I make up for my inconsistent upload schedule with bloated videos now, suck on that YT algorithm.

So essentially, instead of becoming Doomguy, you become one of the numerous dead marines you find on the floor, except your life expectancy is slightly longer

Best redemption arc in any anime. This madman went back to face what hurt him most.

"Do you want to shoot from the hip, or look through the scope?" "Yes."

i love the "you are not bleeding" as hes getting visciously mauled on the floor by a ninja pirate

10:25 Going from hating HD to pumping AR rounds into imps to the tune of shave and a haircut. Redemption complete.

UAC’s magazine DRM is just the extra bit of special Fuck You this mod needed. Hilarious!

The combination of HARDCORE MILSIM MADNESS with incredibly dated memes like "Herp Derp" and "Ninja Pirates" makes me laugh. Probably not my cup of tea, but I like that it exists.

I really would love to see Civvie 11 play this lol

Hideous Destructor: *_the demons won't be the only thing giving you hell_*

I must say, the creator put a lot of love into this mod. Thumbs up for him. And thumb up for you for giving it second chance. What a sport!

Clearly the next step is to play a slaughter map in HD.

"The Testicular fortitude" My new catchphrase, thanks

I just wanted to say thank you for introducing me to "Hideous Destructor" three years ago. I have put far more hours into it than any other Doom mod, and love it to bits.

You know, I think some purists might have dislike for this mod in the ability to just skip and derail the path of a level. Blowing through keycard doors, climbing normally inaccessible walls, etc. But the thing is, that's exactly in line with this mod's philosophy. It's a realistic and merciless depiction of you against the enemy. You want to advance your mission and survive against the enemy by ANY means necessary. They're not thinking to show any mercy or uphold any arbitrary handicaps, so why should you? ANY means necessary. Realistically, if you could blow a new path open or traverse a flank to avoid an enemy or get a shortcut, why shouldn't you? With this mod, you shouldn't worry about requiring keycards and going through the route that was designed for the level, you should worry about killing as needed and surviving the level by any means, mapmaker's intent be damned.

Note: The DRM Slam message is in fact _you_ telling the manufacturers to go, well, themselves.

Some tips for those starting out: - Classic rifleman and support gunner are pretty forgiving loadouts as the battle rifle works against both shields and blue armor and can make its own ammo using 4mm ammo and brass casings, and the vulcanette has ammo thats everywhere and doesnt care about drm mags. - edit the loadouts. I gave every loadout an empty backpack and stuff in it anything i wont need in a pinch like the ladder, extra door busters, and in general extra items and ammo. - derp 555 and derp 556. The derp can open doors and switches through console commands, which is useful if you know theres a ton of enemies waiting on the other side of a door that an ied or door buster just wont reach. -the brontornis cannon is stupid powerful, it can one shot anything that doesnt have lives, including possibly a cyberdemon. its also lightweight. a rocket launcher with heat rounds will also work and is more common but heavier. find one or put it in your loadout with some shells.

Hideous Destructor is really cool with how much attention to detail it has and how it makes you into a different kind of badass. While regular Doomguy is an unstoppable force, the Hideous Destructor marine is an average UAC marine overcoming impossible odds.

_We aren't here to be heroes, we're here to survive_ ~Hideous Destructor Boot Camp 2021 tagline While I missed out on the HD stream, I'm glad that you decided to take another shot on this. Glad you ended up liking it! Now you're one of us, part of the Cult of the Great Destructor. By the way, I can't recommend running HD with Ashes 2063/Dead Man Walking enough. The mil-sim gunplay coupled with realistic environment is like a match made in heaven.

Basically, Hideous Destructor is just: Escape From UAC Facilities And Hell (or any placename for the mappack youre running) In a nutshell

Someone wanted to play doom and tarkov at the same time

The formula of classic Rainbow Six transfused into Doom. I like it!

