MO’ BA, Mo ProblemsĬompared to modding, SnapMap feels downright sterile.

Doom will never have anything like that level, and that’s a real shame. You flew up and down trying to kill each other on the way. Tyler told me about a Quake level he once made: a silly deathmatch map that was just a very tall room with low gravity. You can’t stretch or squish them, meaning you’ll likely start recognizing certain modules that get used more often than others.Īnother disappointing rule is that you can’t alter the physics of a level, apart from your movement speed. ( We would’ve prefered “Stardoom Valley.” -Ed.)Įach room module is well-designed and there’s a good amount of variety to choose from but, once again, they can’t be altered in any way, and most only have two or three set snap points to which you can connect other modules-always on the sides, never on the top or bottom. There are a few silly experiments, like a giant playable piano and a map called Harvest Doom, which asks you to plant and harvest ‘crops’ in what is essentially a first-person clicker game. And there’s only a single tileset-generic, indoor Mars facility.ĭespite these restrictions, the map browser is already full of custom scenarios, co-op survival levels, and recreations of iconic maps from the original Doom, most of which are a lot of fun. You can’t change many character variables beyond basic stuff like health, damage, or movement speed.

The rooms you snap together are incredibly static, pretty much only customizable by adding props or demons to them. But it doesn’t give you the power to do much more. It has a refined, easy to use toolset and a good series of tutorials to teach you the basics, so it’s not hard to jump into SnapMap and quickly make a custom level, which is exactly the point of it. As a PC gamer, SnapMap’s limitations are immensely disappointing.

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