Yay BMO - 6 Short Limit Removing Maps for Plutonia!

[whybmonotacrab]

Yay BMO is a collection of various ideas I had sitting on my computer selecting dust. I decided to spruce some up and combine them and got 4 new maps out of them! I also chucked in two loose maps I released on Doomworld because I felt they fit with the set and I didn't want to leave them as looseys. Maps are all 5 minutes or under, but are decently challenging so they might take a few attempts. 

 

Difficulty settings implemented. Designed for pistol starts.

 

Plutonia IWAD is required.

 

Screenshots:

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Credits:

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Music

Map01: Seasons of Insanity - Jimmy
Map02: Bloody Hell - Jamie Robertson
Map03: Cataclysmic Impact - Jimmy
Map04: Midnight Motorist - Arranged by Tristan Clark, originally from Five Nights at Freddy's
Map05: Hate Machine - Jimmy
Map06: Voyager - Tristan Clark
Titlescreen: Electromenu - msx2plus

 

Titlepic stolen from Biodegradable who stole it from google.

 

Playtesters: @Biodegradable
                  @FrancisT218
                  @JoeSchmoe
                  @Maribo

 

Tested with DSDA, GZDoom, and Crispy.

 

Palette by Velvetic, taken from Atmospheric Extinction

 

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Edited September 28, 2023 by whybmonotacrab

[Biodegradable]

BMO! Congratulations on finally tying a bow on this WAD, mate. :^)

[wuunds]

First map has a lot of missing textures for me.

[whybmonotacrab]

3 minutes ago, wuunds said:

First map has a lot of missing textures for me.

Did you use the Plutonia IWAD?

[wuunds]

1 minute ago, whybmonotacrab said:

Did you use the Plutonia IWAD?

Fucking OOPS. I did not, my bad.

[wuunds]

A nice bit of slaughter to wake you up in the morning...

I've never been too good at reviews but I really did enjoy this WAD! I was never too big on slaughtermaps but these were very fun to run around in (and also die a lot in). This wad also did make me realize the power small maps can have, you don't need something too big and grand for it to be fun and I felt a bit of inspiration fly around in my head while I was getting ripped limb from limb in MAP06.

Some screenshots I took while playing:
 

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MAP04 was tough for me, I did manage to get through it. This map and MAP05 did make me realize that slaughtermaps are also puzzle maps in a way, in the sense that the puzzle is based on which routes to take to survive.



MAP06 was beautiful but I would be lying if I said this part didn't make me fear for the worse.
 

Simply a wonderful WAD, I had a ton of fun playing it. Sorry for the mistake earlier though, honestly I need to stop assuming all WADs are made using the DOOM II IWAD.

[DoomGappy]

Huge AT fan, gotta check this out. AT Doom when?

[whybmonotacrab]

1 minute ago, jo2ukegappy said:

Huge AT fan, gotta check this out. AT Doom when?

If someone works out a gameplay mod for that I'd definitely make some levels for it.

[DoomGappy]

8 minutes ago, whybmonotacrab said:

If someone works out a gameplay mod for that I'd definitely make some levels for it.

 

We'd be like:

 

 

 

Damn, that'd be cool.

[Crankywankynarancia]

Hmm Lets make a weapon sprites for dat

 

[whybmonotacrab]

1 hour ago, wuunds said:

A nice bit of slaughter to wake you up in the morning...

I've never been too good at reviews but I really did enjoy this WAD! I was never too big on slaughtermaps but these were very fun to run around in (and also die a lot in). This wad also did make me realize the power small maps can have, you don't need something too big and grand for it to be fun and I felt a bit of inspiration fly around in my head while I was getting ripped limb from limb in MAP06.

Some screenshots I took while playing:
 

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MAP04 was tough for me, I did manage to get through it. This map and MAP05 did make me realize that slaughtermaps are also puzzle maps in a way, in the sense that the puzzle is based on which routes to take to survive.



MAP06 was beautiful but I would be lying if I said this part didn't make me fear for the worse.
 

Simply a wonderful WAD, I had a ton of fun playing it. Sorry for the mistake earlier though, honestly I need to stop assuming all WADs are made using the DOOM II IWAD.

Thanks for the kind words! Nice screens as well. And no worries about the mistakes, I'm glad you thought to try and tell me of the mistake :)

[Gifty]

2 hours ago, wuunds said:

First map has a lot of missing textures for me.

 

[whybmonotacrab]

3 minutes ago, Gifty said:

 

You need to play it with plutonia.

Though this pic is aesthetic af. 

[Gifty]

3 minutes ago, whybmonotacrab said:

You need to play it with plutonia.

Oh yep, I was aware! Not trying to dogpile on your wad, I just really liked the extremely cursed guy generated by that screenshot.

 

I love plutonia mapsets, this looks cool!

[whybmonotacrab]

1 minute ago, Gifty said:

Oh yep, I was aware! Not trying to dogpile on your wad, I just really liked the extremely cursed guy generated by that screenshot.

 

I love plutonia mapsets, this looks cool!

Oh damn my bad haha. Sorry I misread.

[LadyMistDragon]

First map seemed like an outtake from Half Moon or something but the rest were quite different, it's safe to say!

 

 

[D4NUK1]

Map 5 trick with the Arch-Villes it's a beautiful implemetantion if you kill the archville early ;)

Hopefully i'll end it tomorrow. Pretty great wad so far, the difficulty it's hard but fun! from level 4 onwards.

[Crankywankynarancia]

The adventurer pistol! The reskin for a pistol (wait for an audio later)

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[Sneezy McGlassFace]

Just finished maps 01 and 02 and love them both!

