Infested - MAP03: The Tower (Blind Ultra-Violence 100%)

Level made and submitted by ginc.
Game: Doom II
PWAD: infested-v2.03.pk3
Difficulty: Ultra-Violence
Source port: GZDoom (default complevel)
Pistol start.
Blind (never played or seen the maps before).
All kills and secrets.
No saves.
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Link to WAD:
www.doomworld....
Link to source port:
www.zdoom.org/...
Widescreen status bars:
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Doom II Minor Sprite Fixing Project:
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Submissions overview:
www.decino.nl/...

[@gincwut]

Thank you for indulging us and playing my big boi map! I debated whether or not to submit this map (instead of others in the WAD) because of the length, but the love of Doomcute won out. I kind of went a little nuts with mapping during COVID times and learned a lot when making this, so I apologize for the length, but I'm pretty damn happy with the result. Good run too, this is a difficult one to UV-max single segment! Without spoiling anything, there are some stressful moments, and that last fight was butthole clenching for sure.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Speaking of the last fight, I saw what you did there 😏 Using the same music that plays in Roof Rage, in a fight that takes place on a roof, cannot be coincidence, yea?

[@AB0BA_69]

A WAD inspired by "Going Down" and with tons of detail and Doom cute??? BRB, downloading right now!!!!

[@decino]

Thanks for the submission! The quality of the map/WAD is superb to the point that it feels like it was built by a multi-million AAA team of level designers. The attention to detail is absolutely amazing and I loved it. Fantastic job!

[@gincwut]

@@DinnerForkTongue I can't remember if I picked it as a direct homage to Roof Rage, but its a great boss fight track. Cyriak is a mad genius.

[@marasmusine]

Really nice map! How did you get so many floors stacking, is it all 160 Sector Set 3D Floor with intricate sectors, or is there other trickery going on?

[@dominikdalek]

In terms of layout and details, this is one of the most impressive Doom maps I've seen in my life.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

The tower mockups on display were: ▫️The starting short tower in Eviternity map26 ▫️The demon tower you unchain and knock out of Heaven in the same map ▫️The Steeple of Knives, map17 from BTSX E2 ▫️The Tower in the Fountain of Sparks from BTSX E2, as seen in map26, Beneath a Festering Moon ▫️A big red glass(?) one I don't recognize [EDIT: that's Acheron's Needle, from Syringe]

[@gOd_s_serVant]

A big red glass tower is from Syringe (wad by Pavera, Xaser Acheron, Tarnsman and other guy) map 6 "Acheron's needle".

[@DinnerForkTongue]

@@gOd_s_serVant What a coincidence, I just downloaded Syringe yesterday. Nice.

[@MrTheMasterX]

I'm sad that one of the dioramas wasn't The Black Tower from Master Levels. Still such a cool addition nontheless.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

​@@MrTheMasterX How would the Black Tower even be represented, since we never see it from the outside?

[@XzMondayNightzX]

I already knew this map was going to be really good with just the intro room. It has that Duke Nukem Hotel Hell feeling but way more modern with a bit of Bloods Shopping of the dead. Really good map on Gincs part.

[@MrGarthboy]

Your pic reminds me of space ace an goku, here's intro black lamp st starts at 15 secs m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXzMhplmbL2dsLs&pp=ygUTYmxhY2sgbGFtcCBzdCBpbnRybw%3D%3D

[@DinnerForkTongue]

And then he hits us with no other track than Liquid Luck. And we knew it was gonna be great.

[@filip000]

Decino not reading the instructions when he picks up the weapon, explaining how primary/secondary fire works 😁 10mins later, Decino surprised as to how secondary fire works 😂 much love man! The rocket launcher has a secondary fire mode!

[@RoundWaveCrusher]

This is what Doom3 looked on my mind. Incredible job of the map maker. I'm playing this right now.

[@Zikar]

Since you mentioned it, in UDMF if you use static portals then the automap will automatically layer the floors on top of each other, basically hiding the whole "floors are actually spread out horizontally" thing. It does make reading a complicated map near impossible, though.

