<WIP> Doom II Superficial Update

[SLON]

This addon is not a replacement for IWAD and cannot be (firstly technically) used in this role.

Old description (to be honest, it sucks, but I decided to keep it for history):

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This is a compilation of all those ideas that were ever actually created for Doom, using some bible/alpha references, but still tightly based on the final Doom release. And yes, it looks like it might have looked in 1993/1994.

Well, where do you start? The idea of ​​"rethinking" the Doom was with me for a long time.
I want to say that I saw a thousand (or so) Doom 2 remakes, but they were all not what I wanted. They either did not leave anything from the original maps in fact, or they were a jumble of sometimes meaningless "improvements for the sake of improvements" without improving the very atmosphere of the maps.
So in the end it came about. The idea is only to improve what is already available, so do not expect something fundamentally new. All maps will be exactly the same, with (practically) the same geometry and gameplay. The whole idea is only to bring to the essence their very atmosphere.

Some of the ideas came from alphas of Doom and Doom 2. Almost all new textures are drawn by me, based on unused content.
Also included are some minor fixes, like missing/crooked textures.

Of the other improvements planned: new monsters (do not worry, there will not be many at all, and they will be from canonical ideas, i.e. you will not see 30 types of imps here), new MIDI music in order to remove repeating tracks (again, all of them will come from the corresponding groups like Accept, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Metallica, etc., and yes, they are chosen according to the atmosphere).

So far, only a WIP, as there are things necessary for improvements.

Description of Doom II levels in mod (yes, you can take it as a rip-off from the Doom bible):

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Map 01:
Map 02:
Map 03: Station for supplying the complex with water, its filtration, etc.
Map 04: The warehouse where they store all sorts of junk in boxes. There is also a guard post here, because there is a border for personnel with a higher level of access. What else to add?
Map 05: Waste tunnels. These say it all. It doesn't smell very good here.
Map 06: Waste treatment facility. All chemical muck flocks here. There is also a hefty press, to crush something that is harder.
Map 09: Spaceport's basements. Usually only a few people come down here.
Map 10: Quarters of UAC soldiers. A lot of cool stuff can be found here. And a bunch of possessed people with monsters to boot.
Map 13: City center. There were apparently hot battles here, so part of the buildings was half-destroyed.
Map 15: Industrial zone, and nothing to add. Liquid hot metal flows here. The demons turned part of the location into "at home".
Map 16: Once a suburb, or rather not a poor part of it, with villas.
Map 17:
Map 18:
Map 19: Hell has already become so insolent, that it has literally built an entire fortress.
Map 20: The place where it all came from. It's hard to describe it; the whole area is turned into a sea of boiling blood, from which the remains of buildings rise, and what the demons have erected.
Map 23: The devil only knows, why did the devils need all these barrels.
Map 24: Something suspiciously familiar. Well yes. Wicked irony of fate: now hell is experimenting with the captured technologys of humanity. They have a whole tech base here.
Map 31: I have no idea how to explain this. It seems that something even worse than the invasion of barbed and horned freaks has happened. Time portal?
Map 32: Even better. Unkillable (practically) walking Nazi pile of steel. This is not what they talked about in school in history lessons!
Not to mention what's behind it... You only hope that if you go through all this nonsense, you can get to a more adequate place.

Screenshots (slightly outdated):

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Map 01 with area from Doom 2 alpha:












It's a map 31 hidden place:

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Download last Demo: (for Doom II)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11An06A ... sp=sharing

Work is guaranteed only on (G)ZDoom and compatible ports (such as k8Vavoom).
This is still a raw version, so there may be some errors, flaws, etc.

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Map 13 gameplay with Nightshift:

[AlphaSoraKun]

Based on the screenshots. I think you're putting a lot of effort into this!

[SLON]

Demo is released, link (and description) in the first post.

[SLON]

If someone, well, suddenly, wants to get a test version of this, write to me in the PM. I will not post a public link because of the theoretically possible emergence of theoretical problems with copyrights.

[wildweasel]

If someone, well, suddenly, wants to get a test version of this, write to me in the PM. I will not post a public link because of the theoretically possible emergence of theoretical problems with copyrights.

Modified Doom 2 levels are okay to distribute as long as the result requires Doom 2 to run. You should be fine.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

I've downloaded this before the links got removed (and because you referenced this in Nightshift), played around and i feel i should say i loved the subtle changes; the urban maps are WAY more satisfying to play and the new textures change the entire look of it.

