Comments - Bridgeburner56

What's your gpu? Also try switching your vsync. That was giving Icarus trouble (and then ran fine once he toggled it)

Ahhh yeah untested on delta touch currently. We are in the process of making a no shaders patch. It's a bit rough at the moment but we should hopefully have it out soon. Fingers crossed that'll work for you.

This runs as a standalone game. You don't need to add in any additional files other than what you download. Just unzip in a folder and load the exe and away you go.
Those colourful textures are a shader reference so something hasn't loaded. No one else has reported this so I'm gonna guess it's the extra files you've added borking something up

Does it load at all? Someone else was having issues and it seemed to be due to specific drivers (it ran fine for them on Win 7). Feel free to jump in the discord if you want some help :D

There are links in the discord to the itch page. I'll be posting the file to moddb once I get home from work

Hellforge-studios.itch.io

Apologies everyone I completely forgot to upload the demo here. I will rectify this as soon as I get home later today. I am a professional I swear

Zero doom assets. Has its own exe to launch. Does not require anything else to run. Just unpack and go.

Oh, and it's going to be showcased at Realms Deep 2021

Definitely a standalone game :D

Demo will be out in the month or so and then Volume 1 should be next year (first 2 episodes).

I have drawn a lot from Amid Evil's visual design. Love that game (and made by fellow Kiwis)

Yeah it's not mod friendly. Although I have run through the whole thing with Supercharge which was a blast. Note that while UV is similar to late Sunder maps in difficulty, difficulty settings are heavily implemented and well tested. Most people play on HNTR

Some of them yes but there will be variety to encounter design and level length to keep things interesting. Slaughter fights will feature heavily but Bastion's count of 4k+ will be at the upper limit. For instance The Foreboding Impasse (A1M2) is shaping up around the 600-800 mark at the moment.

Bastion is pretty chonky but Ar Luminae is definitely more taxing. If there is enough demand for it I will seriously consider doing a "low spec" version for Age of Hell like I did for Bastion. If you find the full edition too taxing then this might be more for you. Can be found on the DW thread
Doomworld.com

This is now an entirely new game and will not require any iwad to play. Any remaining Doom 2 assets are a place holder (I think there are only a few sounds left to replace, maybe a couple of decorations).

Ok Moddb is a pile of garbage. It somehow deleted the 2 comments that were here regarding performance so I will post the response here. Apologies to the people whose comments were deleted, I have no idea what happened

"Bastion of Chaos (the original vanilla version) will be the benchmark for Age of Hell performance wise. If you can run that then Age of Hell will be fine for you. There will also be new menu options that will help people optimise performance to their preferences. AoH will ship with minimum and recommended specs along with an optimisation guide as well"

File updated to the latest version 0.96. Fixed a bunch of softlocks and potential skips but no major changes

Full gameplay videos will be coming soon(tm)

Briefly considered but going to remain free for a couple of reasons. The licensing for Otex (the primary texture pack) doesn't allow for commercial use and trying to do profit sharing with the 25+ people involved in the project would be beyond complex.
This is staying a labour of love

Demo out in a few months hopefully and then aiming to release Volume 1 (2 episodes) early to mid next year.

I'm currently making a map that I'm planning on making a standalone test map so hopefully in the next couple of months.

16 rotational angles looks weird in Doom, the sprites jump from angle to angle much more frequently. 8 was chosen to keep it close to the original aesthetic and originally the classic Doom monsters were going to be used along side the new ones. Having some at 8 and some at 16 would have been incredibly jarring.

This is not a game or wad that is trying to be 'realistic', it's pretty much the opposite. Ironsights will definitely not be added. Freelook with crosshair on is how this is designed to be played.

You would be correct

This project will likely have no original Doom assets in it once completed and one of the goals is for this to be it's own mod to be played with other wads. So no, it won't be compatible with any other mods