@@wazabey1730 Without addons it's more like playing STALKER in the doom universe to be honest with how it feels and plays. However, with some addons you can genuinely make it about the same style of gameplay loop. It's satisfying.
So essentially, instead of becoming Doomguy, you become one of the numerous dead marines you find on the floor, except your life expectancy is slightly longer
People literally always say this on hideous destructor videos, and I don't know if everyone just independently comes up with it, more if there's something fishy going on...
arma inspired after all, can disable the optics while you move. it is quite funny tho imagining the marines always jamming their retinas into the optic
Dooms centerpoint viewmodel always made me think doomguy was always looking at his weapon through the sights, instead of having it on your side for no reason Normally if you were to hold a gun youd aim it properly
@@KoishiVibin Yes, this is how Americans are trained. There is no such thing as hip fire doctrine in the American military any more. My father, who was in a maintenance company stationed in Germany, saw a guy in his company screw up a hip fire exercise (ran by the Germans) because he instinctively dropped to a knee and fired his G3 at shoulder level. The stock was not extended, so the recoil punched him in the face and gave him a black eye. Needless to say he was the butt of jokes about it for a while.
Yeah, kinda weird, but Babuins and Ninja Pirates seem to find a way to damage you without really causing deep wounds, so long as you are wearing armor. My theory is that they are either crushing your bones with their maws, and that the teeth are there mostly for gripping, or that they are sucking your soul out with magic. The soul thing might seem farfetched, but consider this: if one plays with FreedooM instead of DooM (which Hideous Destructor more than supports, and is practically based to work on those models), you will see that Pinkies are replaced by gross, leech-like creatures. These tubular things have circular mouths full of shallow teeth, which explains how Babuins manage to latch onto you so flawlessly. When killed, Babuins will sometimes expell a bit of Frag energy, and they will sometimes drop their arcane cloacking devices, which clearly suggests that they are magical in nature. If they have control over Frag, maybe they can also store it and drain it from other beings. So, yeah, in my head, when a group of Babuin abominations start to g@ngr@pe me, I """like""" to think that they are probably sucking my soul out so that a Healer will later use that very soul to resurrect me as a mindless zombie.
The combination of HARDCORE MILSIM MADNESS with incredibly dated memes like "Herp Derp" and "Ninja Pirates" makes me laugh. Probably not my cup of tea, but I like that it exists.
Honestly, I think Hideous Destructor has earned the right to have extremely dated memes just because of the fact that they were likely *not* dated when they were originally referenced in the mod. The HDest thread on the ZDoom forums was started on Feburary 20th, 2007. Let that sink in for a moment. Hideous Destructor has been in development for around 14 years. Hideous Destructor, were it a person, would probably be starting their first year of high school right now.
@@Samarai-hf9si And it's changed a ton since then. The optics effects alone are incredibly realistic now. There never used to be realistic scope and ironsight mis-alignment with movement.
Hideous Destructor is really cool with how much attention to detail it has and how it makes you into a different kind of badass. While regular Doomguy is an unstoppable force, the Hideous Destructor marine is an average UAC marine overcoming impossible odds.
@@AndreIguodalaFan55 The gun is designed so that it won't allow a previously-used magazine to be inserted into it, which means only fresh, full mags can be used. You can get around it by forcefully shoving the mag in, but it causes your ammo counter to bug out and your display to swear at you.
_We aren't here to be heroes, we're here to survive_ ~Hideous Destructor Boot Camp 2021 tagline While I missed out on the HD stream, I'm glad that you decided to take another shot on this. Glad you ended up liking it! Now you're one of us, part of the Cult of the Great Destructor. By the way, I can't recommend running HD with Ashes 2063/Dead Man Walking enough. The mil-sim gunplay coupled with realistic environment is like a match made in heaven.
I just wanted to say thank you for introducing me to "Hideous Destructor" three years ago. I have put far more hours into it than any other Doom mod, and love it to bits.
HDest's weapons and toolset very much allows for slaughterwads to be theoretically beaten. NUTS for instance could be beaten by setting up a loadout with a jetpack in it, then taking the invulnerability sphere lining the initial area before floating over to the exit button completely unmolested. If the idea is to kill everything, then even that can be arranged by breaking the invulspheres that'll bring out friendly archviles to your aid. The BFG in HDest ain't nothing to scoff at either, being able to wipe out entire rooms in a few seconds. The main problem with HDest and slaughterwad is less the difficulty, and more that the game will go to a complete crawl before you could even fire a single shot. Since HDest is a pinch more complicated than regular Doom in terms of enemy behavior (like them being able to patrol now where they'd stand still if unalerted in vanilla), it causes much more heftiness in the thinkers when there's a lot of them active at once.
Some tips for those starting out: - Classic rifleman and support gunner are pretty forgiving loadouts as the battle rifle works against both shields and blue armor and can make its own ammo using 4mm ammo and brass casings, and the vulcanette has ammo thats everywhere and doesnt care about drm mags. - edit the loadouts. I gave every loadout an empty backpack and stuff in it anything i wont need in a pinch like the ladder, extra door busters, and in general extra items and ammo. - derp 555 and derp 556. The derp can open doors and switches through console commands, which is useful if you know theres a ton of enemies waiting on the other side of a door that an ied or door buster just wont reach. -the brontornis cannon is stupid powerful, it can one shot anything that doesnt have lives, including possibly a cyberdemon. its also lightweight. a rocket launcher with heat rounds will also work and is more common but heavier. find one or put it in your loadout with some shells.
ugly as sin actually makes the game easier. the ugly as sin medical module is straightforward and lets you stop bleeding more effectively and without as much pain. the looting module increases sustainability of some weapons snd can be a godsend in heavy fighting.
We're about to learn CV speaks cusswords in 14 languages. Poor Kate is gonna have to do a 10hr loop of ninjaspectres shouting "bullshit". Come to think of it, yeah, think I wanna watch that LOL
"So apparently you can start with literally any weapon in the game, including the BFG. I'd say 'and you'll need it' but the truth is, you can't carry enough guns for this shit. You just can't. Unless you set encumberance to zero and tell the demons to go fuck themselves."
I tried to get this running on my cellphone. I did it. Screen became a maze of custom keys and toggles akin to a combat jet. Great with screen look though, being able to move the phone to sneak a glance around a corner feels excellent. Poor man's VR
So technically this game is a representation of what it is like to fight in real life as a military soldier who fights in a world where demons and apocalypse is real as well. The game seems to simulate what it is like to be in a war as a soldier, having to carry heavy weaponry and backpacks, enough ammo to survive and a medipack for emergency case. This game is obviously not for everyone who are used to being a madlad going crazy with IDKFA and just ending the lives of every single demons as an undying gunman. This is technically a sort of simulator that challenges you to be resourceful, picky and extremely cautious with every door, corner and even behind you if you didn't kill everything because you might've passed em by. An interesting mod, to say, however, like I said, it isn't fit for every doom fan, nor for "Beginners" or "Newcomers".
I'll admit, this seems like a really well done for an unforgiving mod. It's just that it makes me feel more like a zombieman than a typical marine shown here.
