Dominus Diabolicus - MBF21 33-map megawad [now on idgames]

These are some really solid old-school style maps. The progression is non-linear without being confusing, and the usage of vanilla textures combined with some really fun sector designs make for a great playthrough for anyone who likes this style of mapset. I played in Crispy Doom and did not find any bugs.

There are some really good maps here! I liked them 

Like it has already been said, despite being non-linear, you (almost) never find yourself lost somewhere wondering where to go next; every room is nicely connected to the next one and so on.
I played on UV, and I found a good balance between ammo, health and monsters (even without finding every secret).
I died twice in the hell knight's and pinkies trap, where you get the rocket launcher on that pillar, cause the knights kept surrounding me the moment I step in without any possibility of evasion, but maybe I've been blind or unlucky x)
There are a lot of tiny (and major) details that help you never to feel bored, giving more "immersion" and pleasing the eyes.
For example: the toilet flush in map 2 and the indicator for the lowered floor for the yellow key in map 3.

I want, at least 1 complete episode here :D

About the "ugly" notes, instead: you left some areas completely "blank", they almost felt a bit rushed for the lack of detail, in map 1 and especially in map 2, where there are a lot of plain walls, or even the outdoor area.
Examples:

And that's kind of a shame, cause you menaged to carefully decorate the majority of the rooms and areas.
About the level progression, I feel like it's a bit lsot again in map 2. It seemed to me more confusing compared to the other maps.

I found that you possibly forgot to add some secret "flag" in some areas, like the backpack in map 2 and the rocket launcher and supershotgun in map 3, but maybe they were not meant to be secrets.

That's all :D

P.S. You could take a lot better screenshots, my friend, these ones do not do the Wad justice x)

1 hour ago, Kan3 said:

About the "ugly" notes, instead: you left some areas completely "blank", they almost felt a bit rushed for the lack of detail, in map 1 and especially in map 2, where there are a lot of plain walls, or even the outdoor area.
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And that's kind of a shame, cause you menaged to carefully decorate the majority of the rooms and areas.
About the level progression, I feel like it's a bit lsot again in map 2. It seemed to me more confusing compared to the other maps.

I found that you possibly forgot to add some secret "flag" in some areas, like the backpack in map 2 and the rocket launcher and supershotgun in map 3, but maybe they were not meant to be secrets.

That's all :D

P.S. You could take a lot better screenshots, my friend, these ones do not do the Wad justice x)

Thanks for the feedback! I do agree those areas are kind of plain, and while the theme for MAP02 was "generic lifeless UAC corporate office building," I felt there were still some chances to add some character to some of the areas. I've added some minor details in MAP01 and MAP02 - these were the first two maps I ever made to completion and got more adventurous from MAP03 onward, so revisiting them has given me the chance to add some details. The next version of the WAD (I'm about 25% of the way through making MAP05 right now) will reflect these changes as well as the fix for the secret tags in MAP03 (I had originally marked those as secret, but I ended up changing them into multisector areas and didn't want extraneous secret sectors; I got a little zealous removing the secret tag, it seems).

Screenshots are definitely not my forte, mostly because I don't want to give too much away in many of the levels. I'll probably focus on taking screenshots of the architecture going forward.

As for that trap with the rocket launcher: the intention was to make the player scramble for either of the doors they still have access to, though I've replayed the map a bit and found that the pinkies can sometimes RNG their way into unfairly blocking the player between the pit and the Hell Knights. I'm going to play around with giving the player some more resources and maybe swapping the pinkies out for a less tanky enemy that can infight more effectively so that the player's less likely to get stuck.

3 hours ago, ScrappyMcDoogerton said:

These are some really solid old-school style maps. The progression is non-linear without being confusing, and the usage of vanilla textures combined with some really fun sector designs make for a great playthrough for anyone who likes this style of mapset. I played in Crispy Doom and did not find any bugs.

Thank you very much for the kind words! 

It's always a cautionary tale when a newbie comes out of nowhere and tells us they're planning on making a megaWAD after only a bit of mapping experience under their belt, but this is a solid start, fam. These maps have a neo-classic feel to them that will probably attract a fair bit of interest. Everything is pretty decent from your combat scenarios, design and layout. Your detailing and texturing leaves a lot to be desired but you've clearly done your homework when it comes to the mechanics. Not sure if you're entirely ready for a one-man megaWAD as that's a shit-ton of work ahead of you, but if you're dedicated and pace yourself, you can do it. I can't say anything really impressed me, but these are some decent maps and I had fun playing through them. Your DoomCute office in MAP02 was my favourite bit.

