DBP31: Santa's Outback Bender

[Catpho]

 

It’s almost Christmas Eve, but no one’s seen Santa since he left to go party with demons in Australia! Those dudes are such bad influences... hell, they've practically got the whole country on lockdown. You hate being a buzzkill, but if someone doesn't find Santa and sober the old bastard up, no one's getting any prezzies!

Santa's Outback Bender is a Doom 2 limit-removing project from various members of Doomer Boards, led by resident down under Doomer glenzinho. It's the 3rd annual Doomer Boards Project Christmas extravaganza, and this year instead of the traditional cooler climes of the northern Winter, we're heading south to enjoy a Summer Christmas Down Under style. That means there's no snow and plenty of sun, surf, sand, and slaying!

 

/idgames

 

Screenshots:

 

MAPLIST

MAP01 : Australia Town by glenzinho
MAP02 : Season's Beatings by joe-ilya
MAP03 : Red Back Redemption by memfis
MAP04 : Bastard Shore by memfis, glenzinho, Zedonk, Hydromecha
MAP05 : Bushwacked by big ol' billy
MAP06 : Australia Town 2 by glenzinho
MAP07 : Oasis Siege by gaspe
MAP08 : The Back of Coonabarabran by Vertigo, Zedonk, glenzinho, Phobus, big ol' billy
MAP09 : Bli Bli Billabong by Scrangus McBrickdad/Jaxxoon R
MAP10 : Australia Town 3 by glenzinho
MAP11 : Dead Centre by glenzinho
MAP12 : The Drunken Wallaby by Doom_RO
MAP13 : Bloody Oath by lunchlunch
MAP14 : Australia Town 4 by glenzinho
MAP15 : Hellsong Ignited by big ol' billy
MAP31 : The Final Siren by glenzinho

BONUS MAPS
MAP32 : Peerdolian Journey by Peerdolius
MAP16 : Washed Ashore by A Bear In Tha Woods

 

Happy Holidays, Doomers! For those of you still wishing for winter wonderlands, be sure to check out the krew's The Merry Christmassy Doom Project and A Doomer Boards Christmas Carol. You can leave your thoughts here if you want :)

 

Previous Projects:

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2020:
-Dungeons and Demons
-Occult Secrets of the Third Reich on Mars
-Biotech is Godzilla
-Evil Egypt
-Spaceballs: The Sequel: The Quest For More DBP Maps
-Dead But Dreaming
-The City of Damned Children
-10 Day Vacation
-Fear and Loathing
-Morbid Autumn
-The Magnificent Five

 

Sidequests:
-Fall of Society

 

For every DBP ever, please check the Doom Wiki article!

 

Previous Downloads:

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-RC1

-RC1.1

-RC1.2

-RC2

-RC3

 

Edited February 1, 2021 by Catpho

[TheNoob_Gamer]

So, I guess I was right when the last DBP was just an appetizer for even hotter stuff. Will we still get presents?

[Doomkid]

Haha.. Glen HAD to be the man behind this one, right? Looks really fun!

[leodoom85]

18 maps???? Holy shit.

Guess that we have a reason now to enjoy xmas even more.

[ABearInThaWoods]

It was a pleasure to be involved in the project. All the maps are absolutely sick. The theme is hilarious and makes for a very fun and relaxing backdrop to some hectic action. The sounds of digeridoos and demons go together quite well. It was a job very well done. Merry Christmas everyone.

 

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I'm just happy my map was added as a bonus even though it was my first map ever and I made it within 2 weeks of learning the editor. So don't let anything stop you from learning Doom mapping. You can make something acceptable in a short amount of time, you just need to put time and effort into it. Get to work, you!

 

Edited December 24, 2020 by ABearInThaWoods

[Endless]

Ohh yea baby. It's always a good day when a DBP is published.

 

[xvertigox]

Merry Xmas everyone! Enjoy the set, I'm very proud of what we've put out and I think you'll all enjoy it :)

[FrancisT218]

Hotfix - includes latest version of Map03

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/etxbgzm18lh2eud/DBP31_RC1.1.zip?dl=1

[leodoom85]

Well......me, Misty and DMPhobos did a coop gameplay of the wad. Enjoy.

 

 

[Jovian]

Incredible. Will be putting some time into this. Some good chuckles had already just booting it up to see if it plays nice with my mods. 

 

Close as well get to an Australian Community Map Pack, so I'll take it :).

[Phobus]

This is a great theme, and my only regret is not having/making more time to make a proper map for it. Still, I'm all over QA and the resources, so I can happily claim to have been involved in a fun set! Plenty of strong maps here. Merry Christmas one and all!

