Hordamex: 1.0 is OUT!!

[SkeletronMK666]

had SOO much fun working on this project thank you @Kaapeli47 @Bridgeburner56 for letting me contribute in this project. it brings so much meaning to my life!

[Xenaero]

Well, hey all! It has been awhile. Got a very special announcement to make here...

 

 

Get it here! https://www.dropbox.com/s/0dfr1ztey74m75n/hordamex.zip?dl=0

You'll need the multiplayer source port Odamex 10.2 or above to run it as expected, obtainable here: https://odamex.net/

You can play any of the maps in single-player or with friends online! Keep an eye out for Monday Night Horde that kicks off every Monday evening at 8:00pm EST in the Odamex discord! There are also standing Horde servers that are up and running 24/7 that run various map packs, Hordamex included!

 

Since early July, in tandem with the Hellforge community, we've been hard at work with this monster of a multiplayer community map pack.

After a couple final playtests, I believe that all the i's have received their dots, and all the t's are adorned with their crosses.

 

A worthy mention that since the last Release Candidate posting, we've had three new maps added! Let me present the final maplist:

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MAP01 "Triage At Dawn" by @RonnieJamesDiner
MAP02 "Siberian Outpost" by @RastaManGames
MAP03 "Cool Map!" by @Mik57 aka "Korzodin"
MAP04 "The Cauldron Forge" by @exl
MAP05 "Terror in Aisle Five" by @ginc
MAP06 "Bloodbath and Beyond" by @Velvetic
MAP07 "Red Node Failure" by @StormCatcher.77
MAP08 "Overgrowth Pt II" by @Major Arlene
MAP09 "Unholy Rapture" by @RottKing
MAP10 "Damned Labs" by @RastaManGames
MAP11 "Ruined Waters" by @exl
MAP12 "Aquifever" by @boris
MAP13 "Dimensional Leak" by @electricbrass
MAP14 "Hydrophelia" by @Alfredo and @Velvetic
MAP15 "Feuermeer" by @RiviTheWarlock
MAP16 "Doomed Disco" by @RastaManGames
MAP17 "Trapped in Another Gothic Hellscape" by @KeaganDunn
MAP18 "Chacal" by @dac
MAP19 "Chaos Reactor" by @ProverbialGamer
MAP20 "Sand Storm Pyramid" by @SkeletronMK666, @Insane_Gazebo, and @Liberation
MAP21 "Rip and Teal" by @Remmirath
MAP22 "Nightlife and Death" by @Velvetic
MAP23 "Altars of Defilement" by @Kaapeli47 and @ShakarAtar
MAP24 "Corruption Factory" by @big smoke
MAP25 "Golden Shower" by @Worriedidiot
MAP26 "Vision Therapy" by @Major Arlene
MAP27 "Overworking" by @RastaManGames
MAP28 "Arctic Onslaught" by @Guardsoul
MAP29 "Sephirot" by @Alfredo
MAP30 "Castle Raiders" by @DJVCardMaster aka "DJV"
MAP31 "The Singularity's Servant" by @Insane_Gazebo
MAP32 "A Demesne, Cocooned" by @Insane_Gazebo
MAP33 "Losing Battle" by @Liberation
MAP34 "The Endless Hunt" by @exl
MAP35 "Erebus Generator" by @Jaccident
MAP36 "District #69" by @RastaManGames
MAP37 "Fearrous" by @Bridgeburner56
MAP38 "Of the Old Sand Cult, Darude" by @Major Arlene
MAP39 "The Writhing Netch" by @OldManHan
MAP40 "Do It For The Vine" by @Velvetic
MAP41 "Nine Layers of Hell" by @ShakarAtar
MAP42 "Atomic Winter" by @ProverbialGamer
MAP43 "Blight at the Museum" by @electricbrass
MAP44 "Arena of the Fallen" by @Slayer Moon and @Major Arlene
MAP45 "Infected Machine" by @RastaManGames
MAP46 "Cerebral Bore" by @SkeletronMK666 and @Major Arlene
MAP47 "Fetid Swamp" by @exl
MAP48 "The Grand Palace of Macross" by @Jimmy and @Major Arlene
MAP49 "Chertograd" by @Thanatos13official and @Major Arlene
MAP50 "Elden Teal" by @Remmirath
MAP51 "Hanger 34" by @Philnemba

MAP52 "Excavation" by @MemeMind

MAP53 "Contained" by @Dragonfly

MAP54 "Neutron ZCDR" by @electricbrass

 

 

That's a lot of names that have strongly contributed to fifty-four maps in this community project that was featured at QuakeCon this year as part of a community classic Doom event!

 

Want to feast your eyes on even more screenshots than what we had earlier in the thread? Say no more!

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A fresh wave begins during the opening of Dragonfly's MAP53 - Contained!

