[Release] Freaky Panties 2: Boxers or Briefs

[Remilia Scarlet]

No, this is not a lewd wad.

 

Quick Overview:

• Singleplayer only.  Designed with UV in mind, but the other difficulties are (somewhat) tested.
• This is for GZDoom 4.3 or higher (a few versions earlier might work as well - developed on 4.3.3)
• This uses Doom2.wad for the IWAD
• You must include brightmaps.pk3 and lights.pk3, both of which come with GZDoom
• dmflags/dmflags2 are both expected to be set to 0
• Mouselook is required.  No jumping or crouching allowed, including rocket jumps.
• The hardware renderer is expected.  Be sure to enable dynamic lights.  Enabling shadowmaps is highly encouraged, too.
• Additional mods may work, but are NOT supported or tested.

 

Freaky Panties 2: Boxers or Briefs is the spiritual sequel to the original Freaky Panties.  Unlike the original, however, FP2 does NOT have a dynamic difficulty system - difficulty is instead handled in a traditional Doom-y way.

 

With that out of the way... FP2 is my attempt to do something more traditional and slightly less detailed, but still beyond what's capable in the original game.  So while areas might look fancy, and there might be a script or two, it should still feel like Doom (or Quake) at the end of the day.  For the most part, I used a general rule of thumb during development: if I couldn't do it in Doomsday Engine, I wouldn't do it here.  So I mostly stayed away from 3D sectors and slopes.  There's definitely some areas where I broke this rule, like a few of the scripted areas, but it was still the overall guiding idea for the map.  I also spent a lot of time changing up how I built rooms, like playing with varied elevations and columns/walls to create movement; separating things without doors; and trying to avoid symmetry more than not.

The result should feel like Doom with a fancy coat of paint ^_^

 

The main inspirations for this map were various Quake levels I've been playing, and Doom 64.  Visually I wanted something similar to the original Freaky Panties, but with a more spartan look.  I also wanted to finally try out Ukiro's Otex textures.

 

The music was done by me and is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.  The title of the song is "Ĉarpentisto" if you're curious.

 

Screenshots:

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Downloads:

Freaky Panties 2 can be downloaded here (~ 7.4mb): https://mega.nz/folder/MxMWDRIB#QOPIuiYqcRSnzNvAaqPCPw/file/csFgnbRY
Mirror: https://archive.org/details/fpanties2

SHA1 sum: a3f90f5687fea34552f9a66cf39da2678b04852f

Readme : https://alexa.partition36.com/files/doom/fpanties2.txt

 

My past releases (the original Freaky Panties, Umbra of Fate, Shadows of The Nightmare Realm, Extreme Terror, One Doomed Marine, and my Quake levels) are all available here: https://alexa.partition36.com/games-and-mods/doom/

 

Edited February 13 by Remilia Scarlet

[Gaia74]

I was already looking forward to this, congratulations on the release remilia!

[Jamie Faith]

Amazing work as always, Queen! 

[RonnieJamesDiner]

This looks wonderfully grungy! Looking forward to playing through it.

[Sapfiar]

Congratulations on the release! This looks cool!

[MFG38]

Congrats on the release! I'll make sure to play this ASAP. c:

[RonnieJamesDiner]

This was an absolute treat – so nice I played it twice, actually.

 

Everything works in concert to really immerse you here, from the incredible visuals and the tight, flowing layout; to the aggressive, near-constant combat and the incredible song providing an ambient & energetic heartbeat to the whole thing (love this song).

 

Some of the more notable points of my experience:

• There’s this constant struggle in creating space for yourself to move and fight, against enemies that always seem to pour from every nook and cranny from start to finish. Loved the tension this provided.
• This felt like an exemplary use of OTEX’s “techbase” offerings, with a totally unique personality when even compared to other techbase maps using this texture set. And the dynamic lights – though often very subtle – really sold the atmosphere.
• I loved the small, scripted “earthquake” events that caused portions of the facility to crumble apart. Such a neat idea!
• I was impressed (and really appreciated) by how much care you put into cleaning up the automap. Despite the incredible level of detail in walls, floors, and ceilings, the automap was instantly readable and easy to look at. I really need to adopt this practice!

