Blackened Deathmatch for Zandronum (v1 Release)

[LacedCase]

Hello! This is my first post at Doomworld and my first "true" release. I've been playing Doom since I was around 4 years old and I've been making maps for over a decade. I was part of the Skulltag community until its demise. I continued making maps and I've made this deathmatch wad in the past 12 months.

 

This Deathmatch pack is for fans of old school and new school Doom deathmatch as well as all fans of arena shooters or classic FPS games. If you played Skulltag in the early 2010's, you will feel at home with this combination of level design and content.

 

These levels are the culmination of the best level design work I've completed since 2010, brought up to a visual standard that enhances the gameplay, memorability, and fun of each environment.

 

Play alone in the campaign with pre-defined Skulltag/Zandronum bots (or define your own in an offline skirmish), or play with friends and strangers. Each arena is medium/large-sized to accompany a range of 2-10+ players. It may get chaotic at larger player counts, so I recommend increasing the Frag Limit to something like 100 when setting up your match.

• 10 brand new deathmatch levels
• New campaign added to the New Game menu for getting into the fun as quickly as possible
• Original theme music when booting up the WAD
• Custom midis for most levels featuring some of my favorite songs and bands
• New "win" and "lose" tracks that metalheads will surely enjoy
• A new Pentagram Quad-Damage power-up that fits with the Doom lore and gives max health and armor (Move over Q from Quake and Doomsphere from Skulltag)
• Revisit your favorite weapons from Skulltag: the minigun, the grenade launcher, and the railgun!
• Altered color palette for much better blues
• Custom textures you're used to seeing, and brand new custom textures that mesh with vanilla Doom textures
• Custom decorations that are Doom lore friendly
• Ambient sounds designed to make the world feel more alive compared to the majority of other multiplayer Doom WADs
• A few classic sounds replaced due to them being boring/quiet or over-played (I'm looking at you Plasma Rifle)

 

Download here at itch.io:

https://lacedcase.itch.io/blackened-dm

 

Why itch.io? I'm interested in analytics and it will be easier to manage there long-term. I'm also cross-posting from my website, facebook, etc so itch.io gives me a centralized location.

 

View Trailer Here:

 

View Screenshots Here:

 

Spoiler

 

Edited October 25, 2020 by LacedCase : Updated trailer. Old trailer looked weird at 30fps so I changed some of it to support 30fps

[Doomkid]

Very nice visuals here, gorgeous stuff. Looking forward to playing in a server!

[RonnieJamesDiner]

Damn, those maps look awesome! As a single-player-only Doomer, I'm just sitting here drooling at the prospect of an SP version of them... but hopefully they see a lot of DM use! Great job.

[LacedCase]

Thanks for the good feedback friends <3

[EdwunclerIII]

Wow, these look great!

[Zillah]

AW YEA

[Zillah]

Hey y'all, we're gonna be playing this DM Pack tonight! Check out the forum post for more info: The Forum Post