AUGER;ZENITH - MAP10: Photon Geyser (Blind Ultra-Violence 100%)

[@eduardodiaz9942]

Fun fact: The MIDI in this map is a version of the theme from Escape From New York. One of my fav John Carpenter movies.

[@teejay4574]

I came to say it sounds like Escape from New York.

[@bentilbury2002]

Ah! Thanks - I knew I'd heard it before.

[@fabio04081998]

Thats why it sounded very familiar!

[@TheNihalngopi]

I came here to say the exact same thing! Yes, it is from Escape from New York!

[@jaywindross6693]

I was waiting for him to get to this map because I knew it was this soundtrack! Classic!

[@frozenlake1215]

"Shoot the glass, Hans Gruber" is a reference to the comedy-musical Spartacus (1960) where Bobcat Goldthwait chases Greta Garbo thru the mean streets of Canada in pursuit of love, gold and bitcoin. Directed by Clint Eastwood.

[@xtreme1002003]

2:45 That’s a reference to the movie, “Die Hard”. The leader of a terrorist organization that has taken over a building notices that the main character is barefoot, so he instructs his subordinate to shoot the glass so that the main character will have to walk on broken glass.

[@Phytolizer]

The "shoot the glass" thing is a reference to the movie Die Hard. Its not a cyberpunk type movie but it fits the setting of a large building you're taking over

[@KevLoughrey1]

Now I have a plasma gun. Ho ho ho.

[@KernelLeak]

Today I learned decino hasn't seen one of the christmas movies ever... D:

[@decino]

I did, but only once and probably like 20 years ago.

[@Rath_9]

A classic still holds up today

[@kennethchia4194]

@@decino Watch it again! It is an all-time great.

[@christiansomers4188]

This map was trimmed down by the project lead, because it was considered too big for the 15min blind playtime target. Moyer released the full version of this map in a seperate wad: EXODUS.

[@ikagura]

Thanks

[@linmag01]

The Music is the Main title from the movie Escape from New York. Booth music and movie by John Carpenter. A must see.

[@JangianTV]

A less frequent but awesome surprise when our favourite Pumpkin uploads: or in this case, Geyser! 😃

[@lordbiscuitthetossable5352]

Interestingly, Chris Moyer who made this also made Exodus, where he expanded on this map and made another. Some pretty good ideas, though it always feels super large. I'm indifferent to this map in Auger Zenith. It is undeniably beautiful, but it never really wowed me. The exploration seemed slow, and the back allies didn't lead anywhere for me. Though I do love the feeling of verticality this map plays with, a penthouse shootout and the final arena spectacular. But in terms of combat, it's light and doesn't pack the impact. Its remake does ramp up the stakes significantly, having a much bigger end-shootout and some really noteworthy additions, but as it stood in this WAD, it felt like a map to relax to. I hope the map maker sticks at it, as they can craft some awe-inspiring locals and great ideas. In particular, the revision showed their growth as a mapper, which I found utterly delightful.

[@GlennCJames]

"shoot the glass" is from the movie "Die Hard". Hans Gruber is the character who says it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHWuapSBqpWCb6M

[@Blutwind]

Cyberpunk as a whole is a Dystopian genre. Sure there can be over the top cool things like folding out 3 rocket launchers from your arm in it but the overall setting is always bleak witz either mega coros or semi totalitarian goverments keeping the working class "mute" by forcing them in a consumerist hellscape. And it adds often more cautionary tales of transhumanism with cybernetics that are basicaly mandatory to compete but at the same time making people dependend and unable to exist outside the grid.

[@VTRcomics]

There's a very melancholic air to this map, like it's a mundane life to live in a city that should be filled with wonder.

[@Ironstarfish]

I'm not really a fan of this particular wad but its always a pleasure to get content from the channel!

[@engrpiman]

I just started this wad and I'm really enjoying it.

[@bazboo1284]

Pretty sure that Sobad has interviewed Chris about this map

[@sirrando]

Im really enjoying seeing you blast through this WAD. Looking forward to the following maps

[@dreadwanderer]

Very cool map name, I agree that the combat is a bit deflating though. From what I can tell, Chris really likes pyramids, as seen in DBP39 as well.

[@blob693]

10:02 line of codes having a fight

[@nikitapetrenko1236]

Escape from NY theme. Call me Snake

[@Joe-ye5mc]

After recently watching Big Mac Davis videos, this feels like a speedrun

[@ikagura]

He did this wad?

[@Joe-ye5mc]

No, I mean if you watch Decino after any BMD video its like a million miles and hour @@ikagura

[@mikeywest2007]

Yes BMD does like to take his time in maps......or is it just the 100% item thing

[@ikagura]

@@mikeywest2007 Different Modus Operandi for different folk ; one is more of a step by step walkthrough player whereas the other is more of a speedrunning/get to the point one.