Hmm... Well, there's not much difference between the zombie and you is there? Except for the armour, and brain... Zombiemen are terrible shots. Half the time they'll miss you at point blank. Oh, and, ah, protip... _Green (kevlar) armour can defeat 4,26mm hits at full 144 with some reliability. Some._ If you see a new armour set, change that sucker out immediately.
Thanks for the tip. I didn't find the zombiemen themselves much of an issue (in the favourable situations, that is). I also encountered what I can only assume as to what happens to anyone that uses a blursphere. My only word after that encounter was "oof" and "the pistol seems to do what a double barrel can't seem to do".
@@vtewlaghe oh yeah. The shades are NASTY. My recommended treatment is max-RPM vulcanette until the problem goes away. Also, the blursphere is great... If you know how to use it and don't mind not being able to pick up soul spheres. I'll just say laser eyes are useful.
@@KoishiVibin If you get your hands on a solid suit of armour, you'll shrug off shots just like the enemy marines. The key difference is that enemy marines spawn in packs, and you don't
@@vtewlaghe The thing about Blurmen is that they have a 25% chance to nope any bullet. they also have fairly strong shields. In addition, shotgun shells are not effective against shields. 9mm however is. Shields are damaged based on bullet mass, so to some extent you 9mm trying for a penetrating hit faster is a more effective tool.
You know, I think some purists might have dislike for this mod in the ability to just skip and derail the path of a level. Blowing through keycard doors, climbing normally inaccessible walls, etc. But the thing is, that's exactly in line with this mod's philosophy. It's a realistic and merciless depiction of you against the enemy. You want to advance your mission and survive against the enemy by ANY means necessary. They're not thinking to show any mercy or uphold any arbitrary handicaps, so why should you? ANY means necessary. Realistically, if you could blow a new path open or traverse a flank to avoid an enemy or get a shortcut, why shouldn't you? With this mod, you shouldn't worry about requiring keycards and going through the route that was designed for the level, you should worry about killing as needed and surviving the level by any means, mapmaker's intent be damned.
I always play hideous destructor on either Naturist or Doomed Guy, so I have to say, you still end up cheesing most levels because the mod is very generous with giving you the gear needed to do so in backpacks.
Oh man, when I saw your first video about HD, I had this feeling that there was something deeper and more interesting that you were giving up on due to frustration, and when I finally tried it, it quickly became my favorite Doom mod ever. It has so much depth to its systems, and surviving combat feels amazing. Cheesing your way through levels also feels amazing, because while the mod has plenty of "fuck you" to say, it's awesome to say "no, fuck you" right back by doorbusting your way right to the exit. And I personally love the mag manager. The deliberate preparation for upcoming things by loading loose bullets into magazines feels like a nice rest in between the more intense action. Once I learned the keybinds and the game became more an extension of myself than a clunky battle with controls and mechanics, it all really opened up so much. You're relatively weak and slow, but you have a lot of options and opportunities to plan ahead or even cheese some. It feels like there's always something new to try if one thing doesn't work. There's so much variety in weapons and items, and it's great to experiment with them to see what kind of kit you want to have. Anyway, yeah, awesome mod and I'm sad that TH-cam didn't recommend this to me until just now. Very cool to see you struggle your way through some maps and come out on top in the end.
That’s something that I did read a lot while playing the mod, and I find it hilarious, can somebody in real life be putted into court by doing this? Other than that a rather small but interesting detail.
Having your face chewed off by pinkies while the screen flashes "You have stopped bleeding" reminds me so much of E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy and "My legs are ok!"
I was literally just watching a Clusterf*** stream when you were saying that you enjoy it infinitely more over Hideous Destructor, and this video popped up haha!
I started playing HD from this video's recommendation alone and I can't think of the last time a gameplay mod for Doom felt this compelling. It's an honest feat of design that some enterprising modders could cram Arma 3 into Doom II and have it somehow still be fun. Only thing I want is more weapons and gizmos, haha
Well, you're in luck! There's quite a lot of addons made for HDest that fills that very void of weapons and utilities! accensi.gitlab.io/hdportal/addons.html
Ok this is EPIC i remember seeing this when it was new but i feel bad not commenting till now but I Respect how Serious you challenged this Crazy Horror Realistic WAD! Not to mention the ADS Crosshair! Also any Empathetic Solders in the comments? And to any who see this Thank You For Your Service!
@@micuu1 I dunno. A lot of it becomes second nature. hell, it helps to think in real terms. "I want to load the chamber of my shotgun." So, racking the slide opens the chamber. And reloading should reload it...? And that's how things go. Shooting my enemies in the face should be better at piercing armour than shooting them in the chest right? Yup. If I wanted to I cloud put the pin back into the accidentally activated grenade, right? Yup.
@Mialisus The only real reliability issues are the ZM66 as it's the EULA rifle (it actually only takes something like four or five 3 round burst shots in quick succession to cook off a mag) The semi auto and full auto modes that the hunter shotgun can potentially have, carry a low chance of a failure to eject as the shell might not be hot enough to cycle all the way because shotgun ammo in the mod are supposed to be of variable sources of questionable quality. The rocket launcher dud you mentioned only happens when you fire too closely to an obstruction in either grenade or rocket mode, as a safety feature before the fins on the gyro grenade extend and the grenade arms. Think rocket mode lets it arm a little sooner than grenade mode. Also man I see you everywhere.
Icarus- just finished watching. Great video! Can't stress enough that as you learn the mod you'll be rewarded immensely. When you get good, you'll be able to take out those barons no problem :)
Hideous Destructor in my opinion is one of the most creative tactical shooters and by extension one of the most creative Doom Mods i've ever played. People say it looks clunky and shit. but honestly it's one of the best doom mods in my books, Sure. Not everyone can enjoy it. but once you start to really sink your teeth into it you can see how much depth this mod truly has in it's mechanics. I never even knew damageable sectors or Picture in Picture sights were possible in GZDoom until I played Hideous Destructor. I absolutely recommend you try out some of the Hideous Destructor addons that people have made for HDest. Some of these mods are super cool.
Your effort to bring us quality content is greatly appreciated. This mod feels like it was made by a coked up D&D game master who read one too many Sven Hassel mercenary books and was trying to create a hyper realistic shooter that no one really asked for. WHAT a madman. And you as well good sir, for accepting this challenge. I salute you!
Interesting. Thank you for revisiting this. i don't think its for me, as I don't care about the realism angle, but I'm fascinated by its depth. I hope you will give us updates on some of the other mods you've shown over the years, to see how they've grown and changed since you reviewed them.
There’s just something about this video. It’s really good and makes me want to try Hideous, but beyond that it’s the perfect white noise for me. It’s a nice long video that features your lovely voice, and I’ve listened to it a lot on the background whenever I’m doing something quiet! Thanks Icarus, haha
I have never found myself in a situation in "vanilla" Hideous Destructor where I'd have to manually reload or keep a partial plastic mag. Just "clean your plate" and try to stretch them to the last five rounds or so. Those things are not only lying around literally everywhere, but you can often salvage unopened ones from the weapons scattered about. Especially the chainguns and the HERPs. Speaking of HERPs: you can reorient their cone of vision by dragging them or by using remote control. The latter lets you adjust their arc of fire vertically.
