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 https://www.moddb.com/mods/pirate-doom Released the same year as Bioshock: Infinite, Pirate Doom is Doom 2 with pirates, because it's also Monkey Island. THE CAST                  THE ADVENTURE         
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What the heck? This is the first time I've seen this.
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Nov 15, 2021 16:53
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Oh, I played through this just last week. It's a pretty good WAD!
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Nov 15, 2021 17:39
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"I'm playing Jizzdoom 420" -SelenicMartian, 2021
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Nov 15, 2021 23:17
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I wasn't planning on playing this for a long time, since I've a mountain of other WADs to do, but you've forced my hand. I'll play this as the LP goes so I neither spoil the WAD for myself, nor do I have to skip a Selenic Martian LP. Anyway! I really appreciate how either HP for everything thus far has been dropped, or weapon damage increased. Dropping pirates, often in a single shot, is really satisfying, so is taking out imps in only two or three shots, and it only takes like ten bullets to kill a demon? Cool. The basic melee swing is pretty strong too, compared to the fists, even before you pick up some spinach. The shotguns butt doesn't seem to do much damage at all though. You pointed out on the first map that you can't shoot at enemies on the upper floor through the grate, and that's true, but it's also because technically there's nothing there. To fake true 3d room over room, Arch/Darch (he apparently goes by both) uses a silent teleport linedef or a pass-through portal on the stairs to sneakily teleport you from one area of the map to another separate staircase.  It's why there's no view of either floor from the stairs, or any enemies on the stairs because live/dead enemies would be an immediately giveaway. You can often detect silent teleports/pass-through portals if you're paying close attention. There'll be slight shifts in textures as it happens. If you have the map open when going down/up the stairs, you'll also see yourself on the map blinking over to a new area. The one secret and enemy you missed were both in the one spot I've timestamped in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UpqEIhJjlc&t=148s Speaking of which, the demons in skin tight blue pants makes me wonder. I'm surprised those monsters even know how to dress themselves. Are they pirates so evil they turned into slavering murder monsters or is someone pulling those pants onto every single one of them? Or are they from the Piracy layer of Hell? Also, most WADs will have a little bit of a snippet of story in the .txt file to give some context and even help establish a Mood, which can be surprisingly effective in subtly changing how a WAD feels and plays, IMO. This WAD has none of that whatsoever, so I've been left to construct the idea that LeChuck has pushed Guybrush Threepwood Too Far For The Last Time. Fleshwit fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Nov 16, 2021 |
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Nov 16, 2021 06:48
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Doomguybrush Threepwood Always nice to see LPs of Doom mods, there's so much cool stuff to showcase from that community 
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Nov 16, 2021 12:10
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It's not all Monkey Island; I'm fairly sure the skull and crossbones logo on the boat's sail in the first map comes from Rayman 2. Anyhow, really glad to see this LPd, I've been hearing about it here and there but had no idea it had a singleplayer component.
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Nov 16, 2021 13:59
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Carpator Diei posted:Doomguybrush Threepwood Doombrush Threepguy?
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Nov 17, 2021 01:42
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NewMars posted:Oh, I played through this just last week. It's a pretty good WAD! Who doesn't love a good wad.
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Nov 17, 2021 05:01
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Now I want to hear At Doom's Gate on the concertina
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Nov 17, 2021 07:45
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Fun fact: when the first versions of this WAD came out years ago, there was a small period of time in which the WAD was only available as "Corsair Doom". Why? Because most automated sites and search engines don't want anything to do with copyright violation, and "pirate Doom" just set all the alarm bells off.
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Nov 21, 2021 00:03
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The environmental sound effects in these two levels are pretty impressive.
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Nov 22, 2021 15:01
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It's nice to see the Dopefish make a return. Such a cute little fishy.
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Nov 23, 2021 02:15
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Some of those weapon models look pretty familiar... I think the double shotgun is from Outlaws?
