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Ah, I see you like your HOMAM nice and old school :) 3 is just what I played most of back in the day. Many fun times playing co-op with my mates. And yep, next week we're into the "proper" half of sunlust...

Hey, no need to thank me, thank the revenants :)

Haha, well hopefully they continue for several more weeks. Once I get to map 24 though... there might be more than one week between sunlust uploads... we'll see.

@@BeefGeeTV lol bold man to speed run the Doom skill curve.

Haven't started anything to do with legacy of rust yet. I have to prioritise sunlust and now scythe 2 first.

A village full of troglodytes!? Cool! What happened in the 1910s? Did they all go back underground to avoid the great war? :)

Seriously! I think Beef will facepalm when he actually hears it 😆

Oh... wow lol. Well yeah I am familiar with that song (who doesn't know the sax part) but obviously I've never paid any attention to the lyrics.

In Beefy's defence, I also didn't recognise the lyrics lol.. 😅

I've played heaps of HOMAM3, it's a great game! Can't say I'm any good at it though, I just play very casually.

Well, I got the runs you see in this video late last year I think, maybe very early this year. I spent some time going for a secret exit uvmax, but I realised months ago that it wasn't worth the time needed. I just didn't get around to actually making the video for ages now (slack of me, I know). I don't know about keyboard only runs. I might be the only person to get a keyboard only run which reaches the secret exit, but I doubt it. There are other much better keyboard players than me out there who've probably done it at some point.

yeah, one of dehacked's biggest limitations: you can't change enemy drops. The dehacked to turn the SS into these guys is quite elegant overall though. The colour change is just a flag you can set.

well apparently I'm a "doom.god" for beating that puzzle map from scream.wad, and I'm happy enough with that ;)

lol yeah, I probably was. I wasn't using my mic because I was doing 100s of attempts trying to get the uvmax and secret exit run. The uvmax regular exit run you see in this video was actually just a "sanity break" from that. That's also why the run is kinda sloppy. I've done way cleaner uvmax runs of this map before but I thought one of the sloppy ones might be more fun to watch.

@@BeefGeeTV Appreciate that. I'm playing through FreeDoom and I was stuck on Phase 2 (Doom II) map 11 for two weeks. Dang. Phase 1 can be hard at points but Phase 2 is way harder, as it should be I suppose.

Yeah, definitely going to continue scythe 2 now. Need something a bit easier to play in between sunlust practice sessions :)

I swear I've seen something like that. There are a couple of Doom engine battle simulation channels knocking about.

@@BeefGeeTV I want to make a mod where there's a massive battlefield and you can join the battle or just watch and control the whole army, but the problem is that my modding knowledge is close to zero

@@Dondlo46 I think a mod like that already exists for gzdoom. I don't know what it's called but it has to exist, otherwise how do these other channels can make their videos?

@@BeefGeeTV I've seen these mods, it's just a normal map with a lot of enemies to spawn and watch, but I want to create something different, a megawad focused on that mechanic, with unique maps (including underwater, sky, forest, hell and lot of different locations), this might work well with multiplayer too. Now you got me hyped up, I'm going to start working on it soon

@@Dondlo46 Sounds cool! Good luck! Let me know if you finish it.

Any enemy that carries a plasma weapon is still pretty dangerous. But yeah, I think quite a lot of wads use massively nerfed versions of these guys.

I actually recorded the successful secret exit run months ago. I tried again recently and it was SO difficult. I must have been in the zone that day.

Yep, scythe 2 playthroughs will continue from map32 soon now :)

Also I had no idea the secret exit door was timed to not open after 12 seconds.

it's roughly 12 seconds yeah. A similar trick to scythe 1 map 28 with a descending ceiling. Except instead of crushing a voodoo doll it simply creates a lower ceiling for the door sector, meaning it wont open high enough to walk through anymore. Pretty simply but clever.

