DoomWiki Months in Review (Issue #29)

[Xymph]

After that frantic January, it was perhaps inevitable that February would be slower -- and certainly evitably 2-3 days shorter than other months. :) So I saved up the 27 new articles to combine them with last month's.

 

Certainly noteworthy in February, however, was the completion of walkthroughs for all of Strife's maps by Gauss, filling a long-standing gap in the wiki's core coverage. Gauss since applied the same thorough treatment to mods Masters of Chaos and Threshold of Pain.

 

The main event in March was of the course the release of Doom Eternal's second DLC, but otherwise it wasn't a very busy month either. Here is the full list of new articles:

 

Core Content

 

Doom 3: VR Edition
Egyptian map
The Making of Doom 3
Sam

 

Doom Eternal

 

The Ancient Gods, Part Two
Armored baron
Cursed prowler
The Dark Lord
Demonic trooper
Immora
Reclaimed Earth
Riot soldier
Screecher
Sentinel Hammer
Stone imp
The World Spear

 

Mods

 

Aeternum
Alpha 1 Trilogy
Baculus
Base (WAD)
BS_L21
BS_L22
Czechbox
Dave (Dave Geary WAD)
The DeathMatch Of The Century!
DemoniZed
DMTexas
Doom Anomaly
Doom: Damnation
Doom: The Golden Souls
Doom: The Golden Souls 2
DWANGO9
Escape From Planet Deum
Fred
Good Morning Phobos
Hall (WAD)
Hell in Hell
Imps-r-Us 2
JStuff10
Kickin
Literal Spiral
Masters of Chaos
No Rest For The Wicked
Raygun
Slaughterfest 2011
Slaughterfest 2012
Slaughterfest 3
Snipe99
Space 2096: The Invasion Begins
Spaced
Strife: Absolute Order
Three's a Crowd
The True Test
UACPEN
Vega 1
Walls
What Lurks Beneath Base12?

 

People

 

Caleb26
Andy Chen
Andrea Gori (Batandy)
Kloki38
Jason Martin
Claude Martins
Jason O'Connell
The SloVinator
Solmyr

Tiago Sousa
Jim Valavanis (Jval)

 

Previous Issue

 

 

[Worm318]

I can't believe there is an article for Literal Spiral. I thought that map got lost when that thread was nuked.

Edited April 1, 2021 by Worm318

[Tetzlaff]

Thanks for the update. Always some interesting stuff.

 

One thing I don't understand, what does it mean "the demonic trooper is an ambient monster"? Why ambient?

It's kinda explained later that it's called like this because you can glory kill or chainsaw it, but I still don't get that term. Who introduced it? Are most of the monsters in Doom 2016 "ambient monsters"?

Edited April 9, 2021 by Tetzlaff

[Gez]

The "ambient monster" category includes buff totems, tentacles, cueballs, spirits, turrets, and demonic troopers. I really can't see a common thread between them all. Like buff totems, tentacles, and turrets? Okay, stationary thingies. Buff totems and spirits? Okay, thingies that boost other monsters instead of fighting you directly. Cueball and demonic troopers? Okay, fodder you can't feed upon. All those at once? Sorry, I don't see a common thread here.

 

I think it'd be better classified as miscellaneous monsters. But AFAIK the categories are taken directly from the game, it's not an arbitrary invention of the wiki. I don't have the modern games, though; they wouldn't run on my old lapotatop. (Only one gig of VRAM and no support for Vulkan.)

[Diabolución]

This cannot be real.

 

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[Xymph]

40 minutes ago, Diabolución said:

This cannot be real.

Maybe, maybe not, but the one update looked plausible to Quasar and me, so I accepted it.