Doom: The Golden Souls 2 | OUT NOW! | Current Ver: 1.4

[The Ultimate DooMer]

Boss report (skill 5) - The forest boss is impossible to beat. Summoning minions with fast monsters (which is built into this setting) is guaranteed to get out of control quickly (I've encountered it a few times in other wads with similar results), and the double DamageFactor makes the ground-based homing attacks (which are hard to see or figure out) pretty much kill you outright.

Everything else so far has been manageable with at most some practice (squids are the hardest regular mob by far), the only notable difficulty spikes were both in the sunken ship - the dark treasure room with 4 fire-spitting circular mobs, and the red mini-boss that opens the Medusa doors. (both were beaten with preparation and potion spam)

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And an update on the coin situation - I did buy a stack of haste+invisibility potions when I discovered the shop, but the red skull palace brought the balance back up. I'm hovering between 1800-2000 most of the time, and in Fort Phantom I made it back up to the cap again. (although now I've deliberately emptied my supply of health+haste potions as a result of god-moding the boss, so it'll be right down again when I enter the 5th zone)

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Lastly, the haste potion has no effect on the starburst weapon - looking into this, I can see most of the frame durations are already at 1 tic...the only way to fix this would be to double all the frame durations (making it fire twice as slow) and the weapon damage (making it hit twice as hard), while reducing ammo capacity and pickup size by half. (varying weapon/monster speeds in-game have always been very difficult to implement because of the way the engine handles it)

I know I'm throwing out some criticism above, but trust me - I'm loving the wad, definitely on the same tier as BoA/Alfonzone/Square 2 in terms of recent greats.

[Batandy]

Boss report (skill 5) - The forest boss is impossible to beat. Summoning minions with fast monsters (which is built into this setting) is guaranteed to get out of control quickly (I've encountered it a few times in other wads with similar results), and the double DamageFactor makes the ground-based homing attacks (which are hard to see or figure out) pretty much kill you outright.

Everything else so far has been manageable with at most some practice (squids are the hardest regular mob by far), the only notable difficulty spikes were both in the sunken ship - the dark treasure room with 4 fire-spitting circular mobs, and the red mini-boss that opens the Medusa doors. (both were beaten with preparation and potion spam)

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And an update on the coin situation - I did buy a stack of haste+invisibility potions when I discovered the shop, but the red skull palace brought the balance back up. I'm hovering between 1800-2000 most of the time, and in Fort Phantom I made it back up to the cap again. (although now I've deliberately emptied my supply of health+haste potions as a result of god-moding the boss, so it'll be right down again when I enter the 5th zone)

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Lastly, the haste potion has no effect on the starburst weapon - looking into this, I can see most of the frame durations are already at 1 tic...the only way to fix this would be to double all the frame durations (making it fire twice as slow) and the weapon damage (making it hit twice as hard), while reducing ammo capacity and pickup size by half. (varying weapon/monster speeds in-game have always been very difficult to implement because of the way the engine handles it)

I know I'm throwing out some criticism above, but trust me - I'm loving the wad, definitely on the same tier as BoA/Alfonzone/Square 2 in terms of recent greats.

It's okay! Criticism is really useful, i'm currently making a huge list of things to do including more level tweaks. Will take a bit longer to come out but that's just because i need to take it slower this time.
World 4 boss will be checked, either with a monster cap or with the removal of fast attributes.
I might also tweak the prices of the items.

[Gez]

Another pair of unreachable coins:




Also, I believe FleshSporeTentacleUp/Down shouldn't have the COUNTKILL flag, since after the fleshspore's death they just become inert. Since they have the "Monster" combo, they just need -COUNTKILL added.

[TheLemonLimeBrony]

i literally just entered Tower Rewot. I haven't even left the first room, but based on the level name, and the music, I already know how this will work, and I already love it. you never cease to amaze, Batandy

[TheLemonLimeBrony]

i literally just entered Tower Rewot. I haven't even left the first room, but based on the level name, and the music, I already know how this will work, and I already love it. you never cease to amaze, Batandy

but the sky/floor does not kill you sometimes when the temple is flipped, like the first room after you flip, and the one after that. minor glitch, but very noticeable when you get stuck and have to fly back up.

[hammer oz]

Having a blast with the full release so far with some minor issues but there more personal nitpicks than major issues. probably the only thing I am having diffculty with is finding those big coins since I am not that savvy when it comes to finding secrets.

[Toberone]

You can get out of bounds In Port paradise from by jumping on these clusters of trees and onto the blue roof, can get you stuck. I thought it led to a secret big coin at first




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Edit: On further review you can skip the 2 switches leading to that locked up 3rd Big coin by hopping on the orange building next to it, jumping down, then rocket jumping out...So I was kinda right lol

[Captain J]

Rocket jumping out... Yeah, i rocket jumped often and found some secrets and big coins. When it doubt, blast your ass to the sky and make your dream come true!

[Batandy]

Noted all of these, thank you very much!

[Captain J]

Thank you so much for making this mod-a, Batandy. It was really a long trip to save his fluffy friend. My Total Clear time is 16:46:34, beaten with Galactic Veteran difficulty.

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However some Boss fight with Cyberdemon and Icon of Sin were honestly underwhelming. Arch-Vile, the mini-boss of the Tower of Babel was only the hardest and challenging fight i ever had. Both of them never stood a chance against Icarus rifle and beaten them without dying. I expected them to do something even more deadlier, but maybe i'm too much grumpy about the boss fighting. I do love some challenging fight. So yeah, frankly, both need some dynamic actions or maybe even more health to roll doomguy over. Also i think the ending needed a bit of high tone, or retrospective references. Like doom guy and Daisy heading together back home, along with some friends from each shop!... Like what SMW does. That would have been a 16 bit golden cherry on top. Sorry if i'm also being critical, i'm really obsessed with this mod already and i would like to see more updates or changes. I love this mod more than my own mods!

Two Cents; It was 100% Fun trip. 10% Hellishness, 20% Fan service, and 80% is Nostalgia that you won't never forget.

[mentha]

hey, loving this so far.

got to the port level, but went back for more of them big coins. can't figure out how to get the third one on the first level. i got the following ones:

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1. the one where you jump down the side of a platform and have to climb some vines back up
2. the one where you climb above the hedgemaze with a tree and drop down into an otherwise inaccessible area

no idea how to get that third one or even where it is. may i please have a hint?

[hazzmati]

hey, loving this so far.

got to the port level, but went back for more of them big coins. can't figure out how to get the third one on the first level. i got the following ones:

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1. the one where you jump down the side of a platform and have to climb some vines back up
2. the one where you climb above the hedgemaze with a tree and drop down into an otherwise inaccessible area

no idea how to get that third one or even where it is. may i please have a hint?

It's around the vicinity of the switch that activates the elevator (the elevator where a heart is located underneath it).
You just have to look very carefully.

[Gez]

It's

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in a small cave in the northwesternmost island with the red plant guarding a switch.

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You'll have to strafe-run from the bridge to get there.

[siealex]

Can't reach the east end of the underground section in MAP25 (Chilly Cliffs). I stopped at the middle of this section, all paths are blocked with semi-transparent ice walls. WTF?

[Wiw]

I've gotten stuck into this, really enjoying it so far!