Spoiler: The story itselfIf you don't want to bother reading, basically he was playing on a 4-player survival co-op server that apparently has friendly fire enabled. He said his player name is Showbiz, and the supposed other players are Crash, Protos and Electron, all of which are names of Skulltag's bots. They completed Entryway without any problem, but when they got to Underhalls, a series of friendly fire-related idiocy led to Showbiz's teammates getting killed. In the Gantlet, eventually he held the line by himself against a group of demons in the starting area, which doesn't happen in actual Doom 2, eventually encountering a baron of Hell (Doesn't happen in actual Doom 2, either!) and getting killed.
This is my doom 2 coop experience story, this actually happened on skulltag
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The game started with 4 players (max)
Showbiz (Me)
Crash (some girl)
Protos (guy who didnt chat)
Electron (some guy)
We finished the entryway without sweat, we proceeded to go down the hatch into the underhalls, me leading the group
Now remember the game mode was Survival Cooperative which means when your dead, there is no coming back
So we proceeded down into the under halls otherwise known as the sewers,
Me with a double barrel shotgun
Crash with a shotgun
Protos with an chainsaw
Electron with a rocket launcher
We saw the first mob of former humans not long into the underhalls
I commanded myself and crash to take these 3 former humans out while protos and electron watched our backs
We then proceeded with a minimal 3% health lost from crash due to a bullet wound to the arm
The next mob jumped us!
In included 3 imps (human sized brown demons withs claws that produce fire to throw at us) and 4 former humans and 2 former sergeants (they are just like former humans except with shotguns instead of assault rifles)
I could have taken them all on bu myself if my team hadn't lost the plot
As soon as the mob came round the corner, electron went on a rocket rampage!
In the end, all was hell!
All demons were dead
But...
Electron had injured crash leaving her with 77% health left
Electron had also majorly injured me leaving me with 14% health left
And he had also killed Protos in the heat of the action
To top it all of, to kill the last demon, he also killed himself in the explosion
Which left me and crash
Crash then came to my assistance, i had 14% health but i had a big piece of shrapnel in my abdomen
I was slowly bleeding out
I was limping and could not move very fast, crash told me to stay put and put pressure on the wound
Crash then entered a near by supply closet bring back 3 stimpacks
Bring my health up by 30%
I now had a bandage round my abdomen, and she had minor burns to her upper left part of her body
We continued... It was only chapter 2 out of 30
We proceeded further into the underhalls, collecting ammunition from dead marine bodies along the way
We then entered the main generator room
As soon as we entered, 3 former sergeants, 7 former humans and 5 imps opened fire apon us
I dived for cover behind a near by UAC box and proceeded to shoot, sliding on my chest for cover brought my health down by 3% though
Crash ducked back behind the door and proceeded to open fire
We were both shooting until a demon (big strong pink demon that had huge haws to eat you) came up and...
Swiped crash!
Crash fell down with a nasty cut in her back bringing her down by 30%
I was now on 41% health
Crash was on 47% health
The demon wasnt done with crash
I didnt notice the trouble crash was in because i was dealing with the former humans and imps
The demon ran over to crash to finish the job
Crash jumped up quickely and ran out of the way of the demons jaws...
Right into the line of fire of my Double barrel shotgun...
I shot...
Hitting crash...
20 buck shot pellets went into her body
Even with full health she wouldnt have made it...
Thats 120% damage done from my hands
Crash was dead...
I finished off the rest of the demons not long after...
I went up to her body, closed her eyelids... She lay there so peacefully...
I guess its good she died a quick painless death instead of being mauled by demons...
I lay her gun by her body then fired 4 shots from my own in her memory...
Then proceeding out of the underhalls and into the gauntlet...
I walked out of the underhalls with a chaingun that i had scavenged from a former commando, and a marine armour suit that i had found in a cabinet
Opening the remote door, i prepeared myself for hell...
Well is a good thing i prepared, because hell is what i got...
Opening the door, i got greeted by 5 former humans, 5 former Sergeants and 7 imps
I quickly slid behind a UAC supply box and began my war
Letting off both my barrels, killing 2 imps. Two birds with one stone...
