Good Doom/Heretic/Hexen WADs

[Excidium II]

Yeah this game being so obscure makes me think it never got a full release.

 

[lightbane]

Butcher? Genocide? Both have free aim though.

 

[Excidium II]

Nope.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Played Ancient Aliens with Brutal Doom 20b on coop last night. Even better with Gorilla Glue and the Vision Quest.

 

[baturinsky]

Inquisitor 3 looks great, but boring fetch quests is not the way I want to play my Doom. Also, I could not find how to heal back 25hp that respawning rats ate.

 

[tormund]

You dropped it way to early then. You can both fully heal (for free) and buy healing supplies from that guy standing next to high priest.

 

[ghostdog]

I just finished Doomed Space Wars by Paul Corfiatis. As usual with Paul, it's another excellent megawad. Huge maps with a star wars theme (basically dark forces), many secrets, big enemy count, but no slaughterfests. Special mention to the nice original soundtrack, which is very star wars-like. I only found one of the 3 secret maps (it was a good map) and about half of the secrets.

Spoiler

 

[octavius]

The first part (maps 1-12) of Eternal Doom was great, but from there on it was decline, with more variable quality of level design, and increasingly annoying switch hunts.
So I called it a day when I got stuck on map 20.

I don't know what the concensus is amongst the Doom fanatics, but personally I think they should have left the mod complete at map 12. 32 maps is just too much, when most of them are huge maps with too few enemies and too many switches. But there were some great visuals in this MegaWAD. Not the best gameplay, but probably the best looking Doom WADs I've played so far.

Incidentally I though Sverre Kvernmo's maps in Eternal Doom were far superior to his Master Levels maps.

 

[Riskbreaker]

This year's Cacowards are up:
http://www.doomworld.com/23years/index.php
I'm not at all surprised that Inquisitor 3 wasn't mentioned, given its late release and its huge size and thus the time needed to properly judge it, but I'm disapointed by the complete lack of mentions for Legacy of Heroes.
Anyway, 'twas a fruitful yer for dooming.

 

[Astral Rag]

That D444m art triggered me something fierce.

 

[octavius]

Doom must have the most succesful modding community ever, still going strong after more than 20 years.

 

[tormund]

That it certainly does, both in terms of longevity and of size & activity.

 

[skacky]

I'm very happy Brutal Doom 64 won nothing.
I'm very sad HDoom won nothing.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

I'm very happy Brutal Doom 64 won nothing.
I'm very sad HDoom won nothing.

haven't Brutal Doom won in one of the previous years? Maybe they didn't give the prize due redundancy.

 

[Baron Dupek]

I dig out Wrath of Cronus 1.8a and found that it work with Doom. Good thing alternative fire modes are here otherwise dealing with projectile enemies would be nuts.
edit - if you play on Doom with WoCh then one feature will not work. There will be no shops and money drops (with random chance to drop purses (25-50gold) from monsters.

That D444m art triggered me something fierce.

what "art" you're talking about? Shit looks so generic using word "art" have no sense cause it's Generic Incarnation.

 

[Astral Rag]

JR received the first ever physical Cacoward:

 

[ghostdog]

 

[tormund]

Secret map from inquisitor 3 is legit surprising, it's like a tribute to Operation Rheingold

I'm not sure if he intended it for this or if it was meant for Blade of Agony. It does seem to be consciously imitating visuals of later Rojas TCs with added GZDoom geometry, compared to much more detailed and polished visuals of BoA or rest of Inquisitor 3. P surprising and unexpected in any case, maybe it was meant to be friendly nod towards WolfenDoom given that Inquisitor 3 and BoA E1 were developed at almost same time.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

 

[Gragt]

In other news, the Minor Sprite Fixing Project was updated to 1.8. This isn’t very recent but I somehow missed it. Nothing too big but it fixes a padding error that makes some sprites animation look much smoother.

There are also new compatibility patches that allow you to use these fixes with some of the most popular recent mods such as Ancient Aliens or Back to Saturn X.

https://www.doomworld.com/vb/wads-mods/62403-doom-2-minor-sprite-fixing-project-v1-8-release-updated-11-15-16/

 

[Gragt]

Crispy Doom has been updated to 3.5. There is one major feature, being the support for extended savegames which can now properly save some data that used to be wiped on reload (such as the extra monsters, like those raised by the Arch-Vile) and it also adds a check to see if the savegame you’re attempting to load is really compatible with your current IWAD/PWAD configuration. And there are also some improvements and bugfixes as usual.

 

[Gragt]

New Chocolate Doom version, now updated to 2.3.0. Quite a few new features, some of them already implemented in Crispy Doom, as well as various bugfixes for all versions of the Doom games (Doom, Heretic, Hexen, and Strife).

 

[Siveon]

It's as if Square made a Doom clone in the late 90s.

 

[Riskbreaker]

Promising. I am slightly concerned about that open, arena-like feel of the maps in that trailer of his, especially since he complained about his mapping abilities in his zdoom forum thread.

 

[Durandal]

Promising. I am slightly concerned about that open, arena-like feel of the maps in that trailer of his, especially since he complained about his mapping abilities in his zdoom forum thread.

On the other hand, I noticed a larger emphasis on dodging enemy projectiles with some enemies firing more interesting patterns than a simple fireball in your direction, in my experience tight spaces and lotsa bullets to dodge don't mesh well together, but level layout is not something to be disregarded entirely. This direction would place a larger focus on enemy placement/usage/behavior, which I can't really gauge in terms of quality and execution from this trailer alone.