Resurgence (final version)

to this day I still think of Resurgence as potentially the hardest megawad. it has a truckload of monsters in just about every map, but that's not why it's difficult as hell, it's the placement of these guys, the complete lack of safe spots in many of the maps, and which enemies are used. never a moment's peace when you load this in. and the difficulty progresses from moderately difficult to harder than any Hell Revealed map. Joshy's a peculiar one, a mapper with a sense of how to make slaughter-style maps dangerous. you see bits and pieces from the original Surge (which is where most of the maps from 1-17 are from) some are combining two short maps for example, but hit MAP18 and things open up. a lot. many of the later maps stand out, the Poison Ivies (one being a guest appearance by the arch-vile lover Darkwave0000), along with the Library which is by far the nastiest library in any Doom game.

it's crazy as fuck and needs mounds of preparation to really beat this feat. this was the hardcore set of its time, and at times you probably won't enjoy it as much as you'd like after the next fifteen or so attempts at one thing in one level. take note, beginnings of levels will kill the most.