1000 Line 2 CP - Completed

[Liberation]

 

Hello folks, at the start of the year the 1000 lines CP started again with the latest instalment. Same rules as last time, vanilla/1000 line limit but with the added bonus of a vanilla friendly version of Otex compiled by myself (nicknamed Votex), but more on that later.

So without further ado, We would like to present to you, 1000 lines 2.

 

34 levels made for vanilla Doom 2, over 4 different episodes/themes. A lot of new music has also been made for this project by AD_79. An internal dehacked patch is also included.

 

 Episode 1/2

 

Episode 3

 

Episode 4

 

Mappers list
 

Spoiler

 

** Episode 1 - Industrial planet **
Map01 - Severed Dreams By Liberation
Map02 - Reprocessing By Pegleg
Map03 - Milliphobia By antares031
Map04 - Vedauwoo By Aquila Chrysaetos
Map05 - Corrosion By StormCatcher
Map06 - Wastewater Falls By Kaito

 

** Episode 2 - Industrial planet - Subterrain ** 
Map07 - Into the Dark By Liberation
Map08 - Immortal Industry By Dragon Hunter
Map09 - Stone Steel By Wolf McBeard
Map10 - Subterraqueous By Nootrac4571
Map11 - Deep But Not Profound By Phobus

 

** Episode 3 - Ice planet **
Map12 - Thirty Below by Dreadopp
Map13 - Zero Degrees by Lord_Z
Map14 - Negelida By Worm
Map15 - Abstract Thoughts by DMPhobos
Map16 - Cold Shoulder by Breezeep
Map17 - Snow Frontier by Misty
Map18 - Dour Tower by Jimmy 
Map19 - The Crystalline Vault By Scotty
Map20 - The Pale Helm By RonnieJamesDiner 

 

** Episode 4 - Marble palace planet **
Map21 - The Gardeners of Eden By AD_79
Map22 - Tuama By Major Arlene
Map23 - Oratory By Walter
Map24 - Marblelous By Leo
Map25 - Metamorphism By elend
Map26 - Heavenly Gantlet By LowGcifer
Map27 - THUNDERBASTARD By an_mutt
Map28 - The Halls of Reckoning By Bridgeburner
Map29 - Marble Tombstone By Bauul
Map30 - Eldritch By RonnieJamesDiner

 

** Secrets maps **
Map31 - Crimson Complex By Dragonfly
Map32 - Ephemeral By Aurelius

 

** Bonus maps **
Map33 - Boreas By Aquila Chrysaetos
Map34 - Horseshoe of Death By DJV

 

 

Download link 

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/megawads/1klinecp2

 

Hope folks have a lot of fun with this and as always, please leave any feedback, comments or bug reports :-)

 

Edited September 2, 2020 by Liberation

[Bauul]

Huge congrats on the release everyone!

 

I thoroughly enjoyed playing through the beta on this. With each map taking typically only a few minutes* it's got great forward momentum. You can probably play through the whole mapset in a single sitting without too much difficulty.

 

* That one secret map excepted...

[Terminus]

Congrats on the release! I've been looking forward to playing this and can't wait to tell you guys what I think.

Screenshots look killer :D

[DJVCardMaster]

Congrats

[Horus]

The midtextures don't seem to work correctly, they aren't see-through (I'm using prBoom+ complevel 2)

[Liberation]

2 hours ago, Horus said:

The midtextures don't seem to work correctly, they aren't see-through (I'm using prBoom+ complevel 2)

 

Thanks Horus, 4 mid textures have been corrected.

 

Upload link has been updated.

 

EDIT: As it happens a fair few mid textures were playing up for some reason, the upload has been fully updated.

Edited July 12, 2020 by Liberation

[Walter confetti]

Yes! Finally is released! Congratulations to everyone!

[SP_FACE1]

Ooh... this seems real fun!

