Good Doom/Heretic/Hexen WADs

[Avonaeon]

Started playing Adventures of Square and holy shit that quad barreled shotgun is satisfying!

 

[DraQ]

Raven also developed Take No Prisoners in 97.

Which was pretty damn good:

• Juicy as fuck
• semi free-roaming world (you ran around post-apoc San Antonio shooting shit and looking for ways to proceed)
• Large variety of weapons/items/enemies, plus different damage types
• Vehicles
• Interactivity up to and including throwing chairs at people (or turds if that's what you wanted)
  
• Interesting handling of enemy AI - pretty much anything reasonably humanoid and capable of using weapons (including mutated rats) could pick up and use anything you could, or drive vehicles, while still behaving in distinct manner (so not being just reskins of the same bot with somewhat different stats)
  
• Usable camera unlike MS

Guncaster was also pretty fun, though you end up overpowered very quickly with the greatly increased enemy count. If you got the meteor punch thing and the Iron (Dragon) Man suit you were pretty much unstoppable. Great super-shotgun though. Or super-super-super-shotgun, I guess.

Guncaster is fucking awesome, although I specifically recommend Guncaster Vindicated instead of plain GC:

• It's actually fucking hard without losing that feeling that you are effectively a small, localized apocalypse inflicted on anything unlucky to stand in broadly defined proximity of your way*.
• Minigun has much better and more fitting "stratocaster" (alt-fire)
• Dynamically ramping up enemy difficulty with different enemy variants - helps when near the end you can effectively consider cyberdemon a trash mob
• Cultists replacing zombies are actually much more fun to murderize while remaining deadly to the very end
• You can Chuck Norris lesser enemies around or kick some of the moderately sized ones (like barons of hell) in the nuts with appropriate reaction.
• Some BD features
  
• Selectable Modified Hell On Earth Starter Pack campaign if you run it from D2

For anyone unfamiliar with GC, it's a protagonist/massively OP weapon/everything mod that runs with most custom wads in addition to all the main Doom Engine games, while providing modified intermissions (and even Strife's dialogue) to accommodate change of protagonist.
You can fire a variety of stuff including revolver that seems to shoot something on the order of anti materiel rifle rounds by the look of it (your sidearm), railgun that based on firepower alone should be called freight-train-gun instead, belt fed two barrelled shotgun, or EIGHT barrelled supershotgun (with recoil to match and option of magazine extension accepting 24 shells and allowing 3 shots without reload), spells, weapon mods, spells working as weapon mods (like possessing the aforementioned SSG with a vengeful spirit that is effectively Caleb and having it fight by your side while spouting creepy oneliners), powered armour, shop and if all else fails you can climb on ledges, fly and breath fire. Because you are a dragon. Because of course you are**.

*) same continent, give or take

**) I stole this one.

 

[Lagi]

do you know about other games with perspective like Take No Prisoners?
i remember playing some game (not TNP) with similar view 15-20 years ago. Top view, some 3d walls. (also not GTA1)
edit:
find Mageslayer ':-/ - not sure if that was that.
edit:
its not Loaded, nor Machine Hunter - but gameplay top view was very similar
there were 3 characters - all looks like "cyber" punks: warrior, hacker (weakest and useless unless I was too stupid to utilize his skills), ? - there was shooting with bazooka, hacking doors?

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

I know there was this Quake engine game with a top down view but I can't recall its name.

Edit; maybe not the Quake engine but I definitely recall it using a 3D engine to create a degree of depth.

Edit 2; Mageslayer! That was the game I was thinking about.

 

[Siveon]

Doom TCs are so good, just want to put that out there. With those source ports we effectively have one of the most versatile FPS maker engines out there, and the only real drawback is that the melee can be finnicky by default. That's it.

That said, do you guys you a specific mod launcher or do you just make a new folder + required wads/engine?

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/69346-doom-launcher-doom-frontend-database-v263-92018/

I use this frontend for single player (GzDoom) and Doomseeker + Zandronum for multiplayer. It's really easy to configure, and you can directly download wads from Idgames servers without browsing it, if you have the name of the file and is hosted there.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Doom Launcher is a good frontend, particularly useful for keeping track of which wads you played. I helped the developer Nick beta test the latest versions last year but I burnt myself out playing all those doom wads I launched through Doom Launcher. Haven't touched Doom since then.

 

[Astral Rag]

I use ZDL to launch zdoom + wad of choice for SP. I also use it to start Doomseeker (configured for use with Zandronum) for MP. You can trick Steam into launching ZDL instead of the default DosBoxed Doom, this allows me to use the Steam Overlay. This is no longer possible with the Steam version of Doom 2 afaik.

 

[Luzur]

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

The long in development mod for Doom 3 Phobos just released their first episode.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/phobos/downloads/phobos-episode-1-v10

 

[Siveon]

Oh my.

