/vr/ - Retro Games

=== CURRENT PROJECTS ===
SUM TING /VR/Y WONG
https://desuarchive.org/vr/post/10413464
https://archive.org/details/shadow-warrior-mapping-kit

/Vertex Relocation/
IWAD : Doom 2 | Format : Boom
BETA V2: https://files.catbox.moe/tc0rgk.wad

Fraggot
IWAD : Doom 2 | Format : UDMF
https://desuarchive.org/vr/post/10885789

=== WHEN IT'S DONE ===
VIOLENT RUMBLE 2
https://desuarchive.org/vr/post/9941720

=== NEWS ===
[5-8] Brutal Half-Life Version 3 teaser released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4pvAGUPQEg

[5-7] DOOM 64 EX+ version 4.0.0.0 released
https://github.com/atsb/Doom64EX-Plus

[05-04] ZSAnimator, a Blender to ZScript workflow for weapon animations, has been released.
https://github.com/recurracy3/zsAnimator

[5-2] DOOM Retro version 5.4 released
https://www.doomretro.com/
https://github.com/bradharding/doomretro/

[05-01] Gnome Hunters Ep 1 released, short Boom wad about bastard gnomes.
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/144812-gnome-hunters-wad-episode-1/

[05-01] Embers of Armageddon updated to 1.9.3
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?p=1251915#p1251915

[4-30] Woof! version 14.5 released
https://github.com/fabiangreffrath/woof/

[04-29] GzDoom updated to 4.12.2
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=79053
Win7 support restored, rollsprites fixed, emulation for Doom95's Z teleport glitch for Saturnia's Map 10

[4-26] Anon suggests a Doom 2 Deathmatch project
https://desuarchive.org/vr/post/10885789

[4-21] Raze 1.10.1 released
https://github.com/ZDoom/Raze/

[4-21] Quake 2 Combat Jam 1 Released
https://www.moddb.com/games/quake-2/addons/quake-2-re-release-combat-jam-1

[4-17] CS1.6 now playable in your browser
https://game.play-cs.com

[4-17] Doom 2 MAP01 beaten in 4.97 seconds
https://youtu.be/Qm9aT2p7KxI [Embed]

=== PREVIOUS ===
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-vrTgPGmlLwdO5VHHCJMxmRD05E6XlNmqHIN8aykRG0
TO SUBMIT NEWS, REPLY TO THIS POST (ideally with the [mm-dd] date bracket)

>>10920172
I recall having a similarly styled game on WinXP PC and I think it was homebrew akin to something like kkrieger, only perhaps older. Each level was confined to a small cubic room filled with plentiful of boxes and platforms with collectibles on them, no 3D models but only sprites of bizarre enemies and weapons. Some footage details match, there are confined spaces with lowres backgrounds and no skies whatsoever, yet design appears more broad and complex so I'm not entirely convinced. Could be a lost game at this point.

>>10920329
>shotgun better probably
>monsters today, shitty otherwise
>violent outside
>brendon encounters
>bullshit certain
it feels like a story

Uh oh.

>>10920354
That's beautiful. Who's the artist?

>my meme collage is OP's pic
i made it bros

>>10920336
Yeah, PO'ed is a console exclusive title so it couldn't possibly be it. Also, not only the levels were small cubic rooms with no exploration and smooth transitions involved, I think of them in terms of puzzles where you assumedly had to kill every enemy to progress. Maybe it was so short so that's the reason it went forgotten and I can't find anything about it, piece of shovelware as they call it.

>>10916519
I was hoping to get a deathmatch map ready for hosting some Syndicate Black Ops, but figuring out how to compile a Half-Life .map was a degree more esoteric than figuring out how to compile a map for Quake. Still, I'd like to get some thursday evening deathmatching in with /doom/, so I'll be hosting after I eat. Meanwhile, here's SBO if you do not have it installed:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/syndicate-black-ops/downloads/syndicate-black-ops-v138

If you don't know, install to your half-life directory. Using Steam HL1. I also included all of the maps from Deathmatch Classic, a map from The Specialists, and HL1's own Stalkyard.
https://mega.nz/file/xNxiDQhK#uc15P1PPR30su99fecH_dKYvipwxTtjX7Fk06YM3FIY
Just unzip this folder to the same directory as Half-Life, or extract everything within this folder into your syndicate folder.

>>10920329
>mouse bullets
It's onto something, 5000 hours in Slade.

>Seeding the Doom Quickstart V2 torrent
>Two peers from China
Based. Hope their social credit score goes up.

God, Zscript's documentation is dog shit.

Sam I am.

>>10920425

>>10920375
And LIVE! Up and running use the new HL1 hosting, so the sever should be visible in the SBO server browser without me having to fuck with anything else. Please tell me if the server is joinable/visible.

>>10920448
I ain't seeing shit in the server browser

>>10920425
>>10920428
Don't really like how nu-id swapped their (scant) personalities. I always saw Doomguy as the stalwart who was thrust into biblical evil yet managed to keep his fortitude despite everything falling apart, while Ranger was the ugly bastard with resting "I fucking hate everything" face who went insane while being toyed with across infinite dimensions.

>>10920450
Cunt muffins. Hang on.

>>10920452
Yeah, I've always seen Doomguy as pic related rather than a terminally pissed off manbeast.

>>10920450
The right ports are forwarded from years back. Try joining direct from IP good anon:
192.168.1.155:27015

>>10920459
>192.168
bruh

>>10920452
Aren't all three basically the same kind of stalwart hero who pushes and fights ever on?

>>10920461
I've never cared about that sort of thing I assure you. Over 8 years hosting and nobody's ever fucked with me.

>>10920463
no man, that's your internal IP, nobody outside your house can connect to that
you need to post your external IP

>>10920468
47.147.66.48:2015
Bang anon.
>>10920459
>>10920375
3/32! We're ON. Anon reports being able to join from the browser.

>>10920468
I'm connecting
no idea what this mod even is tho

>>10920472
Best DM mod ever.

>>10920462
Yeah, but one has the hope of it ending, and the other is just resigned to eternal combat. Not too different, but the nihilism suits Quake's atmosphere more, I'd say.

>>10920452
>while Ranger was the ugly bastard with resting "I fucking hate everything" face who went insane while being toyed with across infinite dimensions.
he also cleans his wounds with salt out of spite

Mac I'm not sure what's up but you were in the game, you just needed to press 1 to join.