[@therealxoc]

Hans Gruber (Die Hard) reference, but the MIDI is the theme from Escape From New York?

[@iguana9173]

Shoot the glass is a reference to die hard.

[@jrock718]

Nice run pumpkin man

[@FirithPanda]

I recognize that intro MIDI! That was MGS!

[@doublebassman123]

No it's from Escape From New York.

[@wackosimon]

The music sounds like it is from Escape from New York which was set in a depressing future.

[@the_fatshark]

This map gives me Duke Nukem 3D - Hollywood Holocaust vibes.

[@georgeheilman885]

Another wonderfully designed map. Can't wait to see how the next one goes.

[@Olek54321]

11:55 in Plutonia there would be 10 chaingunners haha

[@motyd]

Getting real Duke Nukem 3D vibe from this

[@LaRusso]

Escape From New York midi ahh that's awesome I love that movie

[@meepy_manz]

YOU DID IT!

[@meepy_manz]

I commented on a previous video to do auger zenith btw

[@adamschaeffer3614]

Pyramids remind me of the Tyrell Corporation HQ in Blade Runner

[@JustinKelley94]

“Schieße den Fenster!”

[@MrEW1985]

Some of the graphics look like Star Wars Dark Forces. Maybe they were even borrowed

[@AmauriJean-w5o]

Another good video!

[@riba2233]

OMG slaughter!! 😱😱

[@Nob1ej0n]

Mmmm, I dig this one. Really enjoying the slower pace of combat. It does feel a little out of place with the rest of the wad so far, but the relentless pressure of some wads just gets to be too much sometimes. It's nice to mix it up.

[@Longdistancerunner86]

Legendary soundtrack!

[@DEdens1525]

Very generous with the ammo, but fun.

[@plasmaxer]

Hans says it in Die Hard.

[@NightSprinter]

Cyberpunk as a whole is dystopian. I haven't seen anything the genre that waa utopian.

[@Chozo_Ghost]

When I finished this map, I noticed I had 4 Cacos that were still floating about in their monster closet. Is there something you have to use or some linedef you have to cross to make them spawn? At first I thought maybe their spawn was busted, but they seemed to spawn in this video just fine. I just can't tell at what point they spawned in lol

[@decino]

Best is to take a look in Ultimate Doom Builder.

[@Chozo_Ghost]

@@decino Yeah I did that to see if I could figure out what the issue is. Looks like it might be busted teleporters since I see where they are supposed to teleport to. Thinking maybe it's the version of GZDoom I'm using (the most current build, 4.12.2), but that's just me guessing at that point lmao

[@podfuk]

One o my favs in this wad, so well done and lots of fun, just a great level overall 👍

[@bdschannel4733]

What a beautiful map! Very nice! But you didn't get all the items.

[@ikagura]

I love the name of this map.

[@KernelLeak]

Photon geyser - so in other words, a lamp?

[@nathanfritz2953]

you should do a colourful hell runthrough

[@jaspal666]

MIDI sounds kinda like a John Carpenter song… maybe Escape From New York? Edit: it is.

[@blai5e730]

Die Hard reference

[@Petrovich-sh7pi]

You know, your voice kinda sounds like the voice of ManlyBadassHere. I just realized that.

[@XzMondayNightzX]

What is this? A map that's over 20 minutes long? No restarts? All secrets found without spending 50% of the time looking? Less than 500 baddies? That is what I would call a plot twist of map design. "I heard a demon though... I don't like that." - Last 2 demons had it coming.

[@Cometkazi72]

Die hard cmon man

[@decino]

I've seen that movie once like 20 years ago.

[@Cometkazi72]

@@decino lol understandable, keep up the great content

[@robbooth8080]

Die hard

[@Glass_Desert]

I know it doesn't need to be said but Eviternity 2 is really great. Better than the first one by far.

[@lukebehrendsbro.]

Honestly, this map is fine. I did like the final area, but not much else around. Eh, I don't know I expected something wowed here. 🤔

[@900nutboys]

AKA the signature move of Necrozma

[@RoboRed68315]

That opening area gave me some serious Duke 3D vibes. Groovy MIDI for this level.

[@seanmcbay]

Same. Very Build.