I tried to get this running on my cellphone. I did it. Screen became a maze of custom keys and toggles akin to a combat jet. Great with screen look though, being able to move the phone to sneak a glance around a corner feels excellent. Poor man's VR

I usually play Naturist for the OSP feeling. Run up to a zombieman and deck him in the face to grab his rifle and mow down his buddies.

I'll admit, this seems like a really well done for an unforgiving mod. It's just that it makes me feel more like a zombieman than a typical marine shown here.

A tutorial was exactly what this mod needed. It's kinda like Receiver in Doom, and somehow twice as stressful.

Just wait until you find your first Liberator. You'll become one of us.

I installed HD because you were raging at it in the last video. Was expecting to feel hilarity and rage, ended up with PTSD.

So technically this game is a representation of what it is like to fight in real life as a military soldier who fights in a world where demons and apocalypse is real as well. The game seems to simulate what it is like to be in a war as a soldier, having to carry heavy weaponry and backpacks, enough ammo to survive and a medipack for emergency case. This game is obviously not for everyone who are used to being a madlad going crazy with IDKFA and just ending the lives of every single demons as an undying gunman. This is technically a sort of simulator that challenges you to be resourceful, picky and extremely cautious with every door, corner and even behind you if you didn't kill everything because you might've passed em by. An interesting mod, to say, however, like I said, it isn't fit for every doom fan, nor for "Beginners" or "Newcomers".

Like a DnD session where you always roll nat 1.

now it's time for a TOURNAMENT ARC

I find it funny that In lore for HDest that the uac has grounds to throw you into court for reloading a zm66 with a used mag

I always play hideous destructor on either Naturist or Doomed Guy, so I have to say, you still end up cheesing most levels because the mod is very generous with giving you the gear needed to do so in backpacks.

16:40 - DYK? You can use DERPs to open up doors and trigger buttons remotely.

Playing this makes you appreciate actual soldiers so much more, minus the demons, instead they have even more human targets

Oh man, when I saw your first video about HD, I had this feeling that there was something deeper and more interesting that you were giving up on due to frustration, and when I finally tried it, it quickly became my favorite Doom mod ever. It has so much depth to its systems, and surviving combat feels amazing. Cheesing your way through levels also feels amazing, because while the mod has plenty of "fuck you" to say, it's awesome to say "no, fuck you" right back by doorbusting your way right to the exit. And I personally love the mag manager. The deliberate preparation for upcoming things by loading loose bullets into magazines feels like a nice rest in between the more intense action. Once I learned the keybinds and the game became more an extension of myself than a clunky battle with controls and mechanics, it all really opened up so much. You're relatively weak and slow, but you have a lot of options and opportunities to plan ahead or even cheese some. It feels like there's always something new to try if one thing doesn't work. There's so much variety in weapons and items, and it's great to experiment with them to see what kind of kit you want to have. Anyway, yeah, awesome mod and I'm sad that KZfaq didn't recommend this to me until just now. Very cool to see you struggle your way through some maps and come out on top in the end.

I started playing HD from this video's recommendation alone and I can't think of the last time a gameplay mod for Doom felt this compelling. It's an honest feat of design that some enterprising modders could cram Arma 3 into Doom II and have it somehow still be fun. Only thing I want is more weapons and gizmos, haha

I own a Doom emulator on my phone and it can play mods. I'm gonna work on getting Hideous Destructor to work with phone controls.

This mod turns doom into an immersive sim.

Having your face chewed off by pinkies while the screen flashes "You have stopped bleeding" reminds me so much of E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy and "My legs are ok!"

I was literally just watching a Clusterf*** stream when you were saying that you enjoy it infinitely more over Hideous Destructor, and this video popped up haha!

Hideous Destructor in my opinion is one of the most creative tactical shooters and by extension one of the most creative Doom Mods i've ever played. People say it looks clunky and shit. but honestly it's one of the best doom mods in my books, Sure. Not everyone can enjoy it. but once you start to really sink your teeth into it you can see how much depth this mod truly has in it's mechanics. I never even knew damageable sectors or Picture in Picture sights were possible in GZDoom until I played Hideous Destructor. I absolutely recommend you try out some of the Hideous Destructor addons that people have made for HDest. Some of these mods are super cool.

