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To this day i'm still salty about this And now they're doing it again >:( Hopefully we'll get something more public soon

He wasn't modelled after Batman, he's modelled after "The Question" and more specifically, "Mr A", both Steve Ditko's characters who was really into a philosophy called objectivism. Rorshack's is written as an extreme version of a Ditko's character and dials his objectivist views to the 11, to the point of coming as extremely hateful and selfish and even being abusive to the people that are considered his "friends". He's not willing to compromise or soften his attitude because his views and beliefs come first above everything else no matter what, even if it means losing his friends or letting millions die in a nuclear apocalypse. I do agree that Rorshack's is a very misunderstood character, he's holds some really twisted extreme views, but that's often misunderstood, specially after the movie which portrays him in a more positive way, which is not suprising considering the director often is accused of inserting objectivist views on his films.

My father VHS. He used to own a video rental store in the 90's and 2000's and the family house is still filled with walls of VHS and DVD movies from those days. He also loved to record stuff from the TV into vhs tapes, so he would maintain and repair the player whenever it needed it, and it still works just fine despite all the heavy use he gave it. Got lots of old devices (such as old consoles, crt tv's, and even a pole position arcade machine stored somewhere), but this one comes to mind since it's still hooked up to a TV, with the proper HD adapters

Thank you for sharing your music, hope everything is okay, and i hope we see you soon return to Doom to share your amazing work

I do miss the atmosphere of the old doom games where it was about a lone space marine trying to survive against hell unleashed. Classic doom games did had a bit of horror in them and while today those bits might not have aged as well, they're still there (tho it also had a lot of silly stuff too :P). Doom 3 does the whole horror stuff the best, it has the same premise of the first game, but runs with it more seriously and has a terrific atmosphere. Doom 3 might have a lot of flaws in it's combat and level design, but the setting and atmosphere is the best in the series in my opinion. I think doom 2016 was fine in terms of story and atmosphere, and i guess it makes sense that after years of battling the demons the old doom guy would turn up into a legendary demon killer, but i think doom eternal is too many notches too far for me, and by that point the old horror atmosphere is completely gone. At some point you return to hell again in a later part of the game, but it has no impact at all, it's just another location for the slayer to go on. Doom eternal story goes too far imo, and the entire DLC story devolves into just pure nonsense to me. DE gameplay is incredibly fun and i still have a blast playing it from time to time, but i do miss when the doom games weren't about being a power fantasy, and a instead were pulpy action horror games.

Oh wow that's it, you got it!!. No wonder why i couldn't find anything about it since it's unrelated to anything Alien related (wonder how it got identified as such for a long time), interestingly after looking up the music, it seems there are many variants of that music ingame. Amazing, thank you for identifying the source!

No, that's not me lmao Seems i'm not the first one to get curious about that midi, that places it many years before i thought tho

I'm familiar with the music of the snes/mega drive alien games. It's not from there sadly

Not really. Doom 64 textures are very few and with little variety. They're also very small and look a bit bland to be honest, but this is because they're designed to be mirrored and to be used with the colored sector lighting to make them standout. The colored sector lights pull more weight for the look and feel of a map rather than the textures themselves.

Gonna try again... Here's this midi i once found in the mid 00's on a site where it was listed as a midi from the Alien movies (it's not), later i found it had been used on an old wad from 2002 called SlayeR.wad as the intermission music. I'm curious if anyone knows anything about this midi since i have no idea if it's based on a movie, game or if it's an original midi Alien.zip

