[wip] ESP3 - Eternal Slumber Party 3 (8 maps)

[TimeOfDeath666]

ESP3 is a wip slaughter wad where I modify my old maps to be compatible ONLY with online ZDaemon coop play for one or more players in COOPERATIVE mode. Server settings are virtually identical to Xalocin's Buddha-Fingers Chillax/SF2012 server on ZDaemon.

 

(2021/05/28): esp3v8b.zip https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Qh9aXEfMZIrPVP8AQm8ZWxj8pdK151v/view?usp=sharing

 

Play on ZDaemon: [USDQC] Coop - esp3 by ToD zds://140.82.10.3:10607

 

MAPLIST AND VIDEOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvaBMOi3014 - MAP01: Drown in Blood (dib28a.wad) MAP01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gvjelVuT60 - MAP02: Drown in Blood (dib28a.wad) MAP09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqk0r_QjNM8 - MAP03: Drown in Blood (dib28a.wad) MAP03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOe0wy6rTXo - MAP04: Drown in Blood (dib28a.wad) MAP04

MAP05: Drown in Blood (dib28a.wad) MAP05

MAP06: Drown in Blood (dib28a.wad) MAP22

MAP07: Drown in Blood (dib28a.wad) MAP23

MAP08: Drown in Blood (dib28a.wad) MAP26

 

How to play/host: (don't even bother playing this or hosting a server if you're not going to use zdaemon with these specific settings and without extra gameplay/weapons mods)

download zdaemon: https://www.zdaemon.org/?CMD=downloads

open zswizard.exe
- New Setup
-> Next
- Banner: esp3
  Port: Default
  Game: Doom2: Hell On Earth (doom2.wad)
  Game Mode: Cooperative
  GamePlay Flags: 621068324 - 1074921936 - 0
  WADs: esp3
  Maps: MAP01-MAPxx
-> Next
- Advertise: On LAN (for single), On Master Server (for coop)
  Skill: Ultra-Violence
  Server Limits
    Max. Clients: x
    Max. Players: x
    Time Limit: 0
  Other Options
    Voting: Kick, Reset, Map, Random Map
    Environment: Gravity = 100, Air Control = 70
    Advanced: Auto Reset = No, Splash Factor = -2, Heapsize = 30
    Misc. CMDs: set item_respawn_time "10"
                set sv_teamautoaim "1"
-> Next
-> Finish
-> Save Preset
-> Start Server

open zlauncher.exe
-> Play Locally (for single), Login (for coop)
-> OK

Original post:

Spoiler

 

Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n5oe92gmgxp9o0r/esp3v1.zip?dl=0 (1 map)

 

These days I only play doom on Xalocin's Buddha-Fingers server on zdaemon, so ESP3 is a project where I will remake and redesign my old maps for those server settings. MAP01 is a remake of the opening hallway from Drown in Blood map01. I was going to remake the whole level but I want this wad to be online-friendly, so some levels will get split into multiple maps. Mapping will probably be very slow, my goal is at least one map a year just to keep my streak going lol.

 

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designed for ZDaemon 1.10
-zswizard.exe settings-
game mode: cooperative
gameplay flags 1/2/3: 621035556 / 1074921937 / 8
environment: 70% air control
advanced: splash factor -2
misc cmds: set item_respawn_time "10"

 

 

MAP01

 

 

Edited August 7, 2021 by TimeOfDeath666

[Grain of Salt]

Yeah!!!

[loveless]

PEE-PEE SO HARD

[Roofi]

Nice ! I look forward to this !

[TimeOfDeath666]

The original premise for this wad would take way too long for me to finish these days, so instead of redesigning my old maps from scratch I'm just going to modify the original maps themselves. This will still take time, but at least now I can finish modifying and testing a map in one or two days. This will involve completely redoing thing placement for superguns, making the map zdaemon coop compatible, and sometimes adding a new room or two. Purely cosmetic stuff that doesn't affect gameplay will be ignored.

 

The new dehacked monsters are:

- pain elemental spits out viles (archvile replaces lost soul)

- green caco from coopbuildlm.wad with pain elemental death (spits out viles)

- super pain elemental that fires fast rockets/missiles/fireballs and drops green caco upon death (super pain elemental replaces sergeant and green caco replaces shotgun)

- red caco fires fast missiles

- flying vile that fires fast missiles and drops cyber upon death (missile vile replaces zombieman and cyber replaces clip)

- flying vile that does 3 vile attacks and drops cyber upon death (3 attack vile replaces nazi)

 

I'm going through my maps chronologically using this list and I've finished 5 maps so far (the OP has been updated accordingly).

