Just released Doom III mod for GZDoom is the best Doom II mod I've ever played

[Rocket]

Release Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcP50RASijM

Someone's gameplay of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFcxCcCmKCM

Link to mod (FLAC, Uncompressed graphics 4GB):
https://www.moddb.com/mods/doom-3-doom-ii-mod/downloads/doom-iii-doom-ii-mod-v10b

Lite version (OGG, compressed graphics 2GB):
https://www.moddb.com/mods/doom-3-doom-ii-mod/downloads/doom-iii-lite-version-doom-ii-mod-v10b

Requires a recent version of GZDoom.
Make SURE your first playthrough is on I'm Too Young to Die or Hurt me Plenty.

By the author's own admission, it is intentionally very hard. Harder difficulties have not only less items and more enemies but do multipliers of damage. Make sure to save at least a few times per stage! I repeat, play on Hey Not Too Rough, you've been warned!

The author says free look is fine, but disable jump and duck.


What I love about it:
-New enemies that feel like belong in the Classic Doom universe, more so than Legacy of Rust! And some are AWESOME!
-Awesome soundtrack that isn't MIDI. Many are remixed versions of the original music. Some cool new music tracks.
-New weapons (A much better flamethrower than Legacy of Rust. No replacement of old weapons so far! Some are accessed similarly to single barrel shotgun in Doom 2, press 3 twice)
-New items (Make sure "Show Messages" is On if you don't see messages)
-Up to 9 different keys per map
-New textures
-Multiple types of mirrors
-Sometimes you get Text overlay information on what you're supposed to do next if it's important or isn't obvious. Example: "Go back to ____". "2 more switches"
-New Intermission screens
-New skies
-Every map has a text intermission that tells you what you did and where you're going next
-Fairly frequent usage of Floors over Floors
-MANY characters to choose from: Doom Guy, Doom Slayer, several female characters and others
-So far a lot of the maps are made to look like what they're supposed to represent instead of just empty battle rooms
-Ambient sounds
-Supposedly some various cool post ending things to see if you beat the game without cheating and / or collect certain collectibles.


I'm on map 8 out of I think 36. I am going to spoiler some of the really really cool stuff I've seen so far.

Warning SPOILERS

Water sections / Swimming (that Cacodemons can enter and exit with a splash through the surface!

A cool clone thing

New barrel types: 1. pushable and you can stand on them as platforms to get secrets. 2. another causes a MASSIVE explosion with massive damage

Low gravity areas

low oxygen areas

new cool boss style enemies

I'm absolutely loving this. Give it a shot and see what you think!

[Space Detective]

I've been reading the topic about this on Doomworld, and while I haven't looked at the mod in-depth by any means, it sounds uh, kinda ♥♥♥♥?

Like even putting aside that the full version is 4 GB which is absurd for a DOOM mod and the "lite" version still uses .flac for music compression for some reason, it sounds like what basically every teenaged ZDoom modder gets the idea to make when they first start it, and shows its age as a project that's been developed for 11 years. I don't mean either of those in a good way.
Basically a very unremarkable project, if it wasn't for the inexplicable playable anime Doomgirl, the colossal filesize and the author trying to market it as the "true DOOM 3" which is laughable considering how many people have tried the same and failed as well as how there's multiple official products vying to be DOOM II's successor.

Maybe it's actually kinda decent, but ehhhhhhhhhhh, I think there's mods and mapsets I should spend my time with first.

[hawkman]

Your praising this slop asset flip mod over LoR immediately forfeits all credibility lol. Go shill this someplace else.

[Space Detective]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Papaya:

Your praising this slop asset flip mod over LoR immediately forfeits all credibility lol. Go shill this someplace else.

Considering what I've seen them post before, I'm not convinced they're a shill necessarily, more that uh, they probably haven't played a whole lot of DOOM and this mod ends up impressing them basically by default.

[Zelligaryan]

Why do the most lame mods like this one always attract normies?

[Rocket]

Haha ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!

There's a teleporter trap where a Cyberdemon turns into 2 mini Cyberdemons that die in 2 shotgun shots

[Le Perv]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Zelligaryan:

Why do the most lame mods like this one always attract normies?

They're easily entertained by bright colors and flashing lights. You could probably jangle some keys in front of OP and they'd consider it one of the greatest experiences of their life.

[Unseen]

Dudes just sharing a mod he likes and gets this much flak? Ahh gaming...

[Rocket]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Unseen:

Dudes just sharing a mod he likes and gets this much flak? Ahh gaming...

I just block them. There's no point in engaging with people whose first reactions are put-downs and character attacks.

These stick-in-the-muds don't realize it's this type of attitude and overall negativity and nastiness is killing interest in gaming as a hobby.

Things were a lot more upbeat and fun 20 years ago. Oh well, their problem, not mine. I have plenty of other hobbies.

[OutSIdeOfTheBoX (chrisvig71)]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Unseen:

Dudes just sharing a mod he likes and gets this much flak? Ahh gaming...

yeah it's like it's sad but it's like this... i was surprised too by the 3 clowns, but if you are in internet forums that's what you should expect sometimes...

[Unseen]

Mod looks cool though but I haven't even beat doom3 yet. Beat resurrection of evil a long time ago on Xbox cause a friend let me borrow it. But never got around to playing doom3. Loved quake4.

[Rocket]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Unseen:

Mod looks cool though but I haven't even beat doom3 yet. Beat resurrection of evil a long time ago on Xbox cause a friend let me borrow it. But never got around to playing doom3. Loved quake4.

This mod takes place directly after Doom 2. In fact you start in the room with the Icon of Sin, right after you've beaten him.

Doom 3 and ROE are terrific, but Doom 3 is basically a more horror focused reboot of Doom.

[iDoT Hunnid]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Zelligaryan:

Why do the most lame mods like this one always attract normies?

I consider myself a one who knows alot about doom custom maps
but myhouse.wad was a really good map to be honest.

I don't know about doom III tho but I don't play alot of GZDOOM Mapsets

[iDoT Hunnid]

I may give it a try.
I think it will take time to beat tho

[hawkman]

Oprindeligt skrevet af chrisvig71:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Unseen:

Dudes just sharing a mod he likes and gets this much flak? Ahh gaming...

yeah it's like it's sad but it's like this... i was surprised too by the 3 clowns, but if you are in internet forums that's what you should expect sometimes...

Oprindeligt skrevet af Rocket:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Unseen:

Dudes just sharing a mod he likes and gets this much flak? Ahh gaming...

I just block them. There's no point in engaging with people whose first reactions are put-downs and character attacks.

These stick-in-the-muds don't realize it's this type of attitude and overall negativity and nastiness is killing interest in gaming as a hobby.

Things were a lot more upbeat and fun 20 years ago. Oh well, their problem, not mine. I have plenty of other hobbies.

Well Mr. Moral High Ground, that's kinda what you get when you brazenly open your topic with 'wow this is SO much better than that other well-liked WAD that's better liked and designed on just about every front'. The mod already has the neck to call itself 'Doom 3' and here we have you calling LoR inferior to it despite it being objectively superior quality on every department by major leagues.

Should go without saying, but if your way of advertising a product involves bringing up another unrelated product for no reason that's a pretty strong indicative that that thing is not worth anyone's time, and this mess isn't worth anyone's time. Your bullet points aren't listing off anything particularly interesting that isn't found in spades in many other, better mods out there like Blade of Agony, KDiZD, DRLA, etc.

Lastly if you have issues with people sharing their thoughts, perhaps keep your opinions to yourself and no one will take you on them. Seems pretty straightforward thinking.

[Turbo.DCS]

Yeah, there's definitely better stuff than this.