Comfy Maps (or, favourite maps to just exist in)

[Hazel-Rah]

I find that maps in the Doom engine are often fun to just wander around and exist in as opposed to being solely gameplay and combat focused. Thus, I wondered if anyone here has any favourite maps that they love to explore and just vibe/exist within?

[Decay]

Lots of DM maps when you walk around them without other players can be kind of nice sometimes

[No-Man Baugh]

I adore maps that take place in a jungle like the ones in Valiant or Rudy 2

 

Vine mid-textures are my kryptonite

[Maribo]

I wish I could live inside Jumpwad. I've made a few previous posts about how this wad gets me emotional, possibly to an unhealthy level, but I don't really care what that says about me. My heart belongs to snow-covered mountains, mushroom trees, Friday afternoon skating around the block on Jump City, nostalgic tears.

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My soul belongs to Another Place, Entirely.

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I'll be chasing suns for the rest of my life.

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Sometimes I'd rather be a Newt, swimming around, whether that's in the void or in the water:

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I'm awake, but still in a dream:

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I don't mind the rain:

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A boat, and perhaps about as comfy as blood and hell could be:

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And a Lost Civilization:

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[raddicted]

EASILY the given, its environments are so fleshed out, and everything just has character and purpose.

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[Nefelibeta]

Ever thought of living in a town surrounded by forests and twilight?

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Or visiting a brutalist city under starlight?

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Or an abstract halloween island in the middle of a lava ocean?

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How about somewhere that never existed?

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Well.. I wish I can live there too.

[lubba127]

1 hour ago, Hazel-Rah said:

I find that maps in the Doom engine are often fun to just wander around and exist in as opposed to being solely gameplay and combat focused. Thus, I wondered if anyone here has any favourite maps that they love to explore and just vibe/exist within?

I've really taken a liking to amorphous euphoria map02 and map05. They can get difficult in certain parts but for the most part they are just cute and weird, and I love them.

[mrthejoshmon]

Blessed are the Quick from Icarus, a stormy night in a cathedral backed by a lovely track on the organ.
 

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[thelamp]

Eviltech map30 is just so pretty, and it's lack of monsters until the last fight adds to the sentimental, retrospective feel. You walk through areas that feel familiar the first time it's like a potpourri of classic doom

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[BoxY]

Grove of course, except for that fucking part in the trees.

[Geniraul]

• E1M3: Toxin Refinery from Doom by John Romero
• E1M6: Central Processing from Doom by John Romero
• E1M10: Sewers from The Ultimate Doom (Xbox version) by David Calvin
• E2M2: Containment Area from Doom by Tom Hall & Sandy Petersen
• E2M4: Deimos Lab from Doom by Tom Hall & Sandy Petersen
• E3M6: Mt. Erebus from Doom by Sandy Petersen
• E4M9: Fear from The Ultimate Doom by Tim Willits
• E4M8: Unto the Cruel from The Ultimate Doom by Shawn Green
• E5M7: Nightmare Underworld from Sigil by John Romero
• map 10: Refueling Base from Doom 2 by Tom Hall
• map 14: The Inmost Dens from Doom 2 by American McGee
• map 16: Suburbs from Doom 2 by Sandy Petersen
• map 19: The Citadel from Doom 2 by Sandy Petersen
• map 20: Gotcha! from Doom 2 by John Romero
• map 21: Nirvana from Doom 2 by Sandy Petersen
• map 28: The Spirit World from Doom 2 by Sandy Petersen
• map 31: Wolfenstein from Doom 2 by Sandy Petersen
• map 32: Grosse from Doom 2 by Sandy Petersen
• map 33: Betray from Doom 2 (Xbox version) by Michael Bukowski
• map 01: System Control from Final Doom: TNT: Evilution by Tom Mustaine
• map 02: Human BBQ from Final Doom: TNT: Evilution by John Wakelin
• map 03: Power Control from Final Doom: TNT: Evilution by Robin Patenall & John Minadeo
• map 04: Wormhole from Final Doom: TNT: Evilution by Ty Halderman
• map 05: Hanger from Final Doom: TNT: Evilution by Jim Dethlefsen
• map 08: Metal from Final Doom: TNT: Evilution John Minadeo
• map 12: Crater from Final Doom: TNT: Evilution by Jim Lowell
• map 16: Deepest Reaches from Final Doom: TNT: Evilution by Andre Arsenault
• map 20: Central Processing from Final Doom: TNT: Evilution by Drake O'Brien
• map 21: Administration Center from Final Doom: TNT: Evilution by Drake O'Brien
• map 22: Habitat from Final Doom: TNT: Evilution by Christopher Buteau
• map 23: Lunar Mining Project from Final Doom: TNT: Evilution by Paul Turnbull
• map 32: Caribbean from Final Doom: TNT: Evilution by Dario Casali
• map 10: Onslaught from Final Doom: The Plutonia Experiment by Dario Casali (despite this level's name, I think it is very enthralling to explore it)
• Doom Center by @Doorhenge
• MyHouse.wad by @Veddge (by which I mean the original version)
• map 01: Mountain Pass and map 02: Oceanside from Lost Civilization by @Jaska
• Probably, the whole The Golden Souls series by @Batandy
• DIY (community project), hosted by @ViolentBeetle
• Doom Zero by @DASI-I
• map 01: Glass Messiah from Auger;Zenith by @SuperCupcakeTactics
• map 01: Moonstriker's Outpost from Antaresian Reliquary by @antares031
• Lullaby by @Danlex
• Elementalism, Phase 1 by @Bauul
• Engineer Nukem by @mArt1And00m3r11339
• map 03: 2 Useless Keys from PUSS IV: The 12 Days of Doommas by @DynamiteKaitorn
• Justec.zip by Thomas J
• map 24: The Mucus Flow from Community Chest 2 by @Foofoo
• Christmas Doom 2 by Yukio Ide
• Doomle Jump by JSO_x
• Wadazine CTF by The Wadazine CTF Team (@Endless, @Arrowhead, @MrPred, @Flambeau, @spwnSH4Rk)
• Star Trek - Doom Invasion by Thomas Spaulding and Grant Jacobs
• RainbowRubik.pk3 by @Danlex

Edited August 18, 2023 by Geniraul : May 1: Metal added. May 29: Justec.zip, Christmas Doom 2, Wadazine CTF, Star Trek - Doom Invasion and RainbowRubik.pk3 added.

