If you give things anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days, there's a good chance you'll find a modded server pop up. 7AM EST on a weekday is a bit of a hard sell for the playerbase, which while no means tiny is still probably only about 100-150 players total. Gondola TLMS, the newest CBM branch, is usually what fills quickest if you want to take initiative.

If you're looking for vanilla though you may be short on luck - consider asking around for people to play with.

Invasion was probably the first mode I saw really start to develop (and in turn the first to die) when I started playing. It was a lot of retextured Doom maps and Super Moby enemies that shot Crystal Eye laser beams, but I remember getting a small amount of fun out of it.

Talking PvE in general, Invasion (as a romantic concept) maybe has more staying power in my head than the more linear MMSP levels do, but I'd also probably need some bells and whistles to avoid getting bored of the maps once the challenge of beating them is over.

I know this guy (temporary post)

In modded play (Gondola, mostly) I've grown quite fond of using the Automap for keeping track of my position, as well as briefly tracking other important pieces of map-level information. Vanilla in comparison has little if anything to display to the player, when it could potentially be adding much more.



Below are a list of my suggested additions to the automap, starting with ones that I think are pivotal to improving gameplay experience and ending on ones that are more wishlist additions, or those with more questionable gameplay effect:

-Stationary markers for Objective Gamemodes, like Flag Spawners (CTF), Helmet Spawners (Skulltag) and Point Totems (Skulltag)

- Markers for Weapon Tokens (all modes).

- A marker that replaces the Player Arrows that represent you and your teammates in play, or all players while spectating

-- Some indicator of their facing direction.

- Markers that indicate dropped or freshly spawned Objectives, including Flags, Helmets, the Circuit Board, the Terminator Pickup.

- Markers that indicate Objectives in Motion, including Flags, Helmets, the Circuit Board, the Terminator Pickup.

- Markers that indicate Large Health/Ammo Pickup locations, regardless of whether they are currently on respawn or not.

Personally I would be content with just the top three, but I figured I would list more in case there was desire for the rest. Some of these could be linked to server variables if needed? Thanks for any consideration.

Aqua Man's right about himself tbh

I intend on chipping in for Torch Man's stage in the second release of this project. Rooting for a successful first release!

Question for user "Korby": I am attempting to follow these instructions as well for my older brother's sake but I am looking down at my keyboard and I am unable to locate the "KP9" and "MOUSE1" keys. Are you a wizard?

Thanks,
MM8BDM | Forum user LlamaHombre

With the forums back up I would eventually like to start making more thought pieces mostly related to map work, be it map/mapstyle analysis, intermediate-to-advanced mapper's advice, etc. Stuff that can be read and linked to and isn't lost in the endless Discord information feed. I'd also like to eventually start diving into other project types, but that'll require some big commitment from me that I wanna be sure I can handle before I promise anything.

but also I have the obligatory Bounty results that will have to happen sooner rather than later, so expect those soon

BLUF: A map competition started in 2023 with the intent of replacing MM2CRA, MM2FLA, MM6WIN, and MMWTMWS for the next version of MM8BDM.

PK3 download: https://allfearthesentinel.com/zandronum/download.php?file=mm8bdm-bounty-full-v1a.pk3

expect results very soon