[@TheRuinsfate]

Cyberpunk as a genre can be very high energy and very oppressive and dystopian. Often both at once! Shadowrun, the cyberpunk (and magic) tabletop RPG, refers to these two modes as 'pink mohawk' and 'grey trenchcoat'. The latter is your traditional movie / novel cyberpunk; dark, gritty, rainy, people suffer, the boot of the corporation on your neck, secrets in the dark just waiting to be found and earn you a quick death, your body dumped in an alley. Pink Mohawk however is peak 80's / 90's anime energy. Neon lights, big fancy chrome cyber-arms that let you punch a dude through the next three walls while you fire your laser shotgun at his friends before that cyborg tiger with the rocket launcher on the back kills you, then you get away in your jet-engine-ed Lamborghini. It's a matter of taste exactly which you prefer, but they are both very much part of the genre. :)

[@wallabra]

I would argue they're not mutually exclusive. In fact, the show-offery of big flashy neons and alluring advertisements are often the number one stereotypical cyberpunk "veneer of prosperity".

[@TheRuinsfate]

@@wallabraThat's why I said 'Often both at once'. It's quite common for grey trenchcoat to be the backdrop and overarching theme behind a pink mohawk adventure / tv show / anime / whatever. :)

[@matthewgagnon9426]

The neon and chrome punks are either the absolute pinnacle of their career whom you absolutely do not want to fuck with if you value your lives, or the absolute bottom of the barrel "going to die in the next five minutes" trash. There's no inbetween, and that rules.

[@Brentastrophe]

Shoutout to the city mappers understanding you can't litter doom maps with hit scanners in cities. The imps/cacos are ever present but tolerable in large spaces even if they're acting like turrets

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Pretty much. The closest to hitscanners you can have in that regard is a projectile glass cannon like the Former Corporal from Eviternity II - firing slow bursts of small fast projectiles, as long as those projectiles have impact sounds.

[@Whatever.168]

You said “Shoot the glass” perfectly btw. I was listening to you but doing something else and I genuinely thought you made a reference to Die Hard 😂

[@technoman9000]

So you're saying Alan Rickman's German accent is so awful he sounds Dutch?

[@jerome_dangelo]

9:35 This map shoulf have just been called Nakatomi Plaza. There was a famous scene in Die Hard where Bruce Willis was crawling through ventilation ducts.

[@demogorgonzola]

- Having a depressing mood in a cyberpunk setting is a given - overwhelming monolithic structures, aggressive neon lighting and the failure of high tech to bring happiness was all in Gibson's stories, that's where the "punk" part of the name comes from - Heh, that's a "Die Hard " quote with the glass... bonus bilingual trivia - in Poland the movie title was translated as "Szklana pułapka", literally "a glass trap" in reference to the skyscraper it took place in. This of course fell apart when the sequels hit the screen, taking place in airport and cioty streets respectively. Even more totally unsolicited trivia, there was a series of spoof movies with Lesie Nielsen and one of them was a play on that movie - "Spy Hard" which got Polish title "Szklanką po łapkach" - it literally means "hit with a glass on the hands" which might be a little incongruous on its own but it's a brilliant phonetic twist of the Polish version of og title. - And at the end, an obligatory catJAM for the Carpenter music :)

[@adinocc2042]

LOL! Cool!

[@kabom9263]

4:28 the big empty room is 100% a reference to TNT

[@Snakebite97]

I was picking some Tom Hall mapping vibes, actually, lmao

[@misterpopo3736]

"schieß dem fenster" alan rickman trying to speak german the wad will get more challenging soon

[@OtherWorldExplorers]

The final buildings look Mayan. But they're actually an homage to blade runner. Can't remember the corporation that owned the replicants but that's what their buildings look like

[@bockstah]

Its the Tyrell Corporation!

[@crystalgoddess4085]

So this map shares it's name with a Pokémon move, as Photon Geyser is the signature move of the Legendary Pokémon, Necrozma, the move can be upgraded into the Z-Move, Light that Burns the Sky (or it's far better name in Japanese versions, Heaven-Scorching Light of Destruction).

[@vojtechvanek1686]

It's not Christmas until Hans Gruber falls down the Nakatomi Plaza

[@KernelLeak]

Mr. Weebl made an advent calendar video titled "Hans Gruber Drop" on exactly that topic in 2021... :D

[@nathanhunt6347]

hey thats the name of a pokemon move

[@okra_]

during my first playthrough (using woof) those ziggurats kept triggering the all ghosts bug for some reason, to the point that I had to switch to prboom+ in order to actually finish the map (and had no issues, despite using the same complevel in both)

[@decino]

PrBoom+ emulates the bug optionally. It's off by default.

[@1Bottleneck]

Great midi and esthetics! Love it.

[@Ben_of_Langley]

Tuesday morning got my tea got two decino video's to watch the day starts well took a break from this wad as I'm playing eviternity 2 also I now have NERF downloaded and on the new wads to play folder so I think I'll start that once I've finished eviternity 2 and then this wad as I already started it but yeah visually this wad is really amazing definitely agree about the music though personally i don't mind either way however sometimes you just get that one map with a absolute banging tune and it just fits perfectly so yeah anyway I hope all is well and good with you decino and as always Cheers for the upload

[@markthomas1668]

'a piece of brain'

[@Doom2isthebestW55]

Are you gonna continue the 10x10 project soon?

