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in 2023 I played two very good WADs which are episode-wise (rather close) remakes, with added detail and difficulty, “Phobos Revisited” and “Deimos: Slight Return” episode I and II respectively.
Both very good and a way to revisit Doom afresh. They are from the same author. Included screenshots are from Deimos: Slight Return.
The level geometry is followed closely but there is still originality, which is a great achievement.
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Another good WAD in this vein of remaking Doom episodes is Doom the Way We Remember It. They are Doom levels remade from memory. All invoke a very uncanny feeling.
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I am currently playing through a WAD called “Nostalgia”. I am halfway through it. So far it is a good challenge, good looking levels.
It is a 2022 Doom 2 WAD.
It is described in Doomwiki:
“combines vanilla-style aesthetics with modern map design philosophies. Most maps are smallish in size, with a focus on easy-to-medium difficulty and fewer than 100 monsters. While level geometry and texturing is intentionally kept simple, the WAD contains many instances of environmental storytelling as well as occasional DoomCute detailing”
However, this betrays what the modern WADs/audience is like. Modern maps are large, with lots of enemies, very difficult. To me, Nostalgia’s levels are long enough, sometimes clocking at 10+ minutes, and hard enough that I gave up on playing in UV and resorted to HMP.
[1] https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/p-r/phobos-v
[2] https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/d-f/deimos-v
[3] https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/megawads/d2twwri
[4] https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/megawads/nostalgiaAttachments:
Since @TigerQuoll has mentioned a non-Doom-but-Doomy film; here is another: Virus (1999). “it tells the story of a ship beset by a malevolent extraterrestrial entity that seeks to turn humanity into cyborg slaves.” It is highly underrated in my opinion, the effects look specially great.
It has:
* Very cyberdemon-looking cyborgs
* Many spiderdemon-looking robots
* Lots of light and dark contrast
* Computer rooms
* Heroes armed with shotgunsAlso, it is an adaptation of a comic book, although I haven’t read it.
I made my wing of E1M9:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qb2ncNmH0BSFgwsNde1w9jVO2zHB1SeD/view?usp=sharingI did use a “gimmick”, as suggested by @patrick_wd
Soon we merge in @patrick_wd ‘s wing, and the North Wing can be the sector with 3 keyed doors ? Any volunteers for this North Wing with the exit?
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Right, the pistol is traditionally entirely skipped
I managed to almost finish at UV but got stuck on the exit:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GjdgN5sTUMxwh62xA7V6GoCQpc9-fOc0/view?usp=sharingBoth this and the other demo use this “fixed” version
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ncf9ryauEGaqWQftlqagY4lIEOioVI5W/view?usp=sharingEdit: I found the issue with the exit door. It is at a different height inside vs outside.
Edit 2: actually changing this didn’t fix it either.
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I tested the @sorceress map
I think it is possibly slightly broken?
Did you test with Chocolate Doom?The very first door refused to open, until I modified the sector slightly in Doom Builder 2 (see pics).
At the very end, after opening the exit door but before pushing the exit switch, I got a hall of mirrors effect.
At the start, the map was a bit short on shotgun ammo.
Here is a demo, I accidentally played on HMP:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mFU2VZ5Jg5o_brhuw-lALZwxHNyjh_Gn/view?usp=sharing
Here is a starting point for a collective effort E1M9:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19-bLoaOtvpqV0jt72fduUHapni6Zv2dw/view?usp=sharing
(it is vaguely reminiscent of default E1M9)
I figure if everyone is willing,
we can use this central hub model,
I can have the East wing,
@Wesbat the west bat can have the West wing,
and @patrick_wd the South wing.
(or some similar arrangement as long as @Wesbat keeps West, if he is in).
If someone chickens out or joins in we can just re-distribute.This also potentially allows us to “merge” the map, if two people work on it at the same time.
We can use some wacky system of tags such as:
kdrnic 100-199
Wesbat 300-399
patrick_wd 400-499There is an open position for the NORTH WING, tags 200-299.
