Good Doom/Heretic/Hexen WADs

[KeighnMcDeath]

His car has machine guns it seems.

 

[Modron]

His car has machine guns it seems.

Reminds me of Necrodome, boy did I really want to play that multiplayer back then.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

how would that work? doom without guns?

Probably a bit like Witchaven? It doesn't look like its entirely without guns or ranged weapons and areas with enemies seem to have a lot of cover, so I'm guessing those will be factors.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Now you have a chance to shoot more enemies with weapon pack from Deus Ex

both weapons upgrades and character skills included
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=76782&sid=57f16a22bea85f094a83c09e5b513ef2

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Every FPS will be modded into DOOM!

 

[Baron Dupek]

Two goods don't make even better results

oh wait, it's GOOD Doom WADs thread
well, not anymore...

 

[Curratum]

Why didn't I ever find that FAL in Ashes?

 

[Wunderbar]

Curratum FAL only appears in Dead Man Walking bonus campaign. In Ashes 2063 you don't get to use a rifle at all, and in Ashes Afterglow FAL is replaced by some AR-type carbine.

 

[Tacgnol]

Curratum FAL only appears in Dead Man Walking bonus campaign. In Ashes 2063 you don't get to use a rifle at all, and in Ashes Afterglow FAL is replaced by some AR-type carbine.

Also to add some context, the FAL was originally a popular user mod for the original game. Vos added it as a bonus to Dead Man Walking with the permission of the author of the mod.

 

[Curratum]

I played Dead Man Walking all the way through, must have forgotten about the gun, weird! Thanks, guys!

 

[Tacgnol]

I played Dead Man Walking all the way through, must have forgotten about the gun, weird! Thanks, guys!

It's quite easy to miss iirc. So it's entirely possible you didn't pick it up.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Two goods don't make even better results

oh wait, it's GOOD Doom WADs thread
well, not anymore...

Did she enjoy it?

s s st stop it... NNNNNNNGGGFHHHH!!!! <pant pant pant>

 

[Sjukob]

Cacowards 2022 are already here

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Cacowards 2022 are already here

I haven't really been on the Doomworld forums in at least 5 years since I saw the "Post Your Personal Pic!" thread and got scared off. No, actually I just don't play Doom and Doom II wads anymore though I should since they gave me great joy back in the day. It's always fun to check out the annual Cacowards. The summaries are always well-written and get me intrigued, just not intrigued enough

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

They are too addictive! Almost as much as HOMM 3.

 

[lightbane]

The awards page is as shit as usual, with seemingly no option to switch to the next page instead of having to scroll up and clicking each like a caveman. The descriptions are too wordy as usual, and IMO still require more pics, videos or whatever to better show why "x" Doom mod deserves an award.
Still no mention of Impie's works as he was condemned for being anti-woke and thus will be forever forgotten, even if he had made stuff recently.
Action Doom 2 is mentioned I think. Funny thing here: It's been blatantly censored. The first boss of that mod was a bunch of gay thugs parodying the YMCA thing, they're gone now and replaced with boring generics. You also had to beat down a very homo guy for info right afterwards, but surprisingly this bit was kept IIRC. Other stuff where gays were harmed though is absent from the longplay I watched if I'm not mistaken. Meanwhile, the female ninjas that you kill by the dozens are kept without issues.

 

[Sceptic]

Action Doom 2 is mentioned I think.

Of course it's mentioned, Browning is on the writing team again. Probably just to make sure his stuff gets in. He's always been pretty shameless about self-promotion, his posts get incredibly obnoxious when you notice half of them are "but we also did it in Action Doom you should play it". That's really the biggest problem with the Cacowards, too many of them are the same circle of friends patting each other on the back and giving each other awards. At least now that there are so many honorable mentions there's enough actual good stuff in there to not matter as much. But I agree about the needlessly verbose writing, it also mind-boggling that we're almost in 2023 and there's no way to search for a particular mention, and since nothing is indexed there's simply no way to find anything mentioned in the side bars short of doing Ctrl+F on every single page.

I still find them useful to check anything noteworthy that I may have missed, but the problem is that if something really good doesn't get one it almost automatically fades into obscurity, and a lot of very mediocre wads stay famous for decades because they got one (again, Browning and giving one to the original KDIZD).

 

[lightbane]

I think that when they deleted the joke wad award, it was a sign of how things were going to end.
The worst part IMO is not the verbosity, but the lack of videos, images or whatever to show more why "x" mod is deserving an award.

By the way, random query time! I remember playing decades a wad which was called Doom 2000 or something, was set in a space station, and I found it quite cool at the time. I think it had only regular monsters, but there were some cool effects such as spaces that made constant damage and pushed you around to simulate a hull breach and being sucked y vacuum, forcing you to activate certain switches to "seal" the offending windows.

Any ideas? I just remember it was set in space and the "vacuum" bit.

 

[Curratum]

I remember RTC 3057 had bits like this... Maybe...

 

[Alphons]

It could be Tei Tenga.
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/s-u/teitenga

Released in 2000, vanilla monsters, near the beginning computer tries to kill you on a spaceship by venting the room you are in.

 

[Sceptic]

I think that when they deleted the joke wad award, it was a sign of how things were going to end.
The worst part IMO is not the verbosity, but the lack of videos, images or whatever to show more why "x" mod is deserving an award.

By the way, random query time! I remember playing decades a wad which was called Doom 2000 or something, was set in a space station, and I found it quite cool at the time. I think it had only regular monsters, but there were some cool effects such as spaces that made constant damage and pushed you around to simulate a hull breach and being sucked y vacuum, forcing you to activate certain switches to "seal" the offending windows.

Any ideas? I just remember it was set in space and the "vacuum" bit.

To be honest I'm glad they got rid of the joke wad one, I think there were one or two wads that were actually funny, the others were just about the bottom of the barrel of wadmaking disguised as "lol but it's funneh!!1" and I really don't think this is the kind of wads that should've ever been encouraged.

Agreed about the verbosity and explaining why a mod deserves an award, but I do think both go hand in hand.

Doom 2000 was the name of the demo release of what eventually became Daedalus: Alien Defense. It's either that, or Tei Tenga as mentioned. Of the two I think Daedalus is much better but YMMV.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

 

[HansDampf]

So, Doom Eternal is getting a level editor after all.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Hexen: Scourge of Viscerus

Very good episode for Hexen. When it comes to difficulty, it's not very demanding. Just like in the original, we need to backtrack to solve some puzzles. But everything is done so well, that even once I didn't had a dead end moment. The whole thing took me less than 2 hours to finish, but it was really satisfying to play.

Spoiler

 

[NecroLord]

Think I might replay Eviternity and Hell Ground.
Awesome Doom wads.