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  • The /newstuff Chronicles #299

    Bastet Furry

    By Bastet Furry

    Greetings from your most beloved furry here at Doomworld for a new issue of newstuff!
    Not much to see this time, but its mainly because from now on I refuse to review any jokewad.
    Dear people, these things aren't funny anymore, the energy you put into these is better used inside some real maps. I hope the other reviewers will follow me in this opinion.

    And just for note, someone uploaded a real 1994 map. Grab it here: *click*

    • Doom advent map - Hans (apocalypse) and sausage
      ZDoom - Solo Play - 74 KB -
      The first map i tested was a little pseudo-invasion map that was made for the canceled advent project.
      The overall architecture is somewhat nice, even if some more height variations would help, otherwise it's two small forts with some lava river in the middle.
      The difficult is medium as long as you keep your two plasma-marines alive, otherwise you could get into ammo problems. In old plain English: get yourself the aggro and let the NPCs do the kills for you.
      All in all very playable.

    • Shadow Androids - Lupinx-ressurected
      Boom Compatible - n/a - 61 KB -
      This is a real nice substitution for the SS-Nazi, the shadow droids from Sonic.
      I would love to see this used in some Sonic TC that is not so "doomy" like the one we have but more Sonic.
      Very nice work for a fifteen year old :)

    • Sigma - Didy
      Boom Compatible - Solo Play - 1105 KB -
      Hooray! Just what I needed after all those not-reviewed joke wads, a nice and playable map.
      Sigma is a nicely made map from Didy, some map authors out there should watch and learn from the architecture. Not too much, just the right spot of detail.
      First you invase a tech base just for getting transported to a beach with some diving into a living(!) underwater world.
      Gameplaywise it's a bit linear but nothing too unfair. I had one situation where I got out with just some hitpoints left, speaking about a cramped control room and an Archvile.... still smoking, ya know.... ;)
      Clearly my favorite this issue. Download and enjoy!

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    Mad Butcher
    Grazza said:

    If anyone wants the original files for getsum (someone on the idgames database comments was unhappy about the modified txt), then they can be found at cd.textfiles.com (except that it seems to be down at the moment, hopefully not permanently). It also includes the missing deh file referred to in the txt.

    It was reuploaded to the archives with all the original files, plus a converted DEH file.

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    RjY

    I merely found it odd that I was not previously aware of something which was described as a three-year-old official policy. Unfortunately it turned out to be stated only in a forum restricted to reviewers - I believe it is relevant to all readers of the chronicles.

    However I realise I should have been much more polite, so please accept my apologies.

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    Jodwin
    GGG said:

    There is nothing wrong with a jokewad if it is actually funny. Problem is so few are.

    No, the problem is that you can't tell whether it's an actually funny jokewad without trying it first, and that different people have different tastes.

    ...thus, all jokewads should be given even the shortest review.

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    GGG
    Jodwin said:

    No, the problem is that you can't tell whether it's an actually funny jokewad without trying it first, and that different people have different tastes.

    ...thus, all jokewads should be given even the shortest review.

    From your logic, every wad should be given the shortest review, because you can't tell whether it's a good wad without trying it first, and because people have different tastes.

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    Jodwin
    GGG said:

    From your logic, every wad should be given the shortest review, because you can't tell whether it's a good wad without trying it first, and because people have different tastes.


    Of course they should, shouldn't they? There's really no point in not giving any kind of a review for a wad.

    ...however, I do consider "shithousing" a wad also as giving a short review, because then you at least mention the wad and tell that it's shit instead of just ignoring it.

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    Ty Halderman

    I'm headed to Scotland for 2 weeks so perhaps #300 will have more wads in it. However I won't get a chance to file any new uploads until 10th March at the earliest.

    I put a dummy file in incoming with a msg-like-filename that says don't upload until the 10th, but I'm sure everyone will ignore it. Some have already, in fact. However, I'll redate everything to the date I merge them when I get back so they won't expire prematurely.

    Sorry I can't do anything about it but access to the archives is IP-based and I'll be on a random hotel wireless sort of thingy while out of the country.

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    exp(x)

    There should at least be links to unreviewed wads so that people don't have to regularly check the database to see what is uploaded.

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    funduke
    Grazza said:

    ... then they can be found at cd.textfiles.com (except that it seems to be down at the moment, hopefully not permanently).


    It's back online now. :)

    Greetings
    Funduke

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