The /newstuff Chronicles #15

"Even if it is plain DOOM, it might be worth the quick download, ..."

huh?

Hmm I wonder if the author listens to Aphex Twin...

He has made a remix called HeadPhuq remix I think ;)

I swear, Pixel should be editing levels for Doom3. beautiful!

I want opinions on my level. Please feel free to comment on me, positive or negative, so that i can improve it and make other levels better, and that i know which elements i must preserve in my wads.

De Zeurkous
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Friggin' Machines!

Looks excellent! Though it could use a little more lighting variation, but that'd be too picky ;)

I think a six to eight player deathmatch would make the level really fun. Very nice layout, and very few of those decorations that hinder gameplay (that I always complain about). Very nice!

Looks well done, but very basic.

Those bowed hallways are very hard to navigate, and the regular hallways leading to the teleporters are just too narrow for good deathmatch.

I usually aim to make hallways so at least two, but usually three people can walk side by side for deathmatch levels. This allows people to run around and strafe, makes for more fun DM (IMO of course).

The texture selection is ok, but I don't like the mix of the red brick and cobble stone looking textures, they don't make entirely a lot of sense together (modern bricks and midieval cobble).

The biggest thing that's missing is height variation in floors, the level is just too flat. Could use rounder rooms (or add some non-square rooms to give better variation and 'flavor' to the arena).

The lighting looks ok, but could use some light sources for the hallways where it's a little brighter in the middle.

Weapon placement is ok too, but since the level is so small, it's hard to judge.

It's an ok level, but not playable for me because of the tight hallways.

Hope that helps some! Keep working to make better stuff, don't give up!

Prower: I had to skim on the lighting, the architecture was so complicated that any good lighting will require lots of cross-elevation sector-splitting. Not to mention there were lots of light sources =

In otherwords, I was too lazy to spend that type of time ;-)

Opulent: Heh, curves would have been nice in there ;-)

I have some comments on the comments Fanatic posted. The level was meant to have 4 small and one something bigger arenas. And if you get caught in the hallways, you can always take a teleporter. Another reason for the teleporters is to telefrag someone just respawning ;) There is definitly light sourcing in the hallways, but i must admit you wont see it without a good close look near the teleporters. Originally the medival bricks as floor where meant as a street flat, i cant find an more appropriate flat for it, if you know one tell me please. My intention was to get a colorful brick texture by the 4 small open areas to make look it really "outside" and to have a dark texture in the dark hallways. I wont say you are not right, because i am not experienced much, althought i made a few levels and am working on a project...

De Zeurkous
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Friggin' Machines!

Any Comments welcome about bitebwad, Be has bruital as you like...

FrenzyDM.. Yes, it is very, very beautiful.. Siiiigh... Sometimes I just wish people wouldn't spend all of their creative juices on deathmatch levels...

Here are ur comments ;). It is good, good and VERY VERY GOOD. I love them.

De Zeurkous
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Friggin' Machines!

Nice one Pixel! It's great to see you aren't afraid to put a little color in your levels :)

i am trying to send email to news@doomworld.com but i recieve back a failure notice which tells me the mailbox has exceeded the disk quota. Anyone knows how to tell the Doomworld crew? Oh, wait, i just did :-)

For god's sake, what does it take to get a decent POP3 account set up.. Yeesh. I'll delete some mail.

Why don't you set "Remove mail from server when downloaded"?

Hopefully the 10 Sectors Megawad will be in the next batch of "The Newstuff Chronicles"...

Thanks Zeurkous!

Anyone else? ;-)

Because ICQmail is web-based.

Very good wads. With all the megawads these days pushing the limits, it was fun playing those simple wads, even if only for the few minutes it took to play. nifty lighting, too.

walka walka walka walka
BOOYAH!
w00t w00t

Hey AndrewB, how about creating a killfile? And what's the size limit of that account anyway?

"For god's sake, what does it take to get a decent POP3 account set up.. Yeesh. I'll delete some mail."

I just gave prower head.

I think you only had to ask for an account.

Afterglow: d'oh!