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Egyptian themed maps are my jam so I gave this a go; it's a great little set overall, had a lot of fun playing through first on UV and then UV with coop monsters. Your difficulty assessment is pretty spot on, it's pretty laid back but with plenty of hectic moments to keep you on your toes. You really do seem to like that crossfire gameplay mechanic to keep the player moving. The coop monsters make the maps a little bit beefier, but not actually that much more difficult I feel. It was my second playthrough so I did have the advantage of overall foreknowledge and there weren't any surprise coop extra monster moments (even the second AV in map05 I was kind of expecting). The music choices in the wad are excellent, digging the Greek folk type vibes and it makes the set more distinct from e.g. the Epics. Visually everything looks great and you've done an excellent job of creating a believable "realistic" ancient Egypt environment. Great work! Some misc commentary for each map below in spoilers: FDAs in the attachment, played with dsda-doom 0.26.2. The zip includes demos for both playthroughs. My laptop had some serious issues with map01 for some reason making it super laggy, so both map01 demos probably look a bit weird. In the coop UV map03 demo I forgot you respawn rather than restart upon death but I was pretty much finished with the map anyway so I just cleaned up and exited rather than start over. FDA_sekhemti_01-06.zip

This was a lot of fun. Very well balanced, not too difficult but vey engaging all the way through. I dig the RL and PG centric gameplay, pretty much allows you to pick the pace yourself and leaves room for very aggressive play. Good work once again! FDAs for all maps in the attachment, played on UV with dsda-doom 0.26.2 FDA_Scorn_01-10.zip

DSDA page aka urdpfix // ur Do not run the idgames version of this for DSDA submission, it is out of date. The version hosted on DSDA is the most up-to-date. Also the wad might warrant its own thread since it's very speedrun-friendly and likely to garner some attention, but I don't know if I'm one to make that call. Anyway, here's a bunch of stuff I did yesterday. Most of them were pretty quick and easy. The zipfile includes: Map11 Pacifist in 0:34 Map12 NM-Speed in 0:03 Map17 UV-Speed in 0:31 Map23 NM-Speed in 0:03 Map24 Pacifist in 0:29 Map26 Pacifist in 0:18 Map29 Pacifist in 0:06 7urdemos.zip

Yeah this is pretty damn good. Really fun fast-paced gameplay and looks great too. I managed to find a couple of those super-secret chaos mode thingies but unfortunately only after everything was dead. Something to test on the second playthrough... A couple of things I noticed: I found out that you can somewhat cheese the RK ambush in map04 by triggering it from above, which I assume is not intended. I feel like it makes things quite a bit easier, though still not completely trivial. There's a floating energy cell in map08 near the beginning, it's shown late in my FDA when I'm finished with the map other than secret hunting. Recorded FDAs with glboom+ cl2. FDA_glaive3_01-10.zip

Category 1 Finished in 60:06 DWIronman_BeyondRevival_Veinen.zip

Map09 UV-max in 0:19 3264k09-019.zip Map16 UV-max in 0:20 3264k16-020.zip Map25 UV-max in 0:14 3264k25-014.zip

Map04 UV-max in 0:16 3264k04-016.zip Map05 UV-max in 0:14 3264k05-014.zip Map07 UV-max in 0:18 3264k07-018.zip Map08 UV-max in 0:08 3264k08-008.zip

Map03 UV-max in 0:11 3264k03-011.zip

Map27 UV-max in 0:09 3264k27-009.zip

Played through this today (on UV), some really fun and fast-paced stuff you have here! Lots of bloodletting with some moderately mean traps here and there but still very manageable even in a blind playthrough. Great layouts as well, the way the maps open up is pretty neat. I believe I may have found one small thing to fix; a softlock (I think?) early on in map01, see attached demo (DSDA doom) for demonstration. ps. sorry for the nauseatingly janky movement in the demo, I'm still trying to get used to DSDA doom's mouse sensitivity which is rather different from prboom+ that I'm so used to. Caff_01_softlock.zip

