Скачать или смотреть DOOM 2 | Unloved | Single Segment UV-Max

Runner: Touchdown
Date: 06.03.2021
Category: UV-Max
Sourceport: GZDOOM 4.5.0
Total time: 01:36:48

This is a single segment / no death, UV-Max run of Unloved - one of my favourite DOOM2 mapsets.

Unloved is a hub-based GZDOOM set of 5 maps made by Paul Schneider aka Blue Eagle and released in 2010. It's basically DOOM in the world of Silent Hill. We start in the house which serves as a hub. After beating the first part of Basement's Basement the house opens up granting access to two more levels - Living Room and Halls Below - which can be played in any order. The last location - Lost Childhood - can be accessed with either Yellow or Red Keycard which are hidden away in Living Room and Halls Below respectively. Our ultimate goal is to gather all six keys and open the door in Lost Childhood which leads towards the finale.

No commentary for this one - I didn't have the time to record it. If people are interested I might do commentary for this run later down the line.

IMPORTANT: This is not a proper showcase of Unloved, just a run showing a successful no death playthrough. If you have not played it I highly recommend that you skip this video until you do. You will not regret it, I promise.

A note about music:
Unloved uses copyrighted music tracks. I replaced them with DOOM1/2 music so that YouTube doesn't yell at me. If you don't like that I'll also link an lmp file with the run so you can replay it yourself with the intended music.

A note about demo replay:
A demo recorded in GZDOOM can only be played back in the version of GZDOOM in which it was recorded - in this case it's 4.5.0, the latest version at the time of this video. The lmp file will only properly work with this GZDOOM version and no other.

A note about modifications:
This run was achieved without any modifications, though I have replaced the Plasma Rifle sound because the original is obnoxious.

A note about the gameplay setup:
Unloved is designed to be played with jumping and vertical mouselook. However to preserve the original DOOM feel I decided to play it with horizontal mouselook only and use the classic autoaim instead. I also never jump during the run unless it's required for progression or aquiring an item.

I'm using default compatibility preset with the exception of the "spawn items on the floor" setting which I have turned on because I don't like it when guns jump out of zombies when you shoot them.

Since GZDOOM demo recording captures pausing or going to the menu I had to play it all in one go with no breaks. Tiresome and exhausting but exciting playthrough.

A note about graphics:
Unloved uses various GZDOOM features such as fog and dynamic lighting. I decided to turn everything up for this replay, including dynamic shadows, ambient occlusion, bloom and so on. No point in trying to make it look vanilla because it's not designed for it. I kept the texture filtering off though. I have also desaturated my GZDOOM a bit, I think it fits this particualar project.

Final notes:
I'm not sure if this kind of run has been done before. People usually play this mapset with saves or gameplay mods. Might be the first single segment UV-Max demo of Unloved? Or at least one of the very few.

Paul, the author of Unloved, is an indie dev who has released a couple of games in the past including GunGirl 2 (free platformer), Super Panda Adventures (metroidvania platformer), UNLOVED (a run-based, kinda roguelite shooter inspired by this mapset), Dimension Drifter (another run-based game stuck in Early Access) and is about to release Town of Machine (top-down story-driven shooter). All of those games can be found on Steam, if you're interested.

Also he has made developer commentary videos for Unloved so if you're curious about inspirations, concepts and interesting tidbits then definitely check it out.

That is all for now. See you later and have a nice day.

Links:
Thread on Doomworld with the lmp demo file: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/post/...
Paul's catalog on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/search...
Paul's YT channel:    / blueeagle669