[Limit-Removing] Deadly Secret Beneath the Dark Wood --- Single level for Doom II

[Berubaretto]

Greetings, everyone. Deadly Secret Beneath the Dark Wood is a Limit-Removing single level wad. As this wad's name suggested, this map mainly takes place in a forest. In addition to the forest, there are some other scenes in this map. Hope you guys enjoy it!

Download updated version (Dropbox)

 

Note: The wad also contains a MAP02. But that map is used to prevent players from accessing original Doom II's levels, and has no monsters or exits.

 

More Screenshots:

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Credits:

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Music:
 - MAP01: "Dungeon Theme 1 - Privateer's Hold" from The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
 - MAP02: "Night Theme 6 - 10" from The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
 - Title: An untitled midi from early version of Plutonia 2
 - Inter: "Another Day in Hell" by Psychedelic Eyeball

Textures:
 - Textures from Syringe:
   - Cage
   - Amuscaria
   - ravage
   - Xaser

 - Textures from lostres:
   - id Software
   - Xaser
   - NaturalTvventy

 - Raven Software for Hexen II's textures
 - Mechadon for the sky texture

 - Syringe developers for COLORMAP and PLAYPAL

 

Other Information:

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* What is included *

New levels              : 2
Sounds                  : No
Music                   : Yes
Graphics                : Yes
Dehacked/BEX Patch      : Yes
Demos                   : No
Other                   : No
Other files required    : None

* Play Information *

Game                    : Doom 2
Map #                   : MAP01 and MAP02
Single Player           : Designed for
Cooperative 2-4 Player  : Player starts only
Deathmatch 2-4 Player   : No
Other game styles       : None
Difficulty Settings     : Yes

* Construction *

Base                    : New from scratch
Build Time              : About 2 months
Editor(s) used          : Ultimate Doom Builder, Slade, Paint.NET
Known Bugs              : The final area has Medusa effects, which would
                          crash the game if you are using Chocolate-doom or
                          vanilla exe. Other ports don't have that issue.
May Not Run With        : Vanilla Doom
Tested With             : dsda-doom 0.26.2, GZDoom 4.10, Crispy Doom, LZDoom

 

Edited September 24, 2023 by Berubaretto : updating download link

[taufan99]

I love the simple but oppressive horror atmosphere here! Reminds me of that one forest level on Blood, but with its own twist (and challenges). However, I also stumbled upon this softlocking portion nearby the entrance to the blue key hut.

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Otherwise, it's a nice one, and I applaud you for this map.

Edited September 23, 2023 by taufan99

[Berubaretto]

2 hours ago, taufan99 said:

I love the simple but oppressive horror atmosphere here! Reminds me of that one forest level on Blood, but with its own twist (and challenges). However, I also stumbled upon this softlocking portion nearby the entrance to the blue key hut. 

Glad to hear you like this map. I'll fix that softlock in the upcoming update. Thank you for your feedback!

[Maribo]

Great map with a wonderful sense of mood and ambushes that pack a punch. Very big fan of the way the forest trees are done.

-dsdademo playthrough on UV, v0.26.2 for playback - dsbdw_maribo.zip

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Stumbled upon a softlock in yellow skull key room where you can use the window to jump behind the bar, but then you can no longer exit if you didn't lower the bars the block the opposite side.

The soulsphere secret switch is at a bit of an awkward height, it doesn't seem possible to hit it by standing on anything and just shooting with a normal hitscan weapon (pistol, shotgun, chaingun), I had to just hope that SSG spread would hit it. Entirely possible I just missed the intended standing location.

 

[Bri0che]

The first screenshots remind me of a Blood map so much (I believe an obscure non-official map I played before, idk), I'm going to play this :)

Edited September 23, 2023 by Bri0che

[Synami]

Very cool!

 

 

[Berubaretto]

Thank you for feedback! Now I updated the wad with aforementioned bugs and problems fixed.

Download updated version at here

Changelog:

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• The softlock near the blue key hut is fixed by adding a teleporter to let the player get out of there.
• The soulsphere secret switch is adjusted to be easier to trigger.
• The yellow key house's softlock is fixed.
• Other very minor changes.

 

[LadyMistDragon]

If this was just a vaguely Heretic-esque fantasy adventure, not unlike the Arx Fatalis tribute map someone released quite some time back now, this would be one. But safe to say that's not how it ends!

 

 

[natashanightmare]

Just played this, love the horror vibes :)

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The endmap called nowhere was eerie :)