Here's a little thing in map02, the midtex goes through the floor, just touch the brightness level in the other sector, and it'll get chopped right.

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[DreadWanderer]

Finished this today. A charming little mapset whose cute title hides its viciousness. Maps 5 and 6 are particularly brutal! Good stuff.

[Maribo]

I remember having fun testing these, good to see them out for the public. :)

[Lucius Wooding]

Very cool little set of maps. I'm a fan of the short and punchy style, and the combat is well done overall without being impossible. The last 2 maps are certainly tough, but I was able to manage the rest without excessive trouble. Highly recommend to anyone looking for a quick set built loosely in the Plutonic style.

 

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-Map 2's opening area is a bit of a safe haven except when there's hitscan. Being able to run around that tall mancubus platform is maybe a bit too lenient in a map that does a really nice job of being a pressure cooker everywhere else. I had like 14 health when I finished and prayed the last monster wasn't an archvile, but cutting off the outer edge around that platform would make the start considerably more tricky since you'd have to double back rather than circle against the revenants, or else jump down early. 

 

-In map 4, it's fairly easy to jump over the side of the stairs into the void. There are teleporters which makes me think it's intended or at least known about, but it's a fairly massive cheese since there aren't any hurtfloors down there. You can use the cyberdemon to infight everything and sometimes even kill him pacifist, and the cacodemons are fairly easy pickings with the huge area to move. You can even take care of the revenants from around back. Frankly it's way more consistent than running around and face rocketing 400 enemies to death, but in a map that's absolutely brutal and forces a struggle for survival, cruising the perimeter for 6 minutes seems like it shouldn't work better than the straightforward strat.

 

[whybmonotacrab]

9 hours ago, Sneezy McGlassFace said:

Just finished maps 01 and 02 and love them both!

Here's a little thing in map02, the midtex goes through the floor, just touch the brightness level in the other sector, and it'll get chopped right.

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Thanks! What do you mean by touching the brightness level though?

 

9 hours ago, Crankywankynarancia said:

The adventurer pistol! The reskin for a pistol (wait for an audio later)

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Holy crap that looks awesome! I look forward to hearing the sounds!

 

28 minutes ago, Lucius Wooding said:

Very cool little set of maps. I'm a fan of the short and punchy style, and the combat is well done overall without being impossible. The last 2 maps are certainly tough, but I was able to manage the rest without excessive trouble. Highly recommend to anyone looking for a quick set built loosely in the Plutonic style.

 

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-Map 2's opening area is a bit of a safe haven except when there's hitscan. Being able to run around that tall mancubus platform is maybe a bit too lenient in a map that does a really nice job of being a pressure cooker everywhere else. I had like 14 health when I finished and prayed the last monster wasn't an archvile, but cutting off the outer edge around that platform would make the start considerably more tricky since you'd have to double back rather than circle against the revenants, or else jump down early. 

 

-In map 4, it's fairly easy to jump over the side of the stairs into the void. There are teleporters which makes me think it's intended or at least known about, but it's a fairly massive cheese since there aren't any hurtfloors down there. You can use the cyberdemon to infight everything and sometimes even kill him pacifist, and the cacodemons are fairly easy pickings with the huge area to move. You can even take care of the revenants from around back. Frankly it's way more consistent than running around and face rocketing 400 enemies to death, but in a map that's absolutely brutal and forces a struggle for survival, cruising the perimeter for 6 minutes seems like it shouldn't work better than the straightforward strat.

 

Thanks for the feed back! I did have hurtfloors on map 4 but I think I ctrl-z'd them out of existence at some point. I'll fix that up soon.

[Sneezy McGlassFace]

13 hours ago, whybmonotacrab said:

Thanks! What do you mean by touching the brightness level though?

If you have two sectors with the same height, brightness and flat, and what not, and there's a midtex like the vines, the bsp won't split the seg. Because they're too similar. So you'll have the midtex bleed through the floor like this. But if you nudge the brightness a tiny amount, it'll see the sectors are different and split them - which cuts the midtex, as it's supposed to.

I learned this trick from Xaser, it's really neat

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Edited September 28, 2023 by Sneezy McGlassFace

[whybmonotacrab]

Fixed the vine texture bleeding into the ground that @Sneezy McGlassFace mentioned. Thanks for the tip!

Added hurt floors to map04 - thanks @Lucius Wooding!

Fixed some other texture issues.

 

[Crankywankynarancia]

7 hours ago, whybmonotacrab said:

Thanks! What do you mean by touching the brightness level though?

 

Holy crap that looks awesome! I look forward to hearing the sounds!

 

Thanks for the feed back! I did have hurtfloors on map 4 but I think I ctrl-z'd them out of existence at some point. I'll fix that up soon.

The sound I dunno how to port it but it's ready 

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Also the optimal doom adventurer pistol remake ( wait for Jake the shotgun) 

 

[Crankywankynarancia]

Jake the shotgun 

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[whybmonotacrab]

1 hour ago, Crankywankynarancia said:

Jake the shotgun 

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This saddles the line between kind of adorable and deeply horrifying - as all the best Jake forms do!

[Crankywankynarancia]

The prismos self defense 

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[BoxY]

Congrats on the release, I remember playing map05 and 06 a while back and liking them so it's nice to see them in a larger wad.

On map04 it's pretty easy to skip the line that reveals the cyber when running down the stairs into the central area. It's still possible to trigger it later so it doesn't break the map but it definitely creates an unintended variant of the fight. Still it's a really fun map.