How do you ACTUALLY play PWADS?

[Zetrostorm]

I just bought DOOM 2 off on Steam and I was wondering how you could actually play PWADS

I searched on how to play WADS but all I could find was Mods and the tutorials that it showed, were very much outdated.

So, how do you actually play PWADS?

(ps, i am planning to play Overboard and do apologize if this is a question that's been asked a million times)

[NiGHTS108]

1. Download a source port (Like GZDoom)

2. Download your pwad

3. Drag and drop the .wad file onto gzdoom.exe and get going!

 

[Zetrostorm]

1 minute ago, NiGHTS108 said:

1. Download a source port (Like GZDoom)

2. Download your pwad

3. Drag and drop the .wad file onto gzdoom.exe and get going!

 

holy shit thank you so much

[NiGHTS108]

No issue! Glad I could help :)

[Nightmare2989]

26 minutes ago, overlordParanoia said:

holy shit thank you so much

If you ever venture into mods best to get yourself a mod launcher if you ever do

[Master O]

1 hour ago, overlordParanoia said:

I just bought DOOM 2 off on Steam and I was wondering how you could actually play PWADS

I searched on how to play WADS but all I could find was Mods and the tutorials that it showed, were very much outdated.

So, how do you actually play PWADS?

(ps, i am planning to play Overboard and do apologize if this is a question that's been asked a million times)

 

 

The same process also applies for Heretic,  Hexen: Beyond Heretic, Hacx, and Strife's .wad files as well.

Edited October 8, 2022 by Master O

[Zetrostorm]

1 hour ago, Nightmare2989 said:

If you ever venture into mods best to get yourself a mod launcher if you ever do

What mod launchers are out there?

[Nightmare2989]

Just now, overlordParanoia said:

What mod launchers are out there?

This is a video i did on YouTube going over the mod launcher i use i show you how too set it up and stuff and the link to a couple other launcher are in the description as well as the mod launcher i use which is ZDL 

[Codename_Delta]

2 hours ago, NiGHTS108 said:

1. Download a source port (Like GZDoom)

2. Download your pwad

3. Drag and drop the .wad file onto gzdoom.exe and get going!

 

Of course if you're the more vanilla inclined type then you'd use something like DSDA-Doom.

 

Make sure to get DSDA-Launcher if you get DSDA.

 

DSDA-Doom still supports a wide variety of mods, but some mods won't work as they use ZDoom, GZDoom or Eternity Engine only features.

 

 

Forgot to mention, but ZDL can be used with more ports than just ZDoom based ones, and it's far superior than having to do stuff via command line.

Edited October 8, 2022 by Codename_Delta

[RHhe82]

As we're speaking launchers, I've been using DoomLauncher (https://github.com/nstlaurent/DoomLauncher/releases/tag/3.6.2) which lets me alter between source ports I have downloaded (I mostly use DSDA-Doom, which'll run Overboard just great, but I also have GZDoom, Crispy and Eternity Engine for the occasion pwads requires them or I want a brief change of scenery) and it's been great.

[Nimlouth]

16 hours ago, overlordParanoia said:

What mod launchers are out there?

 

Doom Runner is kind of the best launcher out there imho. It works for ZDoom based ports, aswell as with Chocolate/Crispy ports and PrBoom+. I've been using it for GZDoom and Doom Retro to play all sorts of mods and wads for a long while now.

https://github.com/Youda008/DoomRunner

[knifeworld]

I've been using Doom Explorer for quite some time now, I find that it's easier and has more options than ZDL which I used for ages.

 

Doom Explorer creates shortcuts for you so you only need DE itself once per pwad to do that.

 

 Basically you choose an iwad just once whenever you need to use a different one, and then whatever pwads you want.

You can easily switch the order, for example: if you need to load a mod or resource before a map pack.

 

You can quickly switch what port will be used, in the top line, too.

 

http://doomutils.ucoz.com/load/

[smeghammer]

It's probably worth noting that as Doom is originally a DOS game, PWAD launching was (and still can be) done from a terminal window.

 

I use GZDoom, which has many extra cli switches to the original game (other source ports have their own as well) and the complete list can be found here:

 

https://zdoom.org/wiki/Command_line_parameters

 

There are a lot but for your question look for the -file option. This lets you load pwads...

[SFFlowerBoy]

The port that comes with the steam version comes also with an addon feature. There you can download some selected vanilla wads. I personally can recommend doom zero and anomaly report, if you looking for something on the level of the original Doom games