[idgames] A War On Christmas: Part 2 :: 12-map Christmas Themed Adventure :: Limit-removing -complevel 2

[Andrea Rovenski]

The Devilish Creature behind The Evil Santa Cloning Operation wasn't who you thought it was...

 

Now, they're back. And they've made a few upgrades to their sinister plans... 

 

DOWNLOAD :: waronxmas2.zip on /idgames

 

A War On Christmas: Part 2 is a 12 (get it?) map sequel to last year's christmas rampage. Featuring the things you loved (or hated!) about the original and much, much more! (Not that much more, actually, but a good amount). 

This wad harnesses the power of UMAPINFO to provide multiple secret maps! Be on the lookout for alternate exits!

 

::FEATURES::
-TWELVE cheery (is that a word?) christmas themed doom levels 

Spoiler

MAP01: Strand
MAP02: Tunnels
MAP03: Santa's Splendid Under-Hallway
MAP04: Carved Under Ice
MAP05: Shore As Ice
MAP06: Junk Factory
MAP07: The Devil's Parish
MAP08: Little La-La Land
MAP09: Elves On Parade
MAP10: The Far Side
MAP11: Dense Distributing
MAP12: The Devil Put Santa Claus Here
Secret maps: [redacted]

Spoiler

click again if you want to know what map has the secret exit 

Spoiler

map06 leads to map21!!! dont tell anybody. 

 

 

-HONORIFIC TITLES: 

Press the HELP key at any time to remind yourself of cool things to do! Any qualifying video or demo posted will be linked below.

Spoiler

Christmas Veteran (kvothesixstring)
Complete the game on ultra-violence.

 

Here for the story (Billa) (Niloquì)
complete any 6 levels with -stroller enabled (pacifist, no strafing, no running)

 

They don't stop!!
complete any 6 levels with -respawn enabled while getting 100% kills and secrets on the intermission screen.

 

Christmas Jitters (Niloquì) (Bredd)
Complete the whole game on Nightmare! mode

 

A Bag of Tricks (Niloquì)
Find Santa's Secret Sanctuary

I Don't Know, Might Need Them Later
Complete the game with 520/520 rockets remaining in your inventory on ultra violence

Too Dense For This (Niloquì)
Complete MAP11 without getting a single key.

 

Snow Dog (ProPiece)
Find any of the hidden woofers.

-NARRATIVE

Enjoy whimsical musings from the player character in between each level!

-EASY MODE!

Don't like challenge in your video games? Enjoy FREE HEALTH AND AMMO all over every level on lower difficulties!

 

Video Trailer: 

 

notes: rc1 rc2 is ALMOST final, but give me a few days of playtesting before recording speed demos. (demos for honorific titles can be posted any time) If you find anything that even LOOKS like a fuckup, let me know in the thread or elsewhere.  rc3 is final, unless something utterly gamebreaking happens. 

 

 

REMINDER, THIS IS A LIMIT-REMOVING WAD IN COMPLEVEL 2. THIS DOES NOT WORK WITH VANILLA.

 

Other possibly interesting wads:

Existential Dread (2022)

A War On Christmas (2022)

I Hate Slaughter (2023)

Autophagy (2023)

PLUTORIUM (wip)

Chex Quest: The Penultimate Breakfast (wip)

The Delirium Dimension (2023)

Edited December 16, 2023 by Andrea Rovenski : idgames

[TheShep]

whoa

[Clippy]

If this is anything like the last one I'm definitely interested was looking for something digestible to play This Christmas

[Death Bear]

Awesome! How exciting! The first one was fun, so here goes another one!

[senpaigru]

This looks awesome. Just downloaded this and the first one as well, gonna give them a go this evening. 

[Pomps]

Playing this right NOW! :D

[mancubian_candidate]

Fantastic stuff, played the first 6 Maps - really enjoying so far, cheers Andrea :)

[VoanHead]

hey, I had plans on playing the 1st part of WoC after I was gonna get done w/ DBP 43 and 19. Nice to see a part 2 for this. merry grunchmas :)

[S3M_XM]

Ah yes, Christmas chaos for the upcoming holidays, I've never played the first part though. But I just finished and I've reported a few things during my gameplay.

MAP11: One of the health bonuses (either Thing 551 or 554) is floating by the Christmas Tree.

MAP12: An intercept overflow can occur if you stand by the door after opening it that leads to the arena.
 

