Morior Invictus (Vanilla-Compaible 32+ Level Megawad)

[forgettable pyromaniac]

 

Spoiler

This trailer is sort of old - I lost the files to it, but I do have a finished product.
I was going to remake it, but I got lazy (and I have a killer headache atm).

Story :  (Original Story Idea by Sr_Ludicolo)
         It's been a while after the DOOM Episode, and
         Doomguy can finally sit at peace at home with
         his pet rabbit Daisy, and veg out for a bit
         while looking for a new job since the UAC
         had since been dissolved, and earth has gone back
         to normal. Maybe working at a regular job for once
         could finally be the change of pace he needs.

         As Doomguy watches tv during his break, he feels...
         Off. Like what had happened wasn't over yet...
         ... And he was right.

         Later that day, he went to feed Daisy, but her
         eyes looked, well, soulless. It was because they
         had taken it! In the middle of the kerfuffle between
         Doomguy and the demons, they had eventually
         realized that they would lose. But to give Doomguy
         that one extra "screw you", they had taken Daisy's
         soul into the past, and are now using
         it to power a new demon-spitter!

          Doomguy has put two and two together, needing to
         jump between places and times to see where they had that
         newly constructed demon portal, before they rip a hole
         in the space-time-continuum! Of course, since space time
         hasn't yet been completely screwed, that means they're
         somewhere he's never been, which is good for him.

         He makes his way to the decrepid UAC space base, where the
         work-in-progress time machine was being built.
         Sadly, because of the way it was currently set up, it takes
         a LOT of power, so for each search attempt for Daisy's soul,
         Doomguy is going to need a new battery...

         ... But it's worth it.
         Time to take the time machine for a spin.

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Maplist (Original titles)
(In game, they're cruddily translated to Latin if they hadn't already):

Map01 - forgettablePyromaniac - "Forever Noir"
Map02 - Sr_Ludicolo - "Runoff"
Map03 - Gibbon - "Insolutam"
Map04 - King Know-Nothing - "Offerre Abiit Malus"
Map05 - noob_killer012345678  - "Prison Complex"
Map06 - cannonball - "Secluded Spring"
Map07 - forgettablePyromaniac - "Spelunca Circulus"
Map08 - Puncher_Sponge - "Thrasher"
Map09 - Puncher_Sponge - "Excellent Adventure"
Map10 - NeedHealth - "Acqua Alta"
Map11 - Blexor - "Neolithic Isle"
Map12 - Endless - "Night Raid"
Map13 - A2Rob - "Grisly Ghettos"
Map14 - forgettablePyromaniac - "(De) Segmentum Low Sugit"
Map15 - Sr_Ludicolo - "Mountain Dew Sanctuary "
Map16 - Yumheart - "Steam Up"
Map17 - forgettablePyromaniac - "Alta Caerulea Ignis Saxa"
Map18 - forgettablePyromaniac - "Vasta Silva"
Map19 - forgettablePyromaniac - "Arce Lignea"
Map20 - forgettablePyromaniac - "Intimis Antris" (lol 4 in a row)
Map21 - Yumheart - "Ghurub Alshams Aldamawii"
Map22 - finnks13 - "That Sinking Feeling"
Map23 - Thelokk - "Ederlezi"
Map24 - Savarin - "Guidance"
Map25 - Luleta - "Murder Mansion"
Map26 - King Know-Nothing - "Tralfamadorians"
Map27 - noob_killer + fP - "Level 1"
Map28 - sincity2100  - "Corrupted Grudge"
Map29 - Sr_Ludicolo - "Tanning Rack"
Map30 - [Various] - "Terra Cruenta Illo Tempore Oblitus"
                              / "Morior Invictus"
Map31 - Blexor - "The Far Edge of Time"
Map32 - forgettablePyromaniac - "Feliciter Oblige"
Map33 - forgettablePyromaniac - "Anorexic Martians & Co."
 

[Various] - forgettablePyromaniac, noob_killer012345678, Blexor.
 

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Comes with:

- MI.WAD
- MI-EXTRA.WAD
- DEHACKED.DEH
- MI.TXT

Dehacked is also embedded, so in ports that support that, you don't need to run the deh.