Some dev commentary about 27 from my perspective Cronologically, this was my second contribution to eviternity 2 and it's a collaboration. The start of this collab basically sums up to Dragonfly asking if anyone was open for a collaboration to stay motivated to map during a time where not much was being worked on. Two maps were made as a result, Map22 which was a collab with Bauul, and this map. Both maps were started the same day. At the start we didn't had concrete plans on how the map would play or how progression would work. Dragonfly made the start with the fight you see on the final map to set the tone for the rest of the map, and once i picked up the map my first instinct was for reusing this area for a further fight, so in order to make the player revisit it, i added both keys on the corners of the circles (this idea ended up being unused, but it's the reason why the keys lower the way the do) which ended up helping figuring out how progression would work. From then on we both worked on the map by working on an area and then passing it on back and forth A month or so after the map started, i bailed out from the map and from everything doom related due to dealing with some hard blows in my personal life. This lasted for a few months and after some time passed i picked up the map again to try to get back into doom and mapping again, but it was a slow process and my contributions started to take longer to make. Still development was back on track, and we started to pass the map back and forth for a few more rounds, until both areas at the sides were complete and the exit was ready to be placed. I decided to do one last final arena. My first idea was to have various types of cacos emerging from the ground, but this worked poorly in dsda doom due to infinite heights, so i scaled that idea back and reworked the area into the arena you see on the final map, which involves timed waves of monsters teleporting in with some supplies available at the expense of reducing cover. Once the map was done Dragonfly did some small changes to the fight and then added a teleport to return outside of the final arena... Which was weird since there was already a way to get back outside of the arena. Instead of deleting the teleport, we decided to add one last secret fight after the final fight. A happy little accident As for the gameplay of this map, it is a more setpiece focused map. While progression is non linear, each path is very straightforward and there's less focus on exploration in terms of progression. This was not always the intention and i don't think we both realized this until both key areas were completed, but in hindsight having a map like this come after 26 which is more experimental in terms of gameplay and progression seems to be a good call since it works well in grounding the player back into a more regular type of map and also as a breather after a long experience. Don't have much comments about the midi other than it is a killer track by Jimmy, it's not a bespoken midi, but it fits the map really well and it's an amazing track overall. For a long time while testing we used to idmus to map29 music also which fitted the map visuals really well, but a few weeks after the map was complete Jimmy's midi was picked for the map. Finally about the necromenace at the end... It is a post release change (I think it was added on RC3?). I cannot say much about it since it was added by Dragonfly, but after seeing the intial reactions for how most players tackle this map it seemed to me that this map needed an extra bite at the end (specially for players who found the secret BFG or were playing continous with a perforator) and a necromenace works well there (at that stage the player has plenty of room to move around). The fight is very doable with plasma only, and we added extra supplies to take it into account, also it's UV only. I like it In the end it's a very good map, i think my contributions are a bit minor, since the more memorable areas on this map were made by dragonfly, but you can still tell i worked on some areas, most notably the end arena. I don't have much dev material to share, but just for fun here's more or less my main contributions to the map. It's not accurate, since Dragonfly added a lot of things to the areas i worked on, but guess it's fun to see

