I tried it . Seems like it had some potential , but things went wrong . The maps look detailed and some of the music is nice ( Daggerfall soundtrack on the first map ) , but these are the only things I liked . The monsters placement is really bad , enemies feel spongy and RPG system doesn't work well. The numbers are all over the place , sometimes you can eat a rocket with little consequences , sometimes imp's fireball will drain almost all of your health , this applies to player's attacks as well . There are HP bloat bosses capable of oneshoting you , some fish men that shoot a cone of insanely fast projectiles with high damage ... Of course it's not that bad when you play it , but it's still not fun . Devs also tried to make some kind of story line , but there are just needless , boring dialogues , they exist only to waste your time . In the end , the worst of all things is binding the game to numbers ( RPG system ) it's just doesn't feel right , it doesn't suit doom and it kills the feeling of action .
Beautiful Doom is a good choice, since it freshens bunch of stuff like animations, sounds, gore without altering the gameplay. Only element that alters the gameplay are the secondary fire modes for some weapons, but you can eliminate even that by not using alt fire. Another neat thing is that it is separated in several wads, so if you for example dont like changes to enemies or decorations you can simply not load Beautiful Doom's monsters or objects wads...
Good news everyone,
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4pwb7f4p841u26i/AAAGw7DUlbbCp2vzu-1tn3pka?dl=0
Beautiful Doom has reached 6.0.9.9 version. Mod is now packed in single .pk3 file. You can browse the archive with 7zip or winrar and delete hd sprites that aren't really consistent with the rest of the game. In addition, there is a new mode with enhanced guns. You can now have dual pistols, melee atack with shotgun, super shotgun can shoot from one barrel, machine gun can work reaally fast but takes a lot of ammo. Plus the rocket launcher with the homing missiles feature, plasma rifle attack similar to railgun in Quake 2/3. BFG can attack with lesser strenght a bigger area with multi shots.
The alternative HUD gives more information without the doom guy face and you can change the number of information that is visible on screen.
There was a bug in earlier revision, when you grabbed a yellow keycard and you had in inventory a blue one. It opened blue doors, but it was confusing at bigger maps.
Most important thing that this feature it's optional and you can stay with older weapons behaviour, and the balance hasn't been tossed out of the windows and you can play easily in single player without any "kill walls".
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