MI-EXTRA has a few limit-removing levels, so use a limit-removing source-port for these.
(They all worked on Crispy Doom, but I didn't extensively test them).

All other levels are vanilla-compatible, and will work in the original DOS executable
after patching with DEHACKED.DEH. If you find any crashes due to visplanes or

otherwise, please let us know. Thanks.
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If you want to contact me for any particular reason:
forgettablepyromaniac (at) aol (dot) com

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DOWNLOADS -
Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1au6udUE0lURuAHg33LbxsgfTdiLNL8LU/view?usp=sharing
Gamebannana: https://gamebanana.com/mods/427240
Website: https://forgettablepyromaniac.neocities.org/projects (just links to the other two, but is a good fallback)
See the dev thread:

 

Edited February 13, 2023 by forgettable pyromaniac
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[noob_killer012345678]

yay finaly

 

[Meowgi]

Congrats on the release! Excited to give this a spin

[King Know-Nothing]

Glad to see this reach it's release! Nervous and excited to have my first two complete maps on display!

 

If I could ask for one thing. A map list on this post for ease since the trailer does scroll through the names relatively fast, but regardless. Glad to see it out!

[thelamp]

Decided to give this a try, wow the first map is pretty spicy >:)

 

 

[noob_killer012345678]

22 minutes ago, thelamp said:

Decided to give this a try, wow the first map is pretty spicy >:)

 

 

First map is like the hardest in the first 10

 

[forgettable pyromaniac]

opened lamp's youtube out of curiosity, first thing I see is EmpLemon.
You, sir, are based.

[thelamp]

44 minutes ago, forgettable pyromaniac said:

opened lamp's youtube out of curiosity, first thing I see is EmpLemon.
You, sir, are based.

EmpLemon rocks! Can't believe he's outdone himself yet again with his latest video. It's a good watch for anyone waiting on my video of map02 to finish uploading ;)

 

Spoiler

 

 

[Bri0che]

I'm at MAP05 right now and my pref is MAP04 so far, combats are interesting without being difficult. Monsters placements are simple in the paper but I find them to work very well.

[thelamp]

More cool stuff in map03 & map04!

 

 

[Bri0che]

I forgot to tell but obviously... Congrat for the release ! It's a very interesting megawad :D

 

Spoiler

funny thing that even demons are renamed btw, I play with an HP bar addon and it show me their latin equivalent :p (I guess it is latin ?) 

 

Edited February 13, 2023 by Bri0che

[noob_killer012345678]

13 hours ago, Bri0che said:

I'm at MAP05 right now and my pref is MAP04 so far, combats are interesting without being difficult. Monsters placements are simple in the paper but I find them to work very well.

Map05! My map! The worst map in the wad!

[Bri0che]

9 minutes ago, noob_killer012345678 said:

Map05! My map! The worst map in the wad!

 

Not really honestly, the geometry give a good navigation. Maybe a little too "blend" texture wise, but the gameplay fit the previous maps to me.

[NeedHealth]

Congrats on the release.

 

@forgettable pyromaniac If you remember - please @ before you upload this megawad to id games. There is a small edit i would like to make in my map. I'll give you a hint, dyslexia.;-)

[MFG38]

I've been looking forward to this one. Will make sure to stream a playthrough ASAP. c:

 

Also, quick note to whoever happens to see this: the two original MIDIs I composed for this have been released on my website and are free to use for your own projects.

[Azuris]

Would be nice if you add me to the Credits, as you use my Textures ;)

[Keyboard_Doomer]

The wad looks pretty good but there seems to be a lot of unfixed issues so it would be good to get more playtesting for all maps and iron those out before the idgames release.