Awesome job sticking it out! I remember your first review and was scratching my head alongside you about who would think this mod could be fun. Keep at it Icasaurus!
This Doom mod makes sure to raise up the difficulty of Doom levels like 2-3 times harder, although I admit the creators of the mod knew how hardcore could be a horror-style action game. I will try to complete one of map packs the devs recommend to learning the mechanics of Hideous Destructor. Your DUSK T-shirt is very good, I would order somewhere. If I'm speaking about that game, I beated the DUSK game on medium difficulty mode and I enjoyed the levels and slaying the enemies on the low-poly environment. :)
I added Dark doom in for some horror. It also adds a really satisfying feeling where you see a zombie's muzzle flash and you lock on and blow their head off with a sniper rifle
One thing I like about Hideous Destructor is that you can foil enemy ambushes with the wide array of tools it provides. For instance, you can take out many monster closets by just straight up shooting the hostiles inside with the 7mm battle rifle. Or you can prematurely open them up with door buster charges, a HEAT round from the rocket launcher or a 35mm shell from the portable Brontornis cannon, which would also generate enough shrapnel to seriously injure - if not outright kill - the monsters hiding inside. What about teleport ambushes, you say? IEDs and HERPs/DERPs say hello. Just make sure to stay out of the blast radius and/or line of fire.
And we have the luxury of all targets being targets we can and should hit. Actual soldiers often face the problem of potential targets not being actual targets, and non-combatants being caught in the middle of the battlefield.
Something to note: Even against hellish demons, the most dangerous thing in HD is still, in essence, a human made gatling gun. The Spider Mastermind has a unique 7mm Vulcanette (or "Vulcan"), basically. 7mm more or less kills human targets in a single shot, cutting through blue armor like wet paper and green armor as if it wasn't there.
So glad you came back to this. One of my top favorite mods, hard to describe what I like about it but you summed it up pretty well the whole experience. Keep up the vids IC!
Fort of Hard Knox's channel has some gameplay videos and a Bootcamp series to help understand the mod. ZikShadow's channel has a lot of full mapset playthrough of HD with a lot of additional gameplay mods to make the game even more realist/tactical.
They say your first hours of HDest brings you from being the legendary Doomguy to being just a hapless, nameless space marine... But put in the time, put in the work, do your homework and while you will never be Doomguy, you'll be right up there with the likes of John Wick, Sarah Connor and Frank Castle. It won't be easy and it'll take time but goddammit, it's the most rewarding experience you can ever have with a Doom mod.
DiFranco SPOS-E28 The E28 is a shotgun chambered for 12g buckshot. It features a 7+1 capacity, and dual action. It may be fired as a traditional pump action, or fired on semi automatic. Not all shells in the field will kick the shell in the chamber out after firing, so it may jam. If this happens, pump the slide, try again. It is illegal, but like that's going to stop people nowadays, to modify E28s to fire in fully automatic. In this case, you may get a message when picking it up of someone "tampering with the fire selector". Aside from that, it deals enough damage to any humanoid to kill in one hit, has enough penetration to go through a corner or glass, and can roll a bunch of times per shot for armour penetration against head/legs. It lacks armour penetration though, so any armour will stop it dead. Still, better than nothing, and you can usually sneak a blast through the faceplates of a marine.
If you want to complete the original DOOM with Hideous Destructor, it will probably be impossible past E1. But there is Ultimate Needs More Detail, which is a wad by one guy trying to recreate DOOM. It has the exact same structural rules as the first DOOM, but strangely, and this wasn’t really intended, it’s actually very plausible to beat using HD.
Awesome stuff my man. I watched your first vid on Hideous Destructor and I wanted to play it. I dont know what it was about this mod but I was like "gib now." On their Github (i think) they do list maps that are beatable, map that are impossible and maps that are made for the mod. I see this mod as a flex at what you can do with modding Doom. I glad you found the enjoyment aspect, dont get me wrong this mod can make you wanna break shit, but when you execute that "perfect" room clear *muah*
Hideous Destructor is one of the most rewarding gameplay experiences you'll have, not just in a Doom mod, but in all of PC gaming. I've been playing it for years and I'm still discovering things about it. Nothing like it out there.
in situation like 6:42, bandaging is the best course of action. you can use it without taking off armor, it stops bleeding as long as you aren't moving constantly after that, and it don't make your screen extra shakey. the optimal move would be: Go behind the cover, roll some bandage over your wound, wait for few sec for it to be stabilized, kean out from thr cover, kill the zombie, _then_ use medkit to fully close the wound.
Others might've mentioned, but - the chainsaw can destroy enemy carcasses so that they cannot reanimate - mimic barrels and enemy turrets can be disabled in options
Glad to see you once again returning to this mod in better light, Icarus. This mod's probably one of my favorites in terms of Doom mods, and the community behind it along with the submods made for it ain't nothing to shake a stick at either, with modders like Batandy, Kegan, and Ultra having made addons for HDest. The difficulty's tough, yet fair. With practice and perseverance, you could very much conquer mapsets like Plutonia and Valiant with this mod. Being able to destroy the enemy as fast as they do you with plenty of tools in your disposal to approach the situation or even evade it completely. Being able to customize your loadout at the start of a run also really helps for mapsets that start you off in rough places, though I usually tend to go for vanilla Rifleman for my runs. Sure, I still go to other Doom mods every now and then (vanilla, too), but HDest is just something that never fails to grip me everytime I launch it. It takes a bit of time and determination to learn the mechanics, but once it clicks, it doesn't let go. That's also why me and the others from the HDest community helped built the Bootcamp map. To help shorten that very phase. I'm glad that it has helped in getting that click to you as well.
I honest to god would say that, ammo supply withstanding, "Shave and a haircut, ten cents" is a good rhythm to use for the 4.26mm Rifle. The first 3-4 shots are for knocking them down and the last 2 are for making sure they stay that way. Has worked semi-reliably for me so far.
I love the Civvie style formatting on this one, and I'm just glad you gave HD a real chance! You should try playing it with DarkDoomZ and Ugly as Sin. C:
Second worst. The worst was that guy who did a Fallout New Vegas video called "UNSTOPPABLE MORON MAKES NUCLEAR WASTELAND WORSE". There was a point where he decided to waste Captain Parker with a grenade on VATS. Grenade hits tent pole, goes bonk, goes back to him. *Thrice.* "Rise and Shine, Captain Parker!" * BONK! BOOOOM!*
When done well, mag management really adds a lot to games like this. When it's done well. A good example of a game that handles it well is Into the Radius, but that has the benefit of motion controls, which means managing magazines and refills becomes a physical game of moving around magazines and bullet cartridges which, to me at least, is infinitely more fun and interesting than having to deal with a convoluted menu system.
HD is masochism made manifest and I kind of love it for that. It's kind of the opposite of the juvenile power fantasy trend that FPS games are known for.
This seems like a mod for people who wanted to play Arch Linux in DOOM form. What an absolutely insane level of complexity. Still, it is fascinating in its own way.
