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in reply to: Action SuperCross #10306

Yeah, you can skip up to five levels at a time which is great once they start getting frustratingly hard. Especially since there are a few difficulty humps.

I forgot to mention that there’s a replay feature, kind of like demos in Doom. After ending a level (either by dying or winning) you can save a recording of the playthrough. Sharing these could also be fun during a play month.

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in reply to: A roguelike or roguelikes – specially Crawl #10254

I want to add my support for an episode on pretty much any roguelike. NetHack and the Epyx release of Rogue in particular are ones I’ve spent time with. Rogue itself would make sense for its influence on later games, but the mechanical depth of NetHack would ensure that every participant has their own unique silly YASD stories.

I played some Dungeon Crawl briefly long ago the and some DCSS more recently. It’s my understanding that DCSS isn’t just a “better Crawl” but a significant departure in terms of design goals, so I think Dungeon Crawl may be interesting in its own right.

It could also be fun to cover some “proto-roguelike”. I’ve heard some say that Beneath Apple Manor is very rogue-like, and I learned just now that it had a PC release.

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in reply to: Worms #10230

There was an episode on Worms in 2020! https://www.dosgameclub.com/worms/

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in reply to: Multiplayer #9868

Thanks for the heads up! I just upgraded the server to 11.0.

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in reply to: Multiplayer #9866

I run a Doom 2 deathmatch server with Odamex at text.garden if you guys want to try that as well. It’s not on the master announcement server, but I think you can connect directly from the launcher, via the console (with “connect text.garden”) or with a command line parameter.

Started hosting it for my friends during the pandemic, and at times we ended up with maybe 8 players on maps designed for four :D. Pure chaos when BFG:s are involved. Now it’s mostly empty

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in reply to: Phobos Calamity – Episode 1 #9863

These are some great maps! I played through it on ultra-violence with dsda-doom. Great difficulty level and pacing for me.

M3 felt like the hardest. Maybe there’s a bit of a bump in the difficulty curve there at UV or it’s just my playstyle. Perhaps a bit stingier than other maps with non-secret health pickups? At least I found the colorful room with the soul sphere.

It feels like the maps stick to the themes of the original map names, which I liked. Is that intentional?