project guide/outline

Here I will briefly go over:

43.-What the overall goal is for this wad
73.-What role you play while involved in this project
100-General changes I wish to see
175.-A short outline blurb for every map
   178.-map01
   190.-map02
   203.-map03
   210.-map04
   218.-map05
   226.-map06
   233.-map07
   -map08
   -map09
   -map10
   -map11
   -map12
   -map13
   -map14
   -map15
   -map16
   -map17
   -map18
   -map19
   -map20
   -map21
   -map22
   -map23
   -map24
   -map25
   -map26
   -map27
   -map28
   -map29
   -map30
   -map31
   -map32
   -map33


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########## Overall Goal for this wad ############
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Fairly simple idea, creating challenging maps by not flooding
the screen with thousands of enemies at once with limited ammo.
However at the same time I wish to create an environment, and
not just sectors upon sectors trying to detail a single room
however this does not exclude detail altogether as the detail
will come from separate rooms and whatever tone and setting the
level has in general. I want to create an enjoyable experience
both visually and gameplay wise, too much concentration to one
side would cause this entire wad to grow dull and rudimentary.
Others have stated that the original defiler was a lot like
Doom 3, although a failure in gameplay, I still like to carry
the same principles over with many traps, light variations
and an overall atmosphere that helps tell the non-existant
story at play. With this in mind, my dream is also to help
new players or absent minded players find it easy to navigate
these levels firsthand with small gestures like locking a door
to an area that they must complete before advancing as to
prevent hours of back tracking. Also setting up small sectors
next to locked doors containing the necessary key would be
a good way to lessen other players from being left behind if
they could not keep up with the others. Finally this is not
just a survival project for singleplayer fun, it is also
meant for multiplayer playthroughs and can last roughly up
to 30 minutes a map regardless of the amount of surplus
players.

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############### Your Role to me #################
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You, as a mapper, are my colleague in this endeavor of mine.
Although Defiler itself was a let down to me, I in no way
disregard it's many ideas and design docs to be useless and
merely wish to implement them further in these revisioned
levels. I don't expect top professional grade doom mapping
but more so simple rooms and realistic style settings. This
project in it's entirety, is my child in a way and will look
to micro manage as best I can to ensure these ideals remain.
I've given well over 5 years into Defiler, while not a
visually applicable wad still, I do still regard it as an
achievement for my mapping career and see this project as an
opportunity to further it to an even higher level. Do not
think of your levels as simply 'maps' for I feel the term
'maps' is now loosely fitted towards wads with just simple
gameplay challenges and making the player overcome them.
I prefer the term 'levels' as we in this project will strive
to create an adventure as well as intense action, to be
enjoyed by any form of audience. Although little can be
done through a vanilla doom engine, ambition and mindset
can help set forth the ideas that first helped the
original iwad creators develop their masterpieces as they
are remembered today.

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######### General Changes for Remake ############
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Huge overhaul from the original Defiler to the remake here.
Many changes of course include ammo, health, monsters and
even the difficulty of a lot of the maps. I will cover what
changes I expect here, along with other notes I find
necessary to mention:

-[PROGRESSIVE DIFFICULTY] Although a fun idea that I used in
the original Defiler -- it will not be used here. The original
concept was to increase the amount of monsters and which ones
the players saw one level after another. Like the introduction
of the baron of hell in the floor in map10. Later on I found
out that this is not an effective method anymore since the first
5 levels could be blazed through with relative ease if someone
has higher level weaponry, bringing me to my next point.

-[PROGRESSIVE WEAPONRY] This coincided with the difficulty,
after grabbing the supershotgun in map04, the levels would then
take a large spike now given the expanded arsenal. Again a good
idea on paper, but now is obselete, given what I've researched
so far. All weapons are free to use on any level, except the bfg.
If there is one thing I learned from coop or survival; get
enough players together in one server, and at least one of them
will not know when or how to use the bfg, it is to be kept a
massive secret.

-[SECRET BFG] In the later levels, or the hell levels, there
are ocassionally incredibly secret bfg's scattered throughout
the levels. This will NOT change, the only thing that will change
is the secrecy of the bfg's. I did a pretty sloppy job previously
hiding them, and wish to amend that by giving them appropriate
hiding places. And the original rule still stands, the first bfg
can appear in map18 and after that, and only one per level is
permitted.

-[ACTIVE ENVIRONMENT] A switch should do a lot more than just
open a door to the next area. Perhaps it could unlock a secret
descending staircase, or perhaps split a waterfall to reveal
an alcove, or even moving massive sectors and giving away more
scenery to give more of an epic setting. The entire goal is to
make an adventure, not just a shooting gallery to go through.
Showcasing monsters in the distant, out of players' reach is also
another way to develop a rich environment, of course this also
should have a fix for itself such as a crusher activated after
passing through the exit door so those who want 100% rating can
still get it.

