It can emulate the behaviour of the various Doom executables and is 100% compatible with vanilla Doom. Its goal is to preserve the Doom experience as it was when the game was released but with the convenience of running natively on your system without having to resort to emulation. Zandronum specializes in multiplayer online play for Doom, Ultimate Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, Strife, Heretic, Hexen: Beyond Heretic, and Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel.įor further context about the above sourceports, see the quote below, courtesy of Gragt:Ī bit of context for those who do not know much about Doom engine ports:Ĭhocolate Doom is a faitful port of vanilla doom (hence the name) that runs on a variety of system. To run total conversions in Chocolate Doom: Ĭlick on Crispy Heretic and Crispy Hexen for their respective versions. How Do I Play Fan-Made Levels? (Also Applicable to the Various Crispy Ports) How Do I Select a Game Other Than Doom II? (Also Applicable to the Various Crispy Ports) How Do I Set up Chocolate Hexen to Run Deathkings of the Dark Citadel? (Also Applicable to Crispy Hexen) How Do I Set up Chocolate Doom? (Also Applicable to the Various Crispy Ports) Note: You will need heretic.wad and hexen.wad respectively for their respective Chocolate and Crispy ports: LGOG's How to Load Mods via Drag and Drop, Batch Files, or Gzdoom.Iniĭoomworld Forum Thread: Doomworld Community Heretic / Hexen Top WADs of All TimeĬlick on the Chocolate Heretic and Chocolate Hexen sourceport links for their respective games.Ģa) Setting up Chocolate Heretic and Hexen: Heretic and Hexen 1 use the same game engine as Doom and Doom 2, so running mods is done in the exact same way as the Doom series.ġa) Other Helpful GZDoom-Related Setup and Configuration Info: So You Want To Play Doom Mods - Get Started With GZDoom and ZDLįollow the above videos' instructions, but make sure you also place heretic.wad, hexen.wad, and hexdd.wad in GZDoom's folder as well. How to Use GZDoom on Windows in 3 Minutes General GZDoom Setup and How to Run Mods in GZDoom: You can download the texture pack here.Download GZDoom to play Doom, Ultimate Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, Strife, Heretic, Hexen: Beyond Heretic, Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, or any custom levels made for any of these games. Run gzdoom.exe and select “Hexen: Beyond Heretic (HEXEN)”.
Add file HEXEN.WAD into root directory gzDOOM.Unzipped mod and add file hexen_esrgan.pk3 into root directory gzDOOM.Open file gzdoom-%username%.ini with text editor.You’ll need to use gzDOOM, zDOOM, Zandorum or similar Doom Engines to install the pack. Sure, it’s not turning Hexen into Crysis, but it’s a huge leap regardless. The end results speak for themselves too, with some fantastic comparison images from the modder. Of course, to view the full resolution comparison images, check out the mod page here. Furthermore, the texture pack covers around a thousand textures. With the use of the powerful new tools, the assets have seen (up to) a four times increase in resolution. Even more so on higher resolution displays. Hexen is an old game, and as such, the original assets simply look like crap these days. Modder “gmh4598” used an AI Neural Network to greatly improve the textures in Hexen. What used to take an age to do, can now be done in weeks and on a much larger scale. It’s one of the biggest revelations in the modding community. It seems that literally every day now, a new AI enhanced texture pack is released.