[Grain of Salt]

20 hours ago, TimeOfDeath666 said:

- pain elemental spits out viles (archvile replaces lost soul)

 

Does that replace the regular pain elem? No normal PEs? :(

[TimeOfDeath666]

Unfortunately yes, but keep in mind you have the super fast weapons from supergun2 and regular pain elementals aren't very threatening against the supergun bfg. zdaemon also has the lost soul limit by default (you can raise the limit with a server variable, but the default limit is more online-friendly).

[Grain of Salt]

29 minutes ago, TimeOfDeath666 said:

Unfortunately yes, but keep in mind you have the super fast weapons from supergun2 and regular pain elementals aren't very threatening against the supergun bfg

 

Ah, that does make sense, actually

[TimeOfDeath666]

MAP06 has been added. Also, I recorded first-exit demos for all the maps and added them to the OP. To watch demos in zdaemon, open zlauncher and go to Local -> View Demo. By the way, I think there might be a bug with the zdaemon monster counter and the dehacked monsters because on a couple rare occasions the counter said there were still unkilled monsters even though I could swear everything was dead.

[damo]

Nice one. There an alternative supergun's wad which you might wanna have a look at also. Its a little different from the original superguns2.wad. https://doomshack.org/uploads/super-gun-z-v2.wad

 

One thing I'd recommend in the ZDaemon zserv config is to set the CVAR "sv_teamautoaim" to "1" which will prevent the BFG "tracers" pushing other players round. This might be appreciated in coop.

Edited December 7, 2020 by damo2k

[TimeOfDeath666]

Thanks for the info, yeah I definitely want that cvar added. I noticed the Buddha-Fingers server has the disabled tracers on teammates so I just assumed it was a side effect of using a positive splashfactor value. So to add that cvar to a server in zswizard, do I just have to write set sv_teamautoaim "1" in the Misc. CMDs window?

 

EDIT: ok I tested it with a bot and that works, thanks!

Edited December 7, 2020 by TimeOfDeath666

[TimeOfDeath666]

MAP07 is done, it's Drown in Blood MAP23. There's a lot of new stuff in it. It took an hour for a first exit max, even with the supergun2 bfg, with 167 platforming secrets and only 2566 monsters.

[damo]

When you have a few more maps added, I can host this on a server for ZDaemon.

[TimeOfDeath666]

That would be great, thanks! Flambeau put up a zdaemon server yesterday with v7 called [USDQC] Coop - esp3 by ToD. The server held up great with no lag while 3-4 of us played through the wad.

[damo]

Ah that's even better @Flambeau's servers a more stable than mine!

[Flambeau]

Thanks to @NationwideMoose for providing the US server for that ;)

[Philnemba]

On 11/28/2020 at 2:24 PM, TimeOfDeath666 said:

The new dehacked monsters are:

- pain elemental spits out viles (archvile replaces lost soul)

- green caco from coopbuildlm.wad with pain elemental death (spits out viles)

- super pain elemental that fires fast rockets/missiles/fireballs and drops green caco upon death (super pain elemental replaces sergeant and green caco replaces shotgun)

- red caco fires fast missiles

- flying vile that fires fast missiles and drops cyber upon death (missile vile replaces zombieman and cyber replaces clip)

- flying vile that does 3 vile attacks and drops cyber upon death (3 attack vile replaces nazi)

Pain Elamentals spawning archviles & a fast moving variant that shoots rockets, missiles AND fireballs!? 

 

Solid 10/10 dehacked monsters because this is the kind of punishing coop experience I would expect from you.

[TimeOfDeath666]

MAP08 (dib28a map26) has been added: esp3v8b.zip https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Qh9aXEfMZIrPVP8AQm8ZWxj8pdK151v/view?usp=sharing

 

Here are some commentary videos:

 

[Grain of Salt]

23 hours ago, TimeOfDeath666 said:

fucking christ

 

Relateable

 

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[possible deh bug showing <100% kills when everything's dead]

 

Maybe the "boss cacos" are spawning archviles outside the map when they die? Kinda like whichever iwad port it is that has PEs that spawn outside walls and break the progression of a certain map. That's the only thing I can think of.

 

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I think it's from duke3d

 

It is! :D

[damo]

Some quality carnage!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 3, 2021 by damo

[damo]

 

Some more...

 

 

 

 

The gates of hell!

 

Edited June 4, 2021 by damo

[TimeOfDeath666]

Good turn out!