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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Oh here's a fun one, I had just heard of RAMP, the Rabbit's Allcomers Mapping Project by DavidXNewton, and had the bright idea of trying them out with Hideous Destructor! Honestly the fact that every map is a pistol start gave me flashbacks to when we tried Spooktober with Dusted's Pandemonia, but otherwise the maps were small and short enough to work!

https://youtu.be/rSSKPhpalR8

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What's worse than one adult Deviler?

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