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Good Doom/Heretic/Hexen WADs

Lagi

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ashes enriched is the best from this caco awards.

its not even a doom mod, it's a completely different game. With brand new enemies - NO frankenspriting, all are new. New weapons. New textures. there are even some narrative elements, dialogues, plots.

When i start playing it, i feel the melee would be big part of the game. But there is abundance of ammo. Still quick knive attack, or bashing with shotgun is nice add on.
 

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ashes enriched is the best from this caco awards.

its not even a doom mod, it's a completely different game. With brand new enemies - NO frankenspriting, all are new. New weapons. New textures. there are even some narrative elements, dialogues, plots.

When i start playing it, i feel the melee would be big part of the game. But there is abundance of ammo. Still quick knive attack, or bashing with shotgun is nice add on.

I was never overswimming in ammo on survival mode. At least not till the end game of Afterglow which threw a lot of 556 ammo around.
 

toughasnails

Guest
Yep, some of it looks more like something you would expect to see in Quake's Arcane Dimensions.
 

iqzulk

Augur
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Closest to Doom lies Muller level of Pathways into Darkness.

Three and a half community maps differentiating Doom from PiD are Eden-Redrum (CIA reminiscent somewhat), Castevil (City-Indian-Contemporary reminiscent somewhat) and Voidship (Ether-80s-Yap reminiscent somewhat).

These maps emphasize on Doom's differences from PiD, PiD being extremely concept-heavy game actually.
John Romero's aspect of Doom.
The first angle is Pacific Theater Polybunker Eradication Pulloff which seems to be in USA patriotism widespread moreover exportable.
The second angle is Prairian Sole Survival Clean City Derivation which also seems to be non-close-knit-topic on surface.
The third angle is Procuring Communication Credential Open which seems to be non-morbid aspect of 80s.

All three are un-PiD.
PiD requires treating hits as injuries lasting which leads to one establishing multiple-per-second updating minimap which leads to pulling world depicted through the character in order to have ability to shift correctly without turning.
This leads to the ability to play Marathon 68k version in Total Carnage Unwavering treating enemies as morphing net of moving walls, sliding past them in miniscule space, which, the unwaver, allows for hidden AI patterns to show themselves in the action, Gheritt White terminal kills them, and so does lowering difficulty even once. This leads to the special playthrough of G4 Sunbathing in which aggroed enemies scour the level while you explore from the tiny base in the center, clawing further and further into Fuck Knows.
Thirdly, 95 version of Marathon 2 is perceived as simply nice change of tone leading to the Level Largely Abandoned which simply is.
All this ties into Government-Approved slew of ADA coding techniques.
As such aforementioned is differentiation from Government-Flair-Of-ADA, which in Doom's language is Mc Gee.
Mc Gee mapped strictly in Government-Approved-ADA fraction of Romero's spectrum point being Poser And Putz. As such, USA-ADA-Doom is McGee-ism, SimonOC-Quake-Blue-McGee being More C++ Like.

Counter to Mc Gee these three and a half maps allow to center at unMcGee-Romero's aspect of Doom.

Would be probably apt to use them as mutually exclusive prologues not to deal with USA-ADA-aspect of Doom if one fancies a
There is also Ichbiah-ADA flair of ADA which is not here the point.
If one fancies some mappin Dewm Liek.

Those prologues connect to E1-4b-8b-E1, E5 and Doom 2 Eternal Kvernmo as stalker-bordering Romero parody being still Doom 2 centered, all those feature Single Player Pacing as campaigns not only level per level.
Moreover those connect to Quake as will be entertained below.

In other words, the playthrough is either Eden-Redrum-E14b8bE1-E5-Doom2Eternal, Castevil-... or Voidship-..., these are three different major campaigns to be treated presumably as progressing.
Keywords are respectively somehow Wall-Impenetrability, Self-reminiscence and Omnidirectional.
Through Romero's levels in Quake, these connect respectively to Manowar-Quake (techbase-Romero), Uriah-Heep-Quake (fantasy-Romero) and Final-Countdown-Quake (end-Romero), in more or less manner, one might THUS treat Quake Doom 3D like.
In other words, Romero's position was to Splice Quake Threefold.

For one that allows for deletion of Quake from Hecatomb being part Romero's Idea With Dragon.

