Bloodsport | An Industrial Gothic Themed Deathmatch Mapset | Limit-Removing+DEHEXTRA (Now with DECORATE Support!)

[Amaruψ]

 

 

Bloodsport is a 6 map WAD designed specifically for multiplayer deathmatch mode. The maps feature architectures inspired by gothic design elements, vanilla weapons reworked to be much more satisfying and powerful, 21:9 graphic assets and a soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails.

 

Developed upon exclusively by me (with the always appreciated assistance from those I'll later mention in the special thanks), Bloodsport was inspired by WADS like Eternal Doom and GothicDM, and has taken me four months to develop. As mentioned before, it exclusively targets online deathmatch, but can still be enjoyed offline with bots on source ports that support them.

 

 

 

 

 

Story so far:

 

"Two years have come to pass since the U.A.C. disaster occurred, which left their research and military bases on Phobos in shambles with all of the personnel killed, and Deimos lost completely; its teleportation technology used by the demons to slingshot a full-scale invasion on Earth.

 

Since then, U.A.C. has been reformed, re-establishing their facilities on the moons of Jupiter this time, with their research division based on Callisto and their military bases and facilities on Europa. With the data collected from the invasion, the research team has prepared a virtual training program to help marines at stand-by on Europa familiarize themselves with combat tactics and firearms, a project that has been dubbed "Operation Skulltag".

 

In this training course, marines are put into a simulation, which transports their virtual likings, known as "icons" by the research team into a set of six arenas designed specifically to represent hellish architecture. Marines can engage with each other in these virtualized skirmishes with other marines to improve their tactics, or alternatively, a lone marine is able to practice against computer-based opponents controlled by a central mainframe, with their AI tailored specifically to mimic almost human-like behavior in combat. The research team are in high hopes to see the results of how much this course affect a marine's capabilities, and that they'll be able to withstand against the forces of darkness in case another invasion breaks out in the future."

 

This WAD makes extensive use of DeHackEd Extended, so the source ports that doesn't support it wouldn't be able to run the WAD properly (i.e, Zandronum.) It's been tested on both Crispy Doom and GZDoom, and hasn't exhibited any sort of problems so far. I haven't been able to test it on any other source ports due to time constraints, so please let me know if you come across any bugs.

 

 

 

 

 

Special Thanks to the following very special people:

 

Devieus - Helped me name quite a few of the maps

@elf-alchemist - Playtesting / General feedback

Jack Vermont - Assisted with the sounds

@Scuba Steve - Gloved fist sprites

Ravage - Flamethrower-turned-Rocket launcher sprites

@Geqoph - Playtesting / General feedback

@LadyMistDragon - Playtesting / General feedback

@WorldMachine - Helmet mugshot graphics in his Vanilla Plus wad (don't know who the original author is)

Chris .J Roy - Music

@Hellbilly - Music

 

This WAD wouldn't have become a reality without the assistance and the resources provided by you people :) thanks

 

 

 

 

 

Version 1.1 Changelog:

 

• Rockets now have an animation. 
• New sounds for BFG's projectile impact and teleportation
• Overhauled DEHEXTRA's additional actors
• Bugfixes across the maps
• New demo files to replace the vanilla ones

 

I came across a handful of oddities in my DEHEXTRA patch and my WAD file the other night as I was reviewing them, and decided to correct them. First oddity was the presence of two SS_START and SS_END lumps. Not sure how'd I end up creating two, but I had one pair removed. Second, I've had created an animation for the rockets in flight, but accidentally forgot to include it. The rockets are now properly animated. Third one is a bit of a botch on my end. When I was adding in new decorative things, I forgot that I could use DEHEXTRA's additional things to create new ones, so I ended up replacing a lot of existing ones like the pillars, lamps, etc. New decoration objects now have their own unique IDs and do not replace anything vanilla.

 

Apart from those, there were some minor bugfixes across all of the maps. BFG 9000 now have new sprites and a new sound for its projectile impact, as well as teleportation, and three new demos recorded to replace the default vanilla ones.

