PUSS X: THE SUMMER OF SLAUGHTER - [Out Now! (check release thread)]

@Arbys550 haha well I am happy to hear you tried it, that part with crushers and archviles is an unnecessary path, it just allows you to get the bfg early, probably still needs some work. Thanks for the feedback

BETA v1.3

Contains a major fix for MAP24

Apologies for the long wait for this fix. BETA 2 will be a major update, including a new secret level and further level updates.

The plan is for BETA 3 to have a new map order as well as three secret exits. Suggestions for map orders are needed.

MAP03: Cenotaph - @myolden

Part 4:

MAP05 - “The More You Know” - @notTyrone

MAP06 - “Premonition of Hostility” - @Lorenz0

MAP07 - “Joy on the Blood of Stars” - @Peccatum Mihzamiz

Version 5 of 'Lightning Over the Beyond'.
-I finally fixed that damn door texture with help of Myolden !
-added a secret invincibility just before the last battle
-made it so that all the cacos and pain elementals háve to be woken up in the green sky/metal arena.
-fiddled with some doors etc.
-changed some ammo balance and monster balance, mostly at the large pentagram arena.
-fixed numerous tiny and bigger sky, lighting and texture issues

Known bugs/issues left:
-Some tiny sky issues to do with the lighting. Not much I can do about it I think.
-Some strange nodebuilder (I think) issues in the pentagram arena, that don't break the map and the player might not even notice. I don't know how to fix these. The only truly horrible one as far as I know is a HOM on the Southern side of the South Eastern pillar, that sometimes doesn't show up.

File: https://www.mediafire.com/file/8m6zxh6tczqrvpy/PeccatumMihzamiz_PUSS_SoS_LotB_v05.wad/file

Map Featured:

Map08 - "Godhood Cathedral" - @El Inferno

Summer of Slaughter - Beta 2.2

Beta 2 is a rather sizeable update to the Summer of Slaughter wad. It contains the following updates:

BETA 2.2 - 11/13/2020
    Updated Maps:
        - Titlemap

        - 01 v3
        - 02 v2

        - 03 v3
        - 04 v3
        - 07 v2
        - 08 v6
        - 10 v2
        - 18 v5
        - 14 v2
        - 20 v2
        - 23 v2
        - 25 v2
    Added Map 28 "The Chaosphere" - BluePineapple72
    Added Map 34 "The Basement" - Pierrot
        - This level is currently inaccessible without using idclev34
         - The resources for this level have been trimmed down.

    Added new menu graphics.

It also contains a boom compatible version of the wad compiled by Danlex. It has some neat beachy hub goodness in place of the UDMF maps. Give er a spin if your computer can't handle high monsters on GZDoom as well as PRboom!

Huge thanks to @Danlex for the massive help in the process of wrapping up SOS. There is still quite a ways to go but the tide is rising baby!

Some information on the new map:

Map Name: The Chaosphere

Author: BluePineapple72

Music: "New Millennium Cyanide Christ" - Meshuggah

Sky: N/A

Format: Boom

Difficulty Settings: I don't think so

Build Time: 12 Hours. Bout 30 minutes of testing/bugfixing

Monster Count: 667 (I swear this was an accident)

Par Time: Uh

Jumping Crouching: No Comments: Disciples. Come join with me. To save a failed humanity.

I honestly feel I can make this one a tad bit more difficult. Let me know what you think please. I also need to adjust the pacing a tad

Screenshots:

There are still two levels being worked on for the main mapset and three more for the secret set. I'm still testing the levels myself so I can get a gauge of how they will be ordered in the future.

Future updates will see a brand new intermission screen, CWILV patches (they look quite nice at the moment), a new map order, and a fancy credits beach. We've just got the home stretch for this bad boy! 

Until next time folks ,o7

Update to two maps and finally an upload of a map that was almost finished when the deadline passed, and was allowed to be submitted later.

Update: Joy of the Blood of the Stars version 4

Changed: quite a few tiny tweaks and fixes. Still didn't add difficulty to everything I think.
 

Update: Lightning Over the Beyond version 7

Changed: lots of fixes to progression, lots of rebalancing. Added difficulty levels.

