Arrowhead Posted May 17, 2021 (edited) Hello, Over the past 2 months or so, I have been making many duel WADs for my brother and I to play together in LZDOOM local splitscreen deathmatch. Eventually I began accumulating quite a number of maps! These little private maps were then combined and turned into 'FrantikDM'. What is Frantik DM? FrantikDM is a boom format duel map pack. FrantikDM is a full 32 map set. FrantikDM uses Otex1.1, but you do NOT need to load Otex1.1 alongside - everything is in the WAD. FrantikDM is a collection of varied duel maps ranging visually from techbase, to desert, to hell, and more! Maps are designed for fast aggressive gameplay. These levels are intended to be played w/ respawning items. Weapon Stay should also be on. Jumping and crouching are optional - everything in the WAD was designed to be possible without needing to jump. As an odd aside, there are 0 doors in this megaWAD - and there is only 1 elevator. Up to 4 player FFA should also be enjoyable, just keep in mind, this was not designed to be an FFA map pack. A good two thirds of maps should be viable in some way for FFA, one third are probably too small... Here is the file: FrantikDM.7z All feedback is greatly appreciated. I'd love to hear what others think of these duel maps! I'd also love to at some point see a video of 2 people playing a map, that'd be really cool. I'm currently working on a new unnamed duel project, and an unnamed FFA project... But yeah, here's FrantikDM! Enjoy! :) Also, a very special thanks to @Decay ! Decay's extensive playtesting and feedback really REALLY improved this project. I really learned a lot about DM design. This project wouldn't be the same without this advice - thanks again! Another thanks to @Doomkid for giving feedback on a very early build of this project! Really helped to improve map21's flow! Thanks! Big thanks to @Kuro_mahoh for their great sky textures, and to @ukiro for their awesome and easy to use texture pack! Thanks to @AD_79 @Crunchynut44 @pcorf @Immorpher @northivanastan @Jimmy @MFG38 @Eris and Kyle Dobson for allowing their awesome tracks to be used in other projects! Edited May 17, 2021 by Arrowhead 26 Share this post Link to post
Kuro_mahoh Posted May 17, 2021 These maps look great! And I'm glad my sky textures were useful to you! :D 1 Share this post Link to post
magicsofa Posted May 17, 2021 Looks interesting, although I never play 1v1 unless I'm waiting for more people to join the FFA. But it looks like these maps could still handle 3 or 4 people? 0 Share this post Link to post
continuum.mid Posted May 17, 2021 Got these errors upon loading the WAD in PrBoom+ 2.6um: Spoiler M_LoadDefaults: Load system defaults. default file: /home/ivans/.prboom-plus/prboom-plus.cfg found /usr/share/games/doom/prboom-plus.wad PrBoom-Plus v2.6um (https://github.com/coelckers/prboom-plus) I_SetAffinityMask: manual affinity mask is 1 found DOOM2.WAD IWAD found: DOOM2.WAD PrBoom-Plus (built Feb 9 2021 12:56:30), playing: DOOM 2: Hell on Earth PrBoom-Plus is released under the GNU General Public license v2.0. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. It comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. See the file COPYING for details. V_Init: allocate screens. V_InitMode: using 32 bit video mode I_CalculateRes: trying to optimize screen pitch test case for pitch=5504 is processed 80763 times for 100 msec test case for pitch=5536 is processed 99681 times for 100 msec optimized screen pitch is 5536 I_InitScreenResolution: Using resolution 1366x768 found /usr/share/games/doom/prboom-plus.wad found FrantikDM/FRNTKDM.wad D_InitNetGame: Checking for network game. W_Init: Init WADfiles. adding DOOM2.WAD adding /usr/share/games/doom/prboom-plus.wad adding FrantikDM/FRNTKDM.wad W_InitCache M_Init: Init miscellaneous info. SetRatio: width/height parameters 1366x768 SetRatio: storage aspect ratio 683:384 SetRatio: assuming square pixels SetRatio: display aspect ratio 683:384 SetRatio: gl_ratio 2.134376 SetRatio: multiplier 512/683 R_Init: Init DOOM refresh daemon - R_LoadTrigTables: Endianness...ok. R_InitData: Textures Flats Sprites R_Init: R_InitPlanes R_InitLightTables R_InitSkyMap R_InitTranslationsTables R_InitPatches P_Init: Init Playloop state. P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHF0 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHF1 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHG0 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHG1 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHEA P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHE1 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHEE P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHE2 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHEI P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHE3 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHEM P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHE4 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHEQ P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHE5 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHE6 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHEY