Doom3X, my first mod in 9 years.

Doom3X has been something I wasn't sure I could do. When I first saw the Doom3 scripting and the code, I was highly discouraged, I wasn't sure it'd be possible for me to make a mod for Doom3. Then I got the Doom3 expansion Resurrection Of Evil, and did alot of crawling in the tunnels with the plasma rifle... I saw that the rifle had a small tiny light effect when the barrel of the gun is against the wall. Well these tunnels were in a pitch black space! I should be able to see some sort of minor glow all over the place. Ever turn on your indigo watch in a pitch black space? You see things faintly all around you in a 6 foot space, that's just my damn watch! So something with flaming plasma would have a larger glow area.

This was my change, making the plasma gun have a wider glow. When I figured out how to do that, I wanted to change other things... One change became ten changes... Ten changes became twenty changes... and so on and so on. Then I realised I have a mod going, a full blown enhancement to Doom3.

More info to come soon, but I've changed alot, and will outline those changes here. Take a look at the screenshots to scratch the surface of the enhancements I've done.

	Ultra Doom2X		Doom2X-treme		Doom2X-treme GOLD

What is this?

Doom2X was an addon using really only weapon tweaks and enemy A.I. changes, how they acted, speed, reaction time, and everything about their abilities was sped up to give a fast-based adrenalin pumping version of Doom2. It was published in the September 1996 issue of PC Gamer, a memorable issue indeed as this issue contained the Quake 1 demo which was a big step in the First Person Shooter...

Ultra Doom2X was basically a bug fix version of Doom2X, there were some things in Doom2X I didn't like, some issues that need ironing out, and I managed to make my own map for the first time which is MAP32 in Ultra Doom2X... I also had a basic story as a villian I wrote about in High School I breathed life into my Doom games, known as Comtar... a basic cyber-punk version of Hellraiser's Pinhead... a person who saught powerful magics through mind amplification technology...

Doom2X-treme was also another bump up from Ultra Doom2X... This addon featured 32 new levels, after making my first level I realised how difficult making a map is, at this time in the world of PC Gaming, there was no Mod Teams (and if there were there were very few), and no clans, and no mp3s, and I was chatting away in AOL version 3... wow... seems so long ago doesn't it? So... I went and saught out the best 32 levels around made by anyone and everyone. I got permission from people making levels, even for their own projects, with the pitch that this was a BEST OF using my Doom2X engine.

The Doom2X engine at the birth of Doom2X-treme had things never before seen that now I'm sure we see all the time. Guns shot new projectiles, the Cyber-demon and only the cyber-demon could kill you even in God Mode, allowing a chance of risk in battle from only this foe. Doom2X-treme had two guns and the "Railgun" which Quake 2 and Shadow Warrior soon would mimic later... yes folks I thought of it first... a flame thrower with limited range... and I had many of e-mails insisting the Quake 2 chaingun was almost as fast and powerful as mine.

Doom2X-treme Gold was a true sequel to Doom2X-treme as far as story goes, dealing with a girl character in a futuristic setting where it was magic versus technology. There was also new weapons like a sword with limited range that also could be the only weapon to kill Comtar. I also had a true last boss that wasn't a wall, a last one on one match with a fast moveable Comtar.

From my site in 1998.

Ultra Doom2X, Doom2X-treme and even Doom2X-treme GOLD... these are all names alot of people know... that surprises me.  Doom2X came out about 2 years ago. And it really sucked. But yet had a new lingering twist to it. Some people downloaded it. And those did loved it. Then I came with Ultra Doom2X, chapter two of a not so popular storyline. Those who were Doom2X fans came back. And one told me about PC Gamer's CD. I've seen it before, but had no idea that the WADS were being submitted. I thought PC Gamer had an archive of pre-desided hits. Once I found this out, I e-mailed PC Gamer about submitting Ultra Doom2X. At this time was working on a 3rd chapter.... Doom2X-treme, with some new effects and getting people to submit their WADS for it.

Eventually I got all 32 levels in... then PC Gamer responded and said that Ultra Doom2X would be in their September 96 issue. I jumped for Joy, hoping that Ultra Doom2X would raise Doom2X-treme to what it deserved to be. One day I got an e-mail telling me that Ultra Doom2X was out. And that, like most of you, "I need the codes." So I gave it to him and thanked him for the info. I went to a local Software ETC. And took two issues, one to look at and the other to put up. I opened even before I bought it... even the guy who worked there who knew me couldn't wait to see. Once opened I found out I got a great review of Ultra Doom2X. And at that moment I desided that this was the time to release Doom2X-treme.

Doom2X-treme is now one of the great internet Dooming legends. Doom2X-treme has been rated number 1 by AOL, PC Gamer, DWANGO, and Microsoft Network! How it got on Microsoft Network was cool. The Vice-President of Microsoft Network is a Doomer, and loved Doom2X-treme. So now it's on their server.

Doom2X-treme is the idol of Doomers, a good 50% of all my email think it is better then Quake and Duke Nukem 3d... Doom2X-treme sound effects and weapons have been used on other wads. And those who can't figure out some of the tricks in the game... ask how it was done. I tell them.

But then came the fourth Doom2X, Doom2X-treme GOLD. Released Memorial Day of 1997 it had a new plotline, a female player, along with weapons that would make some drewl on their keyboard... well as my step-father says "Piece through superior firepower." Heh heh.... Doom2X-treme GOLD finishes the circle in the story... and also has an inner thought-provoking concept. Magic versus Technology, a war that not many have ever thought about. So... are you ready for living hell?