The latest in the Avatar series of DOOM2 DEATHMATCH COMPILATIONS!!
Check out Avatar1, now a nominee for best DOOM2 Dmatch level on DOOM GATE!
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Title : Avatar Collection #2
Author : Mackey McCandlish
Email Address :
[email protected]
Misc. Author Info : Author of the One Must Fall strategy
guide. Creator of DOOM MUST FALL (DOOM
total conversion patch), Diversions
playtester. Look for me in #DOOM in
IRC as _Avatar_.
Description : 5 great Deathmatch specific levels, each
well tested and including not only great
technique but great amounts of texture
alignment, too (and with the coming of
Avatar2, new floors and walls). Be aware,
however, that the Avatar2 levels are
more complex then the Avatar1s and are
not as immidiately appealing (a couple
are downright wacky).
Additional Credits to : The DEU team, DETH authors, and Brian Hess
for helping me test it. Additional
credits go to the #doom IRC gang and
the guys on a local game server I call
(Multiplayer BBS):
For Cavern: NoSkill, _Aryj, Ratbert, Genesisk
(GKpak), Stragenl (Danzig#), _BADCRC_, Bar0n,
and Slug.
For Visplane: Rick, sysop of ME BBS, for
mentioning an idea for a wad to me. I
started working on it and then went off
in a totally different direction.
For Hilltop: Jonathan Pribble.. for being
there when we were playing another one of
my pwads and I got the idea of just trying
to defend one area while the other guy tries
to break in.
For FotoReal: DBZ, Guyver, and Foolkiller
of ME BBS.
For FestHaus: The Danzig gang for getting me
hooked on cool small detailed wads like
Danzig19.
!!!!!RUN AVATAR2.BAT!!!!!
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* Play Information * AVATAR2.WAD
Episode and Level # : MAP08 - MAP12 so you can start on level
1 and play to map12 with the Avatar1
series (10 new dmatch levels plus 2
classics on map01 and 7).
Single Player : Yes, good for practicing, I suppose.
These are Deathmatch levels though!
Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes, but only if its 2 on 2 deathmatch
style cooperative. The starts are there.
New Sounds : Hehehe.. you'll hear that scream in your
DREAMS!
New Graphics : A sky texture here, level name graphic
there, new walls and floors, etc. And
maybe a couple indications of exactly
who the author is. If you're not getting
a stark black sky on map12, you may have
to just -warp 12 there (helps that level
considerably).
Demos Replaced : Not yet.
* Comments *
Quick rundown on the levels:
Cavern: A very detailed atmosphere based hunting
wad for DOOM2. Takes some exploring to
get used to, but the depth is there.
The main slant of hunting wads is recognizing
WHERE a sound is occuring and getting there
as quick as possible, not to mention ambushing.
Cavern is no exception.
Visplane: A surreal deathmatch level that takes DOOM's
linedef and visplane engine to the limit. One
more light change and this WAD would crash!
(Wondering why it was named VISPLANE? Cause that
little feature is what put me through hell
balancing them in the end).
Hilltop: My first 4 player deathmatch level. The object
in this one isn't just to kill the other guys,
but to try to KEEP the center room. Ideally the
way it would work is that in a 4 player game,
the 3 players that AREN'T inhabiting the fortress
would all try to storm it simultaneously, working
together if neccesary. Once the guy in the middle
dies though, it's every man for himself as
everyone rushes for the room. What do you get for
being in there? The FIRST Megasphere ever to be
put in one of my levels! Heck, with rocket coming
from every direction you'll need more than
Megaspheres to keep you alive in that room.
Because of the health, ammo, and nature of this
level I suggest playing in Altdeath (for once).
FotoReal: This one, like HillTop, is basically a four
player dmatch level (classified as such due to
its dmatch elements and size). I'd wanted to
do a teleporter network sorta level for a long
time but kept putting it off because I never had
that special trigger to start it. Well, I finally
got that trigger of sorts, threw together a whole
series of walls based on the sky from HillTop,
and even added a voc of myself yelling for 14.5
seconds for the death sound. All in all it's a
pretty hectic wad, and actually fun too.
FestHaus: This one is basically two player but could no
doubt serve as an _intelligent_ 4 player frag
fest. The inspiration for this one comes from
the beautiful Danzig19 and our own Map01. As
for the level itself, well, your usual rockin
dmatch sorta stuff. Enjoy!
Standard features of each level:
Nomonsters on skill 3
Regular monsters on skills 1 and 2
Cyberdemon (and sometimes an Archvile, too) on skill 5
An out-of-the-way exit, marked simply with an exit wall texture..
Oodles of texture alignment and some new textures
Prepackaged coolness, of course.
* Construction *
Base : Varied.. more time than Avatar1.. usually
around 1-2 days.
Build Time : About a month.
Editor(s) used : DETH and wad1to2.
Known Bugs : Maybe a river bug here and there..
!!!!!RUN AVATAR2.BAT!!!!!
* Copyright / Permissions *
You MAY distribute this WAD, provided you include this file, with
no modifications. You may distribute this file in any electronic
format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include this file
intact. If the file is to be added to a CD collection or any
collection of sorts, please e-mail me before hand at
[email protected]
