[idgames] A War On Christmas - 12 Map Christmas Themed Adventure! [cl2]

[Andrea Rovenski]

I made this in a week. I hope you enjoy. 

source port tested: prboom-plus -complevel 2, limit-removing 

 

Story: 
After reports of a mass slaughtering of good little children by a crazed man in a Santa suit, 
you track them down to one final stand-off. This is A War On Christmas...

 

levels:
MAP01:    The Chase
MAP02:    Santa Cloning Laboratory
MAP03:     Secret Library Of Claus
MAP04:    Santa's Outer Compound
MAP05:     The Devil Is Real             
MAP06:    North Pole Canyon
MAP07:     North Pole Canyon II
MAP08:     The Devil's Secret Hideaway
MAP09:     Elf Production Center        
MAP10:     Mass Manufacturing     
MAP11:    Santa Was The Devil All Along
MAP13:     Secret Santa Slaughter Time
 

D2ALL Max speedrun for 100% enthusiasts: 

Spoiler

 

 

idgames link: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/themes/xmas/waronxmas

 

Other recent projects by me: Existential Dread (2022)

Edited December 26, 2022 by Andrea Rovenski
new version post(1), added video (2), added other-tab(3), idgames(4)

[OverflowingMocha]

Just played through this, really fun stuff. Especially maps 04 06 and 10.

The rest were good as well but I thought those 3 maps were the best in the mapset, so good job!

[LadyMistDragon]

 

"War on Christmas" I see what you did there.

 

This was fun! Was a little slow at first, but this eventually found its footing. Mostly a little on the easy side which is perfectly fine for Christmas

[fuGue_tv]

in map 1, if you go into the exit room and leave again, u cant get back in. i think. love xmas wads! thanks for making

[Andrea Rovenski]

Thanks y'all :) If anyone posts videos or demos please let me know! I posted an rc2 which should be the last update for demos. Will post to idgames this week. 

[nickxcom]

Playing through this one as we speak and got up to level nine.Very fun so far with good, catchy music. I got a kick out of the story and it's always funny mowing down hordes of santa(s). I did see a few missing textures on the sides of some lifts, but I forgot to screen shot and none of them were disruptive or too obnoxious. Great job! Definitely finishing this wad tonight.

[tmorrow]

An evil Santa theme is certainly not new, especially in doom christmas wads but a Santa-dressed, crazed, child killer it certainly on the extreme end of the spectrum.

 

I've just finished uvmax'ing the set and can confirm that 100% kills/items/secrets is achievable. The maps may be a tad easy but that crazed Santa and his henchmen will find several ways to whittle down doomguys health over the 12 maps, they are killers after all.

 

GZDoomBuilder complains that FLAT5 is double defined in the flats namespace and that PP_START patch namespace isn't closed (Andrea uses P_END instead) but neither cause any game play problems in GZDoom. Both the internal and external dehacked have par times only for the first 3 maps.

 

A fun wad to play during the Christmas season.

 

Fanks for making A War on Christmas.

 

[Biodegradable]

Looks like Doomas came early this year. :^)

[Andrea Rovenski]

11 hours ago, nickxcom said:

Definitely finishing this wad tonight.

Let me know how you liked 10-13 :)

 

6 hours ago, tmorrow said:

An evil Santa theme is certainly not new, especially in doom christmas wads but a Santa-dressed, crazed, child killer it certainly on the extreme end of the spectrum.

I am an extremist, it seems :D

 

6 hours ago, tmorrow said:

100% kills/items/secrets is achievable

I never bothered trying for items so this is good news (we speedrunners dont like those pesky bastards)

 

Thanks everyone! I recorded a uvmax d2all speedrun in case anyone needs help finding the secrets ;) 

 

 

[LadyMistDragon]

Here are some demos of Map 09 and 10warxmasdemos.zip

[Lingyan203]

Is it just me, or do maps 03 and 05 have no music replacements at all? I thought they would have Xmas music in each map.

[Andrea Rovenski]

3 hours ago, Lingyan203 said:

Is it just me, or do maps 03 and 05 have no music replacements at all? I thought they would have Xmas music in each map.

I liked the default doom2 tracks when i was testing it so I just left them unchanged. It is on purpose :P

[Lingyan203]

14 hours ago, Andrea Rovenski said:

I liked the default doom2 tracks when i was testing it so I just left them unchanged. It is on purpose :P

I see. I can't wait to record and play this soon! Hopefully this is the final version and it's gonna be uploaded onto /idgames soon, right?

[Andrea Rovenski]

2 minutes ago, Lingyan203 said:

I see. I can't wait to record and play this soon! Hopefully this is the final version and it's gonna be uploaded onto /idgames soon, right?

Yes! There are no more updates, just have to wait for the idgames process, so feel free to do demos!