For those wondering about the DRM mag thing, the AR only likes "fresh" mags, ones that haven't been fired yet (they have a little red tab on top). So if you hand reload one, it'll throw a fit
The greater the challenge, the greater the satisfaction of overcoming it is. As the book "The Tragedy of Man" puts it: "The goal is death, life is a struggle, and man's purpose is this struggle itself."
Hideous destructor really seems like it would benefit greatly from a grid based inventory system, but building that from the ground up in the doom engine sounds like an absolute nightmare.
That is actually *kind* of a thing, there are revised backpack systems but those come with their own problems. Those list things in a list view, but...
24:00 you can toggle between pump-action and semi-auto firemodes on the hunter shotgun with the "switch firemode" hotkey. However, holding the same hotkey on the slayer shotgun makes it shoot both of its barrels at the same time (and I'm not sure, but I've heard that shooting both of the barrels at the same time gives you more bang out of your shells).
Hideous Destructor heart of demons revenant edition. gotta do demonic rituals to gather the hell energy then other rituals to turn it into soul energy and demonic weapon ammo as well as finding repair kits and parts for your reverent combat suit. theres no bleeding but you also might need to replace a bone everynow and then. 👿
Hi Icarus! I remember your old video, I was one who shared my story with you in the comments of it. I'm glad you finally revisited the mod and cleared up that old beef. I would like to say that I very much enjoyed hearing the parts about how the community kept you going (28:25) and that it played a role in you keeping patience. Understandably, all the damned RNG and chaos that occurs in the mod can cause a lot of suffering. I know this too well when I attempted to do that HORRIBLE wiremode/hack/obstacle course secret in Diabolus Ex. Please tell me you actually avoided that damn room because the amount of floor-sniping soldiers, the Cyberdemon, the constant teleporting Frag energy and the fucking Arch-viles and barons almost made me lose my sanity entirely. Anyhow, it's great to see someone make up for past social faux pas. Keeping integrity is a respectable thing.
Addendum: One part I would like to point out is that I think you could have brought up the fancy options that come along with the mod - you do not have to play with the vanilla rules if you don't have to. Like most Doom philosophers, they obviously want you to tailor your own experience freely. Not a fan of bleeding? Turn it off. Don't like mimics? Turn that spawn rate down to 0 if you'd like! Make your own loadout! Reduce damage factors! Increase carry weight limits so you can mantle despite holding two big guns!
Military sim where you fight supernatural and aliens would be great. Imagine arma server globally defending an island against aliens. Or storming super gore nest with ur battle buddies
Yup! Just Realistic(TM) soldiers with Realistic(TM)/Plausible equipment fighting insane foes like demons, aliens, robots and all sorts of sci-fi/magical enemies with bullshit abilities. So you are a nice trained soldier at the peak of physical abilities wielding military weapons? That's cute. The enemy has abilities like teleporting, shooting fire from their fingertips, flying, ridiculous vulnerability and super speed. You have to save the world. Good fucking luck!
I make up for my inconsistent upload schedule with bloated videos now, suck on that YT algorithm.
Watching the video it sounds like someone tried to emulate Escape from Tarkov in Doom with this mod...
@@wazabey1730 , that was what I was thinking since seeing first Icarus' video on Hideous Destructor.
@@wazabey1730 Without addons it's more like playing STALKER in the doom universe to be honest with how it feels and plays. However, with some addons you can genuinely make it about the same style of gameplay loop. It's satisfying.
I am very pleased you ended up enjoying HDest! Yes it’s quite the challenge, but quite cheese- possible and fun
You tell em @ICARUSLIV3S
So essentially, instead of becoming Doomguy, you become one of the numerous dead marines you find on the floor, except your life expectancy is slightly longer
like the dead dudes on the other chapters
People literally always say this on hideous destructor videos, and I don't know if everyone just independently comes up with it, more if there's something fishy going on...
@@Deoster People like the idea of an everyman rising above the cast-iron challenges presented in games like this.
@@Deoster It's just an easy observation to make, lol
@@blunderingfool myself included.
"Do you want to shoot from the hip, or look through the scope?"
"Yes."
To be fair, the assumption is you're never going to hipfire, you've alkways got it on your shoulder.
arma inspired after all, can disable the optics while you move.
it is quite funny tho imagining the marines always jamming their retinas into the optic
Dooms centerpoint viewmodel always made me think doomguy was always looking at his weapon through the sights, instead of having it on your side for no reason
Normally if you were to hold a gun youd aim it properly
@@KoishiVibin Yes, this is how Americans are trained. There is no such thing as hip fire doctrine in the American military any more. My father, who was in a maintenance company stationed in Germany, saw a guy in his company screw up a hip fire exercise (ran by the Germans) because he instinctively dropped to a knee and fired his G3 at shoulder level. The stock was not extended, so the recoil punched him in the face and gave him a black eye. Needless to say he was the butt of jokes about it for a while.
@@CrizzyEyes
What about the Vietnam low ready? That's basically where the "hip fire" thing came from
Best redemption arc in any anime.
This madman went back to face what hurt him most.
i love the "you are not bleeding" as hes getting visciously mauled on the floor by a ninja pirate
thanks spiritual armour
thanks blues
thank you cuob
Yeah, kinda weird, but Babuins and Ninja Pirates seem to find a way to damage you without really causing deep wounds, so long as you are wearing armor.
My theory is that they are either crushing your bones with their maws, and that the teeth are there mostly for gripping, or that they are sucking your soul out with magic.
The soul thing might seem farfetched, but consider this: if one plays with FreedooM instead of DooM (which Hideous Destructor more than supports, and is practically based to work on those models), you will see that Pinkies are replaced by gross, leech-like creatures. These tubular things have circular mouths full of shallow teeth, which explains how Babuins manage to latch onto you so flawlessly. When killed, Babuins will sometimes expell a bit of Frag energy, and they will sometimes drop their arcane cloacking devices, which clearly suggests that they are magical in nature. If they have control over Frag, maybe they can also store it and drain it from other beings.
So, yeah, in my head, when a group of Babuin abominations start to g@ngr@pe me, I """like""" to think that they are probably sucking my soul out so that a Healer will later use that very soul to resurrect me as a mindless zombie.
10:25 Going from hating HD to pumping AR rounds into imps to the tune of shave and a haircut. Redemption complete.
two rounds!
The combination of HARDCORE MILSIM MADNESS with incredibly dated memes like "Herp Derp" and "Ninja Pirates" makes me laugh. Probably not my cup of tea, but I like that it exists.
Made me smirk quite a few times. Definitely not for everyone but the community is great.
100% my cup of tea tbh
Honestly, I think Hideous Destructor has earned the right to have extremely dated memes just because of the fact that they were likely *not* dated when they were originally referenced in the mod. The HDest thread on the ZDoom forums was started on Feburary 20th, 2007.
Let that sink in for a moment. Hideous Destructor has been in development for around 14 years. Hideous Destructor, were it a person, would probably be starting their first year of high school right now.
@@Samarai-hf9si And it's changed a ton since then. The optics effects alone are incredibly realistic now. There never used to be realistic scope and ironsight mis-alignment with movement.
