Good Doom/Heretic/Hexen WADs

[Jack Of Owls]

I re

Anyone tried this? Looks p impressive even if more than a bit on the kitchen sink side.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/divine-frequency/downloads/dfv0-7c

Aaaand another one goes commercial.

He's got awful lot of work on his hand, starting from the fact that the mod used crapload of graphics borrowed from other games and mods.

I recognized the axe-wielding zombies from Blood but put a bag over his head and remove the mournful wail and he's a whole new monster

 

[Baron Dupek]

 

[Baron Dupek]

SIREN got into v0.8

 

[Kabas]

Something for the fans of Powerslave's PC version.

https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=78218

Just completed this one, it's seven levels long.
Don't consider myself to be an autority when it come to doom wads/conversions but even i could tell that it felt somewhat amateurish during certain parts.

Still, it delievers the Indiana Jones/Tomb Rider/Mummy x Doom experience that it promised.

 

[NecroLord]

Something for the fans of Powerslave's PC version.

https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=78218

Just completed this one, it's seven levels long.
Don't consider myself to be an autority when it come to doom wads/conversions but even i could tell that it felt somewhat amateurish during certain parts.

Still, it delievers the Indiana Jones/Tomb Rider/Mummy x Doom experience that it promised.

Damn, that looks pretty cool!

 

[Kabas]

Impie does it again! A sequel of an obscure FPS no-one cares about anymore, for GZDoom!

Also tried this one recently. Never played the orginal Killing Time but watched the Ross Scott video.

Environments and enemy animations look fun but i am not fond of the gameplay in comparison. Enemies are too spongy and you're often fighting a huge number of them. It's was also not a fun experience to fight a dozen of spongy tommygunners who are shooting you from a far away disctance.

Combat feels like a slog but it might be because i picked the highest difficulty.
Also, every shotgun that requires two shots to take down the most common mook enemy is a shit shotgun. Imho.
Currently stuck at the "where the fuck am i supposed to go?" stage. Explored what i could of the town, hospital, household(even found the way to secret basement) and everything near the temple entrance. Definitely missed something but no idea what.
Edit: Nevermind. I missed the sewers right at the beginning. Not stuck anymore for now.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

Something for the fans of Powerslave's PC version.

https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=78218

Just completed this one, it's seven levels long.
Don't consider myself to be an autority when it come to doom wads/conversions but even i could tell that it felt somewhat amateurish during certain parts.

Still, it delievers the Indiana Jones/Tomb Rider/Mummy x Doom experience that it promised.

Damn, that looks pretty cool!

Yep, it is really cool that someone made this and the sprites of the enemies look awesome.
As someone who loves the whole 'pulp adventurer stories set in the 30s, 40s, 50s" thanks to movies like the first three Indiana Jones ones, the Rocketeer, and RTCW and Wolf 2009 this feels like something made for me. I hope the developer will make more levels.

 

[Ahnx]

Back to Saturn X Episode 3 (preview)

 

[Average Manatee]

Found BtSX ep 1/2 to be kind of mid. Great looking and nice exploration-style design but a bit too easy for me on standard UV, felt barely harder than vanilla Doom 2. Still interested in it whenever it gets finished though.

 

[Gostak]

https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=78181
Performance does not suffer noticeably with this.

Playing some stuff with Aliens Eradication and this is pretty rad.

If you need a flashlight, as is said in the thread, this one works with it:
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=75585

 

[NecroLord]

Found BtSX ep 1/2 to be kind of mid. Great looking and nice exploration-style design but a bit too easy for me on standard UV, felt barely harder than vanilla Doom 2. Still interested in it whenever it gets finished though.

Arguably one of the most visually stunning wads, up there with Ancient Aliens and Eviternity (for me at least).

 

[Average Manatee]

Found BtSX ep 1/2 to be kind of mid. Great looking and nice exploration-style design but a bit too easy for me on standard UV, felt barely harder than vanilla Doom 2. Still interested in it whenever it gets finished though.

