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Moddb article for 2.10 is up: https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dark-mod/news/the-darkmod-210-is-here I will be extending it with more details soon!

Woo!! 2.10 Beta "Release Candidate" ( 210-07 ) is out: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21198-beta-testing-210/ It wont be long now ...

Sorry for the delay. The 2.09b Hotfix is now up at Moddb https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dark-mod/downloads/the-dark-mod-209-full

Some of you who've been on the TDM discord know I was out of work last Winter, just putting in hrs for the developer portfolio. Currently I've been working a seasonal job to pay the bills and now I'm finally in my last week before I get bumped off. Things will be tight but I'm planning a long off period to make as much content as I can. Big plans in Unreal Engine as well as my most ambitious TDM collab yet! Never been so excited to be a stuck at home to pursue my life's work. With a lotta time and maybe some luck, I'm hoping to get enough art work done that I may start applying around to studios.

I still play classic Doom (albeit with user-made mods and maps rather than the original campaign) on a regular basis. A game from the early 90's which has still got a healthy following in 2022. Pretty amazing.

Happy Birthday to me! I've already got a birthday gift, although indirectly, from @Airship Ballet, thanks lil' lady, you're great!

This is a status update.

Finished Deathloop yesterday. My verdict: Arkane Studios showing off once again that they are one of the best in game design: Pick the timeloop mystery adventure mechanics of Outer Wilds and remix them, add "Dark Souls"-like invasions in the form that other players can play your antagonist Juliana, and wrap it all in 60s-stylized first person shooter with abilities and upgrades, and an interesting story to unravel. This culminates in such a unique gameplay experience that "Deathloop" would have deserved Game of the Year 2021 WAY more than "It Takes Two". Especially the invasions add so much tension to your playthroughs, it is absolutely exhilarating. That is, unless your opponent lags incredibly, which sadly happens quite often. Combine this with the performance issues many players experienced, and you know why the game did not win game of the year. It is really sad to see technical issues hinder such a masterpiece of a game from doing well. The only criticism I have with respect to gameplay is that the first shot of any weapon is apparently always 100% accurate, which enables you to headshot enemies hundreds of meters away using your submachine gun, but other than that the gun play is on point. All in all, just 9/10 due to technical issues.

Do we want fur in TDM? Like https://duzenko.github.io/webgl/

Congratulations to Wellingtoncrab! Winner of the Christmas Connections Contest !

Woohoo! My third mission is released!

Congratulations on the 2.10 release, friends! All of you who worked on it deserve a reward--What am I saying? Many rewards! And many well-deserved vacations too. I especially love the faster loading times, this is something that has been bugging me since Thief 1, but back then I had an HDD, now I have an SSD and no matter if I save or load, the mission is huge or not, TDM is just incredibly fast, never had I have to spend more than 50 seconds anymore!

I finally got around to play Prey and I truly loved it. It is an incredible homage to System Shock and Deus Ex. While the gameplay is not en par with those two titles, the game makes up for that with its well written lore and story. The whole "world" just feells so authentic and it features a ton of really god environmental story-telling. Recommended for every immersive sim fan, i.e., everyone on this forum.

I like house-cleaning and taking out the trash.

Please, can we finally group the missions by year in the game menu?

My guinea pig is cuter than your guinea pig https://i.imgur.com/r5VIdr0.jpeg

McCain Western Fries taste best when heated in the air fryer at 180 degrees Celsius for 17 minutes.

Fiddling around with a new tdm-in-webbrowser project: boxedwine 32bit and emscripten.

Every day is just like the 4 Non Blondes song. What IS going on?

Sometimes life throws a curveball - other times it straight up tries to take you outta the game. Been one thing after another lately but I ain't goin without a fight!

Hello there. I have read from the TDM Moddb page detailing that you are the author of the "Faster loading times". For that, I want to give you my utmost respect and my thanks. Loading times are something I absolutely hate, I can't even bear to wait 10 seconds for a game to load, but I just have to deal with it. Thankfully, you have made it absolutely bearable now! Again, thank you very much for such a great feature, I dare say that 2.10 is absolutely worth it just for the fast loading times than the rest, but I don't want to belittle the others, the volumetric light and lighting improvements are also fantastic! Since I know curiosity will kill me, I might as well ask you something... Is it possible to give this enhancement to other games? If not, at least Doom 3 itself?

Ping! I intend to complete voting tallies on March 18th if possible. Please try out the missions and vote if you can:

I find it alarming that 5 missions with 2.10-only elements take 15% of space among all 158 released missions.

The final solution for low-end GPUs: r_skibSubviews 1 r_skipInteractions 1 r_shadows 0 r_ambientMinLevel 0.6 tdm_lg_interleave 0 If you don't get 60 fps after this then either your CPU is really slow or it's a map bug EDIT. tdm_lg_interleave is probably not required since r_skibSubviews supersedes it.

We are taking our son on his very first holiday trip to see the sea for the first time. Will be back in a week.

When I was a young man my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. As I grew older I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in such a short time.

Status updates are back so it is also a good time to return to contests! https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21095-christmas-connections-contest-2021

Status can't get more epic than that

A spidey! I love spideys

I've been thinking alot about indentations in the last time.