MeatSafeMurderer

Pretty much. The main .wad is freely available and therefore is not counted as part of the transaction, which allows you to skirt around the licencing.

Whilst I kind of agree...LRG isn't doing us a favour. We're paying customers and being told they're expecting to send out the remaining orders "in the next few months" is simply unacceptable. Putting aside the fact that they have been silent at every step of the way (John was basically single handedly doing their customer service for them) they actually have the boxes in their possession now. They can't use the excuse of production delays anymore. This wouldn't be such an issue if LRG took the money at the time of shipment...but they don't, they take it months in advance and at this point people can't even cancel, they're locked into waiting god knows how long for their boxes. Like I said, simply unacceptable. If I'm being brutally honest it makes LRG look like a bunch of cowboys.

Agreed, LRG's reputation is extremely poor in this area and there are other small publishers who specialise in this kind of stuff. If his tweets prior about asking them to update customers is anything to go by though John is not unaware as to how horrific an experience this has been. This was my first time using LRG...and it will be my last. Honestly I'm surprised they sent your standard box without the beast box. I've read horror stories of people having to wait months and months for something already released to even ship because LRG insisted on sending their entire order in one lump and one of the items got delayed repeatedly, delaying shipment of everything.

Pffft...what a casual. A real purist would play it on a 486.

My standard box arrived today. The artwork is fuckin' great. To unseal, or not to unseal, that is the question.

Gmanlives also completed it on UV. Doesn't mean I think his points are valid. Fundamentally it sounds like you wanted a different experience than the one Sigil has (or was ever going to have) to offer. That's fine but don't push your opinions on how it should be onto everyone else, some of whom like it just fine the way it is. I for one am happy to see some more oldschool Romero content.

He's said the reception has been incredible...so...Half Life 3 DOOM 2 wad confirmed?

I wasn't. If I had to guess though I'd say it'll arrive in the next day or so which would make it around a week and a half from the shipping email to actually getting it in my hands.

Nah. I live in the UK though so it took its sweet ass time before even entering the country. Now it's in the hands of Hermes, who I suspect will deliver it safely onto my roof. Remember, it only looks like he's carelessly throwing your package without paying any attention to what he's doing.

Your only chance is to keep your eye on eBay and be prepared to pay colossal bucks on a whim. That standard big box you linked to the other day sold rather quickly for $130.

The days when hardware looked drastically different from software are thankfully behind us...if the right settings are used. Unfortunately, as of now, out of the box GZDoom defaults to Dark sector light mode, which is one of the big culprits, and I get the impression most people don't bother to change it to Software, which looks pretty much exactly like the software renderer.

Spent the time ages ago to set up a bat file that auto applies certain changes on a fresh ini, among them is switching to Software light mode. Didn't even know Vanilla existed until now. Maybe it's just on my machine but switching back and forth between the software and hardware renderers Software actually comes closer to the lighting in the software renderer. Vanilla's light fall off is just too harsh resulting in dark areas being significantly darker, where Software is very, very, very close to actual software lighting.

What a steal! It's only...3.75x the original price!

There's 2 discs is there not? I know one of them is supposed to contain the WADs too but it is actually possible to have redbook audio alongside a data track (see PS1 DOOM). Still, it's nice to know the lossless versions are provided in some form. I can always burn it but I'm just a little disappointed I can't pop the official CD with its nice artwork in a CD player I guess.

Someone asked yesterday? about Smooshing Sigil...well, JPL posted about it earlier over on the ZDoom forums:

Did you make sure to forward your order confirmation? When I emailed on Sunday evening John himself got back to me with a link in about an hour, but it's also possible they're a little snowed under now depending on just how many orders there were.

Wait...the CD is a data CD containing MP3's? WHAT!? Why? Really it should've been an audio CD but at the very least it should've been FLAC. People can always transcode to a lossy format but you can't transcode to a lossless format (well...you can but it's pointless, the damage has already been done).

Well...DOOM might've released in 1993, but it's 2019 now. I can't not mouselook. I guess he's just gonna have to make me his bitch.

Imagine being stuck in that first room for a prolonged period because you can't figure out that a certain something needs to be shot inspite of all the clues pointing towards that being the solution and the fact that DOOM has had doors and stuff you needed to shoot to activate before. Once I'd cleared it out it took me all of 10 seconds to work out what to do to get out; from that point onwards I already knew what needed to be done because the first room taught me. I've only beaten the first level so far...but I also completely disagree with his take on the lack of ammo and health. I'm playing on UV and the constant straddling of the line between having enough to pull through and not was refreshing. I scraped through to the end with 20 health before getting one shot by a shotgun guy immediately in level 2...and I LOVE IT! I couldn't imagine complaining about a game posing a challenge to you that you've already overcome. If you can overcome it then where's the problem?

Free =/= freely distributable. Sigil is Romero's work and is, therefore, his intellectual property and as such he holds certain rights over it...including (but not limited to) the right to decide who can distribute it and, (in this case) more importantly, when it can be distributed. That means you're not legally allowed to distribute it without his permission, which, until May 31st, nobody has. Until the 31st even getting your hands on the free portion is still piracy.

Okay, so I am just a cynical asshole. Good to know 🤣 For anyone else in our shoes:

I find it kind of annoying that Romero is selling digital downloads prior to the free release date without providing the people who already bought it physically a free download. Maybe I'm just a cynical asshole but when basically everyone who lives outside the US is going to be left waiting another week or two for our copies to arrive (as far as I can tell my copy is still 3,500 miles away, in Pennsylvania, and has been for a couple of days now) it comes off as an attempt to get us to double dip so we don't have to wait.

Leak it? Jeez guys, how about some patience? I get that you're excited and want to play it but to try to incite the few that have their hands on it now to leak it, here of all places, seems rather...brazen, disrespectful even. The countdown for the free version has likely already begun.

My tracking just doesn't work so I'm left totally in the dark as to if/when it's going to arrive.

The dead giveaway that they weren't was the high shipping. I paid about another $20 in shipping for my standard box. You wouldn't pay $20 shipping within Europe, infact most of it isn't shipping at all but the customs fee, which means its place of origin can't be in Europe.