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November 2004
| Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
Hollow Minds Finished
I took anouther peek at Wads In Progress just now and spotted that nebula finished his Hollow Minds level. The map is a Doom 2, single player level that requires one of the limit removing source ports to play. Check out that Hollow Minds map!
| Monday, November 29, 2004 |
Linux Doom 3 Version 1.1.1286 Released
Aliotroph? spotted on Slashdot that Linux Doom 3, version 1.1.1286 has just been released and Linux gamers can finally play Doom 3 with surround sound, plus this release fixes a number of bugs. So if you happen to be interested in checking out that Linux stuff you can do all that right here.
| Sunday, November 28, 2004 |
ZDaemon December Tourneys
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Category: DOOM Sourceports |
The ZDaemon December Tourneys are now open for registration and if your interested in joining you have until the November 31st deadline to do so.The open tourneys are for players of all skill levels, and often include many highly skilled players. If this is your first tournament and you know you aren't at an advanced level you are advised to enter the Intermediates Tourney first, only players deemed by the tourney admin to be at Intermediate level and below may enter. Hit the ZDaemon site for the rest of the shazam and read the rules before signing up. You should be sure to only sign up if you're sure you can play.
| Saturday, November 27, 2004 |
Wad Station Code Red Revealed!
Impboy4 sent in the news that he went and made a website place for Doom stuff and he figures that you and everybody else might want to check it out. While your over there maybe you should have a downgrab of his wads. Go ahead and hit the Wad Station Code Red site and see what it's all about.
| Friday, November 26, 2004 |
Latest Doom 3 Review
There seems to be a low in the available Doom news in the last couple days... Where are all the cool Doom 3 mod news items? Errr anyway thanks to playing with Google I found a Doom 3 review that I haven't mentioned before. So anyfrag Helly over on xpd8.net took the time to write up a Doom 3 Review so go check that out.
| Thursday, November 25, 2004 |
Ogro Power Facility
I took a peek at Wads In Progress just now and spotted that SoM finished his Ogro Power Facility level. The map is a Doom 2, single player jobby that takes full advantage of several Eternity Engine features including portals and 3dMidTextures.
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 |
Cleaned Doom 3 Pack Files
iddevnet.com has some more cleaned up Doom 3 pack files for the mod creators. Eutectic has released a clean skin pack and a clean sound shader to go along with previous cleaned def files and materials packs. So go hit the iddevnet.com site if you want to downgrab that stuff.
| Tuesday, November 23, 2004 |
Recall To Hell Calls For Help
Just spotted that the Doom 3 Recall To Hell mod site is looking for help and are in need of a mapper, modeler / animator, coder / scripter and a sound guy. If you can help and want to join a Doom 3 mod team, then maybe the Recall To Hell mod is for you. If your like me you can just gander at thier screenshots and hope they actually finish the thing.
| Monday, November 22, 2004 |
The Status On Crucified Dreams
I was wandering around some Doom sites and noticed that the Crucified Dreams site was updated yesterday and the report is that the number of maps in progress or finished is 35. If your unfamiliar with the project then know that Crucified Dreams is a Doom II deathmatch megawad for Boom compatible ports. Theres five nifty looking screenshots on the page if you want to view some of the map stuffage.
| Sunday, November 21, 2004 |
Two Doom 2 Wads No Longer In Progress
Noticed on Wads In Progress that two Doom 2 wads were finished. Firsty we have The Slime Pit by ToxicFluff which is a Doom Legacy deathmatch map. Secondly Cold As Hell was finished by GrayLancer and the wad is a single player map designed for ZDoom. So yeah, check out Wads In Progress for more cool maps n stuff.
| Saturday, November 20, 2004 |
Kaiser Unleashes T-Lab Complex
Kaiser posted on our forums in this topic that his first Single Player, Doom 3 map, T-Lab Complex is finished.The gameplay of this map will be that of Doom2, plain and simple. Collect the colored keys and make it to the end. This map is also very huge, which will take you from the haunted halls of the T-Lab complex to the underground caverns infested with Cacodemons, right to parts of Hell itself. Also check the map out on Wads In Progress and get the download.
| Friday, November 19, 2004 |
Doom 3 Mission Pack Update
A month ago id Software said that a mission pack for Doom 3 was in the works and now on HomeLan Fed they mentioned that Ressurection Of Evil is being featured in the December 2004 issue of Computer Gaming World and the magazine is in stores now. Obviously there's some new screenies (go buy the mag to view) and reportedly the environment suit and the double barrel shotgun will be in the game along with a weapon that is similar to the gravity weapon in Half-Life 2 called the Grabber. Also the mission pack is being developed by Nerve Software, will have 11 single player levels, 4 multiplay levels, 4 new monsters and 3 new weapons. You can read what Homelan posted on this page.
| Thursday, November 18, 2004 |
Space Quest 1 Arcada Video
Space Quest 1 is a Total Conversion for Doom 3 and MAZter dropped us a message that he added a downloads linkage which leads to a video showing off what they have so far for the Arcada level, which he says is really early stuff and they will improve a lot on it in the future. So check out the Space Quest 1 site.
| Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
Letter To Soldiers
Master of Puppets dropped me an email to let me know that Bob Larkin of the Doom Wad Station is putting together a letter writing campaign for soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afganistan, but he needs names and addresses for the kids in the elementary school to send letters to. So if you know of sombody who's in the military and is stationed overseas and figure they wouldn't mind getting a supportive email from kids then email Bob Larkin!
| Tuesday, November 16, 2004 |
Gaming Next Reviews Doom 3
Gaming next has thier version of a Doom 3 review pasted up for all to see and now I'll paste a quote here from the article:The storyline is carried forward via in-game cutscenes (which look marvelous) and via PDA's that you pick up along the way. id has done a fine job in moving the storyline with this method as the PDA's are vital for door access codes, mission instructions, etc. Most PDA's come with at least one audio log from a satisfyling dull voice (hey, come on, they're stationed on Mars... what do you want them to do, sing to you how they found a dead scientist folded in half and shoved in an air duct?) and everything is pretty clear cut? My point? The story doesn't get in the way of the game. It helps to drive it forward. So yeah, creep on over and read that entire review and if you haven't purchased the game maybe you should do so right now.
| Monday, November 15, 2004 |
Xerxes Updates His Doom Packs
Xerxes from Doomcity says that he updated his FunMonster Pack to work with the first Doom and he also updated the WeaponPack with improved grenade and sniper weapons (not yet finished) plus he added reload animations for the other weapons. That's all on Doomcity.
Unofficial Voodoo2_Patch_v1_0 For Doom 3
First of all this isn't any kind of official patch...heh. Here's a bit of wackyness I spotted on good olde Blues News. It seems that voodoo.zarovka.com has a patch to get DOOM 3 running on a Voodoo 2 video card. Theres a tonnage of screenshots on the 3dfxzone forums if you desire to see the results. Be aware that theres a lot of shots and if you haven't played the game these shots show alot of areas. Errr anyhow I think Doom 3 looks like Hell on a Voodoo 2 but thats just my opinion.
| Sunday, November 14, 2004 |
Doom 3 Book Review
Remember that news I posted the other day about the Making Of Doom 3 Book? Anyhow on HomeLan Fed they posted a review on the book and here is a clip:Throughout the entire book, Kent writes The Making of Doom 3 with a pure professional journalism style that is also very easy to read and never dry. Kent isn’t afraid to write about Doom 3’s problems in its road to completion so don’t expect a completely glossed over look at the game. Hmmmm that sounds pretty good. Have a gander at that review.
| Saturday, November 13, 2004 |
Deep Sea Research
Once again I was rooting around for Doom news, ended up on Doom 3 Files and spotted a DM level called Deep Sea Research. This is a quite large map taking place within an UAC facility settled undersea. While that aspect ain't that obvious, it turns out to be a good map especially from a gameplay perspective. So check out that out right here if your interested in some Doom 3 DM stuffage.
| Friday, November 12, 2004 |
ZXDoom Demo For Christmas
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Category: Hosted Site | Ports/Mods |
X-Doom sent me word that he plans to unleash a ZD3K Demo for Christmas. The demo will be like a prologue of the full game and will feature the following:- some maps(5 or less)
- the ZXDoom port
- all uncompiled ACS file
- the object config file(.wcf)
So check out the X-Doom site for whats going on!
Doom On Doom 3
A Doom 3 site was revealed to me today through the grapevine (Hurdler --> Phoebus --> me). Anyways it seems that these dudes are making the shareware version of Doom in the Doom 3 engine.I finished the first version of it, and saw with the knowledge I had developed in the process of making it, that it was pretty bad. So I remade it. Scrapped that and remade it again. I developed this version and as I developed it, I changed things about the game and turned it into the basis for a mod. The mod is Classic Doom for Doom 3, and will feature the first episode of The Ultimate Doom. Not sure where we will go from there. So check out the Classic Doom For Doom 3 site.
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 |
The Making Of Doom 3
On the id Software site they announced the release of The Making of DOOM 3 (by Steven Kent) which they say is now available at your favorite bookseller. The book contains interviews, concept art, exclusive screenshots and more... and that cover sure looks cool. I think that should go on every Doomers Christmas list...