48 minutes ago, Biodegradable said:

It's always a cautionary tale when a newbie comes out of nowhere and tells us they're planning on making a megaWAD after only a bit of mapping experience under their belt, but this is a solid start, fam. These maps have a neo-classic feel to them that will probably attract a fair bit of interest. Everything is pretty decent from your combat scenarios, design and layout. Your detailing and texturing leaves a lot to be desired but you've clearly done your homework when it comes to the mechanics. Not sure if you're entirely ready for a one-man megaWAD as that's a shit-ton of work ahead of you, but if you're dedicated and pace yourself, you can do it. I can't say anything really impressed me, but these are some decent maps and I had fun playing through them. Your DoomCute office in MAP02 was my favourite bit.

 

 

Thanks for the feedback - it looks like there are some opportunities for additional secrets I could add, given your playthrough video! Also gonna add just a little more health in MAP03 and MAP04, at least in the starting areas - seeing the map through fresh eyes helps with that.

The dynamic lighting definitely spoils the Lost Souls in MAP02, ha. Also, I guess without the right soundfonts, the upbeats in MAP02's music can be pretty annoying - decreased the volume and frequency of them, so the next version of the WAD will have that fixed, too.

I already love this planned megawad. And happy reading!

I played on UV with dsda-doom, here are my thoughts on this four level pack.

Map01, a slimy tech-base overrun by hitscanners and Imps, nothing more to say for a Map01. The premise of this map is simple, you have to hit four switches and then exit. As far as level design these four levels feel oldschool, but don't hit you with a hammer when you take a wrong turn at a wrong time, something even vanilla Doom 1993 got wrong. Though I have to say the room with the Map01 reference from Doom 2 is a bit too blank, and the secrets require more wallhumping, rather than to spot the differences. Still it's a good Map01!

Map02, an office complex with toilets I have never seen before. Remember what I said about this map pack feeling oldschool? The office complex outside is a bit to boxy and flat for my liking, a few boarders like Support 3 (the silver boarder texture if I'm remembering correctly) would have given the building a much nicer appearence to look at, instead it reminds me of The Factory from doom 2 with the same lame design. but the inside of this building feels mordern and colorful! About the toilets, I thought I would never write such a sentence in the middle of the Internet like this, but I like the toilets in this level, they even flush when you press the big red button on it! And the dumb stall secret where you have to use the locked stall door in an angle with another dumb secret behind with the toilet sinkng into the ground makes me wonder how you did that without breaking the whole level apart, not because of the toilet but because of these damn floor actions that don't want to work properly (Please share your mapping secrets with us, pretty please). Back on track this level is streight forward, grab the stick, kill the baddies (mostly hitscanners and Lost Souls. Why Lost Souls?) and exit. Here again the vanilla texturing gets bonus points from a semi-purist, and the secrets are odd, how am I supposed to know this random corner in the ammo room has a secret without Iddt'ing?

Map03, a techbase. If Knee Deep in the Dead had a summary without (most of) the rules Romero used this would have been it. stickBoom and gunChain make this level more fun and keep you entertained until the level is done after 10 or so minutes and ends with an ambush that caught me off-guard unlike any map I played so far, and because it was that unexpected. And with the rocket launcher in hand you might blow yourself up on the pinkies, who seem to like eating rockets just like me! However this level has the exact same ups and downs as the last few levels, the ups being you making good use of vanilla textures and the downside being you leaving some misaglined textures behind, see the gray room with the stairs where shotgunners teleport in after getting a key. And the secrets being a headscratcher again. I only found them first try due to the automap already showing them to me. What a bummer, I still like this level nonetheless!

