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by **Chief Smokey** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:37 am

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Unfamiliar is a glossy reimagining of Ultimate Doom's maps that uses GZDoom's special effects to enhance the visual quality of the environments. Some maps are quickly discernible and others have been reworked extensively to the point of only having a handful of recognizable areas. Two episodes of nine maps each are fully playable - Martian Fury and Frontier of Death along with a bonus E3M1.

Episode III - Circles of Hell is currently in development and is expected to release this year.

Maps are designed for vanilla-style gameplay, supporting both continuous or pistol start play. Use GZDoom and the Doom 2 iwad.

It is highly recommended that you use the hardware renderer, dynamic lights, bloom, ambient occlusion and the sector light mode set to "Dark" or "Doom".

Related links:
https://discord.gg/S8jaGfw
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/1 ... des-redux/

Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/6hxbgey5i ... 2.zip/file

by **Chris Moyer** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 12:06 pm

Looks great man! I'll give it a try today

by **Chief Smokey** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 11:36 am

After a hiatus development has recommenced and Episode 2 is on its way. Since the levels were all technically completed years ago the bulk of the work will involve fixing the broken tags caused by the switch over from Doom Builder to UDMF and adding a fresh coat of GZDoom paint.

Current progress on E2M1:

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by **Whoah** » Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:18 am

Fantastic news! Episode 1 was a blast, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with episode 2

by **Chief Smokey** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:47 pm

by **Chief Smokey** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:07 pm

by **Chief Smokey** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:25 pm

by **Chief Smokey** » Thu May 07, 2020 6:20 pm

E2M5 is done.

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by **Nems** » Thu May 21, 2020 1:02 am

Just got done with the first episode. That was really fun! I'm glad you're working on completing episode 2 (and hopefully episode 3). :D

by **Techy_koi** » Fri May 22, 2020 3:33 am

Noice! Can't wait for the next one

by **Chief Smokey** » Wed May 27, 2020 8:53 am

The full release of Episode 2 is almost here, and the final trio of maps have been released for playtesting purposes on the discord.

E2M7:
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E2M8:
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E2M9:
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On top of the nine new maps and various tweaks to Episode 1 content, I can say with confidence that Frontier of Death will also come with brightmaps, new sounds, new sprites and lava embers (from Realm667 that may eventually be replaced with properly custom content for the Epiosde 3 release). New music was planned but will instead be saved for Ep3 to avoid any more delays.

by **Chief Smokey** » Sat May 30, 2020 5:32 pm

Finally after what feels like centuries the full release of Unfamiliar Episode II: Frontier of Death has arrived.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ig5g5s03r ... I.zip/file

https://youtu.be/C1R03xSxh3k

I'll be on hand in case there's anything you'd like to see changed or I've missed some errors.

by **Nems** » Tue Jun 02, 2020 12:20 am

I went back and played through both episodes with the new release and I really enjoyed it. I like that the episode 1 levels got some additional polish and I love how episode 2 not only has Hell merging with the tech base but it's also in ruins. It looks and feels like it's been through rough times.

About the only thing I didn't care for was that E2M8 is just E1M8 but with more enemies (I think there were more enemies). There was no Cyberdemon fight. I don't know if a proper E2M8 map wasn't ready for full release or what. However, it's not that big a deal and doesn't really detract from the overall experience, in my opinion.

As said before, I enjoyed it. I look forward to the release of Episode 3. <3

by **Chief Smokey** » Tue Jun 02, 2020 12:27 am

Nems wrote:About the only thing I didn't care for was that E2M8 is just E1M8 but with more enemies (I think there were more enemies). There was no Cyberdemon fight. I don't know if a proper E2M8 map wasn't ready for full release or what. However, it's not that big a deal and doesn't really detract from the overall experience, in my opinion.

I screwed up with a typo in MAPINFO which is why E1M8 appears in the E2M8 slot. There is indeed a new E2M8 and the issue got fixed the day after release. No matter how much I test and polish stuff something always slips through...

by **Nems** » Tue Jun 02, 2020 4:05 am

Chief Smokey wrote:
Nems wrote:About the only thing I didn't care for was that E2M8 is just E1M8 but with more enemies (I think there were more enemies). There was no Cyberdemon fight. I don't know if a proper E2M8 map wasn't ready for full release or what. However, it's not that big a deal and doesn't really detract from the overall experience, in my opinion.

I screwed up with a typo in MAPINFO which is why E1M8 appears in the E2M8 slot. There is indeed a new E2M8 and the issue got fixed the day after release. No matter how much I test and polish stuff something always slips through...

Ah! I'll redownload it then and play it. Thanks for letting me know!

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[GZDoom] Unfamiliar Episodes Redux

[GZDoom] Unfamiliar Episodes Redux

Re: Unfamiliar: Martian Fury

Episode 2 begins development

Re: Unfamiliar Episode 2: Frontier of Death

E2M2 news

First trio of maps now complete

E2M4 done.

Re: Unfamiliar Episode 2: Frontier of Death

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E2M7-E2M9 and news on the full release

It's here!

Re: Unfamiliar Episode 2: Frontier of Death

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