Kaapeli47

https://twitch.tv/kaapeli47 Live! Playing the latest test build of InsanityDM and Remmirath's new exclusive deathmatch map to it in the Hellforge!

https://twitch.tv/kaapeli47 Live! Playing H2H Xmas Co-op in this week's Euroboros community Doom multiplayer session!

Euroboros Community Sessions - Week #74: H2H X-mas Co-op Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone! This week we're having an earlier ECS than usual on Friday, because Sunday is Christmas Eve, on which most of us will be busy celebrating the holidays! This week in ECS we are playing Co-op in the maps of H2H X-mas and with the holiday themed DoomXmas.wad graphics mod! The session commences tomorrow on Friday, December 22nd 2023, at 8PM CET / 2PM EST! H2H X-mas is a Christmas themed Doom II megawad released in December 1995 by the Head-2-Head Gaming Network. It features 32 merry maps, Christmas songs as music, and new holiday-themed textures. According to the authors, the "experience is so real... you'll get cold just playing it." But we shall dress warmly for this session and hope to have fun! Join the Euroboros Discord to participate in this week's Euroboros Community Session, and if you want to suggest content for a future session! Register now at Euroboros.net to host your own free European Doom multiplayer servers on Zandronum and Q-Zandronum! Consider supporting Euroboros on Patreon to gain hosting benefits such as extra active server slots! See you on the session! - Kaapeli47

I haven't been that long in the Zandronum community to know the entire history of those bad actors in multiplayer, but yes, I know which certain butthead you're talking about, and yes, some people are that petty. That butthead has proved that some people indeed spend that much time and energy in trying to find ways of attacking or corrupting a system. A voting system like the one the Doom Awards had is vulnerable to that behavior, especially if it can't be moderated well enough without spending more than half of your own staff's time and energy on it.

https://twitch.tv/kaapeli47 Live! Testing the latest beta of Skulltag Fortress with Wadazine CTF maps in this week's Euroboros community Doom multiplayer session!

Euroboros Community Sessions - Week #73: Skulltag Fortress Wadazine CTF Hello everyone! This week in ECS we are playing the latest public beta version 0.93 of Skulltag Fortress by yours truly, Kaapeli47, in the maps of Wadazine CTF by the Wadazine community! The session commences tomorrow on Sunday, December 17th 2023, at 8PM CET / 2PM EST! Skulltag Fortress is a class-based team gameplay mod, inspired by QuakeWorld Team Fortress and Team Fortress Classic! The mod is still work-in-progress, runs under Skulltag content and utilizes its weapons, and soon also its items! At the moment the mod features 10 playable classes with their own unique arsenal, health + armor stats and movement speed. When spawning, the game will tell the class you're using, as well as its statistics, arsenal and possible Alt-Fire actions! Play as the Infantry for a classic-Doomy and versatile approach, or as the Scout for faster movement speed but with a weaker Shotgun, a Nailgun that slows down enemies, and throwable grenades. The Rocketeer and Gunner can apply pressure to the front, and the Demolitioner and Pioneer can establish firm defenses with remote detonated pipe bombs and a sentry gun in your team's base. Depending on the map and the amount of players, you can also use the Scorcher, Marksman, Medic, or Ghost as utility for covering the battlefield with fire, sniping from a far, supporting your team with extra health, or doing stealth attacks. We will be using Skulltag Fortress with Wadazine CTF maps. Skulltag Fortress is especially fun with a lot of players, and we hope to get as much for this session! Join the Euroboros Discord to participate in this week's Euroboros Community Session, and if you want to suggest content for a future session! Register now at Euroboros.net to host your own free European Doom multiplayer servers on Zandronum and Q-Zandronum! Consider supporting Euroboros on Patreon to gain hosting benefits such as extra active server slots! See you on the session! - Kaapeli47

https://twitch.tv/kaapeli47 Live! Developing InsanityDM for a bit, then streaming a special deathmatch session in the Hellforge!

So many great multiplayer projects this year, such as Alphatius by @hiimaura, Lover's Quarrel by @Peccatum Mihzamiz, @myolden & the rest of the PUSS community, and Foxy Deathmatch by @Major Arlene were left without a mention which would've been nice, but then again the jury for multiplayer this year was once again just one person, which was @dew. He does amazing work towards researching multiplayer every year, but I don't blame him if this year was simply too big for multiplayer. You can have only so much time and energy with one person to try and make a myriad of writeups, whether they're awards or mentions, for half a dozen great multiplayer projects released in a year, which compared to even the last five years is a spectacular amount. With that said, it was amazing for Dew to feature the first ever silver Cacoward for a multiplayer project this year, and if the amount of multiplayer releases next year is consistent with this one (if not higher) I hope we get to see even more of those in addition to the golden ones and sidebar mentions. One amazing gameplay mod I also would've liked to see at least a mention of is GZChaos by @kevansevans. This is a mod which you use to see the world of Doom burn, for better or (probably) worse for yourself. With its 200+ different mutators that by default roll every 30 seconds, it can make the game ridiculously easy, absolutely unfair, both, or simply bonkers. It's not at all meant for a serious 100% playthrough of a mapset. Literally anything can happen, which is what makes it a fun mod, and it should be treated as such. I personally think this should have been out there with the other mentions, but given that this year was also big for gameplay mods - so much so to feature four golden gameplay awards in a year for the first time - and given that they are probably the second most produced projects in the community right after mapsets, even with a team of two gameplay award writers, @Kinsie and @Cardboard Marty, it's possible to cover only so many amazing gameplay mods when the input is so big every year. Huge respect for both of you for going through a grand list of mods this year! Here's links to the fantastic projects I mentioned above:

https://twitch.tv/kaapeli47 Live! Happy 30th anniversary of Doom! Going through the 2023 Cacowards, then continuing Eviternity co-op with the Broadsword Jim mod in this week's Euroboros community Doom multiplayer session!

Euroboros Community Session - Week #72: Broadsword Jim Eviternity Co-op (Pt. 2) Hello everyone! This week in ECS (and indeed for Doom's 30th birthday!) we are continuing our Co-op playthrough of Eviternity with the Broadsword Jim mod! There's a new update to Broadsword Jim based on the feedback from our last session, including a multitude of bug fixes! The session commences tomorrow on Sunday, December 10th 2023, at 7PM CET / 1PM EST! Disclaimer: We're starting earlier than usual because I have to partake in John Romero's livestream moderation when he does his talk with John Carmack for Doom's 30th birthday! That starts at 9PM CET, so we'll have 2 hours of continuing Eviternity, but we likely wont finish it this time either so we'll continue again later. Broadsword Jim is a gameplay mod created by Marian Paddock and Skelegant, featuring cartoony melee-heavy combat with unique firearms which are scarce in ammunition, encouraging the use of the players' heads - literally! - to slice the enemies in half! All weapons have alt-fires, including the player's sword-for-head, adding to the already multiple ways of killing monsters! The official website of Broadsword Jim can be found here! We combine this fun and unique mod with the brilliant maps of Eviternity, map project lead by Dragonfly which released on Doom's 25th birthday in 2018 and received a 2019 Cacoward! Eviternity's maps are detailed with the beautiful OTEX texture pack by Ukiro, which has influenced a few dozen projects more still to this day to use the same textures! Join the Euroboros Discord to participate in this week's Euroboros Community Session, and if you want to suggest content for a future session! Register now at Euroboros.net to host your own free European Doom multiplayer servers on Zandronum and Q-Zandronum! Consider supporting Euroboros on Patreon to gain hosting benefits such as extra active server slots! See you on the session! - Kaapeli47

https://twitch.tv/kaapeli47 Live! Playing the latest beta of Freon Deathmatch maps in this week's Euroboros community Doom multiplayer session!

Euroboros Community Session - Week #71: Freon Deathmatch Hello everyone! This week in ECS we are playing Deathmatch in the maps of the latest beta version 4 of Freon Deathmatch! We're also combining the maps with the Eon Weapons deathmatch mod, which FreonDM is primarily built for! The session commences tomorrow on Sunday, December 3rd 2023, at 8PM CET / 2PM EST! Freon Deathmatch is a work-in-progress deathmatch mapset for Zandronum by members of the Ru5ty Sh4ck group Ru5tK1ng, Razgriz, Hatedaddy, and guest mappers Rivi and MajorArlene! The set currently consists of 19 cold and snowy modern deathmatch layouts fitting for the winter season. The maps are primarily built around Ru5tK1ng's Eon Weapons deathmatch mod, featuring amped-up versions of most classic Doom weapons, such as a faster chaingun, more accurate and deadlier shotgun, and faster moving rockets and plasma; three weapons that bring the spirit of arena-FPS games like Quake to classic Doom: the grenade launcher, railgun and lightning gun; and three new gimmicky weapons that make their debut in FreonDM: the flamethrower, laser chaingun, and freeze rifle! Stats for all the Eon Weapons can be found here! The mod also revamps the armor system to match the style of certain arena-FPS games, such as Quake and Quake 2. There are now four armor types, from weakest to strongest: Green, Blue, Yellow and Red. Stronger armor can also be replenished with weaker armor, but still gives less armor than what the same type would give. Join the Euroboros Discord to participate in this week's Euroboros Community Session, and if you want to suggest content for a future session! Register now at Euroboros.net to host your own free European Doom multiplayer servers on Zandronum and Q-Zandronum! Consider supporting Euroboros on Patreon to gain hosting benefits such as extra active server slots! See you on the session! - Kaapeli47

https://twitch.tv/kaapeli47 Live! Playing Co-op in the Broadsword Jim mod and in the maps of Eviternity in this week's Euroboros community Doom multiplayer session!

Euroboros Community Session - Week #70: Broadsword Jim Eviternity Co-op Greetings! This week in ECS we are playing Co-op in Broadsword Jim and in the maps of Eviternity! The session commences tomorrow on Sunday, November 19th 2023, at 8PM CET / 2PM EST! Broadsword Jim is a gameplay mod created by Marian Paddock, featuring cartoony melee-heavy combat with unique firearms which are scarce in ammunition, encouraging the use of the players' heads - literally! - to slice the enemies in half! All weapons have alt-fires, including the player's sword-for-head, adding to the already multiple ways of killing monsters! The official website of Broadsword Jim can be found here! We combine this fun and unique mod with the brilliant maps of Eviternity, map project lead by Dragonfly which released in 2018 and received one of the 2019 Cacowards! Eviternity's maps are detailed with the beautiful OTEX texture pack by Ukiro, which has influenced a myriad of other projects still to this day to use the same textures! Join the Euroboros Discord to participate in this week's Euroboros Community Session, and if you want to suggest content for a future session! Register now at Euroboros.net to host your own free European Doom multiplayer servers on Zandronum and Q-Zandronum! Consider supporting Euroboros on Patreon to gain hosting benefits such as extra active server slots! See you on the session! - Kaapeli47

https://twitch.tv/kaapeli47 Live! Playing Culling Strike deathmatch in this week's Euroboros community Doom multiplayer session!