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Advanced engine needed : MBF
Primary purpose : Single+Coop play
UPDATE TO: magspire.wad
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Title : The Magenta Spire
Filename : magspire.wad
Release date : Sept 22nd 2022
Author : Cole Bryden "thelamp"
Email Address : [redacted]
Other Files By Author : tectrift.wad
Misc. Author Info : no
Description : A high ranking UAC communications technician travels to a
far-remote research base to investigate mysterious untracable signals.
Upon entering orbit your craft experiences massive guidance system failures.
After narrowly avoiding disaster you land safely--but what could have caused
such sudden failure? You proceed into the facility to investigate
Additional Credits to :
Nicholas Monti, for being the first mapper whose name I remembered
HAK3180 and Francist218 for providing valuable criticism early on in the project
Dusty_Rhodes for being supportive
everyone involved with Evolution of the Wad, which got me so
curious about mapping I downloaded DB2
the community in general for being helpful in sharing info and resources
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* What is included *
New levels : 16
Sounds : No
Music : doom.wad, tnt.wad, icarus.wad, chex.wad, mm.wad, hr2.wad
Graphics : doom.wad, tnt.wad, plutonia.wad, OTEX_1.1.wad, icarus.wad,
retres.wad, chex.wad, NMNCorp2.wad, Alpha/Beta Doom assets, aatex.wad
more listed at bottom
Dehacked/BEX Patch : Yes, embedded
Demos : Yes
Other files required : No
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* Play Information *
Game : DOOM 2
Map # : Map01 - Map15, Map31
Single Player : Designed for
Cooperative 2-4 Player : Player starts and monsters
Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Player starts
Difficulty Settings: Yes, primarily balanced with item placement. Some levels have identical
monster placement on UV and HMP
Jumping and mouselook are not intended
Designed for infintely tall monsters, and automatic weapon switch to be enabled
this makes a difference in some spots, sometimes easier--sometimes harder
Playtested from pistol start, but continuous play is intended
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* Construction *
Base : New from scratch
Build Time : two years
Editor(s) used : Doom Builder 2, Doom Builder X, Slade 3, Whacked 4, Doom Writer, Notepad++, GIMP, EndEDIT
Known Bugs :
picking up a health potion or megasphere with >200 hp will roll it back to 200
sometimes the Dead Pain Elemental will resurrect back into a corpsepile rather than becoming a Pain Elemental
cast call is busted due to AV dehacked changes
lost souls and friendly marines on map01 will not always infight
massive sprites cause weird clipping, mostly noticable on map 11 and 15
May Not Run With : ports that don't support MBF
Tested With : DSDA 0.24.3, and Woof! 10.30, GZDoom 4.8.1, and PrBoom+ 2.5.1.5
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Map01 Hangar . . . . . . . . . . . Bobby Prince - The End of Doom (D_VICTOR)
Map02 Distress David Shaw - The Search (MAP02, icarus.wad)
Map03 Radio Silence . . . . . . . . Bobby Prince - Dark Halls (E1M3)
Map04 Egression Jeremy Doyle - Stomp (MAP11, icarus.wad)
Map05 Futility . . . . . . . . . . Bobby Prince - The Demons from Adrian's Pen (E2M2)
Map06 Patina Jeremy Doyle - Melting (MAP04, icarus.wad)
Text Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . Lee Jackson - Oww! (Rise of the Triad)
Map07 Beacon Bobby Prince - On the Hunt (E3M6)
? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L.A. Sieben - Into the Beast's Belly (MAP08, tnt.wad)
Map08 Impotent Rage Tom Mustaine - AimShootKill (MAP22, tnt.wad)
Map09 Arcology . . . . . . . . . . Jeremy Doyle - Ripsnort (MAP21, icarus.wad)
Map10 Derelict Tom Mustaine - Slow Evil II (MAP17, icarus.wad)
Map11 Effluvium . . . . . . . . . . Bobby Prince - Sweet Little Dead Bunny (D_BUNNY)
? Mark Klem - Dreadnaught (MAP02, mm.wad)
Soulsphere hp reduced to 80%
maximum hp overcharge increased to 400%
maximum armor overcharge increased to 400%
Spiked Knuckles
two A_Punch frames
faster
Shotgun (Winchester Yellowboy sprite by Batandy and That_One_Doom_Mod)
faster
Plasma Gun
damage increased to 1d8*6
projectiles drawn as shadow
Lost Soul
56 hp
Big Imp (Imp replacement, "Squire" sprite from Realm667 by Woolie Wool, Vader and Jekyll Grim Payne)
200 hp
speed 9
throws {multiples of} two fireballs (1d8*4) per volley
Flying Imp (Spectre Replacement, sprite edit by Maelstrom, recolour and gib animation by me)
48 hp
speed 10
{frequent} but short speed boosts
throws fireballs (1d8*4)
Hell Squire (Hell Knight replacement, ShallowB's sprite based on the Doom 1 cover monsters from 'Share your Sprites' thread on doomworld)
48 hp
throws baron fireballs (1d8*8)
Baron of Hell (sprite from The Rebirth)
1200 hp
bigger, lighter
Arch-Vile
1000 hp
will {sometimes} resurrect themselves
drops berserk when resurrected
Cyberdemon
2750 hp
pain state causes explosion (no bfg hugs for cybie)
Dead Pain Elemental (Commander Keen replacement, recoloured corpsepile sprite from doom alpha)
pain state spawns armor bonuses
spawns lost souls when killed
can be resurrected
Friendly Marine (SS replacement, sprite from Rowdy Rudy 2 by Doomkid)
150 hp
drops backpack
words marked with {curly} braces indicate use of A_RandomJump
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Textures
There are marker lumps within the wad that separate stuff used from the texture packs
listed at the top, this is a list of other stuff used from the community
(mostly Doomworld's "Post your textures" thread)
blue sky texture by gtsgreece
sky texture moon by Fredrik
skytex for map14 &15 by GeodesicDomeEnthusiast
splash midtex made by mattfright & gez
pause screen UAC tablet by Horselessheadsman
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