Back when advanced ZDoom features were considered the norm, it was so refreshing to have a beautiful high-profile mapset built for vanilla gameplay. The soundtrack being phenomenal is what made BTSX truely timeless. I LOVE TECHBASE 📡⚡🦾🦿🚥💻🦾⚙️🖥️💻🦾⚙️🖥️🦿📡⚡🚦🚥💻🦾

When I was WAY younger (I´m over 40 now) I also played a lot of doom but never finished any wads. Looking back now, I think it was because I needed to "git gud" and was frustated with dying all the time (even simple fights felt really tough!).

Saturntaan! Do have fun with this masterpiece of the first part of the trilogy! I do own Esselfortium and James Paddock's OSTs of their MIDI contributions! You were listening to Entering by Esselfortium here.

This was one of my first WAD played outside the iWADS. Awesome choice Vytaan.

so glad you're going thru btsx....great mapset and even greater soundtrack. It also fits greatly with your current flow of playing two different wads at any given time. Playing this one as a standalone could be a little tiring. ps: vyturn would not be bad for the tag.

This will be a nice retrospective for me. BTSX1 was the last WAD I played before I moved out of my parent's house. 😊

I’m fairly sure that coop enemies + extra ammo you get makes quite a few BTSX Maps easier

I'm glad you picked this wad because I had started watching Decino do it, but I only got as far as seeing him do the first episode.

Oooh dang! There's a reason this WAD is bundled with all modern purchases of Doom. You're in for an excellent time!

I am now, like you were then! I keep starting alot of WADs to never finish most of them :D

Yeeeee boi. This is gonna be great! I love seeing first impressions of this mapset; everything about the architecture feels so solid and considered, no unnecessary frills or hyper details due to its limitations which I find hugely refreshing. Some secrets can be quite obscure but it’s mostly straightforward, fun action. 😊

It just so happens I started playing BTSX E1 on UV solo net for the first time today too! I have played several times on UV though. It is a fairly accessible wad and most fights are autopilot-able, not too spicy, and somewhat forgettable, but this is exactly why I get back to it from time to time, much like most people do with Knee Deep in the Dead. I love just playing this continuously and mowing down hordes of imps and zombiemen with the chaingun. Hope you enjoy the wad!

Good luck and have fun with this playthrough! I love how this Map 01 plays...it teaches you that secret hunting is both rewarding and spicy in this WAD on many occasions. Interesting choice to do blind UV+ rather than just regular UV, but I look forward to seeing how you find the experience!

You would SERIOUSLY enjoy the Arrival mod, I know I asked already, but it’s sooo good!😎

I can’t wait to watch this. I recently binged Episode 1 and 2 on UV+ back to back and they’re well worth the playthrough!! Side note, I think BTSXTAAN is a missed opportunity 🙃

I struggled to get past MAP11 here out of certain lack of interest, but I managed it this year! I personally am not a fan of such a unified theme throughout but I cannot at all say it is undeserving of status as very-well-made WAD.

There's no better way to acknowledge Decino than taking joy in monster infighting.

You are truly a Beast in a good way xD One project after another ;)

Omg 😳 Well now where I know how to get that last secret, I’m staying the hell outta there!!! 😂

That intermission music: 11 / 10!

Hehe thats the btsx expirience. Even with the wiki i had a hard time finding some secrets... And the maps are pretty challenging, at least coop seems to give you a lot more ammo, i ran out very often on UV. The secret throws a bunch of enemies at you as well on UV. Fun wad and epic music tho. Great start to the series!

One of the best MAP01s ever, essel's track is perfect.

In regards to this map in particular, I consider it a very good introduction. The walk from the drop pod into the station itself, to this Essel music, sets the mood, and unlike most first maps, it doesn't play coy at all. Almost all the cards are on the table right from the get go, and it's up for the player to take it or leave it. And yes, the secret fight is every bit the barn burner normally as you've experienced. Maybe even more because you only get plasma in co-op, so you're restricted to the SSG to thin out the bone brigades and tomato clouds. I tend to rely on infighting and berserk for extra help, though the Cacos always get the blunderbuss. Chainsaw takes too long, punching a Caco is problematic at the best of times even without the blockmap bug, and they're often too high up to get into infights.

