Chronicles of Ghost Town

^Um, thank you?! Assuming that wasn't sarcasm I don't intend on doing any more DBP maps but I'll make a few here and there.
You should also look up Doom 2 Redux. I made like 9 maps on it.

All the DBPs need to go on ModDB. It's a really good place to upload Doom WADs.

Do you guys even do any difficulty balancing? Gave this a shot and couldn't get past map03. on ITYTD for Christ's sake.

Get good nerd.

xeepeep
My map (Slot 14) has the different difficulties implemented and balanced  

Couldn't figure it out and skipped to map02 😅😭

Wasn't able to playtest many of these maps, so I thought I'd do a playthrough and share some of my thoughts about the maps.
MAP01
matador
Great map, saw this in a much earlier state, but felt it was too soon to give a ton of feedback on at the time, I could tell there was going to be so much more to it. It's massive compared to its size before. Aesthetics are nice, the fights are good, it's fun to explore.
MAP02
mattfright
This map was super nerfed. There was probably somewhere in between its current difficulty and its original difficulty it could have been balanced to, if it even needed it. I loved it the way it was honestly.
MAP03
kvsari
Enjoyed the changes that were added to the map, still never found the secret key.
MAP04
40oz
Got stuck after grabbing the blue key. The bars stay up but there's a teleporter by some boxes that you can use to go back to the top floor. Was it always this way? I legitimately thought I was softlocked because I couldn't find the teleporter until I watched Bugo's playthrough. Other than that, great map. Really like the look of this one.
MAP05
SilverMiner
I think the changes work well here, good job.
MAP06
a2rob
Really great looping layout with memorable fights. For some reason the structure of it reminds me of your HFFM map, but it could be just how you design maps. Unfortunately I still haven't gotten around to playing Running Late so I wouldn't totally know. In the later stages of the map, there's plenty of health but it seems pretty stingy in the beginning, that's my only complaint. Great map, enjoyed it.
MAP07
@joeilya
I'm impressed you got this to not only a playable state, but it's detailed and balanced well. I remember thinking there was a lot of work to go when I looked at it in the editor. Really cool map that's fun to explore. Though it is long so it really really sucks to blow yourself up with the rocket launcher, which happened to me a couple times, considering it's your main weapon and there's an annoying amount of lost souls. The 'Exit Open' signs were a clever touch, I really dug that.
MAP08
JadingTsunami
Progression is a little obtuse and I was so low on ammo at the end I was forced to chaingun the exit-blocking barons but beyond that it's an enjoyable romp.
MAP09
Chainie
Fun level, the key traps were fun, particularly the one that's entirely lost souls, I'd like to do something like that in the future.
MAP10
Fryuko
Amazing level. Love the structure, detailing, combat configurations, everything. Probably my favorite map of yours I've played so far.
MAP11
40oz
Great structure/layout, fun fights. Could have used some ammo placements in the end fight. I finished the map with 100 bullets, 20 cells (with no BFG or Plasma Rifle) and 0 everything else.
MAP12
40oz
Probably my favorite map of yours in this project. There's lots of things that make different moments of the map stand out from each other. The skeleton maze was the highlight for me. I liked how earlier in the map you're not afraid to let the player feel stuck but not for long enough that they get frustrated (Having to figure out going through the waterfall and figuring out that you have to drop down to reach the switch).
MAP13
nxGangrel
I almost love this map. My main problem is balancing, mostly with ammo, but with health too. It's frustrating to play games of peek-a-boo around corners, taking things super slowly, forcing enemies to infight to save ammo, and then still finding myself down to a damn chainsaw multiple times. Even when you're designing an ammo starvation map, keep in mind you're going to play your map better than anyone. You know where all the enemies, item placements, secrets, etc are. You're going to make every shot count. Nobody else is. So I would've suggested maybe take whatever amount of ammo it takes you to beat the map and add an additional 10-20% of that for everyone that's not you. There's some nasty chaingunner traps, particularly nasty when I'm coming into every room low on health. It's totally Plutonia, but it's really degrading to die to something like that halfway through a map that ultimately took me twenty-nine minutes to complete. Eventually I started using saves when I got hit with that chaingunner trap near the key with the raising lava. Even with the soulsphere secret, I don't enjoy that trap.
The floor's pretty bumpy in a lot of areas. In places where you're just doing something for detailing, you can hold down shift while you drag the sector up and down for smaller increments than DOOM's standard of 8, so that the bumpiness isn't as exaggerated. I like to use a lot of 2 unit and 4 unit sector heights for detailing stuff, I think that helps against bumpy floor syndrome.
There's a lot of things I love in this map. It's quite the adventure, the fights are tough and often claustrophobic, and well orchestrated. Progression is normally very well done, especially for such a labyrinthine map, using sounds that allow the player to hear where something opened and only takes a short investigation to find the path. I was still sometimes a little lost but not often. The ammo starvation is ultimately what brought my enjoyment of the map down.
MAP15
deathbear
Holy fuck, what a map. The spawling layout, clever arenas, beautiful detailing, intuitive progression, all perfect. Probably my favorite of the set. This is damn fine mapping.
MAP16
dmdr
I really enjoyed the map this time around, it's quite the slaughtery little finale. I love the amount of archviles here. It really works well now and I had tons of fun with it.
MAP17
40oz
Nice credits map.

This was solid all around.

I switched to HNTR for nxGangrel's because I don't manage ammo well. It was "forced linear skinny path" for the most part which I don't usually like, but it connected together in a cool way. Not bad.
My favorite was Map07 by joeilya. I'm sure some people don't like the progression as they stumble around for the last mancubus pit they missed, but I loved this map.

I gotta circle back to the rainy Casablanca set. I quit playing the beta version because the first few maps had some gamestopper bugs, but I liked what I was seeing otherwise.

From now on any futher DBPs will be featured on Russian Doom Community site, I'll make sure to post them here as soon as new ones are come out.

Currently covered latest two, so that to be AUGER:ZENITH and this one.

Great job with both, folks, I'm pretty sure each next one will come even better.