>>10920310

>>10920448
Still 3/32 get the FUCK in

>>10920448
4/32

Damn I've never seen a goldsrc game crash like that
Anyway I give up, enjoy yourselves

>>10920494
Get back here you SWINE

Does Quakeguy even exist past the first Quake? What is the actual lore?

>>10920501
>Does Quakeguy even exist past the first Quake?
Just in the multiplayer games.
>What is the actual lore?
He never got to go home.

>>10920329
>personally fighting fat
The wordsphere can hurt you in other ways.

>>10920464
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

>>10920464
Never thought I'd see eight doomguys doing goatse together.

>>10920448
3/32 still going

>DOOM 64 Super EX+
>Core sprites and animations are changed with no option to revert to core Doom 64 ones.
>Option to turn Cacodemons to "classic" look, but only changes the colors.
>Dozens upon dozens of new monsters and decorations.
>Several new weapons.
>Quake Nailgun and Quad Damage included.
>Two new difficulty levels.

What the fuck is this port?

>>10920448
GURASHU, server back up.

>>10920448
2/32

>>10920448
3/32, we've switched to co-op

>>10920448
4/32

>CTD
AAAAAAAAAAAA. I've got another in me boys hang on. We'll go to another map.

>>10920448
Server crash or is it me?

>>10920448
>>10920606
BACK UP.

>>10920605
Oh. That answers the question.

To all you tech guys out there, did the code from Doom get completely rewritten for Quake? And if no, what percentage of code was still from Doom? Then tell me what happened for Q2, Q3, and D3.

Doom mod that plays close to vanilla except there's debuffs.
>Bleeding
Increases when hit by any attack that spawns blood splatter. Decreases naturally when health is high enough, or intantly when picking up certain pickups. Lose health if bleeding too much for an extended period.
>Poisoning
Increases from hurtfloors, slightly increases from stimpacks and berserk (maybe from nearby barrel explosions?). Decreases from medikits. Lose health if too high, decreases when doing so.
>Insanity
Increases from nearby enemies, decreases when killing them. Slightly increases from stimpacks, berserk and spehere powerups.
Spawns "shadow" enemies when high enough, and killing them decreases it a lot.

>>10920609
>ACTUALLY STAY THERE
>*freeze in place as the server crashes*

>CRASH
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. Thanks for joining fellas, I have to be productive now.

>>10920689
Was good times. Thanks for hosting.

>>10920689
I'm not sure what you wanted me to do on that little platform............and now I'll never know...........

>>10920618
I like this HUD.

Bringing this up from the previous thread: anyone ever tried playing Doom in VR? I've tried a few source ports but they've been tricky to play since it feels like every gun shoots to the left of where I want to shoot instead of where the weapon sprite or crosshair is pointing.

>>10920741
That looks honestly cool, link to the wad please?

>>10920745
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/v-z/zanzan_g
ZanZan.

A strange and ambitious Total Conversion from the year 2000, made by one of the guys from ACE Team (Batman Doom). Doomworld still hosts this page after all this time. Has a cool and weird comic setting up the premise for the game.
https://www.doomworld.com/zanzan/

ZanZan was originally made for something called ZDoomGL, which was before GzDoom, the iDGames link is supposed to be an adapted version for later ZDoom, but I have no idea how well it works now

Man who hates demons ultimately becomes a demon himself in his pursuit of ending all demons. A tale as old as tales themselves. They say you can't have darkness without light but without light there would be only darkness. Perchance.

>>10920764
Huh...I will check this one after I end with some random stuff. Thank you anone

Anyone know how this works?
https://ericw-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bsputil.html
Ericw tools bsputil. Apparently it can decompile bsps into .maps, and I'd love to see some Quake bsps in this way, but I don't really understand how this works; the top part is my ericwtools bin directory, the bottom is the command line(?) on how to decompile a bsp. Where would I enter that?

>>10920774
you can't just say perchance

>>10920787
https://gamebanana.com/tools/5030

>>10920764
There's a surprising amount of neat stuff like this that's been mostly forgotten but is still there if you go looking for things that aren't the mods/maps/TCs that everybody knows about.

>>10920809
That doesn't work for Quake bsps, tried it ages ago. Or at the very least not for maps I'd like to decompile, like Something Wicked.

>>10920764

>>10920809
However I appreciate the thought anon.

>>10920790
Everyone knows Doomguy is cool as fuck.

made these posts several months ago, my end goal here was to convert the midis into a set of mus files with the instrument errors built in using midi2mus because i assume that's the closest thing to what the 360 music actually is, but the larger ones that exceeded the limit prevented me from doing so. does anyone know why doom exe is able to convert the larger midis into mus when you run them in a wad but not the standalone midi2mus exe (which i am running in dosbox)? i don't want to have to make a doomworld account and ask them

>>10920887
I believe it was Romero who said "If you stare into the abyss make sure you stay behind the guardrail."

Is the paratamizer from Sin?

>>10920501
>What is the actual lore?
He misses his family.
https://churchofquake.com/wiki/ranger-lore/

>>10920889
carmack hated console ports and they just outsourced everything to shit studios after the snes

>>10920918
Which is weird because he got really touchy with the GBA port developers, making restart development using the Jaguar port or something even though they were nearly done with a custom version they'd made.

I wish we got to see that port that never released.

>>10920937
it looks so comfy

>>10920978
Eight whole wads!? That's nuts.wad!

Last thread, there was a brief discussion on us doing a Doom 64 community project. On the slim chance that it happens, would we target EX+ or remaster?

>>10920978
Sunlust
Stardate 20x7
Capybara
Cosmogenesis
No Reason's Speed Maps 3
Sunder
Dimensions
Going Down
All a person needs in life.

I prefer LOADs (lots of awesome data)

Fellas can I get some tips for slaughter maps in case I encounter some in the future? I beat Going Down a few mins ago. I had a great time but Map28 kicked my ass so badly. It was the only level where I saved. Every attempt felt like 70% luck.

>>10920102
yeah the Flood-only levels usually tend to be pretty shit in any game that has them
e.g. Cortana in H3 on Legendary is a real soul-drainer, which sucks cuz it's the penultimate level

Hmm today I will.. today I will finish Quake 2's expansion packs.

