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Wad Commander: Play Doom I and II in the Browser
- nomilk 4y agoIs there a list somewhere of games available to play in the browser? (they seem googlable but a list would aid discoverability).
- jug 4y agoChecked out with the shareware version and it was a perfect match, quickly closed the tab... This is kryptonite for work :D
- mikkergp 4y agoAre there any active communities playing multiplayer doom? (Preferably with a version compatible with Mac). I've looked but been unable to find any.
- qbasic_forever 4y agoDoomworld forums are a good place to find the current doom community folks.
- mbrndtgn 4y agoZandronum if you want to use mods, odamex if you prefer a vanilla experience. The odamex discord server is a good starting point.
- jan_k_ 4y agoThe most active multiplayer Doom port is Zandronum, using the Doomseeker server browser to join games. Mac support may be a bit flaky, but I think it currently works (join the Discord for help). https://zandronum.com/ https://zandronum.com/ - get the software, join the discord https://doomlist.net/ https://doomlist.net/ - see active servers
- AgentME 4y agoI've always much preferred Zandronum over Zdaemon because it's open source and it has much more advanced mod capabilities (with much more Zdoom/Gzdoom mod support than Zdaemon), supporting mods adding game modes like the PVE Invasion mode.
- anonymousiam 4y agoI have always considered Quake to be the natural successor to Doom, and it is fully multi-player. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_(video_game)
- mikeodds 4y agoThere is also https://www.zdaemon.org/?CMD=downloads https://www.zdaemon.org/?CMD=downloads
- gond 4y agoThere is the community around ZDeamon [1]. As a Doom port, it has its own server browser, Discord and a built-in IRC browser to get to their channel. Binarys are available for Win, Linux and MacOs. IME, especially popular there are gigantic megaWADs, which are played by fifteensomething players in coop mode simultaneously. [1] https://www.zdaemon.org https://www.zdaemon.org
- ASalazarMX 4y agoHoly cow, 15 players in coop sounds really fun!
- danjoredd 4y agoAs long as a game allows someone to run their own server, a community never truly dies. There are people who still play Half Life 2: Deathmatch and Counter Strike Source because we can run our own server
- knome 4y ago>Counter Strike Source Ha. There's still people on CS1.6. I dip in a play a couple games every now and again. I found a server, not too long ago, that was running a full conversion Rocket League mode. Occasionally, you could see a flash showing that you're just a CT/T wielding a knife before the custom graphics load in and you're playing soccer with rocket propelled cars.
- slig 4y agoCS 1.6 can be played on a browser nowadays.
- moomin 4y agoOne of the truly satisfying things with Doom and Doom 2 is that the levels were all designed with two playstyles in mind. Each level, starting with the pistol, you can either beat par on Hurt Me Plenty, or kill 100% on Ultraviolence. Most of the harder levels require some route-planning or lateral thinking to achieve that. All of which, back in the day, provided me with way more gameplay than you’d expect.
- smcl 4y agoNot only can you pistol start each level (it's pretty commonplace), it's actually possible to complete most levels in "pacifist" mode, where the player can't harm any enemies. Decino did a 3-parter on this: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTvTsl3x2qY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTvTsl3x2qY Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbRKER3HtAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbRKER3HtAY Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlk022mO83k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlk022mO83k
- Max-Ganz-II 4y agoUltra-violence is for wimps. Real players are on -fast.
- hrbf 4y agohttps://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/ :)
- kqr 4y agoMake that three: the beginner/explorer playstyle is also accommodated very well.
- skocznymroczny 4y agoI was going for a pistol start UV recently, and some levels are really hard, especially if you don't know where secrets are. On some levels it's hard to get that shotgun to get things going and the ammo is often scarce.
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- ggerganov 4y agoPlugging here my "text-adventure" mode of Doom that runs on.. wait for it.. Twitter [0] :-) [0] https://twitter.com/tweet2doom https://twitter.com/tweet2doom
- dollylambda 4y agoIs anyone else curios about how this is written? There isn't any information I can find about the implementation details.
- kqr 4y agoDoom was written to make it easy to port to other platforms from the start. You basically only need to write a handful of platform specific functions and then compile the code on the new platform and you're done. It's fundamentally the same whether you port it to OpenBSD, WebAssembly, or a washing machine.
- kingkawn 4y agoWithout 90s childhood context Wad Commander sounds like a really different kind of website
- jandrese 4y agoProtip: Don't remap the controls to wasd and leave the fire key on ctrl. Not if you want to be able to run forward while firing.
- porknubbins 4y agoYou can also play Doom 3 in the browser, which blew my mind when I saw it here. What used to slow down my whole system is just a tab, and I could click over to take a work break and pick up right where I had left off.
- nomilk 4y agoAlso quake 3. It used to (juuust) run on my home PC as a kid, and now it's available trivially in the browser. It made me really sit back and marvel.