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Title:	Beyond Doom: The Apocalypse TC (an unfinished TC)
Filename:	levels/doom2/megawads/bdtatc.zip
Size:	2.44 MB
Date:	05/12/06
Author:	Anthony Galica and team (see below)
Description:	Six years later, and a new void has been ripped out of the earth... They're sending in a scout team of convicts (one of which happens to be your friend). Everything seems to go right until they get back and you go to the bathroom... Screams are heard, bullets are fired, and when you come out, there is no evidence of an attack, everyone's dead with the exception of your friend and a dying marine... He says your friend was taken, and now it's up to you to rescue him, and of course most likely save the world from utter destruction... again... you hear a familiar growl and turn to see a not-so-familiar face, and thus begins your adventure... [Read origstory.txt for the complete background story.]
Credits:	see BDCREDIT.TXT and below
Base:	New from scratch
Build time:
Editor(s) used:
Bugs:	Read bugs.txt. [Note by the uploader: The author sent me with this package that in-development 'bugs.txt'-file. A problem with the original install.bat, mentioned in that text-file is fixed in this release for /idgames. It originally looked for a WAD with the wrong filename. The old batch file is renamed to INSTALL.BAk and for completenes sake also included in this package.]
Rating:	(11 votes)

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Reviews:

Getsu Fune	this is so freakin weird, it's like All Hell Is Breaking Loose for a TC. there's roaming barrels which are really threatening, a cyber-mastermind combo, and the archie replacement actually spawns monsters. some levels look unfinished, as evident by lack of monsters, and MAP18 seems to be a rough draft of Requiem MAP21. 2/5	x
Anonymous	Hasn't aged well at all, and uses those accursed double chainguns which didn't look good even in 1994.	x
Anonymous	Pretty entertaining, I had god mode on untill map 2, after realising I could play this on UV easily. The first pinky demon scared me and almost killed me. (God mode puts you at 1% hp so if you take it off.. your dead.) The mapping is great, monsters are ok.. map 3's music got annoying real fast. Its a fun little wad for you guys to try. 4/5 --INODCT	x
Anonymous	Great stuff!	x

View bdtatc.txt

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Review                  : It's really great. Nothing else, just fun, great
                          designed levels, lovable and surprising new
                          creatures and cool high-quality weapons. I don't
                          care for a few open endings. I'm happy to have
                          something fun to play with.
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Primary purpose         : Single+Coop play / Deathmatch
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Title                   : Beyond Doom: The Apocalypse TC (an unfinished TC)
Note by the uploader    : This was intended to become a full 32-level
                          total conversion. It hasn't been completed and
                          there are still a few bugs, because of that i
                          added in agreement with Anthony Galica that '(an
                          unfinished TC)' -part to the Title. He hasn't
                          worked on this in the last eight years, but it is
                          much too beautiful and too exciting to be
                          forgotten. From my testing, i can say, i didn't
                          notice the in-development stage as long as i
                          didn't look into bugs.txt. It is very play- and
                          enjoyable!
Filename                : BEYOND.WAD, BEYOND.DEH
Release date            : 09/26/98 MM/DD/YY (Timestamp of the WAD file)
Author                  : Anthony Galica and team (see below)
Email Address           : agalica@hotmail.com ( agalica@ix.netcom.com )
                          (No tech support will be offered, but comments on
                          the work are welcome.)
WWW                     : http://www.netcom.com/~agalica
Other Files By Galica   : REQUIEM.WAD (MAP21), CRUSH.WAD (for both, doom
                          and doom2)
BDTATC team             : Anthony Galica:  levels 1, ... 20, EXE hacking,
                                graphics, sprites, sounds, creator, story,
                                text, misc stuff
                              agalica@hotmail.com ( agalica@ix.netcom.com )
                          Gaston Lahaut:  Sprites, EXE hacking
                              G.Lahaut@stud.warande.ruu.nl
                          James Donovan:  Music
                              sml@cableol.co.uk
                          Rich Ciardullo:  Music
                              Richtone@juno.com
                          Tim McConnel:  Levels
                              tmconnl@freenet.columbus.oh.us
                          Bill Dodd:  Sounds
                              Mudhut@nauticom.net
                          Tom Gift:  Levels
                              t-gift@students.uiuc.edu
                          Jacco van Buuren:  Levels
                              B.J.van.Buuren@caiw.nl
                          Peter Gozon:  Levels
                              Gozon.2@osu.edu
                          Dan Esche:  Sprites
                              needspeed@nconnect.net
                          Micheal Freeth:  Level 2
                              mfreeth@geocities.com
                          Brian Owens:  Level
                              brian.owens@mcmail.com
                          Ed Brown:  Level
                              ebrown.pacifier.com
                          Colin Pierson:  Level
                              DOOMGOD83@aol.com
                          Iikka Keranen:  Misc. textures
                              ikeranen@mail.student.oulu.fi
                          Bahdko
                          lyfe
                          chrozoron
                          peter
                          [Another note by the uploader: There was another
                          readme from the development package of the
                          author, with names of authors, who worked also on
                          this TC, but whose work apparently didn't came
                          into this latest version. So i include that
                          readme just for the curious amoung you within
                          readme.zip into this /idgames -upload. That makes
                          sure, that as many people, who worked on this
                          stuff, are credited in some way.]

