APOCACLIPS - full 32 map limit removing megawad made in 3 days - now on ID Games

[Clippy]

GET IT HERE --> https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/megawads/apocaclips

 

Cliffs:

 

- Yes I did make this in 3 days, spontaneously starting sun night, finishing wed night
- All maps Doom 2 limit removing
- Designed with pistol start in mind, but you can play continuous if you like - fill your boots
- No jumping or crouching, freelook is your call
- Each map has at least 1 secret sector
- I UV maxed them all in testing
- I tried my best to add difficulties, but you know - frantic build
- There are multiplayer starts if u have a buddy and want to do something stoopid
- bonus maps 31&32 r bastards & so is trying to unlock it
* If u play map 32 and use dynamic lighting it may slow down the game, this map only

**If possible you may want to make sure ghost monsters is turned off or map 5 could mess you up on pistol start without secrets

*** APR 6 made changes to map 5 and 8 for a better experience

***** APR 11, wow time moves fast - changed map 20 cause ppl weren't solving my silly puzzle lol - redownload if needed

 

 

 

 

Screenshots:

 

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That's right, I started this Sunday night, finished Wednesday night - 72 hours of building and I worked one of the days - and watched Better Call Saul in the evenings that's a good show. I went to McDonalds at one point too and tried the habanero sauce it was terrible

 

Yes these are speedmaps made on a whim, some ideas may have been in my head but I had to dig deep, I surprised myself with this unexpected project idea. Even if the maps look crude, I did put special attention and care into the gameplay, the combat - hopefully if you can pretend you are in the 90s, you may have fun playing. My goal for most maps, was short, frantic, fast and furious gameplay- sometimes quite a powertrip - most maps are super fast, don't let the monster count fool ya.

 

Special thanks to my wife, see I named maps 1-7, 13 & 23 & 29,30. But I was coming up with concepts only before names and could not fill the list in my notebook. To my surprise she took my book and filled the slots with random names from the top of her head - the best part is this opened a creative outlet for me and I had LOTS of fun mapping for these names. I never would have pulled this off if she haden't done this. Amazing!

 

Music : I literally inserted my maps into this wad lol: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/music/rottmus - Rise of the Triad music kicks ass - the very opening title song is by Jimmy, a fave of mine: You Ain't The Boss O' Me - they will get credit

 

Please share any thoughts, comments, videos or what have you - good or bad - good times - what's your fave/least fave map or moments?

 

Unnecessary extra details:

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Yup, I really wish I had this idea sooner - it was lika a random aha moment, I always feel the need to make a megawad but you know, time and energy is not in abundance for me. This idea to see if I could make a full megawad of speedmaps was quite an endeavor and rather taxing. I spent the majority of Monday on it, had to work Tues and gave meself a vacation day for wedns to finish. I made the maps in order (well I did 13 & 18 sooner) and when I finished I moved on, I did not go back and polish - only made sure it was functionable. So what you see is what you get, a rough quick map. Man it was fun having a list of map names done up for me. I felt so creative here but won't try this again, certainly not in such a short window. I did go a little bit crazy a few times but I feel like I can map faster now. Some maps I ended up caring quite a bit about and those ones took longer than I should have lol. Anyway have a good one

 

GET IT HERE --> https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/megawads/apocaclips

 

 

 

Edited May 4, 2022 by Clippy
Ghost monsters bad on map 5 pistol start without secrets turn them off if possible

[Gibbon]

Awesome!  Going to start a playthrough of this.

 

McDonalds here don't do Habanero sauce :( *sob*

[Biodegradable]

Holy macaroni, you absolute lunatic lol.

[Nimlouth]

You're sick in both the positive and negative meaning of the word lmfao.

Downloading and playtesting. Hopefully I can survive the apocaplipse... apolaclip... apoc.. lapit... *shuts ups and -file APOCACLIPS.wad*

[CoolerDoomeR]

Nice wad, Congrats on the release!

[Clippy]

Thanks for the support everyone - I did test all of this, however discovered an error on map 13

 

please re-download if you see this post and already have it

[Nimlouth]

Alright, I played half a dozen of maps on UV and must say I'm not mentally prepared for this level of BS right now. And I don't mean the *bad* type of BS, it's actually crazy fun type of BS maps. The wad so far manages to strike a really comic balance between shitpost mapping and an actual semblance of level design. I want to see how it progresses on the later levels, as I imagine your workflow becoming eventually more sanity-deprived with each consecutive map you completed haha. Maybe I'll make a gameplay vid/showcase, cheating a little bit ofcourse. But I'll do that tomorrow, rn the APOCACLUPSOS has beaten me it seems. Cheers on your release!

edit: Btw I tested this on Nugget Doom (Woof! fork) and worked flawlessly on complevel 9 (boom compatible) at least on the maps I just played. Not that it's super important but you might want to know.

Edited April 1, 2022 by Nimlouth

[Dubbag]

Have you even slept in the last 3 days? Go to fucking bed! LOL

Edited April 1, 2022 by Dub Bag

[Pistoolkip]

You absolute madman!

These are best experienced with pistol starting.