Spoiler

When I was looking at UDB, I've noticed there is secret maps. I played those, but MAP22 was giving me intercept overflows, so I had to play it in Boom format for that map.

 

[OniriA]

Oh.

 

 

[Clippy]

nostalgic 

 

 

[kvothesixstring]

Fun set, you can tell how you have evolved as a mapper. I continue to enjoy your work. Fun to blast through and plenty of speedrunning nonsense to keep my brainrot entertained.

[senpaigru]

played through the first one and the second and they were really fun to play and it was cool to see how you'd grown as a mapper from then to now. good work :)

[No-Man Baugh]

Now THIS is an early Christmas present. The first War on Christmas put you on my map as a mapper and this sequel has put all other Xmas wads right back into the backlog

I did find a softlock on map03's supercharge secret right next to the exit:

Spoiler

 

 

[Andrea Rovenski]

Thank you for all the kind words/videos everyone! I really appreciate it! 

 

16 hours ago, S3M_XM said:

An intercept overflow can occur if you stand by the door after opening it that leads to the arena.

This is not a vanilla wad, this is limit-removing only. You can disable overflow emulation in the options :)

 

13 hours ago, No-Man Baugh said:

I did find a softlock on map03's supercharge secret right next to the exit:

awesome.

 

RC2 UPDATE:

 

-Added TWO new honorific titles:

Spoiler

I Don't Know, Might Need Them Later
Complete the game with 520/520 rockets remaining in your inventory on ultra violence
Too Dense For This
Complete MAP11 without getting a single key.

-Removed intertext from the original games from displaying.

-Map tweaks to ensure items are collectable.

-Added COMPLVL lump to prevent being played on complevel 21 as it has different dehacked behavior that is not intended. The maximum health from medikits and stimpacks should be 100, with bonuses and soulspheres reaching up to 500. Reminder this is a limit-removing wad, and not vanilla, so playing with vanilla overflow emulation does not work.

[Niloquì]

1 hour ago, Andrea Rovenski said:

  Hide contents

Too Dense For This
Complete MAP11 without getting a single key.

 

waronxmas2rc2-11-pacifist-3417.zip

[Andrea Rovenski]

awesome!

 

edit: I posted a finalized version, unless something totally fucked comes up, the wad won't be updated anymore. This means anyone can feel free to record speed demos at this point (or do the elusive -respawn honorific title!)

 

In this final update I added par times and did a once-over check to make sure everything works as it should. 

Edited December 6, 2023 by Andrea Rovenski

[S3M_XM]

4 hours ago, Andrea Rovenski said:

This is not a vanilla wad, this is limit-removing only. You can disable overflow emulation in the options :)

I was playing it on Nugget Doom, I forgot I can actually do that.

[Clippy]

What do you think of my Christmas tree be honest

 

 

[ProPiece]

On 12/5/2023 at 5:12 PM, Andrea Rovenski said:

Snow Dog
Find any of the hidden woofers.

(I hope nomo is still qualified)

wxm209o-dog.zip

[Andrea Rovenski]

1 hour ago, ProPiece said:

(I hope nomo is still qualified)

wxm209o-dog.zip

hi max!! (yes)

[Lingyan203]

idgames release coming?

[Andrea Rovenski]

yeppers, the current zip is finalized and idgames pending

[Deadfish]

Sorry, a dehacked file is not included in your idgames zip folder. Is this normal?

[Andrea Rovenski]

4 hours ago, Deadfish said:

Sorry, a dehacked file is not included in your idgames zip folder. Is this normal?

dehacked is inside the wad itself, so it should be fine

[Deadfish]

Thanks. I was using some stupid mod, which overwrote all the monsters and weapons. So putting the .deh inside the wad was not fool proof against me. Btw, found a OOPS ^^ inside a secret on map 3

[Deadfish]

A archvile sent me flying to candy desert on map 4. Was expecting a secret BFG at minimum.

[Clippy]

OMG this map was epic and probably my fave map of both sets (so far) the constant action and hoards of dudes to shoot and the fight setups were great - this was thrilling and exhilarating

 

good times!

 

 

[Deadfish]

Yeah, I really enjoy War on Christmas 1 and 2. War on Christmas 1 was the second custom doom map I was ever playing and it is really nostalgic.

[Andrea Rovenski]

On 12/8/2023 at 11:31 PM, Deadfish said:

Yeah, I really enjoy War on Christmas 1 and 2. War on Christmas 1 was the second custom doom map I was ever playing and it is really nostalgic.

thank you so much! That is really cool :)