Description             : Six years later, and a new void has been ripped
                          out of the earth... They're sending in a scout
                          team of convicts (one of which happens to be your
                          friend). Everything seems to go right until they
                          get back and you go to the bathroom... Screams
                          are heard, bullets are fired, and when you come
                          out, there is no evidence of an attack,
                          everyone's dead with the exception of your friend
                          and a dying marine... He says your friend was
                          taken, and now it's up to you to rescue him, and
                          of course most likely save the world from utter
                          destruction... again... you hear a familiar growl
                          and turn to see a not-so-familiar face, and thus
                          begins your adventure...
                          [Read origstory.txt for the complete background
                          story.]

Additional Credits to   : see BDCREDIT.TXT and below
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* What is included *

New levels              : 21
Sounds                  : Yes
Music                   : Yes
Graphics                : Yes
Dehacked/BEX Patch      : Yes
Demos                   : No
Other files required    : Users of advanced source-ports don't need
                          anything else, they just launch this add-on by
                          typing:
                          mysourceport.exe -file beyond.wad -deh beyond.deh

Users of plain vanilla doom2 need to use the
                          included dehacked and deusf by running them with
                          the included INSTALL.BAT. After that, vanilla
                          users are expected to use beyond.bat to play the
                          TC.

* Play Information *

Game                    : DOOM2
Map #                   : MAP01 - MAP19, MAP31, MAP32
Single Player           : See wadwhatoutput.txt for details.
Cooperative 2-4 Player  : See wadwhatoutput.txt for details.
Deathmatch 2-4 Player   : See wadwhatoutput.txt for details.
Other game styles       : No
Difficulty Settings     : Yes

* Construction *

Base                    : New from scratch
Known Bugs              : Read bugs.txt.
                          [Note by the uploader: The author sent me with
                          this package that in-development 'bugs.txt'-file.
                          A problem with the original install.bat,
                          mentioned in that text-file is fixed
                          in this release for /idgames. It originally
                          looked for a WAD with the wrong filename.
                          The old batch file is renamed to INSTALL.BAk and
                          for completenes sake also included in this
                          package.]

* Copyright / Permissions *

"Beyond Doom - The Apocalypse TC" (BDTATC), by author Anthony Galica
( agalica@hotmail.com (agalica@ix.netcom.com))

Authors MAY NOT use BDTATC, or a part of it, as a base to build additional
levels. BDTATC, or part of it, MAY NOT be included in a
megawad/compilation.

This archive MAY NOT be sold from any commercial web/internet/public site,
this to the judgement of the author.

You MAY distribute this WAD at no cost, provided you include BEYOND.TXT,
with no modifications.  You may distribute this file at no cost in any
electronic format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include this
file intact. All files of the original archive should be present.

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The following belongs only to those graphics in this WAD, which
names begin with PAIN** (the legless demon), and SPOS** (the
armored soldier):
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Some of the original graphics are from the Justin Fisher
"Alchemy" library, from "3D Game Alchemy" by Sams Publishing.
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Submitted to the /idgames-ftp-archives by FunDuke --> funduke@hotmail.com
The review at the beginning of this template has been written by FunDuke.
Many thanks to S. Oliver for telling me about the existence of this TC.
And last but definitely not least:
MANY MANY MANY THANKS! to Anthony Galica, who quickly gave me this long
lost masterpiece via rapidshare upon request!
You and your team made great stuff! :)

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