 

All's quiet as the computers do computer things in electricbrass' MAP54 - Neutron ZCDR.

 

It appears as though there's a bug problem in the offices of RastaManGames' MAP27 - Overworking!

 

You may have to find another place to park in Big Smoke's MAP24 - Corruption Factory!

 

A shotgunner seems to already be interested in other things in the opening moments of Remmirath's MAP21 - Rip and Teal.

 

One moment, you were relaxing in the autumnal vibes of Dac's MAP18 - Chacal. It looks like these oddly-familiar Lost Souls have other ideas, though...

 

In addition to the incredible amount of quality maps that these contributors smashed together, this project sports forty-two wave definitions for Odamex's Horde game mode, ensuring a different run through every time you play a map! Within those wave definitions, you may run into a few of the sixty-six custom enemies!

 

This project was powered by @MTrop's DoomTools, and especially DecoHack! This lovely tool allowed us to feed it Decorate-style coding and receive an MBF21-compatible DEHACKED output, which, in tandem with Odamex's implementation of DEHEXTRA, led to us nearly maxing out the extra available states, things and sounds! The scope of this project was truly eye-popping thanks to the addictive quality of Horde gameplay and the approachability of mapping for this mode.

I would like to end this release announcement post with a thank you once again to my co-leaders who I was able to wrangle in on this project, and who I have leaned on in various ways throughout its development: @killingblair, @Bridgeburner56, @Major Arlene, @Liberation, @Kaapeli47, @Jimmy, and @ShakarAtar! Each of you had something great to bring to the table and helped shaped Hordamex up to be a top-tier multiplayer community project.

 

Doom Central's @killingblair in particular gets a special shoutout, as a core contributor in being both a developer of Odamex and as our playtest server hoster, without which, we would not have nearly as much fun making the project. Without those multi-hour playtest sessions, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't make it this far. Thank you Blair, it was a pleasure to work closely with you on this project!

 

Last but most certainly not least, Blair was not the only Odamex official I was able to work with on this project. Source port development is typically a thankless job, but not in this instance! I want to extent a personal thanks to the Odamex team: @Ralphis, @AlexMax, and @electricbrass for outstanding support on both my endless GitHub tickets and for answering questions in the Hordamex channels on the Hellforge Discord.

 

Without all of the names mentioned in this post, this community project would have remained a spark in my imagination. Now, get Odamex, download this project, and see how long you can outlast the Hordes of Odamex!

Edited October 24, 2022 by Xenaero

[Bridgeburner56]

Epic stuff. This has been a blast to help with

[RiviTheWarlock]

Very fun game mode and a very fun set of maps! Thanks for giving me something to do when I was locked in a tiny flat alone because Covid lol

[Xenaero]

There's also a credits lump where I did my best to credit all the sources of things that I found stuff from! On that note, major props to @Amuscaria for some phenomenal sprites from the Hell-Forged series that made up for some great custom monsters in this project. In cases where the original Decorate code wasn't compatible with Oda, it was very fun to invent new behaviors for them!

[fuGue_tv]

Oh cool, I’ve never used Odamex. Can’t wait to learn about it and give this a whirl!

[Liberation]

Been great fun to be part of this. Congrats on the release Xen!

[Kaapeli47]

It's been an amazing journey with this project, working on a map with Shakar'Atar, helping Xenaero with the modding, and doing test sessions of your maps with you all! Excellent work everyone, and congratulations!

[exl]

This was indeed lots of fun working with all the talented people! The number of maps is still astounding...

[Xenaero]

12 hours ago, fuGue_tv said:

Oh cool, I’ve never used Odamex. Can’t wait to learn about it and give this a whirl!

 

There's Horde-specific console commands too that may be helpful to yourself or others to spice up your Horde experience!

 

https://github.com/odamex/odamex/wiki/Horde-Console,-Mapping,-and-HORDEDEF

[dac]

Good to see we're made it to 1.0!

 

Working on this was a lot of fun, and to y'all who'll give it a whirl, I hope you enjoy my love letter to the colour orange.

[RastaManGames]

Good job, everyone! That was my first community project of that huge scale!

[Major Arlene]

I had an absolute blast mapping for this- thank you for everyone's hard work and to Xen for creating a space for a new format of mapping for all of us to enjoy!

[Redneckerz]

Pure multiplayer porn and one of the absolute contenders for the multiplayer awards at the Cacoscars-i mean Cacowards.

 

Especially refreshing to see DecoHack in action to enable a port the full force of DEHEXTRA. 

[Xenaero]

For the sake of preservation and a proverbial wax seal on the official release of the project, Hordamex has been uploaded to /idgames! Get it here: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/megawads/hordamex

[Dantosking]

Let people this cool project for testing on last LAN party. Check 02:11

 

 

[Xenaero]

That is awesome, thanks for sharing! Hopefully everyone had a great time!