Sigil 2 - Not Too Rough
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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From Level 2 onwards there are secrets you must find within the first 30 seconds or they will be permanently locked.
There is one in Level 1 also. There is in every map as I inspected it with DoomBuilder. I might have ben lucky to find on or two of them and not realized they were 30 secs. Then I made it a mission to save spam in the beginning of a map, rush randomly to find it, if failed reload. Else in half of maps I idcliped and cheated.
Now that's another level of ball-breaking
@@bugothecatplays7864 You can unlock that one after unlocking the crusher to kill the Cyberdemon.
That's antithetical to exploration IMO. If exploration is supposed to be a big part of DOOM (and in my opinion, it is), then that's essentially punishing people for not exploring the right way. Which isn't exploring, it's following an intended path.
That's bad design.
At this point, I've spent more time watching Civvie talk about Doom than actually playing Doom
Why not play Doom and watch Civvie talking about Doom at the same time?
I think most of us have. I know I've spent more time watching him play boomer shooters than I've spent playing them
You need to fix that. All of you do.
Yeah that's what it feels like, but Civvie actually got me into playing boomshoots too. I got into and completed OG Doom (started with it), Doom II, Ion Fury, Amid Evil, Cruelty Squad and a lot of other games he's shown off, and don't regret a single one.
The solution to your problem is to play more Doom.
I refuse to believe that Romero's personal Pron folder isn't just 10 hours of shotgunning Cacos while strafing around their attacks
ye that do be his parn
And the folder itself is named "Arachnopron"
@@Fraggr92 It's canon now!
_Doom Guy heavy breathing_
*UNF UNF* @@No_Ghosts
I'm slowly resisting the urge to build a 32 lvl. mega-WAD based solely on every sewer level Civvie has ever bitched about.
Accept the urge and make a masterpiece.
At this point it's going to be quite an undertaking...
Only if you use the name Groaning Manhole to do it
Do it, and make the lore of the WAD such that the player is a civil engineer #11, or CV-11, assigned to clearing the latest infestation of the sewers.
Give in, create *make them all suffer*
Remember kids: if Decino of all people doesn't turn on fast monsters on UltraViolence, then there's something purely evil about the mapset...
I didn't take anyone seriously. Blasted through Sigil II on UV, and it was pretty tough, but managable. I prefer it to the original.
Then I pistol-started UV, it was harder, but I knew more of the secrets, found more of those fireblu secrets, and there's strong weapons scattered across the episode.
THEN, I turned on fast monsters on UV, and I got absolutely demolished. Whittled down by the first few Zombiemen, and then finished by the Cacodemons IN THE FIRST MAP.
That's about my limit. I'm not gonna UV fast this one. The first Sigil? Oh yeah, sure, why not. This one? Nah.
that's like having god on your side for a battle and then he sees the enemies and goes 'oh no'
Wow this John Romero guy is really good at making doom mods he should make his own game!
Blacroom coming soo- oh, nvm
Probably worth checking out Daikatana, to see if this theory holds up.. Wish me luck!
@@VivaMidnight I've only heard great things about that game!
@@VivaMidnight I get the sarcasm but I wonder if a nightdive remaster could fix all the issues that game had, who knows, John Romero may finally make us his bitch.
@@kinganarkzieyeah, but if it's Nightdive, is it really Romero anymore. 🤷🏻♂️
A lot of people didn't seem to realise this was coming out, I recommend following Romero on Twitch, he livestreamed himself making Sigil 2
Wait this came out in 2023?
I just beat eternal on the switch so I've been checking back in every holiday to see if there's new updates. Doom, quake,and eternal all got updates it's great!
Watched most of his mapping streams. It's very cozy and fun to watch. Can recommend!
@@Rahnonymouscame out some days ago
If you're a fan of Doom at all, Romero's UA-cam channel is worth subscribing to. He did a livestream with Carmack for the 30th anniversary of Doom's release last week that was really good.
Loved Sigil 2. It was pretty tough, John certainly knows how to crank up that difficulty while keeping the enemy count down.
Pro tip: Give the boss triple health. Never fails to crank up that difficulty.
And if that's not enough, there's always... quadruple health!
Disclaimer: Game design is an art form and I have no doubt John did a great deal more than just tweak the numbers on a boss, this post is purely for silly comedic value.