Map Name: The Forgotten Offering
Author: Peccatum Mihzamiz
Music: One track by myself, and a temporary track by stewboy that will be changed later.
Sky: OSKY32 and OSKY06 from OTEX
Format: UDMF GZDoom
Difficulty Settings: Not yet implemented
Build Time: about 12 hours, with quite a few extra hours to fix everything
Monster Count: 1??????
Jumping/Crouching/Mouselook: not needed
Known Issues: sometimes the portals towards one of the Northern areas don't work. They seem to be fine right now.

Screenshots:

Link to the file, version 2
 

The Forgotten Offering version 4 (updated from 2 previously)
-added some indicators and progression aides after testing.

Playthrough of Maps by @muumi and @Danlex

Playthrough of maps by @notTyrone @MemeMind and @Astro X

Chaos Lab II by @Pierrot

Updated The Forgotten Offering to version 4.

-now with completely working portals and a whole bunch of tiny changes after testing
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BETA 2.3 - 12/23/2021
    Added MAP29
    - "The Forgotten Offering" - @Peccatum Mihzamiz
    Added temporary Intermission: I think I actually forgot to do this. Sue me :p
    Updated Maps:    
        - 04 v4
        - 07 v4
        - 16 v2.1
        - 18 v7

Nearly there and this is already one of the best megawads of 2022! Amazing work @BluePineapple72 and all the mappers! Some of the prettiest and most bad-ass maps I've ever seen are in this set!

@LateNightPerson @Awall

@Peccatum Mihzamiz @Mike_C

Version 3 of Monodie
-Added some extra health and rockets so the Revenants at the end are not as difficult anymore.

-Added one very special secret
File 

Genesis of slaughter resembles some maps from sunder wad.Darkness space and golden textures delight the soul.                                                                                                   

Summer of Slaughter Release Thread

The Summer of Slaughter has been released on a new thread. Go check that baby out instead!

Summer of Slaughter Beta 3.1

BETA 3.0 - 5/23/2022

Hi there. I don't know if you're still working on this mod or not, but I do have some feedback.

MAP30: The main issue with this map comes from the platform fight in the middle of the map. Personally, I think it gets a little problematic with so many monsters there. I'd like to recommend reducing the monsters you have to fight there by half, and instead adding them to the final section as it gets very overly long andi t's quite hard to get past, plus it tends to lag.

MAP31: I'd recommend turning the pillars into models. That will drastically improve FPS from looking out at the battle arena. If you wish, I could do so myself and send it in. Thankfully, Ultimate Doom Builder has the ability to export map sections as models, making this process a lot easier to deal with.  Surprisingly, ANIMDEFS does work on models too, 

1 hour ago, Major Cooke said:

Hi there. I don't know if you're still working on this mod or not, but I do have some feedback.

 

MAP30: The main issue with this map comes from the platform fight in the middle of the map. Personally, I think it gets a little problematic with so many monsters there. I'd like to recommend reducing the monsters you have to fight there by half, and instead adding them to the final section as it gets very overly long andi t's quite hard to get past, plus it tends to lag.

 

MAP31: I'd recommend turning the pillars into models. That will drastically improve FPS from looking out at the battle arena. If you wish, I could do so myself and send it in. Thankfully, Ultimate Doom Builder has the ability to export map sections as models, making this process a lot easier to deal with.  Surprisingly, ANIMDEFS does work on models too, 

~~If you’d be willing to make models for 31 that’d be great. The main issue with the frame rate comes from pentagram overlaying the whole of the map. There are something like 30,000 sidedefs or something in the level.~~
 

Strikethrough that actually. @Peccatum Mihzamiz has already made models for the towers. The main frame rate issue has been with the ceiling detail, which we realized was gonna take a few hours to remove from the level to replace, so we never really got to that.  

It'd actually be very easy to do. I can import it into blender, delete the floor from the model, then export it again as just the ceiling. It'd only take me a few minutes, if you're talking about the giant pentagram. I'll even make the ceiling flat for you, since I can select all the ceiling parts and enter a number for ceiling height to apply to all of them.

Went to Hell and back cleaning this bad boy up. Soon as I'm done mopping up the rest of the extra vertexes, I'll upload the WAD that has only the pentagram. Then if the author wants to make final adjustments to the shape and send it back, I'll process it into a model.

Here it is.

map31penta.zip

It's not perfect so, again, I recommend the author make whatever adjustments they may want and send it back.