Wolfenstein Revealed Finished!

Good news people! Wolfenstein Revealed is Done!

I finished the mapping for episodes 5 and 6 of the wolfenstein 3D map set today. Being the first slaughtermap mapset for wolf3d, the mapping in it had to be really well done. I had to make it hard and use tons and tons of hard enemies at times but also keep the enemy count under 150 per level.
(A hardcoded Wolf3d limit).

It wasn't easy making this... Making tons of tons of enemies in modified randomly genned maps is tough because of the enemy limit especially. A lot of the maps had over 149 enemies and adding  too many was not an option. I had to carefully place enemies on certain maps. In others I couldnt even add new enemies because the enemy limit was approaching or at 149 already thanks to oblige.

So I tried to add  as many enemies as a could to the medium and small maps. Big maps were mostly left alone. It makes some maps big and easier and others smaller and hard as fuck. The wadset will come with it's own vswap file that contains new sprites and textures and 2 bosses have been replaced with new enemies that fit the slaughtermap theme well (hordes of minibosses - something wolf3d lacks). The flamethrower guard is the replacement for the fake hitlers from e3m9 and is mean and very deadly. Also the chaingun SS is there and he is as hard as grettel grosse yet used multiple times per level! Expect this to get HARD for a wolf3d addon.

The way the episodes break down is this....

Episode 1 - Hordes of Guards. SS, Dogs and Officers as well in small numbers mostly.
Episode 2 - Hordes of Mutants. Guards, SS, Dogs, officers and minibosses in small numbers
Episode 3 - Hordes of Officers and minibosses. Guards, SS, Dogs, Mutants used rarely.
Episode 4 - Just like Episode 3 but with even MORE minibosses
Episode 5 - Hordes of SS and Minibosses, plus other enemies used rarely.
Episode 6 - Hordes of SS, Minibosses, and Mutants. Other enemies used rarely

I modeled the enemy placement after hell revealed for doom 2. I wanted it to play like hell revealed enemy placement wise in wolf3d. It came out really good. At times it's easier than you might think but at other times it's nuts. Hordes of minibosses in the later episodes make them really really hard. So hard Autowolf (the automatic wolfenstein project) Can't beat episode 3 and later without me
MLI'ing it to death!

Mean enemy placement is quite common. Expect some places where guards are placed in the room the player starts, sometimes in hordes! Starting some maps from scratch is impossible. Beating some maps may be very hard to impossible. I don't know. I haven't play tested it yet. Autowolf has fits with it... It's so hard it cannot beat it easily 90% of the time... Which is normal for hard wolf3d maps but still... Ammo is scarce so you have to conserve in this. Using machinegun on anything but Chaingun SS and Bosses is recommended.  For  them use chaingun but nothing else. You will really have to do beat this. Autowolf uses chaingun and runs out of ammo quickly. You need to be an ace wolf3d player to beat this. That is guaranteed.

Release Date : Soon

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Wolfenstein Revealed (My Slaughtermap Wolf3d Addon) Almost Done!

Been working hard on Wolfenstein Revealed. In the first day of development of this modified randomly generated slaughtermap 6 episode replacement for wolf3d, I got episode 1 and 2 done. They are easy compared to episode 3 and 4, it turned out when I did episode 3 and 4 yesterday.
Episode 3 and 4 are nuts...

Two new enemies are introduced in Wolfenstein Revealed and both are very tough AND appear in huge hordes later on (but not right away).  The first is the flamethrower guard, a new kind of guard that replaces the Fake Hitlers that you see in e3m9 in wolf3d.  He is armed with the same gun they use and is far more common, appearing in episode 2 and later and appears in giant packs in episode 3 and later.

The second Enemy is the Chaingun toting Super SS. This is a Grettel Grosse Replacement. It is quite hard to kill being the same health as Grettel. Since no source code mods are being used to build Wolfenstein Revealed (for the purposes of being compatible with Autowolf), this enemy is quite hard. It doesn't appear till the end of episode 2 in e2m9 but starts to become a regular enemy in episode 3 and by episode 5 it is used in small groups, and it one huge horde boss fight in e5m9!

Here is a screenshot of a fight with a pack of flamethrower guards:

And here is a screenshot of a later level in the editor.... See the brown asterisks? They are all miniboss monsters like flamethrower guards!

The difficulty of this addon is quite insane. It's about equal difficulty to hell revealed for doom2 in wolfenstein. Not as many enemies but the 149 enemy limit makes doing 300+ enemies per level impossible. I had to keep the enemy count below 150 and in some maps that made doing big hordes impossible. In others, I just filled the rooms with huge hordes of enemies. In one map you start with about 50 officers in the first room. In another you fight about 60  mutants in the first two rooms. That's pretty extreme for wolf3d. The new enemies are deadly enough that fighting 5-10 per room is like fighting 15 revenants in doom 2. They are quite hard and you fight hordes of them. Just like a slaughtermap should be.

The episode replacement is turning out quite nicely. In a few days I will wrap it up to make the ULTRA hard episode 5 and 6. They will make episode 3 and 4 look Easy... It is turning out to be quite an adventure making such a groundbreakingly difficult addon for a game. NO ONE has even attempted to make a slaughtermap episode for wolf3d. A few Spear of destiny addons called SOD-Extreme used giant hordes of enemies (thanks to the sourcecode) but thats about it. They never attempted boss hordes like this will...

It will be a FIRST for wolf3d. The first Slaughtermap ever made for it... Kickass!

WOLFENSTEIN REVEALED! Slaughtermap episodes for Wolf3d in the works!

Time to bring the Slaughtermap to Wolfenstein 3D People!
(Don't wanna let doom have all the fun!)
 In that aim I have started work on the ultimate difficulty test for Wolf3d Players... Behold.....
WOLFENSTEIN REVEALED!

Wolfenstein Revealed is what it would be like to Have Hell Revealed gameplay in Wolf3d... Basically it throws HORDES of enemies at you and in later levels Hordes of bosses! (That includes Hans Grosse's and other bosses) It's my new pet project to attempt to make the hardest Wolf3d mapset EVER!

Slaughtermaps for other games have been lacking, I notice. It seems Doom 2 has a ton. But other games like Wolf3d, Serious Sam, Quake, etc have little to none. Time to correct that! As you can see with this screenshot it's quite difficult:

That's only e1m3 people out of 60 new levels to be done... to speed up the process of making 60 maps I had help... I had no choice. I had to randomly generate the layouts of all 60 maps with a modded oblige 0.97 to help me a little. I still did the enemy placement though... That is the good news... And it's difficult. Episode 1 is the only one I have done and it's quite hard. But later episodes will be WAY harder... This is just the beginning people. It's not nearly as hard as episodes 2-6 will be. They will be NUTS!

Here is a screenshot of one map in the editor:

that's from E1m7.

It's gonna get way harder in episodes 2-6. This is just the start people. Episode 1 is designed to be easy compared to the others. By the time we reach episode 3 it will get hard as fuck with gigantic hordes of nazi's per level and lots of bosses. Bosses will start  to be used like crazy in later levels, just like in Hell Revealed. A new miniboss, a flamethrower guard is mostly going to be the one that will be used in insane hordes, but expect 5-10 hans grosse's per room later on!

It's going to be NUTS! I can't wait...

HARDEST WOLF3D MAPSET EVER HERE WE COME!