I quickly reloaded
Peeking round the corner, i saw 3 former humans and 2 former sergeants round a conveniently placed nuke waste barrel...
I opened fire in that direction letting off fireworks, the explosion left nothing of the the former soldiers but a pulpy bloody mess
I kept firing for another 5 minutes... Pinned down... And runnin low on ammo...
Just as i thought it was almost done, 3 former commandos, packed with chaingun ammo blasted through the door!
I opened fire with both my barrels killing one commando,
And thats when the end hit me...
Reaching onto my pack, all i felt was bullets...
No shells...
I was out of shotgun ammo...
I knew if i simply grabbed my chaingun and proceeded to load it, that would give the commandos enough time to walk over and bast yours truly off the face off the earth...
I un packed my chaingun and threw my double barrel shotgun at a commando, hitting him square in the head
The commando stumbled around and fell, i didnt watch any more, i began loading my chaingun!
Not long after i bent down and began feeding the ammo belt into my chaingun, i heard the commando get up, not a worry for me for i had done it
I stood up an let loose
I had 400 bullets of pure hatred! And i wasnt planning on letting any be left out!
More imps came though the door, just in time for the party!
Then some demons!
They all wanted to taste my belt of titanium and lead!
I let'em have it!
After 10 long minutes of crazed laughter it was done...
I was left with me, and my thoughts...
And a pile of mauled carcasses
i dropped my chaingun for it was dry on ammo and went and picked up my double barrel shotgun
Collecting ammo from deceased former sergeants
I slipped and sloshed through the pile of demons getting to the door
Entering long, empty halls
Patching up wounds from the battle before on my way...
Then stood before me the biggest wooden door with a demon skull nailed to the from for decoration...
I oped the door to see huge fury legs...
Slowly looking up, i saw what stood before me, waiting for me to open this very door...
A baron of hell...
Big pink demons with goat legs and two large horns
I let loose both barrels into his chest...
I turned round and started to run...
But the barons grasp was too fast
It grabbed my torso and pulled me back toward him...
he lifted me off the ground and smiled to me... The most evil smile i had ever seen...
He then placed his hand on my shoulder... And the other on my other shoulder
I reloaded and shot again! I still had fight in me!
I shot him in the face!
But that only enraged him!
He let go of my shoulder and grabbed the arm that held the shotgun... Ripping it clean off my body!
The pain was immense
he then placed his hand back on my shoulder and began to pull...
My body was being torn right down the middle, ever so slowly...
I soon died of loss of blood...
Ever so wishing that i had gone in crash's boots...
The story also contained inaccuracies on the amount of monsters in each level, the layouts of the levels and how the play out in Doom 2 and non-existent features and content in actual gameplay, such as bleeding, sliding and diving, supply cabinets, etc.
So with all that said, here's my analysis. Text in bold are my comments. I'm not gonna point out the grammatical errors save for a part near the end such as obvious typos, lack of single periods and overusage of ellipses.
Spoiler: My analysisAnd that's about it. Honestly, the story read like he was playing on some sort of weird Brutal Doom and Hideous Destructor mashup mod coupled with survival horror elements and other features nowhere to be found in vanilla Doom 2 instead of, y'know, an actual Doom 2 Skulltag co-op server. What do you guys think of the story?
This is my doom 2 coop experience story, this actually happened on skulltag
Really? Let's see about that, shall we?
Now remember the game mode was Survival Cooperative which means when your dead, there is no coming back
Alright then, go on.
Showbiz (Me)
Crash (some girl)
Protos (guy who didnt chat)
Electron (some guy)
Showbiz? Is that actually your name in Skulltag? And also the "other players'" names are the same as the bots in Skulltag/Zandronum, and I'm pretty sure they're bots aswell.
So we proceeded down into the under halls otherwise known as the sewers
Me with a double barrel shotgun
Crash with a shotgun
Protos with an chainsaw
Whoa, hold on! How did you get the super shotgun so early? You're supposed to obtain it first from the room with a bunch of zombies.