Arguably one of the most visually stunning wads, up there with Ancient Aliens and Eviternity (for me at least).

Hard for me to say honestly, I feel like a LOT of wads have "that one level" which you remember vividly when you think of it, even though a lot of other maps are fairly unremarkable visually and have pretty utilitarian textures. For BtSX the standout is obviously "Beneath a Festering Moon". But I recall a decent number of levels in both episodes that were kind of bare bones.

I think my favorite looking wad is Sunlust, but a lot of that probably has to do with the fact that I also find it one of the most consistently fun wads to play on almost every level and so I remember all the maps well enough that I could draw them by hand. Eviternity and Ancient Aliens are definitely up there though, I've only played each once but I don't recall a single boring looking map in them, or maps that felt too repetitive with how the looked.

 

[Sjukob]

Cacowars 2023 have arrived:

 

[Sjukob]

Also, Eviternity II

 

[ferratilis]

 

[Gostak]

Cacowars 2023 have arrived:

Doom Infinite scoring one is more than deserved and was to be expected.

I just looked yesterday and still was shocked: Maybe this will finally change soon, then?
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...e-named-once-in-dat-zdoom-forum-thread.148030

 

[HansDampf]

Also, Eviternity II

Eviternity II is a sequel not only in name, but difficulty and scale too!

Sounds promising.

 

[axx]

30th anniversary stream with Carmack/Romero

 

[lightbane]

Cacowars 2023 have arrived:

Another year, another godawful page with shit formatting, and verbose descriptions that do not tell you much, if anything, with the odd gems here and there. Devs that were unpersoned for having the wrong political opinion are still nowhere to be seen nor even mentioned, as expected.

 

[HansDampf]

No mention of Zeppelin Armada.

 

[Sjukob]

Another year, another godawful page with shit formatting, and verbose descriptions that do not tell you much, if anything, with the odd gems here and there. Devs that were unpersoned for having the wrong political opinion are still nowhere to be seen nor even mentioned, as expected.

What are the other worthwhile wads that were released in 2023, aside from the mentioned Zeppelin Armada? I haven't played in a while, so I'm kind of clueless about this year releases.

 

[arepo]

No mention of Zeppelin Armada.

The Cacoward creator has openly admitted that they are excluding DBPs from the award because of the lax moderation policy on the doomer boards. In other words, the quality of gameplay is at best a second-tier factor in the assesment. And even without woke nonsense, the Cacowards have always felt a bit strange to me. Some of the winners are truly great, of course, but overall the selection looks like the jurors are playing favorites with their forum buddies.

 

[lightbane]

No mention of Zeppelin Armada.

The Cacoward creator has openly admitted that they are excluding DBPs from the award because of the lax moderation policy on the doomer boards. In other words, the quality of gameplay is at best a second-tier factor in the assesment. And even without woke nonsense, the Cacowards have always felt a bit strange to me. Some of the winners are truly great, of course, but overall the selection looks like the jurors are playing favorites with their forum buddies.

That's because they are doing just that. They kicked out Impie because one statement he made in one of his mods vaguely implied that blacks were potential criminals. It was an excuse to kick him out and unperson him.
What annoys me the most is that these cacoaward pages are made SO lazily and haven't changed in years.

 

[Matador]

What annoys me the most is that these cacoaward pages are made SO lazily and haven't changed in years.

They are troons and fags. What did you expect.

 

[HansDampf]

No mention of Zeppelin Armada.

The Cacoward creator has openly admitted that they are excluding DBPs from the award because of the lax moderation policy on the doomer boards. In other words, the quality of gameplay is at best a second-tier factor in the assesment. And even without woke nonsense, the Cacowards have always felt a bit strange to me. Some of the winners are truly great, of course, but overall the selection looks like the jurors are playing favorites with their forum buddies.

Well, at least he's honest about it. Just sucks for the average Doom enjoyer (me) who just wants to find more good wads to play and doesn't care about forum drama. Well done.