Hell For Leather [Doom II Megawad / limit-removing] Back from the dead!!

[Gifty]

Screaming for vengeance...

 

The Story So Far:

You beat them in space. You kicked them off the Earth. You scaled the stinking sulfur mountains of Hell. And yet... 

Mars haunts the skyline of your every dream, and Earth has been left a massive waste; crops won't grow. Attempts to repopulate yield bizarre, unpredictable results. It's as if Hell has wormed its way into the bedrock of the planet. To make matters worse, one of the UAC's last functioning terrestrial facilities--which was researching these crises--went dark 48 hours ago. No one knows for sure what happened down there, but one look at the reports and you have a pretty good idea. Facilities flooded with human blood; soldiers mutilated into satanic effigies; a tank-sized beast wandering the complex. Ah Hell, you've seen this B-movie before. They're sending you in, again, to find out what happened to the research team. This time, they're not even going to bother sending backup.

 

Specs:

IWAD: Doom II

Length: 30 maps

Compatibility: Limit-removing (primarily tested in Prboom and Gzdoom)

Jumping+Freelook: Nope!

 

Overview:

Back from the dead! I started this megawad nearly 10 years ago, and released the first two episodes peacemeal. Now it's back to darken the door of the little imaginary electronics store in your head! Over the years I've slowly been accumulating levels to finish off the last chapter, and at this point there's only a small portion left, namely the final boss and a few small level chunks here and there. The style is intended to feel like a natural expansion of Doom II; almost like a lost third chapter in the Final Doom saga, if ID Software had contracted a third outside team for one last campaign. There are some new textures, but overall the aesthetics and gameplay are classic Doom II action! From the original, super edgy flavor text:

 

"Just when you thought you were DONE with DOOM™, a goreifying new chapter of the sci-fi horror saga is gearing up to bash your brains in! The smelly high school dropouts at Carnal Software hereby present HELL FOR LEATHER™, an ichor-slurping expansion pack to Doom 2 that'll make you beg for mercy. CONTACT OUR SERVERS, IF YOU DARE™©.©™™®™©™®™®®"

 

HFL also includes a new, full midi soundtrack composed by me! That's right, your friend Gifty!

 

Less Talk, More Blastin!:

=> VERSION 1.0 <= Coming Soon! Just one-ish more map and a balance pass.

 

 

 

 

Maps:

map01: "Weapons Grade"

map02: "Haunted Tunnels"

map03: "Death Canals"

map04: "Bunker"

map05: "The Steel Hole"

map06: "Killzone-01"

map07: "Carcosa Station"

map08: "Waste Decks"

map09: "Occult"

map10: "The Dark Place"

map11: "The Bleeding Walls"

map12: "Bleedout"

map13: "Electric Castle"

map14: "Rivet Fortress"

map15: "The Black Lung"

map16: "Haunt"

map17: "Bloodbase"

map18: "The Lost Base"

map19: "The Rampart"

map20: "Judas"

map21: "Fort Doom"

map22: "Hell's Foundry"

map23: "Hunting Halls"

map24: "The Gory Nave"

map25: "The Sunken City"

map26: "House of the Wicked"

map27: "Bastion of Filth"

map28: "Vale of Illusion"

map29: "Penultimate Pain"

map30: "Hell Interface" [*INCOMPLETE]

 

Gifty's 2023 of Maps:

-> Hell On Earth Shareware (6-map Doom II episode)

-> SCUDHEAD (5-map Plutonia episode)

Edited January 8, 2023 by Gifty

[TheShep]

can't wait

[NaliSeed]

Should've uploaded the whole thing when it was complete, instead of having me drooling over those screenshots 🤤. 

Love the map names too, btw 😃

[Bri0che]

Interesting ! I'll follow this :D

[Korozive]

Loving that intro paragraph that sets the tone. Following :o)

[Terrcraft]

any news?

[Firedust]

Screenshots look super classic!

[Faceman2000]

On 7/27/2023 at 2:21 PM, Terrcraft said:

any news?

If it's anything like his Hell on Earth Shareware episode, the final map will take him three years to finish! :P

 

Can't wait Gifty! I loved Hell on Earth, and I can't wait for this!