For two, that allows for separation of Quake from Doom 1 and 2, Quake-immanent versions are rather Manowar-ish, Uriah-Heep-ish and Final-Countdown-ish rather than Eden-Redrum-reminiscent, Castevil-reminiscent and Voidship-reminiscent.
Those two interpretations mismatch, which separate Quake-Doom3D from Doom 1 and 2 understood as above.
In other words, Quake-Doom3D might be trite, music is not.

Nevermind.
 

HansDampf

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So, Eviternity...
A little over two years ago, this was the first megawad I've played after the original Doom and Doom II episodes. And I loved every minute of it. At first, I tried to beat every map without saves (UV pistol start, of course), but stopped somewhere in the snow episode and continued playing with saves because it got too difficult for me back then. I left it as a challenge for another time.
Now I played through it again, not only to finally beat this challenge and see if my Doom skillz have improved, but I was also curious how it holds up now that I have a bit more experience.

And to my surprise, I could beat the majority of the maps with just one attempt. It's kind of a surreal experience when I get to parts that I clearly remember having big problems with, like the library arena in map 05 or the final fight in map 12. Like I'm mentally prepared for the worst, and then there's barely a handful of monsters showing up, with lots of space to move around. Why was this so difficult again? I also used to think the big Cacodemon wave in map 15 was "a lot of monsters". Seems rather cute in hindsight.
A few maps stand out though, like map 22, the second hell map with the Archviles, which was the only map that required actually planning a route (and a consistent method for the yellow key fight). Map 25, the final hell map, also took me multiple attempts. I still think this arena is pure chaos, and sometimes you just run into a Captain or Annihilator at the wrong moment. But my highest death count was in map 17 for some odd reason. I don't think that map is particularly hard. I was just tilting and got reckless.
And then there are, of course, the two long maps 32 and 19. My opinion on those has completely switched. I used to like 32 for its open and non-linear design. But to play this map again felt like a chore, seeing all those millions of Imps scattered on cliffs, sniping fatties everywhere, and then the Lost Souls... What were they thinking?! It's just so annoying and grindy. 20 minutes in, I realized that I wouldn't even want to play this map with saves. So I skipped it. :shittydog:
Map 19, otoh, grew on me. Playing this without saves turns it into a completely different experience. At one point, somewhere in the last third of the map, I was stuck in an area with 11% health and no medikits around. One misstep could have cost me 40 minutes, and the only way to go was forward. That was intense. I would say this was the most difficult map, even though I only died twice in a relatively early fight with 3 or 4 Annihilators where I caught a random rocket each time.

How does Eviternity hold up? I still like it for the style, the visuals, and atmosphere. But the actual combat is a bit lame. Like, here is a big fight. How do we design it? I dunno, just throw in a bit of everything, I guess. Even the signature fight with the Cacodemon wave in map 15 is - Cacos aside - just a big hotchpotch of monsters randomly thrown into an open arena. The fights I've seen in the Sunlusts, Stardates, etc., and now also Fractured Worlds, are so much more interesting and diverse.
I still like the Langoliers, though. And I learned to respect the Nightmare Demons a bit more because they are faster than pinkies and consistently managed to block my path.
Curiously, almost all of my favorite maps from Eviternity were not made by Dragonfly, or at least not by him alone (22 is the only exception). :M

Maybe I should also revisit Ancient Aliens at some point.
 

Jezal_k23

Guest
So, Eviternity...

Once you start getting into actual elaborate and clever combat like Sunlust or something, then your standards do change and you just can't go back to fairly generic fights like Eviternity. It looks really good! And the maps are huge! But as you said the combat is never very well thought out.
 

Sjukob

Arcane
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So I played Bloodstain. This wad is all about heavy fighting and towards the end it reaches slaughter level monster density. I was having good time with it until I reached the final portion of the maps and it's where the difficulty goes full on bullshit. Traps full of revenants, archviles and chaingunners at every corner, lack of ammo unless you hunt for secrets, some parts are plain impossible to beat without BFG and the only way to acquire it is to find a secret. The shit this wad throws at you would make Hell Revealed blush, here's the section that annoyed me the most, it's in map27:
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You have to go through the arc corridor from the upper part to the lower part, below in the center of the room (where the blue dot is) stands the spider mastermind, who can shoot you almost point blank and therefore can waste you in seconds. The corridor itself is very narrow, you can just barely sidestep a projectile there, as soon as you step in the door behind you closes and several barons and revenants appear in the corridor, and by that time the only ammo I had left was ammo for the chaingun and berserk power up, thanks to ammo starvation and me not finding any secrets. There are some tiny pillars in that corridor to protect you from spider's mastermind fire, but you can't stand behind them, because the revenants and barons would kill you if you don't move, but you can't move, because the spider mastermind would make a minced meat out of you. I watched some videos on youtube to see how other people did this and everyone I saw acquired a secret BFG and just nuked the room, I don't think it's possible to beat it any other way.

