Hell On Earth Shareware [6 Map Episode / Limit-Removing] Now with less soft locks!

[Gifty]

 

Deep, dark. Brown and bloody...

 

The Story So Far:

You cleaned out the haunted moons of Mars. Passed through the door of no return. Braced yourself for cosmic uncertainty, only to find--home? No. At least, not as you left it. This place may look familiar, but the smell of fried feces and nuclear leftovers tells the truth. This bloody, burned out wasteland is the UAC Texas base. Those ass-faced bloodsuckers from Hell have followed you to Earth. DOOM begins again, and this time...

                                                                                                   ...Well, obviously, it's personal.

 

Specs:

IWAD: DOOM II

Length: 6 maps

Compatibility: Limit-removing (primarily tested in Prboom and Gzdoom)

Jumping+Freelook: Never. Never!

 

Overview:

HOE Shareware is my attempt to imagine what a DOOM II shareware episode would have looked like, had the sequel followed a more traditional chapter-based style. I tried not to make a DTWID-style factually accurate variant of DOOM II, but more a cloudy miasma of the DOOM II I always saw in my head based on back-of-the-box description and strategy guide flavor text.

 

Enough Talk, Let's Get Blastin!:

=> VERSION 1.3 <=

 

 

Maps:

map01: "In On the Kill Taker"

map02: "Scratch Acid"

map03: "1000 Hurts"

map04: "Atomizer"

map05: "Dead Cross"

map06: "Stoner Witch"

 

Credits:

general textures: LoneAlpha2401
general textures: Cage
general textures: Jimmy
computer textures: Antares031
carpet textures: Nick Baker
Mancubus edit sprites: 00_zombie_00

dehacked+decorate help, widescreen graphics: NightFright

 

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Gifty's 2023 of Maps:

-> Hell For Leather (30-map Doom II megawad)

-> SCUDHEAD (5-map Plutonia episode)

Edited January 13, 2023 by Gifty
updated download link

[General Rainbow Bacon]

Sweet! When will the full version be out? :P

[kknot5889]

Any estimate on release? This sounds like a fun little map set.

[Gifty]

9 minutes ago, kknot5889 said:

Any estimate on release? This sounds like a fun little map set.

I only have one map left to finish before I do a general polishing/balance pass, then it's off to public beta!

[CyberDreams]

On 9/27/2019 at 5:36 PM, Gifty said:

HOE Shareware

You had me at this.

[kknot5889]

@Gifty Sounds great! If you're looking for any playtesting just shoot me a message. Thanks for the quick response.

[Gifty]

5 hours ago, CyberDreams said:

You had me at this.

The texture wad I had for this levelset used to be called Hell On Earth Assets, or... HOEASS

Edited September 30, 2019 by Gifty

[ironicmoustache]

I, for one, highly appreciate the map names. Interesting concept, too. Looking forward!

Edited September 30, 2019 by akhlq

[General Rainbow Bacon]

HOEASS.  Classic.  But probably don't want to google search it at work.  I hope they make the Back to Saturn X texture wad BTSXASS so I can use HOEASS and BTSXASS together.  

[SoDOOManiac]

Is there any DEHACKED? I hope not, so that it can be played with SMOOTHED (Smooth monsters for Doom Retro and Crispy Doom) and Black Ops smooth weapons DEHACKED mod.

[Gifty]

On 10/2/2019 at 5:02 AM, Zodomaniac said:

Is there any DEHACKED? I hope not, so that it can be played with SMOOTHED (Smooth monsters for Doom Retro and Crispy Doom) and Black Ops smooth weapons DEHACKED mod.

Currently it's planned to have a DEHACKED for a couple minor changes I won't spoil here.

 

ALSO:

Progress on the final map is going smoothly, so it's reasonable to expect that we'll be in beta testing soon! To commemorate, here's a screenshot of the WIP final level showing off the new custom HUD.

 

AND, to get you pumped up, here's a scintillating rough mix of one of the songs in the bundled soundtrack (don't worry, that awful solo is gonna go). Enjoy!

Edited October 26, 2019 by Gifty

[kknot5889]

7 minutes ago, Gifty said:

Currently it's planned to have a DEHACKED for a couple minor changes I won't spoil here.

 

ALSO:

Progress on the final map is going smoothly, so it's reasonable to expect that we'll be in beta testing soon! To commemorate, here's a screenshot of the WIP final level showing off the new custom HUD.

 

AND, to get you pumped up, here's a scintillating rough mix of one of the songs in the bundled soundtrack (don't worry, that awful solo is gonna go). Enjoy!

 

So glad to see this update. This is looking like a great episode. Can't wait for the beta!

[[McD] James]

Interesting idea. Sounds great.

[Lone2401]

Looks epic! It's cool seeing some of my textures are being used in a project.

[Pablo_Doom_Guy]

everything looks so good , when is the beta going to be available ? 

 

@Gifty any news about the public beta release ? 

Edited January 24, 2020 by Pablo_Doom_Guy

[roboticmehdi2]

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Hope this project is doing well.

 

Still waiting for it !

 

 

 

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Edited February 21, 2020 by roboticmehdi2

[taufan99]

Any news of this mod? Hope the best for the team!

[Gifty]

It's still coming! Life has been very crazy lately.

[Egg Boy]

Dying to play this! Hope to see some lovely Sandy Peterson-isms!

[Gifty]

Now that we're all seemingly barricaded into our homes I've started working on this again! Only one level left to go, shouldn't be too hard. Right?

[kknot5889]

7 hours ago, Gifty said:

Now that we're all seemingly barricaded into our homes I've started working on this again! Only one level left to go, shouldn't be too hard. Right?

 

One good thing to come out of the quarantine, anyway. Good luck!

[Xfing]

This is a great idea! Gonna try this out for sure

[Gifty]

Just a shot of the WIP final level! Blasting through Doom Eternal has given me an extra energy boost to do Doomy things lately.

 

Edited April 2, 2020 by Gifty

[kknot5889]

Looking fantastic! Can't wait, man. Good luck!

[YeOldeFellerNoob]

I have a question, what is the format of this wad? From the song I heard, I have a feeling it would be either Limit-Removing (Most Limit-Removing and BOOM Ports allow .OGG files) or GZDoom.

[Loomis]

8 hours ago, Gifty said:

Just a shot of the WIP final level! Blasting through Doom Eternal has given me an extra energy boost to do Doomy things lately.

 

Looks really cool!
Could be the bigger brother of the opening scene of my first map I've uploaded here:

 

By the way, I like that Thrash song you intend to include!

Edited April 3, 2020 by Loomis

[Gifty]

We have a titlepic! That means it must be finished soon, right? :P

[taufan99]

@Gifty I love the grainy, compressed 1990's look! ^{Oh, I might have to check the overall progress of the mod as well :P}

[roboticmehdi2]

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Hope this project is doing well.

 

Still waiting for it !

 

 

 

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[Gifty]

Last map is finally coming together!