TEAM ROCKET 2 - Looks like we're blasting off again! (BETA 1 RELEASED!)

[Dragonfly]

The session ended with a very successful 34 maps, and 3 midis. I made 10 maps (and will be making an additional credits map in post just like last time, though probably sharing this duty with Jimmy), Jimmy made 7 maps & a stack of midis, AD_79 made 6 maps, and MTrop made 5 maps. We had six guest mappers who each made one map. In order of appearance, Simpletonium, Obsidian, Breezeep, Remmirath, Bridgeburner, and Dobu Gabu Maru.

 

There's also one additional midi donation incentive yet to be made as Jimmy & I have been feverishly compiling and testing the WAD. I have to say I feel the overall quality of the work we put out this time is better than the original.

 

We'll be looking to get the compiled WAD out to everyone soon!

Edited February 10, 2020 by Dragonfly

[Jimmy]

Josh and I are live NOW with the official TEAM ROCKET 2 RELEASE PARTY, playing the compiled set co-operatively on Zandronum.

 

Degeneracy inbound.

 

 

[Jimmy]

After fixing a few last-minute bugs discovered on-stream, TEAM ROCKET 2 is ready for release.

 

Happy Rocketing!

 

(Seriously, there's quite a bit of rocket-heavy gameplay in this one.)

 

Download Team Rocket 2 beta 1 (34MB)

Recommended ports: PrBoom+ or GZDoom.

 

Screenshots!

 

 

Map Listing:

Spoiler

MAP01: Jimmy Likes to Keep Nice and Wet by Dragonfly
MAP02: Nightmare Cinema by Jimmy
MAP03: It's Impolite To Stairs by MTrop
MAP04: Rocket Ranger by MTrop
MAP05: Vacant Dreams by AD_79
MAP06: Delirium Caverns by Jimmy
MAP07: Breathin' Grease by Remmirath
MAP08: A Relic in Time by Dragonfly/Jimmy
MAP09: Panic Button! by Dragonfly
MAP10: Goat Mockery Ritual by AD_79
MAP11: Pounded In The Butt by Dragonfly
MAP12: Monster Arrival by Dragonfly
MAP13: The Dead Sea by AD_79
MAP14: Better Late Than Dead by Breezeep
MAP15: Symmetrical Death by MTrop
MAP16: Nuke Me Daddy by Jimmy/Dragonfly
MAP17: The Treasure of Aqueus by Jimmy
MAP18: Trash Talk Landfill by AD_79
MAP19: Eccentric Circles by Simpletonium
MAP20: Island of Fools by Jimmy
MAP21: Romancing the Spider by MTrop
MAP22: Feast by AD_79
MAP23: Bone Mass by Jimmy
MAP24: By Christ, The Meat by MTrop
MAP25: Octagonorrhea by Dragonfly
MAP26: Deathication by Obsidian
MAP27: A Pearl Necklace by Dragonfly
MAP28: Stabwound by AD_79
MAP29: Self-Destruct by Dobu Gabu Maru
MAP30: Shatterspine by Dragonfly
MAP31: Kentucky Fried BITCH by Jimmy
MAP32: Plug Keyboard into USB Port 2 by Dragonfly
MAP33: Colon Candy by Dragonfly
MAP34: NutZ by Bridgeburner56

MAP35: Headquarters by Jimmy/Dragonfly

 

[leodoom85]

Congrats on the release folks. A mod that I'd like to recommend for you folks is Supercharge by Tango. Just played the first map with it and it's fun to play it.
Video soon...

[dobu gabu maru]

Thanks again for having me on, and congrats on not losing your minds... er, well, not losing your entire minds.

[IvanDobrovski]

Guest maps don't have death exits, not sure if intentional but I felt like pointing it out.

 

I finished every map there is. Some really funny meme maps (AND map names). Some of the maps are kinda frustrating (especially AD_79's), some are a little boring (Jimmy maps), Dragonfly maps were alright, the gimmicks were alright for the most part. I must say though I found the guest maps a little lacking in comparison to the main maps. In fact most are pretty boring and a lot of them you can skip a lot of the action and this applies to the main maps too. Most of the maps' final encounters are just easily skippable. Not sure if that's what you intended, but it's there.

 

Also I can't stress this enough but berserk gimmick maps are NOT OK. The damn thing has too much RNG involved to make it viable. If you want to make a berserk gimmick map make its damage range a bit more tame. Honestly they are more frustrating than anything else in the mapset.

 

MAP30 killed my FPS in GZDoom for some reason. I was very well at 25-30 range which is very strange as it's just big but I don't know. Might want to fix that whatever the cause is?

Edited February 14, 2020 by IvanDobrovski : typo

[Revae]

1 hour ago, IvanDobrovski said:

berserk gimmick maps are NOT OK.

 

Worst taste.

[Liberation]

Congratulations on the release guys, some very cool looking maps by the looks of it.

[Baratus]

I am very happy to have made my interesting contributions to another one of these streams, that was yet another incredible feat of endurance. Also congrats for getting the first beta out so quickly! Now go and rest our heroes!

[Horus]

Congrats on the release! Also,

 

MAP32: Plug Keyboard into USB Port 2 by Dragonfly

 

gets my vote for best map name

[Dragonfly]

5 hours ago, Baratus said:

I am very happy to have made my interesting contributions to another one of these streams

 

And we're very happy to have received them! :D

 

5 hours ago, Horus said:

MAP32: Plug Keyboard into USB Port 2 by Dragonfly

 

 

You can thank the person who donated for that map, none other than @Dime! :)

[Fonze]

Awesome work folks and huge congrats on all this! I can't wait to play through these maps :D

[Rainne]

I stumbled upon their main stream purely by chance; I wasn't even aware of the project, was just looking for Doom streams that day. Was a lot of fun watching them work and hanging out in chat. 🙋🏻‍♀️ Did you ever settle on names for the other two episodes? 😏

[SladeTheAssassin]

very interesting, can i play doomsday 2.2 and gzdoom for this?

 

is this finished?

[Dragonfly]

This is in "beta 1" phase, meaning it's not finished, but the final product won't be very different. Due to the nature of the project the only changes we're likely to make are either notable bugfixes should anyone find any, and possibly implementing difficulties.

[SLON]

I saw my window textures here. You can replace them with newer ones (which are laid out there in the custom texures topic at the zdoomforum), if you want.

[Jimmy]

Hi SLON! They're yours yeah. I believe I tweaked them just a tiny bit for my own purposes, then later they wound up in the texture set we ended up using for TR2. I will replace them immediately with the newer ones and ensure that you get a credit.

 

Thanks for bringing this to my attention! Very sorry we missed you out to begin with.