Map04 not only cranks up the heat in terms of difficulty, but also this time in atmosphere. While the other three levels had bizzare midis in the back that aren't grating your ears like cheese, but are very forgettable, this midi in Map04 however isn't forgettable. This level gave me the spooks, not the chills, but the spooks (It's October anyways) while this this midi was playing. The low-lit caves with Imps and Pinkies taking a stroll through the caves are aesthetics I'll always dig as a playtester, but can't really seem to replicate it myself as a mapper, maybe because I have the creativity of a half eaten cheeseburger whenever I try to make midis for my maps (Or maps in general right now). Anyways you get ambushed by zombos and demons when you try to grab the single barrel shotgun with a side of green armor which is always a nice and warm welcome to a map. Then you tickle the Bruiser Bois with the  same shotgun and then proceed to the caves where you'll be able to either chaingun or shotgun Spectres depending on what you wasted on the Bruisers. You do get a super-shotty but that is a secret you'll get later on and that I found after beating the level. Oh well. My favorite part of this level is the hallway where hell seeps through the walls with marble bricks and flesh looking through the walls, I'm not gonna ask how long it took to get the wall textures correctly with the flesh looking like actual tumors and not like bits of meat you'd find in dog food, this looks like a lot of effort went into this and I  love it (Becasue how much of a pain this is to texture and draw in with linedefs)! I also like the fun flesh room with two Cacos and again an obscure secret I only found with Iddt'ing, seriously, how was I supposed to know in the flesh room was a wall you can touch to open a secret megaarmor?? The ambush when press the Eye feels awfully similar like the ambush from Map03 but I can forgive that for you not using any Arch-Viles. Thank you :) I actually died where you press the switch above the mudpit when one Baron and a Hell knight await you. I blew myself up because my crapboard thought it would be a marvellous idea to crap itself everytime I wield a Launcher Rocket and strafed into the Baron whilst lauching a rocket into this dudes arse. Fun stuff. Then you leave the cave, take a deep breath, go to the hut and blow that, fortess? And blow that house up. I really, really love this level by the atmosphere alone! It was fun getting lost and spooked in that level.

Closing words: I'm really eager to see to what this wad evolves to! You have great ideas and can set pull them off nicely, especially doomcute and certain ambushes I listed, though there are things you might want to change, and perhaps not develop too much of a sweettooth for extremely odd and hard to find secrets. And 32 full maps for a self called newbie is very, very difficult if you don't know what you are doing, and that is impossible with an audience putting expectations on your sholders. My tip: take your time, seriously, Doomworld likes to see maps that aged like a fine wine, and not like milk like you can sometimes see with users that are very inexperienced with mapping. And I will say it again: I love this map-pack!

I give this wad 4.5 out of 5 GibbedMarineExtras.

Have a nice day.

40 minutes ago, thiccyosh said:

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I already love this planned megawad. And happy reading!

 

I played on UV with dsda-doom, here are my thoughts on this four level pack.

 

Map01, a slimy tech-base overrun by hitscanners and Imps, nothing more to say for a Map01. The premise of this map is simple, you have to hit four switches and then exit. As far as level design these four levels feel oldschool, but don't hit you with a hammer when you take a wrong turn at a wrong time, something even vanilla Doom 1993 got wrong. Though I have to say the room with the Map01 reference from Doom 2 is a bit too blank, and the secrets require more wallhumping, rather than to spot the differences. Still it's a good Map01!

 

Map02, an office complex with toilets I have never seen before. Remember what I said about this map pack feeling oldschool? The office complex outside is a bit to boxy and flat for my liking, a few boarders like Support 3 (the silver boarder texture if I'm remembering correctly) would have given the building a much nicer appearence to look at, instead it reminds me of The Factory from doom 2 with the same lame design. but the inside of this building feels mordern and colorful! About the toilets, I thought I would never write such a sentence in the middle of the Internet like this, but I like the toilets in this level, they even flush when you press the big red button on it! And the dumb stall secret where you have to use the locked stall door in an angle with another dumb secret behind with the toilet sinkng into the ground makes me wonder how you did that without breaking the whole level apart, not because of the toilet but because of these damn floor actions that don't want to work properly (Please share your mapping secrets with us, pretty please). Back on track this level is streight forward, grab the stick, kill the baddies (mostly hitscanners and Lost Souls. Why Lost Souls?) and exit. Here again the vanilla texturing gets bonus points from a semi-purist, and the secrets are odd, how am I supposed to know this random corner in the ammo room has a secret without Iddt'ing?

 

Map03, a techbase. If Knee Deep in the Dead had a summary without (most of) the rules Romero used this would have been it. stickBoom and gunChain make this level more fun and keep you entertained until the level is done after 10 or so minutes and ends with an ambush that caught me off-guard unlike any map I played so far, and because it was that unexpected. And with the rocket launcher in hand you might blow yourself up on the pinkies, who seem to like eating rockets just like me! However this level has the exact same ups and downs as the last few levels, the ups being you making good use of vanilla textures and the downside being you leaving some misaglined textures behind, see the gray room with the stairs where shotgunners teleport in after getting a key. And the secrets being a headscratcher again. I only found them first try due to the automap already showing them to me. What a bummer, I still like this level nonetheless!

