Blood Flash 2 - Short vanilla megawad (15 maps)

[Hayden49]

 

Download the megawad: bldflsh2.zip

 

Description       : Blood Flash 2 is a short vanilla megawad of 15
                          maps, all being recycled maps I have made at
                          different times, and randomly, a while ago. The
                          difficulty is quite easy, and each map is pretty
                          linear and short, and has a random theme. This wad,
                          other than the custom skies and waterfall, has no
                          custom textures or sprites. The palette is PalPlus.
                          
                          Dehacked Changes:
                          -Pistol is faster
                          -Chaingun is faster

 

Note: Level names only appear on source ports that support UMAPINFO

 

The Blood Flash series are wads of scrapped/recycled maps I have made in the past, cleaned up and compiled into bigger wads.

 

Edited March 25, 2022 by Hayden49
added screenshot so its a square of 9 screenshots

[Paf]

could just add this to blood flash 1, since, y'know, bf1 is only 2 maps

 

edit: i dont remember why i sent this, it was pointless to send anyways

Edited March 26, 2022 by Paf

[Egg Boy]

55 minutes ago, Paf said:

could just add this to blood flash 1, since, y'know, bf1 is only 2 maps

I don’t see why this matters.

[Ludi]

I love the use of Heretic's font for the STBAR. It's very tasteful and creative :^)

[Dusty_Rhodes]

Killer sky texture. I'll play soon!

[sandwedge]

 

Figured I would add my video to this thread, parts 2 and 3 on the channel.  Great set of vanilla maps, definitely mostly on the shorter and easier side, a bit inconsistent in difficulty and theme but like you said you gathered these maps from different contexts.  I'm no doom god but I got through without saves, not a lot of dying so it's fun to try that way.  Last level without saves was a bit of a stinger, took me all told about an hour and half and trying multiple tactics, but it's a fun series of combat puzzles.  Definitely into your style and looking forward to trying more of your stuff!

 

Oh yeah and the chaingun is very fast and very satisfying to use, lol.  I gotta get me one of those!

Edited March 25, 2022 by sandwedge

[Shepardus]

Neat set of maps. FYI, in MAP02 you can grab the blue keycard without lowering the pedestal it sits on.

[Thelokk]

Good stuff! Small maps, but sometimes they really pack a punch. You make good use of the room provided, repopulating it and timing ambushes pretty well. The set is a bit heavy on the techbases, I would have loved to see the same format in different styles. Diversify!

A few misalignments, especially on stairs and windows. The latter are no big deal, they kind of frame the space, but the former I'd take a look at. 

[Teo Slayer]

Good looking maps and faster pistol and chaingun. I'll play it

[eharper256]

Here's my checking out Maps 1-4 of this WAD in Walpurgis:

 

Short and punchy levels again! Lots of them the last few weeks, and that's great from my perspective, its my favourite type. I especially liked the secrets I found as well, they had a very Romero feel to them.

[Clippy]

These maps were fun especially with the pallet and the faster bullet weapons

 

 

 

[Hayden49]

@sandwedge @eharper256 @Clippy

Thanks you all for the videos, I love them.

 

Sidenote: Blood Flash 1 & 2 will likely be on Idgames soon, with bugs and issues fixed.

[sandwedge]

Thanks Hayden!  Here's part 2:

 

 

With a thumbnail from that funny level Meat Bosses.  Tried to correct some hot mic issues with the audio so a bit quieter but should be ok.  The second half of the video is all the last level, which gave me a pounding for a little while so be aware there is ample profanity!  haha.  It seems like I did it to myself a bit because I didn't come up with a great strategy at first, but I eventually learned.  Interested to hear what you intended for the last level!

 

I also thought the difficulty took a very weird curve in the wad by getting substantially easier halfway through and then ramping up again to be much harder.  Not sure if you want to address that or not, as I'm sure you were aware of it, but I found it to be ok despite it.  Though difficulty for me had to do with the levels getting longer since I was trying not to save, so maybe it's just that they got shorter.

 

Going to upload the beating the final level soon, took me another half an hour.  Pretty straightforward once I figured it out, but ammo is quite tight.

[Noiser]

I love the screenshots here, the dark palette and the fog of pixels creates a very opressive atmosphere. I can't wait to try it out!

Edited March 27, 2022 by Noiser

[Paf]

On 3/24/2022 at 9:03 PM, Egg Boy said:

I don’t see why this matters.

i don't remember why i thought it mattered anyway

[Clippy]

 

 

[Clippy]

I finished it, even the crazy map 15 with some coaching from Biodegradable lol

 

I didn;t even try to get all kills for these ones I mostly ran for it

 

 

[sandwedge]

 

This was a tough one saveless!  I ended up pulling through, not quite a UV max because ammo is pretty tight, I almost consider doing something stupid to get the last like 3 kills but it was a bad idea.