ZDaemon Thursday Night Survival #296 - Doom 2 Redux (Part I)

[TeamTNS]

 

Loosely basing its maps on the levels in Doom 2, this fresh megawad remakes them with more detailing and a bit more deadly gameplay to appeal to the modern-day player. Join us as we play through the first half this Thursday.

 

The mapset is very close to the final release, so feel free to post your comments and possible bug reports in the WAD thread.

 

DMFLAGS: 1174487140 / 806496256 / 0
Skill: Ultra Violence
IWAD: doom2 or freedoom080
PWADs: d2reduxbeta_v1_3_2
Maps: 01-15, 31-32
Lives: 1
Players: 25/100
Item Respawn Time: 60 Seconds
Player Join Limit: 3 Minutes

 

Date: 13th April 2017

 

Euro session: 19:00 BST/14:00 EDT at [L@P], Germany (usually lasts over 6 hours)

 

Get ZDaemon and join in.

Edited December 5, 2017 by TeamTNS

[Tracer]

I would love to be there for this.  But I have never played online with ZDaemon before and have no idea how to do it.  Can someone explain to me how to do it?

 

Also, what time is the non-European session?

[Tristan]

ZDaemon can be downloaded from the link at the bottom of the post. You have to register an account, which you do when first opening the launcher. There's a list of servers in the launcher, and you just need to look for the L@P TNS 296 server when the session starts (it's password locked before start time, though). You'll also need to place the DOOM2 IWAD in ZDaemon's wads directory, else it'll use some ancient version of freedoom instead.

 

There is no US session - seems the 100-200 ping never bothered the US players as they always just joined the Euro session instead. As such, the US server was a tomb for years until it was discontinued.

[Doomkid]

Trace, check the multiplayer tutorial thread out if you need any further details, it explains in depth how to set up your launcher so that all populated servers are at the top of the list, how to set your wad directories, how to set player color and other preferences as well. I recommend using IDE or DE for connecting to servers since it has an easy but detailed interface.

[Tracer]

Gotcha.  I'll try to be there as long as I get my homework done.

[nxGangrel]

If you may, please use the updated beta version; 1.3.2. A few maps have been fixed/updated.

[Keyboard_Doomer]

Thanks for the quick fixes, OP updated. MAP09 still has missing player 2-4 starts but it's not a big problem.

 

To check coop starts (and a lot of other useful stuff) yourself, use tnswutil:

 

tnswutil -c coopstarts -w D2REDUXbeta.v1.3.2.WAD

 

output:

 

---MAP01 3 1 1 1
---MAP02 1 1 1 1
---MAP03 1 1 1 1
---MAP04 1 1 1 1
---MAP05 1 1 1 1
---MAP06 12 1 1 1
---MAP07 2 1 1 1
---MAP08 1 1 1 1
---MAP09 2 0 0 0
---MAP10 1 1 1 1
---MAP11 1 1 1 1
---MAP12 1 1 1 1
---MAP13 2 1 1 1
---MAP14 2 1 1 1
---MAP15 1 1 1 1
---MAP16 1 1 1 1
---MAP17 1 1 1 1
---MAP18 1 1 1 1
---MAP19 1 1 1 1
---MAP20 3 1 1 1
---MAP21 2 1 1 1
---MAP22 1 1 1 1
---MAP23 1 1 1 1
---MAP24 3 1 1 1
---MAP25 11 1 1 1
---MAP26 2 1 1 1
---MAP27 1 1 1 1
---MAP28 1 1 1 1
---MAP29 1 1 1 1
---MAP30 1 1 1 1
---MAP31 1 1 1 1
---MAP32 1 1 1 1

[nxGangrel]

I would like to mention since I keep noticing things in the wad that need to be updated, or mappers update levels on their own, I have been re-uploading Version 1.3.2 with updates without changing the name so the link url remains the same. So for the server, if you already have downloaded 1.3.2, you might want to re download it in case you have any bugs. I won't update the wad any further until a couple more days.

[Tracer]

I would like to add that Map30 is going to undergo an update tonight.  Any idea when part II of the playthrough is going to take place?

[Tristan]

Probably the 27th.

[rhinoduck]

The RNG was feeling creative tonight xD

 

[Keyboard_Doomer]

Session statistics for this week:
 
First blood:
ErisFalling | in MAP03, shot by a sergeant 2 seconds after joining
 
First blood in subsequent rotas:
2nd rota (-fast and 2x damage): ultimus | went boom 5 seconds after joining
3rd rota (total randomization): lmp_Jaeger | couldn't dodge a destructor's rocket 8 seconds after joining
 
Peak server population:
31
 
Overall number of players that connected during the session:
135
 
Player death counts by obituaries (1st rota/2nd rota/3rd rota):

        7 killed themselves. (5/0/2)
        2 melted. (1/0/1)
        50 died. (4/15/31)
        22 mutated. (14/3/5)
        1 was squished. (1/0/0)
        7 went boom. (2/4/1)
        19 should have stood back. (6/4/9)
        9 were killed by a zombieman. (0/9/0)
        34 were shot by a sergeant. (4/30/0)
        55 were perforated by a chaingunner. (10/45/0)
        4 were slashed by an imp. (1/3/0)
        40 were burned by an imp. (1/39/0)
        9 were bit by a demon. (1/8/0)
        23 were eaten by a spectre. (0/23/0)
        7 were spooked by a lost soul. (2/4/1)
        1 got too close to a cacodemon. (1/0/0)
        21 were smitten by a cacodemon. (2/19/0)
        5 were punched by a revenant. (0/3/2)
        31 couldn't evade a revenant's fireball. (3/25/3)
        17 were squashed by a mancubus. (1/15/1)
        16 let an arachnotron get them. (2/14/0)
        6 were gutted by a Hell Knight. (5/1/0)
        27 were splayed by a Hell Knight. (2/22/3)
        2 were ripped open by a Baron of Hell. (0/0/2)
        17 were bruised by a Baron of Hell. (1/15/1)
        33 were incinerated by an archvile. (2/13/18‌)
        2 stood in awe of the spider demon. (0/2/0)
        36 were splattered by a cyberdemon. (2/5/29)
        2 were surprised by the zombie's weaponry. (0/0/2)
        0 were mauled by a Mauler Demon. (0/0/0)
        0 were charred by a pain soul. (0/0/0)
        1 was melted by a pain soul. (0/0/1)
        1 suffered psychic trauma from an aracnorb's brainwaves. (0/0/1)
        2 were perforated by an Arachnophyte. (0/0/2)
        100 couldn't dodge a destructor's rocket. (1/0/99)
        1 was terminated by the Badass Cyberdemon. (0/0/1)
        --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        610 deaths overall. (74/321/215)

Session lasted for 12 hours and 17 minutes and ended in the 3rd rota with the last map played being MAP09. Last finished map was MAP08.
 
 

top 10 players with most deaths (deaths/joins, death ratio):

fred512          57/78, 73.08%
Keyboard_Doomer  35/57, 61.40%
rhinoduck        30/34, 88.24%
Malfunction      25/31, 80.65%
ErisFalling      25/34, 73.53%
SPAZ             25/41, 60.98%
sid0rv           17/19, 89.47%
DaIcemann76      17/29, 58.62%
aprosekin        17/42, 40.48%
Revenant100      15/18, 83.33%

 

[rhinoduck]

Forgot to post one more late night/early morning funny moment; I seem to be getting a lot of tightly fitting orbiting projectiles lately.

 

Also, the "spongebob had a new one ripped." obituary will probably stay in my memory for some time xD

[Rosh Fragger]

Part 2 was even more epic this week!