Vile1011

I had plans for doing something like this but lost interest before finishing (or even adding any monsters). Maps 1-3, ZDoom. Most things aren't working and you may need to clip/warp to get around. When you get into the "tunnel" press the back wall and you will start to move. https://mega.nz/#!TUpnVZpD!gIwXffKrk5Jpb4h38FTtzpZjnLREvIVFm9E_lxUGT44

Not bad gameplay wise. Map32 is pretty fun and suprisingly fair for the number of monsters it has. There's some HOM here and there (I remember seeing some in map1's mancubus pool and in one of the corners of the courtyard in map32), and a few doortrak textures that need to be unpegged.

I think I fixed most of these problems. Thanks everyone for playtesting! http://www.mediafire.com/download/qm183b9aobp40od/vile_lib2.zip

Edit: I've made a new version that fixes the things that the people in this thread found. If nothing's terribly broken I'll submit this IDGames soon. http://www.mediafire.com/download/qm183b9aobp40od/vile_lib2.zip ------------ After not mapping for several years I've suddenly developed the urge to get back into it. I had a bad habit of going overboard with the complexity of my levels before, so I kept this map fairly small and gave myself only a month to finish it. I wanted to post the wad here to get some feedback before I send it to /newstuff. A limit removing port is all that's required. The map itself is non-linear but should be fairly easy to navigate, and it should provide a decent challenge. How do you guys pick out music for your wads? I'm having a hard time thinking of a song that fits the atmosphere. http://www.mediafire.com/download/ineav3kbbchb86m/vile_lib.zip

Good advice, the snagging borders will definitely be fixed, among other things.

Yeah, that's it. It's just a matter of finding all these misalignments. Btw in honor of getting stuck by getting onto a ledge looking for secrets, I will put a secret there. And also make it so you can't get stuck.

Were you able to actually land on the platforms? I tried to prevent that from being possible. (edit, yes it is possible. I'll fix that in the release, but you're not supposed to be able to get to the platforms by jumping off the elevator) Yeah I keep on finding more unalignments, I'll get those all lined up before this hits /newstuff. I'm using DoomBuilder, has the community moved on to a better editor? It only just dawned on me that my map has no secrets. I'll add a few in. Not to mention a little extra health at the start. And for your spoiler question: because why not?

Really nice! Pretty well balanced throughout and good use of traps.

I think you're just an extra ammo pack or two away from a winner here. I spent most of the map down to just a few bullets and shells and only made it out by running into a safe corner as soon as I got the berzerker and then just punching whatever came by.

I probably went overboard on the detail, but I haven't mapped in years and just had to get it all out of my system. http://www.mediafire.com/download/x7ga7k7vpsg2ztg Tested under zdoom but it should work under any limit removing source port.

Seconding the question about the due date. I've been out of mapping for a good six or seven years and this would be a great way to get back into it!

So after all this time I find out that I uploaded the wrong file for the apartments wad. Well, the level is supposed to end after the courtyard anyway and I think all I did was just fill in some missing textures.

I'm looking for some people to test out my new wad. It's very big, so I'm sure there's some texture bugs I missed. UV and HMP are both implemented, although it's meant to be played on UV. Requires the latest version of ZDoom. I hope to release this to newstuff in about a week, but I'll listen to any suggestions anyone has until then. I spent a lot of time trying to perfect the gameplay, but I suppose not everyone has the same idea of what good gameplay is. Download: http://rapidshare.de/files/8521558/vile_pwrout.zip.html And some screens:

Oh well, I'm in no hurry to release this anyway. The whole thing turned out to be a huge disaster, so I may just put the fixed version for download here and skip newstuff altogether.

There is an auto-save directly before the hell knight battle you know, so its not that big a deal to get killed and try again. What I will do is make the shells more visible, instead of being at the ends of the T-hallway, they'll be along the middle, so you'll pick them up automatically as you're running away from the knights.

A power-up sound for starting up the generators, and maybe a sound for the two pumps that lead to the plasma gun. Various machinery noises wouldn't hurt either. Thanks.

I think it has a good degree of non-linearity once you turn on enough generators. As for storyline, you'll have to wait for Sanity Bleeds to come out for that.

I wanted more sounds too. Anyone know of any more free sound effects archives? I found one, but it didn't have too many usable sounds.

Hmm, yeah, better idea. Reason 2 for putting that there was to prevent the player from wandering too far when the lights were off(if the candles weren't a hint enough). Not that they could get anywhere, but I wanted that part to be as linear as possible so people wouldn't get lost.

I'll have to wait for more responses, but when I made certain fights I knew I was probably going to recieve death threats in the mail. Hey, I like being evil like that. Besides, there's always HMP. I'll make these changes though: The blocking line will be removed. I'll teleport the ammo in instead. Yes, that was lazy of me, I admit. But even after the tons and tons of shortcuts i took, this map still took several months to make. In the post yellow key fight, i'll stop the teleporting after the second revenant pair (right now it ends when the barons die, or you exit that area). The super shotgun stays where it is (it would ruin the next fight), and I'm not giving any extra ammo for the hell knight battle.

Oh well, clearly my idea of a fun map is completely different from everybody elses. I had a feeling the initial hell knight battle would turn people off, but I like it, so it's staying. If the difficulty is the only issue (its hard, I know, the hell knight fight is nothing), I'll add more health and ammo, and make the current UV some secret extra-hard mode that I have to figure out some way of activating. I think it's more fun the way it is though. I actually let up on the detailing a lot in order to work on gameplay, but people liked it better when I just focused 90% on detail, so I'll go back to doing that.

Sorry that you didn't like it. The wad is a tad experimental, so that might alienate people looking for just plain classic doom. But I think there's plenty of ammo and that fight is not endless.

This sounds like a great idea, but it's quite a big undertaking. It might be better as a community project.

Not all overly-detailed maps are going to wind up like KDIZD. The popular belief that detail and gameplay are inversely related is completely false: maps that look terrible usually play terribly too. My current map is insanely detailed, but I've spend as much time perfecting the gameplay as I have detailing (and consequently i probably won't finish the damned thing for a while).

Yes, Nmn, I made a post entirely because you aligned my textures. Damn you, texture alignment man, damn you to hell!