Duck2: Nuclear Chaos in Thesnik Town - First map by the Duck team!

[The Almighty Egg]

Hello everyone! This is a post detailing a map made by the Duck team, a group of individuals who got together to create an ass kicking doom map for your own pleasure!
Originally this map was started by me back in October as a way to pass the time in quarantine, eventually I learned enough stuff to make something playable out of thin air. It was one of the most fun thing I had ever done so I kept going and going with no stop really, no end goal in mind, just seeing what I could create.

Eventually this blob out of STARTAN2 textures started to resemble an actual level, a house, a house environment was the most fun for me to create due to the fact that you can make something look like real life in the doom engine within vanilla limitations. My Main inspirations were build engine levels and some hl2 maps that were just a house in the middle of nowhere, they gave off a strange feeling that most source games have.

Some time ago I showed off my map to a friend of mine who had previous experiences with UDB to get some tips, eventually he officially entered the duck team along with some other people who also assisted in the map making process, currently the duck team is split between level designers and the people who are designing the a weaponset based on duck2 which will use the ACE engine.

Currently the duck2 team consists of 3 members:

The Almighty Egg- That's me by the way, the person who started the project and is the lead designer of the map called "duck2"

Omtat- The first person to assist with mapping, created a lot of stuff that would rather be used as bases for bigger things (like the boats!), Average gold source mods enthusiast.

Ikea Software- Decorate God(not the doom editing program) helped tremendously with the map making progress and is responsible for most of the texture work in the later areas, thief of Greek cuisine and fellow Blood fan.


Many special Thanks to:
Omarlego: First person who gave feedback on how to improve the map, average playtester.
Yuriko- person who inspired me to make a doom map, tried the map back when it was 2-3 rooms at most.
Dogelord- second full time mapper, helped fix a LOT of problems we had in development plus their architecture is cool.
Vixxie- helping make the forklifts.
Yomai for making the title screen.

Now for the wad specifics:
Name: Duck2: Nuclear Chaos in Thesnik Town
Map Format: Doom 2 format
Ports Tested: Crispy Doom 5.10.1 ,Gzdoom 4.5.0 and DSDA doom 0.19.1
IWAD: Doom2
Map(s): MAP01
Music: Night Soil (Dross) - The Binding of Isaac: Repentance OST (Album Mix)
Composed by Ridiculon
Gameplay: Single play but can be used in Multiplayer as well
Difficulty Settings: Ultra Violence, other difficulties were not taken into consideration.
Multiplayer Placement: Yes
Build Time: 8 months

Textures:

Doom Textures for Doom II
Conversion: SargeBaldy

Author: id Software

Submitted: Tormentor667

 

Cage's Texture Pack

Conversion: N/A

Author: Cage

Submitted: Ceeb

 

Cage's Texture Pack Vol.2

Conversion: Zero X. Diamond

Author: Cage, Fox666, NeuralStunner (the latter two for the enhanced cacodemon marble texture)

Submitted: Blue Shadow

 

Doom Tex's Ghostbusters
Conversion: Clonehunter

Author: Scuba Steve
Submitted: Clonehunter

 

Nightmare Texture Pack

Conversion: N/A

Author: Nightmare

Submitted: Tormentor667

 

Duke Nukem 3D Textures
Conversion: Tormentor667
Author: 3D Realms
Submitted: Tormentor667

Final Doom Textures
Conversion: MagicWazard
Author: id Software, Team TNT
Submitted: MagicWazard

What port is needed: Any limit removing port should do the trick Duck2 uses ANIMATED, a Boom feature and .mp3 files, so any port that don't support those unfortunately can not run duck2.

NORMAL VERSION LINK: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DMHByMs-tX3Cs6jvLy6Cn50KHS1ZlJuE/view?usp=sharing
(Note): Due to the regular ending being broken in mods that don't end the game when Romero's head is killed, we have decided to make a different version that simply ends the level when you use the exit door, the switch is optional but it still looks cool!
ALT VERSION LINK: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13RBy4ltyOz0JKERaIcCFucvmL2oeh7Sx/view?usp=sharing

Screenshots!

Edited December 3, 2022 by Eggman07 : Note to self: never ever use mediafire for uploading wads

[Walter confetti]

Looks pretty good! Waiting for this mapset too!

[Eyes]

wow not even updated screenshots, I am dissapointed 

[Grain of Salt]

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[Biodegradable]

 

[Eyes]

1 hour ago, Biodegradable said:

 

Already commented this, but again sorry for the inconvenience that we still had the old versions link up.

It is embarrasing.

[The Almighty Egg]

On 5/29/2021 at 5:51 PM, Grain of Salt said:

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imposter

[Obsidian Plague]

weapon pack coming soon i think

[Generic Doomer]

glad i could be part of the team, it was pretty fun to work on

[Lizardcommando]

This was a really cool map. I just discovered this map through the Doomcute thread. I really like the level design in this. It's like Fragport on steroids. Any chance of seeing a continuation of this in like a megawad in the future?

[The Almighty Egg]

1 hour ago, Lizardcommando said:

This was a really cool map. I just discovered this map through the Doomcute thread. I really like the level design in this. It's like Fragport on steroids. Any chance of seeing a continuation of this in like a megawad in the future?

Yes actually! a "duck3" is under development however its set time until completion is still unknown due to real life complications. For now here is a sneak peek of what's done so far.
Note(everything is WIP and expected to change.)