[Uncle 80]

Requiem MAP13 without a shred of doubt. That city backdrop, the architecture and of course the melancholy-inducing BGM; It feels like a flashback to a past life or something from a dream, it's so strangely familiar and "lost" at the same time, I can't explain it.

[yakfak]

ooh i love spaceships no matter if they're convincing and sleek or boxy silver sectors. just hanging out in a rough approximation of the death star or the uss enterprise or whatever's at the beginning of talosian or a bunch of classic early individual levels, that's the good stuff. also industrial settings but i can kinda just make those for myself, im a brickwork and railings demon and come from those places anyway

 

beast island with the monsters off? most of btsxe2 or sunlust with the monsters off

and NEIS e2m2 despite it not really looking like anything. sometimes the abstract places are the best places to sit

 

and enkeli maps!

my experience with maps really hasnt advanced for like four years, maybe i already found too many cosy places

[NiGHTS108]

Basically every map in TNT: Evilution's second episode if we're being honest

[ASD]

Rooms

 

E2M2 - The blue door room with the window.

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E2M5 - The baron cage room followed by the bright and empty room. What makes this room comfy is how isolated it is from the rest of the map.

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E2M7 - The red key room with its dedicated monitoring booth.

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Maps

 

E3M7 - Pools.

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TNT MAP12 - Always liked the liminal spaces in this relaxing map.

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Episode

 

Heretic E3 - Not only the theme and colors but the thought of '94 design makes this episode comfy.

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[LouigiVerona]

I would say that a large part of what I like Doom for is the atmosphere. Examples are numerous, I remember my first big crush was The Darkening, Outpost Mortem map. Music from that map I use in most of my own maps to this day. If you just wander around the map without monsters, it's a fascinating memorable place. And it looks real, like it could really exist.

 

5 rooms is a megawad that has some incredibly memorable maps, some of them really cozy.

 

While I could provide many-many examples of maps that I just love for their atmosphere, probably nothing comes even close to Auger Zenith. This is just a world that sucks you in. Starting from map 1, it's an art masterpiece.

[Roofi]

I want to take a peaceful stroll in monsterless Sunder maps at night.

 

 

[Captain POLAND]

Standard answer for me again, Okuplok.

 

 

[TJG1289]

Culture Shock from Ancient Aliens easily. It's just so pretty.

 

And pretty much all of Lost Civilization. The best WAD with realistic locations.

[Individualised]

E3M3

[DNSKILL5]

Map04: Villa of Dynamite.wad from 2007. Very beautiful setting with great fitting music track which I’ve included in here: CASTLE.zip

 

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Edited May 1, 2023 by CAM-7EA

[namsan]

bauhaus.wad had some very cool architecture! 

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[smeghammer]

Armadosia 'cos it's one of my earliest big megawads that was memorable.

 

Vrack2 for the same reason, but single map.

 

Love the huge sprawling nature of both of these.

 

Quite partial to PAR as well.

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Oh yes, this is a huge sprawling one too :-)

 

[RileyXY1]

Alien Vendetta's MAP08 is quite a relaxing map, especially with no monsters. Although this is mostly due to the midi choice. The Huline Temple theme from Lands of Lore 2 can really do that to a map (JPCP MAP06 also uses this track, and it has the same effect in that map). Also E4M4: Unruly Evil due to its low difficulty and monster count compared to the rest of Episode 4 (in fact, I believe that this map should have been the first map of the episode), MAP16: Suburbs, MAP27: Monster Condo, and TNT's MAP14: Steel Works are also cases of this for me.

[RonnieJamesDiner]

7 hours ago, Maribo said:

Sometimes I'd rather be a Newt, swimming around, whether that's in the void or in the water:

 

What wad is this?

[Not Jabba]

1 minute ago, RonnieJamesDiner said:

 

What map is that?

Must be from Newt.

[Maribo]

6 minutes ago, RonnieJamesDiner said:

What wad is this?

Not Jabba is correct, is it indeed from Newt, though some of those shots are from maps that are currently unreleased/pending reworks and aren't in the version in that thread.

 

Here's a full list of wads for anyone curious, I didn't name them originally in case Catpho or someone else wanted to do an impromptu Guess The Map game:

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Jumpwad, Magnolia, Sunlust, Newt, Grove, Elysion, Boaty McBoatWAD, Lost Civilization

[Captain Ventris]

Glass Messiah from Augur;Zenith (map01). Just a magical place to see.

[Danlex]

I would like to visit Speedtraps for the Bee Kingdom to stay a night in one of the small wood cabins, and also take a swim or make a campfire at the beach section

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God I love this map so much <3

[INfront95]

Both of Monster Hunter Ltd maps, night factory and early morning city are kinda comfy. And returning home at night after hard day of monster slaying in the first map is atmospheric and comfy imo. Plus good midi's

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