[@СергейМисюк-ж1к]

Mappers creates some complicated leves. I wonder why nobody did a level layout that would looks like a building plan on a map with linedefs as a various fields and sheet borders of a plan. So when you get a computer area map item you see the level of multi-story building just like on a blueprints. I saw something remotely resembling it in D2 ReLoaded as some-kind of Easter egg. Level geometry in inaccessible area was forming some symbols (can't recall exactly what it was, some letters).

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Eternity also does that. You get a really cool "blueprint" effect.

[@ThatRedHusky]

Easily one of the most innovative and well-put together maps I've seen.

[@victoriouswinner7745]

old realistic map design, it really tickles my brain

[@hilaireb795]

Doom is everlasting. I really love how there are very talented map makers, lets players(not sure if this is the right term) speedrunners, etc 30+ years onward. this game is gonna outlive me lol

[@BigHailFan]

"Doomguy has a new job as a demon exterminator." Pretty sure that's always been his job.

[@erikziak1249]

I just had to pause at 1:35. This is really DOOM CUTE! I am amazed by this level of detail.

[@Ennello]

Hey, this wad is pretty good! It should get a Cacoward... Oh, wait... No, seriously, one of my favorite releases from the past few years. Ginc did an amazing job at building maps around an awesome concept.

[@Qoko88]

I don't even... honestly ginc how the f long does this take?! I've been considering practicing some map making during the summer, but I'd probably need an hour to make one room even remotely similar to 1% of this map. It's absolutely insanely detailed. Flabbergasted, ngl.

[@iguana9173]

I was stunned at the long running time but it’s always worth watching.

[@merkaba48]

With complete honesty, I must say this map looks like more fun than Doom Eternal ever was. What a cracking job, well done (to both the author AND Decino!)

[@Gna-rn7zx]

No shields = way more fun already!

[@pannomic1818]

man this map/wad is amazing! already saved to play later. The doom cute, the well used 3D, sounds, guns, the details.. LOVE that in the set of guns it show a "+" if you have more than one type of that slot

[@1xnobar911]

that no look fire ball dodge at 17:30 was freakin epic!

[@peterludwig4599]

What a map. This is insane. I don’t wanna know how much work it was to make it this way.

[@ValeryShkrobov]

This was a streak of very good viewer submission maps! That's great!

[@Legatron17]

A great concept which is really well executed in this map, and the detail is truly mind-blowing :O

[@pimespo]

The baby-Cacos are the real pinnacle of Doom cute.

[@karlk5801]

I was hoping we'd see baby Arachnotrons!

[@Muladeseis]

Imagine the creators of Dooms watching maps like this, I guess in their time they didn't think that almost 30 years later people still play Doom and what marvels we can play with it.

[@samragsdale2301]

They took some cool aspects of Doom Eternal and incorporated them into the objectively superior Doom 2.

[@rezzthecontroller790]

You keep causing my backlog to be delayed by making me aware of these excellent Wads. I haven't commented in awhile but as always, keep up the amazing work friend. You do the community a great favor and help newbies like me get exposed to more great works.

[@feliperojas-doomride]

god damn it's brilliant, everything. The alt firing mods, the new enemies (the tiny cacos made me giggle everytime), the blue medkits (why haven't we seen this more?), the map design, just everything blew me away. I need to play this wad now

[@mechbfp3219]

Man these submissions are just absolutely amazing this round. Another awesome map.

[@Midoule]

Definitely worth every second of watching!!! This map is so good in every aspect, it feels like it was made in the Build Engine

[@feliperojas-doomride]

I think you should be allowed to save before big fights in these kind of maps when playing blind. It would be the same result for the video where you just pick up since the last fight and did everything you had before, and it would save you the 40 minutes of offscene time

[@BigMacDavis]

This map took you 1 hour and 9 minutes to complete - 69 minutes, heyyyy. This map is legendary as all get out, but one glaring negative - you have to kill the poor Baby Cacos!