This is so much harder than real life, I swear.

HD seriously needs some map WADs of it's own to take full advantage of it's features.

Okay, this is the best Redemption Arc i have ever seen in the modern media, brilliant.

This is the type of mod I'd love to watch someone play but wouldn't dare to try out myself.

Escape from DOOM, The Game.

Hideous Destructor is one of the most artistically interesting video games I've ever played, and it helps that it's also just fun as HELL.

This is more of a military sim than any Call of Duty game

I added Dark doom in for some horror. It also adds a really satisfying feeling where you see a zombie's muzzle flash and you lock on and blow their head off with a sniper rifle

Interesting. Thank you for revisiting this. i don't think its for me, as I don't care about the realism angle, but I'm fascinated by its depth. I hope you will give us updates on some of the other mods you've shown over the years, to see how they've grown and changed since you reviewed them.

This mod simultaneously sounds cool and torturous.

" Cool now do Plutonium with it."

I have never found myself in a situation in "vanilla" Hideous Destructor where I'd have to manually reload or keep a partial plastic mag. Just "clean your plate" and try to stretch them to the last five rounds or so. Those things are not only lying around literally everywhere, but you can often salvage unopened ones from the weapons scattered about. Especially the chainguns and the HERPs. Speaking of HERPs: you can reorient their cone of vision by dragging them or by using remote control. The latter lets you adjust their arc of fire vertically.

Been playing HD since it came out...definitely makes you feel genuine dread even when you come across former humans.

The editing and jokes get better and better after every video.

Icarus- just finished watching. Great video! Can't stress enough that as you learn the mod you'll be rewarded immensely. When you get good, you'll be able to take out those barons no problem :)

This mod in multiplayer has got to be a blast, if only I had a group to try it with

This Doom mod makes sure to raise up the difficulty of Doom levels like 2-3 times harder, although I admit the creators of the mod knew how hardcore could be a horror-style action game. I will try to complete one of map packs the devs recommend to learning the mechanics of Hideous Destructor. Your DUSK T-shirt is very good, I would order somewhere. If I'm speaking about that game, I beated the DUSK game on medium difficulty mode and I enjoyed the levels and slaying the enemies on the low-poly environment. :)

Your effort to bring us quality content is greatly appreciated. This mod feels like it was made by a coked up D&D game master who read one too many Sven Hassel mercenary books and was trying to create a hyper realistic shooter that no one really asked for. WHAT a madman. And you as well good sir, for accepting this challenge. I salute you!

Military sim where you fight supernatural and aliens would be great. Imagine arma server globally defending an island against aliens. Or storming super gore nest with ur battle buddies

the thing with Hideous destructor is that no matter how much pain it gives you, it'll always drag you back in

If you want to complete the original DOOM with Hideous Destructor, it will probably be impossible past E1. But there is Ultimate Needs More Detail, which is a wad by one guy trying to recreate DOOM. It has the exact same structural rules as the first DOOM, but strangely, and this wasn’t really intended, it’s actually very plausible to beat using HD.

There’s just something about this video. It’s really good and makes me want to try Hideous, but beyond that it’s the perfect white noise for me. It’s a nice long video that features your lovely voice, and I’ve listened to it a lot on the background whenever I’m doing something quiet! Thanks Icarus, haha

DiFranco SPOS-E28 The E28 is a shotgun chambered for 12g buckshot. It features a 7+1 capacity, and dual action. It may be fired as a traditional pump action, or fired on semi automatic. Not all shells in the field will kick the shell in the chamber out after firing, so it may jam. If this happens, pump the slide, try again. It is illegal, but like that's going to stop people nowadays, to modify E28s to fire in fully automatic. In this case, you may get a message when picking it up of someone "tampering with the fire selector". Aside from that, it deals enough damage to any humanoid to kill in one hit, has enough penetration to go through a corner or glass, and can roll a bunch of times per shot for armour penetration against head/legs. It lacks armour penetration though, so any armour will stop it dead. Still, better than nothing, and you can usually sneak a blast through the faceplates of a marine.

