La Gran Alameda - One last map before university!

[Cacodemon187]

Hello Doomworld! Tomorrow is the big day: the day I start attending university. Just like my past few standalone releases, I'm doing a map in a handful of days to commemorate the occasion. I'm afraid I won't have much free time to do anything for a while too, so I wanted to get something out to properly close this chapter of my life.

 

_______________________________________________LA GRAN ALAMEDA________________________________________________

 

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La Gran Alameda is a limit-removing map (complevel 2) set in the middle of a city under an otherworldly red sky. Make your way out of the facility and bring the fight to the rooftops! The city is completely infested, so watch out for fire coming from every direction.

This is not like the other bimonhtly demon invasions though... This time they've brought some backup!:

 

NEW ENEMIES:

Class II Imp: A fast Imp that continuously shoots projectiles until you're out of its line of sight.

 

 

Class II Baron: A regular Baron of Hell that shoots a string of 5 projectiles instead of just 1. As a trade-off, it has the health of an Archvile (700 HP) compared to its original 1000 HP.

 

 

Cyberdemon Jr.: A baby Cyberdemon with the health of a Hell Knight (500 HP). NOT immune to splash damage, meaning you can trick them into blowing themselves up, or infighting with other baby cybies.

 

 

Admittedly this is the roughest of my standalone releases so far, both difficulty and quality-wise. I really had to map overtime to get this done in just four days. It may not be one of my best, but I really wanted to release something before tomorrow.

Anyways, I implemented difficulty settings this time! ...kinda... There's only UV and HMP right now, and the differences are minimal. I still recommend playing in HMP your first time around though, as I made sure the hardest parts of the map were eased out a bit.  

 

I'll be studying architecture these next five years. It's the career that interested me the most, mostly because of my history with making maps!

Based on what I've heard, making this map on crunch time is just a taste of things to come :,)

 

Hopefully this map is worth your time. Any comments and feedback are appreciated.

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Slots: MAP01
Name: La Gran Alameda
Compatibility: Limit-removing
Tested with: DSDA Doom
Build Time: March 7th - March 10th, 2024
No jumping or crouching. Freelooking is fine.
Credits: Textures, music and sounds taken from many sources. Check the CREDITS.TXT file inside the .wad for a full list.

Enjoy!

Edited May 20 by Cacodemon187

[Zahid]

your previous map was great too but this one is even better....i really enjoy playing it.....novel design and gameplay...esp start is very smart....ending fight is bit plain though....progression is fine too....

my prboom uv skill fda one is fail and one is finished demo.....

popi9.zip

[Maribo]

Wonderful map, just like all of your recent works have been. You continue to show just how well you can construct a variety of urban environments, and I'm growing quite fond of your usage of the junior Cybers. Good luck in university!

 

alameda-maribo.zip - UV playthrough, -dsdademo, plays back on v0.27.5.

[LadyMistDragon]

Glad to have played this. The last little bit there was quite chaotic!

 

 

[SleepyVelvet]

Fun level.  Very pretty level too.  You'd think that the new monsters would make it tacky, but they kept things fresh... and terrifying.  I never thought I'd be more afraid of a Baby-Cyber than a real one.  That start tho.

 

FDA (exits with 3 dudes missing, probably some glass I missed.): noisy_ALAMEDA_hmp_fda.zip

[erzboesewicht]

I had to play this, as I'm currently playing STRAIN and thought: Ah, these fast imps should be used more often! And then I saw your map ... and it even uses another monster from STRAIN: the mini-cybers. Was STRAIN an inspiration? I saw some parallels in gameplay and the general "weird" character ... of course reinterpreted in a modern way.

 

Liked the puzzle (?) at the start. I spent some time arranging it in a way the arachnotron could weaken the two archies before going for the blue key ;-) I don't know if I could setup this in a really consistent way but it's the start so it's no drama if you die. It's cool you can play this part in a variety of ways. I think I played the rest in "the intended way".

 

It's a quite linear map (start area can't be visited again, I think, but the rest of the map is a cycle) with a lot of Doom City Doomcute. The playing area is much smaller than it seems visually, in reality we have four or five rooms here. I'm generally more fond of more interconnected maps but that's of course not what this map wanted to do, and I think it really is done well in its way.

 

Encounters are fun with good monster placements which make you move, I liked that. Difficulty on UV is approximately like the harder Plutonia maps, I think, so it hit a sweet spot for me. The baron and cyberdemon modifications are quite nice. One of the cybs at the end got me when I had almost finished because I was surprised of its gimmick, but being aware of it they aren't that bad. I think they have also less health than the original Cybs? Maybe they were also weakened by the imp crew because they went down quite fast.

 

Found all secrets, one is particular clever I think, the one hidden on a lower level of a "balcony". I'm very fond of these "geometry-based secrets".

 

Conclusion: Well done, really fun map! Only one thing I would modify: As windows are "monsters" and count for kills, it could be nice to provide a teleporter back to the start. I noclipped and saw no reason to not do that, nothing breaks imo.

Edited March 13 by erzboesewicht

[Cutman 999]

Suerte con los estudios, la universidad es otro mundo y te va a patear feo el culo.

[Cacodemon187]

Thank you all for your comments, demos and playthroughs!! :D

 

20 hours ago, erzboesewicht said:

*big review*

Thank you so much for the detailed review! Yep, STRAIN has been a huge inspiration for me ever since I first played through it. The Class II Imps and the Jr. Cybies are my favourite enemies from the wad, so I've included them in almost every solo project I've done lately lol. Its weird character has also manifested into my maps a bit, although most of the chaos of this map just comes from me rushing to finish it in less than a week.

 

Fun fact about the first Arachnotron puzzle: I came up with it and the starting overview you get of the city one morning as soon as I had woken up. I was planning to save it for a bigger project but I figured I'd just use it as a start and build the map from there. It can be done pretty consistently if you're good enough at running through the spaces between the arachno's plasma shots and use the glass as cover efficiently. The "intended" way is to just run straight for the SSG, kill the arachno and then blow up the AVs. Luring the AVs into infighting at the start takes more time but it's pretty cool too.

 

The boss Cybies do have less HP. Half of their original 4000 in fact. I figured fighting both cybies at full health would be tedious, specially with their new attacks.

 

Another fun fact: While playtesting I found that I always skipped that balcony section for some reason, even when I had placed stuff there. I thought "hey I always forget about this part, it's like hidden in plain sight..." so I placed a secret there ;)

 

Thanks again for the words :D

Also yeah, I forgot to place a teleport back to the starting area while rushing to finish the map. I'll add one for the /idgames release soon.

 

19 hours ago, Cutman 999 said:

Suerte con los estudios, la universidad es otro mundo y te va a patear feo el culo.

Gracias, lo sé :')

[Arrowhead]

Really gorgeous screenshots. The first and second shot look awesome!

 

:)

[erzboesewicht]

20 hours ago, Cacodemon187 said:

The Class II Imps and the Jr. Cybies are my favourite enemies from the wad, so I've included them in almost every solo project I've done lately lol.

I think I have to play more of your maps then :)

[Hunted11]

I love the fact that you used Walking in my shoes midi. i am a DM fan

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