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Krawa There is a limit
Joined: 23 Nov 2008 Location: #SDA
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:35 pm Post subject: ZDS #240 - Chap Deathmatch - TDM Instagib |
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Time for some Chap Deathmatch in Instagib mode next ZDaemon Session. Let's play it with 2 teams.
Here some impressions:
http://chapsoftware.com/chapdm10.html
Settings:
Game Mode: TeamDeathmatch
IWAD: doom2.wad
PWADs: chapdm10, monster_skins3a_team, facevox2
Wad url: http://krawaserv.dyndns.org/wads
Maps: 01-10
DMFLAGS: 285234372 / 131072
Players: 30 + 20 spect slots
Skill: 3 // Ultra Violence.
Teams: 2
Timelimit: 8 minutes
Fraglimit: 0
Teamscorelimit: 0
Overtime: yes
Date: Saturday 7th April 2012
Euro: 19:30 BST (14:30 EDT)
USA: 02:00 BST (21:00 EDT)
Locations: [XXX] / Dwango United NJ
Last edited by Krawa on Mon Apr 09, 2012 5:03 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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GreenchiL Unstoppable!
Joined: 19 Aug 2011 Location: #FS #Ducks YouTube: Rosh Fragger
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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Nice. |
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Ronald Rontard
Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Location: Netherlands Clan: [QnB]
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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I am not into Deathmatch at all, but those screenshots look amazingly good!
Perhaps it is also worth mentioning that the author of this wad (phineas) submitted this wad to ZdReview and would like to receive feedback on his creations! You can find the ZDReview thread here. |
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TheCupboard Generic Title
Joined: 25 Feb 2007 Location: USA
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:15 am Post subject: |
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Dat's some brave use of ZZZWOLF. Hear, hear! |
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Cybershark Spamming!
Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Location: off the grid, but still fighting for the users!
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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 2:38 am Post subject: |
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What does that comment even apply to? The screenies? The WAD? The settings? The banner? Krawa himself?
Ronald wrote: | I am not into Deathmatch at all, but those screenshots look amazingly good! |
Yeah, they do. Means nothing, I'm afraid.
Instagib solves the lack of weapons, and the overabundance of powerups, but it does nothing for the layouts and confusing texturing
I'll probably just have an early night on Zaturday. |
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GreenchiL Unstoppable!
Joined: 19 Aug 2011 Location: #FS #Ducks YouTube: Rosh Fragger
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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:05 am Post subject: |
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Cybershark wrote: |
What does that comment even apply to? The screenies? The WAD? The settings? The banner? Krawa himself? |
The wad ROFL. The maps are great designed and it would be fun playing this wad. |
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Cybershark Spamming!
Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Location: off the grid, but still fighting for the users!
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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Great designed? You mean they look nice in places? Because they are not well designed for gameplay. Your own maps show that you have a much better idea about such things.
Let's be clear here, using instagib is not some magic bullet which will make any piece of crap playable. There are '94 WADs which would have played better than this. I mean no offense to the author here! In fact, he agreed with what Op-Cow and I had to say about his maps - that most of them could have been much better. So I find it mind-boggling that Krawa would then choose to ignore all that and run them anyway.
Instead of running instagib on maps that were never intended for it, I'd like to see some maps be created expressly for it. There'd be no campable spawns, no dead map areas where a BFG or sphere would have been, just some decent gameplay. Bascially it'd be a bunch of FFA maps that required no items, just player starts. Should be pretty easy, right? |
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phenex2 Unstoppable!
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Krawa actually PM'ed me that evening and told me how surprised he was how well this ZDS worked. Players enjoyed this one a lot and the server was active and crowded for hours. I refreshed at around midnight and it was still packed.
So even though it might not look as if the design was good gameplay wise it still worked well for instagib TDM after all. |
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Cybershark Spamming!
Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Location: off the grid, but still fighting for the users!
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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The screenies from last week's Euro games seem to back this up, but I suspect this was more luck than judgement really. I do respect that Krawa was trying to highlight a new set of maps to encourage players and mappers alike, but it should be noted that US-side was complete and utter fail. I think I was playing some ZDUCTF, and I never saw another soul in that server all night. |
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phenex2 Unstoppable!
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 11:30 am Post subject: |
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the fault was not the wad in that case but rather the lack of kickstarting i'd suppose. |
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Cybershark Spamming!
Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Location: off the grid, but still fighting for the users!
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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It's certainly harder to get a TDM going, and every other week has me cyberbullying people into joining |
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Op-Cow Dominating!
Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Location: Albuquerque, NM
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:16 am Post subject: |
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Arrrgh! Now I want to make a dedicated instagib wad!
The wad definitely wasn't there, but I'd hate to discourage the dude from making more. It's better than my first several wads anyways. Hopefully we'll see a more polished wad comming soon.
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Cybershark Spamming!
Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Location: off the grid, but still fighting for the users!
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:01 am Post subject: |
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It did seem that Phineas was quite receptive to the comments, and it definitely didn't sound like this was the last we'd be seeing from him.
And I wasn't suggesting that any one person should drop everything to make an Instagibpack, rather that it could be a cool community thing to do. Either as a speedmap challenge, or give a couple of weeks max (which would give more people chance to participate). |
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