Reviews - ledernierrempart

was a blast to play in coop with a friend.

episode one: 8/10
at first i didn't liked it. the gunplay felt meh with the colt. too much reloading and the ennemies felt like hp bags (maybe that's because of the arcade difficulty?). and you would be launched directly in action without much background.
i only stated to enjoy it when i reached the first "city".
you did a great job at making the player learn to not always kill everything in sight and wasting ammo.
overall a good experience but sadly too short.

i particularly liked the sub cavern map. the monster trap in the maze + the new encounter design was very cool.
sadly the end trap didn't worked properly as half of the "pinkies" mutants got stuck on higher platforms... thus didn't lead me toward the exist right away and making me run in circle for several minutes not understanding where i was meant to go.

the final boss, even with its cool design, was underwhelming. it fired too low so it was always hitting the platform you were on, making it a very easy encounter. a shame.

still was enjoyable overall as a nice prologue to episode 2.

episode 2: 10/10
heavy metro exodus / fallout vibe.

the idea of using hubs levels was very clever. very good atmosphere. very good level design. cool crafting system that adds a feeling of character progression. different ways of ending maps, satisfying final boss fight. i liked how every encounters doesn't neccessarly means a slaughter fest as you can avoid some of those fights, quality spriting, meaningfull use of the motorbike that serves the game design... and of course fitting custom music.

trully one of the best doom total conversion ever made.

a fine addition to the doom modding verse.

cool old school fps story driven missions.
carefully crafted maps with intelligent design.
all maps feel differents with their own original setting and layout.
lots of easter eggs.

difficulty is okay. not too hard, not too easy. but it is not very consistent. some specific area's are way more difficult than the rest of the level. mostly because of a large number of enemies and too little ammo. had to quick save often.

its weak point is the gunplay tho.
sometimes bullet feel like not hitting and often get stuck on wall corners or props when the target is too close to it.
hitscan for the player's bullet weapons would have been better.
wasted too many ammo on roll dodging enemmies.

it also needs some manual tuning to get both good visual and good performence which the default settings available don't offer.
color gradiant have to be activated and deactivated back again in each mission/cinematic unless i want to play with red dots and lines everwhere :(

this mod is undoubtedly one of the best quality mod available for old DOOM.
(and so far the best story driven mod i have seen for it.)

a bit of a shame it got striked by some weak minded, easily offended, woke people.

far from finished and does have some bugs but is the best quality science fiction mod for mowas2.
high quality, faithfull to w40k universe, does have original campaign missions and unique unit abilities.
tho some features doesn't work properly when playing on a none vanilla&w40k; map.

a shame mowas2 is still a 32bit game, forcing you to relaunch the game after each game.

i didn't put less because of all the work. this mod is overall unenjoyable.

at first i liked the brutal damage of weapons, the recoil effect and the camera shaking when getting hit. it gave a sense of immersion and forced you to hide.

but in the end it does not play well with this game.

what i liked:
■ the new effects
■ the overall weapon feeling
■ the attempt at adding new class

what i disliked
■ camera shaking when getting hit making droidekas unplayable. and jedi a pain to play.
■ brutality of weaponery on little open maps where AI focus you to death.
■ clone helmet in fps view. fun at first, cumbersome afterwards.
■ magnaguard useless melee only unit.
■ some maps are just badly designed. i loved the plains but hated the first felucia map. you have unmovable AT-TE with only the turret useable and swarms of droide vehicles running around...
■ 3rd person camera sucks. too much zoomed in. problematic with tall droides or jetpack users.
■ some slow infantry is really slow.
■ limited missile ammo for vehicles. the vehicle spam is real. but you wont have enough to deal with all of them.
■ ugliness of some new weapons.
like really? a barret at rifle model for a laser sniper?...

in conclusion , an original mod that do change the gameplay quite a bit and add nice effetcs. but some maps are too tiny for the mods or plainly bad.
the core gameplay has been altered to the point of killing the fun and even makes some of the stuff unplayable.

too short X)

i can't put more than 5. as a homeworld lover i can't stand seeing ripped homeworld 2 ships not being used like they are meant to..
for exemple a well known Hiigaran torpedo frigate being used as a dual laser frigate with the laser coming out of torpedo tubes... and it is like this for other ships too.

(it is like ripping off a star destroyer from a starwars game and put missiles projectiles instead of the laser ones with the same plasma battery skins.. it would bother you.)

when you rip of models and texture traight from a game you should have at least the decency of keeping their characteristic.
Also the dev i have spoken to seems to not have played homeworld nor do he care about missusing what he ripped off.

as well made as d4t. no bugs encountered so far (in singleplayer). basically quake champion with more content.tho i hope they will add new champs and complete the quake monsters roaster in the future .

one of the best doom mod out there. a must have for all fans of quake and doom.
if you liked d4t, you ll like this one too!

i don't know why some people are ******** on this mod, i may not be very well informed of how this mod were made. but if i were to note it purely based on the work and experience i had playing it i'd say that it was a wonderfull doom experience. quite different from what you usually get.

the mod and the attached map feels like a high quality singleplayer mini campaign. it deserve to be tested and enjoyed.

_good map and environment.
_story driven mod (not just run and shoot).
_nice use of the dynamic lights.
_nice oxygen sustem when you re outside on mars.
_the only downside may be the high difficulty and the sometime maze like map.

The best promising sandbox top down space RTS you'll find today. and it is sill in early access..

(btw the early access is totally free!!)