Odamex 0.5 officially released

NICE

So, if I play Odamex, will I experience vanilla-like multiplayer gameplay, with no bullcrap like freelook, jumping and so on, that would make Doom imitate Quake? I'm especially interested so I CANNOT make rockets hit the ground, I CANNOT get easy BFG sprays etc.

printz said:

So, if I play Odamex, will I experience vanilla-like multiplayer gameplay, with no bullcrap like freelook, jumping and so on, that would make Doom imitate Quake? I'm especially interested so I CANNOT make rockets hit the ground, I CANNOT get easy BFG sprays etc.

These options exist in Odamex but are disabled on almost all of the servers. Out of the box settings have all of these things disabled.

I will likely be organizing large ffa events on weekends soon so if you don't get an opportunity to give it a shot before then, hopefully you can pop in for one of these events and experience Doom the way it was supposed to be played (the exception being a much higher player count) :)

For those of you who are on the fence about Odamex, I used to have the worst kind of connection issues with it, with lag and disconnections all over the place. Those kinds of issues have vanished with 0.5 (I've been playing SVN releases over the past week or two), and it's rock solid these days.

printz said:

So, if I play Odamex, will I experience vanilla-like multiplayer gameplay, with no bullcrap like freelook, jumping and so on, that would make Doom imitate Quake? I'm especially interested so I CANNOT make rockets hit the ground, I CANNOT get easy BFG sprays etc.

Unfortunately, you can still change your player color to something other than green/indigo/brown/red and there are more than four players on a server. It also supports crosshairs and resolutions bigger than 320x200. So no. :)

(By the way, not being able to aim the BFG ball vertically using freelook is a standard feature on practically any port.)

I like the new look of the launcher.

Hmm, I first read "This new version of Odamex introduces dozens of bugs..." Hell of an announcement, that. ;)

Nonseriousness aside, I'm itching to give this guy a try now, considering my recent Chocolate Doom wad-playing spree has softened my mouselook habits.

Awesome I may have to give this a try. I enjoy skulltag but its compatibility just isn't what I'm looking for. I've used Odamex a little in the past and I will give it another go.

I just wish the servers were more active than they are because playing Multiplayer doom as classically as possible is just a great experience.

TendaMonsta said:

I just wish the servers were more active

If you hang out in #odamex more you would see more games like this, this, or EVEN THIS

http://www.doomworld.com/vb/images/avatars/Rammie.GIF

Congratulations on the new release, fellas. Odamex feels a lot nicer to me compared to Skulltag and Zdaemon, and reminds me of my old CSDoom 0.6 and 0.7 days.

Now all that is needed is for every server to be running dwango5...

...with a tntblood or tntgrvnc server here and there.

=D