any Doom thoughts

does anyone know Freedoom forks?

Then assign the unused Doom 2 monster states to redundant thing slots such as the blocking hanging corpses, Bloody Mess 2, and Dead Lost Soul.

Ultimate Doom has the exact amount of states as Doom 2. It is possible.

joe-ilya I'm having trouble following your line of thinking. it sounds like youre proposing that people recreate the desired monsters and weapons from Doom 2 in Doom 1 with DeHackEd.

I'm fairly confident that more people have Doom 2 than registered Doom 1, and it seems kinda wasteful to repurpose content as Doom 2 stuff when Doom 2 is already available and functional without any user manipulation.

I did say that Doom 1 is kinda cool for having the episode selection thing, but if i really needed the episode titles, id probably use mapslots to build a map that communicates the change in episode, kinda like the skill level and episode picker map at the start of quake 1.

I'm just saying having Doom 2 stuff in Ultimate Doom is possible if you really want that episode select screen.

It's also possible to put the episode format into Doom 2, by repurposing the difficulty settings into an episode select screen, and having a teleporter at the start to lead the player to three different levels in a single map depending on skill level, by having only one of the three teleporter destinations to appear in a different level per difficulty setting.
If you use this method with Ultimate Doom, you can have episodes within episodes! 4 episodes, with 3 episodes within each; that's 12(!) episodes, with a total of 108 levels inside a single wad.

Being vanilla compatible is much cooler

Being confusing and clunky to make; yeah. Being confusing and clunky to play; not really.

Being just vanilla compatible is a memorial to schizophrenia. It'd be better to have a mod and a source port for it that runs on the same hardware which vanilla was targeting for. Better if it performs faster than vanilla. If it can't run vanilla demos, well. Fuck vanilla demos

I usually read the text that come with the map so I would be fine(this is a hypothetical situation)

I believe the reason kex doom feels of is because of mouse lag

I would say this is the number one biggest flaw and offense.   Playing it really feels off and not like Doom.   I suppose the team thinks precise accurate mouse control is simply not a priority or worse yet, good players need to be taken down to the level of disabled (They're handicapable not handicapped!) for equity and equality for all!   After all, having handicapped accessible options on by default was such a big priority.   At least it starts out prompting you whether to leave them on or not, for now.   Reminds me of a short story, Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut in his book Welcome to the Monkey House.   There was also an Outer Limits episode that seems to be based on it.  Pretty sure the Blinken/Obama/Harris administration is going to appoint a Handicapper General soon.

The weird thing is that Strife: Veteran's Edition does feel like playing the Doom engine, even with some of Strife's weapons being less responsive by their origin programming.   So they majorly screwed something up since then, just like they did in Eternity engine, compared to Boom that's based on.   I think the underlying root cause is that many engineers whether regular or software type, are in fact retarded and deficient in many ways.

The Kex feeling off shit isn’t even Doom-specific. Anything using that shit feels off. Try to bring it up and you’re dismissed by the devs or your hardware is finger pointed for blame.