Akagi666

I beat the first episode and the first map of the second on UV Single Segment. I didn't think much of it. The hitscan arachnotrons are annoying, the flame shooting enemies take too long to kill because the flames persist on the screen too long, the grey flying guys are good, the blood orb exploding guys are fine I guess but don't add much, the plasma marine is fine-ish. A lot of the levels have way too many secrets. Idk it's fine, much, much worse than something like Going Down, Scythe 2, Ancient Aliens and other top tier community wads. Didn't really feel worthy of being an iwad imo.

Will do, I need to look up how to do it. This is the first demo I've submitted, although I've recorded a lot. Most I just upload to youtube. Thanks, I think I got it now.

Map 19 UV-Max in 1:43 pckslgt-v2.wad psl19m143.zip

Scythe 2 Map 23 and 29, poison ivy II from SoD, Ticket to Eternity and Fire and Ice a long time ago. Ended up beating all these, but they were all memorable struggles.

Is that why you made an account to post?

As someone who has been on internet forums for 23 years now, internet discussion has always been blighted by unfunny, socially awkward people DESPERATELY trying to be funny. It's super cringe and obnoxious imo. It just seems like they desperately need people to like them and are more interested in drawing attention to themselves than discussing the topic. These people don't care about Doom, they are just using it as a vehicle to find people to validate them. It's not something you can fix though, the people who are legitimately interested in discussing stuff in depth will always be a minority.

I would say that Going Down IS slaughter because of monster density. There are tons of monsters for how small and cramped the areas are and you are almost constantly in danger. I found Going Down really difficult at first because its combat style was different than other stuff I'd played, but by map 15 or so I had gotten used to it and it felt much easier than something like SoD which I finished first. Nothing in GD is nearly as hard as Poison Ivy II or some of the other Joshy maps towards the end. Going Down is hard but it's also really good at teaching you how to play Going Down, if that makes sense.

It didn't ruin the megawad but map 23 and 31 of Ancient Aliens are of lesser quality than the rest imo. Same thing with these: Run From It in Scythe. Misri Halek in Alien Vendetta.

I don't like it. It emphasizes the mazey exploration parts of Doom and has dull combat, so it isn't to my taste. It also doesn't have the chaingunner, revenant and archvile which are some of the best monsters. So yeah, in my opinion it sucks ass.

I'd put it below Valiant/Ancient Aliens but above Speed of Doom and Scythe 2. I beat all those saveless on UV. Note that I did not finish Hell Revealed or Alien Vendetta on UV but that's because of not enjoying those WADs not the difficulty.

This was intended to mean play them on UV, pistol start, saveless.

I've never seen or played any thing from the 90s that I thought was good other than Plutonia. You can have a different opinion, but that's my experience. IMO the first actually good megawad that you don't need to make excuses for, excluding Plutonia, is Scythe 2.

It legit sucks like most 90s wads.

Plutonia, if you haven't played it already. Plutonia 2, Going Down, Scythe, Speed of Doom, Ancient Aliens, Valiant. Scythe 2 is on the harder side though.

I have some bad news for you.

It crashes for me in 0.27.5.

Just to be clear, I'm not criticizing you in particular, it's been a pet peeve of mine for years. "Influencer" is indeed worse.

I will never understand why people insist on calling everything "content" nowadays. They're YouTube videos and he's a YouTuber. "Content" is needlessly vague and only serves to obfuscate what the person is actually making. People used to mock DSP for calling his videos "content" but now everyone does it. It's like people like him said it so much that everyone else adopted the term.

I watched one of his videos for the first time the other day and I thought it was hilarious in a laughing at him not with him way. It almost reaches the level of self parody with how over the top it is. There's no point in getting mad at garbage like this,it's just the normal "content mill" sort of slop people want nowadays.

I thought this was going to be a new book about the creation of Boom and all the great mappers who made WADs for it.

Speed and Odyssey of Noises are the first two that come to mind.

I started with Plutonia.

Plutonia, Plutonia 2, Speed of Doom, Scythe 2. Each of these felt like a significant stepping stone that pushed me to get better.

Not watching your clickbait video. Plutonia > Doom II > TnT > Doom

I played Dark Forces for the first time about a month ago. It is not very good and has nothing on doom imo. The enemy variety is much worse.