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Master Levels for Doom II

· released 1995 · store ↗ · igdb ↗

Whenever I have some free time, I play the old Doom games. A new port, DOOM + DOOM II, was recently released on Steam, and it includes a community-made level pack called Master Levels for Doom II.

I’ve never seen anything worse. I used to make better maps when I was in school, and somehow this was officially released. Just look at this moment at 10:52 in Vesperas.wad. What kind of deranged level designer hides a key required to finish the level inside a secret area? To reach it, you have to follow an invisible path along a wall above a bottomless pit—the mapper literally placed an invisible ledge only a few pixels wide there.

I have no idea how anyone managed to finish this level in 1995. At least today we have hundreds of forum threads and YouTube videos where we can find a hint.