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Nov 23, 2021 13:54
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These two maps were a definite improvement over the first two, but I still think they're being carried by the atmosphere and novelty of the conversion. Not that any of the four have been -bad- but you wouldn't call them great either if they had been regular doom 2 textures and all. Since I did pistol starts, I had to kill the revenant with the regular shotgun, which was shockingly easy compared to vanilla. The secrets that you missed this time were mostly inconsequential in terms of what would matter to carryovers. In Trezer Cove, the end of the cave tunnel leading to the first large open room that has both the armours in it and the tracks passing though, there's a big golden panel on the wall. Use it, and you can get an invul.. to uh... make dealing with some imps and lost souls as you use the lift a lot easier? One of the secrets you did find, though was the one that just has one beer mug behind it... and that's it. As far as I can tell it's like a joke secret. Also you made the same mistake I did. When you jump down to the mega-armour, and the floor raises you out of the chest... it will actually keep going up until it's as high as the tracks so you don't need to run through the map again. You cans ee the pillar there as you run by it. On the Sunken Ghost Ship, if you shoot the pirate flag in the same room you found the map secret, a niche on the far wall opens to reveal a partial invis. That makes dealing with the big main room fight a bit easier as there's a bunch of hitscanners, but its not huge. What would be very helpful to get right off the bat, is in the room with the green armour that the grog barrel hallway leads to has a secret. There's more grog barrels directly in front of the green armour and blowing them up reveals a small area with a spinach. Fleshwit fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Nov 23, 2021 |
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Nov 23, 2021 16:43
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anilEhilated posted:Some of those weapon models look pretty familiar... I think the double shotgun is from Outlaws?
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Nov 23, 2021 17:37
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It's time for a big bar fight, some gambling, a concert and… uh… I don't remember.
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Nov 29, 2021 15:01
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The two-eyed cacodemon is wonderful.
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Nov 29, 2021 16:33
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Loving the creativity of this mod, especially that trippy circus level
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Nov 29, 2021 18:40
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I'm not sure what a circus has to do with pirates but I was getting some serious... Serious Sam vibes, when Serious Sam gets a gimmicky, from that level. Just too much of it at once.
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Dec 1, 2021 07:50
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The soulsphere you couldn't reach is attained by a secret in the blue key suite. There's a patch on the wall marking where you can open it. It was like the one spot on that wall you didn't try to use. You can also get the dual flintlock pistols from behind a big sign in the bar near the stairs and also a spinach behind a pirate skull flag (with kitchen knives instead of cutlasses) behind the bar. As you said, Pirate DOOMs secrets don't really matter much to carryover playthroughs, but that's because most WADs (with some exceptions) are balanced for pistol starts, so finding the one instance of a good weapon on a map or a powerup in a secret can be a huge deal. And that's how it should be. Carryover players get some goodies, pistol start players get crap that might be lifesaving or transformative to how the map plays out from there. I think it was a Memento Mori II map I once played that was a brutal grind with just the shotgun and chaingun until on one run I found that the only SSG is hidden in a secret really early on, and it completely transformed how the map played. The Highway to Hell fight was probably the big moment of this WAD for me so far. A really fun and chaotic battle in an otherwise so far decent series of maps. The Circus! map though, I really loved. I've always liked gimmick maps provided they don't get drawn out way too long, and none of these are. It was on the Circus! map that I discovered that you can swing your cutlass while using the super shotgun, which just makes an already tremendously useful weapon all the more useful. An ammo saving habit of mine has always been to melee demons whenever possible if I have the chainsaw or berserk, but I've been doing it without exception in this WAD due to the high power of the cutlass even before you find a spinach. That discovery only makes it even easier to do in the middle of an all out brawl. Stacking enemies and standing on top of lost souls (which also happened to me!) are not vanilla behaviour, it's something added by the source ports. GZDoom has it on by default I believe.. In vanilla DOOM enemies and the player have infinite height. Most infamous for allowing lost souls and cacodemons to hurt and pen you in sometimes without you even being able to see or shoot them (also enemies cheating and being able to melee you from 100 feet above/below when you cannot do likewise. Also sometimes just messing up a maps progression if a ledge you're meant to jump down from is being blocked by some jerks. Hate it when that happens.) Anyway, one secret that would be really useful going forward both for carryover and pistol starting, to survive the magic trick room, is that when you land on the first platform in the trampoline room, and turn around to face the entrance, you'll see that lion head switch texture, and if you jump to it and press it, a megasphere appears! There was also a really minor secret in the tightrope room. When you take the elevator up, just jump back onto the blue fence that acts as the perimeter of the room. I didn't find anyway to stop the magic trick room from getting out of hand myself, besides just letting the monsters in-fight without you, and I hate leaving things alive when I've plenty of ways to kill them. Fleshwit fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Dec 2, 2021 |
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Dec 2, 2021 11:09
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We are so not done with gimmick levels.
