[Ninety-Six]

https://www.doomworl...urvival-horror/

This was absolutely fantastic. A rare win for the doom community. Extremely well done for limit-removing, balanced enemies and supplies, encounters were all fair.. All-around excellent.


A minor critique I have would be that the music kinda takes away from the atmosphere and horror. Should have either been something more suitably creepy, or elsewise have had no music at all.

Sound mixing was absolute garbage, though. Those who choose to play this, prepare for some sounds to be quiet, and others to blow your ears off.

[Mark]

Phredreeke, on 04 September 2024 - 02:44 AM, said:

I just saw this on Doomworld

I followed some links but didn't see exactly what was in the mod that triggered the removal. What was it?

[Ninety-Six]

Mark, on 01 November 2024 - 04:55 AM, said:

I followed some links but didn't see exactly what was in the mod that triggered the removal. What was it?

margaret thatcher

[jkas789]

Played this mod that was released in October called Escape Pod. Great map. It is a bit of a ball buster but I think it's worth playing it.

[Mike Norvak]

Hey, just want to plug some shameless self promotion here about my new album with remixes from Doom and other 90s Videogames.

Thread on Duke4.net

[Phredreeke]

This seems to have passed under the radar. https://github.com/JNechaevsky/CRY

It's from the developer of International Doom, and is Jaguar Doom converted to run on that port, with Jaguar pecularities ported to it, including emulation of the CRY colorspace hence the name. Now why would you want to play Jaguar Doom on CRY instead of Calico? Well, for one CRY lets you play in resolutions above the original 160x200. It also supports uncapped framerates and widescreen, and has some optional features I recognise from Doom Retro (green and blue Baron and Cacodemon blood, mirrored corpses) and PSX Doom (colored lighting)

[Ninety-Six]

I feel like the Cacowards are getting less and less comprehensible. Well, winner entries specifically. HMs/Runners Up and most of the other categories are fine (for now).

Has anyone else noticed this? Cacoward write-ups have been sounding less and less like proper descriptions of the winners, and instead they just kind of wax poetic for five paragraphs that doesn't really explain much. It's one thing to give it a cute little "emotional journey" bit, but when that's 90% of the entire description it starts to become a problem.

[NightFright]

This year it seems as if they wanted to stuff in as many entries as possible. At this point it's hard to distinguish the actual winners from the runner-ups. Both sections are equally extensive and messy.

Maybe it's an attempt to react to the long-standing criticism the Cacowards have little to do with what the community had been voting for throughout the year. The jury basically picks their own winners and sees the votings merely as a recommendation for what should be considered.

You're supposed to make up your own mind about what's worth playing and what isn't. Which is what you probably should've been doing since quite a few years already anyway, since these Cacowards don't really have much meaning or importance. At least not the way they are awarded by now.

[Ninety-Six]

NightFright, on 15 December 2024 - 03:30 PM, said:

You're supposed to make up your own mind about what's worth playing and what isn't.

See, that's the problem. The write-ups have gotten so esoteric that it's impossible to do that. When they prattle endlessly about emotions, there's no actual description of what to expect or find in the wad. We get monsterless screenshots, personal ramblings that won't always apply, and that's really all we get. We really can't make an informed decision.

Self-research is also not always reliable. idgames descriptions are often extremely brief and they also rarely tell us what to actually expect.

[Danukem]

Ninety-Six, on 15 December 2024 - 05:11 PM, said:

See, that's the problem. The write-ups have gotten so esoteric that it's impossible to do that. When they prattle endlessly about emotions, there's no actual description of what to expect or find in the wad. We get monsterless screenshots, personal ramblings that won't always apply, and that's really all we get. We really can't make an informed decision.

Are you talking about writeups made by the mod authors themselves?

[Ninety-Six]

Danukem, on 15 December 2024 - 09:22 PM, said:

Are you talking about writeups made by the mod authors themselves?

No the cacoward descriptions.

[jkas789]

Brullov made it to the top twelve of the Caco Awards!

https://www.doomworl...rds/2024/best4/

Got a silver trophy and everything. ＼(≧▽≦)／

[Ninety-Six]

jkas789, on 17 December 2024 - 08:00 PM, said:

Brullov made it to the top twelve of the Caco Awards!

https://www.doomworl...rds/2024/best4/

Got a silver trophy and everything. ＼(≧▽≦)／

I thought OP13 was familiar but couldn't place why. Now I feel dumb for not having looked just slightly to the right at the author name.

[Fantinaikos]

New Christmas wads. A noticeably much shorter list if compared to the one of the last year.