-[HELPFUL ENVIRONMENT] Traps aren't just for players anymore.
In my professional opinion, letting players develop plans and
dictate outcomes to large conflicts has been essential to creating
static situations. Letting players mess around with switches in
an empty room, finding out they can activate and deactivate
crushers or raise and lower barricades let's them plan accordingly
to any eerie trap they might encounter. Giving players a choice
rather than an objective is a staple in good game design.

-[DIFFICULTY IN SMALL NUMBERS] I always had a belief that a
level's difficulty should be set how a player maneuvers it's
obstacles. Designed elaborate traps that showcase agility rather
than stored ammo is a definite route to go down. Being surrounded
by hordes of enemies is only challenging if the player is not
patient, but patience is not fun, for some.

-[DEMON/PINKY HORDES] Yeah I know, it wasn't really a good idea
in post, but it served a purpose and it wasn't gameplay wise. The
truth behind the horde system was to allow slower players a chance
to catch up to others who might be steamrolling through a level,
as to not make it a hide and seek for late comers. Even though I
plainly displayed my disgust towards slaughterfests, I do encourage
at least one or two instances of such for some levels, to serve
the same purpose as my pinky horde idea did.

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############ A Map by Map Outline ###############
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-map01: "Mars City"
	The beginning level of the wad, always had my
center of attention when in development. The idea for
this map is to set the scale and develop an attachment
to the scenery and setting. Massive areas landscape this
level, as well as tight indoors and displaying a feel of
a higher source at work in the background of the hell
invasion. The revision of this map will do that as well
as make the map difficult so even during a rotation
when players have all weapons, this level will still
prove to be a bit of a challenge to the careless.

-map02: "Sewer Filtration"
	It's habitual that every game/wad's second level
is to take place in a sewer or a slow paced section. This
level is no exception, the sewers here will take place
in small corridors and maze-like hallways trying to
navigate the nukage run-off and disposed waste. The idea
for the remake is to place players in simple situations
where they are not outnumbered but make it difficult to
maneuver without compromising their safety. This level is
also the first one to showcase 'hellish' parts of the tech
base as a reminder that things have fallen apart more
quickly than anticipated.

-map03: "Research & Resource"
	Not really much to say about this level, it can
be setup anyway to whoever is making this one. It's simple
and doesn't exactly have it's own flavour in the original
and not expecting much more in the remake, just a normal
fill in the gap level here.

-map04: "Omega Center"
	Same deal as map03, no real theme to this level.
However it's only major difference is the fact that this
level is more scenery oriented, with things going on in
the background to make players question future events.
Such as the cyberdemon behind the closing door in the
original.

-map05: "Power Reg. Facility"
	This map really starts the 'domino' effect for
later levels. In this level it's a 'power plant'
obviously, making the theme based around sorting power to
different parts of the mars base as to make it accessible
in later levels. Most of these generators of course being
crusher sector based.

-map06: "Hydro Plant"
	In this level, we see the domino effect now take
place. The players are stuck navigating dark corridors
because in the previous level they routed power away from
hydro processes to the cell blocks so they can make their
way to the research building where ground zero happened.

-map07: "Cell Block C"
	A great concept went into this map that I would
certainly like to touch on again. Like in Plutonia's map11
where players are being hunted by the archvile, this would
be the opposite where the players hunt mancubi. The level
is separated into quadrants, where players travel from
a central hub to each quadrant, clear it, then kill the
mancubus(i) at the end. After killing all 4, the hub room
then opens up to another section where they must hunt the
arachnotrons. In this remake I am considering for UV skill
levels and up, there are 8 mancubi and all 4 are located in
secrets, 1 in each quadrant, same for the arachnotrons.

-map08: "Abandoned Complex"

-map09: "Sector 31-B"

-map10: "Systems Transfer"

-map11: "The Compound"

-map12: "Sigma Research Wing"

-map13: "Purification Labs"

-map14: "Primary Site"

-map15: "Ground Zero"

-map16: "Hell"

-map17: "Beldenian"

-map18: "Zor Ra' Thar"

-map19: "Mein Kampf"

-map20: "Streit"

-map21: "Guhmenia"

-map22: "Gunska Daltey"

-map23: "Dostr'ah Fhenien"

-map24: "Kayleemdahr - LVL1"

-map25: "Kayleemdahr - LVL2"

-map26: "Kayleemdahr - LVL3"

-map27: "Kayleemdahr - LVL4"

-map28: "Kayleemdahr - LVL5"

-map29: "Reminisce"

-map30: "Redemption"