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The most avant-garde Doom will ever get. Obviously not a WAD for everyone, the core target for such a mod is mainly people who are in video game glitches, corruptions and to some extent, creepypastas (whether that love is ironic or not). Nothing works as it is supposed to. You can hardly understand most of the things that are happening to you. Some of the custom monsters (like the hitscanning corrupted pinky) will put you on edge and keep you paranoid about the ruleset of the game. The aesthetic of lilith.pk3 is one of a kind, horribly mangling the rendering engine of old ZDoom beyond belief to disform sprites, textures, text and even sound effects. The end result makes close to no sense, your Doom marine sprite is heavily dislocated and looks more like one of those creatures from Alien than a human being and the list goes on and on. The confused looks obviously doesn't always make for clean or concise gameplay, especially in later levels which crank the confusion up to eleven and manipulate the level geometry to do things you thought weren't possible in the game. Even basic things like crushers, slime pits or a turnstile look horribly out of shape and makes the player uncomfortable. This is essentially what lilith boils down to: an unfamilarity to something we thought we knew by heart, a rising sense of uncomfort as the level design makes less and less sense and offering the player a new perspective on what Doom is. Don't play lilith expecting top-notch Doom gameplay, but play it for the one of a kind experience it offers you. For the better and for the worse, there are no WADs like lilith anywhere and there will never be.

Even though I do not like the idea of aliens being the doom demons, I love this wad, is beatiful because uses the things I love, the space bases and exploration of the universe the second and third episode, they are really masterpieces because you see the amount of work of the creator and you really see his dedication also some maps are ruins something that really valued since I am a lover of history so it was fascinating Although I got stuck on some maps since the switches were too hidden, I managed to get through I think the only thing I find bad is that their palette destroys a few mods, but if you do not care about the colors, then this is a wad that I recommend! and also the end, it's something that really, you say what? but they are details and if you like the pretty and funny maps I recommend it 5/5 Gaia74

One of the best all-around WADs, Valiant has a little of everything for everyone. While not as aesthetically accomplished as Ancient Aliens, Valiant is still a pretty WAD to look at, with every episode revolving around certain themes and some individual maps striking a great level of detail and scale (MAP 6, Engineering Disaster, is one of the best city levels ever devised). Gameplay also has its own unique flavor thanks to the Dehacked wizardry going through. On the arsenal side of things, you have a pistol that shoots much faster and... the super chaingun, which is one of the most satisfying weapons ever made. It fires twice as fast than the regular chaingun and is the perfect room clearer to mow down hitscanner hordes, imps, demons and even solitary strong baddies since it stunlocks monsters so effortlessly (archviles can still zap you through a super chaingun barrage so use at your own risk). You even get a bigger bullet ammo capacity to encourage you to use it leisurely. To compensate for these new toys, the monster roster also get new additions and overhauls of their own, like the super imps which fires faster projectiles at a faster pace or the super demon, which bites much faster and discourages berserkers or chainsaw wielders (personally not a fan of him). There also are new enemies like the floating arachnorb, the fearsome pyro knight or the super mancubus, whose volleys of fireballs are so much harder to dodge and commands your immediate attention. There are other new monsters to discover, but half the fun is finding them out. The gameplay of Valiant is its true star, as skillsaw is the master of tuning the perfect battles. They never outlast their welcome, never grind you down spitefully while never being pushovers. Many fights like to start things out by driving you in a panic with either the well placed archvile or monster hordes that will catch you off guard, but careful play can very quickly defuse the situation and make the encounter manageable. Special mention goes to MAP 15 to illustrate this point: the hitscanner ambush coupled with this one particular unique monster makes this one of the most memorable fights in the set. Monster count tend to be on the high side, but gameplay never devolves in slaughter, with a possible exception in MAP 31, which also deserves a mention for its wicked cyber aesthetic pulled straight from System Shock. Valiant's 5 episodes all have something to offer to the player. Episodes 1 and 3 shine with their takes on the tech base formula, Episode 2 takes the action outdoors and show skillsaw's ability to make nice nature settings, Episode 4 features a very orangey hell setting and Episode 5 closes out the WAD with a moon journey. Episode 1 sets the table nicely, introduces the first few Dehacked tricks of its repertoire and closes with MAP 7: The Mancubian Candidate, which is the most unique Dead Simple replacement ever devised. You are warned to not kill the mancubus, and for a good reason: a herd of archviles will burn you down to the ground should he die. Can you deal with the masses of enemies around you, avoid the mancubus and make sure other enemies do not kill him first? Episode 4 looks good and ominous, but to me it was the lesser episode of the pack. MAPS 22-23 are a little too similar design-wise, featuring a central hub and 3 paths that lead to the three keys you need to leave the level and MAP 24: None More Merciless, features the most tame fights of the whole WAD, putting more emphasis on its hell cathedral motif and visuals. While these are the low points of the WAD, these levels are only very good instead of being excellent. The Dehacked stuff might not be everyone's cup of tea, but only the new pinky replacement bothered me because it seems only there to make the chainsaw and Berserk lesser options in combat. If you really want a 100% traditional Doom WAD, you can always download the Vaccinated Edition, which removes all of the enemy and weapon mods, but I feel that these additions are what makes Valiant distinct and unique in the first place. Skillsaw has a good knack for making his changes to the Doom formula still feel like Doom and the combat is almost always electrifying without feeling overdone and labored. The great music by Stuart Rynn, Jimmy and others make the package even more complete. While I prefer Ancient Aliens as a whole, this comes really damn close to matching it in greatness.

