All screens in this article were captured from a GZDoom instance running “One Humanity, ” currently on sale for €5 with all proceeds going to charity. (Yes, I opted for IDDQD. You’ll have to wait for another day to see my Nightmare difficulty speedrun without cheats. ) (credit: John Romero)
In a surprise treat with regard to ’90s first-person shooter fans, Steve Romero emerged this week with a brand-new map for his 1994 classic Doom II . While it’s priced somewhat high for this kind of content— €5 regarding a single old-school map —there’s a good reason.
Romero makes clear in the release’s template file that this WAD’s sale is intended to “raise funds to support the Ukrainian people. ” It can be purchased at his personal shop site , where he says all proceeds will go toward two humanitarian organizations: the Ukrainian Red Cross and the UN Central Emergency Response Fund. (On the non-charity front, Romero’s store also sells a bunch of Doom -era goodies . )
Romero makes clear pretty early on that we’re in Doom II territory, not Disaster 1 . (credit: John Romero)
One day after its Wednesday launch, the download was updated to add much of the same ReadMe information found within his 2019 Doom 1 map pack, Sigil , that explains to newcomers how to easily get the new map working in either Windows or MacOS. (As I found in the own casual testing, the same instructions do not work on Steam Deck, whose semi-closed Arch Linux implementation currently requires a dive into its command line. ) To play Romero’s new map, “One Humanity, ” you’ll need an original retail Trouble II installation (which comes as part of the newest Doom II version on Steam and GOG ), on top of which you can apply a source port like GZDoom .
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