[@arlenavila8020]

I hope you play the whole WAD. This was amazing

[@xtremebrainrot]

-shoots baby cacodemon with a machine gun "oh thats so sad" -kills another baby cacodemon right after that" "oh that breaks my heart"

[@FrancisFjordCupola]

I'm sure the mapper had the best of times creating this map. Totally awesome.

[@ag23415]

This map was insane. From all the custom content, to the cool usage of doom eternal-esc fights/arena types. The gore nests were a nice touch to add progression instead of the common usage of keys. And that final fight against the Annihilator (that's what its called on Realm667) was amazing.

[@hpph7133]

25:56 Decino experienced what most of us feel when he grabs a megasphere with 100+ on both health and armor and we know it's the last one in a tough map

[@OmegaZX-kd8sm]

After watching it again i noticed the guts trails guide you to the gorenests and as they die the spikes of the gorenest's color dissapear. Also i kinda wish the max ammo amount was a little bigger considering these upgraded weapons

[@DinnerForkTongue]

That is very much correct. If lost, follow the gore carpets.

[@eldandraken4850]

Holy shit, this is the mappest map we've ever mapped together decino. That death hurted all across the world i'm very sure of it. congratulations on your victory!

[@mihispemdedisti]

Man, this is the first time I've gotten stressed out watching one of your playthroughs.

[@rodrigoabarca3014]

Quite the masterpiece we saw here. I wonder if the other levels are this huge and challenging

[@makhauser42]

Ah yes, and those baby cacos aka "sweetnesses", those adorable cherry tomatoes

[@XaikuTMH]

Not only was there more "Doom-cute," but I've once again noticed a lot of "Duke-cute" in this WAD. Granted, some of the detail is more so like the 2016 "20th Anniversary World Tour" version of Duke Nukem 3D, but still. There are, once again, even some recycled assets from Duke, like the wine cabinets, doughnuts, and coffee cups. No matter what, though, I can definitely say that this map would say "Damn! I'm looking gooood!" like Duke himself does when looking in a mirror.

[@outerfroggy1]

This might be my favourite playthrough yet! More longform content plz!

[@Volpethrope]

I've been playing this WAD after watching this video, and I gotta say, it's really cool. I'd love to watch you do a full playthrough of it sometime.

[@JonavicH]

When Decino says that its kind of tricky... It means that it is too hard for me rofl what a hecking legend

[@stephensodergren2679]

This map was crazy and so impressive. I think the map maker should be making video games professionally. This is freaking insanely good! I would really suck at this map, but Man I loved watching decino do it!!!

[@jamison8929]

what a kickass map! so much detail. I love the custom enemies and textures. floors of the building could be COD deathmatch maps. it's great to have the armor color next to the armor %. maybe one day we can get a letter "B" on the HUD to indicate a berserk has been picked up and a "C" if the chainsaw has been picked up too. neat that the health bonuses can increase above 100%

[@juggernautx1779]

That outro is a soundtrack from Terminal Velocity main menu theme midified. I think Awesome map. Would you give this map pack a series?? Or maybe ask the viewers after when you finish all of the submissions, to what map pack that deserves to have its own series. If you'd make this, this map has my vote!! Love that Cyberdemon. I think he's called "Annihilator" his missiles are heat seekers

[@ugandanknuckles3900]

51:04 DeciinNOOOoOOooooo!!!1 Good run m8. That's one hell of a map.

[@Nob1ej0n]

Man, this was more detailed than a Build engine game. Impressive!

[@Zhantzher]

"I could just turn off the monsters and explore this map for hours" That's a nice idea for a video there, sir.

[@Walczyk]

“What’s wrong with these rockets?!” Decino was freaked lol

[@eddiewalpole]

I don’t understand why the original, well-animated super shotgun graphic is replaced with this static, sad Doom 64 style thing.

