...the system of a down song?

yeah the discrete encounters are a bit RPG like

hahaha Baz! If you were getting amongst the tins then I hope you pulled up alright for work :)

yeah, the audio gets crunchy and robots. I checked my RAM and it actually passed all the tests I ran so I dunno. It's happening less often these days so I'm just going to ignore it for now :|

having the BFG is a massive advantage because it kills the marines good and the timer doesn't start until you leave the platform, so you can kill a couple from there. Yeah, run from it is extremely hard to uvmax, I've never even bothered to try...

All the Mancubus graphics are coded as 'FAT' as well lol

Doom's native resolution is 320x240 ;) so most people are playing Doom in a resolution (and aspect ratio) it wasn't designed for. But ok, I get what you're asking. Even though 1080p might be my monitor's native resolution I find the "crispiness" of lower resolutions to be nostalgic. It reminds me of playing Doom in DOS on a CRT back in the day. But, I don't actually play in 320x240, I tend to play in 854x400. So, still a widescreen aspect ratio and still more than twice as detailed as vanilla Doom. DSDA handles scaling to any other resolution very well btw.

@@BeefGeeTV also played on a 4:3 CRT and KB only when i was a kid but I gotta have a mouse, freelook and hardware rendering now like a blasphemer. But yea you have a very unique feel to your movement. Keep up the good work. To me the game itself is nostalgic, not necessarily the minor details in the rendering. Do you use the default bindings too or have you found a more efficient layout to play so good?

@@ShaolinFlunk Thanks! :) It's all default bindings except I use the 180 turn key a fair bit (which is a boom feature, not vanilla) and I have WASD mapped and use A and D to help me SR50.

He explains this very early at 1:10

haha thanks Vytaan :) yeah the short answer is to get the "intended" sky to work

oh yeah, I can see that. I just love the way it feels like we're in orbit around whatever planet/moon that is.

yeah, every time there's a particularly good midi it turns out it's not from some obscure old game, it's stewboy

Ahhh, map32 my beloved. I need to go have some coitus first.

@@BeefGeeTV 👀

Yeah, I've heard that mapping back then was a significantly more intensive process. We're all definitely spoiled by ultimate doom builder :)

Thanks! It's a dying art but I think it's a worthwhile bit of Doom's history to reflect on.

Because the renderer wasn't made for it either? No idea about the technicalities, though. Maybe Carmack either didn't consider it or he did but decided it was redundant. At least Marathon is proof that it can be done, with a small caveat.

2difficult4me ;)

so is it o before a or a before o? Because you've just spelled it differently to the map name. Also, when pluralising do you drop the h like in the map name? I'm pretty sure your spelling is correct: Pharaoh. Meaning the map name spelling is incorrect. It should be: "Pharaoh's Tomb".

At the end on the score card it's spelled Pharaoh, which is correct.

The monsters don't have to be particularly sneaky to do that lol

Yep, excellent execution of the idea.

Can't say I've noticed what the current ouch face behaviour is in dsda/prboom. To be the same as vanilla it should be extremely rare (only occurring when you gain 20ish health while taking damage). I don't think there's a way to change how it works in the settings but I think it is pretty rare so it is in line with vanilla.

@@BeefGeeTV i mean prboomplus has an. Option to have the ouch face appear in all comp levels as it should be but not in dsda doom:(

@@daviddeltoro1808 damn, yeah dsda doom is more focussed on speedrunning QoL and not casual play. I feel your pain in that regard, there are some other source ports I really like except for 1 or 2 little things. If you just want to play casually you could just go back to prboom. It will still work just as good as it always did.

Even when you know what's coming it's still pretty tense. That's how you know it's done really well.

I mean, let's just be honest, community made source ports like DSDA and even GZDoom are way better (in every way) than the unity port was or this new KEX port is. Not that the official ports are crap, they're fine enough in their own way, but I'll definitely just stick to using DSDA.

The cyberdemon fight? Just gotta be aggressive 😎

Haha, you always manage to pick up on my bs ;) I mean, I do beat that fight more often than not (even if only on a 51-49 percent split lol), especially when you include all the practice runs I did that aren't recorded. And yeah, cheers for noticing, I definitely wanted the first map where I die to be a surprise. From now on I'll probably just admit to it right off the bat.

@@BeefGeeTV Might have used the "brick joke" scheme and say you're consistent about the fight leaving it there without an elaboration and only in the final commentary near the end of the level return to it with explanation that the consistency was in dying ;)

@@demogorgonzola haha, yeah that's the problem, there isn't really any consistency either way. I beat it / die to it on a ratio of maybe 60:40.

@@BeefGeeTV Lol, just because I love these bs lmao

Thanks! Nah, I'm genuinely not mad to have died (13 times?) on this map. It's a tough one. Plus, there will PLENTY more deaths to come, so it had to start somewhere.

I may or may not have been casting about for excuses in my own rage/embarrassment lol

Well, that is the way Carmack intended Doom to be played...

Thanks! Will do ;)

Wow, that's extremely cool and relevant! Are you writing these yourself?

@@BeefGeeTV Glad you like it. Sometimes I quote stuff like lyrics or poems, often slightly "doomified", but this one is actually an original inspired by your remark about the Moon. :)

@@demogorgonzola Cool! Yeah, I really like the sudden, surprising journey it takes by starting with "us" thinking of the Sun and Moon like a "god" but finishing up by hinting "we" expect a "vibrant machine" to come. It makes me think of the journey of humanity.

I think this map is one of the last that's covered in poo. It's going to start being mostly soy sauce soon.

@@BeefGeeTV sad. 😔

Yes, that's actually accurate for this wad lol. Although, I think the REAL difficulty spike is at map24.

​@@BeefGeeTVI agree. I started playing doom wads this year and sunlust 24 was the first bullshit difficulty level imo, when I started savescumming and progress wasnt as smooth

There was certainly 5 minutes of poo at the end of this video...

haha I wondered if anyone would comment on that. I mean, I'm not out here trying to create a Stephen King level of mystery.

Sir, this is a Wendy's...

Oh cool, besides this map I'd highly recommend a wad called "Rush" and a map called "Hanging Gardens" by skillsaw.

@@BeefGeeTV thanks man! already checking out 🧐

Yeah, I didn't literally lol but I did find that very amusing. I had a go at making it the thumbnail but it didn't really work.

The waste episode is pretty cool, but I can't wait for the earth jungle. Easily my favourite episode.