Doom II Dark World

[0mrcynic0]

Glad you're enjoying it! There has been a little progress with some of the later maps - but will take a while before anything is posted. Currently I'm in the process of moving and have little time to do any sort of mapping. So, as it stands, any feedback is worth it. The other members of the team are eye balling this thread for inspiration with fixing their existing maps and making later maps better.

The city maps of Doom 2 Reloaded and Doom Tribute look nice and detailed. You might find some inspirations from those.

[Amuscaria]

Just beat it on UV without a hitch. A solid fun map set. Plenty of ammo and health with secrets (a bit on the excessive side for me), and action and flow was good. Maps look very authentic to the Doom 2 style and would pass for official maps if I didn't get it here. I found no glaring problems with any of the maps. Overall a far superior map set to the originals while staying faithful to them. Looking forward to more, if there will be.

[ReformedJoe]

Just started playing this. You "got" me 2 times so far:

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map01, the secret area up the lift (where you unlock the outdoor area). Didn't expect it to hold a revenant, which spooked me pretty good. Given the level up to that point I really should have seen that coming though.
map02, that baron of hell in the blue armor secret by the red key... yeah, he also spooked me real good.

These maps work very well because they play off of player assumption. If you play based on knowledge of the vanilla maps, it might get you in trouble. It's like playing through the front half of DOOM 2 for the very first time again... which is genius in a meta sort of way. Definite thumbs up!

[CD-Roman]

Maps are REALLY nice, just NEW OLD MAPS. Please make more

Some screenshots
https://imgur.com/a/0K3KhjK

[Lopes]

This is really just... Amazing!!
I love this kind of level sets that take the original ones and make them harder and different!
It all started with Doom 2 Remix: Earth on Hell, but that one is outdated and the monsters always turn into ammo if you use other mods :\ (Dehacked, I know)

Congrats on this and I look forward to seeing more levels being made! Projects like these are amazing.

[manmoth]

Made an account to say how much I enjoyed these levels. Seriously, I had such a blast, thanks so much!

[DavidN]

I'm glad you bumped the topic, because I got to revisit this and it's great! I hadn't realized when I began that I'd played the first level before, maybe when this was an early demo? But I love how you've taken the themes from the Doom 2 levels and reworked them into different challenges.

I was surprised by the sudden difficulty spike at the end of the Crusher equivalent - say what you like about my Doom abilities (and people often do), but there was a noticeable gap between being like an enhanced Doom 2 for veterans of the game, and then being incredibly tough going from the arena room onwards. I love the transformation as the room crumbles, though.

This video was sponsored by the Send Lawyers to Hell appeal! Playing Doom WADs to raise money for RAICES.

http://bit.ly/sendlawyers
https://streamlabs.com/davidxn/v2

[FrankADG]

I really hope to see complete megawad with 32 levels.

[Hellser]

Currently we're planning up to MAP20. If we were to go up to Map32, I'd feel that we might need to start heavily modifying the later maps. In our opinion, Doom 2 starts strong then ends weak. I would imagine that we need to go bigger or take the idea of a map and expand upon it, while trying to keep the route taken as similar as possible. That, my friends, is the real challenge with these later maps.

I've got The Inmost Dens (Map14) and The Citadel (Map19) complete. Map12 is under construction by Trance, Map13 and Map15 has been claimed by my fellow mappers. Map20 has been claimed by yours truly. We approach this project a couple months at a time. Burn out is a terrible thing, and no one wants to deal with that. Just be patient.

I'm also considering of tweaking my earlier maps to make the encounters more fun and to help reduce Doors with Health issues. But as always, feedback is very much important. If there's any bugs that you might encounter, please report it to us.

Also, if you can, test these out under PrBoom+, Eternity or any other Boom Compatible source port and let us know of any bugs that persist from GZDoom. GZDoom is only emulating Boom compat, it might need a kick in the rump for some bugs.

[Van Daemon]

I've played this some days ago and I had so much fun but more maps would be cool !

[vitriolicv]

I am a person who plays slowly and likes to take in every detail. I'm at MAP03. So far, loving everything I've seen. It feels like, to me, the Doom 2 setting, but corrupted by Hell at a very early stage in the game, rather than waiting for the later maps.

[m1lk]

Dark World + HD Textures + Dark Ambient Music = perfect!

[m_falcone]

One of the best doom 2 recreations I've seen. Been a few years since though. Read there'd be a few more maps too, any plans on releasing them?

[Aeddes]

Perfect to run with Lost in Darkness.
Great job!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... S3UW6xxea1

[Hellser]

One of the best doom 2 recreations I've seen. Been a few years since though. Read there'd be a few more maps too, any plans on releasing them?

Unfortunately there hasn't been much activity. I can say though that MAP14 (The Innermost Torment) and MAP19 (Arx Infernum) are complete - it might need some changes though after recent testing. There was some work being done on MAP16 by Grymmoire, but they have fallen silent a year or so ago on any sort of update and the other mappers haven't contributed much (they have lives too!).

Also, Aeddes - that's an interesting way to play through these maps and I love the atmosphere! Glad you enjoyed it.

And going back to what I said back in 2020:

I'd feel that we might need to start heavily modifying the later maps. In our opinion, Doom 2 starts strong then ends weak. I would imagine that we need to go bigger or take the idea of a map and expand upon it, while trying to keep the route taken as similar as possible. That, my friends, is the real challenge with these later maps.

Edit: I am going through my own maps and making some changes. Expect a v1.1 in the near future (and the other players' maps if I can get their permission to tweak as needed )