Lunar Catastrophe - An Ultimate Doom Megawad (RELEASED!)

[Miss Bubbles]

Hello Doomworld! I'd like to share with you a project that has been in the works for nearly two years. My boyfriend Count651 and I have collaborated on this project since 2017, with many breaks in between. It started as a single Episode 1 themed level made by myself, and eventually after having made a couple more, I decided to try creating an entire episode. Once it was nearly finished in late October of 2017, we began discussing the idea of working on an entire wad together.



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Update 6/3/2024: Compatibility Patch by @Spendoragon
 

On 6/2/2024 at 2:57 AM, Spendoragon said:

I've spent some time over the last week developing a compatibility patch for Lunar Catastrophe including bug fixes mentioned since version 1.3 release and a few I found on my own. I am releasing it for the public with approval from @Miss Bubbles and @Count651 and I'm happy to share it.

 

This patch is intended to make Lunar.wad fully compatible with -cl3 and strict vanilla ports, albiet without the hard-coded secret exits. Simply load Lunar.wad with LunarCompat.wad loaded after to apply the changes. A new UMAPINFO is provided to allow these to work as intended in ports that accept it. Full changelog are contained in the readme file and spoilered below. Tested and maxed in dsda-doom 0.27.5 -cl3.

 

 

This has been a labor of love for the both of us. We have taken strong influences from the original game and have aimed for a classic aesthetic, emulating the design styles of the original id team, often in their beautiful ugliness. Of course you'll find our own unique touch in each level, but the overall idea we had in mind was always " make it retro, make it weird. "

Each level is compatible with co-op and deathmatch. They also feature difficulty levels and par times run by myself both of us. We've tested and played each map in ZDOOM.

(Players are not intended or expected to use crouching or jumping at any point in this wad, play it as if you would play vanilla Doom!)

Screenshots!
 

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MORE SCREENSHOTS!
 

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Unfortunately, it is not quite 100% ready yet! We are making our last push to get this finished. All that's left to do is finish E3M6, make sure every map has difficulty levels and deathmatch spawns, and to squish any bugs that we might find.

We hope to release this by Christmas day, but we are busy given the time of year :). If this doesn't happen, expect it by New Years Eve instead!
 

Edited June 3 by Miss Bubbles

[elend]

Well that certainly looks interesting! Hope you'll finish this, but take your time. Don't rush it, just because of christmas. Merry holidays to you!

[Count651]

Its been a helluva time churning out all these maps. If you love the original iwads minimalism and abstract design, you'll probly like our wad.

[Pure Hellspawn]

i do notice a few similarities. looks interesting.

[Philnemba]

Loving what I'm seeing from those screenshots so looking forward to this :)

[Walter confetti]

looks pretty good from what i see!

[Miss Bubbles]

Thanks everyone! We're looking forward to letting you play it and hearing what you think!

[MrDeAD1313]

Can't wait! Always something good coming from you guys :D

[Yugiboy85]

This looks really cool, good job on that. 

 

I'm affraid to be that guy but, seeing the screenshot that look like the maps could work in vanilla, why limit yourself to testing in zdoom? I think you should also test the wad in prboom+ at the least to make sure that you dont run into any issues. Then again, that doesnt take away your hard work at all, just a small nitpick of mine haha. 

 

Other than that, i love the classic feel these screenshots give, keep up the good work. Again, dont rush a release just cause of christmas, we are very understanding here ;)

Edited December 25, 2018 by Yugiboy85

[Count651]

Almost done. Just getting the intermission texts working and playing through the wad in coop looking for anymore bugs to be dealt with.

 

As for prboom+ I don't know If it'll be compatible or not, since I don't have any experience with Boom. All I can tell you is that all the levels are mapped in DoomBuilder ( Doom game configuration ) and tested in zDoom. If prboom+ doesn't support things like intermission text changes and map title changes then its probly not compatible.

Edited December 27, 2018 by Count651

[Korozive]

On 12/27/2018 at 12:24 AM, Count651 said:

Almost done. Just getting the intermission texts working and playing through the wad in coop looking for anymore bugs to be dealt with.

Rubs hands together...

 

Oh and btw my weekend looks free...just saying...D

Edited December 28, 2018 by Korozive

[Miss Bubbles]

10 hours ago, Korozive said:

Rubs hands together...

*Drools in fireblu* Soooon

[Gifty]

Can't wait to play it!

[Korozive]

The suspense is killing me.

[Miss Bubbles]

5 hours ago, Korozive said:

The suspense is killing me.

I'm wrapping up E3M6 today and unless I run into any snags, EXPECT IT VERY SOON HOPEFULLYYY!

Btw thanks for the enthusiasm :D

Edited December 29, 2018 by Miss Bubbles

[bioshockfan90]

Looks really good! Can't wait to play it.

[pavera]

The screenshots look really great, looking forward!

[FrancisT218]

Release date yet? Only one day til New Year's Eve...I'm so looking forward, just like everyone else!

[Jimmy]

Psyched for this!!

[Miss Bubbles]

1 hour ago, FrancisT18 said:

Release date yet? Only one day til New Year's Eve...I'm so looking forward, just like everyone else!

RELEASE DATE IS TODAY :O

But for real, I've got a couple little things to finish up and then I'll be uploading it soon!
 

Edited December 30, 2018 by Miss Bubbles

[MrDeAD1313]

FINALLY

[FrancisT218]

Can you upload it also to a file sharing site while /idgames awaits approval? I hope so...:D

[Miss Bubbles]

13 minutes ago, FrancisT18 said:

Can you upload it also to a file sharing site while /idgames awaits approval? I hope so...:D

Oh yeah, sure. I'm a bit unfamiliar with the idgames upload process (though I did do it once before, but it's been a long time, so it may take me a little while to fumble around with it again lol) but I could do that in the mean time. Is there a website that y'all generally prefer?

[KVELLER]

1 hour ago, Miss Bubbles said:

Oh yeah, sure. I'm a bit unfamiliar with the idgames upload process (though I did do it once before, but it's been a long time, so it may take me a little while to fumble around with it again lol) but I could do that in the mean time. Is there a website that y'all generally prefer?

 

People usually use Dropbox or Google Drive. I'm personally ok with anything that isn't Mediafire.

[FrancisT218]

Mediafire, Google Share, Sendspace all fine I think. Mediafire seems most common.

 

EDIT: Dropbox too. Definitely @KVELLERis against Mediafire it seems.

Edited December 30, 2018 by FrancisT18

[KVELLER]

And we give conflicting information. Off to a great start lol. In any case, @Miss Bubbles, most people will download it anyway regardless of the website, so don't worry about it.

[Count651]

Just another 30 minutes tops till it out. She wants to run some par times and now we're painfully trying to speed run through our episode 4 maps. 

 

Also just an fyi, some of the episode 4 maps are pretty cruel and unfair at times. So if you ever get pissed off at them its ok, we get pissed off at them too.

Edited December 30, 2018 by Count651

[FrancisT218]

@Count651  Must be short maps if you can run a whole episode in 30 min...Cues from Deathless?

[Count651]

1 minute ago, FrancisT18 said:

@Count651  Must be short maps if you can run a whole episode in 30 min...Cues from Deathless?

 

They're actually standard sized maps, we just have the last 3 maps to run through today.

[leodoom85]

hmmm

Consider me interested in this one to try it when it gets released....maybe I can do some stream ;)