• Gamarra's soul story: Mission 1 "Wills must die!" - Giulio Galassi aka Glassyman
  ZDoom - SP - 508kb - (img) (img) (img)
  I think I'm meant to be laughing at this jokewad, but none of the punchlines are hitting notes with me. The map itself is ok, but the jokes feel flat and I only feel like playing through this once.
  
  
• Knee Deep in yor fears - Walter "Daimon" Confalonieri
  Boom - SP - 155kb - (img)
  The second of Daimon's releases, this is a rather decent level with balanced gameplay, but nothing stands out as being breathtaking. It seems suitable as a filler level in a megawad than a standalone level.
  
  
• Corruption - Doomaniac
  Doomsday - SP - 180kb - (img) (img) (img)
  There's a good reason why I keep away from the Doomsday engine, and unfortunately I was reminded again why that is the case. Everything about Doomsday feels awkward and very un-Doom like, from the player's movement to the animation of the monsters. This map is another good reason why I don't keep Doomsday installed any longer than I have to. The detail is horrible, the gameplay is rather dull and it handles dynamic lighting horribly.
  
  
• Mario Fort Invasion - Kuchikitaichou
  Skulltag - Invasion - 66kb - (img)
  Ugh. This is utter crap and it doesn't even fare well in the novelty value, which is how it resembles a Mario Kart 64 battle map in layout, but it still looks horrible, it plays horrible, and I would not play this on a Skulltag server.
  
  
• Bleah II: Tower of Stupidity - Walter "Daimon" Confalonieri
  ZDoom - SP - 2.8mb - (img) (img) (img) (img)
  The only multi-level WAD this week, and it's a joke episode for Ultimate Doom! Yay!
  
  Admittedly I wasn't looking forward to it when I first started playing, but I eventually saw the charm in the sheer absurdity of the dialogue that I couldn't help but love the inane usage of breaking the fourth wall which made an otherwise dull WAD more enjoyable. Mind you, Daimon also shows some strokes of brilliance with detail in certain areas of the map, so don't expect something that looks like ass through the entire WAD. I really loved the E1M8 parody and thought the entire level was the highlight of Bleah II.
  
  The bonus levels are very weird though. I don't know what the hell is going on with those. I'm usually a leninent dude with jokewads, but I can't figure out why the hell they were included. The inability to skip cutscenes might also piss people off, as some of them go for very long. There's also a rather interesting message in the secret level, which you can go find yourself because I'm an asshole I forgot to take a screenshot.
  
  
• monlth05.wad. - Richard Wiles
  Enhanced Port - SP - 111kb - (img) (img) (img)
  The last WAD reviewed is by far the best as far as gameplay and detail is concerned. I reviewed monlth03 way back in my last /newstuff and I gave it a positive review, and I still stand by my decision on how good this series has progressed. It would be excellent if it was all released in a single WAD, but each individual level can stand on their own ground and still be immensly fun. The gameplay is very solid, with a rather nice balance of health, ammo and monsters. There are a few surprises that caught me off-guard, which I personally loved. The texturing is very conventional but at least it doesn't try to attempt a unique environment that could turn into a disaster. It's a perfect ending to a shitty /newstuff and it totally deserves my coveted WAD of the Week award.
  
  

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Krivanka said:
how do I send in an original WAD to be reviewed via newstuff

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Glassyman said:
Good reviews this time even if some of them are a bit too short. But a screenshot of the pimp mod in my map lacks.

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Bloodskull said:
Where the hell are my levels? I sent in two last friday and still haven't gotten reviewed o.0

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Bloodshedder said:
um...were they rejected? Can I see the idgames links if they weren't?

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DaniJ said:
Do please explain what it as about Doomsday which you find awkward. How is player movement awkward, it is the same as original DOOM. How is the monster movement awkward, if you mean you don't like the smoothing; then turn it off.

Also, by the looks of those screenshots your videocard/computer sucks :P

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dethtoll said:


seconded. i've been doing a runthrough of the doom games with doomsday and i haven't noticed anything different.

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DaniJ said:
Do please explain what it as about Doomsday which you find awkward. How is player movement awkward, it is the same as original DOOM. How is the monster movement awkward, if you mean you don't like the smoothing; then turn it off.

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Also, by the looks of those screenshots your videocard/computer sucks :P

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deathz0r said:
My main computer has been dead since late-February, can't be assed to fix it =P

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deathz0r said:
Oh, you can turn it off?

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The player movement definitely feels slower than Chocolate-Doom/PrBoom/Odamex though.

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SlayeR said:
The main thing that annoys me about doomsday is you can't fully turn off texture filtering. Changing the texture filter to 'no filter, no mip' doesn't do it, at least. And that's the only related option I can find.

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DaniJ said:
I'm going to need some hard evidence on that (e.g. a comparison timed run across a large open area in jDoom and DOOM.exe). The logic of the player movement code is exactly the same as original DOOM but I guess its possible the speed is slightly out. I've not noticed myself and you ARE the first to report that...

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DaniJ said:
Doomsday Control Panel->Textures->"Bilinear filtering"
You'll find separate controls for sprites, world textures and raw screens.

Or, simply enter the following in the console:
"lowres; texreset"

Another approach would have been to do a "listcmds rend-tex" in the console for a list of all the options pertaining to the rendering of textures ("rend-sprites" for... you guessed it!). If you need further explanation of a console variable/command you can do a "help <varname/ccmdname>" in the console.

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Those options have no effect whatsoever, the filtering is still active no matter what I do. This is with the latest 1.9 beta btw.

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Edit: rend-tex-mag set to 0 works, this really should be in the options somewhere. Although all the 2d (menu etc) gfx look weird and stretched.

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SlayeR said:

Those options have no effect whatsoever, the filtering is still active no matter what I do. This is with the latest 1.9 beta btw.

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SlayeR said:
http://mancubus.net/~slayer/crap/dday.png

Happens with the latest nvidia drivers for vista (101.41) and xp (93.71). Anyway the ingame textures and sprites are fine so it's no huge deal.

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SlayeR said:
http://mancubus.net/~slayer/crap/dday.png

Happens with the latest nvidia drivers for vista (101.41) and xp (93.71). Anyway the ingame textures and sprites are fine so it's no huge deal.

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