As the title says. I feel like playing some Doom but I don't feel like playing the original maps.
Looking for a single-player map pack that is well made & good fun. Something industrial or futuristic rather than the standard hell, demons, etc. I prefer emphasis on exploration / puzzle solving with good visuals rather than just mowing down hundreds of enemies, but this is Doom. Not too long.
Suggestions?
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I've not played new Doom/Doom 2 wads for ages, but I do remember that Doomed 2 Die (http://www.linux.sh/doom.shtml) was very good, it's a Doom 2 wad, with 30 imaginative levels.
You also might want to try Brutal Doom (http://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom), which changes the gameplay and experience of the game. I don't know if it will work with Doomed 2 Die, though.
Some nice Wads, though not freeware. Same gameplay as Doom/Doom2: Final Doom: TNT: Evilution and The Plutonia Experiment (Available on GOG) NRFTL = No rest for the Living (XBox Arcade release, requires a somewhat advanced Doom port+Faster PC)
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Thanks for the replies all! Enjoying BTSX E1 right now. Exactly the sort of mod I was looking for. The architecture in this is amazing, it looks *nothing* like original Doom. Episode 2 is next, then I'll maybe check out Aliens if I'm still feeling it. 😀 Not too interested in Brutal Doom, not really my style.
So I'm running vanilla Doom 2 and it works well, but the lack of look up/down feels cramped. I tried GZDoom but I had it set up to play Strife originally and it ended up glitching the two games together for some reason. Plus I was having fun on my DOS machine.
With all the source ports out there, is there a good one that:
- implements mouselook
- allows real looking up & down (i.e. vertical perspective-correct, not just panning the window)
- still runs on DOS?
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Recently older versions of Vavoom have DOS builds, are true 3D and have mouselook (because it's really Doom jammed into a Quake engine).
though i can't guarantee vavoom working with btsx e1/e2. btsx does a lot of cool vanilla tricks which may or may not make vavoom upset. Use at your own risk.
maybe check out Aliens if I'm still feeling it. 😀 Not too interested in Brutal Doom, not really my style.
Keep it tight people...
xjas wrote:With all the source ports out there, is there a good one that:
- implements mouselook
- allows real looking up & down (i.e. vert […] Show full quote
With all the source ports out there, is there a good one that:
- implements mouselook
- allows real looking up & down (i.e. vertical perspective-correct, not just panning the window)
- still runs on DOS?
Has any source port done that? It seems one might as well move all the Doom assets to Quake to get true perspective correct 3d.
Has any source port done that? It seems one might as well move all the Doom assets to Quake to get true perspective correct 3d.
Uh...... *cough*Vavoom*cough*
I know it's a dumb name, but it's the only port in town that does The Quake Thing, and has had DOS versions before, which still did The Quake Thing. Having looked through the source myself I can assure you it's very much The Quake Thing.
Little update on this. So BTSX doesn't seem to run on the last DOS version of Vavoom (which is a few years old.) It crashes with a "level name too long" error or something like that. I don't know enough about Doom modding to do anything about it, but it sounds fixable.
No matter, because I have a new favorite engine port: Doomsday! It doesn't run under DOS but it does run on both my Linux and MacOSX laptops and supports all the modern features you'd expect. It's way less finicky than GZDoom and has really nice lighting and graphics options. It also supports the Oculus Rift but I haven't had time to dig mine out and try it yet. 😎
So as much as I liked the idea of playing on my DOS machine, I can always use Old Doom if I want to do that. Shame Doomsday doesn't run Strife.
(I left the framerate counter on so you guys can laugh at my wimpy laptop GPU. It does run at full framerate with all the features on on the Macbook though.)
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Doomsday is heavily outdated and doesn't work with a lot of addon levels. It's not recommended by anyone outside its novelty bubble, and does not neccessarily look better. Especially with that 10fps you're getting there, yeeeeeech
How is it outdated ?? There are near-daily 2.x builds and the "stable" 1.15.7 release is from the beginning of this month. That's a pretty current engine for a 22-year-old game.
The low framerate with everything on is due to the Intel GM45 GPU on a 1.3 GHz laptop. Even in "vanilla" rendering I think it looks great, and it plays the maps I want to play. That's all that matters to me. I did try the 3D models pack but was pretty unimpressed, so back to sprites.
There's also the Rift support which is huge for me. Curious what it doesn't support that other engines do.
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