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Sapphire - Orbital Research

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This is a medium sized map based on a space station, a research facility for engines powered by simulated black holes, maintained by the Sapphire Corps.


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A techbase (orbital space station?) that lacks gameplay and tries to make up for it with detailed corridors and very neat effects. Unfortunately the really gorgeous visuals (awesome skybox, great textures and their usage, good lighting) cannot make up for the corridor gameplay. This is one of those maps that feel very copy and pasted, because you entweder one corridor after the next and apart from some different colored doors they all look the same. All key pickup rooms look the same, all corridors look the same, only one room at the beginning of the map has something more unique to it. Corridors are usually fine, if they are connected to actual rooms and not other corridors. It's a pity, because everything else is really great and with a little bit more effort (i. e. more "unique" rooms inbetween) it could have been so much better.

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i'll go ahead and say it, but I never understood the hate that Tormentor gets. he makes ZDoom wads that are generally fun, and this is one of those. only one map, it's a very well-done techbase that looks snazzy. the gameplay definitely isn't a strong suit though, since most of it is "shoot what's in front of you" there are six color keys, and the base does have a few branching paths, but ultimately the gameplay is quite linear and the ambushes after key grabs are quite easy to anticipate. some newer monsters to slow the pacing down a bit, but they aren't too much except for the boss at the end. pretty typical for a Torm ZDoom map. is that why it's hated? I still don't understand. but I had some fun with this still.

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One of the best maps I have ever played. I have played many many maps. Probley spent more time looking around than fighting. 5/5/06

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I like this wad it's very detailed and fun to play I'm a gzdoom nut so I love levels created using it I look forward to more levels from you Tormentor667

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That nifty skybox and reflections sometimes look much better in quality than your average 3d accelerated FPS game! Wow,. I could never expect such a gfx quality from Doom! The gameplay is a bit forgetable though. 4/5 - Optimus

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Very Impressive! i love space maps and this one rules. tough, few things. First, the bloodcolor could be dark green (for Hell Knight and for Baron) and caco dark blue.

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Looking awesome this map is great 5/5

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Yet another shitty sparkledog in doom form.

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This is a really nice wad , not your best, but still very nice and it looks great. It's a nice filler untill TNT4 comes =) So f**k the usuall negativity of doomworld.com's newstuff. 3,5 stars in my opinion.

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3/5: Looks good, but what matters more in my book is gameplay. Which suffers here, sadly. If only he had taken the time to make sure this played well... -- Wills

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What's with the whining here? This is all good aside from the corridor madness

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Good, but not that great. Looks nice but it's boring. It's more a showcase of (useless) detail than creativity and well designed gameplay.

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realy hard but its all good

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Gets boring quite fast because of the predominantly squarish designs and linearity. The section after the purple door doesn't help, same goes for other lengthy hallway areas where monsters can only come from one direction. There are several rooms that provide a more interesting challenge (like the YK room or the room with 3 switches) but that's not enough for me. 3/5 - Belial

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This map kicking ass LOL -Daimon

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OOH SHINY FLOORS

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The atmosphere is perfect! Download it now! 5/5

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This one is fantastic! - Zalewa

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Good. Elll.

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This is a beautiful map with great atmosphere and style. Gameplay is linear and predictable, but the battles are fun and exciting, and require some tactics to get through. Not for everybody, but if you appreciate aethetics, you will find this exceptional.

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Good level, decent gameplay. Worth a run. Very nice visuals. I think i'm tearing up deathz0r ;( -Fusion

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Best map in a long time, from a solid author. Standard yet fun gameplay, nice aesthetics. Give it a looksee and judge for yourself, don't listen to everyone's opinion, make your own. --Darkfyre

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Outstanding. Absolutely NO COMPLAINTS. Extra Textures used very well. Gameplay is a bit repetitive but its always exciting, the pace never slows down. Just fuckin OUTSTANDING. Felt much like unreal. Great job on the atmosphere,its the best ive seen so far for a single map. Complete with endgame graphics and all. Which is very beautiful by the way with the 2 moons and the beach. ZDoom features used well and sparingly. Not overdone just cuz one knows how to use it.