Electron with a rocket launcher
This isn't far-fetched in actual Doom 2, though. You can get a rocket launcher early through a secret in Entryway.
The next mob jumped us!
In included 3 imps (human sized brown demons withs claws that produce fire to throw at us) and 4 former humans and 2 former sergeants (they are just like former humans except with shotguns instead of assault rifles)
Waves of enemies spawning randomly? When does that happen in Doom 2? Also, we already know how Doom's enemies act and look like, you don't need to tell us about that.
I could have taken them all on bu myself if my team hadn't lost the plot
It's only a few imps and a bunch of former humans. How could it be that hard?
As soon as the mob came round the corner, electron went on a rocket rampage!
In the end, all was hell!
All demons were dead
But...
Electron had injured crash leaving her with 77% health left
Electron had also majorly injured me leaving me with 14% health left
And he had also killed Protos in the heat of the action
To top it all of, to kill the last demon, he also killed himself in the explosion
Which left me and crash
Seems like friendly fire is enabled in this server, god help us all. Also, assuming Electron has the rocket launcher from Entryway, he wouldn't have took out the demons that quickly because he only has 2 rockets, and there are no rocket ammo in the 2 levels you just played. And he wouldn't have died if he just stood back before firing.
Crash then came to my assistance, i had 14% health but i had a big piece of shrapnel in my abdomen
I was slowly bleeding out, I was limping and could not move very fast, crash told me to stay put and put pressure on the wound
Crash then entered a near by supply closet bring back 3 stimpacks
Bring my health up by 30%
I now had a bandage round my abdomen, and she had minor burns to her upper left part of her body
Bleeding and body part damage in Doom? What is this, Hideous Destructor? I don't see no supply closets in vanilla Doom, either. I do however, encounter closets with items in the Extermination Day map pack.
We proceeded further into the underhalls, collecting ammunition from dead marine bodies along the way
Since when does ammo appear on marine corpses? Again, there might be mods that have things like that, but I don't know any like that. Also, I checked and there are no marine corpses in Underhalls, either.
We continued... It was only chapter 2 out of 30
That's 32 if you count the secret Wolfenstein levels.
We then entered the main generator room
As soon as we entered, 3 former sergeants, 7 former humans and 5 imps opened fire apon us
Generator room? You mean the room with the super shotgun as mentioned earlier? If so, I see 8 zombiemen and 3 sergeants in that room. Again, no imps.
'I dived for cover behind a near by UAC box and proceeded to shoot, sliding on my chest for cover brought my health down by 3% though
Advanced movements like diving and sliding? Brutal Doom has sliding and dodging, but I don't know any mods that has diving, though. I don't see any UAC boxes in that room, either.
We were both shooting until a demon (big strong pink demon that had huge haws to eat you) came up and...
Swiped crash!
Crash fell down with a nasty cut in her back bringing her down by 30%
I thought the pinkies only bite, not scratch you.
I didnt notice the trouble crash was in because i was dealing with the former humans and imps
The demon ran over to crash to finish the job
Crash jumped up quickely and ran out of the way of the demons jaws...
Right into the line of fire of my Double barrel shotgun...
I shot...
Hitting crash...
20 buck shot pellets went into her body
Even with full health she wouldnt have made it...
Thats 120% damage done from my hands
Crash was dead...
I finished off the rest of the demons not long after...
Skulltag has this feature where if you point your crosshair at an ally, the ally's name will show up at the bottom of the screen to tell you that the person you're about to shoot is in fact, an ally. Maybe you should've paid attention to that before you shoot, yes?
I went up to her body, closed her eyelids... She lay there so peacefully...
I guess its good she died a quick painless death instead of being mauled by demons...
Well, I'd rather have her killed by a demon than her dumbass teammate who didn't watch his fire.
I lay her gun by her body then fired 4 shots from my own in her memory...
You're just wasting your ammo now, aren't you?
Then proceeding out of the underhalls and into the gauntlet...