@@therandomdickhead5744 Have a feeling a fella like yourself is really into martial arts...
"The Testicular fortitude"
My new catchphrase, thanks
BANG BANG!!! - Mick Foley
Hideous Destructor is really cool with how much attention to detail it has and how it makes you into a different kind of badass. While regular Doomguy is an unstoppable force, the Hideous Destructor marine is an average UAC marine overcoming impossible odds.
UAC’s magazine DRM is just the extra bit of special Fuck You this mod needed. Hilarious!
Hilarious Destructor?
hell yeah it is.
wait
DRM?
@@AndreIguodalaFan55 The gun is designed so that it won't allow a previously-used magazine to be inserted into it, which means only fresh, full mags can be used. You can get around it by forcefully shoving the mag in, but it causes your ammo counter to bug out and your display to swear at you.
@@GearyDigit oh
That's funny as hell
I must say, the creator put a lot of love into this mod. Thumbs up for him.
And thumb up for you for giving it second chance. What a sport!
It's easy to forget that Matt's been plugging away at it for 13 years now. If anything, it's a dependable mod.
@@Vulkans 13 years?! Whoa, so that´s why it looks polished and fully functionall :)
@@miroslavzima8856 yeah the community is amazing. quite a few modders and just great lads all round
_We aren't here to be heroes, we're here to survive_
~Hideous Destructor Boot Camp 2021 tagline
While I missed out on the HD stream, I'm glad that you decided to take another shot on this. Glad you ended up liking it! Now you're one of us, part of the Cult of the Great Destructor.
By the way, I can't recommend running HD with Ashes 2063/Dead Man Walking enough. The mil-sim gunplay coupled with realistic environment is like a match made in heaven.
Ashes works sooooo damn well right!? Me and my brother did co op on it and oh boy is it fun
"We aren't here to be heroes, because we died in 0.000001 seconds"
How It Should Actually Read
I feel like it would be best run with a System Shock-esque survival horror WAD.
Hideous Destructor:
*_the demons won't be the only thing giving you hell_*
At least I can throw it right back...
Note:
The DRM Slam message is in fact _you_ telling the manufacturers to go, well, themselves.
I always loved those kind of details, even if they are as small and unnecessary, I still love them
It does say -management right after, though...
I just wanted to say thank you for introducing me to "Hideous Destructor" three years ago. I have put far more hours into it than any other Doom mod, and love it to bits.
49 likes and no comment. Please allow me the pleasure.
Clearly the next step is to play a slaughter map in HD.
NUTS3 on Hideous Destructor.
Complete all of sunlust on hideous :o
@@matthewgagnon9426 someone make a donation of considerable amount and suggest this as an idea when icarus streams
HDest's weapons and toolset very much allows for slaughterwads to be theoretically beaten. NUTS for instance could be beaten by setting up a loadout with a jetpack in it, then taking the invulnerability sphere lining the initial area before floating over to the exit button completely unmolested. If the idea is to kill everything, then even that can be arranged by breaking the invulspheres that'll bring out friendly archviles to your aid. The BFG in HDest ain't nothing to scoff at either, being able to wipe out entire rooms in a few seconds.
The main problem with HDest and slaughterwad is less the difficulty, and more that the game will go to a complete crawl before you could even fire a single shot. Since HDest is a pinch more complicated than regular Doom in terms of enemy behavior (like them being able to patrol now where they'd stand still if unalerted in vanilla), it causes much more heftiness in the thinkers when there's a lot of them active at once.
Take on God Machine
A tutorial was exactly what this mod needed. It's kinda like Receiver in Doom, and somehow twice as stressful.
Some tips for those starting out:
- Classic rifleman and support gunner are pretty forgiving loadouts as the battle rifle works against both shields and blue armor and can make its own ammo using 4mm ammo and brass casings, and the vulcanette has ammo thats everywhere and doesnt care about drm mags.
- edit the loadouts. I gave every loadout an empty backpack and stuff in it anything i wont need in a pinch like the ladder, extra door busters, and in general extra items and ammo.
- derp 555 and derp 556. The derp can open doors and switches through console commands, which is useful if you know theres a ton of enemies waiting on the other side of a door that an ied or door buster just wont reach.
-the brontornis cannon is stupid powerful, it can one shot anything that doesnt have lives, including possibly a cyberdemon. its also lightweight. a rocket launcher with heat rounds will also work and is more common but heavier. find one or put it in your loadout with some shells.
ugly as sin actually makes the game easier.
the ugly as sin medical module is straightforward and lets you stop bleeding more effectively and without as much pain.
the looting module increases sustainability of some weapons snd can be a godsend in heavy fighting.
@@sunrisejackdaw1779 see this is why i browse the comments. what other mods you got? anything to make it more arcadey when i'm sick of dying?
I really would love to see Civvie 11 play this lol
We're about to learn CV speaks cusswords in 14 languages. Poor Kate is gonna have to do a 10hr loop of ninjaspectres shouting "bullshit". Come to think of it, yeah, think I wanna watch that LOL
And an endless loop of Gordon Ramsey clips
"So apparently you can start with literally any weapon in the game, including the BFG. I'd say 'and you'll need it' but the truth is, you can't carry enough guns for this shit. You just can't. Unless you set encumberance to zero and tell the demons to go fuck themselves."
Better watch it if he does play it. He might make another music video like he did with the ROTT Enforcer.
I would say that Civvie doesn't play mods, but he played a few Postal 2 mods so you never know.
I tried to get this running on my cellphone. I did it. Screen became a maze of custom keys and toggles akin to a combat jet. Great with screen look though, being able to move the phone to sneak a glance around a corner feels excellent. Poor man's VR
how does screen look work, google is no help
I installed HD because you were raging at it in the last video. Was expecting to feel hilarity and rage, ended up with PTSD.
The formula of classic Rainbow Six transfused into Doom. I like it!
Tango resurrected
So technically this game is a representation of what it is like to fight in real life as a military soldier who fights in a world where demons and apocalypse is real as well. The game seems to simulate what it is like to be in a war as a soldier, having to carry heavy weaponry and backpacks, enough ammo to survive and a medipack for emergency case. This game is obviously not for everyone who are used to being a madlad going crazy with IDKFA and just ending the lives of every single demons as an undying gunman. This is technically a sort of simulator that challenges you to be resourceful, picky and extremely cautious with every door, corner and even behind you if you didn't kill everything because you might've passed em by. An interesting mod, to say, however, like I said, it isn't fit for every doom fan, nor for "Beginners" or "Newcomers".
I'll admit, this seems like a really well done for an unforgiving mod. It's just that it makes me feel more like a zombieman than a typical marine shown here.
Hmm...
Well, there's not much difference between the zombie and you is there?
Except for the armour, and brain...
Zombiemen are terrible shots. Half the time they'll miss you at point blank.
Oh, and, ah, protip...
_Green (kevlar) armour can defeat 4,26mm hits at full 144 with some reliability. Some._
If you see a new armour set, change that sucker out immediately.
