Context

So… yeah gonna start this one off with a content warning. While mostly this will pertain to the Recent map released by John Romero, it was released within the context of the currently unfolding situation in Ukraine.

I just like playing doom, and the history of these games, their development, and their developers. We are going to keep this light and mostly focus on the map itself, but do know that this may get heavy at times

One Humanity

John Romero, best known for having the best hair in the industry and also once threatening to make gamers his bitch, has just released a Doom level. The now 54 year old game dev started out in the industry as a founding member of ID software, and together with Tom Hall, Adrian Carmack and the Far future AI weaning Human skinsuit known as John Carmack, they made Wolfenstein and, today’s topic, DOOM. Recently, John Romero has released a new map for DOOM 2, titled “one humanity” as part of a fundraiser for the Red cross and the UN Central Emergency Response to help the people of Ukraine

Now this is Romeros’ first *doom 2* map since 1994, however this is not his first doom map. Back in 2016, Romero released remakes of doom 1’s maps E1M4 and E1M8, which were the only maps in Doom Episode 1 not designed by Romero originally. Later on, Romero would release SIGIL, the “official Unofficial 5th episode” in 2019, either for free with a midi soundtrack by James “Jimmy” Paddock, or a Second non-midi soundtrack by Buckethead that cost €6.66. So its not like this is Romeros’ first map in 38 years… but it is the first one for Doom 2, meaning we have all of the new Doom 2 stuff that that entails.

The gameplay

This Map replaces MAP01: entryway from the original doom 2 (although it replaces nothing else so upon completion you are sent to the original MAP02: Underhalls). The Map also requires you to have an original copy of DOOM2.wad and a modern source port (I used GZDoom because I am a fake gamer, the real gamers probably use Chocolate doom or Crispy doom IDK).

This map takes *heavily* from SIGIL, by the way… which is to say it is aggressively cruel and tough and it will kick your ass. I stopped playing to write this article and I made it a *decent* way through on Ultra Violence but to be clear, we are talking “locks the player in a room with an archvile with nearly no-where to hide” cruel. We are talking “spawns 2 Cyber demons who will bombard the player for the rest of the level” cruel. But even then its so good and its so tightly designed.

There are a couple of things I want to note for those planning on playing this Level

1. 1. It uses SIGILs Mechanic of shootable switches. There are these red and green eye-like sprites that are from vanilla doom that, when shot in this map, will open, close, raise of lower floors
   2. The water at the bottom of the pit doesnt hurt you. Jump off the starting platform immediately, there is a rocket launcher down there that will be hard to grab later as that area is filled by 2 cyberdemons who you dont really have the space to fight
   3. There is a hidden BFG. it’s a secret within a secret, so if you find any of those, wall hump.

The future

As of right now, Romero is working on a sequel to SIGIL, which will be a “megawad” to completely replace DOOM 2’s maps. As of right now we don’t have a release date, although if we take “one humanity” as a teaser for the map pack, then we may see it  before too long.

As for modern id software themselves, they have been hiring recently, suggesting there may be plans for a new game. Now, personally I don’t expect to see a new entry in the doom series for a while, but I would not be opposed to a new Quake game in the universe of QUAKE 1 rather than its sequel.

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It feels kind of redundant to say that cyberpunk 2077 did not launch in the best place. We know that it was rushed, the ambition of the studio was too high and the developers where put under crunch to get the game done. That said, the base game as it exists now is actually worth getting, and while it maybe isn’t what was promised, it is getting there.  And if its something that CDPR havent fixed themselves yet, then modding has you covered

Case and point, Modder KeanuWheeze has recently released a mod that implements and entire transit system into the game. There was a metro in the game, but it was purely aesthetic and couldn’t be ridden. The Mod features 19 unique metro Stations where players can wait for the trains to arrive, and then Ride them around night city.

Once a train arrives, You can sit inside the train and move around at your own rate. You can also now switch between first and third person perspective to get a better look at night city. The biggest downside however is that the mod isn’t actually an automated feature. It wont move around the city by itself, instead spawning a train when you enter the station, and then despawn it once the player is finished using it.

Testing metro system mod from cyberpunkgame

The other thing to note is that players will “Jump” when entering the station, entering the train, and also exiting each location. If Immersion is a big thing for you this will probably be a deal breaker but if it isnt then this is a great mod to try out.

While this mod is excellent, it is possible that CDPR will re-visit the metro in a patch down the line, adding their own version of these mechanics. But for now, KeanuWheeze has provided a great alternative for PC players.

