Brutal doom installation difficulties

[Albionic Cadence]

So, yeah, I have gzdoom and im all set. But when i download brutal doom, straight from moddb, mind you, the latest version, i look at the downloaded file and its this little RAR file that is useless, titled brutalv21. I just wanna play this game, can someone help?

[Comissar person[FIN]]

does the file say pk3? if yes, go to where you installed gzdoom and dump it inside skins folder.'
alternatively if you want to speed up your doom modding considerably

https://zdoom.org/wiki/ZDL

this launcher will let you have more control over ur modding, no need to ♥♥♥♥ aroun with bat files .

zdl does not care where you place it or where doom mods are, recomended tho to instal somewhere you have quick access to them to.

first time launching set up crash course

click settings, 2 blank boxes, one says source ports one says iwads, at the bottom theres add, click it, locate iwads (doom2.wad doom.wad, usually those are in dooms base folder.

then add source ports,now click main,you basicly now just need to find ur mod and add it.

some maps need differend iwads, aka doom core wads, to select wich one it launches with just click the doom2 wad once in main and if you hit launch it boots you to doom 2 if you have no maps selected now zdl is capable of reading pk3 files, the icon may look like rar file.
so if you have rar or zip but no pk3 unpack once.

add your burtal doom to external files secton., now i felt cute and heres

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/megawads/valve communitys favourite valiant megawad, 32 maps of high quality maps , now if all works, you see the zdl button?`hit it and save ini, now you can load up brutal doom with valiant anytime

[Albionic Cadence]

That'd be a good idea, if not for one simple fact. Everytime i go to download the file from moddb, it comes out a rar, not a pk3. Ive tried it three times with the same result.

[Comissar person[FIN]]

unpack the rar file once, if you see ♥♥♥♥ tom of files instead of pk3 you done goofed

[Albionic Cadence]

Dont see an option to unpack the rar file

[Comissar person[FIN]]

do you have winrar? or 7zip

[Comissar person[FIN]]

https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

[Albionic Cadence]

nope, last time i didnt need it, downloaded it on my computer before i wiped it and had no problem

[Wampa_Stompa]

rename the .rar extension to .pk3 and try it

[Albionic Cadence]

nope, when i try and launch ultimate doom with brutaldoom it just launches normal old doom

[Comissar person[FIN]]

if ur using the zdl, can ye give screenshot from your set up

[Level 4 Sentry]

ive done every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ step imaginable and even when i delete the dosbox and rename gzdoom as dosbox it just says i dont have one and makes a new one and launches the default game. this ♥♥♥♥ is pissing me off to no end

[Comissar person[FIN]]

Originally posted by Society Man:

ive done every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ step imaginable and even when i delete the dosbox and rename gzdoom as dosbox it just says i dont have one and makes a new one and launches the default game. this ♥♥♥♥ is pissing me off to no end

can ye give detailed version how you do it?

[Hubbabub65]

brutalv21.rar is 80.8 Mb large RAR file, you have to unpack the file with a program that can unpack RAR files.
In the brutalv21.rar archive file there is 3 files (bd21 changelog.txt, BRUTAL DOOM MANUAL.rtf & brutalv21.pk3), you only need the brutalv21.pk3 file.
Drag and drop the brutalv21.pk3 file onto the GZDoom.exe and the game is going to start up.

But I would recommend you to use a Doom Launcher program, like ZDL or RocketLauncher2
https://github.com/lcferrum/qzdl/releases
https://github.com/Hypnotoad90/RocketLauncher2/releases

[Dominick]

Why the ♥♥♥♥ is this so complicated for some ppl and easy for others?!?! All I want to do is play this game. Why can't I just download the pk3 or zip or whatever. ♥♥♥♥ this is so frustrating

[Dominick]

♥♥♥♥ this