@@hazukichanx408 I legit didn't know he did that til this video, but I remember thinking "why the hell is it taking so long for the Cyberdemon to kill this bitch" lol so it makes sense
1:15 Grinning Romero slowly fading in like some malevolent spirit will never not be funny.
I'm like, 90% sure Mr. Romero knew you'd be covering this and included a sewer level just as a trolling bit.
He even called it a "reckoning" :D
Despite peoples' opinions on both Sigils, I think the fact John Romero remains so dedicated to his baby after 30 years is a really huge and important sign of just how important Doom is as a whole. You can't say that for the vast majority of other games and creators. Would really love to see him push bigger and bolder projects bit by bit as time goes on.
I recall someone once said that John Romero is one of Doom's biggest fans because he got to be part of and shape a game which was pretty much exactly everything he had wanted it to be.
Romero was never a very humble guy, but when you get to realize a dream project, and then everyone else says _"That's fucking COOL!"_ and don't just heap you with money, they keep loving it even when it's old and dated, 30 years and counting now, you DESERVE to be real proud of that.
more cynically, he isn't a low-level dev who has to keep working on whatever to make ends meet. he can rest on his laurels forever, and is able to use his time and resources to shit out (really awesome-looking) new maps for a 30 year old game. it's less a question of dedication, though I'm sure it's there, than a question of renown enabling experimentation
If doom wasn't still popular, he wouldn't lift a finger. It's not passion. Passion is what the fans are doing for free. It's a very low effort cash grab. Not that I object to that. There's a market. So best to cater to it. But don't romanticize it 🤔🤣
@@notjustformeThese wads are free.
@@notjustforme how is it a cash grab? There's a cheap paid version that includes the soundtrack, and a _really_ sick collectors edition that's pretty expensive, but the game just by itself is completely free. Romero's not forcing anyone to buy it.
The gimmicks of the fireblu and 30 second secrets were a bit weird to me at first, but they really grew on me after a couple of levels. It felt so arcade-like and so retro, going for that 100% completion by completing gimmicky "side quests", it took me back 15 years to a better time.
I mean, what can you expect of BigMacDavis if not his love for fireblu and 100% completion? 😏
Yeah, Romero knew what he was doing. And it's kinda... refreshing? To play that game of cat-and-mouse with a level designer who's obviously trying to getcha with troll secrets and chaingunning early Cyberdemons on lava floors but knows his players are ready for that and will get 100% anyway. Speed, bro trolls and fair challenge, if it was an arcade machine you would want to curse and toss another coin to keep playing
yooo bigmacdavis
Welcome to another episode of everyone's favourite series, Humiliating the Cyberdemon.
What happened to Humiliating Mama Spider ?
except Romero used the cyberdemon WAY better on this wad, so he's actually a huge threat
The Civvie Doom video we wanted and needed.
Just to add a few things: I take that Civvie played this continuously and that's fine. The moment you tackle UV with pistol starts and/or single segmenting, it's a whole new ball game. Romero really pushes the boundaries here in terms of resource starvation, to the point where the secrets become essential. There's a lot of frustration for UV maxers particularly due to the 30 second timed secret in every level, and this wad is one of the most blind unfriendly wads I've played. Once you practice and learn the layout and the setups, however, you start to appreciate Romero's precise sadism.
I never thought i would see a loveless DP here .
@@totallygarbage-bp6zz Well, here I am :D
@@dreadwanderer its my favourite album and mbv is my #1 band. Felt really good and shocking to find it here .
I feel there is something common in tape sounding music and DOOM .
Something that feels mysterious or intriguing about them .
I don't follow any modern trends . I am just a very nostalgic person
@@totallygarbage-bp6zz I see those commonalities too, and in any case MBV and Doom are both part of a very specific cultural moment, a zeitgeist if you will.
Nostalgia can be a very powerful and cathartic force and that's one of the reasons why I dig the sounds and aesthetic of vaporwave for example - it reaches out for some unnamed past, and an unnamed future as well. If that past never existed, it's created in that instant with music. There's an air of calm and suspension in both Loveless and vapor stuff and I really find that fascinating.
I love how Sigil single handedly destroys the arguments of anyone who ever said "Oh it was Tom Hall/Sandy Peterson who was the Lovecraft nerd and came up with the ridiculous names!"
Nah, John Romero is both a DnD nerd and a metalhead, he truly appreciates and practices the art of ridiculous and edgy names.
