Path: mantis!not-for-mail From: Michael Gummelt Newsgroups: rec.games.computer.doom.announce Subject: Marines Doom is HERE! Date: 2 Aug 1996 15:10:38 +0100 Organization: Montclair State University Lines: 154 Sender: tony@mantis.co.uk Approved: doom@mantis.co.uk Message-ID: References: <4sjq6j$1da@li.oro.net> USMC (US Marine Corps) Doom is out and at ftp.cdrom.com. Look in: idgames/newstuff for: marineb0.txt marineb1.zip marineb2.zip If not there, try: idgames/themes/marines Here's the skinny on the game: USMC Doom (US Marine Corps Doom) beta version 0.5 By Lt. Scott Barnett and Michael Gummelt For Doom 2 only! CONTENTS: 1. Intro 2. History 3. Weapons 4. Enemies 5. Levels 6. Known bugs. 7. Outro 1. INTRO Welcome to Marines Doom! I've been sitting on this for a few months so I figured I might as well get it out there. It has a few bugs but I may or may not ever get around to fixing them, so here it is, as is. Basically, this is a TC (well, maybe a PC- Partial Conversion, not a lot of new textures, just new monsters and weapons) with a marines theme. It's pretty damn good and very hard. So enjoy (and watch those landmines!) 2. HISTORY Back in November, I saw an article in PC Gamer about Marines Doom being worked on by Lt. Scott Barnett. I downloaded it and was really impressed by the gameplay. I liked that every bullet was deadly, that your health wasn't pumped up rediculously. It was hard, but very suspenseful, it made you use strategy a lot more than Doom. But I also felt it could be better. I wrote to Lt. Barnett, but we never kept up a real correspondence. So before I knew it I had added over 15 new enemies and a few nice weapons. Anyway, I discovered I no longer had a life so I quit Doom-editing and left Marines Doom sitting in the further recesses of my harddrive. I just started fooling with it and found out it's pretty good and has a few minor bugs. So I figured I'd send it out with a list of how to avoid the bugs and see what people think. If there's any interest, I'll release the files needed to make maps for it to any level builders who ask. Enjoy! 3. YOUR SITUATION Ok, you're a marine, you've got some kick-ass weapons and you're ready to rock, right? But watch out, you're only human so you've only got 30% health MAX! That means every enemy bullet could be your last (especially those damn snipers!) There are medics in red suits but don't count on them to save your ass. Excercise extreme caution, use strategy, and think fast. There are also some +1 first aid kits lying around, so don't pass them up. Now get out there and kick ass! 4. THE LEVELS OK, I threw a whole slew of levels in this .wad, but the only ones I have modified for play are 1-4, 7, 8, and 13. Here's the description: 1 The original Marines Doom level, with some additions. Find the red-haired hostage and rescue her. Once you have her, find the exit and bug out! 2 Night version of the above board. 7 I designed this level myself. There is a center structure in this bombed-out town. Once you kill all the chaingunners and rocket launchers, there is an exit switch that you must trip to end the level. Have fun! 8 An indoor level I modified from the secret level at the end of Doom2. A traitor from the marines is in enemy hands. You have to find him and nab him before he can give the enemy any top secret info. Oh yeah, might as well kill everyone else in sight just to be safe. The catch is, we need him alive, so get him while he's still standing then get to the exit. If he dies, bring his body and find the alternate hidden exit. But his remains have to be identifiable, if he's just guts, you won't be able to find him and your mission is a failure, tough cookies. 13 Basically a modification of Tricks and Traps, one of my favorite Doom levels. 5. WEAPONS 1. Punch/Kick. 1. Invisible Mine Layer. Set one and move it! You won't be able to see these at all, so remember where you left them (use the map and the "m" key to mark the spot before you lay one- you'll know where it is, but no-one else will!) These mines will be set off automatically if you die. 2. Auto-rifle. Best for long-range precision shots. 3. Auto-shotgun. The weapon du choice. This baby can mow down just about anything with the speed of a machine gun but the fire power per round of a shotgun. 4. Ravager. This modified machine gun fires several rounds at once in a spread. Best for taking out groups of people than it is mano a mano or precision shooting. 5. Grenades. Just lob and run! In DM or Co-op these irradiated babies canmake your vision completely fucked up on impact, then they blow you to bits. If you escape or survive the explosion, you'll still have screwed up vision (note, these are temporary measures that will remedy this). 6. Flashlight (I know it looks like a BFG in your hand, I haven't made the right graphics yet). Lights up the area you're in. 7. The Flame Rocket Launcher. Not only does it blow the target to bits, these incindiary rockets start a dangerous blaze as well. 6. ENEMIES There's a lot of 'em! See the enclosed mdenemy.bmp with any graphics viewer for details. 7. MISCELLANEOUS There are medics that will help you, they're in red. Just walk up to one and "push" against him (walk againt him) and he'll raise your health to 30 in increments of 1. These guys will not fire unless hit first. Playing on skill level 4 will not have any medics. Watch out for land mines. The kind layed by the enemy leave a dark gray shimmering spot on the ground, so keep those eyes sharp. They can be shot and destroyed. The kind layed by players are totally invisible, so be extra careful in DM or Co-Op. Playing on skill level 2 will not have any mines, level 3 has some, and level 4 has the most. Occaisionally you'll come across an invisible barrier, that's glass. Just shoot it out and you can pass through. 8. KNOWN BUGS Medics will occaisionally crash the game. I always play without them anyway. Too many mines may crash the game, I'm not sure. I only get this crash on level 7 which is teetering on the brink of instability anyway, it's a huge level with way too many visplanes, monsters and so forth, so the crash may just come from too much stuff (technical enough for ya?) On level 1, if you go too far into one of the corners of the level, the visplanes get too high and the game crashes. Don't go there. Sometimes rockets (and rarely: grenades) will go through walls due to their small size and high speed. I'm working on this. Please report any other bugs to gummelt@pegasus.montclair.edu 9. OUTRO Basically, have fun, report bugs and let me know if you want to contribute music or levels. Mike Gummelt gummelt@pegasus.montclair.edu