Thanks for the tip. I didn't find the zombiemen themselves much of an issue (in the favourable situations, that is). I also encountered what I can only assume as to what happens to anyone that uses a blursphere. My only word after that encounter was "oof" and "the pistol seems to do what a double barrel can't seem to do".
@@vtewlaghe oh yeah. The shades are NASTY. My recommended treatment is max-RPM vulcanette until the problem goes away. Also, the blursphere is great... If you know how to use it and don't mind not being able to pick up soul spheres. I'll just say laser eyes are useful.
@@KoishiVibin
If you get your hands on a solid suit of armour, you'll shrug off shots just like the enemy marines. The key difference is that enemy marines spawn in packs, and you don't
@@vtewlaghe
The thing about Blurmen is that they have a 25% chance to nope any bullet. they also have fairly strong shields.
In addition, shotgun shells are not effective against shields. 9mm however is.
Shields are damaged based on bullet mass, so to some extent you 9mm trying for a penetrating hit faster is a more effective tool.
You know, I think some purists might have dislike for this mod in the ability to just skip and derail the path of a level. Blowing through keycard doors, climbing normally inaccessible walls, etc.
But the thing is, that's exactly in line with this mod's philosophy. It's a realistic and merciless depiction of you against the enemy. You want to advance your mission and survive against the enemy by ANY means necessary. They're not thinking to show any mercy or uphold any arbitrary handicaps, so why should you? ANY means necessary.
Realistically, if you could blow a new path open or traverse a flank to avoid an enemy or get a shortcut, why shouldn't you? With this mod, you shouldn't worry about requiring keycards and going through the route that was designed for the level, you should worry about killing as needed and surviving the level by any means, mapmaker's intent be damned.
The fun part is getting good enough to be able to inflict arbitrary handicaps.
Being able to play Eternal Space Cowboy is a joy all its own.
Basically, Hideous Destructor is just:
Escape From UAC Facilities And Hell (or any placename for the mappack youre running)
In a nutshell
I always play hideous destructor on either Naturist or Doomed Guy, so I have to say, you still end up cheesing most levels because the mod is very generous with giving you the gear needed to do so in backpacks.
Oh man, when I saw your first video about HD, I had this feeling that there was something deeper and more interesting that you were giving up on due to frustration, and when I finally tried it, it quickly became my favorite Doom mod ever. It has so much depth to its systems, and surviving combat feels amazing. Cheesing your way through levels also feels amazing, because while the mod has plenty of "fuck you" to say, it's awesome to say "no, fuck you" right back by doorbusting your way right to the exit. And I personally love the mag manager. The deliberate preparation for upcoming things by loading loose bullets into magazines feels like a nice rest in between the more intense action.
Once I learned the keybinds and the game became more an extension of myself than a clunky battle with controls and mechanics, it all really opened up so much. You're relatively weak and slow, but you have a lot of options and opportunities to plan ahead or even cheese some. It feels like there's always something new to try if one thing doesn't work. There's so much variety in weapons and items, and it's great to experiment with them to see what kind of kit you want to have.
Anyway, yeah, awesome mod and I'm sad that TH-cam didn't recommend this to me until just now. Very cool to see you struggle your way through some maps and come out on top in the end.
now it's time for a
TOURNAMENT ARC
HD PVP sucks lol
I find it funny that In lore for HDest that the uac has grounds to throw you into court for reloading a zm66 with a used mag
That’s something that I did read a lot while playing the mod, and I find it hilarious, can somebody in real life be putted into court by doing this? Other than that a rather small but interesting detail.
@@sipeb587 the wiki is such a good read even if you don't play the mod, also no you can't get put in court for it
Having your face chewed off by pinkies while the screen flashes "You have stopped bleeding" reminds me so much of E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy and "My legs are ok!"
Like a DnD session where you always roll nat 1.
I usually play Naturist for the OSP feeling. Run up to a zombieman and deck him in the face to grab his rifle and mow down his buddies.
that must be fun, gonna try it one day!
I like to kill n drop. Can just do new york reloads with the zm
@@cxoll.8563
It is painful, but damn there ain't a feeling close to fighting a sucker with your bare hands and using a rifle you rightfully stole.
I was literally just watching a Clusterf*** stream when you were saying that you enjoy it infinitely more over Hideous Destructor, and this video popped up haha!
I started playing HD from this video's recommendation alone and I can't think of the last time a gameplay mod for Doom felt this compelling.
It's an honest feat of design that some enterprising modders could cram Arma 3 into Doom II and have it somehow still be fun. Only thing I want is more weapons and gizmos, haha
Well, you're in luck! There's quite a lot of addons made for HDest that fills that very void of weapons and utilities!
accensi.gitlab.io/hdportal/addons.html
@@ZikShadow awesome dude, thanks a bunch \m/
This is more of a military sim than any Call of Duty game
Ok this is EPIC i remember seeing this when it was new but i feel bad not commenting till now but I Respect how Serious you challenged this Crazy Horror Realistic WAD! Not to mention the ADS Crosshair! Also any Empathetic Solders in the comments? And to any who see this Thank You For Your Service!
Someone wanted to play doom and tarkov at the same time
And somehow make it more complicated and obtuse than Tarkov.
@@micuu1
I dunno. A lot of it becomes second nature. hell, it helps to think in real terms.
"I want to load the chamber of my shotgun."
So, racking the slide opens the chamber. And reloading should reload it...?
And that's how things go.
Shooting my enemies in the face should be better at piercing armour than shooting them in the chest right? Yup.
If I wanted to I cloud put the pin back into the accidentally activated grenade, right? Yup.
@Mialisus Scavs maybe but both PMCs are well funded an equipped. Just look at the USEC Black Ops.
@Mialisus Yes I'm well aware war isn't like how it's portrayed in fiction, thanks for stating the obvious
@Mialisus The only real reliability issues are the ZM66 as it's the EULA rifle (it actually only takes something like four or five 3 round burst shots in quick succession to cook off a mag) The semi auto and full auto modes that the hunter shotgun can potentially have, carry a low chance of a failure to eject as the shell might not be hot enough to cycle all the way because shotgun ammo in the mod are supposed to be of variable sources of questionable quality. The rocket launcher dud you mentioned only happens when you fire too closely to an obstruction in either grenade or rocket mode, as a safety feature before the fins on the gyro grenade extend and the grenade arms. Think rocket mode lets it arm a little sooner than grenade mode.
Also man I see you everywhere.
Okay, this is the best Redemption Arc i have ever seen in the modern media, brilliant.
Icarus- just finished watching. Great video! Can't stress enough that as you learn the mod you'll be rewarded immensely. When you get good, you'll be able to take out those barons no problem :)
This mod turns doom into an immersive sim.
uhhh kind of?
More like Arma, or even more accurate SWAT 4.
Depends on the map if you have all the options that an immersive sim should have
@Piter DeVries Unless you load it up with Ugly as Sin addon
Naw I can take more than two bullets in Deus Ex or BioShock
16:40 - DYK? You can use DERPs to open up doors and trigger buttons remotely.
one hell of a RC car
Hideous Destructor in my opinion is one of the most creative tactical shooters and by extension one of the most creative Doom Mods i've ever played. People say it looks clunky and shit. but honestly it's one of the best doom mods in my books, Sure. Not everyone can enjoy it. but once you start to really sink your teeth into it you can see how much depth this mod truly has in it's mechanics.