[@mansadraculamur8021]

There are really no words for this there is so much to say...first this map and playthrough👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾awesome Cino I love it, the enormous cacao demons with the baby spawn like the pain elementals, the guns🤤🤤man the death at 51: 05 😭I am truly crying and depressed but I have to say...oh and the gore nest like Doom Eternal man this was just a wonderful show thank you and you are truly appreciated for these great walkthroughs ✌🏾love you Decino.

[@Boomer_Doomer-]

This map is the definition of DOOM cute

[@spacemoai]

Weapons, demons, map design, doom cute... gives me a doom all-stars vibes.

[@rod9766]

that was epic! it has the perfect balanced ammount of classic doom and new doom! I'm downloading it now!

[@lukebehrendsbro.]

Take a big rest bro! You deserve it! Infested is freakin awesome, but man it is indeed difficult to survive well but also with a looooong 4 Gore Nest fights are kinda tedious, but insane to do at the same time which is still good in a way. New weapons, yes! New enemies, Hell yeah man! BMD will be excited seeing Big Mama Caco & Baby Caco there and therefore big fest full of sweetnesses! 😊That CyberDemon Double Missile at the end oh my goodness how madness can you people become? Hahahaha! 😆Overall damn this is a cool freakin map so far! Well done ginc! You deserve it to bro! 👏

[@makhauser42]

Can't even imagine how much time was spent on this, such an outstanding WAD, and how far can the id Tech go (even with modifications). Interesting enough, "the original" rocket launcher was featured just for a few seconds and proceeding to collect the dust unnoticed (at least, not in a spoken words). Have some good rest. So sweet that computers have not just the OG DooM, but also some BSoD as in the 90s.

[@АаронЗильберштейн]

And for those who didn't noticed it - that BSODs looks exactly like they were in Windows 95-98, not the NT-based versions. Incredible attention to details!

[@makhauser42]

@@АаронЗильберштейн, miss those much simpler times

[@brutlern]

WADdda map! It has got to be the coolest map I've seen.

[@DrWho-vc2go]

What's going on, Decino? You been on the steroids again? This has to be the second or third brilliant map you've found to showcase! Keep this up and you'll get your own Cacodemon award.🤝👏

[@Olek54321]

I haven't got time for a few days to watch new adventures of Doomguy, but today I see what I missed! Holy moly what a fantastic designed map. The very first fight reminds me a little of Going down with office area etc and you also mentioned that. This is 1 hour of a straight Doom cute, impressive! Sometimes I wonder, what would ID Software said about maps like this, I mean they created long time ago a "simple" game and fans are still making maps with such details, they probably cannot even imagine :D I think you enjoyed using machinegun a lot :D Wow, spread gun is awesome! My first thought was, you probably wish you had a one of these on map 22 Catacombs playing on Nightmare with all those chaingunners After doomguy visiting this place, cleaning stuff will have a lot of work to do lmao

[@abit_gray]

Will you make a technical video "overview" on features used on maps like those?

[@riba2233]

Would be great yeah

[@scottjackson1420]

Wow, this is too intense for me to play.

[@thatmaninblack]

This was a lot of fun to watch. 😲 Amazing map design, and the new weapons, and enemies are really cool, and the difficulty level made the gameplay exciting. 💀 🙂

[@filippavlovic18]

the doom eternal styled combat in "classic" doom looks really interesting

[@matheusrios4223]

man this map was really impressive :o

[@jpa3974]

The amount of effiort put on this map is crazy.

[@andrewlanglois6362]

13:38 Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder (Eye Tyrant), The Little eye dudes are no exception. All brothers are no longer, but Cacodemon Incubi.

[@TheIronFourth]

That fireball dodge at 17:20 was amazing! He heard it

[@atsekjoker]

WOW this is mega cool !