If you tuned in on Romero's twitch streams on creating the maps, you could watch him test playing them on Nightmare difficulty. It was a blast to watch. Hopefully, he uploaded those streams to his UA-cam channel so we could all watch the process of building the WAD.
Also I think he streams on yt if twitch is a dealbreaker for fans
Jimmy Paddock is a MIDI wizard, matched only by a scant few of his contemporaries.
Yeah, he makes some of the best MIDI music I've ever heard. I desperately want Guitar Tom to do some metal covers using real instruments, as he loves to do with classic Doom music.
romero never fails to impress with how much love he gives to the doom community. man still making maps and content for the game all these years.
Hitting me in the morning Civvie. I literally just sat down at my PC. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays my dude!
i know right!? i woke up to a new Civvie and Drachinifel Episode
I am still amazed how these levels for a 30 year old game 'without mods' with just 'primitive features' can be so darn creative compared to most shooters.
It helps that level editing for doom is pretty simple, and that they don't ask for high fidelity. Allows you to focus more on designing a fun interesting level, rather than create a bunch of high fidelity models to fill a few rooms with.
I believe the correct word you're looking for is vanilla. Not primitive...😉
@@rodneygilreath4635 Doom, in terms of features of modern games, is pretty primitive.
@@rodneygilreath4635just because it's primitive doesn't mean it's not effective. A club will kill someone just as easily as a gun.
@@rodneygilreath4635 No, i really meant primitive (as in very limited); not vanilla (as in relation to mods).
When we're all gone, the last sound of man that will be heard upon the Earth is the music of E1M1 on a dying phone in a dark room in some dank underground bunker.
32x version
FACT.
Then doom will be eternal no more 😔
A cyberdemon in every level on ultra violence stops being fun and unique after the secret level
I loved this actually, though I usually just avoided them, I don't know if you can telefrag them, I did one, in E6M3, but they are fun.
In the first Sigil telefragging was much more obvious. I also love that the Spider had triple the health, that really stood out as the boss compared to the Cyberdemon.
something about the level design and little bits like the cracks in the floor and the overall slickness makes Sigil II remarkable in its aesthetic choices
Civvie I just want to say , I was gone for a while and I missed your content a lot.
Thank you so much for all the genuine joy you throw at us for completely free, joy which you put a huge huge huge amount of effort to.
I used to sit with my border collie ( * called holly ) up on my lap watching your videos on a large projecter each new release.
so i just want to say THANK YOU!
Damn glad to see Civvie doing well. So many patreons his outro is up to two minutes. Been here since the Postal 2 days, really happy to see him doing well.
I also played on Hurt Me Plenty. (I learned my lesson about the random extra "for-the-lulz" Cyberdemons the last time around. XD) I dug the hellish visuals that incorporated a few new textures and successfully made the techbase & nukage sections feel like they belonged alongside the normal red & black abyssal caves, and I enjoyed the James Paddock soundtrack that always matched the mood and atmosphere of the levels. But it can't feel as novel or as surprising as it did the first time around. I quite liked the mixture of oppressive resource pinches and cruel little traps & puzzles - Sigil 2 does more of the same quite elegantly - but no matter how many things I like about the execution, it's still running up against diminishing returns.
I still have to give props for how Romero used his platform to point out all the _other_ free mapsets that were released this year & position himself as just one creator among the hundreds of artists that make cool things in their spare time just for the joy of creation, and the joy of play.
Happy 30th Birthday, Doom. Here's to 30 more.
The ability to just constantly make new stuff for Doom is, I think, the core of its eternal success.
Awww Romero, you didn't have to bring us such a Christmas gift this year but you went ahead and did it anyways. What a gigachad. I'm honestly just happy to see the man himself making more official episodes for these old games...
Getting to finally see Romero expand DOOM 2 is like nirvana; I've waited for SO long for him to do that and it looks like it may just finally happen after seeing the end text for Sigil 2. At least, I REALLY hope that's the case. If we ever get to see DOOM 2 be as hard as Plutonia, Romero will have done a good job.
He's confirmed for a while now that work is underway on Hellion, a new 32-level megawad for Doom 2. After this he says he'll move on to a new Quake 1 episode.
@@bestieboys887 Welp, back into my DOOM obsession I go. This pretty much made my day. SO hyped now to hear that's actually happening.
@@LittleBabyBlue777 Heck of a time to be a Doom fan!