I specially like to use this with the BD Map Enhancement system, because nothing gets lost and the maps get a whole new life without any loss in performance or content.

I did recommend this mapset to some friends. Please don't give up on it

[SLON]

Well, I think there will be an open release soon. In particular, the textures are rearranged inside pk3 to work adequately in the zdoom, some have been replaced, and all the rest on trifles. Again, this was conceived as an improvement to an existing, so do not be surprised that some levels will be greatly changed, while others will only be slightly.

It is worth noting that initially I thought to add more alpha-beta content, like "the blob" enemies, but, frankly, I do not find a place for them.
And in general, it seems that the classic doom franchise did not achieve what we wanted, in particular, apparently there should have been more "natural" maps with caves, waterfalls and other things (something in the spirit of Alien Vendetta Map 08), ice caves, etc. Well, that's just by the way.

[SLON]

Creating now mapinfo, I once again drew attention to the original texts of Doom 2, and once again I think that they were written by some dude who himself did not know what he was dealing with. It looks more like a plot of something in between Aliens and Resident Evil, and not the game that we know in fact.

On another note, I decided to change the names of a number of maps because their original names reflect, uh... nothing. I bet that some of them were invented by the same person who wrote the "plot".
So map 14 will be renamed to "ruined villa", map 17 to "chemical plant", and so on.

[SLON]

Some Doom 1 levels additions.







In fact, it was started at the same time as with Doom 2, but was put on hold in favor of it.

[SLON]

Added a brief description of the levels in the first post, so that their changes were clear (this is still in progress, though).

Well, to have something to show:




These are the updated map10's barracks, which in fact are the main purpose of this map (since the alpha), despite the deceptive name in the original Doom 2.
As always, this is technically the same, only with a modified visual. I also think that I will dare to change some, if not all of the doors that open with a shoot, to the usual ones, since in the original it was rather a rather bad and implicit experience.

[SLON]

Some small innovations

[SLON]

I think I've finally reached the point where I can release this. This is still far from the final version, although quite a lot of what I had in mind is already present. As always, any ZDoom compatible port and Doom 2 wad are required to run. Yes, there are still some flaws, but I'd rather lay out what I have now than delay it again.
There are also some new enemies present: cyberbarons (the same guys from the cover of Doom 1), Nazi dogs, and one of which I don't want to spoil.

Maybe that's why I'll tackle Doom 1 levels, with a passing refinement of this.
Also, my thoughts on what can be brought to Doom 1 (in addition to the notorious minor level improvements):

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Firstly, although this project pursues the theme of "doom as in 1993/1994, but with more attention to detail (which I think not only I always wanted), but in the final variation and plot, i.e. without strong bible/alpha infusions", and I was not going to change the levels themselves as such, yet I think it will not be quite so.
Namely: E3M1, to be honest, always seemed too short to me, despite its impressive start. E3M9, in turn, was only an expanded copy of it. Therefore, there is the following idea: replace E3M1 with E3M9 (of course, with some minor changes, such as replacing the cyberdemon with a cyberbaron), move E2M9 to E3M9, and as E2M9 I plan to use E1M1 from alpha 0.5.

Secondly, I am thinking of giving the Doom 1 bosses more personality, even though this is corny. Of course, since they were originally conceived precisely as single bosses, in view of their replication in Doom 2, one could replace them in the last with weaker analogues, but I think most will not appreciate this, especially in view of their already established outlook in Doom 2.
Therefore, accordingly, new opponents will be introduced at the end of the episodes.
At the end of the first episode, there will be new guys called the Counts of Hell (Yes, here I decided not to use monsters already created by someone earlier):

They will of course have more health (most likely 2000 or 3000), and probably more powerful attacks.

As for Cyberdemon and Spider, I think to just give them more health, and equip them with BFG (again, it is necessary to check it in gameplay, so that it suddenly does not turn out to be too difficult).

[SLON]

Little of updated E2M5, in this time screenshots from LZDoom (vanilla-experience, yes).
Corrupted zones will remain, just their number will be slightly reduced (IMHO, in the original they went too far with all this wood).

[SLON]

An (unfinished) updated version of E1M8. This is a merging of alpha and final versions. Now it really makes sense for you to wander into them (yes, that's pretty spoiler alert, but I don't think that's a big problem). The hellish portal is also returned, because so it, IMHO, looks more logical.

[SLON]

The small update is released. As always, you can't run this without the original Doom 2 and any ZDoom compatible port.
As always, most of the changes are on maps 13 and 16 (you can also check 31 and 32).