Considered swapping the cave textures for something slightly brighter and less noisy? 

Who wants to test the Rubicon Rumble Pack? 

Just send me the DL link by PM in steam. 

Best start map ever. Just wanted to get that out :) 

don�t spoil me 

http://i.imgur.com/TOJgKfh.png
http://i.imgur.com/58vnIo8.png
http://i.imgur.com/xcOKuj7.png 

is this a custom texture set? I dont recognise it 

Wow, nice ! Gives me desire to play Doom again now ;) 

I am using community chest 44 textures (by various people) deconstructed textures and a sky from Vrack 3. 

http://i.imgur.com/PQ1RnMH.png 

 

That somehow reminds me of the first room in Wolfenstein. 

http://i.imgur.com/u8KK4LLl.png
http://i.imgur.com/HiTaQ9Ql.png 

All Doom maps look the same to me. 

because of limitations of the engine or because custom textures are more rare in doom maps? 

It's simply because if you don't play a game, you're not familiar with the nuances of its custom content. Someone not playing Quake would feel the same way. Which is not to say that of the vast amount of custom levels there aren't indeed many generic parts that look alike. 

Partly probably that but I mostly blame the lack of brushwork and lighting. 

Yeah well, Doom doesn't work like Quake at all in that regard. You can do nifty architectural stuff in Doom but nothing too complex. 

Have you tried out some of the newer Doom engines? I personally like Risen3D and some of the maps made for it, especially the Egyptian themed one. If I were the type to give ratings I'd easily give it a 9 out of 10 (nothing ever gets a 10 in my book because there's no such thing as absolutely perfect). 

I recently tried some stuff for Risen3D. Felt like going back in time to the mid-00s, when it was all about making Doom look "modern" without much consideration for exploring its strongest points. The models are straight from that era, very little has changed.

Although it's probably wrong to judge by one level that I didn't even finish. 

10 doesn't have to mean perfect. It can mean, "Has my highest recommendation". Making 10 mean perfect means your scale is from 1-9. With 9 being perfect. And down the spiral we go!!! 

Nuff said. 

Risen3D is not available for Linux and looks buttugly. Thanks though! 

"10 doesn't have to mean perfect. It can mean, "Has my highest recommendation". Making 10 mean perfect means your scale is from 1-9. With 9 being perfect. And down the spiral we go!!!"

I blame my navy days for that. Nobody got a straight 4.0 evaluation from me, including myself (yeah, I had to evaluate myself which was kind of pointless really). Nothing is ever perfect and I'm always distrustful of any score that says something is perfect. If you can't find at least one fault with something, no matter how small it may be, then you weren't really looking at it.

I'd have to say that there are very few things that get that level of scrutiny and attention to detail. Generally speaking the worst enemy of good enough is trying to be the best, that usually means that nothing is ever finished because you're too busy polishing the cannonball to actually get it loaded and doing its job.

So yes, I suppose my scale is actually 0-9 out of 10 (which is still a scale of 10 if you think about it). 

I used to really prefer the rating system of 1-5 in the old CVG mags.

1. Poor
2. Average
3. Good
4. Very Good
5. Excellent

With this rating alone it would still make you want to read the article because it still feels less scientific than percentages or marks out of 10.
Plus CVG used to have a call out box with a second opinion on the game.

I really miss that mag, it was the greatest. If a game feels like it should somehow be worse than 1/5 they used to put little turd symbols all over the place.