Valiant is a MBF megawad for Doom II featuring 32 new maps spanning 5 themed episodes. Each map is designed to be played from a pistol start, but some effort has been made to support continuous play as well.
One of the best and most influential mods for modern doom, not for the faint of heart...
it's that good
The mod is a one trick pony -- suddenly spawn a bunch of baddies in a room you get locked into -- and that trick sucks.
The map design is usually pretty good, but the incessant spawning and gotcha! moments are amateurish. A handful would have been bad enough; to build an entire mod around that approach is inexplicable.
I am playing this and enjoying every single moment. thank you!
Map07 don´t work proper. Too slow for gameplay. Epic fail
so beautiful, so cool
There are two kinds of difficulty: There is challenge and there is spam.
Sadly Valiant never breaks out of its most common theme: oh you are trapped with 10 Pyro Knights or a Cyberdemon in a very small room. Do something!"
It gets tiresome after a while. The (insanely) fast imp projectiles make dodging them in close spaces absurdly hard. And close spaces seems to be the favourite kind of rooms this wad has to offer.
I came here with a solid expectation. I did not quite expect the Back To Saturn X I/II kind of gameplay, but something solid (believe me or not, I am a good player).
And while I like the new weapons and monsters the gameplay just gets very tiresome after a while... spam, spam, spam.
It's not a bad wad, apart from gameplay it does have some interesting things to offer. But gameplay is the most important part and argueably it is broken and repetitive. With hardly any room to explore or navigate through.
This is arguably the best doom WAD in years. It is a 5 episode (32 levels) megawad of awesomeness. The maps are well detailed (especially EP5) and balanced (and thankfully they are not slaughter maps). The addition of new monsters is IMO very refreshing (if u dont like this, then there is a vaccinated edition as well).
It is a must play WAD for DooM lovers.
Very detailed and beautiful architecture of levels. Love balance with monsters. It's not stupid massacre like Hell Revealed. I prefer of course separate version megawad for Brutal Doom. Nice work. Continue play.