The /newstuff Chronicles #258

A couple of things:

• BrDoom isn't the first wad from Brazil.
  
• Congestion 1024 requires a Boom-compatible port.

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Edit: Damn you! I never were so close.

nothing really intresting this week either, except ofcource skulltagCFTpack and that 1024 contest wad, but i had already played that one...

Grazza said:

• BrDoom isn't the first wad from Brazil.
  
• Congestion 1024 requires a Boom-compatible port.

• The text file claims it is, but heh, who really cares?
  
• I'll change this in a second.

duncan said:

Namely that I’m a complete sadass as I actually played through all 32!

Heh, I did that too and rather strangley, I found it quite compelling and even quite inventive as it went along. Sort of.

There was one level I couldn't complete. I don't remember which one it was but I think the door needed a key but I couldn't find it (I know, I know). I used IDDT on the automap and it looked like there was another item on the map right beside me but I couldn't see it in the game screen or pick it up. This happened in GZdoom and, frankly, I couldn't be bothered to check the map in the editor or another port to see what might be wrong.

lol fifth post!

I played all of this shit last week, when it was cool. And no NimRod:Project Doom review?

What's up with Paul Corfiatis' little outburst in the review section of Selfish X-Former? It was an average level and as such I gave it 3 stars. Hasn't he ever gotten any even mildly negative critisism? Well, probably not :-)

Congestion 1024 wins the week!

It's one of those WADs that's really nice and refreshing to play after trudging through a map with 10000 sectors.

Oh my God... I can't believe someone made 'WOW 2'... I have one question about that .wad, though - Where the heck is the illusio-pit!? It's not true to WOW.wad if there's no illusio-pit!

Anyways, Congestion 1024 r teh win.

Some notes

Hell Gate's first few maps are actually good, and BRDoom requires legacy/gzdoom.

Skul said:

Oh my God... I can't believe someone made 'WOW 2'... I have one question about that .wad, though - Where the heck is the illusio-pit!? It's not true to WOW.wad if there's no illusio-pit!

Anyways, Congestion 1024 r teh win.

My rendition of wow.wad is much, much better...it has an illusio-pit, but no HOM effect, thank goodness. It's kind of a funny thing, the way I made it.

Don't worry, it's not a single release...it's a secret level instead.

Yeah, it's not wow without the illusio-pit. Jimi should amend that and reupload.

-_DLD_- said:

My rendition of wow.wad is much, much better...it has an illusio-pit, but no HOM effect, thank goodness. It's kind of a funny thing, the way I made it.

How does it compare to my attempt?

The thing just blew out of my hands with awesome details, but I'll fix it with the super illusio pit... ... ...

It will be so illusionary it will blow out your minds from your heads and it's much more hallucinating than acid soup with magick mushrooms.

While we're on the whole wow.wad thing, you can try my attempt at a sequel as well. :p

http://doomrisen.deep-ice.com/doompics/huzzah.zip

Grazza said:

How does it compare to my attempt?

Your attempt rules. It's so bugged to death, heh. Mine doesn't have any errors in it, but it's very similar to wow.wad. Agent Spork called it "The Best Map Ever".

Maybe someone should make an episode out of crappy wow-type maps. Starting off (or maybe finishing) with wow.wad itself. Other maps would be called things like wtf.wad, omg.wad, rofl.wad and maybe even omgwtfbbq.wad.

Who's up for the 'challenge'?

Just take mockery.wad and tack wow.wad, wow2.wad, and other such atrocities on it to make it 32 levels.

There's more than enough shit wads out there to make us want to gouge our eyes out, so there's no need to add yet more of them to the pool.

Why people even release such pieces of crap is beyond me, except for good mappers doing it as an intentional joke.

I'd never release something like that, even if I did make it on purpose...unless it was a secret level in a decent megawad.

duncan said:

Divine Intervention 2 - Fiend
EDGE - n/a - 1189 KB
An improvement on the original weapon set which, for those who like that kind of thing, I’m sure will be a worthwhile download. Personally, due to my long running feud with Edge, I was unable to open this.

I'm very surprised by that comment since the latest EDGE releases are rock-solid, even for people like me who have a long tradition of problems with EDGE. I assume you're using the latest RC release, right? Are you telling me all three builds crash on you?

duncan - next time you're doing t/nc and there's a EDGE wad, PM me and I'll do it.

MAP32 of the 1024 WAD crashes Eternity. I'm using the 3.33.02 "Warrior" build, and I think it's the latest, and it crashes when I suicide into the void.

And wow, what a difference a year or two makes. Back then, I wasn't 100% sure that ZDaemon CTF would see the light of day, it now has a megawad's worth of content and it's one of the most popular maps on ZDaemon, period. Even though Part 3 was handled by people other than myself (though I did make two maps for it), it's no less of an awesome achivement.

duncan said:

Br Doom[/b] - Logan MTM
doom2.exe - Solo Play - 782 KB - (img)
Well, the first ever Brazilian map--and it’s not too bad. Some of the areas are quite nice looking. Gameplay can be a bit over the top sometimes, with rooms crammed full of mancubi and hell knights and nothing in terms of detail, and gameplay proves linear at most times. A good start, however--and certainly the best wad ever to come from Brazil! ;)

Correct me if I'm wrong, man, but doesn't Daniel, author of titles like 'ARMAS DE JOGOS (Game Weapons)', 'Female DOOM' and 'Neo DOOM' among several others, come from Brazil?

Ariel.

Ouch, I remember that thread. And I wasn't even on ZDaemon back then. (which was somewhat fortunate given the thread's content)

Congestion 1024... this idea sounds like ripped from the One Room Contest.

Even though some of the maps clearly don't take place inside one room?

TheDarkArchon said:

duncan - next time you're doing t/nc and there's a EDGE wad, PM me and I'll do it.

Thank you, that would be a great help

To be truly honest, I'm lost with EDGE. I'm not at all technically minded and am therefore unaware which versions are out and which aren't due to my inability to function it as a whole.
Heh, I guess I'm just stupid :(