============================================================================== Title : The KILLME Collection or Final KILLME Filename : KILL-ME.WAD Author : S.A. Stephenson Email Address : darters@tbaytel.net Misc. Author Info : other wads by the author KILLME1.WAD - Mad as Hell (released February 1997) KILLME2.WAD - Underground (released March 1997) KILLME3.WAD - To the Surface (released April 1997) KILLME4.WAD - The Warehouse (coming very soon) Description : FORGET THE DESCRIPTION ALREADY!!! This is DOOM!! You kill things 'cause you want to.....'cause you have to! (Check out KILLME 1-3 text files if you really want a story line!) If you really want the story, e-mail me and I might send you the long version. Why you want this WAD : If you tried KILLME1, KILLME2, or KILLME3 you'll want this because the game play is better (UV is more difficult and easy is easier (except for E1 which was insanely easy at any skill level), minor texture mistakes have been corrected, lines have been realigned with the grid, lighting has changed, dozens of new rooms have been added to most of the levels (there were some levels I thought didn't need many extra rooms, but every level has been extensively overhauled), plus, of course, you get the wonderful KILL-ME.BAT file! The original KILLME trilogy was 3.9 k, the new KILL-ME is 5.3 k. Seriously, if you played any of the first three KILLME WADs and liked them, you'll like the complete set with all the changes. If you never heard of the KILLME WADs before, now's your chance to get them all (new and improved!) without fooling around with three downloads. Zip file contains : KILL-ME.WAD, KILL-ME.TXT and KILL-ME.BAT. Additional credits to : My wife for letting me spend all the time I did on this, my son and his friends for testing, and coffee, lots of coffee ;-) It would also be unfair to not thank the guys at ID for making DOOM as well as the creators of the editors I used. Thanks also, to the good folks at CD-ROM.com for providing us DOOMer's with a site at which we can post all this stuff (Howcome no one ever thanks them?). Thank you all, very much. I've had fun (and likely wasted a goodly portion of my life!). ============================================================================== * Play Information * New level WAD for DOOM I Episode and Level # : E1M1 - E3M9 (27 NEW levels). Single Player : Yes Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes (but not tested; co-op starts on all levels). Deathmatch 2-4 Player : No (Sorry, die by monsters, not your friends). Difficulty Settings : Yes (much more challenging than KILLME1, 2 or 3). New Sounds : No, the originals were great. New Graphics : No, Why? I was going to change all the titles for every level as well as the opening screen when the game starts, and then I thought, the play is the thing, not the titles. Some people out there with very fancy opening screens might want to consider this.... New Music : No, the original music was great too. Demos Replaced : E1, E2, E3 (Even though this spoils some surprises) Completed : December 1996 with edits, fixes, rebuilds and add- ons and testing for this release until November 17, 1997. * Construction * Base : New levels from scratch. Build Time : Unknown, probably 20-30 hrs per episode, including edits and testing. A long time at any rate! Editor(s) used : Deu 5.21, Deth 3.92, DCK 2.2, and BSP 1.2x. These are all great editors, but I started with Deu and still like it the most. All the levels were at the maximum for Deu when first released as KILLME 1-3. Known Bugs : None (I think I got 'em all). Note: not run on anything less than a 16 Meg Ram 486DX/33 so there may be a potential problem on some machines. * More info on the levels * To start this WAD and see the demos, type "kill-me" once you are in the DOOM directory. This is the complete three complete level set which were released one mission at a time as single E*M* WADS. We wanted feedback, and luckily, a few people did take the time to write and say they enjoyed it. Actually, luckily anyone even found them considering the amount of WADs out there. Thanks guys (don't women play DOOM? No! Too busy playing Barbie!). There are some swastikas in the game, but I am by no means promoting anything or trying to offend anyone; just trying to be like the original game which promoted evil things from another dimension that must die! There is also a message to DIE on one level, but I am also not promoting the idea that anyone do that on purpose (in the game or in real life), especially not while playing this level (I can see the lawyers having fun with that one, "Your Honor, my son's client was found dead, slumped over his computer with the message to "DIE" clearly visible on the computer screen")! This is DOOM the old fashioned way, the way I still like to play it; alone. Hopefully, this will give other people a chance to play it their favourite way too and may bring back some of the fun we all experienced when we first played DOOM. This WAD will NOT require any changes to your original WAD; it will not change the original configuration of your DOOM.WAD or INI files. Your rewards for reading all this; look for candles, they usually mean a secret door or switch (or you just let something loose from somewhere), and, all levels have some areas marked as secret, even if they're no secret at all (so if you finish a level and the "secret" doesn't read 100%, you know you missed something!). A final warning, there are many booby-traps in these levels (the aliens are getting smarter, and you thought they were s-o-o-o stupid)! What's next? : Without getting too overblown here, I always wanted to finish this and move along to something new. Now that the moonbases are safe, you hear reports about all Hell breaking loose on Earth. You discover that "they" have been getting help from sympathizers on Earth all along and you know you're the only man that can stop them.... This is, of course, all leading up to the WAREHOUSE.WAD which will likely be released as KILLME4.WAD (By the way, as I write this, it is almost finished so the release time for it should not be too far off). In it, you'll do your best to stop the invasion of Earth, but of course, will be unsuccessful. This leads the way to DOOM2, "Hell on Earth", and that's where I'll be going after the Warehouse is complete. So....if you're in the market for some DOOM2 singleplayer WADs (maybe even a converted version of KILLME, with the 5 extra levels of course), look for me in the DOOM2 aisle of your favourite FTP site in the near future. Oddly enough, I'll likely be in the KILLME section. DOOM Lives!!!!! (but so does DOOM2). * Copyright / Permissions * Authors MAY use this level as a base to build additional levels providing you give me credit for the base level. However, like some WAD author said not long ago in his level, "I really don't think anyone cares much anymore". You MAY distribute this WAD, provided you include this file, with no modifications. You may distribute this file in any electronic format (BBS, Diskette (Daddy, what's a diskette? Never mind son, besides, even zipped this file is too big for one diskette, and you'll have a hell of a time splittin' it.), CD (Oh yea, when was the last time a DOOM compilation CD was released; 1993?), etc.) as long as you include this file intact. * Where to get this WAD * FTP sites: ftp.cdrom.com and mirrors (see the most recent DOOM FAQ) and wherever else you found it (All KILLME wads were originally only released to CDROM.com).