Heretic: Faith Renewed
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| Heretic: Faith Renewed | |
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| Authors | id Software, Nightdive Studios |
| Ports | EXDEFS-compatible, Limit-removing |
| IWAD | Heretic |
| Year | 2025 |
| Link | N/A |
Heretic: Faith Renewed is an EXDEFS-compatible episode. It features two new enemies, a new weapon, and new textures.
It was released on August 7, 2025 alongside the Heretic and Hexen re-release titled Heretic + Hexen, which uses the KEX Engine.
Contents
Story[edit]
"Years after the planes were cleansed of D'Sparil's wretched influence, a wandering warrior in search of home arrives at a foreign land to discover the blighted stains of that old time religion seeping through the cracks of society once more. In the fortified city, zealous acolytes stand high atop a decadent cathedral and listen to the lamentations echoing from the streets as non-believers are dragged away for 'correction.' The shadow of D'Sparil lingers after death, his absence attributed to apotheosis. Once revered, now worshipped, deserving of neither. An all-too-familiar scene, and one you simply cannot stomach. Taking up the mantle of Heretic once more, you stride into the city, staff in hand, to silence the echoes of your arch-nemesis."
― Bethesda [source]
Content[edit]
The intermission screen with a visual presentation of all levels of Faith Renewed.
Levels[edit]All levels by Samuel Villarreal (Kaiser) unless otherwise stated.
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Soundtrack[edit]Faith Renewed reuses tracks from Heretic, either the originals by Kevin Schilder or remixed versions by Andrew Hulshult.
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Added content[edit]
Monsters[edit]
- Draugr
- Based on an early golem design. Faster and fires non-homing purple projectiles. It has 60 hit points.
- Troll
- Based on an unused enemy design. Attacks with melee and a charge attack. It has 500 hit points.
- Chaos serpent
- Based on the green chaos serpent from Hexen, but with 750 hit points.
Weapons[edit]
- Tempest wand
- Based on an early Elven wand design. Uses slot 2, and wand crystals as ammo. Fires a lightning beam that can bounce to nearby enemies. In its powered state, it fires a slow moving ball that explodes after some distance that fires beams to nearby enemies.
Files[edit]
- heretic_fr.wad - Faith Renewed PWAD, only contains maps and title/intermission graphics. New actor information and assets are in heretic.wad.