For as long as I've been playing Doom (around 10 years now), I've only been truly excited by a small number of things from this community. Things such as Alien Vendetta, when I was first starting to dabble in pWADs. I had no idea Doom could be like that. Back to Saturn X: Episode 1 - the mapset that directly influenced me to really take an interest in mapping myself. UAC Ultra, which to me felt like the first Perfect Doom Experience™ I had come across. Yet another is Cold as Hell, which was the first ZDoom mapset that really made me think about Doom Modding as something that is Doom, but also as something beyond just a collection of maps with (maybe) some additional resources thrown in. lilith.pk3 is the latest and, for me, perhaps the most exciting of all. It's the first mapset I've played that treated Doom not just as a modifiable game, or as a base in which to create custom levels for, but something that specifically called on the relationship I had with gaming, and the prior knowledge I had of Doom, to further add to my own playing experience. The sheer unpredictability of the mod made it so that - for only the second time* in the past few years - I felt genuinely vulnerable and tense while playing a Doom mod. Just like how I felt when I was a kid, when I always felt that visceral, nervous thrill of trying to play the original Doom maps. lilith.pk3's treatment of the resources (the subtle changes to monster and action behaviour, along with its changes to things such as songs) were the first time I'd seen changes made to Doom where the intention was not to please me or make me feel powerful, but instead to unsettle me as a player, to make me feel uncomfortable. This reason is why I feel lilith.pk3 truly deserved a Cacoward. Whenever I load up a mapset, it doesn't enter my mind that I might experience something other than that same old feeling I get when I usually play Doom: the desire to kill things, to beat the map, and to enjoy whatever sights the modder may have worked away at to present me with. This is the experience I have with 99.99~% of WADs. This isn't a problem, and I'd hate for things to change too much - I mean, I play Doom because it's a great game! I don't want that great game to go away any time soon! As the same time: I'm an artist. I'm an appreciator of art. I seek out new and unorthodox things to expand my horizons, to make me reconsider how I create and take in other artistic works, and to hopefully influence my own artistic process for the better. I feel that every artist - even those who have found their artistic voice and are happy in their current artistic situation - is letting themselves down if they choose to stick with what they're comfortable with, to not expose themselves to new and unusual pieces of artistic expression when the opportunity presents itself. There are a lot of content creators now in this community, and the natural outcome of this larger collection of modders is that we will have more content to play. This is good. The most important thing for a community of artists is that not only do we have a growth of actual artists, but also a growth of the ways in which we can express our ideas. lilith.pk3 opens the door for content creators to think of Doom modding not just as configuring and piecing together resources (monsters, textures, music, etc.) into a new set of maps, but to encourage us to develop and consider our relationships, as players, to the content already available to us. By relationships, I specifically mean the relationship between us and our knowledge of prior Doom content, and our experiences with what currently exists in the community. Using map 03 of lilith.pk3 as an example, take the reference to The Gantlet, where the player is briefly shown a snippet of a wholly perfect and clean Map 03, before being dragged back into the glitch-filled monstrosity they must fight through. It references The Gantlet not just for reference's sake, but to specifically make us aware of our situation as a person playing a mapset that is much more alien to us than a typical Doom mod - it juxtaposes our sense of the familiar with the overwhelming unfamiliar that we are experiencing throughout this gameplay experience. This is just one example, and it is an example using only the stock resources. With the massive amount of user-made material now existing in the community, the new design space that this kind of design theory opens up can be massive. I say with full sincerity, on the back of this realisation, that lilith.pk3 may be one of the most important WADs released to the community so far. Does that mean I want another lilith.pk3? Or that I want some kind of trend in mapping towards the glitchy mapset or whatever? No. As much as I really enjoyed lilith.pk3, I've mostly had my fill of it at this point. What I actually want to see - going forward - is more content in the spirit of lilith.pk3. More content that explores the relationship I have as a player with the content I take in when I play Doom. I want intertextuality. I want content that makes me think about the worlds I explore whenever I load up a pWAD, content that allows me to have more visceral and surprising sensations whenever I play Doom. I'm not saying that I will be disappointed with future mapping endeavours that choose to not take these things into consideration, because the things I'm describing aren't the be-all and end-all of future Doom modding. It's probably a new (and not particularly exciting) idea to a lot of people in the community, and at the end of the day we're here first and foremost to play Doom and have fun. When it comes to content creation there are a ton of things that I've not yet experimented with in the community, so I'm in no position to judge other people on what they choose to do with a game that at this point is now 24 years old. However, this idea of intertextuality is something that can absolutely join the mapping brain space of a modder when they sit down to create a new project. Aesthetics. Gameplay style. Choice of source port. The balance of modern vs. classic old school feel, or the balance between realism vs. the abstract. These are the things we broadly think about when we sit down to start a new idea. lilith.pk3 shows us that our project's relationship with the other content that exists around us can also influence how we create our work. I'm very excited by the idea of future projects possibly taking these ideas into account and making a richer, more fulfilling Doom experience in the coming years. * The other time was Nihility. That shit was scary, folks.