@@bestieboys887quake 1! This makes my day!
I had a feeling that this video might show up this weekend.
EDIT: I just wanna point out that Sigil 1 and 2 both run in BOOM, which means that you can play it in Dosbox or on a DOS machine. If you wanna melt that old Pentium CPU.
I don't have a Pentium, can I run it on my 486DX2-66?
@@alex.starostinPair it up with Potato Doom or whatever it's called and play it on a 386. FastDoom.
On the assumption that Romero prefers the old horror-like feel of OG Doom, considering the box for PSX Doom that claimed John Romero called it "The best version of Doom," it wouldn't surprise me if that assumption were true.
I didn't have a problem with the final boss fight, I teleported in and teleported out and let them infight. There was a cyberdemon on an earlier level, the one in the little marble texture maze, that was OK to deal with too, as you could stand just outside the entrance to the maze and shoot it with impunity over the marble wall.
I really liked Sigil 2. I liked the running motifs, such as the Barons appearing in front of (or sometimes behind!) red hot firewalls.
I really liked all of the fireblu secrets around, even though there's not much in them. Felt rewarding finding the little crack of The Texture in a way that a secret Sigil Eye doesn't scratch. Also, surprised you didn't mention that the secret level is evocative of a lot of recognisable design of rooms from Doom's Episode 1, just different enough to make it all feel familiar but not just a mishmash of unrelated levels.
Another great civvie episode. Thanks man
Romero recently admitted in an interview that he actually is working on a full 32 map megawad called Hellion 8:04
About the damaging floors (7:23); as there are those ubiquitous elevation differences between the sectors, you could evade the damage entirely by standing beyond the "edge" of the sector. Meaning that most of your hitbox is hovering above the lower floor, your feet not touching it, so the damage won't ever be applied.
I'm not sure if not spending enough time in the sector for the damage to register is a factor, so I can't comment on that.
IIRC damaging sectors also work off of a timer and deal damage every X tics, so if you can move past them quick enough, you don't take damage. You can even use the pistol swaying animation to time it - it takes the same number of tics for the ironsights to sway from one "peak" to another while moving continuously as it takes for the floor to damage you.
You're always going to be my favorite but you reading the level names in a brutal voice is among my favorite moments of you.
Though the enemy variety is limited I love how much Romero has advanced in terms of Map design and geometry. Here's hoping that next time he marries that level design with Doom 2's roster or maybe we get a new Quake 1 Romero made episode.
I would sacrifice people to get a new Quake 1 episode made by Romero
Civvie talking about Doom on a comfy Sunday afternoon just hits all the sweet spots.
I woke up to this video and it's foggy as hell outside, maximum cozy start to my day
@@kadnhart6661proper atmosphere
Tip for anyone who uses SmoothDoom: It messes with the final Spider Mastermind's health where it drops down to the original value, so avoid using it if you want the intended experience.
A sigil 2 video by Civvie only a week or so after Strife? It must be Christmas!
Thanks for being able to play it quick and throw it up on the UA-cam's Civvie.
I like the idea of sometimes using monsters as environmental obstacles to be circumvented instead of dealing with them in the usual way
I love this expansion. Well done, Romero. This is top tier DOOM.
'The Sewer Level', the counter, graphic, and accompanying sound effect will never get old.
Trying to get through pistol starts on ultra violence is just brutal
It's says a lot about John Ramero that even after 30 years he's still making old Doom cool and creative. Good video.
John Romero is also working on a Doom 2 WAD, called Hellion (yeah, the ending text does confirm that).
Birthday and a Civvie11 video, what i can ask for more, and the algorithm requieres engagement. I'll enjoy this one.
Happy birthday!
A great early Christmas present from John Romero. And close to Doom's 30th birthday no less!
I've never played the first Sigil admittedly, but the new midi soundtrack for Sigil 2 has got me interested.
The thing about UV is that Romero kind of balanced the levels around the idea that you'll pistol start them. So if you play the whole episode in sequence, the first map is tough as hell, but by around the halfway point it's only maybe a little harder than average.
The problem isn't that there's too many BFGs to find, but they are too easy to find in my opinion. They felt like giveaways, especially the one in E6M3.
But, pistol-starting after the first playthrough is a good way to play this. It was challenging, but not unfair.