 

One issue I've encountered so far. On MAP10 you can get trapped inside this chainsaw secret:

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[Horus]

Recording of levels 1-5 here. This was done on UV difficulty, prBoom+ complevel 2, before the midtex fix

 

00:00 - Map01 - Severed Dreams By Liberation
06:45 - Map02 - Reprocessing By Pegleg
24:15 - Map03 - Milliphobia By antares031
37:40 - Map04 - Vedauwoo By Aquila Chrysaetos 
55:45 - Map05 - Corrosion By StormCatcher

 

Edited July 12, 2020 by Horus

[GarrettChan]

Congrats on the release. I've heard so many good things about this project. I'll definitely play this later, and thanks everybody for making this happen!

[Horus]

I've just played Maps 6-11 (after midtex fix) but annoyingly the recording failed :(

 

I played map 6 on UV, which was really hard (almost as hard as map 4) so I switched to HMP for map 7 onwards. Since then I've had an easier time of it. Map 9 seemed very imbalanced on the ammo/health front, very ammo starved in the first half, then the second half suddenly flushed with ammo and a megasphere I didn't need (looking at the editor out of curiosity I see there's a cyber flagged as hard only but megasphere flagged as medium and hard only, I suggest either the cyber is added on medium or the megasphere removed on medium).

[Horus]

Ice episode is pretty good so far. Wasn't a fan of being locked out of the secret exit on map 15 after dropping down into the final area though, so I used IDCLIP to get back up (a teleporter back up to the starting area would be appreciated here). What was the MIDI on map 12 btw?

 

00:00 - Map12 - Thirty Below by Dreadopp
09:10 - Map13 - Zero Degrees by Lord_Z
18:15 - Map14 - Negelida By Worm
30:50 - Map15 - Abstract Thoughts by DMPhobos

50:25 - Map31 - Crimson Complex By Dragonfly

 

 

[DMPhobos]

57 minutes ago, Horus said:

Ice episode is pretty good so far. Wasn't a fan of being locked out of the secret exit on map 15 after dropping down into the final area though, so I used IDCLIP to get back up (a teleporter back up to the starting area would be appreciated here).

If i had the lines to spare, i would had loved to add a way back to the start after unlocking the regular exit =P

[Horus]

12 minutes ago, DMPhobos said:

If i had the lines to spare, i would had loved to add a way back to the start after unlocking the regular exit =P

 

Eh, I know it's a line-constrained community project but I struggle to believe four linedefs can't be spared somewhere. Of course, completely up to you as it's your map, but I feel like it would be a worthwhile change.

[Aurelius]

24 minutes ago, Horus said:

but I struggle to believe four linedefs can't be spared somewhere.

The amount of line optimization in some of these maps is just so tight that four linedefs can become insanely difficult to find. Speaking from woeful experience :P

[TheNoob_Gamer]

So I have some free time on my hands and decided to give episode 3 a whirl.

I'm sure that the WAD has been tested (extensively, likely on Discord) with gameplay stuff fixed, but I would still present my feedbacks anyway.

Before continuing, all maps were played on UV, PRBoom+ complevel 2. In general, all maps I played so far have pretty good visuals and nice layouts (and mostly competent gameplay), and because I'm a dumb person, I don't give a shit about graphical errors. Feedbacks below will mostly focus on gameplay.

 

MAP12

 

• The red key battle drags on a bit too long - as in, higher tier enemies only start dropping in after the red key was obtainable.
• I think bullets are just too plentiful in general, maybe try toning down the bullet boxes a bit?
• The Cyberdemon should be blocking the exit, it felt too safe and I just ran past stuff.

 

MAP13

 

• The caco battle after you get the yellow key is way too cheesable, I suggest repositioning some of them or just do something with the door.
• Some barrels are useless here, like the ones in the caco room mentioned above. Yes, they might be useful in the revenant battle near end, but it's nonetheless hard to lure some in there.
• Zombies reinforced way too late in the red key ambush, I escaped the archvile with ease. (only 1 zombieman was blocking me to the right)
• Hell nobles at the end is a lame way to end the map - 2 or 3 should suffice.

 

MAP14

 

Competent arctic techbase map, though some ambushes are a bit dumb and can be cheesed.

 

MAP15

 

Again, nothing much to say. Clever abuse of infinite height and archvile and the large arena tho.
 

