedCredits.txt.

Recent additions in this line:

• Boss-tech weapon wear: cyber launcher, mastermind chaingun, mancubus / Daedabus flame cannon, Marauder shotgun, and Dragon Slayer use limited durability (separate from ammo) with weapon break at zero wear and repair to full wear when picking up the same gun again; monster drops use weighted chances instead of guaranteed boss loot where appropriate. The chaingun and flame cannon are not placed by rocket / plasma map weapon spawners (monster sources only). The Dragon Slayer is not placed by chainsaw map spawners (Obsidian Ravager death only). The UAC Biological Acid Launcher is also monster-only: weighted drops from Daedabus and Belphegor, with no plasma spawner placement.
• Combined 2022 Enhanced Brootality gore from Brutal Doom 22 and Brutal Pack V10.
• Expanded first-person executions with art lineage from Brutal Doom El Diablo Edition and related packs.
• Glory Kill shoulder launcher art and Eternal-style fuel HUD glyphs aligned with the newer Glory Kills presentation.
• Explosive Movement extended to Mastermind chaingun tracers and Cat's Frozen freezenade / freeze mines.
• Cat's Frozen cryo enemies, statues, equipment, and the unified Cryo Shotgun as always-on content.
• Kill-streak reward variety (including a revamped drone summon and optional flashlight glow).

Credit to BeefRice and Jaih1r0 for fullscreen weapon HUD elements and many weapon improvements and systems. Thanks to HUNG for the Shield Saw behavior included in this build (quick melee + recall).

PB_MeleeWeaponPack (including slot-1 Dragon Slayer & Vorpal Blade, slot-9 Stormcast): original credits per that add-on’s CREDITS.txt — Craneo, Dreo & Lord Lothar (Schism), Eriance & TiberiumSoul (RIP); compatibility rework for PB 0.4.2+ by Renegade Android. Details: CREDITS.txt.

Maintainers of this package: RENEGADE ANDROID and doc.

Contributors: JhulkerCraft, TomiikiPro.