You can pick up CDPRs critically acclaimed the witcher 3 for Ps4 from go2games.com

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Recently, the Modding team Known as SoMNst Released a 37 minute video showing the latest update to their “No VR” mod, an add-on to the critically acclaimed 2020 entry in the legendary “Half-Life”. The mod aims to make the game playable without the need for a VR headset.

Half Life Alyx Released on the 23rd of march, 2020, 13 years after the franchise’s last instalment “Half-Life 2, Episode 2”, which notoriously ended with the shocking death of beloved side character and father of player companion Alyx, Eli Vance. “Half Life: Alyx” itself was a spin off, set before mute theoretical theorist Gordon Freeman was re-inserted into the world by the extra dimensional G-man at the start of Half life 2. The story Follows Alyx Vance as she works to establish a Resistance against The Combine, an interdimensional alien race summoned to earth during the resonance cascade event of the original 1997 Half-Life.

The Half-Life series has always aimed to be on the cutting edge of games technology. The original game, released in 1997, was a huge leap forward for narrative in video games, and especially in the first person shooter genre, with subtle world building and environmental storytelling at the forefront of the experience. Its sequel, released originally in 2004, was a technological marvel, introducing real time physics simulation to the world of gaming, as well as some truly phenomenal facial animations that still help the game look Spectacular today, almost 2 decades later. Alyx continued this trend, being one of the most deep and content rich games for VR to date, with the game dumping the predecessors action tone and instead relying much more on horror to guide the experience.

However this reliance on VR technology has left many unable to experience the game due to the costs of owning such a device. This is where the no VR mod comes in. The mods goal is to remove the need for a VR headset and motion controls. Within the 37 minutes of in-development footage released on September 25th, Mod developers SoMNst show off some of their solutions to make the game work from a more traditional first person perspective. 

For example, very early on in the game you are given a number of pens and an eraser, and while in VR you are able to write on the windows of protagonist Alyx’s hideout. The mod works around this functionality by snapping the pen to the point on the screen where a gun would be held in a normal FPS and then snapping it to the window on a left click. The Demo Footage illustrates this by using these pens to carefully draw an image of the series Protagonist Gordon Freeman. 

In another instance, A door that would normally require the act of the player physically grabbing it with their VR controller to open, has been replaced with a hand icon that responds to a left click, similar to games like “Amnesia” and “SOMA”. For a more in-depth look, you can watch the entire 37 Minute Video below.

The mod is still in development. No final release date has been stated by any of the developers and the development builds are not currently available to the public. However the footage does look very promising and with any luck it will not be long until you are able to play the game with a mouse and keyboard yourself. Half-Life: Alyx is available right now from Steam.

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Mods already officially exist for Fallout 4!

At Bethesda’s first ever E3 conference this year, Todd Howard announced the release of the next in the post-nuclear franchise, Fallout 4. In addition to this, he also mentioned that mods were being created for the PC version of the game. These will be made transferable to the Xbox One and, eventually, the PS4.

The popular PC mod creator, Zealotlee, has now announced that he’s working on mods for Fallout 4. Zealotlee (real name Peter) announced this on Bethesda’s forums, where he revealed that he’s working on a Rail Rifle for the RPG.

“The Rail Rifle will have multiple modifications available. Each modification will alter the gun’s performance in some way. So far you will be able to choose different barrels, muzzle breaks, stocks, and soon to be grips. Optics will be available as well.” the mod creator voiced.

Zealotlee is best known for his ACR mod in Fallout 3. Although, despite to contributions to Project Nevada in Fallout: New Vegas, the mod creator has been taking time out to play some of the games that he really enjoys.

However, since the the news of Fallout 4 and it’s transferability, he has said – “I stepped away from modding for a while, but Fallout 4 has pulled me back in.”

You can check out Zealotlee’s Rail Rifle below!

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GTA V

Everyone loves to mod, but this GTA V on the PC mod shows utter carmageddon. You have to see it to believe it!

Now there have been some pretty insane, hilarious, and utterly ridiculous modding videos getting about, but this one is just pure insanity. With just one press of a button, the seemingly harmless cars turn into missiles and aim directly at other vehicles and pedestrians, which sends them all rocketing! As you can see from the video, poor old Franklin receives a bit of a bashing, but he is only surviving this carocalypse due to the fact that god mode has been turned on. I highly doubt that you’d survive otherwise. The sky is literally raining cars!

You can watch the mayhem unfold on our ‘Exciting Game Trailers’ playlist on YouTube! A word to the wise though, there is language and violence!

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