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ArmouredBlood said:
Well, the screens look nice, but when I played it in skulltag the flats decided to freak out on me. What port is this meant for, what format did you map in, and which editor are you using? Posting the port intended is generally a good idea, otherwise people play things in their preferred ports and it doesn't always work out ...

Anyway, I thought there was some interesting stuff in there, although the spazzing flats and first map placement of things was meh. Putting more than 3 types of monsters together in a fight takes some doing to keep it interesting, just throwing a mish-mash in takes off a lot of pressure that'd be on the player if it was just 1 or 2 types of monsters. That said, varied map styles and themes keeps doom alive 16 years later despite its rather limited vanilla beastiary.

Also, make sure to use door textures that are recognizably doors, I completely missed the grating-textured door, and the marbface isn't exactly standard. Doom builder 2 can organize textures by type, and there is a door tab already setup.

As for hosting sites, wadhost is my preferred, as you can just right click on the link to your map, chose 'copy link address', and paste it in your thread, and it directly goes to the zip. Yeah you have to .zip it first.

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ArmouredBlood said:
Tried it in gzdoom 1.4.1 and the flats were sane. Guess I need to check for new versions of skulltag.

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ArmouredBlood said:
The grate I mentioned was to the room with 2 arch-viles, I missed it when running through all the monsters but did find it later. Off that room was the Marble face texture I was talking about.

I mentioned the first map stuff more to get you thinking about how to make maps fun and interesting; chaos can be fun, but if it's not focused on you you're merely spectating, not playing.

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Abyssalstudios1 said:


The current build is 98a, but the maps could have been made with any of the 97 branches.

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Contorted_Extirpation said:
Oh my bad I updated the part with two arch viles. Click on the SpeedyShare download link, because this one should be the updated version. Im just verifying that for now. As for what you said about "mentioning the first map stuff more to get me thinking about how to make maps fun and interesting"?, im not sure exactly what you mean. Also, are you referring "chaos" to "Chaos Order", if you are, that map is really fun and I'd love to be able to make stuff along those lines.

I apologize if im totally off on what you're trying to say. Im not as smart in this stuff as you guys are.

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ArmouredBlood said:


Will check it out. And yea that came out bad, I meant something along the lines of 'I like infighting, but not when the whole map is infighting and I just run through it', which is a bit harsher but more to the point. It's not all infighting though, the chaingunners in the narrow channels and the 2 arch-viles room were pretty in your face.

Yeah chaosorder was good. It takes a lot of time to make a map that big though, and imo it's better to learn with smaller maps, so that when you find out something can be done better one way you don't have to go back and fix a lot of stuff you did the other way.

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ArmouredBlood said:
Alright, played it, and the mass of histscanners in the beginning surprised me very much. There's making the enemy more uniform and then there're hitscanners, which infight even more. Plus just 5 sergeants can kill a full heatlh, armorless player in 1 salvo. Not that you can't use them, just be aware it's likely to do a ton more damage than just projectile enemies will do in open spaces (I bet you already know this though). Kind of the same thing with the big former human corridor near the end. Otherwise the fights are okay. Texturing is still very haphazard, it works in a very abstract sense, but looking at other wads and see how other people mix some things together will help you make your map more appealing.

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