Another map of mine is next soon so i'll leave more dev comment about it... Map23 - Thaw whaT As i mentioned before when i joined the team i was offered the chance to pick multiple slots, the first one was for the meso episode, and the 2nd one was for the ice tech episode. Right after completing map07, i moved to work on stuff for other projects and as time went on the claim changed from a "claimed" to a "maybe claimed". Long story short, I ended up giving up this slot and it ended up being claimed by another mapper who unfortunately couldn't contribute to the project due to the approaching deadline (iirc this was during the last 6 months of development). Since the slot was free again, I asked if i could work on it again, and as a result Thaw exists. Unlike 07 there were more maps to reference for the episode. I had a start for how the beginning since 22 was already complete (24 was still far away from completion, but antares left a wip for the entrance to reference for the end of this map), once i started to draw the map i simply added more areas and expanded more rooms as i went along, focusing a bit more on the outside areas. For this map i wanted to make a more "traditional" base map with the layout twisting and turning around, but at the same time that was easy to navigate both for players and monsters, which encourages incidental combat. In order to do that, i applied one trick i do in a lot of my other maps, which is by "building areas in circles". Basically this means building areas towards one direction and along the way twisting that direction back to the start again, and then overlapping those circles with other circles outside and also building areas or mini circles inside of them. This is a great way to makes the map feel more interconnected and at some point i even had arrows drawn where i wanted the circles to lead to (you can tell that i built the map this way by looking at area where the yellow key is located, if you enter the building from any side and just move forward, you'll end up on the same area you started). The original plan was to name the map "Heat" and make it based around heating the base and melting ice to unlock progression, as i went along the way i did tried to implement the gimmick into regular progression, but i couldn't figure how to implement it in a way that wasn't obstructing the incidental combat, so it ended up being relegated to a few setpieces and at that point i realized such name wouldn't work at all, so i ended up naming it "Thaw" when the map was mostly complete. (Funny enough i've seen that the ice melting gimmick goes unnoticed a lot lol) As for gameplay, as i mentioned right from the start i built the layout around the idea of making it easy to navigate for both players and monsters, the result of this is that the gameplay for this map is based around incidental combat and players are free to approach it however they want. This also extends also to a few setpieces, the area where the "thawing" mechanics are introduced looks like a lockout fight... but it's not, you can get out if you want by pressing the switches quickly, or even cheese it by returning to the start (tho that wouldn't be fun heh), melting the ice for the blue key releases a horde of corporals, viles and flying monsters into the map, and you're free to approach it however you want. The only exception to this is the red key fight, which is based around melting the ice and revealing monsters. It can be defused easily by moving around prioritizing the nightmare demons to keep the space around. Finally the music... Usually when building the map i try to have a music track set for inspiration, but the map music was claimed by Tristan and he was busy either working on 26 or other music at the time. The stock doom 2 music for the map23 slot is this track, and while i don't dislike the track, i absolutely HATED testing the map and hearing those opening notes. It didn't took long until i had enough and i replaced the music with a silent midi and it stayed that way until the last few days of development. Tristan asked all of us for instructions and references for the music on the map slots he had claimed. The main reference i gave was "Dark Groove" from Jazz Jackrabbit 2 along with some really confusing instructions (sorry about that!). Time passed and it wasn't until the last weeks of development when Tristan showed us the track he wrote and it was a banger. I have said this multiple times, but this might be my favorite Eviternity 2 midi. During those last days of development Tristan just kept coming with banger after banger up until the final hours before release Since this map leans really hard into the incidental combat part with a lot of pressure from revs and hitscans all around to encourage players to keep moving, many people will not enjoy it, and it might wear out the patience of some players (which i've seen occur for some pople). Also this map is sandwiched between 2 really amazing maps (right between "Inclement" or "Parallel" which are both great maps and the amazing "Temeraire" which has one of the most memorable moments i've ever seen in Doom) so it is overshadowed. I'm really proud of this map tho, probably my favorite of all my contributions for Eviternity 2 Sorry for the long post, i thought i didn't had much to say about this map, but guess that wasn't the case heh

My first map, made sometime around 2003 i think. I literally just discovered this page here in doomworld, downloaded all of the editors i could, and after trying them out, the only map editor i could get to run was DeepSea (nearly every editor was DOS and i had no idea how to run them). I started by making simple edits on the IWAD maps and later on other people maps with deepsea. Eventually i dared to make an original map on my own based on a specific spaceship. I had no idea of what i was doing, i didn't understood the concept of sectors and lines at all, so i just used the square tool and placed a few squares in the map because i didn't knew you have to draw shapes to make sectors, and i deleted some lines when i wanted to join stuff. The end result is a map that barely works. Oh and this was made directly on doom2.wad, since i didn't knew how to make a map on a separate wad. To top things i had a few custom graphics so uhh... enjoy Few screens

Nova 3 had a long development cycle, and during that time many of those mappers did contributions to other projects or released more stuff on their own while their Nova submissions remained unreleased for a long time. For the record, when i joined and submitted my Nova 3 map, my only released map was this one (looking back seems that even that map was released after my nova 3 submission was made) and had a few contributions in progress for other community projects.

The fact that the 32 slots filled up in less than an hour kinda shows that theres quite a lot of interest :P (maybe enough to open another episode?) Anyway, im glad to see a new Nova up and running for newcomers to show up!