What are anons playing today / working on playing?

>>10921027
Was playing some Plutonia with Universal Entropy.

>>10920787
Anyone?

>>10921027
I keep getting drunk and fucking around with Maximum Doom instead of doing any actual spritework or coding. Shame on me, though I'm having a nice time.

Implemented the Purlin War Boss for the next update

>>10921074
Wait a minute...

>>10921078
I feel like man with no peepee who lives in a pod would have very little motivation to continue fighting

>>10921081
That's what the mind control is for.

>>10921081
He has autism, anon.
Just like you.

>>10921081
You'd be surprised what a man would do for a jelly bean.

>>10920732
I've tried it but was mostly disappointed. You just need 3D weapons which excludes 99.9% of mods, and weapon bobbing is tied to head position rather than hand position, so the only mod that I play doesn't even work properly, making the whole experience rather shit. Doom in VR only sounds good but the support for it is so barebones it's just not worth it. I suspect what happens in your case is weapons aren't physical world objects that fire the projectiles/hitscans like in true VR games, meaning those still originate from the player's center, making the weapons purely visual whose position is completely irrelevant. Haven't tested that, though. It's just my theory given how the engine works.

>>10921098
>Mangawhai Pharmacy
Northland moment. Us rich cunts in Welly at least got a lollipop.

would stuff like trees in quake usually be made directly in the level editor?

>>10921141
Polygonal trees? Not really. You would make it in another program, convert to object or .bsp and load it that way. The mod Drake in its toolkit has the trees from Hexen II as models you can just place.

There's also sprite based trees from the gsh_jungle toolkit, and other mods.

>>10921141
I mean, if you wanted to make it really believable with the roots and ground matching up like the tree actually belongs there, then you could do it that way. Nobody models entire forests manually like that though in any game engine, they just sprinkle in tree objects like >>10921145

>>10921006
Think of yourself as an annoying little shit who walks into a bar and shit talks demons into killing each other and uses every cowardly and/or dirty trick to finish them off or just get the fuck outta there while you laugh at their impotence.

>tl;dr trololo

>>10921078
What game is this from? Quake 4?

How does /vr/ feel about the usage of AI in Doom mods?

>>10921157
idk why dont you ask him

>>10921153
Indeed.
>>10921157
AI what exactly?

>>10921161
>AI what exactly?
GFs.

>>10921161
>AI what exactly?
AI images, AI voice acting, AI music...?

>>10921164
>AI
>GF
>doom mods
yeah, we need more of them

>>10921168
good news anon I just called /vr/ and he said he really liked the ai in this

>>10920452
>>10920458
https://youtu.be/exWADvKJJpc?si=Hm92U8S20itwPjQg
THIS is my headcanon doomguy

>>10921169
didnt that mod had a funny secret?

is the waifu wad lead anon okay?

DOOrtal

>>10921164
More.
>>10921168
It's hard to say. But consider something: How many Doom wads use textures already made, like Otex, right? While Otex was made by a human through a labor of love, the mapper did not make those textures and is merely using them. A mapper using a wad of AI generated textures, textures he also did not make, isn't too dissimilar.

Like most of us know, AI assets open the doors for more users to create more content. That's not necessarily good, but not necessarily bad. What matters in the end is whether or not the final work is good, and what matters even more than that is whether the final work is worthy of being called great.

>>10920983
What's the difference? Last I played I got it from GOG, but I think I played the EX one too when the remaster wasn't out yet

>doom but the enemy ai learns and adapts until it's so good you can't beat the game anymore and have to play something else

>>10921184
Sounds like me playing classic Mortal Kombat games.

>>10920464
Ah, so THAT'S a circlejerk.

>>10921168
I farted around with some ai voice acting in my ever unfinished scifi mod. It's ok, though it helps that I bit crunch the fuck out of it to sound authentic. Feels a bit weird to do it like this though, I may just have enemies be voiced acted by pals or something.

>>10921186
no, it's coop goatse

>>10921191
>Feels a bit weird to do it like this though
For AI music and voice yeah, that's where it feels weird. I'd sooner use somebody else's work.

>>10921168
I think its lame. Even if I'm not creating my own textures and using others, I like that an actual human made those and their work they created lives on in the community.

Reposting this because
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGg32npLyP4
why does the official OST sound nothing like this?

>>10921198
eh, you can do some cool stuff using ai generated textures as a starting point then refining them in substance or whatever, problem is you have a lot of people like """indie devs""" just straight up plopping that shit into unity and creating soulless garbage

>stumble across secret exit
>not done with the level yet
Do you reload or skip it?

>>10920375
>figuring out how to compile a Half-Life .map
It's just the same HLCSG, HLBSP, HLVIS, HLRAD

>>10921215
Unless I set out to get all kills and secrets, I scope out the secret level. If it's not cock and ball torture, I play it. If it is CBT, I IDCLEV back to the map I found it on and save it for later.

>>10921220
Right but there was ZHTL or something but that was outdated and I needed VHTL or something. Plus converting the texture wads I wanted required the program wadmaker, as TexMex and Wally weren't up to the job. I could easily do it now, and I hope to put out at least one br_ and co_ map for SBO just to say I gave back to a mod I've loved for years and years.

I'm literally quaking

>>10921225
me too

>>10920937
>>10920960
this is what i saw when i played wolf back then ;-;

Why do the enemies in Wolf say Gustavo? Who is that?

>>10921215
re-load

>>10920329

And again, since it's not in the OP post
https://mega.nz/file/GRUCGbAY#RhOiqxnf7UPOiXcJNbRh-prKIEVRhjJaEpAkt34lyZg

Half-Life 1 Anthology v8308 - October 2019 Update
***
Half-Life
Half-Life Opposing Force
Half-Life Blue Shift
Counter-Strike 1.6
Counter-Strike Condition Zero
Counter-Strike Condition Zero Deleted Scenes
Day of Defeat
Deathmatch Classic
Team Fortress Classic
Ricochet
Half-Life Soundtrack
Dedicated Server
***
SSE Launcher

>>10921240
bbbbbbbbbbbbased

>>10921240
Multiplayer compatible? Been a long time since OpFor multiplayer.

