ZDoom to get vanilla-like gameplay modes?
Interesting thread on Doomworld entitled "altered gameplay behavior in ZDoom". Starting the thread, ZDoom co-author Graf Zahl writes:
I decided to restore some of the original gameplay behavior that has been altered in ZDoom over the years.
This piqued my interest since I'm always complaining about this or that issue with ZDoom in maps.
However later in the thread he goes on to say:
I won't change anything that'[s] actually a bug fix with no impact on gameplay.
The idea here is to address the big gameplay issues that keep certain people from using ZDoom.
So it looks like ZDoom's lack of interoperability (i.e. the tendency of maps tested in ZDoom to fail on all other engines, despite the map not being intended as ZDoom-specific) is still not considered an issue; such problems have no impact on gameplay within ZDoom, despite their detrimental effect for anyone else. Oh well.
I should probably post this as a reply to the thread rather than waffling here, but...
I've hardly played Doom recently. Indeed I am on the point of being kicked off the Community Chest project for lack of activity. There are various reasons, mostly to do with my general dislike of the trends and fashions of modern mapping, and the nature of the maps that Community Chest seems to implicitly encourage. Alternatively, it could just be that I'm jaded and also not a very good player and I'm tired of having to play maps that I find too hard. Either way, my last few test reports have been incredibly half-arsed and now I have a pile of maps I should be testing and I'm struggling to find any motivation to work on it at all. Of course, this is all making me feel very stressed, as having any deadline upcoming always does. I should resign, but I can't bring myself to do it because I can't face people and admit to them I've let them down.
On a completely different note, having been in London for several months my friend Msj went back home to Florida a couple of weeks ago. Again I totally failed to pluck up the courage to go and visit her while she was here. She suggested that a significant component of the reason I have no friends is that I'm extremely bad at putting in the effort to keep them. I thought about this for a long time, and decided it was probably right. The question is, will I ever be able to do anything about it.
