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Title:	Queen of the DoomWeb a Study in Plasma
Filename:	levels/doom/p-r/queen.zip
Size:	72.42 KB
Date:	08/15/94
Author:	Bob "Da Sloth" Bingham
Description:	As you stride down to the burning city of Hell On Earth you note a baron reading a sign. The baron appears rather annoyed at the weathered sign reading "Under Construction - please come back in October." The baron gives one final scream and heads for a rock outcropping. You follow - and find yourself teleported along with the baron back to his queen's layer (nix your armor and all weapons but your pistol)!
Credits:	All those folks out there who've volunteered their time to make Doom a better game. A special thanks also to my brother for letting me use his 486/50 to make this thing. Doom doesn't run so good on my old Atari ST or 286/12.
Base:	New level from scratch
Build time:
Editor(s) used:	DEU 5.21gcc, BSP11x
Bugs:	Some of the outer hex's textures don't line up so well but still look decent. There's one room where you have to jump to a teleporter that sometimes doesn't work. (Had to take two runs at it in the 1.2 demo, for instance.)
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Anonymous	These two maps are dated August 1994. E2M1 is a sort-of castle level, with concentric "battlements"; it's uglier than a middle-aged man. You have masses of plasma ammo. The gameplay gets better as it goes along, almost approaching one star. E2M2 is an arena with a cyber and a spider, but it's easy to finish if you don't shoot and thus alert them - there's an impressive pyramid but no real gameplay. Neither level is impressive individually, together they are meh.	x
Anonymous	It has octagonal shaped rooms, a cyber, a spider mastermind, some computer room boxes, a crusher and a teleporter maze all on a whopping two maps. 2/5 unless you think it deserves less of a rating. z34	x

View queen.txt

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Title                   : Queen of the DoomWeb
                           a Study in Plasma
Filename                : QUEEN.WAD
Author                  : Bob "Da Sloth" Bingham
Email Address           : sloth@falcon.cc.ukans.edu
Misc. Author Info       : A CS student with time on his hands <g>

Description             : As you stride down to the burning city of
                          Hell On Earth you note a baron reading a
                          sign.  The baron appears rather annoyed at
                          the weathered sign reading "Under 
                          Construction - please come back in October."
                          The baron gives one final scream and heads
                          for a rock outcropping.  You follow - and
                          find yourself teleported along with the baron
                          back to his queen's layer (nix your armor
                          and all weapons but your pistol)!

Additional Credits to   : All those folks out there who've volunteered
                          their time to make Doom a better game.  A
                          special thanks also to my brother for letting
                          me use his 486/50 to make this thing.  Doom
                          doesn't run so good on my old Atari ST or
                          286/12. <g>
================================================================

* Play Information *

Episode and Level #     : E2M1, E2M2
Single Player           : Yes
Cooperative 2-4 Player  : Yes (but untested)
Deathmatch 2-4 Player   : Yes (but untested)
Difficulty Settings     : Medium and Hard only.  You try the wimpy
                          levels and you get jumped by two barons.
                          The medium and hard levels are pretty
                          different, so you'll want to play both.
                          Medium first, then hard.
New Sounds              : No
New Graphics            : No
New Music               : No
Demos Replaced          : Two LMPs are provided with the level.  With
                          Doom 1.666 coming so soon I didn't want to
                          put an out-of-date demo right in the WAD, so
                          I just zipped it in the archive.  The film's
                          name is HMPxx.LMP (recorded at difficulty level
                          'hurt me plenty').  It contains some spoilers
                          but leave's plenty to be discovered.  HMP12 is
                          set up for version 1.2 and HMP16 is for Doom
                          version 1.6.

* Construction *

Base                    : New level from scratch
Editor(s) used          : DEU 5.21gcc, BSP11x
Known Bugs              : Some of the outer hex's textures don't line
                          up so well but still look decent.  There's 
                          one room where you have to jump to a 
                          teleporter that sometimes doesn't work.
                          (Had to take two runs at it in the 
                          1.2 demo, for instance.)

* Copyright / Permissions *

Authors MAY use this level as a base to build additional
levels.

You may do whatever you want with this file, provided that I'm
still given credit for originating it.

This level could still take some more work, but school's starting and 
my brother will be taking his computer away, leaving me with the 1985 
technology again.  Anyone wanting to add things to the level, go 
right ahead.  I was hoping to use the 'easy' modes to make more of a 
shoot'm'up level (lots of monsters, lots of ammo/health), for instance.
Maybe even replace the plasma guns with BFGs and have the players go 
through the level using just BFG or pistol.  A lot of the rooms could
use decorations and lighting as well.

If anyone wants to include this in a wadpak, please make the first 
level of this wad the first level in one of the episodes.  It's 
designed for plasma-only and thus would be substantially less fun if 
the player(s) came in loaded with shotgun shells and such.

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