Best Doom MOD for beginners?

[Zilch]

I only started playing Doom fairly recently.  I'm 19 now, and started playing it early 2020 (lockdown was not fun).

 

I actively use - and support - LZDoom (3.88), rather tham GZDoom.  Reason being is that is is MUCH more stable on my iGPU than the latter.  I started a whole thread on the issue.

 

Anyway, I have already gone through Brutal Doom, which is absolutely AWESOME!!!  Brutal Doom combined with the amazing level design of Plutonia (my favorite WAD) rivals that of even some modern games.

 

But now that I have finished regular Doom and Brutal Doom, I find myself with an itch.  I want more!  But the problem is that there are soooooo many WADs to choose from.

 

For someone like me who's only been playing for over a year, it really is hard to choose.  What are some of the best, most original, and most enjoyable WADs you can recommend to the 'average' Doom player?

[Dexiaz]

Legacy of Suffering, KDiZD, Ultimate Torment and Torture, The City Of The Damned 1 & 2, Wolfenstein: Blade of Agony.

 

This is a very little list, but you could try it. Also you could check this, maybe you'll find it interesting to play too.

Edited August 7, 2021 by Dexiaz
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[Wavy]

Not sure about what the best would be but I started with Back to Saturn X Episode 1 and it's a very high quality Megawad. There's also a second episode if you beat that.

[Teo Slayer]

I don't know if it's the best but after that, I started with Lunatic from skillsaw (the same guy who created Valiant) and it was awesome. I really liked the moon themed maps and the tech bases were just epic. MAP05 will be pain tho, but still good

If you enjoyed Brutal Doom so much as I do, you may check out the Starter Pack that SgtMarkIV made. It's an amazing Megawad and it's personally my favourite of all time now

Edited August 7, 2021 by Teo Slayer

[Zilch]

@Dexiaz just downloaded and configured LOS.  Looks incredible!  Reminds me a lot of Doom 3.

 

I did try BTSX, but found it quite boring.  The first level is only one texture of blue and white squares.  Very annoying, visually.

 

I'll also try some of the other ones recommended later.  Thanks for the input, guys!

[TheNoob_Gamer]

9 minutes ago, Zilch said:

I did try BTSX, but found it quite boring

That's certainly a hot take, as BTSX utilized DOS Doom limits quite well. The gameplay might not be everyone's cup of tea though, so I can see that.

[Wavy]

16 minutes ago, Zilch said:

I did try BTSX, but found it quite boring.  The first level is only one texture of blue and white squares.  Very annoying, visually.

Heh that's fine. The gameplay is certainly something that not everyone may like.

[Pechudin]

20 minutes ago, Zilch said:

I did try BTSX, but found it quite boring.  The first level is only one texture of blue and white squares.  Very annoying, visually.

 

Blue and white squares are "missing texture" error, are you sure you are loading it correctly? I had the same issue, but forgot what solved it.

[TheNoob_Gamer]

9 minutes ago, Pechudin said:

 

Blue and white squares are "missing texture" error, are you sure you are loading it correctly? I had the same issue, but forgot what solved it.

IIRC; of BTSX 1's two packaged wad files, one is a pure resource pack, the other contains map data itself. You'll need to load both wads for it to work properly.

Edited August 7, 2021 by TheNoob_Gamer

[Zilch]

Nevermind, just fixed it.

 

I forgot I load both WAD files in LZDoom.  A quick edit of a batch file with Notepad++ (God bless)...

 

@echo off
start lzdoom.exe -file btsx_e1a.wad btsx_e1b.wad -config btsx-doom.ini
 

The textures load perfectly fine now, thankfully.  I couldn't understand why on earth someone would make something like that.

[Wavy]

15 minutes ago, Zilch said:

  I couldn't understand why on earth someone would make something like that.

Simple: To bypass vanilla PWAD size limits.

Edited August 7, 2021 by Wavy

[Pechudin]

It still blows my mind BTSX is vanilla. But, on-topic ... for mods Pirate DooM is a nice, light-hearted one (well, a TC). REKKR is also a fun one, albeit a lot slower and more vanilla.

[Bauul]

If you're cool with reading through old threads, there's been a few recently that have tackled this topic. Here's a small selection:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These should give you a good few ideas.