Hideous Destructor: the GregTech of ZDoom mods

14:21 I'll take "Signs of an Angel Walking the Earth" for $200, LeVar. I learned that from an episode of _The X-Files._

Awesome job sticking it out! I remember your first review and was scratching my head alongside you about who would think this mod could be fun. Keep at it Icasaurus!

Ambitious defo but not for me though 🤣. Hats off to the people responsible though, quite an achievement.

HD is masochism made manifest and I kind of love it for that. It's kind of the opposite of the juvenile power fantasy trend that FPS games are known for.

Hideous Destructor heart of demons revenant edition. gotta do demonic rituals to gather the hell energy then other rituals to turn it into soul energy and demonic weapon ammo as well as finding repair kits and parts for your reverent combat suit. theres no bleeding but you also might need to replace a bone everynow and then. 👿

Shells are devastating with unarmored and not shielded enemies 9mm is really versatile (bleeding, breaks shields easily) but useless against armored enemies and not that damaging per se Caseless ammo are the most plentiful works ok against armor and unarmored but no bleeding and has problems at piercing magic shields (except when you use the vulcanette, in that case sheer volume outweighs the previous problem) also it has some penetration so if you know a monster closet, shoot it and enjoy hearing those demons die Plasma is devastating on pretty much every enemy but don't try to kill with the direct beam 7.76mm is the good stuff but it's heavy and the ammo is rare to find Chainsaw is a multi use weapon (you can dismember dead enemies so that they don't come back easily and with some patience you can even open a key door with it) The Brontornis is what you need to kill whatever you are pointing at it The BFG is way more devastating than the original one Rokets go boom and demon goes dead (don't shoot it on the floor) And to finish: punches are strangely really efficient if you know how to use them

Others might've mentioned, but - the chainsaw can destroy enemy carcasses so that they cannot reanimate - mimic barrels and enemy turrets can be disabled in options

Hideous destructor really seems like it would benefit greatly from a grid based inventory system, but building that from the ground up in the doom engine sounds like an absolute nightmare.

20:07 “That was the worst throw. Ever. Of all time.”

15:08 That's how I escaped BTSX1 Map10. Absolutely nothing left to get the yellow key, so I just sawed the door for 2 minutes straight.

So glad you came back to this. One of my top favorite mods, hard to describe what I like about it but you summed it up pretty well the whole experience. Keep up the vids IC!

They say your first hours of HDest brings you from being the legendary Doomguy to being just a hapless, nameless space marine... But put in the time, put in the work, do your homework and while you will never be Doomguy, you'll be right up there with the likes of John Wick, Sarah Connor and Frank Castle. It won't be easy and it'll take time but goddammit, it's the most rewarding experience you can ever have with a Doom mod.

One thing I like about Hideous Destructor is that you can foil enemy ambushes with the wide array of tools it provides. For instance, you can take out many monster closets by just straight up shooting the hostiles inside with the 7mm battle rifle. Or you can prematurely open them up with door buster charges, a HEAT round from the rocket launcher or a 35mm shell from the portable Brontornis cannon, which would also generate enough shrapnel to seriously injure - if not outright kill - the monsters hiding inside. What about teleport ambushes, you say? IEDs and HERPs/DERPs say hello. Just make sure to stay out of the blast radius and/or line of fire.

This seems like a mod for people who wanted to play Arch Linux in DOOM form. What an absolutely insane level of complexity. Still, it is fascinating in its own way.

To make a 30 minute long video with detailed description dumbed down.. It's basically vanilla arma 3, you get hit, you need to patch yourself up. You get shot anywhere lethal (such as the head) You are dead on the spot unless your helmet miraculously protects you from the shot you'll still have a bruise on your head

This would be great for a body count mod. There's something really satisfying watching doom tactics replace circle strafing.