Funny enough I did a stream where I played the OG Doom for the first time yesterday and there it was, Sigil 2. Happy 30th Doom. Looking forward to streaming Doom 2 next year. BTW I did it on Hurt me Plenty and Thy Flesh Consumed was an absolute nightmare!
Always good to see Civvie play Doom.
Love your work, man.
'When I was 16, I designed a computer game in a notebook. My friend, Chase helped me program it, and it was awesome! But then.. it got lost...... OR WAS IT?' -John Romero
You can't change meeee! (Seepage stars playing)
7:24 "Uncharacteristically sloppy" is a great way to describe the design of Sigil II, especially near the end. The weird scripting, the multiple slime trails and the giant Hall of Mirrors effect in the hidden stage's last room...sometimes I wonder if Jamie Romeo cut a few corners to get it out in time, or if his testers did.
So with this, Pro Doom is effectively done... Pro Marathon fucking when, Civvie
I doubt he will top Mandalore on this one but I would watch it nonetheless
There’ll still be Hellion for DOOM II.
He never made Master levels tho
It has less maps than TNT, but that would probably be of a similar quality. So nah
@@mistahjorge3383 master levels suuuucks
I learned my job might get moved to New Jersey and I'll have to make an hour-long commute each way (and pick up the pieces when half the company quits). Not half as stressful as layoffs, but I still feel like shit, and as always, Civvie's work cheered me up.
Yoooo, I made it right on time for a Civvie video? Truly blessed.
what i love with SIGIL 1&2 here is how Romero keeps a consistent game design approach. shooting wall eyes to progress, shooting fireblue for secret rooms, having the slipgate be the level end.
of course, plenty of fan wads would have these mechanics. however, it would always be randomly implemented for a one off map gimmick. making it a cheap trick to confuse the player.
while in Sigil, since the game design language is taught in the early levels you can always can keep an eyeball out for them. its a fun exploration reward.
hell, even the idea here with a cyberdemon on every level in UV is a really funny way to up the difficulty. honestly, i prefer that over the respawning teleport gimmick of nightmare.
doom 1 definitely has too many limitations to justify making another episode for it, but again i just appreciate what Romero did here. and im very excited to see how he tackles Doom 2 next. i assume he will do a more doom64 approach, with a more sadistic difficulty spin...... which id be hype for.
Playing this on UV for my first run through and it’s great. The levels look gorgeous and Romero truly demonstrates how to make challenging maps that don’t deviate into dull SSG slaughter slogs. Use the bfg and plasma often for clusters of monsters and master the cyberdemon bfg 2-tap. Also the limited monster roster from Doom I isn’t a hinderance IMHO but to each their own.
It was a feature in the first wad too, but the cracked floor with the glowing red is inspired. Still one of the GOATs.
You're entitled to your opinion you're wrong, but you're entitled to it.
no u@@NarumiButterfly
after hearing that sigil 2 came out ive been WAITING for civvie to cover it (cause my ass aint boutta play sigil who do you think i am? god?). now he has. thank you civvie :)
I believe Romero is planning on releasing a Doom 2 WAD next year for Doom 2’s 30th. Way excited for that because I also played Sigil 2 and thought the enemy variety weighed it down. Also I miss the super shotgun
I don't have high hopes. He's never been able to make a good doom2 level
@@FireBlueForTheRedSun O of Destruction and The Living End were good. Maybe that's why he wanted to tackle Doom 1 first with Sigil 1 and 2 to work with a tighter design set first?
@@skeith804I really hope he's learned a lot from modern mappers with doom 2 mob balance and fights. To his credit, even though they made the doom 2 monsters - none of them knew how to fully use them yet. So it will be interesting to see his mapping prowess combined with modern knowhow.
I watched this video prior to playing Sigil 2. He was right about most things. One of them is that it is truly tough on Ultra-Violence - especially on the first few levels. There was one thing that I had to check for myself which Civvie got me curious about the final Spider Mastermind... he didn't have a conclusive analysis on the 3 BFG shots it took him to take down the SpiderMM since it was clear he was too far away from it to one-shot it. I got into the final boss room, stood right up against the SM like I do with all appearances of the Spider Demon when it's possible to get up right-close to it, and one-shot it with the BFG no-issue... unless you count the fact that doing so resulted in me dying from incoming rockets afterwards. I had to tackle the boss several times due to multiple threats in the room, but I can confirm that the Spider Mastermind can still be one-shot with the BFG. If you aren't standing right up against it when you fire the BFG then it won't assert all the damage from the BFG blast and the tracers combined to deliver maximum damage.
