[RC2]Hypothermia, 5 slaughter maps for boom -(cl9)

Damn, it's pretty cool to see a map that's recognizably yours but at a much larger scale. I loved this. Played through it once with saves then successfully recorded a demo after about six attempts. HypothermiaDemo
The only problem I ran into was that when I played through it with saves, somehow a revenant ended up falling off a wall or something and ended up back on the orange fortress side of things, and I couldn't find a way to open those gates back up to kill him, I just had to go through the exit.
I think the item balance is right in the Goldilocks zone of really helpful but not overly generous. The hardest part of the map IMO is when the first four cyberdemons teleport in. You can get blocked off pretty easily and I was never consistent with it. Most of my failed demo attempts happened here but luckily for me it's very early into the map.
I played with DSDA DOOM, and I didn't have any issues with the MIDI, but I use the SDL soundfont because if I remember right, DSDA's default soundfont makes a lot of MIDIs sound like garbage.
One nitpick is I wish the insets near the starting weapons were set to impassable, it feels pretty janky running around in there.
Loved this map a lot, it really inspires me to want to make something on this scale too.

I haven't been able to get past the first part so far. This is a really obnoxious amount of monsters to kill with not very good weapons. If I can live long enough, the four cyberdemons wipe everything out and I have to grind them all to death with underpowered weaponry and no backpack. I'd really like to be able to see the rest of the map but this is a lot of work.

Took me some time, but I finally added all the difficulty settings and improvements previously mentioned.
The concept of difficulties changed a bit since last time but one of them should be accessible for almost anyone.

-UV is mostly the same.
-HMP is just a toned-down UV with fewer monsters. (The map starts out of 2 cybies instead of 4 etc.)
-HNTR is renamed to Imperturbable Journey now. The monster count is greatly decreased, it is 15% of the original one. Some monsters are also replaced with weaker ones.
Gameplay should mostly feel the same but without requiring much effort from the players. It's perfect for anyone who wants to play on autopilot and experience the levels.
(I saw somewhere recently that some people are actually interested in slaughter maps with a small number of monsters as playing them empty would be too boring.)

Here are the kill counts for different difficulties to be more apparent.
UV:1288
HMP:1000
IJ:207

Changes:
-Difficulty settings are now implemented
-Added backtracking once players finishes the level
-Inlets are now impassable in the armory
-New placeholder Titlepic

Thanks for playing matador!
No worries about the demo. I keep forgetting that dsda-doom has this many features, I guess I'll have to start using it more eventually.

There were no skill settings before the update, so before Jan 5.
I'll add a different version number after each update and a changelog from now on to prevent unnecessary confusion.

I was excited to see a Hypothermia update today. The 10x10 secret in MAP01 made me smile real big 

I could not finish MAP02. Got to the conveyor fight. The map felt fair until that fight and the bridge fight just before it. I really enjoyed all of the map until then, every arena has clever combat chess, and the texturing and lighting effects are beautiful. The design is distinctively Fryuko, I had a lot of fun playing what I could of the map tonight. I recorded a tiny bit of my gameplay at the end.
The bridge fight is good, with the perfect monster type/count/placement, but there's not enough ammo there. I don't know if this is because I went the blue key route first or what. The fight already felt really tight on ammo, I used all of the rockets and cells up on the pinkies and had just barely enough to take out the archviles if I made no mistakes, but then there's still like a dozen or so of the hell nobles and all of the mancubi left alive! I show this at the beginning of the video. I could have used like ten more rockets and a cell charge pack for this fight.
I have no idea how you're supposed to get through the conveyor fight. I tried for fifteen, maybe twenty minutes, then recorded for another eight minutes just to show you some of my attempts, but then I had to quit. Even if I somehow scraped through, it would have felt like RNG to me and like there's no way I could replicate it. I don't know if I'm the wrong skill level but for me it felt unfair. The conveyor felt janky, and I did my best to avoid this room altogether when I could. I never wanted to take the teleport loop because occasionally Doomguy would skip over the teleport linedef and get caught at the end of the hall, unable to move backwards against the conveyor. Even if this weren't the case and I could take the teleport every time, I would still avoid it, because I don't get how to ride the conveyor without slamming into, and getting stuck on, one or two or five enemies that are half on/half off the conveyor and therefore stuck in place and causing a pileup. The blue arch near the corner is another obstacle in this way. The archvile seems to have way too much of a vantage point, being able to zap you anywhere along the conveyor. The only safe space is right below him. That wouldn't be so bad if you could focus him but the cyberdemon rockets make this impossible, whether cybie's stuck blocking off the majority of the conveyor, or zipping past at high speed. I felt guaranteed to take a rocket or a zap if I so much as entered this dark place. The cyberdemon was like the icing on the cake for me when it comes to feeling like you don't even want the player to experience the conveyor gimmick and do everything you can to make that L-shaped hallway as inhospitable as possible. Whether in the conveyor room, or out among the cacodemons, all of my deaths seemed to occur because I got blocked off by enemies and couldn't move or even plasma my way through them.
I really wanted to get through this room to see the rest of the map, but this fight is beyond my abilities.
As of 2:50AM, this YouTube video is only 12% uploaded, but I'll leave the link here and hopefully it's uploaded by the time you see this.
Hypothermia 02 Gameplay