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Dec 6, 2021 14:06
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- That bandana on the Cacodemon should have a skull with one centered eye socket, not two. Missed opportunity. - You're running short on shells in part because you're using the double-barrel on even enemies which can be one-shot by the single-barrel.
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Dec 6, 2021 16:57
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The ship level is a very cool idea, but it seemed a bit short for what it was trying to do. The dynamite sprite is from Outlaws as well, but the cannon is from Moorhuhn Piraten, of all things.
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Dec 7, 2021 13:39
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The bit where you were able to close the door and listen to the infighting for a few seconds was just so satisfying to me. 
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Dec 10, 2021 05:02
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Increasing the cannonball speed on the ship level would be a 1:1 % increase in how enjoyable the level is.
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Dec 13, 2021 04:54
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Kibayasu posted:Increasing the cannonball speed on the ship level would be a 1:1 % increase in how enjoyable the level is. I agree. I liked it, but thankfully it was short.
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Dec 13, 2021 09:05
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This game continues going places. And gives us the single best gun.
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Dec 13, 2021 15:10
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well that first level was horrible to look at.
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Dec 13, 2021 16:05
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Rigged Death Trap posted:well that first level was horrible to look at. Yeah, no kidding. I was relieved to see the 2nd level knew what light was.
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Dec 13, 2021 17:03
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Wait till you see the levels actually taking place at night.
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Dec 13, 2021 19:05
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Hey so if you're still trying to find a way to make the game a bit brighter, try this is the GZDoom options: Options > Display Options > Hardware Renderer > Sector Light mode Try setting it to Bright or another mode. There are a bunch to choose from, and I always feel most of them are too dark for my liking. Yeah maybe you lose some of the intended effect but darkness effects are always hit or miss for me personally. Hope this helps.
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Dec 13, 2021 19:17
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FPzero posted:Options > Display Options > Hardware Renderer > Sector Light mode
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Dec 14, 2021 08:11
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There are other implications about reskinning Nazis into bad Native stereotypes but I choose not to think too hard about a Doom wad. Lighting or not I liked the fort a lot better than the temple but that might have just been the enemy variety. The archvile's a neat surprise but not exactly exciting otherwise.
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Dec 15, 2021 08:34
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I personally prefer to think that the reskin isn't actually doing that and is simply using what is available and possible within the constraint of the medium, a Doom wad, to make a commentary on colonialism, colonialism is an act of plunder and murder done in the victims' own land and home, perfectly represented by piracy.
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Dec 20, 2021 06:02
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A cyberpirate is nuked, and another candidate for the Best loving Gun is obtained.
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Dec 20, 2021 15:17
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I wonder if they tweaked the weapon mechanics here. In regular Doom, Cyberdemons are immune to splash damage which makes the rocket launcher a pretty bad weapon against them. The TNT seemed to make pretty short work of the Cyberpirate though.
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Dec 20, 2021 17:46
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Even more Serious Sam vibes from that cannon. I was also thinking it seemed your arsenal was pretty lacking when it comes to a Cyberdemon at this point but I guess you're "supposed" to find the cannon while fighting him.
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Dec 22, 2021 05:44
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The final gun wasn't there in the original release of the mod, but its a good thing it got added!
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Dec 27, 2021 16:10
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The term for that article of clothing is A-shirt or (more crudely) a wifebeater.
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