>>10921235
Reference to Gustavo Fring of Breaking Bad, ever noticed those symbols on the walls are the same as the once tattooed to the Welker guys in last season? Bravo John

>>10921157
I like to have a pragmatic mindset with regards to AI. It's merely a tool like many others. You can use it as-is, usually with glaringly mediocre results, apply some of your own human creativity to refine it, or just use it as a quick reference generator to give to a real commissioned artist for more accurate results when you can't quite explain what you want with words. You can be lazy with it, but it will immediately show in the end result. People are lazy with human-made resources all the time so nothing new. Just see Gameplay Mods on ZDF. AI is never going to replace artists or musicians or VAs. It just doesn't have the creative capacity to do so and cannot have it by design. I can't help but laugh at both the people who see it as the antichrist, and those who see it as a panacea to fill the creative void in their head.

>>10921237
more like project doom lmao

>>10921168
AI textures are fine imo. As long as it's not a complete clusterfuck and you also edited them by hand after that.

>>10921198
>, I like that an actual human made those and their work they created lives on in the community.
This.

>>10921240
Yep. Was made for multiplayer.

>>10921283
I assume you meant to reply to me here: >>10921243
That's excellent news. Thanks. There are lots of pirated copies of HL1 floating around the internet, and 90% of them don't allow two clients using the same pirated copy to join a server together.

>>10921168
As long as it's properly credited, I don't care too much. It will always have an air of being somewhat gay, as even the existing usage of stock and ripped assets involve more creativity and inspiration to hunt down and implement, but it nevertheless can be used to effect.

Does anyone know why the Base Ganymede music wouldn't play in Slade?

>>10920376

>>10921174
Yep, if you had some token in your inventory, it would give you a blowjob to restore your health.

>>10921329
The beautiful, calming sound of a billion ratbuddies following you about.

>>10921332
my aunt had a rat infestation in her house. you could hear the swarms running in the walls around you at night...

>>10921179
>A mapper using a wad of AI generated textures, textures he also did not make, isn't too dissimilar.
Except the part where those textures werr still created by persons.

>>10920501
>What is the actual lore?
huh

>>10921391

>>10921157
>>10921168
If you wanna end up with terrible end result AND being a laughing stock for everyone online, go for it.

>>10921436
>UAC
Disgusting.

>>10920313
I extended the deadline for Fraggot to >>>>27th of May<<<<, this is the last deadline extension.
You can take textures from this mapset if you're looking for some new textures : https://euroboros.net/zandronum/download.php?file=asdfjkl6.wad

>>10920509
WAD or PK3?

>>10921168
Something tells me you wanted to get people riled up but you were feeling pretty aimless about the specifics

What the shit is this fuck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h2-TwXBKgo

>>10921185
So THAT'S why I was so fucking miserable playing that.

>>10921180
I don't really know what they are, but from what I understand, there are a few differences between the remaster and EX+. In fact, most of the Doom 64 mods have separate versions for each of them.

>>10921574
I think she has the tism, her voice is extremely uncanny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V5KvNOmr5k

>>10921529
tl;dr : deadline for Fraggot is now 27th of May

>>10921610
her voice sounds fine to me. she just has a hindu accent, and from her pauses between sentences i can tell she rarely speaks english

Marathon just went up for free on Steam. The other two are listed as coming soon
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2398450/Classic_Marathon/

>>10921709
>the first screen shows off that butt fugly hud
I love it, perfect, though I might just finish my original Aleph playthrough.

>>10920741
>>10920764
Reminder that the gzdoom port of ZanZan fucked up a lot of things from the original like the animations and lighting. Somebody needs to do a better port.

Could it be you?

>>10920310

I officially need your help

Ever since I downloaded the latest oblige years ago, I can NEVER generate maps with tougher enemies. I only get mostly soldiers and that is it, and cacodemons and anything higher than that never ever spawns. The settings make no sense, all enemies are on default, all difficulties are on highest/ramp up fastest Yet every single map I generate is 100% weak enemies only

How the fuck do I fix this? Oblige used to work fine in this regard until the latest version

I just want to play random maps, I have not been able to for like 2+ years now

>>10921772
Just engage the monster control.

>>10920313
>>10921709

>>10921780

I guess, leaving enemies at default seems to cause them to never spawn

>>10921772
>>10921780
>>10921784

Jesus fucking christ on a cracker, ANOTHER level with only basic enemies, I give up oblige is ded

Has anything replaced it yet?

captcha: Ga4yy

>>10921709
Coinciding with that:

>>10920313
[5-10] Aleph One version 1.8 released
https://alephone.lhowon.org/
https://github.com/Aleph-One-Marathon/alephone/

Both the Steam release and Aleph One version can be combined into a single spot in the news, given that the new A1 version is tied to the Steam release.

>>10921791
There's Obsidian, if you wanna give it a try:
https://github.com/obsidian-level-maker/Obsidian

>>10920458
Doomguy is canonly Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

>>10921802
tx m8

I hope you find a gf tonight

>>10920458
i see him as a bit of both but not pissed, rather past caring about death.
post-ptsd

>>10921825
PS1 doomguy is the canon doomguy
He's even got the hairspikes

>>10921173
I could see Doomguy acting like Arnold in Predator.

>>10920787
>>10921064
Run it from the command line
bsputil.exe --decompile <yourmap>.bsp

>>10921529
Come to think of it, will anyone accept and host this wad if it's named fraggot?

Even in the vidya I am reminded...

hey friends, i've finally understood how to use the editor without crashes! great times lie ahead

>>10921838
based and spikepilled

if doom takes place on mars then how come it has earth gravity

>>10922034
That's DOOM 3.

>>10922034
Yeah, Doom takes place on Phobos and Deimos, a pair of moons that are too small for military research stations to exist on.

>>10922034
You have it backwards, anon. Doomguy has the mass of the earth, so no matter where he goes there is earth gravity.

>>10921986
guys live in apartments like this and don't see any issue
>>10922034
satanism

>>10922034
there's a well known theory that explains it. basically doomguy is a disabled man: he's been all his life in his wheelchair. the whole game takes place in his mind/dream: this explains the lack of jumping (a concept unknown to him) and his slippery movement

>>10922056
That's not really how acceleration from gravity works.

>>10921709
I say the answer to both questions is a solid "no", but I wonder if the Steam release of Marathon 2 will include anything from the XBLA version and if the Steam release of Infinity will include Hats Off to Eight Nineteen.

