The Old Stuff Chronicles - Linguica - Saturday Mar 24 18:01:02 2001

Man, it's been a while since we've had one of these... in case you've forgotten, TOSC is a supposedly-weekly feature highlighting one old-and-maybe-forgotten Doom / Doom 2 level which is worth taking a second look at. This month's week's level review comes to us courtesy of Matt Dixon. Enjoy:

Mountain of Fire, a relatively unknown but influential classic, was released by Italian author Alberto Barsella in May of 1994. A sequel to the previously released Dead Base, Mountain of Fire was the second and final part of a never completed set of DOOM levels known as 'Wasteland'. Both Dead Base and Moutain of Fire are, for the time they were released, amazing. Mountain of Fire has a timeless beauty to its simplicity, transporting the player to the inmost caverns of a volcano. I consider Mountain of Fire an unheralded classic, boasting features like a waterfall with ambient noise, cave-ins, and a computer message...all dating back to the earliest years of DOOM's user-end development: 1994. Download Mountain of Fire and judge for yourself...and watch your step.

WaveLength

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"Yeah" posted Monday Mar 26 20:31:40 2001


Yeah, you DO have to no-clip out of some areas.

By the way, just like to point out what a great job the frenchmen did displaying an underground UAC base ruptured throughout by an earthquake. That was sweet, having to jump across chasms of fire.

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"D!Zone..." posted Monday Mar 26 16:44:26 2001


I was think about those maps about a week ago or so. Thank god somebody found them!
Too bad I can't play them again on account of a dead HD and Motherboard! AARRGGHH!!!

If remember correctly the the keys in the volcano were quite a pain to find.
And Lut, it was a D!Zone Gold for Doom/Doom2
disc. But you knew that already right?

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"." posted Monday Mar 26 09:28:52 2001


speculation

Money back guarantee on all my levels...but since you paid crap to play them... 

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"" posted Monday Mar 26 06:03:35 2001


Make sure you play the first map in this supposed "series", Deadbase, it's a great map too.

There's several versions of both maps though, so make sure you have the most recent ones (recent being a rather relative term in this case :) )

 

Lüt

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"" posted Sunday Mar 25 21:30:03 2001


Oh man I remember this map. I played it once on one of the D!Zone CDs, loved it, and forgot the filename. I couldn't find it for a few months until I finally played all the wads on there till I could find it.

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"good observer?" posted Sunday Mar 25 17:29:23 2001


mr fishy, you are basing that fact upon what?

 

Striker

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"Escaping hissy's cousin's" posted Sunday Mar 25 16:40:08 2001


In that room with all the caco's spawning in to get out you gotta hit that switch hidden behind one of the faces that will open 2 doors, one is a door disguised as another face stone, theother is the door you came in from, if you hit the switch behind the second hidden door you lower the key platform givin' you access to the cage.

I'm not going crazy, I'm going sane in a crazy world 

Ebola

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"" posted Sunday Mar 25 16:35:41 2001


I looked in the editor and couldn't find any way to exit that room. You hit a switch in the cage though that opens a door. It might have been that it was supposed to open the red keyed door aswell so you could leave. but I can't see how anyone could forget to fix such a obvious bug.

Ni'mRoD - Ixnay on the Hombre 

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"No suprize" posted Sunday Mar 25 15:13:39 2001


I don't think Cocoon has ever been impressed by a wad created before 1996. I think he is applying modern standards to older wads.

Just an observation.

Money back guarantee on all my levels...but since you paid crap to play them... 

Tarin

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"Ebola:" posted Sunday Mar 25 13:25:58 2001


I could not get out of that room either :/

ACS || /me it up 

Ebola

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"" posted Sunday Mar 25 13:12:47 2001


Cocoon: shoot the wall on the side of that "hole" that the red key is in and a path will open. (Another secret)

I couldn't get out for the room where the cacodemons spawned though. (where the blu key was at ... wich you by the way had to open a secret to reach)
Lots of neccesary secrets in this map.

Where was that radio message?

Ni'mRoD - Ixnay on the Hombre 

cocoon

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"I must be stupid" posted Sunday Mar 25 12:52:15 2001


But I had to idclip my way out of the red key cave...

I haven't played it all the way through yet, but I wasn't that amazed by what I've seen so far...

 

Maonth

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"Wow" posted Sunday Mar 25 12:18:27 2001


Very good map. I really got the feeling of being in a subterrain UAC Base.

+
Has a great feel
Looks good for that time
Good gameplay.

-
No ammo...
Yellow key in a secret???

What should i get? Quake3? Half-Life? Soldier of fortune? Arhh heck ill just go get DOOM2. 

Enjay

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"Nice" posted Sunday Mar 25 09:35:50 2001


This really is a superb "old timer" level.

Really enjoyed playing it. Very inovative. First "old stuff" level I hadn't played B4.

Needing to find secrets to complete a level annoys me, but I could forgive it on this level as it was a lot of fun.

Meek 

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"" posted Sunday Mar 25 06:35:52 2001


The level is definitely very interesting! Back in 94 I would have obeyed it. :)
It is possible to finish it without clipwalking, but the yellow key is too hard to find.

Ack. 

Ebola

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"hm" posted Sunday Mar 25 05:55:37 2001


the yellow key is in a secret. weird.

Ni'mRoD - Ixnay on the Hombre 

WaveLength

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"hmmm." posted Sunday Mar 25 01:41:30 2001


That's sad, the guy should have kept making the levels.

*I must note that a lot of this level doesn't... work. I had to no-clip around a few times when it was absolutely necessary to nab keys and get to further areas that were accessible no other way. I find this in a lot of people's big maps these days, and I encourage the assholes to not make levels where there are loose ends and either switches are so damn hidden or there are none that we have to cheat to finish the level because there is a wall in the way.*

life ain't worth living until you've found something worth dying for. 

Ebola

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"" posted Saturday Mar 24 21:26:56 2001


Yeah. Didn't you know that? PH33R!!!

Ni'mRoD - Ixnay on the Hombre 

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"" posted Saturday Mar 24 19:51:16 2001


Matt Dixon is alive?

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