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- * General Information *
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- Title : DETHKASM.WAD (Death Chasm)
- Description : Original Deathmatch PWAD for Heretic (Registered)
-
- Author : Kenneth S. Forte
- Email Address : fusioncon@globalone.net
- Additional Credits to : Rich Condon (psionic@globalone.net) for testing,
- several game ideas, and being a human stack.
- Justin Powell (shell-less freak) for dragging out
- DEU to make DOOM2 levels, thus inspiring me.
- Sue, for the title, and the restraint.
-
- Points of Interest : This level started out as a rip-off of DOOM ]['s
- "Dead Simple" level, with a few twists. As usual,
- however, I wound up taking a smallish level and
- blowing it way out of proportion. I also blew it
- beyond all hope of ever running smoothly on my
- old but dependable 486DX/33Mhz without even a
- hint of a VLbus (laugh it up).
-
- Some of the notable areas are as follows:
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- Wind Chamber: Find the sweet spot that will make
- all of your crossbow shots converge on the
- doorway. See if you can find the doorway first.
-
- Nearly Perpetual Motion Device: When you see a
- large amount of teleporters, try powering up the
- Mace and shooting some of those monsters INTO
- the teleporters. Too bad they actually wind up
- GAINING energy, or the wall of flying metal
- might last well into forever.
-
- Pod-boy Suite: For those of you who liked to let
- barrels do your dirty work for you in DOOM, try
- your hand at some Pods (that is, if anyone
- actually wants to steal your precious torch).
-
- Exit?: Hehehehe. Step Inside. Not your ordinary
- trap. (If anyone else has done something similar
- to this previously, let me just say that a) I
- never saw it, and b) that means that we both
- have equally empty lives).
-
-
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- * Play Information *
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- Episode and Level # : E1M1 (Back to Ep/Lev system again, sigh)
- Single Player : No
- Cooperative 2-4 Player : No
- Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Yes
- Difficulty Settings : Not implemented
- New Sounds : No
- New Graphics : No
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- * Construction *
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- Base : New level from scratch
- Build Time : Couple of days, give or take an all-niter
- Editor(s) used : HEU 5.21 and BSP 1.2x
- Known Bugs : Yes, several. Let's go into them all:
-
- If anyone knows why Heretic decides to randomly
- replace the Mace Thing with a Disciple Thing on
- some systems, please let me know. It is most...
- amusing.
-
- Then there is the standard "Id-engine-has-too-
- many-things-to-put-on-the-screen-but-no-one-will-
- miss-a-few-of-them" bug. This wasn't really a
- problem with DOOM, but with all of Heretic's
- nice little special touches (smoke trails, acid
- rain, sparkles, lava plumes, etc.) the thing
- count can grow rapidly and before you know it,
- where did it all go? This is compounded by
- knowing that you need much taller sectors
- somewhere in the level to make flying more
- feasible, but realizing that if anyone uses more
- than a couple of powered-up hellstaff shots in
- such an area things will start disappearing (yes
- the acid rain or whatever you want to call it
- goes from floor to ceiling).
-
- There is an apparant Moire effect connected to
- the fake floor. Yes I said fake floor. Wipe that
- confused look off your face. If you read this
- far into these things then you should know by
- now that the further you go the darker it gets.
- Anyways, if you're interested in such neat
- tricks or have a solution for what seems to be a
- small side effect of bending the accepted rules
- of "good" level-making, please e-mail me.
-
- * Copyright / Permissions *
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-
- Authors may use this level as a base to build additional levels.
- You may distribute this WAD, provided you include this file, with
- no modifications. You may distribute this file in any electronic
- format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include this file.
-
- You can find this PWAD on: Official DOOM Site-of-the-Month: ftp.cdrom.com
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