>>10922065
>"It's all a dream" theories

>>10922082
Yes.

>>10922087
It's integral to the plot in total recall. I find it asinine when people pull the "it's a dream lol" card apropos of nothing for fan theories

>>10922071
Forgot post :
Finally beat Quake 2 : The Reckoning!
I can't believe I had missed out on the Quake 2 expansion packs for so long, easily the best Quake 2 maps were in the expansions.

>>10921825
Nah, is this guy to a point eternal's face is a mix of classic portrait and him

>>10922095
but doom was clearly influenced by total recall

doomguy is literally more different arnold

>>10922117
More based on Terra Formars if you ask me

>>10922095
>I find it asinine when people pull the "it's a dream lol" card apropos of nothing for fan theories
It's just people triggering their weird, busted pattern recognition to decide there's some secret twist they've uncovered.

Shit just don't work.

>>10921871
If you have a better name, I'll consider

>>10921871
Personally I don't care about the name, but the crude dick drawing puts me off.

>>10921709
But what's inside? KeK? Unity?

>>10922082
Indeed, I think not. Thats more up NiGHTS and Pokemon alleys.

>>10922034
Ancient alien tech gravity generators.

>>10922039
>moons that are too small
WRONG
Even Deimos could serve a purpose for military research. Hippocamp near Neptune is closer to the "too small for military research" bill

>>10922179
anon phobos is just a big rock

>>10922165
It runs on Aleph One, a Marathon source port that's been in development for about 20 years, give or take.

>>10922180
Sure thing, how about in comparison to Hippocamp and Nereid around Neptune?

>>10922128
>Dweebgo
>Anon vs Anon
>20 frags of /vr/
>Violent/vicious Rage/rumpus/row
>Face Off
I tried

>>10922203
>Phobos and Deimos are small
>Yeah, but Hippocampus is smaller!

Why are you going so hard on this?

>>10922215
Hippocamp is most certainly a real moon as well. Just saying.

>>10922183
>20 years of development
>Still no streamlined mapmaking tools
>Still limited map sizes
>Still limited to 32 graphic collections
>Still limited to the same number of objects as Infinity
>Still no noclip, of all fucking things
The aleph one devs are a bunch of hacks.

>>10922234
When's your port going to be finished, bro?

>>10922224
???

No one said it wasn't? The original comment was just noting that Phobos and Deimos realistically wouldn't house military bases/research stations due to their real-life size.

Hell, if we went by the maps shown on the intermission screens, the DOOM version of Phobos and Deimos are several times larger than the real things.

>>10922237
>HaVe YoU mAdE a PoRt!!?!?!??
Classic brain-dead argument. I suppose if someone was served rotten fish and complained about it, you'd ask when they'll start taking cooking lessons.

>>10922246
I apologies for overestimating you, I thought with all that expertise you clearly have with how all of that works you'd be balls deep in making that shit work.

>>10922252
>YoU cAn OnLy CoMpLaIn If YoU hAVe ExPeRtIsE!!!!!
Again, stupid argument. If I hired someone to renovate my house and they installed a door that leads to a sudden drop, I'm going to tell them off for doing something so blatantly stupid.

But I guess going by your logic, I can't complain about because I have no experience in renovating and just keep the door.

>>10922180
No, it’s a planet destroying Martian super weapon. Armored Core 2 was soft disclosure on this

>>10922241
>the DOOM version of Phobos and Deimos are several times larger than the real things.
They are?

>>10922252
>>10922237
Are you an AlephOne dev or something?

>>10922246
>>10922270
Did you pay the alephone devs? Is Alephone a product that you bought and you're dissatisfied with it? No? Then fuck off with that analogy, cause it doesn't work here - it's a labor of love product by fans of the original game - if you want things to improve either help with development yourself or fund the development via patreon - people are no jannies

>>10922314
I always assumed so, but I will admit that trying to extrapolate any sort of scale from the DOOM intermission maps would be incredibly difficult to do.

That being said, Phobos is only around 7 miles (~11 kilometers) in diameter, and Deimos is around 4 miles (~6 kilometers) in diameter, so it is theoretically possible for an installation to be placed on them, but the seemingly massive distance between buildings in the intermissions sorta strains believability in my eyes.

Then again, I'm just some rando talking out of my ass, so what the hell do I know?

>>10922316
Nah I just find entertainment in agitating the types who whine that some bedroom coder isn't servicing their every need.
>>10922338
It's pretty funny that the analogies just about always end up being transactional ones.

I am curious as to why they haven't implemented a noclip cheat into Aleph One yet. It would be really useful for testing maps.

>>10922362
How about you do better yourself, huh? Bet you never thought about that, huh?
Heh, I'm so smart!

>>10922362
Sounds useful, maybe you can suggest it on their GitHub or discord

>>10922071
>>10922097

Yea the expansions are good. The new enemies, weapons and levels are good and it feels like all of the GZ / TR maps flow really well and they have a sense of place / utility to them.

Not to say all basegame Q2 maps are bad but the expansions are imho way better and even the backtracking feels much less annoying because you're gently pointed to the right direction and you often take a new route to the old level.

At the final stretch of Halo:CE, the game is throwing a lot of enemies at me right now.
Quite liked this mission where you need to keep stealing banshees from covenant in order to reach your objectives. Assaulting highly defensible covenant positions directly is suicidal due the sheer amount of the enemies present so you really need to strike at the right moment when they get busy with flood.
The final fight of the revisited covenant ship was pretty tough with multiple "elite" elites guarding the escape banshee. Took me a couple of attempts to break through the door until i decided to change my tactics, grab the needler, backtrack a bit so that i can attack them from the higher ground and to simply jump down once the way was clear.
For quite awhile i was really underestimating the usefulness of needler i must say.

>>10922403
I liked this terminal they added in the anniversary edition
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7KInqNZOZSI

I still don't understand what doom and zombie movies have in common

>>10922039
It’s more of a “fantasy Phobos” with that atmosphere, or a “””terraformed””” Phobos somehow.

>>10922056

>>10922458
Romero is a man of many hats.

>>10922463
>Whoa, big!

>>10922074
its called relativity are you walking on the earth or is the earth walking on you it is a mystery

>>10922475
Am I spinning in my chair or did the entire universe decide to begin orbiting me at speeds far surpassing the speed of light? Despite decades of research and simulations running on supercomputers, science is unable to answer this question.