 

From playing just the first 6 maps:

MAP02:
    - a mancubus (thing 60) never teleports in because it has the deaf flag and the teleporting linedef (line 1350) in its closet is too close to the wall so it couldn't teleport in even if it did wake up
MAP03:
    - a shotgunner (thing 211) is stuck in a wall
    - the red switch (line 609) in the secret doesn't do anything because there's no matching sector with tag 8 (and because of that pressing the switch also doesn't make a sound or animate)
    - from what I can tell the abovementioned secret also isn't really marked - there's the hard to notice misalignment on the right side of line 611 but there are similar ones on the right sides of the nearby lines 587 and 593
MAP04:
    - sectors 205, 212 and 222 end up higher than their neighboring floors after the tag 21 switches are pressed (it happens after only 2 switches for one of the floors) which is problematic because monsters can get stuck (pic1, pic2) on the edges of the sectors and also block other monsters from teleporting in
    - misalignments on line 1708 and line 1827 as well as a few more nitpicky misalignments in the same room after the walls lower
    - it's trivial to avoid the big trap after picking up the battery aka yellow key (thing 308) just by stepping off the slowly lowering sector
    - this may be fully intended but I think it's worth mentioning that 3 switches (lines 1490, 1498 and 1508) are in the "on" state (using SW2MET2 as the texture) as opposed to all the other switches in the map that are in the "off" state
MAP05:
    - it's possible to get stuck in the secret with the soulsphere (sector 58) because it can't be opened from the inside
    - similar to MAP03, from what I can tell the berserk secret (sector 126) is unmarked (although, it can be seen on the automap, unlike the MAP03 secret)
MAP06:
    - perhaps not strictly a bug but the secret with the soulsphere (sector 159) can become inaccessible because the switch (line 1414) to raise sector 103 again is S1
 

Edited February 13, 2023 by Keyboard_Doomer

[Dusty_Rhodes]

Congrats on the release. Can't wait to check it out!

[Obsidian]

Had a quick look through and found a big ol' HOM on MAP30. Picture taken in ZDoom.

 

Spoiler

 

This is the arena where you fight all the Cacodemons and Pain Elementals, in case you're wondering.

 

[forgettable pyromaniac]

25 minutes ago, Obsidian said:

Had a quick look through and found a big ol' HOM on MAP30. Picture taken in ZDoom.

 

  Hide contents

 

This is the arena where you fight all the Cacodemons and Pain Elementals, in case you're wondering.

 

*snicker*
I think I fucked something up when moving everything closer together (something something blockmap)

for anyone who wants to fix this on their end, literally just move the offending linedefs up by like 128 map units or so
I fixed it on my end but I'm going to wait for more bug thingies to pop up that i can bust everything in an RC1.

Edited February 13, 2023 by forgettable pyromaniac

[alopecia_assassin]

Yoooooo, Pyro and crew. No constructive feedback here. Just wanted to say I played til map12 and had a blast. (I cheated a lil in map 11 because I kept getting lost.) I can tell that a lot of work and hours were put into this! Thanks for the content!!!

 

[noob_killer012345678]

14 hours ago, Keyboard_Doomer said:

MAP05:
    - similar to MAP03, from what I can tell the berserk secret (sector 126) is unmarked (although, it can be seen on the automap, unlike the MAP03 secret)

From the creator of the map here: The secret IS marked, however it is incredibly sneaky. To the left and to the right of the secret, there are indented books. Between those the openable portion is. Yea i should make that secret more obvious-

[Egg Boy]

Gonna check this out sometime soon, but the gamebanana link gave me a chuckle. Genuinely have never seen anyone upload their wad there and link it lol

[sincity2100]

Congrats

[thelamp]

 

 

[noob_killer012345678]

1 hour ago, thelamp said:

 

 

Congratulations. You played the worst map of the wad. What are your thoughts?

Bruh. I think you uploaded the wrong video

 

Edited February 14, 2023 by noob_killer012345678

[thelamp]

8 minutes ago, noob_killer012345678 said:

Congratulations. You played the worst map of the wad. What are your thoughts?

Bruh. I think you uploaded the wrong video

 

yup I sure did here it is for real this time

 

 

 

[noob_killer012345678]

1 minute ago, thelamp said:

yup I sure did here it is for real this time

 

 

 

You posted the link before the video was actually handled by youtube. Aight.... Anyway: How was the worst map in the wad (my map05)?

 

[thelamp]

If that's the worst this wad has then I must be in for a lot of good stuff!

[noob_killer012345678]

18 minutes ago, thelamp said:

If that's the worst this wad has then I must be in for a lot of good stuff!

Yea, you are