Remembrance Day
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Category: Hosted Site | Personal Projects |
Today is Remembrance Day here in Canada and in the U.S. its Veterans Day so anyhow I quickly fired up some different links on my site this morning that are related to WWI and WWII that I thought would be of interest. You can check out all that stuff on The Megawad. I didn't have much time to look for stuff but some interesting stuff is there just the same. Thanks to all the Vets out there who gave thier lives and to those who survived as well...
| Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
New Reviews On Doom Wad Station
I noticed over on the Doom Wad Station that they posted up some new reviews with Master of Puppets giving the basic lowdown on Mancer and Church Of Ruins both of which are for Doom 3. Also Blue Paladin has reviewd Neodoom of which is a Doom 2 map designed to run under ZDoom.
| Tuesday, November 9, 2004 |
Skadoomer's Foreverhood
Skadoomer dropped us a message that he's working on an 8 level ZDoom mod called Foreverhood that features a gameplay similar to Strife rather than Doom.The premise for the game is built on the concept of a past memory that falls victum to a dark force, which feeds off of its pure energy to sustain its own life. Your character awakes on a hill after the evil has just attacked the surface without any memory of where and who you are. As you travel the land, you begin to unlock the mystery of why you have come here, and how you play into the current war waiging between the worlds. Featuring a world never seen before in the doom engine, Foreverhood aims to bring the intangable world of dreams and nightmares to life. Check out the Foreverhood site for more info and stuff.
Doom Reloaded 0.81
necromanthus let us know that Doom Reloaded has been updated to version 0.81 with Improved game engine and a new kind of movement plus he says more is coming soon. Visit Doom Reloaded and have shockwave ready....
XWE 1.14 Released
I just jumped on the XWE site to have a peek around and immediately noticed a change in color and thus noticed that Csabo updated the eXtendable Wad Editor to version 1.14 with a bunch of new changes and bug fixes plus added support for Fakk2 and partial support for Scrapland. So go hit the XWE site and downgrab this cool tool for editing those wad files.
Death Is Just A Click Away
I spotted over on the Doom Wad Station that they're hosting a new site called Death Is Just The Beginning:Death Is Just The Beginning will be a new episode for ULTIMATE DOOM; it is still under construction and should be released in January 2005. So there you go.. anouther Doom mod to keep a watch on.
| Saturday, November 6, 2004 |
DHC Hanger (1.0)
I was rooting around for Doom news, ended up on Doom 3 Files and was going to news a particular file when I decided to do this one instead. DHC Hanger (1.0) is a remake of Hangar, the first level in Doom (E1M1)... and I thought it was kinda neat lookin from the screenshots. So check out that DHC Hangar single player map.
Doom 3 Takes Two Golden Joystick Awards
On the id Software site they announced the fact that Future Publishing UK and Computer and Videogames.com handed out thier Golden Joystick Awards and Doom 3 was honored with both PC Game of the Year and Ultimate Game of the Year:Activision's Doom 3 was the only game to scoop two awards, picking up PC Game of the Year and Ultimate Game of the Year - beating off heavy-hitters Far Cry, Fable and Pro Evolution Soccer 4. Check out the Golden Joystick Awards. Once you get on that page you have to find the yellowish linkage that says 'Click here for the full report'.
| Thursday, November 4, 2004 |
ReX Finishes La Casa Del Diablo For NDCP
Just updated the NewDoom Community Project site with the info that ReX has finished map 24: La Casa Del Diablo and Aliotroph? is close to a finish on his map 10 which remains untitled as far as I know... So you can check out NewDoom Community Project and also Rex's Nexus and dig up those screenshots.
| Wednesday, November 3, 2004 |
ZooW: Alien Dimension 2.04 Released
ZooW was updated with a new version of ZooW: Alien Dimension of which is a big update to the previous version. Here are some details of what is included:- 6 single player maps
- 4 deathmatch maps
- 12 weapons + 1 special item that only makes a click sound
- Aramara "spider" monster
- Flying B-Guard
- Various humnod characters
- Simple locational damage
Check out the ZOOW mod site for the download which is about 100MB and the texture pack is 45mb. The texture pack is not needed to play(the main download includes low resolution textures), but it is recommened for people with medium-good or better computers.
| Tuesday, November 2, 2004 |
Unhallowed Be Thy Name
Once again I've updated my own personal webspace with the info about a new map that I started and it won't be finished for anouther year considering its a halloween themed level called Unhallowed. I just want to take my time with it. Theres three screenshots up of the map so if your interested go and hit The Megawad and see what the heck is going on.
Disappear Completely In A Puff Of Heretic
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Category: Other DOOM Engine Games |
Pablo Dictter sent in the news that the heretic level (he didn't provide a name) is now avaliable for download and he mentions that there's some other dribble in there too. I guess the map he means is How To Disappear Completly.... something I've wanted to do for awhile now, just go off in a puff of smoke and take a computerless vacation. haha! So go forth and visit A Circle and downgrab anything that you've not played before or sounds like something new. Yeah!
jDarken2 Beta
Xerxes from Doomcity said he released a first beta version of jDarken2. He also says that a patch for replace the assault Rifle to the Chaingun was make faster (in next beta version) and the musics pack is already available and complete. Thats on Doomcity.
Risen 3D Launcher Updated
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Category: Hosted Site | Ports/Mods |
Our hosted site Risen 3D updated with the news that the R3DLauncher has been updated to version 3.04 which fixes several issues that needed addressing in Windows XP. Hit the Risen 3D site for that launcher jobby.
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