The more spoiler-y notable points:

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• The final boss was fun as hell! There was a moment of huge disappointment when I killed the first Arachnorb Queen, thinking that’s all there was, but I slowly realized the fight was just beginning. The 4-stage battle is perfectly setup, amounting to the final brawl with the last Queen and a Cyberdemon, which was incredibly exciting and satisfying.
• The section in the lower nukage pits was definitely my favourite part of the map. I really loved that setup, from the visuals, to the layout, to the creative “Cursed Berserk” gimmick. It took me a moment to figure out what to do the first time, as I had near-full health and didn’t want to waste the Berserk (and obviously, didn’t realize I had to pick up), but this is a minor issue I think. (Perhaps a custom Berserk sprite for that would provide a helpful hint to the player, but, that may also ruin the surprise, I’m not sure).
• Kudos to you for creating an engaging, and challenging Doom 2 map without using a single Archvile!

 

Fortunately, I didn’t come across any serious bugs or issues, nor did I really see any glaring visual flaws, misalignments, etc. There were only two things I wanted to comment on, the first is a minor bug to do with the small Arachnorb enemy:

 

• For whatever reason, sometimes it would flat-out skip it’s “Crash” state during death, resulting in the sprite just disappearing in mid-air, mid-death. Then, other times, the Crash state seemed to work, and it fell to the floor with all of it’s death frames playing like normal. I’m not sure what was causing this – I was playing in GZDoom 4.3.3, with all of the settings you recommended.
• The other comment is, this window (screenshot in spoiler tag). I feel like this should let flyers through? Perhaps you had a good reason for blocking this off that I’m unaware of, but I thought I’d bring it up. I think it would really help create some “dynamic fights” in this area of the map.

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// Venturing into Mod territory //

 

The second time I played through the map, I did so using Tango’s Supercharge mod just to see what was what. To my surprise and delight, I didn’t run into a single problem*. The mod works perfectly with this map, and in fact, really gives it a fantastic feel. Supercharge’s collection of sprites for everything from enemies and weapons, to keys and armour bonuses, really suit the aesthetic of this level as a whole. And, actually, the instant weapon swapping and fixed damage values lend themselves quite well to the overall gameplay/combat here, too. If you’re keen to experiment with gameplay mods, Remilia, I highly recommend giving your map a runthrough with it.

 

*I should note, my issue with the Arachnorb Crash state was persistent in my first playthrough as well, without the gameplay mod. Just in case you started to wonder.

Edited June 11, 2020 by RonnieJamesDiner

[Remilia Scarlet]

5 hours ago, RonnieJamesDiner said:

For whatever reason, sometimes it would flat-out skip it’s “Crash” state during death, resulting in the sprite just disappearing in mid-air, mid-death.

Someone else mentioned this in my Discord server. It's probably something I did when I converted it to ZScript and unpacked the wad. Oddly I only noticed it once, and then I thought my eyes had deceived me lol

 

I'll have to look into this, I'm curious what happened...

 

So glad you enjoyed it!

[boris]

Nice map. Some parts are a bit too cramped for my taste, but the thick atmosphere made up for that. Thd synthwave music is great and fits the map very well. I played on HMP and the balancing was fine. The door speed doesn't fit the door sound, that triggers me :P

 

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The Hell Knight(s) spawning in your back when opening the blue door felt kind like a dick move. Died to it the first time. I prefer to have the monsters to be in the player's view and then teleport away, that way the player knows something's up.

 

I enjoyed the last fight, the verticality of the area worked really well. The "J" shaped wall in the middle seemed to give a bit too much cover from the Aracnorb Queens, one of them seemed to be kind of stuck on the edge of it, giving me plenty of easy hits on it. Maybe making it a counter-like sector that blocks movement, but not line of fire might have worked out a bit better.

I didn't notice any problems with the Aracnorb Queen death animation.

 

 

[Remilia Scarlet]

9 hours ago, boris said:

felt kind like a dick move

lol yeah, that's kinda me... Though I tried to do less of it than I used to. One thing brought up in testing was that there was never a feeling of panic that there might be something behind you. So it was a late stage addition (and specific suggestion, in this case) to change that. Personally I like it since it rarely happens in the map, but I can see where others might not.

 

Maybe in the future, I'll reserve stuff like that for UV?