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Ronald · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:06 pm Post subject: FMM #012 - pzmxmas

Back in 2006, two brothers from Hungaria called Peete and zoli2 made a christmas-themed coop wad. Then in march 2007, Peete finally managed to create himself a forum account and posted about it in the Zdaemon Review forums. After the wad was reviewed, we never heard from Peete or from his brother again. The wad was put on a shelf and was soon forgotten about. Until now, because it's up for Friday's Monster Mash!

What does a wad need to get you into the spirit of christmas? Let's see what this wad has to offer:

Santa? --> CHECK
Reindeers? --> CHECK
Christmas trees? --> CHECK
Snow and ice? --> CHECK
Reindeers? --> CHECK
Elves? --> CHECK
Angels? --> CHECK

There's no way you won't be feeling the spirit of christmas after playing this next friday. So I expect to see you all there for christmas fragging next friday!

SETTINGS

Game Mode: Cooperative
IWAD: Doom2
PWADs: PZMXMAS

Maps: 25 (01-25)
DMFLAGS: 67389476 / 68288592
Skill: 3 - Ultraviolence
Timelimit: None
Killlimit: None
Players: 50/50

Session times

On friday, the 23rd of december 2011:

The European session starts at 21:00 GMT+1
The US session starts at 01:00 BST / 20:00 EDT (that's 00:00 GMT)

See you there! Wink

Empyre · Unstoppable! Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Location: Texas, USA

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Ronald · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:02 pm Post subject:

Sr69Mm-jC · Unstoppable! Joined: 21 Jul 2011

This wad is far from being a good pick for a session. I found the review you wrote back in 2007; I gotta agree: sprites are good but that's about it. Vampirecoop/infinitecoop-style maps with random textures and 1-player wide corridors at times. Pretty meh.

Ronald · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:18 am Post subject:

Cybershark · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:26 pm Post subject:

LOL! That is quite funny that you would make other people play something that you yourself gave such a low score to before. But - for once - I'd have to agree with your arguments for choosing it. It's not like there are so many Xmas-themed WADs to pick from. I still hope for an Xmas CTF someday!

...although you can always run sprite/sound replacements instead.

BTW Ronnie - not that it really matters - but what is the point in giving a start time for the event if you and your retard bot are then going to kick it off 2hrs early?

SwiftShot · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:50 pm Post subject:

[DA]DarthBane · Dominating! Joined: 10 May 2009 Location: Animal-

ITS fun closing the door people

Cybershark · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 1:13 pm Post subject:

Who - or what - are the "door people"? Surprised

Mediocre_Rebel · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 11:17 am Post subject:

I think there are a few possible bugs in this wad.
The menu is all fudged-up, and on map06 there is a broken lift. I'm not sure if there's any more, but I found those while trying to play the wad with someone else.

Ronald · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:53 am Post subject:

Mediocre_Rebel · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:29 pm Post subject:

The bugs like with the lift will make it impossible to progress while playing the wad. Soo.... I thought I'd let you guys know so maybe someone could fix it. I could fix it, but I'm doubting I will be able to contact the author.

phenex2 · Unstoppable! Joined: 10 Jan 2008

you could just fix the lift in that map and load it as an optional wad, that will not be distributed, on top of the original wad on the server only. that way you dont need to ask the author and the server propagates the correct behaviour to the clients. the clients do not need the fixed map locally.

Ronald · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 7:30 am Post subject:

Can we make a patch-fix? If so, this might be fun to run tuesday night as a Christmas-event, because there are no organised events on tuesday.

@Mediocre_Rebel

Could you tell me where the bug exactly is?