Good Doom/Heretic/Hexen WADs

[Biscotti]

I doubt anything of the sort will happen anymore. R.I.P. Thief FM sticky, never forget...

 

[BLOBERT]

I doubt anything of the sort will happen anymore. R.I.P. Thief FM sticky, never forget...

BRO I DONT CARE FUCK SHIT

THIS PLACE ONE ONE LAST RESTAR OF REAL GAMING

FUCKING STICKY THE DOOM THREAD THE DECLINE THERE IS FAR LESS WORSE THAN THE ENTIRE RPG FORUM

ONE GOOD DEED THE ADMINS CHN DO TO MAKE THIS AN ACTUAL GOOD PLACE FOR PC GAMERS

 

[BLOBERT]

BROS MODS IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE STICKY MANY

UNSTICK THE KICKSTARTER THREAD CAUSE KICKSTARTER HAS BEEN SHIT FOR SEVERAL YEARS

 

[Ol' Willy]

FUCKING STICKY THE DOOM THREAD THE DECLINE THERE IS FAR LESS WORSE THAN THE ENTIRE RPG FORUM

Once you learn how much troons are in Doom community though...

 

[NecroLord]

FUCKING STICKY THE DOOM THREAD THE DECLINE THERE IS FAR LESS WORSE THAN THE ENTIRE RPG FORUM

Once you learn how much troons are in Doom community though...

One of the reasons I never bother with the Doomworld forums.

 

[ghardy]

Doomworld forums

Are there any other forums with substantial activity? The Doomer boards were (are?) devolving into mod-wars.

Most of the mainstream forums fall prostrate before Romero and have periodic two-minute hate sessions for Carmack.

 

[NecroLord]

Doomworld forums

Are there any other forums with substantial activity? The Doomer boards were (are?) devolving into mod-wars.

Most of the mainstream forums fall prostrate before Romero and have periodic two-minute hate sessions for Carmack.

Don't really know, to be honest.
Why do they hate Carmack? Is it because of Doom 3?

 

[ghardy]

Why do they hate Carmack?

He's not a leftist.

 

[NecroLord]

Why do they hate Carmack?

He's not a leftist.

Right, I forgot about that.
I was thinking it was due to his different game design philosophy.
Romero cultists are really dumb.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Demonfear

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/megawads/rebirth

I recommend trying "The Rebirth" as well. It has the same philosophy, when it comes to maps - small compact structures that are excellent if you would like to test some gameplay mods.

 

[ghardy]

I recommend trying "The Rebirth" as well.

Nice concurrence. I began it yesterday, in fact.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Doomworld forums

Are there any other forums with substantial activity? The Doomer boards were (are?) devolving into mod-wars.

Most of the mainstream forums fall prostrate before Romero and have periodic two-minute hate sessions for Carmack.

Don't really know, to be honest.
Why do they hate Carmack? Is it because of Doom 3?

https://www.pcgamer.com/doom-co-cre...onvention-that-rails-against-woke-propaganda/
https://old.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/13kyodn/doom_cocreator_john_carmack_is_headlining_a_toxic/

 

[NecroLord]

Doomworld forums

Are there any other forums with substantial activity? The Doomer boards were (are?) devolving into mod-wars.

Most of the mainstream forums fall prostrate before Romero and have periodic two-minute hate sessions for Carmack.

Don't really know, to be honest.
Why do they hate Carmack? Is it because of Doom 3?

https://www.pcgamer.com/doom-co-cre...onvention-that-rails-against-woke-propaganda/
https://old.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/13kyodn/doom_cocreator_john_carmack_is_headlining_a_toxic/

Well there it is...

 

[ghardy]

This is the man who took a holiday back in 2018 to have some fun... writing neural networks on OpenBSD:

John Carmack: hermit mode and neural network implementations

After a several year gap, I finally took another week-long programming retreat, where I could work in hermit mode, away from the normal press of work. My wife has been generously offering it to me the last few years, but I'm generally bad at taking vacations from work.

As a change of pace from my current Oculus work, I wanted to write some from-scratch-in-C++ neural network implementations, and I wanted to do it with a strictly base OpenBSD system. Someone remarked that is a pretty random pairing, but it worked out ok.

Despite not having actually used it, I have always been fond of the idea of OpenBSD — a relatively minimal and opinionated system with a cohesive vision and an emphasis on quality and craftsmanship. Linux is a lot of things, but cohesive isn't one of them.