Ok, now I can go watch Decino do the UV-100% pistol start of this :)
UV fast monsters
@@117steveng no fast monsters this time - Sigil 2 is hard :)
@@ivankuzin8388 it's a joke. But also knowing Decino he probably will. He and Zeromaster troll Romero back, and its glorious
@@117steveng Zeromaster did UV-max so far only :) Looking forward to his Nightmare run )
The new Sigil 2 was absolutely fenomenal for me. I enjoyed every second of it. Great vid too!
Play AssEater from 97 That was one of my favorite games
I don't have to play AssEater.
I LIVED IT.
As soon as I heard about Sigil 2 dropping I knew that a Civvie video was coming quick.
I'm so glad Romero is making Doom 1 episodes instead of Doom 2 episodes. Everyone else makes Doom 2 wads, Romero is here for rare people such as me who like the slower more survival horror vibe of OG Doom
100%! But he's making a Megawad for DOOM II now: Hellion. Which I'm all for too, 6 episodes for DOOM is perfect.
@@hyperboreen4854 good to know. My favorite map from Hell on Earth is abandoned mines, so I think its a little unfair when people criticize him for not being good with Doom 2 assets.
There's some very excellent .wads for the first Doom (I really love Double Impact, Alpha Labs, Doom : Damnation, and Nihility : Infinite Teeth), but I think the main reason Doom 2 maps are made more often is that it's harder to create good levels with the smaller bestiary.
You can certainly do it, but it takes more creativity because you simply can't create as many kinds of combat encounters.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine The 2 "Doom the Way id Did" for DOOM 1 are awesome too.
@@hyperboreen4854 I like those a lot, but I feel that D2TWID is the best of them, and not just for the really cool Commander Keen secret level, but the level design across the board is just really fun, in my opinion.
Finally found time while writing my exams. Yeah, this is the hard shit I've been craving since Plutonia
Sweet. I didn’t know this had came out. Definitely downloading this on my pc and Deck.
Really helps the legacy of your game when you release the source code and assets. Hell, Bungie released the code and assets for Marathon, something with a much smaller, but no less passionate fanbase and they're still releasing narrative based "wads" for it.
Its a very Romero xmas down in the dungeons, it seems
So I rolled through this last night for the first time immediately after doing Sigil 1 in the same sitting (as I hadn't played through it since release). Hooooo booooy, Sigil 2 on UV was something else all right. I probably should have started on a lower difficulty, but I figured, hey, I play lots of slaughter wads. I'll be fine. And I was, but damn was it tedious. I think there's a Cyber or two on basically every map and wow does it take a while (if you don't want to die). The ammo and health starvation was real and that later level wth the elevator shaft you have to ride a thousand times to get into the side rooms was peak tedium. By the end of it I just wanted it to be over, it was sucking all my energy out of me, haha. I'll probably go back and try it again, but man.. to anyone reading, UV is rough on this, even if you're not pistol starting and playing continually. Secrets are basically mandatory too.
I played it the first time on UV too, except ONLY ONE save per level. HARD, but GOOD.
Ya know what, it IS comforting in some way that people might be making doom wads after the youngest here are dead. Someone hundreds of years from now might hear E1m1 midi track for the first time along with that first splash screen falling away. Our spirits will roam those hallways lads.
On UV it's ammo starvation, and cyberdemons in every map, OH AND 30 SECOND TIMER SECRETS IN ALL MAPS!
Sigil 2 is amazing! Must be a sign you're planning your Pro Painkiller video soon!
Diminishing returns is definitely a factor, but I'm always happy to get a few plutonia+ difficulty maps personally.
I liked watchin his streams while he made the wad
John Romero also released a short 1 level DOOM 2 wad called One Humanity which is helping raise money for charity but it was originally gonna be a level in SIGIL 2
good morning Civvie
I hope for DooM II's 30th, Romero'll finally crack open the musty DooM II enemies he hasn't touched yet, I'd love that a lot
he has said that he's working on a 32 level doom 2 wad! soooo ur wish has already been thankfully granted
Was having a shit morning, a new Civvie is just what i needed
using the patrons to hit that 10 minute mark is a hilarious way to do it
I’m only a couple levels in on UV but they are more like extended combat puzzles that you have to make a plan for. Pretty cool imo
I think it's something more personal, I simply loved Sigil 2, maybe the episode isn't that good anyway, but that's what I think.
