Bloody Rust 3

Have you been working on a map for this wad?

I scrapped my layout and am making a new one, the premise right now is to simply put a simple brown square building in a colourful terrain, the map will be easy-going.

Cool, I hope I can play it soon.

jawsinspace Here's V2 with a lot of fixes, adjustments and improvements, plays way less rough.
Link : www.doomshack.org/uploads/building_v2.wad

Hi, sorry for the late reply, I was in vacation mode the past week. As much as I would like the map of a former Bloody Rust series mapper this project does have all of it's slots filled.

Hello guys,

Just a quick update for the 2 Doomerboards members that are part of Bloody Rust 3. Over on Doomworld Alfonzo has been hard at work making 6 custom midis for all 6 maps in the project. Below are the midis for your maps if you wanted to listen to them. As for the rest of the project, as soon as Alfonzo finishes up the last few midis I'll compile everything together & release it. If everything goes well then everything will be done before February.

For Joe-Ilya's map
Digging Up Ghosts

For nxgangrel's map
Soul Clamp

Hell yeah, I spent about an hour with Digging Up Ghosts on repeat while playing and looking around my map, finding various moods of melancholy.

Par time in my map is 6:00

Alright guys here's the beta. Bloody Rust 3 Beta
All of the maps should be completeable in PRBoom, so if they aren't tell me. Final Release will be April 1st.

I took a little skim through the mappack, it looks mighty fun and impressive, but I've already managed to find a couple of small errors.

MAP03 has a bleeding sector right at the start.
MAP06 has a bleeding sector on the stairs that lead to the last arena.

My map also has one, it's on one of the few gray rock stairs, I'll give a more specific coordinate later, and maybe more once I play through the mapset.

EDIT : Here's the bleeding sector coordinates :
X: -100 Y: 1400

Here's my playthrough :

The gibbing animation for the auto shotgun guy is not proper and the last frame still has gore in the air.

MAP01 : Solid map, a lot of fun! Great meaty introduction.

MAP02 : Quite the grind at the beginning when pistol starting, I feel like replacing many of the chaingunners and revenants with simple imps would work much better, so many times there was just no time to react, with revenants abruptly teleporting right behind my back, and random chaingunners opening up while no cover is provided, replacing that cheesy AV trap with a revenant would work a lot better to improve flow and let the unsuspecting player have at it without having to grind through resurrected corpses, and make the expecting player actually fight it, without being able to trap it inside its closet.

MAP03 : Best looking map with some great atmosphere!
I still have some complaints though, that drop down to the lava on the way to the yellow key has two hell knights that aren't fun to kill with a pump shotgun, I feel like replacing them with a group of imps would work wonders, making them all infight will take more effort and killing less of a grind.
Some of the doors that surround the player spawn are untextured and pegged.
There's too many pillars in the arch-vile arena that make it not a challenge at all, if it was only two pillars, with one being raised while the other one is lowered, it would be make the player run back and forth behind the pillars while avoiding fireballs and AV fire.
Teleporters in the inescapable lava pits would be good, do they really add anything to the gameplay besides bullshit? If you don't want people walking willy nilly on the lava with the radiation suits, then maybe only limit them for the lava-crusher maze so that it won't be abused for safe lava camping.
The weird lava lift in the lava-crusher maze is not very clear, why not give it a texture of a lift? I got lost for a bit because of it.

MAP04 : Best gameplay map, with a classy Doom-II atmosphere.

MAP06 : Flow could be improved a bit by removing the small BFG trap and cutting straight to the meat of it, which is the encounter that's afterwards.
I'm no slaughterfest expert, but it feels the last arena is way too luck based because of the AVs, because sometimes they'll just start attacking from miles away, maybe another set of pillars will remedy this.
There's also way too many enemy types cobbled together over there, the best solution I found was to provoke infighting and only until it all comes down to the remaining hell knights and cacos. If you limit the enemy types to just the AVs, revenants, cybruisers and the complimentary cacos, then the infighting strategy won't be as useful and would encourage players to further use the BFG.