Bryan T

This is pretty hardcore. It reminds me of Hell Revealed.

You'll have better luck on the zdoom forums. For custom inventory items you need to use decorate. You can look at any mod that has such code and learn by looking, that's how most people learn I expect. https://zdoom.org/wiki/Classes:CustomInventory

Contrary to popular belief, Guncaster is actually easier on slaughtermaps due to gold overload. You can essentially just buy extremespheres and sprint through each level killing every room near instantly.

Going Down

I love these simple maps, you can't get lost. You can get through 32 maps in a short amount of time. It gets quite difficult, surprised me. Much harder than zone 300. My first death was when the 9 barons lowered from the walls. The second was the Mancubus room where they spawn all around you. I really don't see how someone can survive that one. The later levels keep piling it on but by that time I was decked out, playing Guncaster. Video if interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edgPd4pHwEI

Hellbound Dark Encounters

This, like all your work, was great. Just rampaged my way through it. I only got lost once. I believe it was map07, I couldn't get the yellow key. Aside from that, smooth sailing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv1oLcxQ-Ow

Not sure if it's been mentioned, I scanned the thread though. I use 8MBGMSFX, I like the modern feel, makes a midi sound like an mp3 and doesn't seem to accentuate anything or drown out sounds. Here's a link if you want to hear it: http://www.alsa-project.org/~james/sound-fonts/8MBGMSFX.SF2 Somebody made a nice video comparing soundfonts in doom which includes said soundfont.

This is a very good looking map, must've taken a while to make this. It has a cramped style, not my cup of tea but I can respect it. The gzdoom'isms are always nice to see. Very nonlinear, maybe a bit too much. We'll see, I only played about 5 minutes and wrote this. I intend on playing it through later today, hopefully won't get turned around. Well, I played it. Got turned around after grabbing the red key. Ran back through the sewer thinking I had forgotten something... Anyway, it was fun. I started to get used to the crampedness of it after a bit. I thought I was recording it but when I got out of the game I realized I forgot to start the recording... 30 minutes down the tubes.

zdoom 2.8.1 might be too old for that. Just so you know, gzdoom can look similar to zdoom, just switch to software render in the display options. I recall seeing someone releasing a newer version of zdoom but I can't find anything on that.

This was pretty great. Hordes of enemies, interesting levels for the most part. I played on HMP and it was pretty damn hard. I couldn't figure out how to finish map 5 so I skipped to 6. That boss was a shock, made the cyberdemon next to him look puny. The only flaw I see is the doors that close too quick. There were quite a few times where I'm trying to shoot the guys in the next room and the damn door keeps closing. Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxnpixAIjSI

Here's a video of your wad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwEBPOCpXhU My overall thoughts on this is "mundane".

I made it to map14 before calling it quits. It feels too familiar, I got bored pretty easily. The lift in the corner of map06 wouldn't register unless I ran into it, so I was running all around wondering where to go. That annoyed the shit out of me.