Zandronum

Spoiler: what the hell is a reelism (Open)

REELism, is, well, a doom mod created by the-so-called 300 Pounds. The best way to present it would probably be to link to the original zdoom forum thread, or to the creator's tiny website. However, if you want a short story...

In REELism, you are dropped to an arena, which is steadily flooded by waves of enemies, weapons, ammo and powerups of varying helpfulness. Your task is simple as day - survive 5 rounds, 60 seconds each; destroy the boss that will appear after surviving the abovementioned 5 rounds; and wreck as much things as at all possible along the way!

Not everything, however, is as simple as it seems. At the beginning of each of the abovementioned rounds, a slot machine spins. Much like the GMs in silly roleplaying campaigns, the slot machine decides what are you fighting right now, how are you fighting it, and what kind of additional weird crap you have to pull through along the way. Much unlike those GMs(well, most of them), it decides the above completely at random. If you're lucky, you'll be riding a tank crushing unwitting hippie bronies while laughing maniacally. If you're not as lucky, you will be fleeing in terror from advancing hordes of goatmen with your health rapidly degenerating because dogs.

Naturally, hilarity ensues.

HexaDoken wrote: > ports to zandronum, a port inferior to zdoom in every single thing EXCEPT multiplayer
> not multiplayer compatible
of course it is multiplayer compatible, what point would be in this if it wasn't

HexaDoken wrote: > needs 2.0
> best ever can't 2.0
Unless BE suddenly started supporting zan 2.0 while I was asleep, not gonna work.

This wouldn't take me a month and a few days on top if I wouldn't ensure this at least sorta works in MP. I rewrote most of the system with 64 players and zandronum's client-server in mind, and did playtest the shit out of it in single client multiplayer. It might still have bugs, but I assure you that the basic systems are workable and levels are beatable in MP.

It did help a lot that Ed wrote very decent multiplayer code in spite of the fact that at that moment zdoom MP was barely functional. I only had to do minimal alterations to get this to work.

Ijon Tichy wrote: if I decide to host this for suns you aren't allowed to complain when the server inevitably dies

Just do it motherfucker!

DevilHunter wrote: So uhh.. What should the DMFlags be, and maplist.. And anything else that pretends to configs? I might wanna start a server up on Armada. I'm sure I can still get 2.0 to work on there.

Spoiler: Here's an example set of DMFlags for lazy people(may or may not be best) (Open)

DMFlags1: 1610612736
DMFlags2: 68157696
Map LOBBY
skill 0

should work or something

wario wrote: FYI: For whatever reason you can't play this on IDE while also having demo recording on. You will get the following error: "things not found in VALHALLA". I think it means it can't load a lump in Reelism. How does demo recording cause this you ask? Uhm...*shrugs*

Lord_of_D: wrote: Saturday Night Survival? :3

-Jes- wrote: Hrmm. Abridged seems prone to exploding Zandro on load, at least if you've played anything else beforehand.

-Jes- wrote: Also, Titlemap is monsterless. So sad. D:

Ijon Tichy wrote: if I decide to host this for suns you aren't allowed to complain when the server inevitably dies

HexaDoken wrote: I poked around the titlemap for 5 minutes and I still have no idea why this happens