[No-Man Baugh]

I adore what you did with the SS retexture, turning them into shitty little half-sized gnomes that secretly shoot you on top of bookshelves. And I actually did a Rich Evens "OH MY GOOOOOOD!!!" on first seeing what you did to the cacodemons

[HorseJockey]

Fun map set, love all the Christmas details and enemies. The maps flow really well and the progression is well thought out. Not too difficult, which is fine gave me more time to enjoy the scenery. Good work.

[Proxy-MIDI]

Wow ! That wad was magic ! I freaking liked the ambiance of this one. Even if some levels were a bit tough sometimes, it was pretty good ! Nice ! ;)

[No-Man Baugh]

I adore the little demo you included for the attract mode, so I made some trash keyboard only demos

 

waronxmasdemos.zip

 

feel free to include these in the wad to replace the unmodified doom 2 demos

[StyxGaming]

Just started my playthrough of this wad on my Youtube Channel. Perfect wad for christmas! loving this so far :D 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-1XwjW9-E

[Andrea Rovenski]

On 12/14/2022 at 5:04 AM, No-Man Baugh said:

I adore what you did with the SS retexture, turning them into shitty little half-sized gnomes that secretly shoot you on top of bookshelves. And I actually did a Rich Evens "OH MY GOOOOOOD!!!" on first seeing what you did to the cacodemons

Thank you! But I didn't make the resource pack, it's just a compilation of others' works from over the decades (found here) although I did make a few tweaks to behavior/stats but its mainly just the maps :)

 

19 hours ago, No-Man Baugh said:

waronxmasdemos.zip

 

I enjoyed these, thanks!! I won't be making an update to the wad cuz I already submitted to idgames, but ill keep these on my harddrive forever ;P

 

On 12/14/2022 at 9:29 AM, HorseJockey said:

Fun map set, love all the Christmas details and enemies. The maps flow really well and the progression is well thought out. Not too difficult, which is fine gave me more time to enjoy the scenery. Good work.

Thank you! If you want to make it harder, I suggest trying the new game plus mode :D UV is just a middle ground. 

 

23 hours ago, R0rque. said:

Wow ! That wad was magic ! I freaking liked the ambiance of this one. Even if some levels were a bit tough sometimes, it was pretty good ! Nice ! ;)

thank you! Magic is a good word :)

 

6 hours ago, StyxGaming said:

Just started my playthrough of this wad on my Youtube Channel. Perfect wad for christmas! loving this so far :D 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-1XwjW9-E

I will be sure to watch the rest, too!

[Stroggman]

I'm gonna play this map pack instead of H2H christmas should be loads of fun!

[Lingyan203]

Just finished the full wad and did a video recording of it. Hope you enjoy it!

[Stroggman]

Defifinitely wanna check out Andrea's map making, your playthroughs are always a treat

[Clippy]

Fun stuff. Looks like bunch of short maps just the thing I lookin for will do more got my tree decorated 

 

 

[Clippy]

 

 

[Daytime Waitress]

Only cleared three maps on HMP so far, but these are fun little bite-sized maps with tonnes of ammo to take out some decent-sized hordes.

 

Just one question, though: I had assumed that the Santas were re-skinned shotgunners, but occasionally an actual shotgunner will pop up amidst a group - is that a problem my end? (GZDoom 4.8.2, for reference).

[nickxcom]

3 hours ago, Daytime Waitress said:

Only cleared three maps on HMP so far, but these are fun little bite-sized maps with tonnes of ammo to take out some decent-sized hordes.

 

Just one question, though: I had assumed that the Santas were re-skinned shotgunners, but occasionally an actual shotgunner will pop up amidst a group - is that a problem my end? (GZDoom 4.8.2, for reference).

That's a good question, I don't think it's a problem because I remember seeing them too and I don't normally use GZ (plus I think they also had santa hats haha). I don't know enough to dig through the wad itself to know what is a replacement for what- I think the gnome things are a Keen replacement but not sure about anything else.

[Andrea Rovenski]

5 hours ago, Daytime Waitress said:

Only cleared three maps on HMP so far, but these are fun little bite-sized maps with tonnes of ammo to take out some decent-sized hordes.

 

Just one question, though: I had assumed that the Santas were re-skinned shotgunners, but occasionally an actual shotgunner will pop up amidst a group - is that a problem my end? (GZDoom 4.8.2, for reference).

santa is the former human, not the shotgun guy, so that would explain it!

[Clippy]

 

Got a little confused in this tiny map but luckily @Biodegradable to help talk about washing machines

[Daytime Waitress]

3 hours ago, Andrea Rovenski said:

santa is the former human, not the shotgun guy, so that would explain it!

 

Gonna switch my brain on for the rest of the maps, promise.