[zykov eddy]

Hello guys. It's been years since I released a Duke 3D usermap, so, I decided to have some fun and make a level for april fools day!
It's essentially a sequel to Kill City and it's just as weird and wacky. Hope you'll have a good laugh playing the map!

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Special thanks to Vazovski for helping with a certain art!

[PsychoGoatee]

Do I really want to run a .bat on April Fool's Day? Will it change Duke3D into Extreme PaintBrawl or something? I kid, I had the courage to click it.

I knew what I was getting into, and kudos on your unique flavor of utilizing Duke 3D. I died on one of those weird thingies you step on that kills you. Times like this I wish Duke 3D had a "resurrect" cheat like zDoom. I will try it again though.

Well, I made it to the next part, and well... I guess I won't spoil it for other players. Is it Halloween or April Fool's Day?

[Loke]

Damn, that Octathingy scared the shit out of me. Fuck.

[Lunick]

I was not ready for a horror filled tripfest today

The Sonic 3 music should have given it away...

[Jolteon]

I was expecting this map would be funny like Kill City, and it was at first, like the Giant poop in the beginning and the Lizard trooper flying out of the door.



But as for the later part of the map, well...

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Let's just say I wasn't expecting it be like the Dream. This map is really scary. I don't think I ever played something this scary. It really got me. The part with the octabrain like thing was just... yikes. It really scared me, keeping me on my toes hoping it would be over soon. I know I'm gonna have nightmares tonight. And playing this map at night didn't help either.

So yeah the map was good. I had fun playing it.

[Mister Sinister]

You know, after I've finished the map and started reading the comments, I thought it is some kind of a joke.
Turns out, I screwed up everything. I'm so sorry, Eddy.

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Instead of an octo I was chased by a misplaced userart tile which turned into a giant tree. I had an .art file in my DN folder.

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[CruX]

honestly, my biggest complaint is that it ended at the exact moment it was starting to feel kind of original and (sic) legitimately unsettling.

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Like, I don't know if it was the people that had already commented or the really simple, nondescript environment at the beginning, but I was pretty much expecting there to be a creepy drop-off, but even once it happened it felt less like its own thing and more like it was just recycling the first A.dream map. Getting chased by the octabrain was okay at first, but it lost its novelty kinda quick, especially after I realized all I had to do to keep away from it was run in a big circle all the way around the room. The hellish area in the end was easily my favorite part of the entire thing. The aesthetic resembled that old map "south of heaven" but it was still unique and the juxtaposition against the office building gave it this legit feeling of a dimensional rift or something. If you're planning on making another dark or creepy map, you really ought to look into extrapolating what you did towards the end of this one, because you pretty much nailed it.

[zykov eddy]

PsychoGoatee, on 01 April 2016 - 12:35 PM, said:

Times like this I wish Duke 3D had a "resurrect" cheat like zDoom.

God cheat will resurrect the player (type god again to turn it off, but you get to keep your full health). Although, if you type the cheat after you die on the floor thingy, you will not be able to move because of the scripted sequence.

[Rhaisher]

Interesting concept. It really is scary, I thought that some comments were exaggerating, what a surprise when I realized they weren't, xD!

Magnificent use of sound and visuals. The atmospheres were unsettling.

[zykov eddy]

Thanks for the comments guys!
I think I've spend even less time with this map than with Kill City. OD was made in only eight hours, but I had to work really fast to make it before april 2.

[Jblade]

I definitely got a little spooked out by the map as well, really nice work Eddy!

[brullov]

I wish it was longer! I am in love with Eddy's style

[Forge]

I hate when loose default cons in the game directory conflict with custom stuff.
Got to the survive for a minute part and nothing happened.
Had to rename the cons and start over, by then the spooky part had been spoiled.

The sounds and how the tempo increased still did its job in making the moment more intense though.

[zykov eddy]

Guys, before playing any mod, please check your game folder if there's any loose .con or .art files. One person played Octo Desperado with different artwork, and the other played with different con files instead of modified ones from mod GRP. In both cases it screwed up the experience.

Of course it's sad when players miss the chance to have a fresh experience with the mod, but the thing that bugs me is when players only realise that the mod is screwed up when they finish it, or when they can't progress anymore. C'mon guys, there's tons of clues when the mod is not running correctly. Look at Mister Sinister's screenshots - isn't that obvious that the mod isn't supposed to look like this? Mister Sinister only realised that when I told him directly about it, he thought that the mod is supposed to look like unfunny, broken garbage.

Or try to run Octo Desperado without the modified game.con, you'll see tons of non-working sprites on the level, all of them look out of place. Mikko from MSDN played the mod that way and it seems like he realised that something's wrong only when he got stuck on "survive for one minute" part. He wrote a review where he mentions the problem and warns the players about loose .con files, which I really appreciate.

All I'm trying to say, please clean up your game folder from trash before playing any mod.

[Forge]

how about putting that information in your template

as far as "trash" cons; those cons install into the game directory directly from the 1.3 & atomic CDs by default.

as far as i'm concerned, they are not "trash", they came with the original game

yes, some people actually do own the original CDs and run the game from original installs.

[Mister Sinister]

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he thought that the mod is supposed to look like unfunny, broken garbage

IDK, mate, I find this to be kinda funny.
I admit to having a laugh at that tree chase but maybe I just have a shitty sense of humor.

[Forge]

Mister Sinister, on 06 April 2016 - 08:35 AM, said:

IDK, mate, I find this to be kinda funny.
I admit to having a laugh at that tree chase but maybe I just have a shitty sense of humor.

It was april fools, sooo..........
also, i would have found it pretty funny as well