There’s also a BTSX 2! Also very good BOSSTYSOXTYVAAN 😂

I think coop enemies makes maps easier if anything. You're given far more ammo and can leverage more in fighting.

Ooh! I’ve played this one! Love ❤️ it!

Startaan

nice! i recently replayed btsx1 since the first time i played it was the unity port on console continuous play. I wanted to do it pistol start but haven't tried co-op monsters.

I am in the same camp today, I will start a lot of wads but never finish a lot unless they really capture me. I probably have only recently outright finished about 6 or 7 megawads. Ancient Aliens, Revilution, Devilultion (both sequels to TNT, but not TNT, and I believe the latter still has a map unfinished) Evilterity 2 (I had finished the 1st one, but not in a single continuous playthrough, and I only finished it *after* I finished the second) Late for Work 2. Both Rowdy Roody 2 and Hohawk 2 I think. I don't count WAD's with under 10/12 maps because I will usually finish them It comes down to time. I spend a lot of time staring at a screen for work so something must be really captivating to complete it. So either it must be extremely beautiful and have a captivating setting (The first 4 wad's I described, or a lot of variety and world-building that makes me actually want to finish it Eviterities episode structure also makes me feel I can tackle it in much smaller chunks in continuous play) or has some twist to the gameplay loop that really hooks my attention (both of doom kids projects, because those games are *very* Doom taken to an extreme.) Otherwise, there are a lot of great Doom Wads that I just don't finish. I would highly recommend playing Maskim Xul a look; I wouldn't recommend saveless blind running even if it isn't super hard, but it is an epic journey worth taking at least once. Back to Saturn X is a megawad I've never finished for those reasons. It's undeniably great stuff, but it's *long* and I think I had moved onto something new about map 16/19 or something.

It's been a while since I played this wad, but I remember not liking it very much. I didn't even finish it, which in my case, it's very rare. The maps are of high quality, but they feel a bit generic. There's nothing memorable about any of them and they just blend in my head as one. But we'll see what you think.

Btsx is a fine crafted experience with no coop enemies. I think it adds nothing of value for solo playthrough

Now hear me out. Have you considered...Sataan? 😆 Yeah, there's surprisingly little added for co-op in this map. The spider-mastermind and archies weren't too big a deal, considering they give you a plasma right from the start and plenty of cover. I just played the map again when I saw you started the series, because I couldn't remember if I ever played it. (Yeah, I also don't finish wads. Maybe it's an ADHD thing? Because I recently got diagnosed.) It was the secret area that killed me. I got stuck and hit by homing rockets. I really need to play this map set...some day. 😅 I've got such a big back catalog at this point (and DOOM itself is already a backlog item) that I'm probably better off watching the series and then playing through some day when I don't remember it very well.

SATAAN :D

Good pick, Vytaan X. BTSX is a basic but refined series of wads, good for a return to form after two big departures from the usual form you've just completed. Nowadays I find it _slightly_ overhyped, but you make your own judgement later on. Very nice palette, though, probably my second favourite custom palette after Eviternity II's. Also the musical score is a selection of bangers. For episode 1 in particular, I prefer the non-plus version, without the co-op only entities, because it has a better sense of progression and escalation. Not exactly challenging for a player on your level, however, so you're better off in solonet.

Back-taan Saturn X!

Team chainsaw is happy again.

Hello Vytaan! I have a question for you! How does your advanced huddle not show the total kill/secrets/items count if you could answer it would greatly appreciate it.🙃

Vyturn

For the name Vyturn?

When H-doom?

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Dont you wanna make a new rule to always blow up all the barrels? At lest the one you see? My completionist brain likes them to be blown