why and how is Hexsoil a parody of Betray?? ... I'm talking about Doom 2 The Way id Did of course, and how the easter egg map Hexsoil is apparently a parody of the Xbox original bonus map of Betray from its Doom 2 port.
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I mean, looking at the map of Hexsoil, it looks pretty regular. Betray looks... ....
...well it looks like something I would have created in the original doom level editor.
...apparently also there's a name for this style of map: 1994 map.
@Nine I don't think It's a parody of betray so much as it's a parody of what betray IS: a tacked on bonus map that clashes with classic ID map structure.
@LANthus Probably yeah. I also take it back, Hexsoil isn't a good map it's fuckin garbage XD huge open areas with ugly textures that do not at all make sense, corridoors you have to navigate full of enemies, barely any ammo, just... fucking enemies everywhere with nowhere to hide and really goddamn big as well. ugh. XD
@Nine it's the opposite of betray which was a claustrophobic maze map with enemies everywhere. Pretty clever imo
@LANthus I actually finally do get it lol. The more I play of Hexsoil the more I realise how it's a parody and... I hate it, I hate this level so much because it's so awful but daaang I'm giggling at just how it's like "lol fuck Betray it's a shit map let's make a really shit map and just shoehorn it in there as a super secret that you've almost no chance of finding"
hell it even fuckin' CRASHES THE GAME on certain sourceports.
@Nine did you know that ID are so incompetent that they left in the trigger for betray and it will crash the game. See it's even more a tribute to it
@LANthus lol though Betray wasn't actually made by iD if I recall it was made by some guy from Vicarious Visions who worked on the doom 3 ports.
@LANthus I just looked up Betray as well and oh my fuck it's even worse than Hexsoil holy shit lol
not only is the parody actually still a shitty map just like Betray that jumps you into a MASSIVE end game difficulty spike before you've got any decent weapons if you find it legit, but it's also still actually a better map than the thing it's parodying ahhahaha
@Nine true but the "official" version of doom 2 that they sell right now was them and they still haven't fixed it