 

Map04 not only cranks up the heat in terms of difficulty, but also this time in atmosphere. While the other three levels had bizzare midis in the back that aren't grating your ears like cheese, but are very forgettable, this midi in Map04 however isn't forgettable. This level gave me the spooks, not the chills, but the spooks (It's October anyways) while this this midi was playing. The low-lit caves with Imps and Pinkies taking a stroll through the caves are aesthetics I'll always dig as a playtester, but can't really seem to replicate it myself as a mapper, maybe because I have the creativity of a half eaten cheeseburger whenever I try to make midis for my maps (Or maps in general right now). Anyways you get ambushed by zombos and demons when you try to grab the single barrel shotgun with a side of green armor which is always a nice and warm welcome to a map. Then you tickle the Bruiser Bois with the  same shotgun and then proceed to the caves where you'll be able to either chaingun or shotgun Spectres depending on what you wasted on the Bruisers. You do get a super-shotty but that is a secret you'll get later on and that I found after beating the level. Oh well. My favorite part of this level is the hallway where hell seeps through the walls with marble bricks and flesh looking through the walls, I'm not gonna ask how long it took to get the wall textures correctly with the flesh looking like actual tumors and not like bits of meat you'd find in dog food, this looks like a lot of effort went into this and I  love it (Becasue how much of a pain this is to texture and draw in with linedefs)! I also like the fun flesh room with two Cacos and again an obscure secret I only found with Iddt'ing, seriously, how was I supposed to know in the flesh room was a wall you can touch to open a secret megaarmor?? The ambush when press the Eye feels awfully similar like the ambush from Map03 but I can forgive that for you not using any Arch-Viles. Thank you :) I actually died where you press the switch above the mudpit when one Baron and a Hell knight await you. I blew myself up because my crapboard thought it would be a marvellous idea to crap itself everytime I wield a Launcher Rocket and strafed into the Baron whilst lauching a rocket into this dudes arse. Fun stuff. Then you leave the cave, take a deep breath, go to the hut and blow that, fortess? And blow that house up. I really, really love this level by the atmosphere alone! It was fun getting lost and spooked in that level.

 

Closing words: I'm really eager to see to what this wad evolves to! You have great ideas and can set pull them off nicely, especially doomcute and certain ambushes I listed, though there are things you might want to change, and perhaps not develop too much of a sweettooth for extremely odd and hard to find secrets. And 32 full maps for a self called newbie is very, very difficult if you don't know what you are doing, and that is impossible with an audience putting expectations on your sholders. My tip: take your time, seriously, Doomworld likes to see maps that aged like a fine wine, and not like milk like you can sometimes see with users that are very inexperienced with mapping. And I will say it again: I love this map-pack!

 

I give this wad 4.5 out of 5 GibbedMarineExtras.

 

Have a nice day.

 

 

 

 

 

Whoa, thanks for the write-up! Some of the sparse walls have already been addressed and will be ready to go for the next release once I wrap up MAP05, and I've also done some work to make the secrets stand out a little bit. Here are some spoilers so people can see what they missed:

9 hours ago, bofu said:

 

[...]I had originally marked those as secret, but I ended up changing them into multisector areas and didn't want extraneous secret sectors[...]

 

I know the pain x) when you start to split up secret sectors cause, maybe, you want some nice lightning, or whatever other detail, and you end up with 354 secrets in one spot D:
Always...

Played first two maps on HMP and liked it a lot, as it is.    Quite a strict policy on shells and health, especially on map02, and those Lost Souls, haha, but it's manageable, and at least chainsaw means no need to waste them on Pinkies.  The Mega Armor trap got me badly :P  Tricky secrets, too, which i appreciate, without a thorough search found only one on the second one.

Hope you make a full Megawad out of this!

7 hours ago, dei_eldren said:

Played first two maps on HMP and liked it a lot, as it is.    Quite a strict policy on shells and health, especially on map02, and those Lost Souls, haha, but it's manageable, and at least chainsaw means no need to waste them on Pinkies.  The Mega Armor trap got me badly :P  Tricky secrets, too, which i appreciate, without a thorough search found only one on the second one.

 

Hope you make a full Megawad out of this!

Thanks a ton! I've increased the shell count and available health slightly in the map and have made that trap a lot more obvious in the current build. I appreciate your comments! I'm also working to make the secrets somewhat more obvious, or at least apparent if you take some time to search around.

Very solid levels. I would give more health after the Hell Knight trap but overall loved the experience. 

5 hours ago, Doomdude89 said:

Very solid levels. I would give more health after the Hell Knight trap but overall loved the experience. 

