Project Brutality 2022 Enhanced

Project Brutality 2022 Enhanced is a full gameplay and content overhaul for Doom and Doom II, built for UZDoom, GZDoom & LZDoom.

For the official Project Brutality mod, see pa1nki113r/Project_Brutality. This is Project Brutality 2022, an entirely separate yet parallel total conversion with both first and third person finishers.

Requirements

• UZDoom / GZDoom / LZDoom
• 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) use Delta Touch

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.

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Optional:

REELISM 2 for PB2022 Modified for PB2022; loads after it.

BACKROOMS Redux from moddb |&| BACKROOMS Redux PB2022 Compat Patch Load Order = Redux > PB2022 > Compat

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What you get with PB2022

• Cinematic kills-in first and third person
• Explosive Movement (Shotgun/Rocket Jump and Plasma Wall-Climb)
• First-person flourishes
• Second Chance & RIP AND TEAR
• In-game codex (PDA) with Reward Spin
• Kills grant XP, rank-ups award spendable Reward Points
• Damage & Experience Numbers display above enemies
• Built-in achievement system (based on Vortex Universal Achievement System)
• Select a weapon with Weapon Wheel and it will be quick-retrieved in that slot using next/previous weapon binds.
• Item pickups and armor variety
• Combat depth: Brutality-style damage and enemy reactions, weapon and monster variety, extended melee combat, double-tap Dash, Meat Hook, Shieldsaw, Shoulder Launchers & Crucible...
• Possession Finishers
• Content breadth: Large weapon roster, extra monsters, kill streaks, power-up rewards and announcer support.
• LOADS OF EXTRA GORE & FATALITIES

Included weapons

Slot 1- Melee & blades

• Bare Hands- fast close-range melee, kick, and execution starter. Quick Melee punches roll among backhand and uppercut by default; owning melee blades unlocks extra blade-style quick-melee strips, and owning the chainsaw can roll a saw swing. Glory Kill, Blood Punch, weapon executions, and Shield Saw throw still take priority when they apply. With Berserk, Weapon Special toggles RIP AND TEAR vs SMASH fatality style, and Use on nearby living fodder can meat-grab for a throw or meatshield.
• 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.
• Vorpal Blade- exotic blade with charged and special attack behavior.
• Battle Axe and Shield- axe/shield melee set with bash and block-oriented play.

Slot 2- Sidearms & personal defense

• UAC Portal Blasters- dual-wield starter utility: Fire/AltFire shoots portal bolts that stuns enemies and place look-through portals on walls & glowing grids on floors and ceilings. Inconsistent but fun.
• Desert Eagle .50- starter ballistic sidearm for high-damage precision shots.
• UAC .45 Pistol- lootable sidearm from pistol zombies; weapon-special options for pistol behavior. Helmeted pistol zombies drop the Deagle.
• 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.
• Holy Bastard W-SMG- high-rate SMG variant with dedicated handling.
• Hell Pistoler- demon sidearm with a special wheel for Hell Rounds, Shrink Beam, and rate-of-fire toggle behavior.
• UAC Ballistic Shield Module- inventory upgrade 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.

Slot 3- Shotguns

• Shotgun- pump-action workhorse with shell management and shotgun special modes.
• M45 Halo 3 Shotgun- tube combat shotgun with dedicated spawn toggle.
• 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.
• SPAS-12- tube-fed combat shotgun with Weapon Special modes: Combat Pump and Riot Sweep.
• UAC XHAS-SP Lady Golide- heavy automatic shotgun platform.
• UAC-12P Rainmaker- triple-barrel sequential fire with an Alt-Fire flak blast.
• Cryo Shotgun- TeiTenga C-2-1 Pump Shotgun 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.
• 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.
• Hexa-Overkill- six-barrel shotgun with primary break-open fire and a dedicated Alt-Fire zoom blast.
• Demon-Tech Shotgun- demonic shell weapon with charged energy behavior.

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.
• 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.
• HL-300s Magnum Sniper- heavy magnum sniper rifle.
• 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 upgrade (T3/T4 map drops) unlock a third wheel option to toggle hell rounds.
• 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.
• Warbringer- Cyberaugumented rifle with high-pressure automatic fire.
• Anti-Tank Rifle- mag-fed heavy rifle with Weapon Special modes: Explosive Bolt , 3-Round Burst, and Void Grenade.
• Hellshot- inferno / caustic demon-tech rifle with DeathRay.

Slot 5- Heavy automatics

• Flak Cannon- heavy flak launcher.
• Mach-3 Minigun- sustained bullet hose with upgraded/triple-barrel.
• 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.
• Nightfall Augmented- Cyberaugumented minigun-class heavy with chaotic fire modes.
• SGP-331 Tactical Nailgun- Stroggos-style tactical nailgun.
• MACH-3 HYDRA- multi-barrel heavy automatic sibling to the Mach-3 line.
• Gallery Nailgun- alternate nailgun platform with dedicated spawn toggle.

Slot 6- Launchers & flame weapons

• Super Grenade Launcher- automatic grenade launcher with selectable grenade behavior.
• Rocket Launcher- rocket launcher wired into the Explosive Movement rocket-jump path.
• UAC-M3 Flamethrower- flame weapon for burn damage and crowd control.
• Paingiver- launcher-class heavy weapon for pain/area damage.
• UT2004 Triple Rocket Launcher- three-tube launcher.
• Excavator- launcher/special weapon with mode-specific ammo behavior.
• Mastermind's Chaingun- boss-derived heavy chaingun Obtained from Spider Mastermind.
• Cyberdemon Missile Launcher- cyberdemon-style missile launcher obtained from killing Baalgar / Cyber Boss.
• UAC Mancubus Flame Cannon / Daedabus Slime Cannon- monster-tech cannon with flame/slime-style attacks. Mancubus-family enemies sometimes drop it.

