GRUG
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Post by GRUG on Apr 9, 2021 11:57:14 GMT -5
Who's old school here?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2021 13:19:51 GMT -5
I'm not a fan of multiplayer Doom.
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40oz
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Post by 40oz on Apr 9, 2021 15:35:21 GMT -5
If we can call zandronum 'skulltag' with a namechange instead of its own thing, I'm pretty sure odamex is the baby, out of the big three, right?
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Post by GRUG on Apr 9, 2021 15:41:23 GMT -5
If we can call zandronum 'skulltag' with a namechange instead of its own thing, I'm pretty sure odamex is the baby, out of the big three, right? Odamex is like the littlest of the three Doom source ports. The other 2 being Zandronum & ZDaemon. I like Odamex only because it's netcode is a bit better especially when playing on servers halfway around the globe. |
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Post by 40oz on Apr 9, 2021 18:02:18 GMT -5
I use zandronum begrudgingly. Mostly because I play in cooperative mode and it feels a little bit smoother to me than odemex does. Plus it is what most people have and it's a little smoother to set it up. Odamex feels like real doom to me though, and it would be my source Port of choice if it had more players.
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Post by xeepeep on Apr 10, 2021 9:14:35 GMT -5
I play zdaemon. For zandronum, good luck finding a game that doesn't use a gigabyte worth of wads, and for odamex... well, good luck finding a game.
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Gokuma
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Post by Gokuma on Apr 10, 2021 20:31:46 GMT -5
I like all three. Zandronum is my usual go-to with the most features. I really love using 3D sector transfers to make true 3D structures and its control is silky smooth. But yeah, the load of stuff you gotta download to play most servers is annoying and mostly likely for net performance to be affected by all the crazy stuff. Odamex is amazingly vanilla for a ZDoom base with options to be more ZDoom and they recently updated the mouse code to be better than vanilla. ZDaemon has a lot of good action going on and is a good middle of the road between the other two. In working on a vanilla compatible DM pack, I'm doing much of my testing in plain old doom2.exe and jumping over to Zand just to see it in nice high res and a hardware mode that's more subdued than GZDoom. That said, I actually don't get around to playing online that often. Spend more of my free time (slowly) making stuff. I like them all enough to do a Sean Connery announcer for each. (but I think some things in my Zand version sound like they could use a redo). |
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