 

Thanks a ton! Haha, using liteamp in MAP04 made it a little less obvious how to get the SSG secret in the marble area, though you did a great job taking down those Hell Knights. Throwing in some more health in that area now.

I'm about 50% done with MAP05, which is a step up from the other maps in terms of complexity and ambitious-ness. But I also wanted to provide a little bit of a preview of some of the touch-ups I've given the more barren areas of the maps.

Some of the other changes I'm making that'll be in the build once I get MAP05 finished up:

• New title screen and music.
• Adjusted MAP02's music to be a little less heavy on the upbeats because MIDI doesn't do a good job handling ska guitar and it was getting pretty annoying if you were using certain MIDI cards.
• Made health and ammo slightly more plentiful, particularly before or after tricky areas.
• Drastically improved the obviousness of some of the secrets, particularly in MAP02. The chaingun closet was easy to find from the outside (not that you'd know what was in it), but I don't think anyone actually figured out how to open it because you're not as OCD as I am.
• The door opened by the switch in the little pit in the starting area of MAP03 is no longer on a timer.
• The twin lifts leading into the lobby area in MAP03 before you get the red key were a deathtrap because of how small they were and how the imps liked to scratch you as soon as you got them. Got rid of the doomcute couches because they didn't add anything gameplay-wise and expanded the lifts so that you can actually see what's at the bottom.

Screenshots:

hi m8, you have a really solid map, your strong point is combat, rs very funny and challenging at times (my biggest "negative criticism", to call it somehow, is the battle with the hell knight, I was unable to finish that fight without cheats , there are too many demons just with the shotgun). The use of textures in some moments does not fit me honestly, there may be improvement in that aspect.

I wish you the best of luck with your megawad project, I think you have the skill to do it, Dominus is a great start.

btw here are my stats, played with beautiful doom, i didn't found all the secrets.

On 10/9/2021 at 3:39 PM, Feden05 said:

hi m8, you have a really solid map, your strong point is combat, rs very funny and challenging at times (my biggest "negative criticism", to call it somehow, is the battle with the hell knight, I was unable to finish that fight without cheats , there are too many demons just with the shotgun). The use of textures in some moments does not fit me honestly, there may be improvement in that aspect.

 

I wish you the best of luck with your megawad project, I think you have the skill to do it, Dominus is a great start.

btw here are my stats, played with beautiful doom, i didn't found all the secrets.

Thank you! There are other weapons to use against the demons and Hell Knights that are all in secrets (SSG and rocket launcher), though I'm thinking of making at least the rocket launcher secret in MAP03 slightly more obvious. I've cleared the fight with just the shotgun before (sometimes by just leaving without killing everything, other times by abusing infighting), but going into it blind does catch you off guard a bit.

Making an entire 32 map megawad is a big commitment - make sure to take breaks if you're getting tired.

Other than that, best of luck.

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Architecture/general aesthetic :
Description > Impressive for a "newbie mapmaker", you clearly toke care about sector complexification ! Funny and cool detailings, nice ideas, strong effects, aesthetic and design are nice despite being limited by the only use of vanilla textures. I particularly loved the "Portal" of MAP04.

Nice midi choice by the way, I generally use my own music replacement when I'm playing custom WAD's, but for this one I let myself be carried away

Combats/gameplay design :
Description > Maybe I'm a little biased as I played with the mod Combined Arms.

There was not a time where I felt like there was an empty moment or a blank about the combat dynamism, plus the ratio monsters/health & armor/amunition was balanced. The difficulty was just slightly above the classic experience and this is the ideal for me, I only died once at MAP04 because of a strategic mistake... So, because of me :)

In addition : I encourage you to continue for the MegaWAD ! I feel like you can handle the project slowly by continuing to release updates of your work :)

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11 hours ago, Widosm said:

Making an entire 32 map megawad is a big commitment - make sure to take breaks if you're getting tired.

Other than that, best of luck.

Oh, absolutely. I think I'll have some luck once I get to the "Hell" parts of the WAD, since that really is where I have the easiest time designing architecture, but I definitely don't expect this to be a quick project! Thank you.

5 hours ago, Briøche said:

 

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Architecture/general aesthetic :
Description > Impressive for a "newbie mapmaker", you clearly toke care about sector complexification ! Funny and cool detailings, nice ideas, strong effects, aesthetic and design are nice despite being limited by the only use of vanilla textures. I particularly loved the "Portal" of MAP04.

