[Vanilla, 30 Maps] 🛢️ Skibiditernal 🛢️

Xulgonoth

Storytime:
A couple years ago, back when grasses were greener, kids were still playing in the streets chasing hoops and stuff and the internet was a novel concept that we didn't know whether or not would die or simply be banned, I bet a friend of mine, Majster Braňo (you might know him as one of the contributors to McDoomguy's Slaughterific Sample Platter), roughly 250 Czech crowns that his wi-fi router wouldn't work inside a microwave. It seemed like a pretty cut and dry case and a nice way to make money and buy more fireworks from our unlicenced peddler in the local street, but Braňo was determined. To cut a long story short, about 3 hours, one propane blowtorch filling and 2 bottles of božkov later, he won. But that's when strange things started happening. There was a computer in our local network that didn't belong to either of us. I thought it was just my neighbour being too lazy to pay his bills again and cracking yet another variation of the word "leech" that I keep setting as the password to send him a message, but this MAC was like nothing I'd seen from him. Then is shot us an FTP with a text message, asking what the [expletives] we were doing in his network. We sent one right back, telling him that he was the [expletives] in our [expletives] network. This went back and forth for a while, but eventually we were able to establish some sort of mutual understanding. It turned out we'd tapped into the network of some nerd that lives in the same spot in a parallel dimension. He was pretty chill though. We spent an evening just sending messages to each other, trading stories of what our realities look like, that kind of stuff. Apparently we're yet to experience things like the second coming of disco or a brief nuclear exchange between Canada and the US over the ownership of Vermont (neither side wanted it), and they never got to see the invention of bananabread, for example. Anyway, dude's name was Fred, and he was a Doom fan too, among other things. Even showed us a WIP megawad he was making.

Well, that megawad actually got released in his home dimension pretty recently. I had no idea, but Braňo apparently found a way to keep in touch with the guy through that butchered microwave and half-melted router. He even got to be listed as a playtester, which is quite an honour, since back there the megawad got something like 3 Cacowards, including Best Writing. In any case, I'm presenting the wad in question to you. Braňo didn't want me to, but he also claims that I still owe him 250 CZK (no idea where he got that from) and I wanna upset him.

One thing to note though, they're yet to really evolve with things like source ports or proper editing tools, so the files are a bit of a mess. These launch parameters should work with our source ports though:

For DSDA-Doom, GZDoom, Woof or anything of the sort:
-file SKIB_MAP.WAD SKIB_MUS.WAD SKIB_RES.WAD SKIB_SPR.WAD -deh SKIBIDI.DEH -complevel 2

For Chocolate Doom:
-file SKIB_MAP.WAD SKIB_MUS.WAD SKIB_RES.WAD -merge SKIB_SPR.WAD -deh SKIBIDI.DEH

Basically, you have to make sure to load the external Dehacked patch.

Compatibility: Vanilla
Tested with: GZDoom v4.12.2
Number of maps: 30
Estimated playtime: ~3 hours

Screenshots:

Download:
SKIBIDI.ZIP