Anyway, here are the first few maps:

 

 

[Clippy]

@Gibbon I want to sweet and sour sauce but they only had one so I took habanero as a consolation prize but I didn't care for it. It was kind of nasty and unexpectedly thick

 

@Biodegradable yes 

 

@Nimlouth thank you so much for playing and having to look so far. Even though this was a quick experiment I wanted to make the maps worthwhile challenging and fun hopefully. Good luck if you continue and thanks for the feedback

 

@CoolerDoomeR thank you so much!!😀

 

@Dub BagBagBagBagBagBagBagBagBagBagBagBagBagBag I sincerely don't know why my phone just did that

 

@PistoolkipI'm totally impressed how fast you go to video going lol. Each map was designed for pistol start but it makes for a much harder slower experience. I'm totally fine if people want to blast through it continuously. And no I didn't have time to mess with partimes I barely had time to do what I did. Thank you so much for the video it was particularly fun watching you play crushinator

Edited April 1, 2022 by Clippy
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[Thelokk]

@Clippy W-w-w-wait... th-this was not a-a April Fools' J-joke? *wipes forehead and huffs*

 

I sure know what I'm doing this evening. 

Edited April 1, 2022 by Thelokk

[Frost-Core]

I'm currently going to reinstall my system, then il see the stuff. i think its an April Fools, how could anybody make 32 MAPS in THREE DAYS!! thats just crazy, did you even sleep?

[Pechudin]

Me: (After 7 days) yknow this starting area is starting to look nice.

 

Clippy: Anyway I just started mapping and 3 days later this is what I have

[thiccyosh]

You what

[Origamyde]

Clippy, you absolute madman. Get some sleep, bruh.

 

Jokes aside, I can't wait to have some fun on this mapset. Congrats for being that committed to this surprise project :D

[Gibbon]

A few hours ago I uploaded the first few videos too (MAP1-3) but 02 killed me :P.  Total blast!

 

Spoiler

 

 

[Dusty_Rhodes]

I'm stunned, can't believe a whole megawad was made that fast. Good stuff Clippy.

[Rudolph]

A non-joke mapset for April 1st? Nice. Thank you!

Edited April 1, 2022 by Rudolph

[Clippy]

@Thelokk @Rudolph I felt like this was the only day I could possibly release such a rushed thing - but I definitely put effort into this to be entertaining and not pointless - there's lots of silliness to be had here as well 

 

@Frost-Core I got about 6 hours of sleep a night lol - but as you can see they were quite rushed but still functional

 

@Pechudinlol my maps are not lookers though haha 

 

@thiccyosh 🥴

 

@Origamyde thanks buddy I was able to achieve a special level of focus for this - I still can't believe I pulled it off

 

@Gibbon thank you for playing! Your videos were cool.  map two the objective is to grab that box of shells it makes all the difference -- good job punching the Archie in map 3 through the blue bar I didn't know you could do that

 

@Dusty_Rhodesif you play through it will make more sense I did a lot of copy and paste in corner cutting action

 

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Even though this was an exhausting task I'm happy to see it's being received well so far

 

[Clippy]

@Gibbon I saw you created a hash brown for #apocaclips which I didn't know you could do on YouTube so I clicked on it and I got this

 

 

Some guy shaving his head or something

 

Man apocaclips would be a good name for a hair salon

[Gibbon]

Crikey, it is a household hashtag already!  Hmmm..  that business will need a tagline.  "Apocaclips - we will blow your mind"..

[Pirx]

5 hours ago, Clippy said:

GET IT HERE --> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s6_VpxiGQzz-oQb2xJHuaqaQ3Z4zEgJs/view?usp=sharing

 

Cliffs:

 

- Yes I did make this in 3 days, spontaneously starting sun night, finishing wed night
 

 

 

 

speedmapping redefined

[OniriA]

[Walter confetti]

This is total madness

[Frost-Core]

I'm back! im compiling  chocolate-doom from the aur, so ill see what the fuss is all about

[Clippy]

@Gibbon million dollar idea

 

@Pirx hooray! 

 

@OniriA LOL @Biodegradable look at this

 

@Walter confetti welcome to the apocaclips  

 

@Frost-Core welcome back but keep in mind this is limit removing. This will almost certainly not work in chocolate. You need some kind of limit removing Port like crispy or dsda or something

 

[Frost-Core]

It crashed and it said :

"R_DrawPlanes: visplane overflow (130)"

I don't really know how to copy my saves to crispy, but yeah.

[Clippy]

21 minutes ago, Frost-Core said:

It crashed and it said :

"R_DrawPlanes: visplane overflow (130)"

I don't really know how to copy my saves to crispy, but yeah.

 

Sorry and as advertised this does require a limit removing port. Vanilla mapping is not my wheelhouse

[Gibbon]

21 minutes ago, Frost-Core said:

It crashed and it said :

"R_DrawPlanes: visplane overflow (130)"

I don't really know how to copy my saves to crispy, but yeah.

You could try Sprinkled Doom.

 

Shameless plug for my own port.  Slap me :)

[Clippy]

1 minute ago, Gibbon said:

You could try Sprinkled Doom.

 

Shameless plug for my own port.  Slap me :)

 

You have your own port? That's awesome!

 

Plug away if it helps people play my maps ☺️

Edited April 1, 2022 by Clippy