Man it's wild that we're already done with SOMA. I know it's not necessarily a long game, I just feel it's can't have already been almost a month since we posted the first bonus Saturday VOD on it. Time moves too quickly, y'all.

Anyways, we start off today's VOD finishing off the game, but since we were left with some time we picked back up a still new-to-me-at-the-time mod called Hideous Destructor. This was still back before I had my own reskin, HUD mod, any of it. And I picked a mapset that I was definitely not prepared for...

SOMA, though, man I don't think I'm ever going to forget this game. Legitimately I still think of the themes and questions presented in this game to this day. It's mostly earlier portions, but every once in a while I'll come back to the ending scene here. Hopefully my playthrough was enjoyable and thought provoking for you, and thank you all for coming along on this journey.

https://youtu.be/TjExg-1zq0o

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As we cross the halfway point through 2023 (which by the way, can I just say it's crazy how were already midway through 2023 already?) we put a pause on the Hardcore Minecraft to return to our own personal hell that is #HDest + ZeroBrightness.

I really should return to this corner of my interests, and it's serendipitous that today's VOD brings us back, even if only for a little while. I've been unable to devote the resources needed to prioritize modding during 2026, which is a shame because I even intended on posting more devlogs...

On top of that there's a bit of a shakeup with the latest commits and how backpacks are handled internally, which will require a bit of reading and understanding before I can update every addon backpack to work with the new system, so it's going to be both challenging as well as rife with opportunities to post about, so hopefully I can muster up the motivation to return sooner rather than later...

Anyways, for now, enjoy my suffering as we return to Hideous Destructor.

https://youtu.be/Vng3H-dGGbQ

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This whole week was quite a bit more time to myself since I literally was alone at home, so we had plenty of downtime to make use of. Today's VOD finds us back in the dark and chaotic corridors of ZeroBrightness with our tried and true HDest load order, getting in firefights with all sorts of denizens of the Tyrant's forces.

In the years since this playthrough, as you may have seen if you follow along any of my devlogs I've posted, I've been hard at work refactoring the hell out of several common systems the mod and it's addons use, so I haven't really had much opportunity to play since then, and even when I have the ability to return to this mapset, I have things set up so drastically different it's almost like I would need to start over again...

Once we do, though, whoo boy do I have high expectations for such a replay. My entire setup has been rebalanced so much it's hardly going to feel the same as it once did, and hopefully that's for the better!

https://youtu.be/ykO-aPFUyuE

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Today's VOD comes in a bit off-schedule, as my wife had to go out of town for a bit of a family emergency at the time, leaving me to fend for myself for about a week. Since we had nothing else to do on this day, after dropping her off at the airport at 4am, I decided to make use of the extra time that evening to hop on stream for a bit and run some HDest with a mapset that was new to me at the time, ZeroBrightness.

This is such a fantastic mapset, one that I would love to return to at some point, although the exact setup I used for these streams has been updated since then, so I'd have to either recreate the save file (again) or start over. Plus, my entire configuration has been tweaked so much since then, it would be a bit jarring to just hop back in, but we'll see.

I love this mapset, with its pitch black, cramped CQB and (mostly) low-tier enemies, makes for some frantic firefights. The load order I ran with has become my "main" loadouts, although nowadays I've been playtesting with a much more restricted setup, opting to start with nothing but a knife, pistol + 50 rounds, and a leather jacket. That would leave me without any flashlight, which is sorely needed here.

Man, even just thinking about this mapset makes me want to return to it... We'll get something set up for it again in the future, so keep an eye out for it.

https://youtu.be/UVfjuUSmpnI

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I really should find more time to play HDest with friends. Today's VOD was the first time I properly attempted this on stream, and things went fairly smoothly, all thing considered! There have been some refinements over the last few years for sure, and while we did attempt another session recently to much less success in the actual gameplay department, it was still a fun time considering everyone understands the hoops we have to jump through just to get this shit to work right, unfortunately.

Maybe someday I'll look into some sort of launcher or framework around reining in all of these load order issues, maybe then the sort of manual work trying to figure out those issues can get squashed.

Anyways, today's co-op session finds us joined by Tunasz, who has been a part of our little community since the Shared Hardcore days, as well as the co-op runs with Supercharge and Fragport. Today, though, we're simply running HDest with Kuchitsu to get ourselves acclimated. The mapset was nice, perfect for a 2-person romp.

https://youtu.be/zWOcRjJ7xtU

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One of the members of the #HideousDestructor community recently dropped this fan music album, full of #DarkAmbience goodness that really gives off a nice foreboding vibe, perfectly fitting with the horror adjacent setting of not just HDest, but #Doom itself, as well as the #BoomerShooter genre as a whole!

https://tetreault.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-hideous-destructor

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One thing I've been interested in when playing HDest is playing with a mapset that's much more open-ended. The fact that HDest is designed to encourage you to sequence break, mantle over ledges, crawl through tight spaces, all lend itself towards maps that are designed to be approached in multiple ways. It's why Diabolus Ex works so well, and is a mapset I really should play on stream at some point!

For today, though, we have a mapset that connects all of Ultimate Doom's episodes into single maps. This means we can clear out each individual level and seamlessly transition to the next, or take shortcuts to other maps entirely, or even backtrack to previous maps to resupply. The concept has been done several times for sure, but Blanket Doom here does it in a way I find quite pleasant.

https://youtu.be/TlfQBdVHfLw

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I really should give RAMP an honest try at some point, there are some really interesting maps in here! So much so that I made the silly decision to return with Hideous Destructor for a second stream.

Keep in mind this is still back when I first started my adventures with HDest. Still quite green and unrefined with my gameplay, I have come quite a long way in the last few years, crazy how much in fact. Not only that, but my entire setup here is still before I actively contributed to the community, so I was still finding the aesthetic I wanted out of the mod. Both aspects will evolve as we return to this underrated aspect of the Doom Community.

https://youtu.be/wX00FirlFXk

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