[Project] "Knee-Deep in ZDoom"

Post by **esselfortium** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:22 pm

John Smith wrote:From the Doom Wiki:
John Romero generated the par times by completing each level as fast as possible and adding 30 seconds.

Entryway in 0 seconds? John Romero is truly the best doomer ever. ;|

solarsnowfall · Post by **solarsnowfall** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:25 pm

Psycho Siggi wrote:
Unknown_Assassin wrote:What does the 'activate locators' do? It seems to do nothing, but then again, I haven't finished the whole wad yet.
It makes little red arrows appear over usable stuff.

And IIRC not every map uses them.

Post by **esselfortium** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:26 pm

Yeah, I've only seen a few of the action indicators, despite having them definitely enabled. The problem with them, I think, is that they don't want to use them on everything because it'd give away all the secrets. Cool idea, but doesn't work out too well for that reason ;p

Siggi · Post by **Siggi** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:28 pm

Post by **TheDarkArchon** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:30 pm

I see cheatery

Siggi · Post by **Siggi** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:31 pm

TheDarkArchon wrote:I see cheatery

Post by **esselfortium** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:32 pm

i don't know of any cheatery that takes away 999812 points of health. ;p

but on a similar note, i've been playing with iddqd on the whole time (yeah, i know) and e1m3 told me i had lost 74 health? o_O

John Smith · Post by **John Smith** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:50 pm

There is a zombie and a sergeant stuck in a pillar near the red key hallway in z1m5, and there is also a sergeant stuck in a spectre in the same map. How much testing and quality control was done before this wad was released?

Orna Fulsamee · Post by **Orna Fulsamee** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:07 pm

Well, I played through the whole thing today. Here are some things I found intresting.

-E1m1, as simple as it was in it's original incarnation, was very complex in kdizd to the point where I actually got lost!

-I liked how the time of day in the intermissions changed.

-If you put the 'no monsters' option on, the later levels feel more eerie and make you feel paranoid.

-I liked how you guys showed e1m8 getting more entrenched by demons. I especially loved how you guys made the goo pour out of places and the vines appear.

-For some reason, this felt like a more darker, scary doom.

-The farther you progressed, the more eerie the levels got

Belial · Post by **Belial** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:22 pm

Oh well, played, replayed, done and over with unless someone cares to share some info on the secrets in m2 and m8.

Risen · Post by **Risen** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:29 pm

Par times are basically speed runs with a little time added. It's not expected that UV Max runs are possible under par. But if you can do it, awesome!

Anyone tried it in cooperative mode yet?

ZDUser · Post by **ZDUser** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:30 pm

Where exactly is this impaled head in Z1M5? (can put it in spoilers if you want)

Risen · Post by **Risen** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:36 pm

Enjay wrote:Looking at the intermap script...

Wait, so my code is actually readable enough for you to figure that out? Heh, I didn't expect that. :p

Post by **edward850** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 10:00 pm

Risen wrote:Anyone tried it in cooperative mode yet?

Yap, even online its fun

(yes, I have played online)

Lamneth · Post by **Lamneth** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:25 pm

I shall be honest...

The first time I played last night I was so bored and tired after running around M3 for an hour that I started just warping to maps and skimming through them. Yes I know, thats a little unfair so I have played through the entire mod just now (not counting M9/M10, WAY too much effort needed to get to them, I also skipped past maps if I got sick of them) and shall review it a bit more fairly.

I still didn't like it, and my opinion is probably lower. I still ended up skipping maps after playing through them and getting stuck on irritating puzzles or poor gameplay. I will be honest though, I did enjoy M7. It was the only map I really enjoyed though and I thought it still needed improvement. I retract things I've previously said about linear gameplay and the Chton-clone end boss because the pathways DO improve and the end boss is less like Chton than I expected. (However, he was still way to difficult to really be worth my time after the rest of the levels, especially M3 and M4.) But overall, its a very dull mod that wasn't very enjoyable for me and I consider it a failed attempt that really was not worth my time. I want that five hours of my life back.