NewDoom Community Project II

Maps of interest: 3, 4, 16, 20, 21, 32.

Gets a four, but only by the skin of it's teeth. There are some good levels, some of which are truly great; the best being from level 21 onwards. The problem is that the inconsistency is really quite jarring at times. Even the "fixed" (ndcp2v2) version of this has numerous bugs and unintended traps. The design is borderline over-detailed sometimes and many maps pre map21 are convoluted. So, it's worth a play for the later maps only.

If this was properly finished, and if quality control was better (in this regard NDCP2 very much reminds me of ZPACK), this would be right there with CC4 as far as community megawads go. However, shit happened... Still, very much worth playing, if you are ready to use noclip for times when switches fail to do what they were intended to or doors fail to open, and if you are ready to swallow a really annoying map here and there.

If you go in deep there's a fair amount of fun to be squeezed out of this - but OTOH there's also too many mediocre maps or bugs for a full grade to be appropriate. However there are maps like 01, 09, 11, 12, 15, 18, 22, 23, and 26-28 that are fully polished up and make it a worthwhile download.

Mixed bag. A third I just had to skip partway through out of boredom/disgust at poor map design, technical problems, or both. Some creative ideas though, which I applaud but wish they'd been better implemented. I noted an excess of detail in many maps, in spite of terrible map "flow", clueless switch hunts, random portals, and inconsistent jump/crouch design, which I find disturbing (a lack of priority/propriety). 3/5 for all the annoying, unbeatable, and otherwise untested maps.

Overall, most of the maps are very nicely detailed and reasonably challenging. Unfortunately, the mapset seriously, seriously needed to be playtested. The new enemies were annoying, some levels were just terribly designed, and at least two of them were virtually unplayable due to the frame rate taking a massive shit.

Unfinished piece of shit.

Not as good as first NDCP, but still great mapset. I find jetflock maps quite annoying. On the other hand Nuxius, Dutch Devil, Danimetal, Logan or DoomMAD made rally good work on their maps. Overall 4/5 - Damned

Some maps are unbeatable (w/o idclip at least), some are... just ugly and annoying, but overall - a decent megawad. Remember: additional playtesting will save you from Eternal Damnation. 3.5/5 - Demonologist

Some excellent maps in here. Unfortunately, some pretty poor one too (can't be bothered to name them). Could so easily have been a 5/5 map, but overall 4/5

1: The maps of the authors that will play successfully without problem will be those of us which stuck with the basics of standard doom2 level editing. Unfortunately that wasn't the case with a lot of other authors maps in the project build. There was a large lack of communication during the mega wads construction as well as some authors changing texture resources at will rendering problems in other maps using the same content.

5 Stars. Need more testing though.

Great work, guys. 5/5!

I got stuck in level 2 after yellow key - the door closes and I cant get out. I IDCLIPped it, cause I dont know what to do

The majority of the levels in this are fucking amazing, but some suffer from way to much detail. In addition, I think the new enemies are pretty lame, the chain gunner guy looks like he's 2 feet tall. Hopefully a bug fix will come out sooner or later. 3/5

Some maps aren't compatible with G/ZDoom or Skulltag, too much lag, specially on map02 and it's overdetail tormentor-like is ugly. 0/5

many good maps in there, my favourites are map03, 11, 20, and the masterpiece map21 - 4.5/5

some maps have texture glitches just like how New Doom Community Project 1 had. Fail. Epic Fail. 2/5

what the fuck i do after killing the cyber at map 2 ?

Felt a bit subpar overall. Some maps in there are great though.

pure crap map are too huge

some maps are good but some others are not. 2* for effort.

One serious bug: you can't use the secret exit in MAP31. It's tagged as impassible. How nobody caught this, I'll never guess. Anyway, the maps themselves are pretty good all around. Not perfect, but a lot of nice ones. 4/5.

some maps are great but some others are good. 5* and eternal glory to nd community. only thing i dislike is a lot of bugs throughtout, but with latest zdoom build it works well

someone should update the link to this fabulous set of levels. This one seems to have a bunch of bugs fixed, but not all. It would be a shame to see this wad 'not played' because of irritating bugs, where you're not sure if the bug is part of a puzzle or not. Very frustrating.