I'm not a Unix geek. I get around ok, but I am most comfortable developing in Visual Studio on Windows. I thought a week of full immersion work in the old school Unix style would be interesting, even if it meant working at a slower pace. It was sort of an adventure in retro computing — this was fvwm and vi. Not vim, actual BSD vi.

[His original post was on Facebook, which I decided against linking to.]

He liked the OpenBSD system enough to have made a Silver donation (amount USD 10,000-25,000) to the OpenBSD Foundation twice:
The OpenBSD Foundation receives the first Silver contribution from a single individual
https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html

So, even though he works on Windows with Visual Studio, he spent time getting to grips with programming on a different system with a different philosophy. And he sent a large amount of money to further the development of this system he doesn't even use regularly.

Looks to me like Carmack is a great guy!

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Once you learn how much troons are in Doom community though...

This is something I found out recently. Holy shit.

 

[Lawful Pacific]

 

[ghardy]

Yes, this was one of the stupid posts that stopped my frequenting the forum. (How "emotionally intelligent" is it to write a whining post on a prominent forum unless it is to feed your ego with approvals from fellow fragile folk?)

That forum has turned into an insufferable, irredeemable cesspool. Sad. Some of the old-timers used to have good discussions and insight.

 

[NecroLord]

Yes, this was one of the stupid posts that stopped my frequenting the forum. (How "emotionally intelligent" is it to write a whining post on a prominent forum unless it is to feed your ego with approvals from fellow fragile folk?)

That forum has turned into an insufferable, irredeemable cesspool. Sad. Some of the old-timers used to have good discussions and insight.

Trying to cancel one of the very Creators of Doom?
That was pretty bold of them, I'll give them that.

 

[ghardy]

I had a good time reading David Kushner's Masters of Doom some time ago. It chronicles the development of DooM and id Software in the early days before, during, and after DooM.

Perhaps the two Johns are credited too much in computer and video gaming mythology history, but I personally think the two of them have earned it abundantly.

 

[NecroLord]

I had a good time reading David Kushner's Masters of Doom some time ago. It chronicles the development of DooM and id Software in the early days before, during, and after DooM.

Perhaps the two Johns are credited too much in computer and video gaming mythology history, but I personally think the two of them have earned it abundantly.

Small team, BIG results.
Nowadays studios are simply overcrowded and stacked with useless staff.

 

[ghardy]

As for WADs...

Sometimes you just want to chill. The good old Fava Beans (from 1995) is a competent, fun set (except the last level.)

It replaces Episode 1 while capturing it's spirit nicely.

It's easy. It's simple. Nevertheless, it is a favorable look at the early days of DooM modding.

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Fava_Beans

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I've been playing Brutal Doom for years, but today I learned something new.

There's a 'taunt'-command where Doomguy sticks out a finger and yells "Fuck yo'selves!". I use it because it works great as a aggro-ping mechanic, triggering monsters out of sight or reach.

The thing is, this taunt-command also uses the cursor: If you're 'looking' at some monsters while using the taunt, they get mad. Pinky gets mad and runs faster, but then I had the misfortune of taunting a cyberdemon. He got PISSED, he moved faster, fired more rockets (and with a greater spread) but most importantly the rockets go faster. Not even Doomguy at max running speed can outrun those...

Pissed-off Cyberdemon is a real threat.

EDIT: Just learned now that Pissed-off Cyberdemon is immune to stunlocks. THAT is a serious problem.

Update: Been messing around with this. Pinky's invisible brother Spectre is also affected by this, but the only other monster that gets enraged is the Mancubus.

But the thing with the Cyberdemon-rage is that it's in levels. Your bog-standard Cyberdemon gets enraged, he fires faster as mentioned above. But the Cyberdemon Lord found at the end of E2M8 of Doom starts at that level. He can then get enraged via insult to fire EVEN FASTER rockets. Be quick or be dead!

(Remember, Boss-level versions of the monsters have a rare chance of spawning in whatever map the regular variety appears in. Killing them ends the level and loads up the next one.)

I looked up some old wiki-page about Brutal Doom, and in an older version of the mod the Cyberdemon could be enraged a total of three times.

 

[NecroLord]

Brutal Doom is nuts.
Imagine playing slaughter maps with that shit...

Say bye-bye to your framerate.