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This is an extremely good-looking level, although if you strip away the looks it's surprisingly simplistic. It reminds of a typical Quake II map but with more monsters, in the sense that it's a methodical and generally one-way blast through a set of good-looking locations. Eventually becomes a bit of a chore. The difficulty is mellow until the very end, where you face three archviles and a chaingunning, BFG-ing spider mastermind. Lovely skybox, nice design.

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    • By Mizuki_Jun10 · Posted
      It turned out to be a surprise for me because I didn't expect it to be such a fun level, when he said he wanted a lot of monsters in his level I didn't imagine that amount of monsters, but it was definitely fun.   I consider it a very good map, for its time, for a first map made by him, for a very humble map.   But overall I don't consider it a great or extraordinary experience, I don't see myself revisiting Crusher, but I can't call it Average because what he did is super interesting.   And it's a long level, which I also didn't expect, but to be more precise, the exploration is interesting, the layout was a little diverse, and the action on the map kept me focused and entertained, some rooms had poorly aligned textures and didn't seem to have been looked at at the last minute, which is a bit strange because he said he spent a lot of time developing the map, but I imagine why since at that time there wasn't an "Ultimate DOOM Builder" with automatic texture alignment, or maybe there was one automatic alignment?   And the maze everyone mentioned was annoying, yes I admit it lasted a lot longer than it should have, and I feel like it could have been shortened in Wad's release, it made the level feel longer than it is too, but I don't feel so much that the level it got worse because of it.   The positioning of enemies isn't that great, but they make you take cautious measures at times, but at times I was like... "It could be better..."   But that's it, it's a good level, it hasn't aged well, it could be better, but I feel like it would be unfair to call this level average, it's a level that I enjoyed, did things that weren't that common at the time, and seemed to use of resources that at the time many used wrongly, I don't feel like I wasted my time. I deserve to see more from the mapper.... (If he released something after that of course...)
    • By Mizuki_Jun10 · Posted
      Surprising even, one of the newest community maps out there, 1994, wow, but it's still a bad map, the encounters are interesting, the layout is the most superior aspect here, but it still doesn't support the technical errors that even for 1994 were already guaranteed by the original DOOM maps. Weird textures, lack of variety, lack of a more interesting design than platforms going down or going up in the dark, some moments were really fun like the dark cave itself, but the fun lasts very little, with spaces that are too tight, and a shallow exploration.
    • By Mizuki_Jun10 · Posted
      I love Quake, it's my favorite Shooter, and I totally forgive the lack of detail and technical refinement that Mapper concluded here, but I have to say that even though the map is still recognizable compared to the classic E1M1 from Quake... The map just doesn't have such a refined texturing, a good light variation, and many of the areas don't even carry the classic Quake identity, as the best example: The part where we get the Nailgun, there aren't even monsters and an encounter with Zombiemans in that room , there is very little positive to consider here unfortunately, but it was a bit fun in some parts. Either way, there are a lot of negative things that make it impossible to ignore while playing the level, a horrible map, how sad.
    • By Mizuki_Jun10 · Posted
      Normally I would define these two maps as maps with interesting premises whose execution does not positively complement the result, Chicken.wad has such a simple layout that it is disappointing at first sight, which keeps you at a higher height than Cyberdemons that you They wait in sectors that flash between dark and very light, I can only be direct in saying that although the battle between the Cyberdemons is fun, the map doesn't present you with anything other than that, and it is even impossible to cross the other side of the bridge endless to eliminate the rest of Cyberdemons. Completing Chicken (Even though Chicken doesn't have an exit on his map.).   Let's go to Gangstar.wad, you can see a somewhat open space, different from the previous experience, but with the classic theme of a UAC warehouse style E2M2 from DOOM, but the boxes here are a little distorted? (Perhaps spacetime begged the mappers not to finish the maps so it distorted the map space causing this visual curse.) As much as the open spaces of the map are fun to navigate, the fun is short-lived with several of the structures being distorted. carrying with them ill-adjusted texturing. Clearly a superior map to the previous one, but unfortunately still poor, the repetitiveness of the texturing, plus a bland design and several other missing details, make this map yet another disappointment unfortunately.   The verdict is that both maps are completely disposable, I would love for the mappers to continue with their work after such complicated work, so they would at least be able to build more and improve the quality of their design work.
    • By Devalaous · Posted
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