[Tristan]

12 hours ago, Horus said:

What was the MIDI on map 12 btw?

It me!

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[Horus]

Awesome MIDI Eris! It fits the map really well

[Horus]

A couple more videos. Again, fun stuff! Bug details are in the Discord

 

00:00 - Map16 - Cold Shoulder by Breezeep

10:10 - Map17 - Snow Frontier by Misty

22:40 - Map18 - Dour Tower by Jimmy

35:00 - Map19 - The Crystalline Vault By Scotty

 

 

00:00 - Map20 - The Pale Helm By RonnieJamesDiner

20:15 - Map21 - The Gardeners of Eden By AD_79

35:40 - Map22 - Tuama By Major Arlene

 

 

[Horus]

And a couple more videos:

 

00:00 - Map23 - Oratory By Walter

08:55 - Map24 - Marblelous By Leo

18:40 - Map25 - Metamorphism By elend

35:10 - Map26 - Heavenly Gantlet By LowGcifer

 

 

00:00 - Map27 - THUNDERBASTARD By an_mutt
28:55 - Map28 - The Halls of Reckoning By Bridgeburner

 

 

[Lord_Z]

It was fun to be a part of this again. Great job to everyone who worked on the project and thanks to everyone who has played it so far!

[Horus]

And the rest of the videos are here! What an awesome project, congrats to Liberation, the mappers, musicians, and everyone involved!

 

00:00 - Map29 - Marble Tombstone By Bauul
15:15 - Map30 - Eldritch By RonnieJamesDiner

 

Spoiler

 

 

Map32 - Ephemeral By Aurelius

 

Spoiler

 

Map33 - Boreas By Aquila Chrysaetos

 

Spoiler

 

Map34 - Horseshoe of Death By DJV

 

Spoiler

 

 

[Caleb13]

Nice work, the map design is surprising consistent for a community project. Anyway, I played RC1 on UV in GZdoom 4.4.2 and I noticed some problems:

 

MAP01: not enough ammo, I had to rely on monster infigting in the blue key room and even had to finish the exit pinkie with fist.

 

MAP10: player can become trapped inside blue armor secret.

 

MAP18: thing 384 (shells) is unreachable.

 

MAP22: monsters from sectors 109 and 137 never teleported into playable areas.

 

MAP23: it would be nice to make the EXIT sign more visible.

 

MAP26: linedef 32 must be DR, not D1. Also, player can become trapped inside sectors 148, 149 and 155 in the starting room.

Edited July 18, 2020 by Caleb13

[PixelAdder]

Started playing this today. Very nice from what I've seen so far. Great use of detail and a very nice custom texture set. Creative use of traps and nice architecture in general. So far monster/health/ammo balance is good. Playing on UV.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/683369514?t=1h38m

Edited July 18, 2020 by Serge Jkn

[Catpho]

I'm sad that i don't have much time to do an extensive write-up, because this megawad has some of my favorite levels of the year. Well done Liberation & Co.!

Oh, and there's a possible texture misalignment on Map22 (found in the latest Crispy Doom), in front of the exit room:

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Edited August 23, 2020 by Catpho

[Major Arlene]

3 hours ago, Catpho said:

I'm sad that i don't have much time to do an extensive write-up, because this megawad has some of my favorite levels of the year. Well done Liberation & Co.!

Oh, and there's a possible texture misalignment on Map22, in front of the exit room:

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aw heckin heck

thanks for catching it!

[Liberation]

Hey folks..

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/megawads/1klinecp2

It is done and uploaded.

 

Big thank you to everyone who contributed to the project!

[DMPhobos]

This was such a fun project to participate and i feel the quality of the maps was raised considerably compared to the last project, congrats everyone on the idgames release!

[dmslr]

Sorry for bumping, but I really want to beat map32 without spoilers.

Spoiler

Should I disable infinitely tall monsters? Just "yes" or "no". Please, don't spoil anything.

 

Edit:

Spoiler

Nevermind. I managed to pass through the revenants.

 

Edited March 21, 2021 by dmslr

[Liberation]

@dmslr No.