28/03/2004 @23:35:35 ^00:27:42

DO UNTO OTHERS

Do to others what you think you deserve yourself. Now understand why I am so horrible to people

hell revealed, again

I decided to play through Hell Revealed since it's four years since the first time I went through it. I've done the first half. I know it's really fucking difficult but embarrassingly I'm too used to running it with the super weapons patch which makes it even harder

Before that I have played such maps as

• garrulo A 32 map set, in Spanish, so I don't know what the hell's going on. I think it's in a gasworks, or something? I've only done half of it so far because I foolishly decided to play it through using pistol starts. I think I might have to go back and carry ammo forwards. Most of the maps are architecturally superb though a couple were irritating enough to skip (I don't like creeping round dark tunnels with no ammunition, it's frustrating) I'll come back to this once I've finished it.
• loh2 Legions of Hell 2 is a set of eleven modernised early PWAD style maps. That is, simple levels with no particular theme and quite boring architecture but detailed to all hell. However, there's usually plenty to shoot, and tons of ammo to shoot it with (a dehacked patch doubling ammo capacity is supplied, I recommend it) so you're never frustrated by lack of resources, so clearly it's all about the gameplay. Having said that level 9 "hell's vanguard" is a masterpiece.
• tolwyn01 Outpost Recon is a single level set initially in a kind of canyon. You climb down it, and cross a river, and there's a base on the other side. You have to go in the base and shut it down. It has a nice plot that adds atmosphere to a map that already has lots of touches of realism. Ammunition is limited and it can get quite annoying but it's worth playing once to look at the architecture.