Good Doom/Heretic/Hexen WADs

[Astral Rag]

Hmm, I'm not sure why that happens, I've played many wads with the Violence Weapons and never ran into any problems. I just tried some other weapons mod and it didn't play nice with Saturn X's visuals either.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

Have you tried loading your weapon/sprite WADs before the episode WAD?

There's better results, but the muzzle flash in weapon still bugged in smooth doom.

Hmm, I'm not sure why that happens, I've played many wads with the Violence Weapons and never ran into any problems. I just tried some other weapons mod and it didn't play nice with Saturn X's visuals either.

I guess saturn X has it's own visuals which makes it incompatible. Its sprites have other color palette.

 

[Astral Rag]

Its sprites have other color palette.

Indeed

FWIW this shotgun replacement seems to work fine with X.

Spoiler

edit:

The aptly named Weapons of Saturn weapon set works fine with X too but this mod also alters the weapons properties and it introduces a reloading mechanic to the game. This won't work with Zandronum but I see you're using GZDoom and mouselook (it works great with ZDoom too)

Sadly the Random Deaths mod caused some visual weirdness so I had to leave that one out of the mix.

custom status bar

 

[Astral Rag]

Phobos Massacre turned out to be another quality EP1 re-interpretation. It's more difficult than the original Knee-Deep in the Dead but still a little on the easy side, especially in co-op but that's to be expected. Apparently PM got its own remastering in 2015 with Oblivion.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

I tried weapons of saturn, its just like brutal doom, with reloading and (badly implemented) ironsights.

Anyway, I'll try beautiful doom and smooth doom loading them before saturn, using the vanilla weapons.

 

[Astral Rag]

Doom returns: why John Romero made one last level - The co-creator of id software’s legendary first-person shooter has revisited his masterpiece 20 years later. We ask him why

 

[tormund]

It's somewhat ironic to see Guardian article mentioning how Doom has been demonised by moral campaigners back in 90s (even more since the one of "related articles" at the bottom of the page is one of their writers whining about too much blood and sexualized female character on one of the MGS V promo posters ).

That article itself is p good btw, believe it or not.

 

[octavius]

Quite a brutal level by Romero. Had to give up on the first attempt.

 

[skacky]

 

[Gragt]

Considering that it's a replacement for the original final level of the episode, the brutality is fitting, though I'm sure Romero took the skill of modern Doom players into account.

I don't mind the teleporting monsters much to be honest; they are announced by a teleport sound and they mostly keep you on your guard instead of killing you right away if you didn't know what to expect.

 

[octavius]

After dinner, and with renewed strength, I completed this bitching good level.
Definitely more chaotic and fast paced than the original Doom. Monsters teleporting in from several directions before the final fight against the Barons was fun.

 

[Riskbreaker]

Apparently PM got its own remastering in 2015 with Oblivion.

'Tis gud alright. Harder, and with enough changes to teh visuals and layouts, so I doubt that it'll tire ya even if ya decide to play it soon after finishing PM.

 

[tormund]

20th Anniversary edition of PSX Doom soundtrack is out https://aubreyhodges.bandcamp.com/a...-soundtrack-20th-anniversary-extended-edition

 

[Astral Rag]

$17 = €19,58

FLAC edition is 1.4GB

 

[tormund]

Good old europricing...

On a brighter note

Soon (TM)

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

The pinky demon from Doom 64 was digitised from a model made by Greg Punchatz.

 

[tormund]

That model definitely looks more menacing than his in game version.

There are some other cool things on his twitter, like this early concept for Revenant that looks more like a skeletal UAC marine:

 

[octavius]

The pinky demon from Doom 64 was digitised from a model made by Greg Punchatz.

Aaaaawwwwwhhh!!! How cuuute!

 

[Riskbreaker]

So, looks like Fen is doing a LP of Enjay's ol Thief-themed Heretic map.


Kinda impressive really, how much effort Enjay sometimes puts into maps like that one. Last year he released this huge GZdoom map that basically looked and played like a SiN map (together with usable PCs and stuff).

 

[tormund]

^That guy likes his voice way too much...

Map itself is awesome btw, it's shame that Enjay isn't that active anymore.

 

[lightbane]

Not sure what to think about this.

 

[Astral Rag]

Looks excessively retarded. I'm sure it will become the de facto way to play "Wolfenstein" for many modern gamers.

 

[tormund]

That look suspiciously similar to WildWeasel's NAZIS gameplay mod for Doom, only with way more gore and stupidity. I would't be surprised if he used it as a base without asking for permission or crediting original sources, since that would fit with the established tradition of Brootal mods...

 

[Astral Rag]

I'm currently listening to the remastered PSX OST while playing estrangd.wad and oh god it's heaven. Total playtime of the album is over five and a half hours, gotta love those extended tracks

Spoiler

 

[skacky]

Dunno if you guys have played the recently-released Italo-Doom by Ribbiks and Dannebubinga, but it has a few gems in it. See for yourself.