Slot 7- Energy rifles

• Cryo Rifle- freezing rifle for slowing or locking down enemies.
• Frostburn Device- frost-energy rifle with dedicated spawn toggle.
• 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.
• UAC MK-1 Platinum Railgun- alternate railgun platform alongside the MKIII.
• 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. Acquisition: rare death drops from Daedabus and Belphegor only.
• Sirius Crisis Roscoe- Cyberaugumented energy rifle with chargeable high-end shots.
• UAC Plasma Beam Rifle- sustained green rail beam with sphere Alt-Fire.
• Dispatcher of Delusions- Cyberaugumented full-auto plasma rifle that draws directly from its cell reserve.

Slot 8- Plasma & heavy energy primaries

• Pulse Cannon- plasma orb stream with charged Alt spread and optional Dark Matter Orb Alt mode.
• 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 that alternates Super Plasma Ball and Gravity Singularity after each successful shot; Weapon Special toggles dual-wield.
• Extinction Ray / Argent Fury- argent-energy beam rifle.
• UAC PR-75 Plasma Assault- assault-style plasma rifle variant.

Slot 9- Super-weapons & late energy

• Demon-Tech Rifle- demon-energy rifle with charged energy behavior.
• Harvester of Souls- soul-energy rifle. Primary- depends on Weapon Special mode (below). Alt-Fire- subtle zoom. Weapon Special- mode wheel: Soul Bolt- standard soul bolt (default). Storm- bolt plus Overlord storm strike. Soul Possess- possession ghost. Doom Seeker- homing Unmaker-style seeker.
• 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.
• Black Hole Generator- singularity weapon for heavy crowd control.
• Stormcast- lightning cast with wizard's hands; 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. Alt-Fire in the air- hover flight!

Equipment

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

Sentry Guns- equipment-wheel deployable friendly turrets; choose a type from the sub-wheel; Use Equipment plants it. Map boxes and rare backpack grants refill ammo. Commandos can drop common kits; ZSpec Ops can drop specialty kits. Zombie Tanks always leave a themed kit plus a second kit from the full sentry roster.

Enemy weapon drops- many former humans roll a family loot pool filtered by Spawn Balance tier and weapon spawn toggles (helmet pistol → Deagle; plasma → Pulse Cannon; rifles / shotguns / ASG / Spec Ops slot-3 / nailguns / commando heavies / Demon Tech). About 60% of those deaths drop matching ammo instead. Backpacks and ammo boxes can rarely replace with a weapon upgrade spawner.

UAC Survival gear on the same wheel: pipe bomb and satchel charge (throw, then detonate remotely) plus flare for lighting dark areas. Grunts that drop grenades can occasionally drop UAC kits instead (frags still most common); rocket->grenade map converts can too. Rare backpack bonuses still apply.

Backpack pickup also has a ~20% chance to grant a random Cat's Frozen equipment ammo charge. ZSpec Ops can rarely drop a Freezebot / Tesla / Freezenade or other CF item.

• 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).
• 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.

Monster roster

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.

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.

• Project Survival fodder- Shambler, Puker, Blighter, Screamer, Burster, Spiker, and Cyber Fodder. Spawn distribution skews toward variety- Shambler ~20%, the other five each ~16%. Trite pods on floors or ceilings burst into throngs of small Trite critters 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, 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; expect helmet chaingunners and nailgun-style majors when spawns budget extra spice.
• Imp family- everyday fireball Imps, frost-breathing ice Imps, infected savage Imps, four themed dark Imps (Nami, Nether, ST, Void), and three nightmare variants.
• Horrorspawn line- Monster Pack mutants that can vomit fresh runners, screamers, bursters, decapitation variants, and other horror-themed zombies into low tiers.
• Monster Pack zombie armor- Hunger gaunt bruiser, treaded Zombie Tank, up-armored Zombie Tank Elite, shoulder-gun plasma and missile tanks, and the jetpack Zombie Flyer for aerial harassment.

Tier 2- Pinkies & Cyber Demons

• 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.

Tier 3- Mid-roster horrors

• 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.
• 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 and drifting ESoul wisps 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

• 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.
• Hierophant- Monster Pack mastermind-scale glass cannon that trades armor for offense.

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.

• Classic Doom bosses- cyberdemons, spider masterminds, Annihilator missile brutes, Demolisher mastermind variants, and Juggernaut-class spider edits sized for map climax fights. Baalgar can sometimes yield the Cyberdemon Missile Launcher; masterminds can sometimes drop the Mastermind's Chaingun.
• Monster Pack megabosses- Hellduke cyber-duel, Hellsmith forge terror, Director spider mastermind remix, and Aracnorb Queen swarm mother.

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 baddie interrupted your Baron fight.

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 Plus (formerly El Diablo Edition)	Extra first-person executions and finisher art wired through Glory Kills-not a standalone Brutal Doom Plus total conversion. Also the lineage for Harvester of Souls, the Pulse Cannon (Yaelvolador), and the Anti-Tank Rifle (sprites by Tesefy).
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 (SchrodingCat)	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: Schr├╢dingCat 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.

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).

Harvester of Souls- Yaelvolador and Carrot (Brutal Doom Plus lineage). Details: CREDITS.txt.

Pulse Cannon- Yaelvolador and Brutal Doom Plus (formerly El Diablo Edition). Details: CREDITS.txt.

Anti-Tank Rifle- Brutal Doom Plus; sprite artwork Tesefy. Details: CREDITS.txt.

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, BeefRice, Yaelvolador, Warcarlsson, TomiikiPro