>>10922423
Poor Keyes. That early part where you need to protect him was pretty annoying but as a character the dude was pretty cool.

>>10922462
Yeah you can see mountains / hills with vegetation in the distance.

As a kid my english was bad so I thought Doom takes place in russia thanks to the nuclear toxic waste and those bald skinheads with shotguns

>>10922458
It's inspired by a lot of action/horror movies of and before its time but Doom 1 is easily closest to being Evil Dead in an Aliens-type setting.

>3rd person DOOM with tank controls
Name 1 flaw.

I'm trying to play ZanZan and it doesn't work for me; the attacks don't shoot anything.

>>10922504
None. Add in an isometric camera that dynamically zooms onto items of interest and you're cooking with gas.

>>10922458
They have zombies in them.

>>10922504
Is it still classic Doom gameplay? Like playing with chasecam on, keyboard only?

>>10922463
>you're a big doomguy

fellow mappers, retard here, learning the ropes.
what is the fastest way to "cut" a spikey shape into this wall (and then subtract it, of course)?
the free-draw brush is completely useless in this case, can't really draw any freeform with it

>originally the game was going to be called Spacenstein but it was changed to DOOM at the last minute after Romero had one of his infamous "prophetic dreams"

>>10922547
This may sound fake/made up, but I actually remember something similar being mentioned in an old interview

>>10920983
EX+ would probably go smoother

>>10922547
>Spacenstein
Hmm...

>>10922563
god i wish blake stone didn't suck
it wouldn't be so frustrating if i didn't know that they CHOSE to make it bad
they deliberately added code to disable hitstun and give everything insane HP scaling with difficulty
if it was just a straight reskin of wolf3d it would've been better

>>10922536
Clip tool.

>>10922585
you're saying i should clip that brush like more than 6-8 times? that sounds insane. i'm sure there's a faster way. what if i have to make some terrain then, do i use the clip tool for 3 hours?

>>10922579
Corridor 7

>>10922547
In the original draft it was an always-only persistent world multiplayer game that charged players by the minute

>>10922598
>what if i have to make some terrain then, do i use the clip tool for 3 hours?
No. Use vertex tool for that.

>>10922613
Ok anon I'm starting to think all this "learn the editor for one of your favourite game" thing might requite a little bit too much time... i barely managed to make a box after an hour. at least i got the bastard working. wish i had started a decade ago

Can I export Minecraft maps to Quake?

>>10922485
Am I black out drunk or did the entire earth decide to start spinning like a top and deign me with euphoria?

Or is Doomguy just nearby?

HEY I'VE GOT AN IDEA!
LET'S MAKE A RETRO SHOOTER, BUT LET'S ADD GARBAGE LIGHTING AND ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC WEAPON SOUNDS. AH AND LET'S NOT FORGET TO MAKE SURE WE WON'T ALLOW CUSTOM CONTENT, NOR PROVIDE MAP EDITORS.

>devs think this is a good idea

>>10922651
I got a better idea: let's keep those shitty modern games outta here.

>>10922651
Why can't you actually post on-topic content about retro fps games you actually like / play instead of idlebumping with crap like this? If you have a bug up your ass about certain videogames you could also name them and provide context.

>>10920458
I imagine him as surviving by sheer determination
the too angry to die meme does apply

>>10920458
I personally see Doom 1 / 2 / 64 Doomguy as constantly riding a perpetual manic caffeine rip and tear high as the Doom comic marine.

>>10922689
Is the berserk pack just a hypo of PCP?

>>10922689
>riding a perpetual manic caffeine rip and tear high as the Doom comic marine.
But the rip and tear section was like two pages.

>>10922728
2 pages that define the entire DOOM franchise.

Sweet christmas! Big-mouthed floaty things!

>>10922735
Not really, the community memed about it for as long as it existed while all id did was take the line and use it in nuDoom and got it to catch on with an audience entirely unaware of the comic.

I don't care about Deus Ex

>>10922736
More like nature's onaholes, amirite?

>>10922785

>>10922125
shiiiiet, I forgot that manga even existed, it ever get finished or did it just get abandoned at some point like every other manga/anime post-2000?

>>10922785
I do not and have never cared about you, either, irritant.

>>10922806
Publishers these days don't want stories, they want franchises. If the work does poorly it gets canceled before the author has a chance to write the ending. If it does well, the author is forced to continue writing filler until the readers stop reading and it gets canceled.

>>10922728
The marine's entire being even before that was someone who gets an extremely sadistic grin on their face when they find the shotgun and then the chaingun. The 'doom' attitude is there and I feel like it's really fitting for my idea of Doomguy for the classic doom games.

For Doom 3 I feel like the vibe is a bit different because the game is too.

>>10921006
None in particular, it mostly depends on your intuition in measuring how rigid and stingy the wad's author is on giving you slack. For your example of MAP28, there's a quite nasty and improbable to predict trap which surely may get you fucked if triggered while other nuisance happens around.

For me personally, if something doesn't let me improvise at my own comfortable pace, then it's not worth a bother of practicing and strat memorization. Have some basic food for thought on monster prioritization, it may also help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZYXIw3k_g

>>10922536
Watch this, I use the cut tool, then use the edge tool to and drag down the indents, then use the convex merge tool to keep to combine the redundant brushes. You should consider rebinding your keys so you can use the face/edge/vertex tool, cut, merge, and clear the selection very quickly because that's how you make pretty much anything. And I know it's boring, but you really should watch every dumptruck tutorial. You can't learn any skill without time investment, but once you can do those things intuitively it becomes easier. I'm not a great Quake mapper myself, so if someone knows a better way to do that please chime in.

>>10922917
Instead of making those initial cuts with the clipping tool, you can SHIFT + CTRL to extrude a cut inwards from the edges. Tends to be faster.

>>10922403
yeah Keyes is considered to be a contender for "hardest level in the game", esp on Legendary (competing with Two Betrayals and The Library)
the outdoor section in particular has probably the hardest individual encounters in CE, with the swarms of nigh-infinite (they eventually stop spawning after like several mins) Flood ganking you in tight spaces
although for how hard CE can get it's still nowhere near the levels H2 reaches, that game is nightmarish on Heroic and especially Legendary

doom but the entire game takes place in the bathroom

>>10922971
That's just BathDoom.

