Biggest DOOM wad out there?

[Der Gillster]

I was wondering what was the biggest doom wad out there in terms of file size? I know there some big megawads in excess of 20 Mb, but does there exist a gigawad? A wad where it may simulate actual areas in terms of size? If not, what is the biggest wad in terms of size you have ever known, seen or played? The biggest one I ever played was desolation at 70 Mb.

[GreyGhost]

Biggest I can find quickly is Damnation at 244.5MB. Gigawads exist but the few I've seen are the work of trolls, just one or two small maps and lots of null space to eat your RAM.

[Never_Again]

Damnation.wad is 250 MB unzipped but the maps themselves are only 16 MB. That should tell you something.

[Memfis]

Aeons of Death 6 is 314 MB in *.pk3 form, I guess even more if you extract it.

[GreyGhost]

Only 10MB more.

[Xaser]

I feel like a more interesting discussion would be the "biggest" mod in terms of content/playtime/whatnot, as opposed to pure filesize.

Granted, you'd have to impose some restrictions to make sure that 300,000 Levels doesn't take the cake. :P

[pcorf]

My Great Urban Battle map is one of the largest levels out there in physical size, not linedefs or sectors.

[SleepyVelvet]

Memfis said:

314 MB in *.pk3

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