This truly is very best of doom juego mod of all time! No, not any alien vendetta or brutla dom or megaman dooms this is realy doom as envisioned by id back in the ninties. Do not believe personal attacks made against author by jeluos loser who envy this many of talent. Neodoom is as doom 3 should have been, it is the true DOOM3! Play now and experience very vast amount of custom made maps, weapons and monster to attack player and bring fourth glory of space marine!

This is the without a doubt the worst fucking Doom WAD I have ever played. This makes Nazi Aufersthung look like all of the classic major megawads such as Icarus and Alien Vendetta all combined together. It's nothing more than a collection of 1994 maps combined with shitty MS Paint graphics and random sound effects, as well as shit stolen from other Doom mods. To make matters worse, this wasn't even originally a PWAD, but rather an ILLEGALLY MODIFIED DOOM 1 IWAD. WHAT THE FUCK? 1/5

oh Hell Revealed, you are touted as a fantastic megawad back in the Memento Mori/Requiem days of Doom modding, and that's particularly all because you are all "gameplay over graphics" as compared to everything else. now, looking back at Hell Revealed, it's quite obvious that any and all inspirations to this wad have far eclipsed it. whether it be Kama Sutra, Alien Vendetta, and even Hell Revealed 2, Hell Revealed just doesn't hold onto any candles it used to have. but the keyword as to why Hell Revealed is considered so great is that it was inspirational. that's why people like it, that's why people reference it when they reference slaughter (though a look back at Hell Revealed reveals about 10 of the maps to actually be real slaughtermaps). the difficulty is still up there, higher than Plutonia for sure, and while the looks are not inspiring, the gameplay sure hits a boatload of strides, and shits at times. so my biggest gripes with the set are, first of all, the problematic monster re-placement for different difficulty settings. most notable would be in MAP18, a map I despise for its deceiving difficulty. there's a few moments where I'm pretty sure playing on HMP is harder than it is playing on UV. take the big room that has two spiderdemons in an open space on UV that show up. these are replaced with archies on HMP and are harder to dodge, since the spiderdemons would probably just infight with each other. a number of other maps have this issue, where cyberdemons are replaced with archies when they could actually be a little harder to tangle with. and the other issue with HR is that pretty much all of the maps are concept wads to some degree or have these interesting tidbit areas that while memorable, just don't play all that well in this day and age. the SSG room in MAP12 comes to mind, as well as the concept of MAP21, the usage of berserk in MAP09, and the reversal concepts in MAP28, plus the Cyberpunk maze and the notorious Afterlife which still remains the best map. HR doesn't go with a lot of proper themes either, the authors cared less about theming them appropriately for hard, scenario-based combat with some slaughters. Hell Revealed just isn't that good in 2019, but it sure inspired many creative children that further made modern sets better.

It's an awesome mod, up their with Alien Vendetta. The sounds are awesome, the graphics are awesome and the weaponry is awesome. Some people say that the graphics were "stolen" but it looks like you gave them proper credit. I'm especially happy to see an extensive array of city themed graphics - since I'm making a mod myself that needs them.

Alien Vendetta is simply the best Mod ever for Doom!!!!!!!! Challenging, great level design and everything i hoped for ;) Lord_Ish@hotmail.com

5/5, First wad ever, using a HEX EDITOR, just hardcore. Jeff Bird, I thank you for making this wad, without it, mods like Alien Vandetta would never have existed! :)

Now you too can be an angsty teen fighting his own personal demons while at the same time fighting real ones. I'd have more fun reading My Immortal, at least that was made as a joke and doesn't take itself seriously. If you're going to base magical weapons off of something, pick something better than Harry Fucking Potter. This is doom, a mix of Evil Dead and Aliens, what about a necronomicon? 3/5 because it's atcually competent as a mod.

well-balanced. I'd play this mod on Doom IWAD and Alien Vendetta any time of the day. 5 stars.

My favorite vanila DOOM mod ever, Even more then Aliens TC. A must have for any batman fan, or any DOOM fan. It deserves 5/5. It's just amazing!!!

Rockin' levels. They're short and fairly easy, but they must have been boss back in '99, and the pair are a cool mod. They're creative and the new sounds capture Aliens well. Great old finds; liking playing Mrs. Pac-Man again.-GreaZyshorts

Pretty much the weapons from the Aliens TC made2 years earlier but with a new pistol. As such, it is not anything new but good for nostalgia if the first mod you ever played was the Aliens TC.