I never even knew damageable sectors or Picture in Picture sights were possible in GZDoom until I played Hideous Destructor.
I absolutely recommend you try out some of the Hideous Destructor addons that people have made for HDest. Some of these mods are super cool.
Your effort to bring us quality content is greatly appreciated.
This mod feels like it was made by a coked up D&D game master who read one too many Sven Hassel mercenary books and was trying to create a hyper realistic shooter that no one really asked for. WHAT a madman. And you as well good sir, for accepting this challenge. I salute you!
Interesting. Thank you for revisiting this. i don't think its for me, as I don't care about the realism angle, but I'm fascinated by its depth. I hope you will give us updates on some of the other mods you've shown over the years, to see how they've grown and changed since you reviewed them.
There’s just something about this video. It’s really good and makes me want to try Hideous, but beyond that it’s the perfect white noise for me. It’s a nice long video that features your lovely voice, and I’ve listened to it a lot on the background whenever I’m doing something quiet! Thanks Icarus, haha
I have never found myself in a situation in "vanilla" Hideous Destructor where I'd have to manually reload or keep a partial plastic mag. Just "clean your plate" and try to stretch them to the last five rounds or so.
Those things are not only lying around literally everywhere, but you can often salvage unopened ones from the weapons scattered about. Especially the chainguns and the HERPs.
Speaking of HERPs: you can reorient their cone of vision by dragging them or by using remote control. The latter lets you adjust their arc of fire vertically.
The editing and jokes get better and better after every video.
Awesome job sticking it out! I remember your first review and was scratching my head alongside you about who would think this mod could be fun. Keep at it Icasaurus!
the thing with Hideous destructor is that no matter how much pain it gives you, it'll always drag you back in
Hideous Destructor is one of the most artistically interesting video games I've ever played, and it helps that it's also just fun as HELL.
Been playing HD since it came out...definitely makes you feel genuine dread even when you come across former humans.
This mod simultaneously sounds cool and torturous.
This Doom mod makes sure to raise up the difficulty of Doom levels like 2-3 times harder, although I admit the creators of the mod knew how hardcore could be a horror-style action game.
I will try to complete one of map packs the devs recommend to learning the mechanics of Hideous Destructor.
Your DUSK T-shirt is very good, I would order somewhere. If I'm speaking about that game, I beated the DUSK game on medium difficulty mode and I enjoyed the levels and slaying the enemies on the low-poly environment. :)
HD seriously needs some map WADs of it's own to take full advantage of it's features.
This is so much harder than real life, I swear.
I added Dark doom in for some horror. It also adds a really satisfying feeling where you see a zombie's muzzle flash and you lock on and blow their head off with a sniper rifle
One thing I like about Hideous Destructor is that you can foil enemy ambushes with the wide array of tools it provides.
For instance, you can take out many monster closets by just straight up shooting the hostiles inside with the 7mm battle rifle. Or you can prematurely open them up with door buster charges, a HEAT round from the rocket launcher or a 35mm shell from the portable Brontornis cannon, which would also generate enough shrapnel to seriously injure - if not outright kill - the monsters hiding inside.
What about teleport ambushes, you say? IEDs and HERPs/DERPs say hello. Just make sure to stay out of the blast radius and/or line of fire.
Playing this makes you appreciate actual soldiers so much more, minus the demons, instead they have even more human targets
And we have the luxury of all targets being targets we can and should hit. Actual soldiers often face the problem of potential targets not being actual targets, and non-combatants being caught in the middle of the battlefield.
Something to note: Even against hellish demons, the most dangerous thing in HD is still, in essence, a human made gatling gun.
The Spider Mastermind has a unique 7mm Vulcanette (or "Vulcan"), basically. 7mm more or less kills human targets in a single shot, cutting through blue armor like wet paper and green armor as if it wasn't there.
So glad you came back to this. One of my top favorite mods, hard to describe what I like about it but you summed it up pretty well the whole experience. Keep up the vids IC!
This is the type of mod I'd love to watch someone play but wouldn't dare to try out myself.
Fort of Hard Knox's channel has some gameplay videos and a Bootcamp series to help understand the mod.
ZikShadow's channel has a lot of full mapset playthrough of HD with a lot of additional gameplay mods to make the game even more realist/tactical.
This mod in multiplayer has got to be a blast, if only I had a group to try it with
They say your first hours of HDest brings you from being the legendary Doomguy to being just a hapless, nameless space marine...
But put in the time, put in the work, do your homework and while you will never be Doomguy, you'll be right up there with the likes of John Wick, Sarah Connor and Frank Castle. It won't be easy and it'll take time but goddammit, it's the most rewarding experience you can ever have with a Doom mod.
15:08 That's how I escaped BTSX1 Map10. Absolutely nothing left to get the yellow key, so I just sawed the door for 2 minutes straight.
I own a Doom emulator on my phone and it can play mods. I'm gonna work on getting Hideous Destructor to work with phone controls.
What emulator?
@@doka-sp maybe deltatouch?
I think I saw somone do this actually (or atleast kinda)
@@doka-sp Delta-Touch
Enjoy 20 buttons on your touchscreen, lol
DiFranco SPOS-E28
The E28 is a shotgun chambered for 12g buckshot. It features a 7+1 capacity, and dual action. It may be fired as a traditional pump action, or fired on semi automatic.
Not all shells in the field will kick the shell in the chamber out after firing, so it may jam. If this happens, pump the slide, try again.
It is illegal, but like that's going to stop people nowadays, to modify E28s to fire in fully automatic. In this case, you may get a message when picking it up of someone "tampering with the fire selector".
Aside from that, it deals enough damage to any humanoid to kill in one hit, has enough penetration to go through a corner or glass, and can roll a bunch of times per shot for armour penetration against head/legs.
It lacks armour penetration though, so any armour will stop it dead.
Still, better than nothing, and you can usually sneak a blast through the faceplates of a marine.
If you want to complete the original DOOM with Hideous Destructor, it will probably be impossible past E1. But there is Ultimate Needs More Detail, which is a wad by one guy trying to recreate DOOM. It has the exact same structural rules as the first DOOM, but strangely, and this wasn’t really intended, it’s actually very plausible to beat using HD.
Awesome stuff my man. I watched your first vid on Hideous Destructor and I wanted to play it. I dont know what it was about this mod but I was like "gib now." On their Github (i think) they do list maps that are beatable, map that are impossible and maps that are made for the mod. I see this mod as a flex at what you can do with modding Doom. I glad you found the enjoyment aspect, dont get me wrong this mod can make you wanna break shit, but when you execute that "perfect" room clear *muah*
Hideous Destructor is one of the most rewarding gameplay experiences you'll have, not just in a Doom mod, but in all of PC gaming.
I've been playing it for years and I'm still discovering things about it. Nothing like it out there.
