When we play on the network, I run ipxnet startserver on the vista box. I cranked up the cpu cycles to 8000 on all 3 boxes. The 800 MHz machine gets into a hung or unplayable state quite a bit. The other two XP machines are slower, a 2.4 GHz Celeron and an 800MHz PIII. The Vista machine is an AMD 3000+ and works fine when plaing in single user mode. We are using DosBox 0.72 on Vista and winXP. I was thrilled to be able to get this game to work so I could share a first person shooter with my children. Hexen runs fine able to get it to run with a Windows 7 and Windows Xp machine-Windows 7 running a Amd 64 X 2 3800+ and the Windows Xp machine pentium 4 2.8ghz with HT The myth about Legend mod and Windows 10 - is just that: a myth.Īnd without any further ado, i welcome all of you to the new adventure.Hexen: Beyond Heretic - Id Software (1995) Doomsday engine or Legend-9 (or 8.33) has no issues working on Windows 10. It was tailored to and tested with Doomsday 2.3.1 This demo will crash or have issues, if used with older versions of Doomsday. The demo that is currently being released - is the "modern" version. The vintage version, respectively - is meant for the vintage engine. The "modern" version is meant to be played only on the modern version of Doomsday engine. Legend-9 will eventually exist as two versions: modern and vintage. A Legend-9 compatible and tested modern version of the Doomsday engine - can be downloaded here, in the files section. The mod functions through Doomsday-specific script files, and these are recognized by Doomsday engine only. It does NOT work with GZDoom or anything else. Legend-9 is a Doomsday-engine EXCLUSIVE mod. The rest of the game is yet to undergo the necessary polish, fine-tuning, balancing and error correction.Īnd while i am working on that, - i would like to take this opportunity to bring the project to you, even if only in part for the time being.Ī few final notes on the demo (and the full version as well): There is nothing out there like this mod, but i sincerely hope - that some day there will be.Ĭurrently, i am launching the 6-level demo, which is the entire first episode, about 5-7 hours of gameplay. Every single section has been revised and remade to reflect the polished-to-the-max directive. The resulting difference between any of my previous efforts and Legend-9 is nothing short of indescribable. Sub-objective to raise my standards every day, - right until the point when i could no longer come up with superior ideas for an extended period of time. For the last 16 months i was essentially remaking the entire game, with a Something that hopefully, - would inspire others to reach higher, just as some projects have inspired me in the same way. I saw it as something more than a mod: a revolutionary upgrade-remake, a statement of creative design, logical analysis and deductive reasoning. Half a year later, i was ready to begin the journey of making Legend-9. Learning, practicing, designing my signature style and staples, working on concepts and ideas by using my other mods as training exercises, - all in order to finally come up with a solid plan to reflect the vision where no stone is left unturned, a vision that the mod should (and would) eventually become. So I took several steps back: analyzing every single fault of version 8.33, every section that i previously deemed "too tedious to work on" and the reasons why some parts of it are fun while others are a feast of boredom. And i would bring the game back to my top list, sparing no effort in the process. I would forge a triumph of classic oldschool glory that any Hexen fan would stand for. I would re-ignite the fire of Hexen in a way that has never been done before. The answer was slowly becoming clear: this was not to be the end. I had only myself to blame for the inconsistent quality or the often found disparity between the good ideas and average execution, all the while leaving quite a few elements "as is" = following the slacking way of the Raven (as in Software). However, as time was passing by - i kept asking myself: is this all i was capable of? How has the game that i loved so much during my teenage years - turned into a bleak, half-finished under-mod with design holes all over, veering dangerously into the chore territory. A decision instigated mostly by my dissatisfaction with the state of the mod at the time (especially considering how long it's been around), and a thorough understanding of how far it actually stood from my ultimate desired Friends, Fans and other adventurers of the Hexen universe,Ībout two years ago, i have explicitly stated, that Legend-9 is the "the mod that is not to be".
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