Just played through this and enjoyed it a lot. Lovely Scythe-like medium sized levels with good action, neat aesthetics and definite old school vibes. Not very tough overall but the third episode does start turning the heat a little bit with Rev, AV and Cyber density increasing noticeably. Also liked your style with secrets and how accessible they all were, quite easy to find most of them if you just pay a little bit of attention and use the automap for clues. Great work! I recorded FDA demos for each map (attached), if such are of interest. Played on UV with glboom+ 2.5.1.3. FDA_nostalgia_01-32.zip

Category 1 finished (map15) in 44:46. Tried to play fast, which moderately well I guess. Backfired a bit in a few maps where I just got confused and lost due to not paying enough attention in certain areas. Last map had me sweating a bit until I finally found the way. DWIronman_Intime_Veinen.zip

Here's my effort, category 1 and dead on map10 with 191 kills. I've played very little doom all year so surprised to get even this far. Fatigue and stupidity killed me in the end, which was to be expected. Seems like a fun mapset though, one of the many I'm sure that I have missed in my inactivity. DWIronman_Vigor_Veinen.zip

I finished RC1 a while ago but forgot to post. Had a really good time with this overall, I have always liked your mapping style a lot and this classic & chill version is no different in that. Very much easygoing as advertised and that was exactly what I needed after a few months of zero dooming. Excellent stuff as always! Attached are my UV FDAs for RC1, dunno if they are of any use at this point though. Recorded with prboom+ 2.5.1.3. FDA_AR_RC1_01-32.zip

@valkiriforce Quick heads up: map02 has a tag 0 linedef (574) with W1 Door Open Stay action, which completely breaks the map if you happen to cross it (at least in prboom+ 2.5.1.3). Not exactly in the main path but secret hunters might stumble upon it. FDA attached for evidence. Also sector 97 as secret in the same map seems like a mistake. FDA_AR_RC1_02.zip

DSDA page End Point map01 max in 1:59 map02 max in 3:46 enpo01-02.zip

Really good exploration-heavy map with a festive theme. The "realistic" style is very well done and there are a lot of little details to love, especially all the doomcute stuff and of course the BFG factory part. I admit skipping the op's objective description but I got enough hint from the exit gate to understand what needed to be done, although I was briefly confused as to what to do when I completed the first area. The map is not particularly difficult, mostly just incidental combat with plenty of supplies, but it's fine and I suppose fitting for this stealthy delivery mission. I feel like I went through the map in a kind of a backwards order since I went to the factory floor section first which is the most heavily populated area and has the most threatening encounter in the map. Wouldn't call that an issue and I think it fits the theme to have an open layout, just a little unexpected to have something of a climax combat-wise so early. Enjoyed this very much, so thanks and well done! My FDA in the attachment, recorded with glboom+ on UV. FDA_drlzoros.zip

Damn these tricky speedrunners and their filthy speedrunning tricks! Seriously though, nice route improvement. I remember looking at that map in an editor and noting those unfortunate linedefs at the beginning that block better route options but trying the linedef skip didn't really even cross my mind. "Tricks" aren't really something I tend to actively look for in max routes but I guess that needs to change huh...

I agree with this (and the rest of the complevel stuff in KD's post) and it's the principle I have been generally following myself when doing demos. Obviously the provided complevel is the preferred one but if it leads to issues which can be solved by using another compatibility setting, then I think switching to the other complevel should be the baseline way to go. More often than not that'll be perfectly reasonable and doesn't really change the maps in any meaningful way (and no, I don't consider slightly annoying boom monster behavior as meaningful). Ultimately it should be a case by case evaluation of course since there are probably cases where switching complevels does fundamentally change some other part of the map (e.g. trivializing some encounter due to boom ledges, insane lost soul flooding of some area) but I mean, reporting and discussion is encouraged if the runner has any doubts.

dac3 UV-max in 5:20 dac3-520.zip

Category 1, UV, survived in a leisurely paced 70:12 with no deaths in deathpits or otherwise. Pretty fun mapset, though to say this retains just some of Doom 2's feel might be an understatement... DWIE_wicked0_Veinen.zip

mek-dom1 UV-max in 6:52 mekdom1-652.zip

SINERGY e4m8 UV-max in 2:56 And that's that for the Sinergy IL max table. s4g8-256.zip

SINERGY e4m7 UV-max in 4:32 s4g7-432.zip

SINERGY e4m6 UV-max in 2:38 s4g6-238.zip