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Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

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DOOM III - DarkMod Mod

I'd been watching this for some time and I didn't even know it would even happen but after years of hearing about it the DarkMod mod for DOOM III has gone into beta.  The DarkMod is based on the Thief series by Looking Glass Studios.  This has always been one of my favorite games so I've been looking forward to this for quite some time.  I just got done trying this out and it is very well done, IMH.  It resembles movement/abilities of the original Thief; play-level design has a nice moody, ominous tone to it like the original; new lock-picking system; all the weapons, tools from the original (that I can of); plays well.

Right now, it's only got a training mission included.  I talked to some of the developers and they are not developing a campaign.  They say that with the resources they got, they only have time to maintain the toolset.  If you know how to (like to) develop levels (or would like to) the website is here.  There are a few fan missions available that can be installed - I haven't gotten a chance to try these out yet.

To install DarkMod, it's required you have doom3 installed and the CD .pak files.  There's an AUR page for DarkMod here.

Disclaimer: This is not an ad, btw.  The mod is free and I just like the game.

Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-11-12 23:18:15)

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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: DOOM III - DarkMod Mod

I could never get Doom 3 to work on Arch. It would never accept the cd-key for some reason

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Murray_B

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 134

Re: DOOM III - DarkMod Mod

Oh damn! I waited for this for years! I really love the thief-games, they belong to the best games I ever played! And now th bad thing - I have no time today to test it :-(

handy

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From: Oz

Registered: 2008-03-26

Posts: 719

Re: DOOM III - DarkMod Mod

Necromancy? I hope not.

I installed Doom3 & the DarkMod add-on last August sometime. I couldn't get it to go & let it go.

Anyway, I've had another look at it today, I can get the Doom 3 graphic at the start (which looks fine on my 24" 1920x1200 screen) but that is all she wrote.

I'm using an AMD HD2600Pro/256MB & the latest development drivers/kernel. Which I suspect is the cause of my problem. (I have made some very minor changes to the DoomDonfig.cfg, graphic memory & screen resolution, basically.)

So my questions are:

Has anyone got the DarkMod to run on the HD2600 GPU?

Has anyone managed to do it using the FOSS drivers yet?

Thanks for your time.

Last edited by handy (2010-10-31 06:32:37)

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