Lunatic.wad - idgames download available

[DeathevokatioN]

I thought the sprites were fine. The fact that they stood out from the rest of the bestiary aesthetically was a good thing for me.

[Snakes]

Yep. Played and thoroughly enjoyed. Shits on pretty much any mapping I've done... again. At least I've got a new author to steal shamelessly from look at for influence.

[skillsaw]

Thanks everyone for all the feedback and help. I'm calling this thing finalized.

Final version:
http://www.mediafire.com/?mlcur1r3x2ara11

idgames upload imminent.

[methy]

Really good wad, with some moon like visuals you don't often see in Doom.

Far from the overall quality of Vanguard though but still very enjoyable.

The only downside is that I just can't stand the last music, from Europe. However I'm glad to see you used a music from Journey To Silius again, which is one of my favourite NES game (I even own a very rare romhack on cartridge of that game).

A few screenshots I took while playing:

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m51/Corentin3/Doom/Screenshot_Doom_20110813_081507.png

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m51/Corentin3/Doom/Screenshot_Doom_20110813_111925.png

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m51/Corentin3/Doom/Screenshot_Doom_20110813_113524.png

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m51/Corentin3/Doom/Screenshot_Doom_20110813_114734.png

[Phobus]

A fair bit shorter and more slaughter-heavy than I was expecting, but I really enjoyed it. The novel theme definitely helped, as did the music. I was quite amused at Doomguy's version of using spacecraft :P

[NaturalTvventy]

Yaknow what would be a slightly better name for this thing? Lunacy. Sounds a bit better to me at least :)

[skillsaw]

NaturalTvventy said:

Yaknow what would be a slightly better name for this thing? Lunacy. Sounds a bit better to me at least :)

Yeah, it does sound better. Too late to change I guess!

[purist]

Oh well, you'll have to use it for the sequel :-)

[skillsaw]

Lunatic found its way to the archives! Thanks everyone.

http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/?id=16551

[Katamori]

Your music was surprising, especially the Lotus: The Ultimate Challange theme on map02

couldn't you make it a bit louder? because it was too quiet

[skillsaw]

It didn't seem particularly quiet on mine, but that's probably because I balance the audio to favor the music instead of the sound effects.

[Katamori]

By the way, I finished the WAD. You are pretty good, the difficulty levels were exact, the design was great and original.

Due to your amazing work (because I see, you made Vanguard too) I think you might be the mapper of the year on Cacowards. Maybe I'll nominate you, if it's possible. =)

[Foodles]

I'm not gonna lie, I didn't enjoy this as much as vanguard.
Of course thats like saying I didn't enjoy Doom2 as much as Doom, both games are amazing just one is slightly better.
This is a great mapset and I am gonna nominate you for mapper of the year, well done.

[skillsaw]

Thanks Foodles & Katamori :)

[Gez]

Just finished it. The music for the last level was hilarious. :)

The only part I didn't like was the teleport gulag on MAP04.

[skillsaw]

Thanks Gez, although I'm not quite sure what you mean by the teleport gulag.

[Gez]

I mean this area, once the walls close in and the monster floodgates are opened.

[Katamori]

Gez said:

I mean this area, once the walls close in and the monster floodgates are opened.

Yeah, it was the hardest trick in the whole WAD, but I was able to finish it even in UV level. =)

Just use the Rocket Launcher and try to go far to the fittest monsters (e.g. Hellknights)

[DeathevokatioN]

That was actually one of my favorite parts.

[Marcaek]

Katamori said:

Just use the Rocket Launcher and try to go far to the fittest monsters (e.g. Hellknights)

You're better off going for the imps and zombiemen. The imps will box you in if there's enough, and you can't dodge hitscans.

[Katamori]

Marcaek said:

You're better off going for the imps and zombiemen. The imps will box you in if there's enough, and you can't dodge hitscans.

Well, the location doesn't matter, just take away from the targets like always when you use the RL. The RL only methode works for me, although usually I defeat these hard areas.

[Katamori]

By the way, I made a random video about that interesting last level.

[skillsaw]

Katamori said:

By the way, I made a random video about that interesting last level.

Awesome! It's great how well the length of the song synchronized with the timing of your exit.

[Katamori]

skillsaw said:

Awesome! It's great how well the length of the song synchronized with the timing of your exit.

Thank you! However, I have to speed up the original video, because the gameplay was about 7 minutes and the song itself is 5 minutes only. After that, it was easy, although the gameplay became a bit fast...