Now that we have prepared for The New War, we take a break from Warframe to try out a new-to-me-at-the-time mod, Hideous Destructor. Who knew that this would become one of my favorite ways to play Doom, possibly any FPS game of recent memory?

Not only have I been swallowed up by its depth of complexity, enthralled by its ability to immerse me in its world, and enrapture me in the way it overhauls the vanilla game's systems, it opened me to a community of players and other modders who I would soon find myself among, clowning on the tyrant and it's masses.

https://youtu.be/xm0ykH9pS0E

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@ifixcoinops has been doing a thing where he adds 468x60 ads to his website for free and I’ve been thinking about making one for #HideousDestructor ( #HDest ) to hopefully get more people interested in this very niche ZDoom mod

here’s what I have so far - what do y’all think?

this might not be the kind of thing that Dan had in mind though, since it’s not for a hobby website exactly. I would probably link it to some kind of “getting started” guide for the mod

in any case idk I’m proud of how good this looks so far and I’m just happy to have made it. graphic design is extremely not my thing but I think this is Not Terrible and maybe enticing to click

something that #HideousDestructor does that I would love to see in more games with #milsim elements is that it’s stylized. the weapons are often quirky scifi tech that jams, cooks off, or has DRM that you have to work around. and that lets it contrive its mechanics for fun gameplay while still feeling verisimilar. for example I feel like in most milsims you’re forced to choose between a bunch of near-identical rifles that are meticulously based on real-world weapons. but in #HDest each weapon feels incredibly unique from every other weapon and each one has its own niche

the ZM66 is a piece of shit but it can pierce through armor, whereas the shotgun has incredibly plentiful ammo and is easy to aim but armor stops it dead. and even the shotgun itself has two firing modes, and both of them have interesting pros and cons (semi-auto can jam, which can throw off your firing rhythm, whereas pump-action is much slower but more consistent)

anyway idk I just want more stylized milsim-like games that have cool mechanics like that, instead of milsims that are set in beige-brown modern military land with super bland modern military tech

#HideousDestructor ( #HDest ) is still fun after all these years. there’s really no game like it, although Beyond Citadel got kinda close

also, I think Ugly As Sin (a Hideous Destructor mod) is my absolute favorite implementation of food and drink as survival mechanics in a game, ever

you don’t need to eat or drink, but they give you small buffs if you do. eating/drinking is a manual process, and when you do it, it actually plays sounds of you eating and drinking - which I find incredibly grounding. each type of food and drink even has some flavor (heh) text so you can imagine how it looks and tastes

I think this design is completely brilliant because it:

• doesn’t create any time pressure like the vast majority of survival games do. you won’t starve or die of thirst so you don’t have to rush, ever
• but, it gives you a gentle incentive to use those systems anyway by giving you small buffs if you do
• it also subtly encourages you to slow down and ground yourself in the game’s world, which helps stop you from rushing or playing mindlessly and helps you immerse yourself more at the same time
• also if you’re playing in multiplayer it gives you a great opportunity to find safe areas and sit around and relax for a bit and talk before moving on

I think it’s actually perfect. I wish other survival games would do something like this. I know Valheim kinda does but idk vikings aren’t really my thing

omg my first impression of #BeyondCitadel ‘s demo is really really good. I feel like this game could easily become my next #FPS hyperfixation

it feels like most of their gameplay is an iteration on #HideousDestructor with a lot of options to start with a more arcade-y experience and then up the complexity as the player gets familiar with the game’s systems (which is a brilliant idea and a fantastic way to make an HDest-like game more accessible)

the way guns control is really nice, and has a similarly autistic level of gun simulation as #HDest but I feel like they’ve iterated on HDest’s control scheme in many ways - making it a little bit simpler and more accessible, at the expense of some extra arcadey-ness

the character deaths feel very guro-y which makes me a bit uncomfortable but I don’t have anything against guro and I don’t think it’s going to be offputting enough to get me to stop playing

it’s a shame that they don’t have an in-depth healing system like in HDest. but honestly if they did it would probably lean into the guro even more so I’m not sure if I’d actually want that lol

also the story seems to be a very Evangelion-inspired hyper-mega-traumapain experience so I’ve been deliberately ignoring that. thankfully it’s told in an incredibly vague Soulslike way for now so I haven’t been able to put the pieces together and I hope to keep it that way lol

Can you count to 4? I can't...

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I'm feeling a bit like #Modding today, so we're just gonna chill and work on some #HideousDestructor mods today. I know it's not my usual, but it's all I really feel like doin'

https://twitch.tv/undead_zeratul

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Small update to my recent #HideousDestructor weapon pack. A detonator is now required to actually detonate the new "grenades". These will spawn alongside them, almost all of the time. They can also be found in backpacks.

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Recently decided to start working on creating my own #HideousDestructor weapon pack, and first on the list is a "grenade" you have to manually detonate. Still a bit of a work in progress, but not too bad for my first actual bit of content!

https://github.com/UndeadZeratul/uzHDWeapons

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