[WIP] Ramm.wad

[Alaux]

Ramm intends to be a full Doom 2 megawad with 32 maps for limit-removing ports and a fair amount of DeHackEd sorcery.

 

Now follows, the not-so original story: You wake up to a strong shockwave that leaves the facility to ruins. Next thing you know, demons are attacking, and you have to find out where are they coming from to prevent a worldwide invasion. You're not Doomguy in this story, but Crash instead.

 

The project began somewhere around February, 2020, with the idea of making a terrywad, which later derived onto a Cyberdemon encounter featuring Rammstein music (yep, that's where the name came from).

 

There isn't much to show off at the moment, having only a single finished map, two playable but yet unfinished maps and some map ideas scattered around, without mentioning that I started having zero mapping experience.

 

Below are some screenies, and maybe even videos.

Map01:

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Map04:

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Map13:

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This sky texture was originally a placeholder, but I learned how to make these kind of skies work, so it may stay!

 

 

Map15 (never ending development for this one, oh boy):

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Map20:

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Map30 (just a bit):

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Miscellaneous stuff:

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A better view of the protagonist.

 

The Baron replacement: now attacks with Mancubi fireballs.

 

 

 

 

What the menu looks like.

 

 

Colored difficulty settings. Why not?

 

 

And here's a list with most changes, so far:

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- Reworked many animations (weapons, monsters, decorations, etc.), added Fullbright where missing.

 

- Chainsaw, Shotgun, Super Shotgun and Chaingun are slightly faster.

- Pistol has been replaced with a Glock. Faster firing rate.

- Rockets now leave a smoke trail, just like the Revenant Tracer.

 

- Chaingunner's attack is faster, as is the player's Chaingun.

- Pinky's attack is slightly faster.

- Lost Soul's health has been reduced to 60, charges at you instantly and moves faster.

- Cacodemon's fireball is 50% faster.

- Hell Knight's attack is slightly faster, and its fireball is as fast as with the -fast parameter.

- Baron of Hell was replaced with Bruiser Demon: different sprites, attacks by throwing Mancubus fireballs.

- Arachnotron's firing state has been fixed, slightly faster.

- Archvile's flame attack is visually different.

- Spider Mastermind's firing state has been fixed, slightly faster.

- Wolfenstein SS and Commander Keen have been replaced with custom, secret enemies.

- Unique Final Boss in Map30.

 

- Added flames, chairs, sparks and special explosion effects.

- Changed blood sprites. Blood now forms blood splats, which fade away after 3 minutes.

 

Now, keep this in mind: this is not an AAA, groundbreaking project, this is just me having fun as I work on this. I don't know what'll be of the future of this project, but I sure hope that everything goes well and it eventually gets an official release.

 

Also, I'm definitely not going to make this purely out of my own ideas, that could be a disaster. I want to find the balance between making something that I like and something that everyone else likes, which is why you can give all sorts of opinions on the content, test the maps and even contribute your own content! (Everyone will be credited, I don't mind having a giant credits and thanks to list).

 

Speaking about credits, almost all of the new assets are not of my own, and so, here are the proper credits:

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--- Credits ---

 

Palette: Sabbat Martyr

 

Textures: Cage, plums
 - IDTEX TEXTURE PACK:
    Conversion: Samuel Villarreal, Emil Brundage
    Author: id Software
    Submitted: Emil Brundage
    
 - FINAL DOOM TEXTURES
    Conversion: MagicWazard
    Author: id Software, Team TNT
    Submitted: MagicWazard
    
 - NIGHTMARE ANIMATIONS PACK
    Author: Nightmare
    Submitted: Tormentor667
    
 - Waterfall textures taken from 32in24-15_tex_v2
 - Some textures taken from OTEX.

 

Various sprite fixes: Minor Sprite Fixing Project team

 

Glock: JoeyTD, Minigunner

 

Pistol/Chaingun sound: Unused sound taken from Valiant, source unknown

 

Rifle (Rammspr): Gifty (Smooth Doom)

 

Chaingun sprites: Stephen "Urthar" Wadsworth (Dimension of The Boomed)

Chaingun Pickup sprite: Tormentor667

 

BFG 9000: New muzzleflash taken from Smooth Doom by Gifty

 

Electric Spark Effect: Gifty (Smooth Doom)

 

Imp fireball puff sprites: Taken from Smooth Doom by Gifty

 

Rocket Smoke (used for Revenant Tracer): Talon1024

 

Crash: Skelegant and Captain Ventris (sounds, weapon and arm sprites), Virtue 
(Crash model), Immortal Destroyer and goldenmob72 (Helmet Doomguy Mugshots)

 

Bruiser Demon: Vader

 

Doom Big Font variants: randi, Jimmy (edits), Eriance

 

id Shadowed font: id Software, Jimmy

 

Blood sprites: Smooth Doom, Doom 4 Vanilla

 

If you're interested in the project, let me know and I'll invite you to its Discord server, where you can get some extra insight, maybe get to test the maps and chat with me and other fellow members.

Edited May 13, 2021 by Alaux

[Walter confetti]

Hey, looks cool! Pretty basic but good looking!

[Alaux]

He-hey! This ain't dead... yet. Progress is simply very slow.

Anyways, considering how I haven't done much for the wad these last weeks, I've done plenty of stuff these last days, including a bit of a new map, some sikk electric sparks and a better pistol. Videos showcasing the last two below.
 

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Quick reminder: this is still limit-removing.

Edited August 27, 2020 by Alaux

[Alaux]

So, uh, I updated the OP with up-to-date (heh) screenshots and some more misc screenshots, and organized things in a nicer way.

 

While I'm on it, I may as well ask for some opinions (although it seems unlikely for anyone to answer):

 

We all know that demons, on their idle state, only have two frames on loop. While this makes things not look so static, it looks weird in some cases. I was thinking about making them static, looping on a single frame (in other words, not moving at all). What you think?

 

To make it simpler, instead of this

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It would look like this

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Edited September 11, 2020 by Alaux

[AtticTelephone]

So when is it coming out?

[Alaux]

3 hours ago, AtticTelephone said:

So when is it coming out?

Dunno, definitely not this year. Things are going slow, and ideas are scarce, but as time goes on more will be done... I hope. Community contribution will speed up the process for sure, but my only goal is to finish it, sooner or later.

[Alaux]

Slow doesn't seem to describe just how slow this is going... anyways: I updated the OP with a list of changes, a bit of the story and another misc map screenshot. Hopefully I'll have more time to work on this soon. In the meanwhile, have a listen to what's, in my opinion, the best track in the wad so far:

Believe me, it sounds better in-game, LMMS is a bit oof for rendering.

Edited October 21, 2020 by Alaux

[Alaux]

Boo! Been a while, hasn't it?

 

I've done a considerable amount of mapping in these months... at least for my standards. Most of the work went into Map30, of which I've included a single screenshot in the OP. I've also added some screenshots for Map04 and Map20.

 

Now, this is somewhat interesting: """Scripted""" explosions that """destroy""" walls:

They're a nightmare to do however.

[spineapple tea]

On 10/20/2020 at 6:44 PM, Alaux said:

 

 

A little off topic but me and my friend are collectively losing our shit over the image in the video. Is that a match? We're seriously just staring at what we think is a match.

[Alaux]

4 minutes ago, N1ck said:

A little off topic but me and my friend are collectively losing our shit over the image in the video. Is that a match? We're seriously just staring at what we think is a match.

It is a match indeed. It's the cover for Rammstein's latest (and nameless) album, to which Ausländer belongs. From my side I could say that the low resolution I used just contributes to the confusion.