A traditional Doom 2 fight state of affairs: A Revenant (its chaotic nature making it one of the agitating skeletal foes in gaming historical past) runs headlong down a observe. If it reaches its vacation spot, it can inadvertently kill 5 Imps. If you select to divert it, it can solely kill one. What do you resolve?
Okay, it’s not a lot of a query – extra Imp-murder is at all times good – however this and several other dozen more and more complicated philosophical conundrums (plus just a few surprises) await a baffled Doomguy in The Revenant Problem, a really foolish Doom mod to cap off the venerable FPS’s 24th yr.
The Revenant Problem is the third in a trilogy of brief mods by Marphy Black, every taking a deeper have a look at essentially the most irritating of all of Doom 2’s enemies; the chaotic, unpredictable and regularly lethal Revenant. The first mission was 100,000 Revenants, pitting the participant bare-handed in opposition to an enormous military of boneheads. He responded to neighborhood complaints (often ‘LESS SKELETONS PLEASE’) by releasing Infinite Revenants, simply in case actual numbers weren’t sufficient.
He did at one level try and recreate 100,000 Revenants within the Doom 2016 engine utilizing the Snapmap editor, however discovered that the sport solely lets you spawn a most of 12 enemies at any given time, leaving you 99,988 wanting a superb time.
While The Revenant Problem is likely one of the most immediately amusing Doom mods of 2017, this has been a grand yr for the grizzled previous shooter. You can try the remainder of 2017’s greatest over at the annual Cacowards, a yearly neighborhood awards ceremony held over at Doomworld. You may also try a few our picks of the yr, all collated under our Doom 2 tag here. I can not advocate Skulldash extremely sufficient – it’ll change the way in which that you just play Doom, given half an opportunity.
In order to benefit from the philosophical conundrums of The Revenant Problems (and presumably its its relatively extra numerically extreme predecessors), you’ll want your self Doom 2 (presently cheap as chips on GOG), the GZDoom engine, and the mod itself.
