The /newstuff Chronicles #431 ArmouredBlood on Back To Hell Episode 1 Beta 0.75: The year is 1999. Two guys who play Doom have been making a couple maps for Doom 2 and decide to upload their map to a site. Their project is found and reviewed by a guy on Doom Underground, which sparks the interest of another guy. That guy contacts the authors, and gets their latest beta. Years go by, and the authors disappear. The guy tries to contact them, but no response - Compuserve has gone by the wayside and the authors have moved on. In order to preserve older works, the guy uploads the beta to /idgames, and now here I am reviewing it. (more)

Monday, May 20, 2013

Doomsday 1.10.3 released (1:36 am)
Classic Doom - Posted by Vermil - 0 Comments

Doomsday 1.10.3 has been released. Another bug fix release that fixes a couple of regressions:

• Failure to launch the engine when network access is blocked (exception from automatic local server discovery was not handled)
• Hang when loading TEXTUREn lumps from some pwads (e.g., Hell Revealed II)

Sunday, May 19, 2013

This time we will be playing a compilation of various 2003 WADs, including such classics as Vrack 3 and Helpyourselfish, as well as more obscure but very nice Death Revealed, Metamorphism, Spinal Injury and many others. Oh, and there's an infamous jokewad somewhere in there too.

• Skill: Ultra Violence
• PWADs: TNSC2003, miekskins-r3, tskins1e
• Maps: map01-map18
• Lives: 1
• Euro session: 19:00 BST @ [L@P] - Germany, Europe
  
• US session: 19:00 EDT @ DUI - New Jersey, USA
• Date: 23rd May 2013
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Week 7 of IDL Radio will air live today, May 19th, at 5pm EST. Hosts this week include HumanBones, Dew, Ru5tK1ng, and Watermelon. We'll spend this episode talking mostly about the upcoming IDL season, which is scheduled to begin this Friday when sign ups open. Enjoy!

Friday, May 17, 2013

Join us this Saturday May 18th as we run through this little piece of work called the Doomworld Mega Project 2012. I believe this is the first time ZDaemon has ever actually seen this WAD played at an event, so prepare for many first time thrills! There are a whopping 40 maps in this project, 39 of which are playable on ZDaemon. Part one will be played first, with 2x monster strength and maps 1 - 20 to beat. One life will be given, so prepare and bring your buddies.

Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Euro: 19:30 BST (14:30 EDT)
USA: 02:00 BST (21:00 EDT)

More details on the ZDaemon forum.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Most of you guys probably have already noticed that the DM Revival project is right off the plate of mapping but not completely finished up yet, but is officially in Beta status. This does not stop us from playing it as the project itself is good and stable enough now; I won't bore you with more details now because you all know that it's time for a damn exhilarating set of matches!

Date: Saturday, May 18th, 2013
Euro Session: 20:00 GMT (15:00 EST)
USA Session: 20:00 EST (1:00 GMT)
WAD: DMR_Beta.wad
Maps: 29
Mode: 16-player Deathmatch
Server: IDL - Chicago / [NL] Funcrusher

If you want to join up but don't have Odamex yet, head over to the Odamex site and get yourself 0.6.3. Don't forget to also check out and join the Odamex Steam Group for information on updates and announcements.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Slaughter waves of monsters and survive, if you can. It is Invasion UAC, do I need to say more? Check out the highlights of Part I.

• Skill: Ultra Violence
• PWADs: iu-part5, tns92, miekskins-r3, tskins1e
• Maps: 17-30, 32
• Lives: 1
• Euro session: 19:00 BST @ [L@P] - Germany, Europe
• US session: 19:00 EDT @ DUI - New Jersey, USA
• Date: 16th May 2013
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