P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHE7 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHD7 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHD6 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHD5 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHD4 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHD3 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHD2 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHD1 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHD0 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHB1 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHC0 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHC1 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHI0 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHI1 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHI2 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHI3 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHI4 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHI5 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHL0 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHL1 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHM0 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHM1 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHA6 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHA7 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHA4 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHA5 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHA2 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHA3 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHA1 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHA0 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHJ0 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHJ1 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHK0 P_InitSwitchList: unknown texture OSWTCHK1 R_FlatNumForName: OWATER08 not found P_InitPicAnims: bad cycle from OWATER01 to OWATER08 Anyway, on LZDoom it's fine, and the levels look amazing. Obviously OTEX plays a major helping hand but you use it well, and your architecture is solid. Glad my music has found a home here. 1 Share this post Link to post
Arrowhead Posted May 17, 2021 18 minutes ago, magicsofa said: ...But it looks like these maps could still handle 3 or 4 people? Yes, I would say a good third of them would be great for upto 4 player FFA, and another third would work alright. One third of the maps will probably be too small for that, though! But yes, there should be a lot of fun with FFA, as well! :) 16 minutes ago, northivanastan said: Got these errors upon loading the WAD in PrBoom+ 2.6um... Hmmm, curious - it almost seems like its having some kind of issue with the 'Boom Switches' lump in Otex1.1. Fortunately everything seems to be working in the usual multiplayer ports! Weird that that's happening... I'll have to see what I can find out! Oh, btw, your 2 tracks are on map10, and map23! :) 0 Share this post Link to post
continuum.mid Posted May 17, 2021 2 minutes ago, Arrowhead said: Oh, btw, your 2 tracks are on map10, and map23! :) Yeah, I saw the text file, those were the first maps I looked at :) 1 Share this post Link to post
Maggle Posted May 17, 2021 Nice to see some DM mapsets come out! They look gorgeous and fun. 2 Share this post Link to post
Decay Posted May 18, 2021 There are definitely some really cool maps in this set that deserve a closer look! Like any set, sure there are some less interesting or weaker sets but on the whole for such a large offering this is pretty decent for 1v1 and 4 man FFA. It's absolutely worth checking out for some quick frags with a few friends. Congrats on putting it altogether and making an announcement! 3 Share this post Link to post
Arrowhead Posted May 18, 2021 (edited) Created a server in TSPG! Come join in! Just search 'FrantikDM', and you'll find it! :) I'll likely keep it up most of today! Edited May 21, 2021 by Arrowhead 0 Share this post Link to post
Doomkid Posted May 21, 2021 Can't believe I somehow missed this thread, these maps are really good to move around in and they're nice on the eyes too - can't wait to have some real time frags in them soon! 2 Share this post Link to post
Doomkid Posted June 11, 2021 Just sent in a request to have this beauty approved for EXP on the ZDaemon wad list (alongside BourgFix and Twango1). Once it's approved I'll have a permanent servers for all 3 on the ZD cluster! 2 Share this post Link to post
Arrowhead Posted June 11, 2021 26 minutes ago, Doomkid said: Just sent in a request to have this beauty approved for EXP on the ZDaemon wad list (alongside BourgFix and Twango1). Once it's approved I'll have a permanent servers for all 3 on the ZD cluster! Hey, that's super exciting! Thanks so much for doing that!! You'll be pleased to know that I am only a mere 2 maps away from having my second deathmatch megaWAD done - well, at least a 'test build' of it! :) 3 Share this post Link to post
Arrowhead Posted June 27, 2021 FrantikDM is now on /idgames! :) https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/deathmatch/Ports/megawads/frntkdm 7 Share this post Link to post