@@BeefGeeTV that's neat. I think you'll be trying to do a uv-max no damage run on map 28 of scythe next after you finish map 27 terror since you likely know of a trick where you can keep the voodoo dolls from getting crushed in map 28 of Scythe.

Oh wait, that's pjplaysdoom, oops lol wrong person.

@@MobileGamingChronicles haha, well I do know about that trick anyway. You can linedef skip the line at the bottom of the stairs and the crusher won't start. You can build up speed against the pillar in the start room and skip it fairly consistently that way.

Glad to hear! Keyboard only is definitely way harder (needlessly so) but it does have it's own charm. It's interesting to hear it feels like a fresh way to play Doom after a long time. Most people just get frustrated, although that's very understandable lol.

@@BeefGeeTV it's also very portable and has a unique flow to it. If I play on my laptop, for example, I can either play it on the integrated keyboard or hook up a mechanical one or use the wireless bluetooth one to play from my couch - and that's just infinitely more options than a mouse, for example, because you don't need to move the keyboard around to aim, so once you can put the thing down and use it comfortably, you're all set. I changed the bindings somewhat a lot, though. Some comment suggested using different hands for movement and aim, akin to what you're doing, but I somehow never thought about that before. Right now I have all my fingers on the default QWERTY home row, which works surprisingly well because I don't need to think of the keys to press at all - my pinkies and thumbs handle most stuff outside the movement and shooting and it's the key position relative to home row that matters, not some mental mapping you typically see (like I for Inventory or T to talk, etc.). Definitely putting some of the more impressive WADs on my list to beat later thanks to your vids. I had played many of them before, beat some, but I'm eager to let them all shine in this new light. Happy dooming and here's to another 30 years of keyboarding!

@@jrknsOFF whoa, that sounds like a pretty out-there control scheme! But hey, whatever feels best to you, ofc :) I just use the default control scheme, except with Z bound as the 180 turn key and A + D as extra strafe keys for easy SR50-ing. So I guess that does mean movement and aiming are done with one hand, except for ALT being the strafe toggle.

I remember when I first started trying them I thought "I'll never remember to do these" and then very quickly they became second nature.

I agree, I preferred when the bars were there and your idea of a switch is way better than what they did.

@@BeefGeeTV It makes more sense anyway. They wouldn't make bars like that so easily unlocked right from the outside I'd imagine right? Not when they could reach right around... then again the demons apparently tossed the two some guns but didn't bother to let them out of their cells, so real world logic isn't exactly applicable in classic Doom in the first place right? I suppose id's not going to touch it when it'll screw with the speedrunners at this point, but I think they're all busy shimmying through that tight fitting pillar anyway.

Dim 2: Simlust?

@@BeefGeeTV 🥹now yer talkin

shit! The main reason I didn't do one for this series is I couldn't think of a song. The answer was right there all along.

@@BeefGeeTV would you be open to making one, say 'retroactively'? Perhaps it could be like a 'mid-season' trailer (which is the current trend in TV shows anyhow) to promote the series for those who aren't watching? Or, just to satisfy us who are waiting for your impeccable singing skills 😉 I'd definitely pay to see/hear such a performance 😁

@@inverse_of_zero haha well, maybe... I'm uploading way less because I'm pretty busy at the moment. So I'm not gonna lie, it's pretty unlikely. But never say never.

that's definitely what they're referring to

Yeah that could've gone very wrong, but it made for an exciting moment at least.

Commander Keen 4 :)

Thanks! Always nice to hear :)

That's a very fair point, but I mostly did this for the benefit of classic Doom nerds who do all know the mechanics by now. Plus, a lot of older games (like Doom but especially 16-bit era console games) did throw this kind of shit at the player and expect you to just figure it out.

yeah it is. Would be really fun to speedrun I reckon.

At least she was dangerous for once ;)

yeah she goes alright. She's welcome to stay as long as she wants as long as she's entertaining the imps.

She just wanted some love and affection :p

yeah, the first half of sunlust isnt too bad with a bit of practice. these 'cave' themed maps especially aren't too bad.

I c what u did there