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I have added monsters and items, balancing is not perfect but is already quite fun
It is about 5min long in play time
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Another teaser zoomed out to not spoil much
I have made all sectors, now I <i>only</i> need to texture, place monsters, health and ammo…
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Here are my humble beginnings
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Managed to get a similar point cloud now:
bin = ReadFile("fokker.rb");
_idx = 256;
_offs = 0;
var signed = true;
var short = true;
var endian = false;
var old_buttons = 0;
function Loop(){
ClearToColor(screen, 0);
_idx += dpad[0].x * 0.1;
_offs += dpad[0].y;
var idx = Math.floor(_idx);
var offs = Math.floor(Math.abs(_offs));
var pressed = buttons[0] & (~old_buttons);
old_buttons = buttons[0];
if(pressed & BUTTON_A) signed = !signed;
if(pressed & BUTTON_B) short = !short;
if(pressed & BUTTON_X) endian = !endian;//for(var i = 0; i + idx < bin.length; i += 3 * (short ? 2 : 1) + offs){
for(var i = 0; i < 128; i++){
x = bin[idx + i * (3 * (short ? 2 : 1) + offs) + 0 * (short ? 2 : 1) + (endian ? 0 : 1)];
y = bin[idx + i * (3 * (short ? 2 : 1) + offs) + 1 * (short ? 2 : 1) + (endian ? 0 : 1)];
z = bin[idx + i * (3 * (short ? 2 : 1) + offs) + 2 * (short ? 2 : 1) + (endian ? 0 : 1)];
if(signed){
if(x > 127) x -= 256;
if(y > 127) y -= 256;
if(z > 127) z -= 256;
x += 127;
y += 127;
z += 127;
}dx = bin[idx + i * (3 * (short ? 2 : 1) + offs) + 0 * (short ? 2 : 1) + (endian ? 1 : 0)];
dy = bin[idx + i * (3 * (short ? 2 : 1) + offs) + 1 * (short ? 2 : 1) + (endian ? 1 : 0)];
dz = bin[idx + i * (3 * (short ? 2 : 1) + offs) + 2 * (short ? 2 : 1) + (endian ? 1 : 0)];x += dx / 256;
y += dy / 256;
z += dz / 256;var t = 256, s = 3;
x *= s;
y *= s;
z *= s;
x -= t;
y -= t;
z -= t;var c = 0xFFFFFF;
PutPixel(screen, x, y, c);
PutPixel(screen, x + 256, z, c);
PutPixel(screen, y, z + 256, c);
}
TextOut(screen, "IDX : " + idx, 256, 256, 0xFFFFFF);
TextOut(screen, "OFFS : " + offs, 256, 256 + 8, 0xFFFFFF);
TextOut(screen, "LEN : " + bin.length, 256, 256 + 16, 0xFFFFFF);
TextOut(screen, "SHORT " + short + " SIGN " + signed, 256, 256 + 16 + 8, 0xFFFFFF);
TextOut(screen, "ENDIAN " + endian, 256, 256 + 16 + 16, 0xFFFFFF);
}
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I enabled the mod which forces psi to require line of sight. I wished for a mod that just disabled the aforementioned “telepathy” when the last aliens remain or X turns have passed; but this should let the game continue enjoyable.
“female III” fell prey to this mission, in which I abused the laser rifles’ terrain destruction capability, laying lots of “suppressive fire”, very effective.
Here is the most recent battle.
I recorded with OBS, but then it was a pain to crop and try and edit the video, and also I wouldn’t be able to embed it anyway, so in the end I picked a couple frames and made it into a “slideshow” GIF.
The highlight of the clip is when I perish in battle.
The Personal Armour was of not much use in the end I think?
I began ARMORing (sic) my soldiers – and also keeping some veterans in the base, while sending rookies to serve as scouts in the missions.
I have also researched alien grenades – In the last mission, where Canageek and I scouted, one was very useful in clearing a path to the UFO, allowing the enemy to be promptly sniped.
For my next post, I think I will capture the screen with some tool, to make cool GIFs.
I think that the guys blocking each other is reasonable gamedesign, you can already make a 2-deep line by having the front man kneel and the other stand behind, like real armies – recalling the British army lines by Lord Wellington defeating Napoleon’s columns mentioned the other day by voxel.
The civilians are indeed peculiar – it would be funny if the civilians could behave differently depending on the area. Picture rednecks going on an alien-hunting rampage, alien bodies piling up on the back of a pickup truck… there could be the option to arm the population, with the downside of their inaccurate shots being more dangerous than the aliens…
Just like in the gif, but for different reasons, vede bit the dust…
But otherwise the mission was very successful.
This female soldier which I was unable to name due to our lack of female presence, and who I sent in to the heat of battle without a weapon, also perished.
In the midst of it Tijn had to apply a large dose of stimulants to revive rnlf. I am considering renaming Tijn kdrnic for this feat.
In a fresh new battle, it all seemed lost as toasty was an early loss to a quick-drawing alien bastard…
Tijn however, scouting tile by tile sacrificed himself to save the day.
One floater that proved resistant to bullets had to be dealt two rockets from bitrot – earning him a promotion.
They seemed to try and avenge the fallen comrade though, as two rocket blasts stunned both vede and sorceress in succession. dollarone quickly ran to their aid, medkit in hand, but it was unnecessary since the last alien was killed as he was nearing sorceress’ unconscious body.
A new UFO downed, team sent to crash site…
voxel II fell prey to sorceress’ friendly fire!
Also rnlf III died, to no one’s surprise
I tried emulating the 3DO port in RetroArch with the 4DO core, however unfortunately the sound is very poorly emulated, and sounded horrible. Attached is a comparison of MS-DOS and 3DO – there seems to be minor changes in art, like the shape of the car, the face of the character and some highlights on the chair. DOS screenshots are upscaled to 320×240 to give correct aspect ratio. 3DO screenshots have some artefacts from emulator scanlines.
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Finally got Heist Almighty.
Did all the missions I could find, failed some, got the multipliers except the one which needs the very tricky jump to the island, and had x7. Then did all the kill frenzies, and still had to do some car dock selling.Attachments:
89 dead.
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The fire burnt the whole city, but a park… yet only 89 dead.
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I was building this city very sustainably, even calculating maximum expenditure to be able to replace the power plant… suddenly, earthquake and fires everywhere.
It is as if the city is made out of matches…
I think I will refrain to playing with disasters disabled from now on.
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