[Weird Sandwich]

VB billboards and not Fosters, a true blue Aussie mapset here. Great job yet again Doomer Boards!

[Soulless]

Thanks for the xmas present !!

[adamastor]

Merry Christmas doomers and thanks for another great mapset.

[Jovian]

Just finished it including the two bonus maps. Really good stuff. Really started grooving with it at Oasis Seige. Big difficulty spike on Drunken Wallaby. I think I softlocked after the four boomerangs at end of Hillsong (Yeah I'm picking up what you're putting down), not raising the bars to Santa's pool unless I missed something silly.

 

Total playtime was about 2hours 50minutes give or take. 

 

I continue to enjoy all the DBP output, even though you guys make it faster than I can play it :)

Caco for the gang in 2021 or riot.

[Big Ol Billy]

Thanks @Jovian, glad someone got that Hillsong reference! (Several playthroughs I’ve seen have people like “Wait is this supposed to be a church or a big concert?”  lol.) Too bad I couldn’t officially work in the SMM as “Brain” Houston in the intertext XD

 

Also interested to hear more about that softlock. There should be five boomerangs—grabbing the first one should trigger the big fight, then it’s a matter of collecting the remaining four to open the bars and see Santa getting baptized. Seems unlikely that you missed any of them from what you describe, that’s puzzling. What port were you using? I assume the rangs worked fine on other maps? Maybe there’s something going with KeenDie actions triggering very close to one another... hmm...

[Big Ol Billy]

Sorry for the double-post, we figured out the issue with the boomerang pickups on MAP15 (yep, potential 666 special failure if KeenDie actions trigger too close to one another) and also fixed some deep water rendering issues in certain ports. Leaving this RC1.2 here until @Catpho can update the OP: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z2l7glfdyiaqjip/DBP31_RC1.2.zip?dl=1

Edited December 25, 2020 by Big Ol Billy

[Jovian]

37 minutes ago, Big Ol Billy said:

 What port were you using? I assume the rangs worked fine on other maps? Maybe there’s something going with KeenDie actions triggering very close to one another... hmm...

 

Current GZDoom with a collection of QoL mods on top. Sorry forgot the first of five, its quite a large fight between the first and the other four :). My best random uneducated guess is maybe I grabbed them so quick it bugged like a Map07 double arachnotron kill.

 

Yeah no issues with the 'rangs elsewhere. Well, maybe on Washed Ashore, but i assume i just couldn't find the the key switches for the triple barrier at the exit.

[xvertigox]

Another update has been released fixing some port specific deep water issues on maps 17/31 and a bug with the credname plate. Grab it from the v1.2 dl link.

Edited December 26, 2020 by xvertigox

[ABearInThaWoods]

11 hours ago, Jovian said:

 

Current GZDoom with a collection of QoL mods on top. Sorry forgot the first of five, its quite a large fight between the first and the other four :). My best random uneducated guess is maybe I grabbed them so quick it bugged like a Map07 double arachnotron kill.

 

Yeah no issues with the 'rangs elsewhere. Well, maybe on Washed Ashore, but i assume i just couldn't find the the key switches for the triple barrier at the exit.

 

The three boomerrangs unlock a final secret in the center of the map. The three keys are kind of at the end of each of the "areas" of the map. The caves hold the red key, the pub and beach area have the yellow, and the elf fortress has the blue key. Once you've grabbed all three you can exit. I feel like I didn't communicate things the greatest but it's my first ever map and I pumped it out in two weeks. 

[Soulless]

I had a blast, specially with "bli bli billabong", but overall very fun, the naive and festive theme tricked me thinking everything

was pretty and nice to suddenly bite the pain haha, there were great archie encounters.

I liked a lot how you get back to the town to finish the "match".

 

Edited September 25, 2021 by Soulless

[ABearInThaWoods]

Hey there folks, Happy New Year!

 

There is a new RC2 version available for download now! In the new version you will find the credit map updated with a bonus Xmas surprise, fixes for visual glitches, and potential gamebreaker in some ports fixed on MAP16 (That's my map btw, it has a good midi at least)

 

Go grab it!

Edited January 1, 2021 by ABearInThaWoods

[TwilySparky]

I only played a few of the DPB wads but damn, did I enjoy this one. Thank you for making it.

[Catpho]

RC3 is up! Besides the usual bug-fixing, this update brings a new gift to unwrap in MAP31, if you can find it! There are also some retouched sprites from @Chainie, with a preview below: