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HERETIC - WIDE AREA BETA

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This is a wide area beta release of the [...] game HERETIC. The first three levels are included. Note that this is NOT a final release version, and may be prone to crashes or unexpected errors.


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Jon

  
To run this you have to adjust your system clock to pre December 1994 (or exactly some date in Decemver 1994, I forget). If you don't, you get the "corrupted wad file" error. The WAD file is not corrupt.

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Corrupt WAD file!

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Perhaps an older beta would be interesting, but this is only dated a few days before the final shareware.

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Historically interesting.

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^Correct! Worked like a charm with Fakedate... I didn't find this beta particularly interesting, though. As DZombie, I haven't find any difference with regular Heretic Shareware, except a "beta" inscription at the title screen which blinks during gameplay and demo loop. After hitting the exit switch in E1M3, the game quits stating E1M4 hasn't been found.

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I can't run it, the WAD is corrupt

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There differences:Only the first 3 levels from the first episode are available, Undead Warrior has a golden belt instead of a silver one, level 2 has a different texture for that lift that has the Claw under it (the one that raises up and down near the starting point of the level), and the claw orb pickups are a lighter shade of blue.

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this beta is NO Different than the Heretic Shareware we all have at least once played,it's not that much different than any other one i have played.~DZombie

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Avoid. Only three levels that look as the ones of the shareware, plus some nasty bugs.

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The above review misses the point. It's useful to have these older versions available so as to understand how a program developed.

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if you want to play this beta release without any "corrupt WAD file", use Fakedate from doomprbt.zip

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      2fort on it's original incarnation.   Pretty great.
    • By Individualised · Posted
      The first ever version of 2fort. It barely resembles its later incarnations.   Crazy how an entire franchise and FPS genre spawned from a single map. It's a crime that the origins of Team Fortress have been forgotten. Most people don't know anything before Quake/TF1 2fort, but nope, this is yet another massively influential thing that the Doom community can claim.
    • By Yumheart · Posted
      Great fun. Bleak, metal-driven style over fairly easy substance, which is a good thing. I can see the song getting annoying in a more challenging map.
    • By bowserknight · Posted
      Pretty fun map if you want some quick, easy slaughter fun. Just sucks a bit that you can just cheese the whole thing by leaving the arena and running around at the edges of the map. Cool to play with gameplay mods tho!   Music is alright but it does get a little annoying after a while.
    • By Bri0che · Posted
      Classic, sober, simple tech map that I'm fond of. The flow of the map is like a river, and the backtrack (that myself is usually upset about) is intuitive to follow. The teleport repopulation is smart enough. I don't know about the health/ammo tightness other comments talked about because I played with a mod.
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