>be Doom Guy
>die
>reincarnate in hell
Is DOOM... an isekai?

>>10922992
It's real title is That One Time I got Killed inside a Box Filled With Demons and Was So Angry I Reincarnated On The Next Moon Over But It Was In Hell.

>>10922353
Hello AlephOne dev

>>10922992
>starts out as one of those korean manga where portals open and demons invade and the world becomes a video game
>ends up as one of those japanese manga where the protag reincarnates in another world and fights demons
Carmack truly is the greatest mind of our time...

>>10923003
>starts as a manhwa
>turns into a manga
when does it become a manhua?

>>10921853
About halfway there, but it doesn't seem to produce a .map. Any ideas?

>>10923031
Whoops

>>10921184
>>10921185
>>10921590
To clarify, the old Mortal Kombat AI doesn't read your mind or learn your patterns, it just reads your inputs directly and reacts directly, giving it obnoxious reaction speeds, so the AI is really fucking cheap.

>>10922992
>die
>go to hell
>it's full of weebs who think they've been isekai'd

>>10923052
I think there's actually an isekai manga based on that

>You'll be Swiss cheese!

>>10922992
Yeah, what happens to Doomguy when he dies? Does he just get sent to hell for being a violent feller or does he get sent to heaven for killing DEMONS while he was alive? Either way, he probably gets to keep killing demons. Demons and hellspawn should be terrified of him for his near immortality, or I guess ability to continue killing demons no matter what happens to him?

>>10923086
>Does he just get sent to hell for being a violent feller or does he get sent to heaven for killing DEMONS while he was alive?
Actually it's just a coincidence that he goes to hell due to some stuff he did before he joined the marines.

>>10923092
All the beers and whores while he was on leave probably got him his hell sentence...

>>10923086
doomguy was a demon from the start

you never thought it was weird that he just pops into existence one day on a mars base that was completely taken over by demons?

>>10923094
Maybe he was taking a shit when it happened?

Post rare Sandys

>>10923094
There were a bunch of dudes in the Mars base when it happened. He just happened to be there and good at killing monsters.

>>10923094
>>10923098
>>10923104
Doom mod where you play the first 20-30 years of Doomguy's life prior to the events of Doom when?

I wanna play him going through school. I want a puberty intermission screen. I want g1d1 (girl 1 date 1). I want a boot camp episode. I want to play him going to the pet store and adopting Daisy.

>>10923094
>>10923098
iirc the canon explanation (in the manual, i think?) is that they had him guarding the shuttle that he and the other marines used to get there
everyone else went in and got slaughtered first

>>10923125
if only you knew the things he did to that rabbit that made him end up in hell

>>10923125
Actually might make for a humorous visual novel.

A-a genie?

>>10923154
Yes, we know. Way too many treats which put Daisy as a high risk for diabetes. But with a series of vet visits and a proper diet, she was back on track

>>10923190
Tried to play with Akinator sometime this year and couldn't even access the website, was stuck on some kind of cloudflare check or something. Modern web is unwieldy.

You ever walking around a .wad and hear the Archvile's weird hah-sigh sort of sound and just have to wait until he makes his appearance? I'm not talking about the screech when's he resurrecting some demon. Like he's still behind a wall for an inevitable trap. It's a creepy sound.

>>10923219

>tiny nondescript switch recessed deep into a wall

>>10923221
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRMRhzTnmfU

He's so... VILE

>>10923221
I fear him.

>>10917724
/r/ for kart
https://mb.srb2.org/threads/mkdd-baby-park.25902/
haven't tested it, but always thought baby park would make a good hell map and finally looked it up after playing some double dash earlier

Djinn or Genie?

>>10923251
>From 2018
Maps from this era tend to be completely fucking broken but we'll give it a shot

>>10923251
Is that image real wtf

>>10923251
Sure, there's actually some other loose tracks I wanted to add to the server, I might just compile them into a pack and move their map slots around to avoid conflicts.

>>10923256
yeah anon, they're real people without shadows

>>10923268
>shadows
What are those? This is a DOOM thread.

>>10923256
Yeah, seems to be from the 1993 European Grand Prix.
Ayrton Senna won a Sonic trophy

>>10923268
Anon when was the last time you were outside.
>>10923272
Yep.
https://www.motorsportimages.com/photo/1015194132-formula-one-world-championship/1015194132/?p=2&race_type_id%5Cu003d112%5Cu0026year%5Cu003d2008%5Cu0026with_count%5Cu003d1%5Cu0026driver_id%5Cu003d18048=&location_id%5B0%5D=93&year=1993

>>10923268
it had rained.

>>10923268

>>10923268
The shadows are under the shoes

>>10923268
Of course there's no Shadows, they're all dressed as Sonic here.

>>10923272
>are you sure this is going to help us sell more race cars?

doom but you have a cellphone and your gf keeps calling you but she doesn't know your on mars kills demons so you have to keep coming up with increasingly elaborate excuses for why your late

>>10923221

>>10923319
Have you played Going Down? I know it's your mom and not your GF, but still.

>>10923319
Artificial Academy 2 but it's DOOM

I just found an interesting mod on moddb. Apparently it's the sequel to something called Grezzodue.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/grezzodue-2

>>10923342
I don't know what this is, but I'm downloading it.

>>10920732
It's shit, honestly. Fun to see Hangar or Entryway up close and personal, but that's it.

>>10922128
Wango. You don't even have to change the logo.

>>10923395
I was considering suggesting a change of logo, but I love this.

>>10923342
Okay, apparently to prevent crashing, I had to disable the "precache textures" option in the texture settings.
Aside from that, this feels like a better Postal 2 than Postal 2. And it's better than Grezzo Due. (Odd that it is essentially named Grezzo 2 2, doe)

>>10923319

>>10923319
>what was that noise? it sounded like a shotgun! I think I heard an imp grunting! you're not on mars killing demons again, are you?!
>haha, no honey, it's just, uhhh, LA traffic, you know how crazy drivers get here, haha!

Advise a good mapset for brutal. Not necessarily "made for brutal", maybe vanilla set which goes well with this mod. Preferably something new, not something that is over 15 years old.

