Infection

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Infection
Title screen
Author Dennis Meuwissen
Port MBF-compatible
IWAD Doom II
Year 2022
Link Doomworld/idgames
Cacoward-2018.png This mod received an honorable mention at the 2022 Cacowards on Doomworld!

Infection is a seven-level PWAD for Doom II that requires an MBF and DEHEXTRA compatible source port. It was created by Dennis Meuwissen (Exl) and first released in March 2022. It was designed for consecutive play as opposed to pistol starts and makes use of DEHEXTRA to, among other things, add ambient sound effects to the game. The WAD utilizes the OTEX texture pack and centers around a vanilla-style techbase setting that towards the end combines with a visual theme of graphical corruption. Levels are comparatively short in length, with an easy to medium difficulty.
It was uploaded to the idgames archive on April 4, 2022.

Infection was recognized with an honorable mention at the Cacowards 2022.

Content

Custom monsters

Spoiler Warning

Corrupted versions of the imp, demon and chaingunner are present in MAP06: Escape Route (Infection), with their sprites having a simulated glitched look, and both the sounds and behavior of the monsters altered compared to their regular counterparts. The corrupted imp has 80 hit points compared to the usual 60 and fires arachnotron plasma instead of fireballs. The corrupted demon has 140 hit points and attacks faster than usual, and the corrupted chaingunner only has 20 health points and fires cacodemon projectiles instead of a hitscan attack. There are also various smaller differences, such as changes to the pain chance, speed and radius, most of which are barely noticeable in-game but help to emphasize the intended glitched, buggy nature of the monsters.

Spoilers end here


Built-in demos

This WAD features three built-in demos. All require Doom II with the PrBoom+um v2.6+ source port to view them. The demo levels are:

Demo Level Skill Tics Length
DEMO1 MAP02: Loading Zone 4 178 0:05.09
DEMO2 MAP04: Data Bunker 4 578 0:16.51
DEMO3 MAP06: Escape Route 4 908 0:25.94

Speedrunning

Current records

The DSDA episode records for Infection are:

Run Time Player Date File Notes
UV speed run 09:49 vdgg 2022-05-15 infectio-949.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on December 19, 2022.

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