I love that he has improved several details that he hadn't done so well in the Original Sigil Episode, such as: Richer layouts, the opportunity to make the Player make better use of their space, not exaggerating with the Damaging Floors constantly preventing the passage of the player.
More different and innovative concepts, use of classic themes like Techbase and I really consider the positioning of enemies superior in some ways.
However, I agree that there are weird flaws here, the exaggeration of the Cyberdemons makes the maps break a little, forcing you to be aware of secrets most of the time, otherwise you fall behind in terms of ammunition.
I only discovered CIvvie recently, and Doom style shooters bore me to tears. For some reason though, I really enjoy listening to him gush over the genre he loves and hilariously trash the...trash.
It genuiny, truly, warms my heart that the man who produced Daikatana still has it in him to produce things like this.
Without him Ion storm would never exist, so Deus Ex would never exist, so Daikatana is a very forgivable oopsie imo
Doom, truly the definition of evergreen software. Peak development. We don't truly understand how lucky we are to have this game 30 years later, still having content released, and by the original developers no less. What a privilege.
Civvie, you must face it: you did Deathwish, you did Sigil, you can no longer claim you don't cover unofficial mods. You must play Ashes 2063. Stop depriving yourself and the audience. Why are you so afraid of the truth, Civvie?
civvie, i will forever remember you as "the doom guy"
Can't wait to play this with Brutal Doom.
I played It with project brutality, its fun
Eeeew
@@AmyStrikesBackI prefer BD for wad playthroughs, and PB more for messing around because of how it has 9000 weapons which confuses me a lot))
@@nonenothing4412 i personally love the 9000+10 upgrades or so weapons of project brutality a Lot more, even If It takes me 2 minutes to find the bfg mid-combat, but brutal doom is also Really Fun
@@luciusdebeers6176 aww Man, that sounds like a boomer!
Yes, Romero confirmed in the Bethesda's Slayer Club interview that next is "Hellion" for DOOM 2, followed by a new episode for Quake.
It is a damn shame that Romero didnt go for a doom2 wad in this. After playing Sigil II on Hurtmeplenty and Ultraviolence I couldnt miss the ssg more.
In a plot standpoint, yeah, this WAD could have nicely benefitted as an interquel for No Rest for the Living and The Plutonia Experiment.
His next WAD is from DOOM II, followed by a Quake I WAD.
My problem with the SSG is that it's too overpowered. It's like... you don't need the other guns. Turns Pinkies, Lost Souls, Imps, hitscanners into a joke.
It two-shots the Revenant. It three-shots the Mancubus. Try playing Doom II without the SSG and you're gonna have a much harder time.
I love Knee-Deep in ZDoom for this. It's a Doom 1 recreation, but, they did include the SSG, but in the secret level that's hard to get to, in a secret.
And they also SLOWED IT DOWN so it's not as OP and you still use the other weapons. I hope the SSG is hard to find in Romero's Doom II project.
Great work as always, Civvie 11. You make our holidays merry and bloody.
If I may ask, are The Master Levels of Doom 2 worth covering?
Oh yeah.
You can’t spell Christmas without Civvie.
Don’t @ me.
@heavensgate2245 You just ruined Civvie Christmas. So I’m probably gonna cry a little.
I hope you’re happy.
Thank you civvie. Merry christmas!!
I personally enjoyed sigil 2 a lot more that the first
Me too I think.
I only discovered CIvvie recently, and Doom style shooters bore me to tears. For some reason though, I really enjoy listening to him gush over the genre he loves....and hilariously trashing the...trash.
what is the program @ 8:30
That's the add-ons tab for the unity port of doom.
Wrathful Reckoning. It's no Hatredcopter, but it'll do.
ULTRA-VIOLENCE - ONLY ONE save per level ➡ SO HARD but SO GOOD! And the OST by THORR is an absolute killer, wow! DOOM is finally complete! 🙏🏼😭😍🤘🏼
false. doom will not be complete until the day that the last original devolper passes away, and since Carmack is made of data and light, Doom will never be complete.
@@scooterdescooter4018 I'd say doom will not be complete until the community dies, which might be never. There's so much content out there just from the community, it's actually insane.
That's YOUR obligatory sewer level, Civvie