Get your facts right. Splash did the ET multiplayer. Another company was doing the single player, which is the part that got cancelled for not being good enough.
DooM 3 Multiplayer by Splash Damage?
Freedom_Tickler
(Freedom[]Tickler)
#22
ya, what ike-t said
hl 2
and comments like icemans still perplex me - this is a game made for a mass audience - the maps are fantastically balanced for the type of gameplay ET created. its not about catering to the competitive fraggers - not the there is any concensus among them regarding what a good comp map would be. Were talking about a small minority of players who compete - put em all together and I doubt they could agree on how to make a map that was ‘balanced’ or ‘perfect’ for comp play. the criticism is off the mark and not based on any objective critereon.
its like q3 ctf all over again - same leet kiddie crap, different game
design a map and put out for criticism and see how it fairs - then come in here and make concrete criticisms about how SD maps are incredibly unbalanced
Ive trolled the ET and wolf forums looking for such a thread - there really isnt one w/ constructive ideas - usually just some bashing and someone who wants lightning bolts to shoot out of their eyes
polka
(polka)
#24
Get your facts straight, that piece of news bulletin says nothing about SD developing the multiplayer part of DOOM 3, it says they will be involved in making the multiplayer levels for DOOM 3.
Imho, the DOOM 3 engine will kick som serious butt and will probably together with the HL2 engine be the new platform for a whole bunch of shooters in the years to come.
Fuzzy
(Fuzzy)
#25
Congrats guys, this is truely some massive news. With a limitation like 4 players I’m hoping that you guys can bust out some maps that play up the tention and strategy of low player count games. Who knows, duels could come back into style 
I love the fact that Iceman (who I know quite well) almost suckered me into defending SD. I’d hate to steal Lavagods job. 
Dyne
(Dyne)
#27
I think the doom 3 engine will be the best for a while just look how lonmh it too kfor games to come out looking better than q3 engine based games.
There are only a few out now. UT2003 looks better in my opinion than quake 3 and ofcourse games like BF1942 can’t look better cause such big maps, but always when ID coems with something it the best for a long time. And i never really like the HL multiplayer, just some mods were really good. But the HL2 screens i saw do NOT look as good as doom 3 in my opinion.m I just hope SD can make great maps for doom 3 cause ET is a pretty realistic looking game and doom 3 very futuristic and i’m not sure what TF maps for q3 SD made, but i never thought they were all that good lookin.
BrainPr0n
(BrainPr0n)
#28
SD and D3!!! I’m so happy! I can’t wait… I… pees
H2 is going to pwn too.
Time to buy a lot of new hardware I guess.
LaVaGoD
(LaVaGoD)
#29
I do not think we have to worry about the maps The SD Mapping team if full of some great mappers like Wils & LloydM & the rest of the guys.
If anyone remembers LloydM’s Utopia Map Pics then you will know that DooM3 will have some nice DM Maps from SD.
Lord_Denethor
(Lord Denethor)
#31
This makes me want to get Doom 3 even more!! i have a 1.8xp athlon prcesser 512 ddr ram, but sadly im really let down by my graphics card which is a 32mb geforce 2mx, runs et and rtcw fine though but i doubt it will with doom 3 
, anyone know were i can get the requirements for doom 3? Maybe im overreacting maybe it will run fine, i hope so. Best of luck splash damage if the maps are as good as the ones for et then im excited!! 
:drink:
gonzoboi
(gonzoboi)
#33
some of the elder here will remember that, back in the days of classic DooM, some freak, Justin Fisher was his name iirc, put out an Aliens Total Conversion for it – and hell, it ruled. Now, with DooM 3 multiplayer, badass hardware and hi-speed lines for everyone i can see my dream coming soon…
i’m currently in love with SD for putting out a game which is not about jumping around with a rocket launcher shooting people with their l33t Spiderman skin texture and using a green hook to fly and play dumb, senseless CTF games: a cooperative, somewhat tactic game is what i like… i hope doom3 multiplayer brings back the dark, intense, thrilling atmospheres instead of the ‘move before a rocket hits you’ thing.
REMEMBER! SHORT, CONTROLLED BURSTS! CHECK YOUR MOTION SENSORS!! :drink:
And all those 13-year old panzerfaust kiddies out there better STFU about this 
_O_SMYLER
([=O=]SMYLER)
#34
What a good first post above, yup that Aliens total conversion, “uh GAME OVER MAN !” was VERY cool.
With regard people whining about how SD shouldn’t do the DOOM3 multi levels 'cos ET is so unbalanced, did anyone ever consider the fact that when the allies landed on the beaches of Normandy that the nazi hordes might have been a bit pissed off at the fact that the allies ;
- Didn’t have valid passports.
- Didn’t ask could they have a beach party followed by a european tour.
- Were actually smuggling into the “New Europe” coffee and bubblegum (the like of which was unknown to the average european).
The thing is the nazis weren’t stupid, they knew the allies were a bunch of gatecrashing bastards with tommy guns and with this mind they “dug in”, fortified their positions and made it as difficult as possible for Tommy and Chuck (sorry yankie boys couldn’t really think of a good 'un there). Therefore in this game entitled “Enemy Territory” where the allies are invading a well defended and highly fortified europe they find themselves quite rightly at a disadvantage.
Ozzie
(Ozzie)
#35
SMYLER,
Very good point, Any time you invade someone elses territory, you are a a disadvantage. I find it funny that people will in one sentence say that the game is unballanced, then in the next ask for realizim, kinda a cake and eat it to situation. I think SD did a good job with ET and the maps. One proof of this is that Allies tend to complain about the maps that they are on offense, and the axis complains about railgun.
BTW: Us yanks usually use Tom,Dick, and Harry.
Steltek
(Steltek)
#36
Anyone ever see someone claim that Doom 3 is a ripoff of Half Life? I did and he meant it in all seriousness too. Funniest thing I ever saw. I didn’t know whether to pity him or call him the King of Ignorance. It seems like 90% of the CS players I meet are just absolutely clueless which just makes me feel sorry for the 10% that are actually nice, intelligent people.
Anyway, I sincerely think Doom 3 is going to beat HL2 simply because it’s Doom. MP or not, I expect it to be scared so much I vomit my innards and die seeing my poor gfx card burn up under the stress. Aside from Q2’s “brown-ness”. id has never let players down. Let’s hope they don’t pull a Blizzard.
One last thing, Aliens TC kicked ass. For the first “mod” in the history of FPS’s (I think?), it set a hell of standard. And for more nostalgia, I remember reading an interview in CGW (the one with the badass cyberdemon cover for Doom II), where Carmack and Romero say that using the mouse to move is the best strategy and thinking “that’s impossible, arrow keys+ctrl to fire is the best!!!”. Oops. Then again, you couldn’t look up or down so I never saw the advantage.
_O_SMYLER
([=O=]SMYLER)
#37
I must admit the only CS players that I have personal experience of are total fuckin’ idiots, I mean like REAL rejects from society, no girlsfriends/wives, TV dinners and knuckle shuffle magazines are the order of the day.
These are only the ones I know but I’m sure there are some regular ones out there I just havn’t met them.
:???:
Oh yeah I’m really not going to hold my breath for Doom 3, I have a feeling if I expect anything special I’ll be let down.
And as for Duke Nukem 4ever or whatever, he’s been out of action for soooooo long instead of the muscle bound action hero he is most likely an out of shape fat bastard who smokes hand rolled cigarettes 'cos he’s been out of work for so long and can’t afford proper ciggies and all his welfare money goes on microwave meals.