Erik Alm definitely nailed his music choice here! Whenever I listen to the MIDI rendition of Compression of Time in other maps it's featured in, I always think of this map! Oh boy, the Earth Jungle chapter is up next........ Best of luck!
Yeah, this track fits the map incredibly well. Alm and stx-vile made great music choices throughout the entire wad. One of my favourite music choices is the next map ;)
I remember commenting on one of Tatsurds Scythe II demos that there is a lot more Cyberdemons in the sequel compared to the original. Scythe only had 48 Cyberdemons total, 47 of those were in Episode 3 the exception was in The Starport. In this WAD you have already had like a dozen up to this point. However interestingly no level in this WAD has more Cyberdemons than Fire and Ice the originals finale which has 18
That's a cool stat! Fire and Ice would definitely be in contention for hardest map in Scythe 2 if it were in this wad, it's such an outlier in Scythe 1 lol.
@@BeefGeeTV That was my thought at first but there is certainly a build up through the final Scythe episode - broken only by Run From It, with the levels getting progressively more tougher. It seems right to me it ends on a slaughter map, and IoS style level would feel like a damp squib
There is a build up but map 30 is way tougher than map 29. But yeah, at least its map 30 so it feels appropriate to be really tough. Its not like the random, sudden explosion of difficulty at map 23 in scythe 2.
One would think with a name like The Gates and such a forlorn MIDI that we’re actually about to enter Hell…and I suppose, in a way, we are, given the challenges that await in Earth Jungle. Good stuff as always!
I remember when I played Scythe 2, I used iddt to find a missing secret on this level and I saw way to the right of this map an identical mirrored layout of the part of the map you play in. It was completely seperated from the part you play in and no way to get to it except with idclip. I wonder if it's still there in the wad you're playing? Maybe it was like a coop or deathmatch thing? It was like over a decade ago, and I had just gotten back into Doom since I played through the vanilla games as a kid, so I didn't really know what it could be.
Oh wow, I'll have to go check if it's still there... nah, it's not the case on this version of the map. Maybe it was from the 1st version of Scythe 2 that only went to map 27?
Yeah I know they can be hard to follow sometimes but they're VERY useful to me as a keyboard only player. I'm trying to be more mindful of only using them when I really need to though.
Erik Alm definitely nailed his music choice here! Whenever I listen to the MIDI rendition of Compression of Time in other maps it's featured in, I always think of this map!
Oh boy, the Earth Jungle chapter is up next........ Best of luck!
Yeah, this track fits the map incredibly well. Alm and stx-vile made great music choices throughout the entire wad. One of my favourite music choices is the next map ;)
I remember commenting on one of Tatsurds Scythe II demos that there is a lot more Cyberdemons in the sequel compared to the original. Scythe only had 48 Cyberdemons total, 47 of those were in Episode 3 the exception was in The Starport. In this WAD you have already had like a dozen up to this point. However interestingly no level in this WAD has more Cyberdemons than Fire and Ice the originals finale which has 18
That's a cool stat! Fire and Ice would definitely be in contention for hardest map in Scythe 2 if it were in this wad, it's such an outlier in Scythe 1 lol.
@@BeefGeeTV That was my thought at first but there is certainly a build up through the final Scythe episode - broken only by Run From It, with the levels getting progressively more tougher. It seems right to me it ends on a slaughter map, and IoS style level would feel like a damp squib
There is a build up but map 30 is way tougher than map 29. But yeah, at least its map 30 so it feels appropriate to be really tough. Its not like the random, sudden explosion of difficulty at map 23 in scythe 2.
One would think with a name like The Gates and such a forlorn MIDI that we’re actually about to enter Hell…and I suppose, in a way, we are, given the challenges that await in Earth Jungle. Good stuff as always!
Yeah, the sky is red in the Earth Jungle so it's hellish enough lol.
I remember when I played Scythe 2, I used iddt to find a missing secret on this level and I saw way to the right of this map an identical mirrored layout of the part of the map you play in. It was completely seperated from the part you play in and no way to get to it except with idclip. I wonder if it's still there in the wad you're playing? Maybe it was like a coop or deathmatch thing? It was like over a decade ago, and I had just gotten back into Doom since I played through the vanilla games as a kid, so I didn't really know what it could be.
Oh wow, I'll have to go check if it's still there... nah, it's not the case on this version of the map. Maybe it was from the 1st version of Scythe 2 that only went to map 27?
No poo falls?
Not in this map, plenty of tomato sauce though ;)
Great gameplay but the sudden 180 turn jump cuts are very confusing to me.
Yeah I know they can be hard to follow sometimes but they're VERY useful to me as a keyboard only player. I'm trying to be more mindful of only using them when I really need to though.
@@BeefGeeTV Makes sense. Guess I got to get used to it :)