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First Mission after Holdiday

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The contact to the research station on Pluto is lost. Our Marine has to interrupt his holiday and must fly to Pluto. During the flight, he falls asleep. When he wakes up, his team already explore the station. Thats the story or completely different.

My first map. Mostly weak weapons & monsters. Custom monsters. Very few monsters with the element of tightness. I guess i was influence by Quake 4 singleplayer which means linearity and frontal attacks. Recommend is the use of a GLRender.
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A set of two maps, which according to the text file is the author's first foray into mapping. Unfortunately, it shows all too well. The level design is simplistic and amateurish, texturing is haphazard, and the visuals are very bland. The author also fell into the old trap of unnecessarily trying to spice up his map with random ZDoom features, such as particle fountains or stealth monsters. In particular, there are lots of custom DECORATE enemies (I've counted at least six), all of which pop up only a few times and contribute pretty much nothing (for example, the axe-wielding scientists are essentially reskinned demons).

The first map ("Overture") is a rather short one, mainly set in bland-looking gray bases with some cave parts. The second map ("Pluto Cave") is a lot larger and has lots of disparate areas, but none of them look or play very well; it feels like a chore to play, and I ended up bailing about halfway through.

I don't know if the author is still reading this, or if he still needs the advice, but here's a hint to all newbie mappers: skip out on ZDoom mapping for now and focus on trying to create good-looking, playable levels in the Boom or vanilla formats. If your WAD isn't playable, no amount of spicing it up will save it, not even replacing title and intermission screens with fancy pics.

 

[Originally written Dec 2018 for The /newstuff Chronicles]

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