[@scottl.1568]

If I ever get around to making my own WAD it's going to be a room with 50,000 pain elementals just so I can watch DeCino's get destroyed by the impossible framerate 😊

[@scottl.1568]

98% of the maps you play are godless and forsaken, but this is actually quite impressive...? My only question is if the Doom Marine is now an on-call demon exterminator, why would he show up for a job with just a sidearm and no armor? 😮

[@s2korpionic]

Yes! More maps that don't look like your bog-standard Doom map!

[@Tarles_X]

decino getting a taste of how modern doom players play nowadays xD

[@cwad737]

This map, with the innovation and DOOM cute just shows why this game from 30 years ago is still strong, even with all the major titles that come out these days (most of which suck) and still can out perform.

[@GloomyOtter]

What a sick map, I must play this right now.

[@emppukoo739]

Never seen anything like this! Awesome map!

[@Dymundback]

"that's a fat corpse." I think THICC would be more accurate, aye?

[@brottongoodfellow5932]

Can’t remember when I last heard my mans so stressed.

[@KungFuCutbug]

custom enemies I was able to spot: - gore nests, duh - plasma gunner - turbo pinkies/turbo specters (which makes me terrified to imagine how this would be on Nightmare) - nightmare imps? their silvery appearance & purple projectiles give me the vibes of the nightmare imps from 64 - mini/mega cacos - mini cyberdemon probably missed at least one but damn, impressive additions to the bestiary

[@bjrcomputacion]

Wow, if i didn't know it's all mapping trickery (you mentioned udmf), this looks very close to a goldsrc/half life map. Kudos to the mappers!

[@Final-Ts]

"Big Ass Caco" - decino 2023 lmao

[@theshep]

love it man! big juicy good map.

[@BPKPhoenix]

Mmm I recognize the machine gun's SFX Source. It sounds exactly like the machinegun cannons found in the Quake 4 Hovertank and Walker tanks. I adore that sound very very much.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

On that note, the plasma sounds just like Q4's blaster pistol without the stereo_fire part.

[@caxide]

I seem to remember really enjoying this WAD. Cheers!

[@Jsitun]

Holy sh. What a map. Insane attention to detail. Really cool.

[@BigHailFan]

Pretty sure the enemies spawned on the storage floor because you destroyed the purple nest, like how they spawned in on the other floors afterwards too.

[@thefidgetspinnerofdoom]

Jesus, what a posterior pressurizer of a map. I had to take a break at around the 30 minute mark at how intense it looked, I can't even imagine how playing through it must've felt

[@tonynubares6880]

19:35 wait a cursed second! That's an exploding box from N64's Goldeneye :o

[@СергейМисюк-ж1к]

I heard about this mod on Icarus channel year ago, but at that time I wasn't too excited about it. But now I see I was wrong. This was an incredible show. Map design on its own is a piece of art, but with these new guns and monsters... Oh, my! Good thing that this is not an architect company from "How I met your mom" series. Otherwise we would see some tower mock-ups that gets KZbinrs demonetized. Although according to storyline the guy that makes D-shaped towers was fired by Ted Mossby (a main character). Double-wielding Cyb with arcing projectiles? That is absolutely insane. Even more insane than some boss varieties from Brutal Doom.

[@xbzq]

28:07 that texture is from Heretic.

[@rendfall]

Slopes, multilayered platforms and floors, portals... what kind of sorcery is this?

[@sakucelty]

I deadass thought that intro was made in gmod 😭

[@antionedebusei6378]

Infested was one of my favorite map packs after Going Down, easily recommend you play through the first 2 maps as well at some point.

[@rankoinazuma6788]

33:33 Doom inside Doom, neato!

[@DEdens1525]

This is awesome, more of this please.

[@osamaaj]

This is amazing. Can't wait to play it myself!

[@T3sl4]

22:08 we've got to move these, refrigerators... we've got to move these color TVs.

[@regmans4329]

Wow. Everything is brilliant in this mod. Will you be doing a video for Base Ganymede?. Got my butt smoked on level 3. To rusty I am.

[@mechbfp3219]

23:30 "They are in the walls... they are in the god damn walls!"