I walked out of the underhalls with a chaingun that i had scavenged from a former commando, and a marine armour suit that i had found in a cabinet
I don't remember encountering the commando in Underhalls. Again, no cabinets with items in Doom aside from mods.
Opening the remote door, i prepeared myself for hell...
Well is a good thing i prepared, because hell is what i got...
Well, fighting demons wasn't this hard for me.
Opening the door, i got greeted by 5 former humans, 5 former Sergeants and 7 imps
I quickly slid behind a UAC supply box and began my war
According to my playthrough, there are 4 imps, 7 zombiemen and 4 former sergeants at the beginning of the level, 5 sergeants and a zombieman behind the wall that opens when you grab the mega-armor. I don't see any boxes in that area.
Peeking round the corner, i saw 3 former humans and 2 former sergeants round a conveniently placed nuke waste barrel...
I don't see explosive barrels in there, either.
I opened fire in that direction letting off fireworks, the explosion left nothing of the the former soldiers but a pulpy bloody mess
I kept firing for another 5 minutes... Pinned down... And runnin low on ammo...
Remember what happened after Crash died? Yeah, maybe you wouldn't ran low if you didn't waste time and ammo acting like a honor guard and shooting at nothing after her death.
Just as i thought it was almost done, 3 former commandos, packed with chaingun ammo blasted through the door!
Great, another spawning waves of enemies. I thought you said this was your actual description of your experience in a Skulltag server...
I opened fire with both my barrels killing one commando,
And thats when the end hit me...
Reaching onto my pack, all i felt was bullets...
No shells...
I was out of shotgun ammo...
Told ya so.
I un packed my chaingun and threw my double barrel shotgun at a commando, hitting him square in the head
Whoa, you can throw weapons at enemies now? Are there any mods that allow me to do that?
I had 400 bullets of pure hatred! And i wasnt planning on letting any be left out!
400 bullets?! How did you get the backpack that early? You're supposed to get the backpack after you raise the bridge and get to the teleporter at the other area. After that, you need to get back to the beginning and go to the teleporter that just opened.
More imps came though the door, just in time for the party!
Then some demons!
They all wanted to taste my belt of titanium and lead!
I let'em have it!
And all of this is happening in what's probably the same place, the beginning of the level outside the door you go out, and you haven't got to the lift yet!
After 10 long minutes of crazed laughter it was done...
I was left with me, and my thoughts...
And a pile of mauled carcasses
i dropped my chaingun for it was dry on ammo and went and picked up my double barrel shotgun
Collecting ammo from deceased former sergeants
Oh yeah. If you ran out of shells for your super shotgun, maybe you should've picked up some from the dead sergeants nearby instead of throwing your weapon away when you were fighting the chaingun guys.
I slipped and sloshed through the pile of demons getting to the door
Entering long, empty halls
Patching up wounds from the battle before on my way...
Then stood before me the biggest wooden door with a demon skull nailed to the from for decoration...
Nailed to the what from what? Also, I don't remember any long, empty halls and a wooden door in the Gantlet.
I oped the door to see huge fury legs...
Slowly looking up, i saw what stood before me, waiting for me to open this very door...
A baron of hell...
A baron of Hell?! In the third level, the fucking Gantlet? Are you for real right now? Mein Gott, when will this barrage of "stuff that doesn't happen in actual Doom 2" ever end?
I turned round and started to run...
But the barons grasp was too fast
It grabbed my torso and pulled me back toward him...
I don't even remember the baron being this dangerous. He moves slow for me and all he could do is scratch me when I get close to him and fling green fireballs at me.
He let go of my shoulder and grabbed the arm that held the shotgun... Ripping it clean off my body!
The pain was immense
he then placed his hand back on my shoulder and began to pull...
My body was being torn right down the middle, ever so slowly...
Dismemberment? Holy shit, is this Brutal Doom?
I soon died of loss of blood...
Ever so wishing that i had gone in crash's boots...
Or that you and your team weren't so incompetent. Remember that friendly fire stuff and Electron killing himself because he was too stupid to stand back before firing? Yeah.