And the final maps are all like this, similar bullshit being repeatedly thrown at you again and again, it gets very tiresome very quickly. I cheated on final maps, because fuck it, I'm not dealing with this retarded design.

Otherwise the wad has decent visuals and good selection of music (a good number of famous songs converted into MIDI format), I can sort of recommend it if you avoid playing the later maps entirely or play it on lower difficulties.

Screenshots:
 

Riskbreaker

Guest
So this was in development for a while but the dev opened a thread on DW only today:

I'm hoping for something akin to Unloved, that sweet combo of Doom, Hexen... and Silent Hill 4.
The dev is opting for the Solace Dreams school of using voxels for everything for which voxels can conceivably be used, so I expect that the framerate might turn out a horror story of its own.
 

Sjukob

Arcane
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Jul 3, 2015
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So Rowdy Rudy 2. I haven't played it's predecessors, but I've found this wad to be very enjoyable. The first couple of levels are very easy and I was afraid that the rest of the wad was going to be like that, but it's not the case, it just has a very smooth difficulty progression. Map 8 gives you a big and warm welcome with a big group of monsters right at the start, from here and on it will only keep getting harder as you progress, Rowdy Rudy 2 is not a difficult wad in general, but there are some fight that you might have to redo a couple of times, probably the most memorable fight for me happens right in the begging of map 18, where you have to run away from a big group of barons that chases you in tight corridors, so don't get discouraged by a trivial indtroduction, it does get better later on. I really like the new arsenal it introduces, especially the instant weapon switching, weapon balacing and slow weapon switching have always been some of biggest problem with Doom for me, so I'm glad that the authors gave it some attention, you can read about all of the changes in wad's topic on Doomworld. There are some new monsters too, they don't do anything extraordinary, but I think they fit gameplay pretty well. Rowdy Rudy's levels have simple layouts and visuals, it feels like you are playing a wad from later 90s or early 2000s, most of the secrets are pretty easy to spot and find and I'm thankful for that, from my experience most of the mappers for Doom want you to to just hump every wall you see to find the secrets, they don't usually give you good visual clues, Rowdy Rudy 2 does the exact opposite. The only map I don't like in this wad is map20, which is about slaughtery combat, only that it's pretty stingy with ammo for some reason, don't know who decided to do that, but the experience is pretty miserable.

I strongly recommend this wad, it's nothing mindblowing, but it's good fun to play.

Screenshots:
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Alphons

Cipher
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Nov 20, 2019
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So Rowdy Rudy 2. I haven't played it's predecessors, but I've found this wad to be very enjoyable.

RR 1 was a solo effort, while RR 2 is a community WAD. It's really noticeable in level design.
 

Sjukob

Arcane
Joined
Jul 3, 2015
Messages
2,052
Some guy on youtube makes guides about Doom. Here's the one about fighting revenants, it's very well done and showcases some of the advanced techniques.
 

Denim Destroyer

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The level itself is pretty fun while being plenty lethal during a blind playthrough. If this level is any indication then Sigil 2 will be hard but bombastic.
Romero decided to reimplement the shootable evil eyes which is no issue with me, if there is anything that works as a shootable button it is that. However there is one near the end I missed which combined with low health in addition to a clever Cyberdemon placement made for some fun anxious moments. As for the Cyberdemons, whenever you progress through the level more of spawn into the narrow water trenches. The walkways are just high enough for them to not hit you directly but the splash damage can still kill you. Honestly this is a interesting use of the Cyberdemon that I cannot recall seeing anywhere else.
 

agris

Arcane
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Apr 16, 2004
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Sjukob what's up with the graphics in your screens on the last few pages, are playing with brz-type texture filtering enabled or something?
 

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