[@decino]

Tomorrow!

[@Doom2isthebestW55]

@@decino Heck yeah!

[@misterpopo3736]

cant wait for map 7@@decino

[@TheRedneckPreppy]

Am I the only one that got _hard_ Duke 3D vibes from this map? _Edit: I wrote that before I saw the Duke "exit" switch_

[@RussianSevereWeatherVideos]

This level gave me such a Duke architecture (not gameplay) vibe. Lovely use of DN3D textures

[@NitramGTi]

Was going to comment about the pronunciation of the word “geyser” (just to be helpful!) but then looked it up and found out Americans say it differently to Brits.

[@Qoko88]

Three minutes in but I'll have to respond to 2:41: pretty much the role that made Alan Rickman established as mainstream actor, though most of Gen-Z/Alpha (and I guess a good portion of Millennials too?) will know him as Snape. Map and playthrough looks awesome but I just had to pitch in 😂

[@johnszabo6564]

Omg the escape from New York soundtrack was absolutely amazing

[@MrGoatYouTube]

I just realized the title screen's theme is from policenauts, instant 10/10, thank you pumpkin man

[@bendy1427]

This level was my first “all ghosts effect” love the content!

[@rogermucroy750]

Melancholy is the word I think you are looking for.

[@kurtrussell3468]

the midi is escape from newyork, And call me snake

[@msiraco]

Reminds me of e1m1 for Duke 3d

[@namefamily2748]

Play ULTRAKILL

[@UniversalUT]

i love watching blind run alot especially if the video is from You! ❤

[@GeorgeI909]

is there a tutorial for dsda doom downlod

[@decino]

You click the link in the description.

[@xcoder1122]

I don't think the final fight was supposed to be hard but rather supposed to be BFG fun, you know, run around, BFG everything and if you mess up and are close to dying, just retreat; and that's what the blocking linedef was for, to give you some safe space, just in case.

[@TheBrassDancer]

Shoot the glass - Hans Gruber relates to Die Hard. And I'm the complete opposite of a film buff. I feel you, pumpkin man. Most film/TV references fly right over my head.

[@paillave]

I love the music so much (escape from LA, author of music & director of the movie: John Carpenter)

[@theoldschooldude5059]

Even though this map's combat is on the easier side, I still think it was pretty good. Also thank God you didn't use hitscan weapons during the final fight 😂

[@decino]

Would not have mattered, I used the BFG which has ray casting tracers. Also the auto aim casts a ray that can cause intercept overflows.

[@theoldschooldude5059]

@@decino lol, I don't think BFG ever caused any problems during the final fight for me, but hitscan weapons caused all-ghosts bug every time 😢

[@decino]

BFG tracers are shorter, smaller chance of triggering the bug.

[@theoldschooldude5059]

@@decino didn't know that lol 😨

[@ar_xiv]

Surprised there isn’t more John Carpenter MIDI being used

[@anemoneanomalia1221]

this comment is dedicated to pumpkin proliferation

[@devoidelk7928]

Love how the computer had a blue screen of death

[@belikovdimitri2251]

Yay decino is alive and good news i will be getting a new pc to play my old doom wads in march and auger zenith is one of them!!!!!

[@adinocc2042]

I think you're right about the MIDI. This kind of world leans heavily on (among others) cyberpunk worlds like Blade Runner. It's slower paced, Jazzy Synth soundtrack is a perfect fit. Same should apply here.

[@doublebassman123]

It's the main theme from Escape From New York.

[@southpakrules]

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[@dominikdalek]

Gesus on a pogo stick, he doesn't even recognize a Die Hard reference.

[@decino]

I haven't watched that movie since I was a kid.

[@A_WoW_Player]

Hi decino, try EVITERNITY II next! It has a bit tougher fights.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Everything about the midi and the aesthetic detailing has been said already. All I can say is this was average for the wad but fairly fun. The Escape from NY theme for music sets an interesting serious low-key tone, despite the map itself being somewhat goofy. Also something funky happens in GZDoom: four Cacos remain stuck in their monster closets, unable to teleport in to the pyramid area.

[@mathematicssuckmyd]

Melancholic. More like this. Like this freedom isn't free or something. Thank for upload!

[@OhShitSeriously]

I've played this map more times than I can count. Thanks for giving me a chance to remember some of what it was like to play it for the first time. 👍 (edit: Idk if it's the engine or mods I use, or that my version of the WAD is from 2021 - but I don't recall ever seeing that linedef in the final fight be blocking, and you're absolutely right it should not be. The fight really isn't the same this way...)