It's hard for me to express just how much I love this game. All time favorites.
in situation like 6:42, bandaging is the best course of action.
you can use it without taking off armor, it stops bleeding as long as you aren't moving constantly after that, and it don't make your screen extra shakey.
the optimal move would be:
Go behind the cover, roll some bandage over your wound, wait for few sec for it to be stabilized, kean out from thr cover, kill the zombie, _then_ use medkit to fully close the wound.
Others might've mentioned, but
- the chainsaw can destroy enemy carcasses so that they cannot reanimate
- mimic barrels and enemy turrets can be disabled in options
Hideous Destructor: the GregTech of ZDoom mods
Thank you for trying the mod again! I thought I knew quite a bit about it and yet I had no idea the soulsphere did all the cool stuff you talked about
Glad to see you once again returning to this mod in better light, Icarus. This mod's probably one of my favorites in terms of Doom mods, and the community behind it along with the submods made for it ain't nothing to shake a stick at either, with modders like Batandy, Kegan, and Ultra having made addons for HDest.
The difficulty's tough, yet fair. With practice and perseverance, you could very much conquer mapsets like Plutonia and Valiant with this mod. Being able to destroy the enemy as fast as they do you with plenty of tools in your disposal to approach the situation or even evade it completely. Being able to customize your loadout at the start of a run also really helps for mapsets that start you off in rough places, though I usually tend to go for vanilla Rifleman for my runs.
Sure, I still go to other Doom mods every now and then (vanilla, too), but HDest is just something that never fails to grip me everytime I launch it. It takes a bit of time and determination to learn the mechanics, but once it clicks, it doesn't let go. That's also why me and the others from the HDest community helped built the Bootcamp map. To help shorten that very phase. I'm glad that it has helped in getting that click to you as well.
Escape from DOOM, The Game.
sorry for the unrelated question, but does anyone know the soundtrack playing at 1:00?
I honest to god would say that, ammo supply withstanding, "Shave and a haircut, ten cents" is a good rhythm to use for the 4.26mm Rifle. The first 3-4 shots are for knocking them down and the last 2 are for making sure they stay that way. Has worked semi-reliably for me so far.
I love the Civvie style formatting on this one, and I'm just glad you gave HD a real chance! You should try playing it with DarkDoomZ and Ugly as Sin. C:
20:07
“That was the worst throw. Ever. Of all time.”
Second worst.
The worst was that guy who did a Fallout New Vegas video called "UNSTOPPABLE MORON MAKES NUCLEAR WASTELAND WORSE". There was a point where he decided to waste Captain Parker with a grenade on VATS. Grenade hits tent pole, goes bonk, goes back to him. *Thrice.*
"Rise and Shine, Captain Parker!" * BONK! BOOOOM!*
When done well, mag management really adds a lot to games like this. When it's done well.
A good example of a game that handles it well is Into the Radius, but that has the benefit of motion controls, which means managing magazines and refills becomes a physical game of moving around magazines and bullet cartridges which, to me at least, is infinitely more fun and interesting than having to deal with a convoluted menu system.
HD is masochism made manifest and I kind of love it for that. It's kind of the opposite of the juvenile power fantasy trend that FPS games are known for.
Except the better you get, the more power fantasy it is.
Ref BFG9k.
This seems like a mod for people who wanted to play Arch Linux in DOOM form. What an absolutely insane level of complexity. Still, it is fascinating in its own way.
13:23
MY SIDES
"Ah yes, where was I?"
"AAAAEEEUGH!"
" Cool now do Plutonium with it."
For those wondering about the DRM mag thing, the AR only likes "fresh" mags, ones that haven't been fired yet (they have a little red tab on top). So if you hand reload one, it'll throw a fit
That intro was pretty darn impressive
One good thing worth noting is you can put Derps on buttons and doors and go into your console and open them with a command remotely.
I didnt knew that, thanks for the fact!
14:21 I'll take "Signs of an Angel Walking the Earth" for $200, LeVar.
I learned that from an episode of _The X-Files._
The greater the challenge, the greater the satisfaction of overcoming it is.
As the book "The Tragedy of Man" puts it:
"The goal is death, life is a struggle, and man's purpose is this struggle itself."
100% agree *elvtárs* XD
Hideous destructor really seems like it would benefit greatly from a grid based inventory system, but building that from the ground up in the doom engine sounds like an absolute nightmare.
That is actually *kind* of a thing, there are revised backpack systems but those come with their own problems.
Those list things in a list view, but...
The editing in this video is neat. More like it, please.
24:00 you can toggle between pump-action and semi-auto firemodes on the hunter shotgun with the "switch firemode" hotkey. However, holding the same hotkey on the slayer shotgun makes it shoot both of its barrels at the same time (and I'm not sure, but I've heard that shooting both of the barrels at the same time gives you more bang out of your shells).
Slightly.
iirc it's like 8%.
Wow, looks like a great mod. Thanks for the info.
Hideous Destructor heart of demons revenant edition.
gotta do demonic rituals to gather the hell energy then other rituals to turn it into soul energy and demonic weapon ammo as well as finding repair kits and parts for your reverent combat suit.
theres no bleeding but you also might need to replace a bone everynow and then. 👿
That scream/face zoom at 8:25 gets me every time. Can't stop laughing
Hi Icarus! I remember your old video, I was one who shared my story with you in the comments of it. I'm glad you finally revisited the mod and cleared up that old beef. I would like to say that I very much enjoyed hearing the parts about how the community kept you going (28:25) and that it played a role in you keeping patience. Understandably, all the damned RNG and chaos that occurs in the mod can cause a lot of suffering. I know this too well when I attempted to do that HORRIBLE wiremode/hack/obstacle course secret in Diabolus Ex.
Please tell me you actually avoided that damn room because the amount of floor-sniping soldiers, the Cyberdemon, the constant teleporting Frag energy and the fucking Arch-viles and barons almost made me lose my sanity entirely.
Anyhow, it's great to see someone make up for past social faux pas. Keeping integrity is a respectable thing.
Addendum: One part I would like to point out is that I think you could have brought up the fancy options that come along with the mod - you do not have to play with the vanilla rules if you don't have to. Like most Doom philosophers, they obviously want you to tailor your own experience freely. Not a fan of bleeding? Turn it off. Don't like mimics? Turn that spawn rate down to 0 if you'd like! Make your own loadout! Reduce damage factors! Increase carry weight limits so you can mantle despite holding two big guns!
Military sim where you fight supernatural and aliens would be great. Imagine arma server globally defending an island against aliens. Or storming super gore nest with ur battle buddies
Yup! Just Realistic(TM) soldiers with Realistic(TM)/Plausible equipment fighting insane foes like demons, aliens, robots and all sorts of sci-fi/magical enemies with bullshit abilities.
So you are a nice trained soldier at the peak of physical abilities wielding military weapons? That's cute. The enemy has abilities like teleporting, shooting fire from their fingertips, flying, ridiculous vulnerability and super speed. You have to save the world. Good fucking luck!
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Ah yes, the 40k Imperial Guard experience
Does the Contact DLC count?
wow, this looks more hardcore than any tactical shooter I've played, and it's on Doom!
Ah yes, RLCraft has finally gotten its DOOM port.
Love your editing and use of memes in this video. Nice comedic touches