 

[Skdursh]

Are there any YouTubers that regularly do WAD reviews/playthroughs? I just downloaded gzDoom and have no idea where to start.

 

[Sjukob]

Are there any YouTubers that regularly do WAD reviews/playthroughs? I just downloaded gzDoom and have no idea where to start.

https://i.imgur.com/Hx8VpW6.png
https://www.doomworld.com/cacowards/
https://forum.zdoom.org/
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/4-wads-mods/

Do whatever the fuck you want.

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

Are there any YouTubers that regularly do WAD reviews/playthroughs? I just downloaded gzDoom and have no idea where to start.

More mods than wads.
https://www.youtube.com/user/ICARUSLIV3S

 

[Skdursh]

Are there any YouTubers that regularly do WAD reviews/playthroughs? I just downloaded gzDoom and have no idea where to start.

https://i.imgur.com/Hx8VpW6.png
https://www.doomworld.com/cacowards/
https://forum.zdoom.org/
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/4-wads-mods/

Do whatever the fuck you want.

What I want is to not download a bunch of a garbage WADs with random scrolling textures, screaming and weeaboo bullshit and instead have a resource that tells me what the decent ones are.

 

[Sjukob]

What I want is to not download a bunch of a garbage WADs with random scrolling textures, screaming and weeaboo bullshit and instead have a resource that tells me what the decent ones are.

Did you actually click the links I gave you ? Because the first one is a collection of some good wads and mods for doom made by anon who even provided their description. The second link I quote "Since 2004, the year following 10 years of Doom, Doomworld has marked Doom's birthday by hosting an annual award ceremony honoring the year's top releases" contains reviews of some of the best wads and mods in history released for doom, there are download links as well. The third one is an official forum for source port that you downloaded - GZDoom, there you can find a lot of modifications with descriptions and videos. And finaly the fifth is another forum, but more WAD oriented.

 

[Skdursh]

What I want is to not download a bunch of a garbage WADs with random scrolling textures, screaming and weeaboo bullshit and instead have a resource that tells me what the decent ones are.

Did you actually click the links I gave you ? Because the first one is a collection of some good wads and mods for doom made by anon who even provided their description. The second link I quote "Since 2004, the year following 10 years of Doom, Doomworld has marked Doom's birthday by hosting an annual award ceremony honoring the year's top releases" contains reviews of some of the best wads and mods in history released for doom, there are download links as well. The third one is an official forum for source port that you downloaded - GZDoom, there you can find a lot of modifications with descriptions and videos. And finaly the fifth is another forum, but more WAD oriented.

No, I didn't, because I'm retarded I guess. I'll check it out. Your "do whatever the fuck you want" threw me off and the links look like generic, non-specific wad sites.

 

[Lagi]

hell forged is very nice (among the few wad that i play). it was even recently updated

 

[Avonaeon]

I mainly looked at IcarusLiv3s and tried the ones that looked cool.

 

[Astral Rag]

Shamelessly copy-pasted from:
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/103410-so-john-romero-is-teasing-a-thing/


edit:

 

[Unkillable Cat]

John Romero is working on the Blood remaster?

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

Just out, Doomworld's Top 100 map list for the this years Doom 25th Aniversary.

https://www.doomworld.com/25years/top-100-memorable-maps/

 

[Sjukob]

Cacowards are here as well

https://www.doomworld.com/cacowards/2018/

 

[Astral Rag]

2019 Cacoward winner Eviternity is also available for download.

Eviternity is a megawad comprised of six 5-map episodes (called Chapters) plus two secret maps. This project exclusively uses OTEX, a brand new high quality texture pack by ukiro.

Eviternity's six chapters explore a series of unique and varied themes, each featuring classic gameplay with an interest in making each map hold its own unique identity and personality. The themes are "Medieval", "Techbase", "Icy Castles", "Industrial / Brutalism", "Hell / Gore / Alien" and "Heaven".

This project was created as a birthday gift to Doom, which is celebrating its 25th birthday on the day this was released. The texture pack used in this project, OTEX, was also released on the same day - so please do not use Eviternity as a base for your wads & mods. While mostly being a "Dragonfly project", with 24 maps being made or heavily worked on by myself, I present to you a mighty lineup of well-known guest mappers who have crafted beautiful and fun levels.


Download Links:

dfdoom.com: https://www.dfdoom.com/project/eviternity/

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jsnhlzj77aj962a/Eviternity-RC1.zip?dl=1

edit: Finished the first Chapter. Excellent wad so far. I posted some screenshots here. I hope we get more more wads that make use of this new texture set.

 

[aweigh]

Started playing Brutal Doom 64 2.0 EX (heh) on GZDoom engine:

Soundtrack is fucked up.