 

The file on ModDB has been updated, but if you're to use Gamebanana, please make sure to download the updated version, titled Bloodsport Version 1.1

 

Downloads:

 

Download from Gamebanana

 

Download from ModDB

Edited June 1 by Amaruψ
Updated the download links

[elf-alchemist]

Congrats on the release! 🎉 I hope to play this soon! 😄

[LadyMistDragon]

I'm pretty sure Ravage goes by the name Fletcher here currently, but I could be mistaken. I just somewhat doubt there are two different people in the Doom community using that name.

[Decay]

Texturing looks well done, though I am deeply concerned by the amount of symmetry I see in the screenshots, as symmetrical maps do not make good DM maps. When I get home tonight I'll take a better look!

[Amaruψ]

17 hours ago, elf-alchemist said:

Congrats on the release! 🎉 I hope to play this soon! 😄

 

Well I'm in high hopes that you enjoy playing it as much as I enjoyed making it!

 

15 hours ago, LadyMistDragon said:

I'm pretty sure Ravage goes by the name Fletcher here currently, but I could be mistaken. I just somewhat doubt there are two different people in the Doom community using that name.

 

I'd be sure to quote Fletcher on the credit if I can get a confirmation on this.

 

3 hours ago, Decay said:

Texturing looks well done, though I am deeply concerned by the amount of symmetry I see in the screenshots, as symmetrical maps do not make good DM maps. When I get home tonight I'll take a better look!

 

I'm quite glad that you liked the texture work. As for the gameplay and the symmetry, so far I've received positive feedback from my playtesters, but I'd love to hear differing opinions too. Overall, I hope that you'd like it :)

[Decay]

Here's a VOD of me looking through the maps in odamex.

[Amaruψ]

Introducing Bloodsport Z | a branch of the original Bloodsport WAD with support for ZDoom family of source ports

 

Differences from the original WAD:

• DEHEXTRA code reworked into DECORATE
• Faster weapon switch
• New sound effect for the minigun 
• Custom death messages

Changes made to the original game's weapons and addition of new decorative objects was done via DEHEXTRA in the original Bloodsport release, an extended format built upon the venerable DeHackEd. This however, put some ports like Zandronum out of the equation due to the lack of support for DEHEXTRA.

With the incredible contribution of @elf-alchemist, who did a fantastic job of rewriting my DEHEXTRA code into DECORATE and then some, there's now a specific branch of the WAD supported by the ZDoom family of source ports.

 

This branch is still under construction, so if you come across any bugs, then please make sure to report them.

 

Downloads are available from both Gamebanana and ModDB.

 

 

[elf-alchemist]

Congrats on a new release, @Amaruψ!

[Amaruψ]

Just now, elf-alchemist said:

Congrats on a new release, @Amaruψ!

 

Thank you :)

[Proxy-MIDI]

That promises some serious carnages ! >:-)

[Decay]

15 hours ago, Amaruψ said:

Introducing Bloodsport Z | a branch of the original Bloodsport WAD with support for ZDoom family of source ports

 

Differences from the original WAD:

• DEHEXTRA code reworked into DECORATE
• Faster weapon switch
• New sound effect for the minigun 
• Custom death messages

Changes made to the original game's weapons and addition of new decorative objects was done via DEHEXTRA in the original Bloodsport release, an extended format built upon the venerable DeHackEd. This however, put some ports like Zandronum out of the equation due to the lack of support for DEHEXTRA.

With the incredible contribution of @elf-alchemist, who did a fantastic job of rewriting my DEHEXTRA code into DECORATE and then some, there's now a specific branch of the WAD supported by the ZDoom family of source ports.

 

This branch is still under construction, so if you come across any bugs, then please make sure to report them.

 

Downloads are available from both Gamebanana and ModDB.

For what it's worth, as a "zdoom family" of source ports, I don't think odamex nor zdaemon support decorate. Dehacked would be supported by all 3.

 

I'm also going to point out that I don't think, but could be wrong since it's been a while since I've used it, wadseeker/getwad (the main mechanism for wad retrieval) would download off moddb or gamebanana. Typically pvp wads are uploaded to repositories such as TSPG, Doomshack (  @Doomkid fix your website please), or other typical repos (ie dogsoft).