RTC-3057

RTC-3057 is a partial conversion for ZDoom created by Team Future, combining two other ZDoom projects, The RTC Corporation and Doom 3057.

A one-level preview demo release on Jan 16, 2003 was recognized as one of the Top 100 WADs of All Time on Doomworld. Its expanded hub released on July 28, 2004 was an inaugural winner of the Cacowards first awarded in December 2004.

The mod was initially intended to be much longer, but is no longer in development and is unlikely to be expanded further.

Levels
The list below is arranged by map number, however the levels in RTC-3057 are non-linear and arranged in a hub using ZDoom's MAPINFO lump. The player starts on MAP04 and can access the other maps via various means.
 * (starting map)
 * (starting map)
 * (starting map)
 * (starting map)

Releases
RTC-3057 was released in two phases. It was originally released as a single-map demo, and later as a multi-map hub.

Demo
The demo release only contains the first map ("Deck 4: Cell area"). The only goal is to reach the lift to the other decks, at which point the map restarts. The demo has been removed from the idgames archive, but is still archived on and Doomworld.

Blue Hub 1
The Blue Hub release contains a more refined and atmospheric version of the demo level with additional ambient music, an improved log system, and a revised introduction. The goal is to exit the station via one of the escape pods on "Deck 2". This is the version of RTC-3057 currently available on the idgames archive and is unlikely to be expanded further.

No pistol bug in recent ZDoom versions
ZDoom versions 2.1.0 and up (including GZDoom) no longer give players the pistol upon level load. After RTC-3057 was released in 2004, ZDoom v2.1.0 tagged on June 20, 2006 rewrote its DECORATE parser which introduces a bug in RTC-3057's custom pistol behavior.

To fix the bug, a WAD editor such as SLADE must be used to update the lump. The lump's first line: pickup pistol {

Must be updated to a new unique value such as: pickup pistol_rtc {

ZDoom 2.1.0 started reading definition names as case-insensitive, so the lowercase  is now being ignored in place of Doom's base definition named. Giving the PWAD definition a new unique name will fix it.