I honest to god would say that, ammo supply withstanding, "Shave and a haircut, ten cents" is a good rhythm to use for the 4.26mm Rifle. The first 3-4 shots are for knocking them down and the last 2 are for making sure they stay that way. Has worked semi-reliably for me so far.

For those wondering about the DRM mag thing, the AR only likes "fresh" mags, ones that haven't been fired yet (they have a little red tab on top). So if you hand reload one, it'll throw a fit

I guess Hideous Destructor needs its own mapset. Traditional Doom maps require fast movement and crowd control to work. The slow, realistic approach of HD doesn't work.

Glad to see you once again returning to this mod in better light, Icarus. This mod's probably one of my favorites in terms of Doom mods, and the community behind it along with the submods made for it ain't nothing to shake a stick at either, with modders like Batandy, Kegan, and Ultra having made addons for HDest. The difficulty's tough, yet fair. With practice and perseverance, you could very much conquer mapsets like Plutonia and Valiant with this mod. Being able to destroy the enemy as fast as they do you with plenty of tools in your disposal to approach the situation or even evade it completely. Being able to customize your loadout at the start of a run also really helps for mapsets that start you off in rough places, though I usually tend to go for vanilla Rifleman for my runs. Sure, I still go to other Doom mods every now and then (vanilla, too), but HDest is just something that never fails to grip me everytime I launch it. It takes a bit of time and determination to learn the mechanics, but once it clicks, it doesn't let go. That's also why me and the others from the HDest community helped built the Bootcamp map. To help shorten that very phase. I'm glad that it has helped in getting that click to you as well.

Escape from Hell on Earth... only more sadistic with the mimics. Wonderful lmao

This oddly gives me Civvie vibe.

Ah yes, RLCraft has finally gotten its DOOM port.

I recognise parts of what people enjoy in HD. I see the skill and effort that went into it. But I honestly still can't say I enjoy it. Endless stalling is not my idea of fun. I'm fine with slower games, complex mechanics, all that jazz. But straight up stalling for entire maps, entire mapsets, just to survive... Not the mod for me.

One good thing worth noting is you can put Derps on buttons and doors and go into your console and open them with a command remotely.

Awesome stuff my man. I watched your first vid on Hideous Destructor and I wanted to play it. I dont know what it was about this mod but I was like "gib now." On their Github (i think) they do list maps that are beatable, map that are impossible and maps that are made for the mod. I see this mod as a flex at what you can do with modding Doom. I glad you found the enjoyment aspect, dont get me wrong this mod can make you wanna break shit, but when you execute that "perfect" room clear *muah*

Mr Icarus have been wololo'ed successfully

in situation like 6:42, bandaging is the best course of action. you can use it without taking off armor, it stops bleeding as long as you aren't moving constantly after that, and it don't make your screen extra shakey. the optimal move would be: Go behind the cover, roll some bandage over your wound, wait for few sec for it to be stabilized, kean out from thr cover, kill the zombie, _then_ use medkit to fully close the wound.

So basically it has all the problems of a realismic game like CDDA, it can be tedious and you die stupid deaths to basic enemies.

I find it funny how the way you have to play Hideous Destructor is the same way I used to play FPS games as a whole: peaking corners and cowering in nooks.

wow, this looks more hardcore than any tactical shooter I've played, and it's on Doom!

Spiritual Armour: The funky stuff that makes you Not Die. No really, you are *LITERALLY INVULNERABLE.* For as long as it lasts. You cannot fall below 1 HP with Spiritual Armour, and you cannot bleed. However, you can suffer severe damage and be incapacitated, and spiritual armour can be broken by any given attack, on an RNG basis. Heavier damage has more weight to it. Spiritual armour can have three carried at a time. It also reads you bible verses, but only the cool ones. Spiritual Armour can be gained by picking up helmets or a graysphere. Both give ONE spiritual armour.

Wow, looks like a great mod. Thanks for the info.

Haha, spinny gun goes BRRRRRRRRRRR