[Boom] Sunder For People Who Don't Have Time To Play Sunder

[SCF]

Has this ever happened to you? You're at a party, and all the cool people are talking about Doom. You're a bit of a Doom afficionado yourself, so you try to join in, but then someone brings up the influential slaughter wad Sunder. Everyone starts discussing the intricate fights and foreboding architecture. When you sheepishly mention that you haven't played it, they all look your way with sneers on their faces. Shunned for the rest of the night, you return home sad and alone. It's not your fault. You really do want to play Sunder, but you're a busy adult with a job and a family. You don't have time to play maps that take 50-100 hours each to beat.

 

Well, my friend, I have the solution for you: Sunder For People Who Don't Have Time To Play Sunder

 

Get the full Sunder experience in just a fraction of the time! All of the action, with only 10% of the average monster count! The maps range from a few minutes to 15-20 minutes long. Play it now, and next time you're at a party, you'll have just enough Sunder knowledge to impress everyone with your analysis of the combat encounters.

 

Format: Boom (+umapinfo for map names/skies)
Tested in: dsda-doom 0.26.0
Difficulty Settings: No time for that
Credits: All original maps by @Insane_Gazebo. All resources copied from Sunder (See the enclosed text file for more detail).

 

All maps foolishly created from scratch, using Sunder only as a reference.

 

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Disclaimer: This wad is meant for entertainment purposes only. Author cannot be held responsible for any social, emotional or physical damages caused by pretending you played the real Sunder. Smaller maps does not necessarily mean easier, and a smooth difficulty curve cannot be guaranteed.

 

Screenshots (with Sunder side-by-side comparison)

 

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[apichatpong]

Really funny "april's fool" ! Quickly revisited some "classic moments" and the feeling is opressive but not in the same way as in original sunder ! Nice doctor evil and mini-me couple !

Edited April 1 by apichatpong

[MundyC]

"What is this? A Sunder for ants?"

[apichatpong]

The furnace is, from what I saw, a peak in the equilibrium between hommage and trolling, bravo !

[NecrumWarrior]

I have played Sunder many times, including five this month alone. I just use Chaos Control to freeze time so I can kill all the enemies. But sometimes I find myself wanting more frozen time for polishing my guns. Thanks to you I can play Sunder in even less time than I already was. This WAD gets the Shadow the Hedgehog Seal of Approval™.

 

 

Edited April 1 by NecrumWarrior

[NuMetalManiak]

To be quite honest. I need this. Between the work schedules having me work most of the day, evenings, nights, evenings, midnights, evenings, evenings, and worst of all, EVENINGS, this is important for me.

[JackDBS]

Gee this is just what I need!

[Gothic]

Sunder if it was actually good

[Jinxie]

As the resident Sunder enthusiast, I have to say I expected a silly April's Fool wad with truncated levels made by rearranging the maps in the original WAD and was instead met with a great cross of Sunder and Haste, keeping the spirit and key landmarks of the original wad while scaling down the size and making fights that are at times a fresh take that feels so right.

I can wholeheartedly recommend this to everyone who's looking for short and sweet slaughter experiences, newcomers who are scared to tackle the beastly original WAD, or even just fans of the OG Sunder :D What a wonderful homage 

 

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PS: Abandon when? :^)

 

[Crusador560]

No way, need one for Abandon now too!

[Yousuf Anik]

For real? I only beat few maps many years ago, let alone completed playing all the maps. So this is definitely going to be good for someone like me!

[Grain of Salt]

This is great, I love it.

 

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The end of 02 is perfect

[suzerduzer]

I thought this would be just a shitpost but it honestly rules. I want more mini mapsets like this for other wads.

[jmac]

I've only played the first couple maps at this point, but so far this is great. I found a softlock in map 2, at the tunnel entrance that looks like a mouth. It's pretty easy to accidentally fall in between the tongue and teeth, and if you do, there's no way out.

 

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[Solarn]

So the joke is that it's a really high quality micro-slaughter wad. I love it.

 

[Xaser]

Shoulda titled it "SNDR" :P

 

I love how each map is perfectly recognizable, on top of being Actually Good(tm) to play. How to correctly make jokewads in 2024.

[slowfade]

It's actually pretty incredible. Great work. Still can't beat any of the fights. How long did you work on this? 50-100 hours per map? ;)

[LVENdead]

God I freaking love this. I haven't really played too much of Sunder (I don't have enough time!) but I've idclev'd through all the maps multiple times and good lord these tiny versions are just so cute. And "Honey Mommy" got a cackle out of me.

[CacoKnight]

I thought this was a complete joke and a fake wad, loaded it and it's actually damn fun. So, thank you for this..

 

NOW DO ALL THE OTHER SLAUGHTER WADS !

Edited April 4 by CacoKnight

[ReaperAA]

As someone who never played Sunder precisely because of how massive the maps are, this is great to see.

[Pottus]

I really liked Sunder when it was first released but then the maps just got stupid and lost enjoyment viability.

[Satellalite]

I'll definitely give this a shot once I completed (most of) Sunder. It looks really adorable from the previews!

[taviow]

Hello, I've been playing through this and been impressed with the way you managed to capture the essence of each of the maps (although I'd argue the crusher room in 17 was an integral part of its identity :P).

 

I have a small bug report on map18, I think your 242 control sector for tag 5 has the wrong ceiling height set. Unless the HOM that is currently showing up there is intended, the correct ceiling height for that control sector was supposed to be 384 instead of 128.

 

Congratulations on this release, went way above and beyond a simple april fools joke.

[ElPadrecitoCholo]

@SCF Fantastic set of maps. An experience that will never be repeated with me :)

 

 

[lunchlunch]

This is very much my cup of tea, thank you.