Naughty & Nice (already based on the Doom Christmas: Enhanced pack)

Snow Wave (already based on the Doom Christmas: Enhanced pack)

PUSS XXXVIII: Deck the Underhalls (already based on the Doom Christmas: Enhanced pack)

Snowfall (Actually mostly vanilla winter, play with Doom Christmas: Enhanced pack for a real Xmas touch)

Snow Way Home (winter themed but not Christmas related and mostly vanilla, Doom Christmas: Enhanced pack can Xmas)

The Marine Who Saved Christmas (already based on the Doom Christmas: Enhanced pack)

A War On Christmas 3: World War C (Upgradabable with the Doom Christmas: Enhanced pack)

Accelerated Arenas 3: A Christmas Community Project (Deathmatch maps, already based on the Doom Christmas: Enhanced pack)


SINGLE MAPS

GNOMES 4 XMAS (Already based on the Doom Christmas: Enhanced pack)

Frigid Factory (Upgradable with the Doom Christmas: Enhanced pack)

A Very punch you in the face man Christmas

A Very punch you in the face man Christmas 2

A Very punch you in the face man Christmas 3


OTHER TC'S

Ultimate Jazz Jackrabbit Doom - EPISODE 5: Holiday Hare

[Fantinaikos]

I was a bit hasty, they have published more Holiday wads in the meantime.

300 Line Christmas: Naughty or Nice(3 different possible endings)

Doommas from the Den


SINGLE MAPS

Jingle Hell

White Christmas

A DOOMED CHRISTMAS

We Three Gifts!
(Narratively a sequel to MAP 12 of Snow Wave "I Saw Demons Kidnap Santa Claus" and a prequel to " A One Rabbit Open Slay" )

A Jolly Wad - Holiday 2024

[jkas789]

Oh that's neat. Thanks Fantinaikos, I will definitely be checking them out.

[Ninety-Six]

So I noticed (quite late) that Woof now has partial support for ID24. Enough support that I think it's finally time to give LoR a try.

That said...how do I actually do that? Download D1+2, sure, done. But what's the actual launch parameters?

[Lunick]

You're looking for id1.wad. id1-res.wad and id1-weap.wad are not required I think

[Ninety-Six]

Lunick, on 16 January 2025 - 12:44 AM, said:

You're looking for id1.wad. id1-res.wad and id1-weap.wad are not required I think

Thanks. Wonder why they went with that as the filename...

[jkas789]

I finished last week Akeldama. It was a fun wad. I think it dragged at the end though were the maps felt a bit too much slaughter-y for my taste. I also finished 50 Shades of Graytall which felt a lot like a artsy experimental wad? Cool level design but the section of rooms made with fireblue walls made my eyes bleed. I would not replay it again tbh.

[quakis]

jkas789, on 29 March 2025 - 11:25 AM, said:

I also finished 50 Shades of Graytall which felt a lot like a artsy experimental wad? Cool level design but the section of rooms made with fireblue walls made my eyes bleed. I would not replay it again tbh.

Neat, I worked on MAP05 for that one, fun project to work on at the time!

[jkas789]

quakis, on 29 March 2025 - 12:26 PM, said:

Neat, I worked on MAP05 for that one, fun project to work on at the time!

Oh that's interesting. How much of a challenge was it to be constrained to ugly textures only? Also how much was it doing the best you can with what you have and wanting to fuck with the player in terms of texture choice. I swear some of the levels must have played with how same color corridors can blend in a persons mind at times. The bluefire room was seared into my brain.

[quakis]

I didn't mind the challenge too much, involved a lot of splitting up walls and being consistent with alignment to crop out that red streak for the grey concrete, using doortrak mainly as a trim and fireblu for special purposes. High contrast lighting also helped to get a ton of milage visually. My level was pretty straight forward though so texture use was a little mundane compared to other entries which definitely went crazy with fireblu, odd skies and hall of mirror effects. I wouldn't be surprised anyone got a headache playing those. Good thing our project lead kept the map submission count low, I doubt many would have stuck playing this gimmick for 32 maps.


I was also involved with another community project, MAP21 for Alphabet Doom released in March last year. There hasn't been a ton of feedback for the full release sadly. Download: https://www.doomworl...ds/alphabetdoom

[jkas789]

Oh neat I was thinking about what I would play next. I will definitely be trying this wad. My other option was 1x1 and as much as I like some of the set pieces in 1x1 last time I played I did not have that much fun with it tbh.

[NightFright]

Looks like a new update dropped for the Nightdive port yesterday. Biggest change is integration of Sigil II, along with a few smaller fixes.

[Ninety-Six]

NightFright, on 11 April 2025 - 03:42 AM, said:

Biggest change is integration of Sigil II

I was very confused as to why it wasn't to begin with. Frankly now I'm just more confused why they waited.

[NNC]

Ninety-Six, on 13 April 2025 - 10:08 PM, said:

I was very confused as to why it wasn't to begin with. Frankly now I'm just more confused why they waited.

Marketing trick. They show us they care for the game and add patches when community needs. Withhold stuff like this then later add them in a patch.

Like DNF's DLC.

[Phredreeke]

Doomerboard Project 72 Wretched Morrow

[Ninety-Six]

NNC, on 14 April 2025 - 09:22 AM, said:

Marketing trick. They show us they care for the game and add patches when community needs. Withhold stuff like this then later add them in a patch.

Like DNF's DLC.

Thing is, Sigil 2 was available as a downloadable add-on already. What I'm confused about is why it wasn't built-in like other official classic doom campaigns. When I+II came out, Sigil was deemed episode 5 officially, Sigil 2 wasn't. Now it is.