Wonderful map. Looks and feels pretty professional. Got through it without much trouble this time around. My favorite fight is probably the one on top of the dam. The blursphere fight was the hardest for me, this is the only one that gives me pause as far as trying to record a demo goes. I like the way you salvaged the conveyor with the chaingunner/archvile setup at the end. I had trouble finding the red skull key because it was covered by a caco corpse. I just ran around aimlessly for awhile thinking I missed a switch somewhere until I picked it up by accident. Maybe this key could go somewhere more noticeable. Or it could have monster-blocking lines for the 32-64 units around it. I feel the same about the megasphere that pops up for the final fight, this was also fairly hidden by corpses. I had 400 cells starting the big final fight here so maybe two cell charge packs being replenished alongside the megasphere would be nice. I know symmetry is your bread and butter but I think interspersing a couple more asymmetrical arenas like the blursphere fight would be nice in future maps. Or even like how the big fight in MAP01 is mostly symmetrical but the caco-laser-pits being asymmetrical changes the flow of the fight there in a more interesting way.
Three issues I ran into (https://imgur.com/a/krw17sI)
First image- A few cacos somehow started coming up and out through the lasers before I even pressed the switch or fired a shot or anything. Everything else stayed in place though.
Second image- The first time I went through the teleport, I came out clipped into this wall. I tried to replicate it but was unable to.
Third image- Thirty enemies remaining at the end of the level, so I IDCLIP'd to your monster closets to find these guys still here.
I had been playtesting 10x10 and accidentally loaded both 10x10.wad and Hypothermia.wad from the launcher so maybe this could account for one of these glitches somehow but it didn't seem to have any effect other than giving the cyberdemon the leather-daddy HFFM sprites and changing the INTERPIC.
Awesome map though, there's quite a variety of combat puzzles and they're all a lot of fun. I think I like this map even more than the first, which is a promising sign for more to come.

Sorry for the bump, but the first version of map04 is here: Download:0.30 (changed up the level order a bit, ex-map02 is now map03)

Let's hope this release goes better than the last one.
Probably my biggest map. Has 9 fights and the usual choose betwwen tho fights approach. Play time is somewhere between 40-50 minutes on an average playthtough. Not as challenging as the previous one. I still think that ammo might be a bit to abundant. You get the bfg almost right away, so this turns it into a spam map. I'll try to avoid doing this again. Originally I had more plans with puzzles platforming and crushers, too bad I can't come up with better fight designs.
I was constantly running out of usable linedefs during the finale so I had to cut back on smaller fights and on detailing.
A new dehacked monster also makes an appearance here, detailed in the description.

Thanks for the demo and feedback! I'll make sure to watch it.

Yeah map02 is pretty bare bones as of right now. There is barely enough resources to complete the first encounter.
What's there is my attempt at planning some fights and finding new texture combinations, it also helps with making the layout more interconnected.
I'm usually not a huge fan of blockin-out maps in advance, but wanted to give it a go nontheless.

Sorry to hear that the new map runs poorly. I had some frame drops in the central area too, but thought that it's only a gzdoom issue, as it ran just fine with dsda. I'll try to look into it, there might be a solution to make the performance better.

Your screenshots are outstanding Fryuko. Really impressive work with the detailing and texture alignment.