Heyho and welcome to NEWSTUFF!
Your host for today is your most beloved BastetFurry and I am pleased to present you the newest stuff that our fellow Doomers thought of.
We have some very nice releases and some bad ones, the good ones overweighting.
As Bloodshedder told me I ignored the robocop release. For the one who uploads this every week, upload it when its done, damnit!
If I missed someone, sorry, but nobody seems to clean up the newstuff dir and I was a bit puzzled at what is new and what has been rated.
Be easy with me, it's the first time I do something like this.
Yours, BastetFurry
Bloodshedder sez: Looks like he forgot Suspended in Dusk. Don't worry, we'll get this reviewed eventually.
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Cybertronic Water Closet - ToiletMaster
doom.exe - Solo Play - 21857 bytes -
Bad thing first.
This release by "ToiletMaster" would have been acceptable in the beginnings of '94 but today it's utterly crap.
Big room that should resemble a toilet with a big HOM that should simulate a mirror.
Waste of bytes, avoid!
Rating: 1 of 10
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'Divine Malice' Weapons Mod - Mike 'Inuyasha_989' Kasten
ZDoom - Solo Play - 580120 bytes -
A chainsaw that can be turnd off, a better pistol, a realistic automatic rifle with grenade launcher, icebeam and normal beam + rockets from Metroid, the Unmaker, some sort of stupid spreadshoot energy cannon, tripmines and an automatic turret for your arsenal.
I especially liked the two weapons out of Samus Aran's arsenal, especial the ice beam. Sadly the monsters won't wake up after unfreezing but shatter to pieces, but you still can use them as stairs.
The spread cannon just sucks and the graphics are ripped from Shadow Warrior, bleh.
The rest ranges from acceptable to very good, i hope to see some of these in next releases as it would be a waste of work otherwise. ;)
Definitely worth a look!
Rating: 7 of 10
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Italian DooM - Episodio 1 - The Italian Team (Ismaele, Toranaga and Buzzbomber)
ZDoom - Solo Play - 4452369 bytes -
Two thumbs up! Good architecture, nice puzzles and a thorough balance, at least for me ;)
You are in a space station that is under attack by the demons. You need to recover a vessel that has been docked to that station and get your ass to the destination of that planet, an overrun UAC base.
So you get something you don't get often, story, not just dull Blamm-Blamm. Fine for me, more of this.
Even if this release is named Italian Doom, all texts are in English. For reviewing it I just browsed trough this, but I will play it toroughly with more time in my back, promised!
The only minus this map gets is that it uses ripped graphics from various games, under these one I dislike... Duke Nukehimself 3D.
Download! Play! Enjoy!
Rating: 7.5 of 10
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Still Kickin' - Kurt Kessler
Limit Removing - Solo Play - 533253 bytes -
The legend strikes again with a fabulous, too hard for me, release.
It wouldn't been so great with stock textures, but Kurt gives our old beloved game a fresh look with his self-made textures. The map layout is great and there are enough suprises. As you see on the second screeny I died only some meters into the building after I survived a rather large outdoor area, six knights in a cramped room were too much ;)
Play it for yourself and train your skills on this, I will do!
Rating: 10 of 10
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Count of all Official Secrets in commercial Doom games - Ledmeister
Text File/FAQ - n/a - 11629 bytes
A list of all Doom games and the maximum secret percentage you can reach.
Not that interesting if you ask me.
Rating: 3 of 10
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Onslaught Reborn Teaser - Luke "Spike" Cama
ZDaemon - Deathmatch - 299632 bytes -
From Spike comes this rather small deathmatch map.
Looks nice but I am no fan of crowded places.
And the custom sounds in this release are awful.
And by the way, when did newstuff start to accept teasers/betas? ;)
Have a look if you are interested in deathmatching over zDaemon but otherwise it would be a waste of bandwidth and your time.
Rating: 5 of 10
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Scientist 2 - Scientist
doom2.exe - Solo Play - 4275801 bytes -
Very nice mapset that uses the vanilla binary to its extent.
The first 11 maps are nothing new, they are found in sci.wad too.
The later maps are good in quality and i like them. Again I just browsed through them but this will be played too!
Download and enjoy! Skip to MAP12 if you know sci.wad.
Rating: 6 of 10
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CAVES of DEAD - stricke
Limit Removing - Deathmatch - 1215082 bytes -
Three deathmatch levels with an egypt motif in this release by stricke.
A bit bland but the layout seems playable.
Download if you need a new playground but otherwise leave it.
Rating: 5 of 10
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Total Control - Dutch Devil
ZDoom - Solo Play - 2275844 bytes -
Nice new release by Dutch Devil, if you ever happen to be in Essen (the one in NRW) I owe you a beer for this one!
No, this is not only nice, it's a great work by him and it's definitly a must play. Good usage of the scripting engine, very much eye candy, a very nice tune and well balanced. More of this!
Download! Play! Enjoy! Play again!!!
Rating: 10 of 10
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Wrath - Jacob H. Orloff
ZDoom - Solo Play - 73268 bytes -
A rather bland and somewhat easy release for zDoom by Jacob.
What does it say about the appearance of crates and the length you have to play to see them?
Download if you are bored.
Rating: 3 of 10
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Bloodlust - Wallace
Skulltag - Deathmatch - 8563 bytes -
Wallace, should this be a joke or what?
Simplest architecture, just a Y placed into an editor.
Avoid!
Rating: 2 of 10
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Europe - DooMknight
Limit Removing - Solo Play - 1013234 bytes -
This is huge. And I mean it!
You have got a large complex and a large city full of monsters for your pleasure. There are 1725 monsters, according to "kill monsters" on this map.
With more detail in all the hallways this could even been a 10 but besides the city the hallways on the first part of the map are a bit dull.
And fix that damn maphole bug in the "bridge out" area! Try another nodebuilder.
Nice release, grab it if you want to spend some hours inside this.
Kudos to the one who tries a 100% speedrun.
Rating: 7 of 10
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Mountain Base - PunchyFox
No Engine Stated - Solo Play - 130144 bytes -
Nice release if this is supposed to be a beginner release, could use some less grid usage but otherwise its playable. A bit short for my taste.
And next time use a better sky texture.
Download if you are bored.
Rating: 5 of 10
This concludes this weeks newstuff.
Enough for you all to play the whole week till next newstuff.
Bastet off playing Total Control!
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