Nice midi choice by the way, I generally use my own music replacement when I'm playing custom WAD's, but for this one I let myself be carried away

 

 

Combats/gameplay design :
Description > Maybe I'm a little biased as I played with the mod Combined Arms.

There was not a time where I felt like there was an empty moment or a blank about the combat dynamism, plus the ratio monsters/health & armor/amunition was balanced. The difficulty was just slightly above the classic experience and this is the ideal for me, I only died once at MAP04 because of a strategic mistake... So, because of me :)

 

 

In addition : I encourage you to continue for the MegaWAD ! I feel like you can handle the project slowly by continuing to release updates of your work :)

 

 

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Thanks a ton for the feedback! MAP04 is definitely the map I'm the proudest of in the architectural sense. I'm glad you enjoyed the music and the combat encounters as well. I tend to play through mapsets/megawads with a few different gameplay mods, though the goal is always for vanilla gameplay to be at the top of the priority. Ammo does seem to be a little tight for people in vanilla, so I've increased the count a bit, but I figure it's better to have too much than too little.

MAP05: The Depths has been added. Full changelog below:

I was made aware that there's another WAD with the same name, so I'm going to be thinking of a new name to differentiate. I was thinking of going with "Dominatus" or "Diabolus Dominus" (which was the original working title, honestly)

With pistol start fighting archfiend and numerous revenants could be improved by adding at least the double barrel shotgun (perhaps giving the ssg in the yellow key room?) I like the 05 map itself ,good layout and fair traps.

3 hours ago, Doomdude89 said:

With pistol start fighting archfiend and numerous revenants could be improved by adding at least the double barrel shotgun (perhaps giving the ssg in the yellow key room?) I like the 05 map itself ,good layout and fair traps.

 

There is an SSG in the open lobby area before you go up the elevator to grab the yellow keycard. Thanks for the playthrough!

Sorry for the lack of updates as of late - MAP06 (Gun 'N Run) is taking a while to complete. But I figured I'd toss some screenshots up here as proof that I'm still working on this. Still working on a new title, too (though it'll probably be something very similar so I don't have to redo all the graphics completely).

Had the day off work today because of a head cold, so I decided to go ahead and polish off MAP06 and push out the update! Here's the full changelog:

Please redownload if you downloaded prior to 2:20 PM Central time on 10/27 - the LANGUAGE lump was malformed, so ZDOOM was crashing on launch.

Pulling this up with a new video on request :) This is a nice map set with variation in the levels and some nice scenery - and once again something that is far too good being made by someone new ;)

2 hours ago, DavidN said:

Pulling this up with a new video on request :) This is a nice map set with variation in the levels and some nice scenery - and once again something that is far too good being made by someone new ;)

 

Thank you so very much for the playthrough! Looking through this, I'm definitely seeing how some secrets could be given a few more visual cues or maybe turned into not-secrets altogether, since ammo was definitely a worry for you, especially at the end of MAP02.

In other news: MAP07 is about 70% done and is taking a while because trying to make compelling city areas with stock Doom textures is not the easiest task, but I already have the next few maps planned out. I will probably start doing releases in batches of maps rather than with every new level going forward, so the next release will probably include MAP07-MAP10 to go with an episodic theme.

Although I said I'd release in batches rather than single maps going forward, MAP07: Simplicity ended up taking on a life of its own and becoming a bit more epic than expected, so I felt it was appropriate to release it. It marks a decided escalation in terms of potential challenge as well as complexity of design.

The download link has been updated in the first post, but here it is in case you don't feel like scrolling:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bau459yi88l8i0m/DominusDiabolusNov28.zip?dl=0

Changelog:

Screenshots:

Very cool, a sense of building action and intermitted claustrophobia in gritty hellish world. Nice. I recorded my playthrough and I zigged when I should have zagged in map 4. Loads of fun.

I didn't notice any unusual monsters though. Are they mid/late game or are they in secret areas?

15 minutes ago, Nihlith said:

I didn't notice any unusual monsters though. Are they mid/late game or are they in secret areas?

Thanks for the playthrough vid! Watching it now. (The buttons on the toilets in MAP02 do function, but you have to be pretty precise with them, by the way!)

I ended up deleting the custom monsters. I was going to try to use DEHEXTRA to make the Wolfenstein SS into supershotgun zombies and even had them fully implemented in a previous build (not used in any maps yet though), but I found that they produced a few issues and ended up scrapping them. They might still make a reappearance if I ever feel like they can fit in without breaking anything. (I do have plans for Commander Keen, though.)