>>10923462
A HUD to surpass Metal Gear.

doom but its a sidescrolling run 'n gun

>>10923481
durrican

>>10923468
>Brutal Gear Solid: Doom of Brutality

>>10923485
I would not play the game but the main theme would be the hardest metal known to man.

>>10922034
>>10922039
I'm guessing humanity in Doom has terraforming technology because it sounds like they can build a base just about anywhere. TNT: Evilution takes place on Io, and that's even further out by Jupiter and a fucking volcano hellscape in real life.

help I need a qrd of the math for the quake skybox in shader format

pretend that I forgot how algebra works 20 years ago

>>10923495
Sounds like a problem for ChatGPT

>>10922619
As someone who's been mapping on and off for Quake for a long while now, it gets easier. I can comfortably put together small maps, but larger ones with lots of details are where my trouble lies. I always, always have one of the original id1 maps open as inspiration; they really are nothing to sneeze at, especially when you look at their ceilings.

Is there vaporwave DOOM?

>>10923278
Also explains why they all look kinda sad.
>>10922128
I keep thinking about how God Hates Frags would be a cool name for a mapset, but its probably already taken.

>WARNING! INCOMING GAME!
>it's doom
how fucked are the people living in your cpu?

>>10923541
Won't hurt making sure. Somehow sneed.wad isn't a thing yet.

>>10923550
I never understood the premise of that anime. Beating video games permanently damaged your computer?

>>10923554
idk but back in the 90s my dad thought that playing video games would break the computer so it sounds like something boomers of the time would believe

>>10923521
It can be. Make a texture set based on the colors in that image.

>>10922917
>>10922925
Thanks a lot anons

>>10923550
>>10923554
>>10923564
beast wars was cooler

>>10923568
you can't just "make textures", textures come from the asset store

>>10923575
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Wally
Have fun anon!

>>10923575
You can but it requires Ph.Ds in both computer science and art history. Very few people can produce them.

>>10923575
dumb frogposter

>custom textures
I will now play your wad.

>custom textures
I will now ignore your wad.

>C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!
I will now interrupt this gag.

>otex
more like saygex lmao

Was there any good custom content for Redneck Rampage or did the mapping community collectively sit that game out? I really wish RR would've gotten some type of a revival with more character interaction as well because the deep south aesthetic and memes from way back then had a lot of potential and RRRR was a really good expansion with good soulful references that just get a little drowned out by the game just being a shooting gallery.

>>10923608
>Redneck Rampage
Isn't that game universally hated? I owned it back in the day and gave it 1 playthrough then moved on.

>>10923606
Oh yeah, it's tail time

are there any wads where you play as doomjak?

>>10923613
>Knee Deep in Frogs

Somebody call Parias.

Why has no one made a Quake mod yet that changes the models deaths? Holy fuck animations are incredibly boring after playing Doom

>>10923626
I like them

>>10923629
I don't dislike them either, but let's be honest, one could achieve the same visceral feeling Doom presents us, but with models. There's no blood, no spectacular death, nothing. I'm not saying to replace them with sprites, that'd be stupid and won't even work.

>>10923495
At a glance it just looks like 2 overlapping noise textures scrolling at different rates rendered as if they're mapped to an infinitely far away hemisphere.

i liked this secret map it everything screamed system shock 1

>>10921173
Isn't this basically PS1 and N64 doom?
A lot of people shit on doom 3 but it feels like it took inspiration from darker ports and entries.
Meanwhile nu-doom feels like it took original, brutal doom and brink and made arena shooter.

The only way to truly vanquish the demons is to help them find redemption by accepting the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

>>10923034
>>10921853
Ah I was using the wrong version! Fuck yes, finally I can see how my favorite maps function and look.

>>10923649
not really you're seeing a mangled version decompiling does not restore the original

>>10923650
Yeah yeah ya fucking pedant you cannot imagine how happy I am.

>>10923654
okay? just don't try to read too much into the topology because the compiler was free to do whatever it felt like in an attempt to improve performance, what you're seeing is not the same as the original map file

>>10923658
I understood just well the first time anon I assure you there's no need for you to continue here.

>>10923660
alright but I'm just letting you know that the source map file looked different from what you are currently seeing

>>10923663
Holy shit.

>>10923664
I advise you to exercise caution when reading too deeply into decompiled files

Honestly anon, be careful with the compiler. This is not some sort of black magic, you have to understand how it works

>>10923649
Can you link the version that works? I ran into the same issue as you. Also, what map is that? Thanks

>>10923551
Ok, I checked it. It's a fucking name of some steam rec list that kept getting recommended to me some years ago. So I think it's both ok to use and passed some censorship filter already, sort of.
As far as logo goes, I think it should still be cock, but maybe redraw it as a silhouette with doom builder linedefs. I think I'll try to throw something close to what I am imagining together when I have free time in an hour or two.

>>10923687
Arcanum1 from Arcanum.
https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/arcanum.html

https://github.com/ericwa/ericw-tools/releases/tag/2.0.0-alpha7

Enjoy anon.

>Tons of cool megawads and celebrations for Doom's 30th
>Nobody did anything cool for Doom 2's 30th

>>10923717
Not even (You) anon!

>>10923718
I can't even finish a goddamn level

>>10923718
doom's curse is that it's too "basic". it's easy to make levels and mods, so 80% of it is garbage, the rest 20% is good. this is why i've stopped making stuff for it, maybe i make some garbage, maybe i make some good levels, but why does it matter? it all gets lost in the sea of trash quickly.

>>10923728
>but why does it matter?
Because ideally you're doing something you like doing. If you don't like doing a thing, and it isn't necessary to your survival, then yes, go do something else.

>>10923728
>so 80% of it is garbage, the rest 20% is good
That is any form of media and art. You create shit because you want to and find enjoyment in it whether it gets lost in the endless pit or not.

>>10923730
>>10923734
true, i was wrong in my assumptions. sometimes i do enjoy crafting something for one of my favourite game, but the enjoyment has been slightly diminished due to the aforementioned factors.

>>10923735
The most I can say is ganbatte anon-kun.

>>10923735
You shouldn't let that shit dissuade you. I've been making gameplay mods for awhile now and my shit doesn't always make a blip. But I know there's always some people who enjoy it, and I always feel satisfied for finishing it. That's what keeps me going.

The big thing for me is if I know I'm capable of surpassing who I was in the past, then I know I'm doing something right.