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Hi, I'm a game modding, old-skool gaming, co-op enthusiast. I have worked on and created various mods for Unreal Tournament, UT2004, Neverwinter Nights and even SA:MP GTA3 hacks. Most notably I worked as a primary coder for Killing Floor before it went pro. Lately I've been directing my attention to 2 games I still love (well 3), Robotron, SmashTV & Doom, in the form of ScoreDoom, and now ScoreDoomST. Doom was based on the creators arcade sensibilities (google: 'Coelacanth: Lessons from Doom'), and so I extended their scoring system (monsters killed % etc...), to a fully fledged Arcade scoring system like SmashTV and Robotron. I think it works with Doom very well. ScoreDoom, which is essentially finished, was based on the GZDoom engine, that still retained primitive multiplayer support from the original Doom. This is ok for some people on a LAN or fast internet, but Skulltag, a proper Client-server sourceport released it's source code, and so now there is ScoreDoomST.
When playing with the ScoreDoomST Add-On Pack, finale levels like the Phobos Anomaly (E1M8), and its Ultimate Doom counterparts (E2M8, E3M8, E4M6, E4M8), will have a 'Boss Rush' mode whereby the players will be required to defeat a series of bosses to complete the finale. The footage also show-cases the extra content the Add-On Pack provides and how it strives to remain true to the Doom look and feel, and most importantly gameplay.
E2M8 (Tower of Babel) and E3M8 (Dis) have equivalent Cyberdemon and Spider Mastermind Boss Rushes. Actually any wad which has a level flagged as a Baron of Hell finale, Cyberdemon finale or SpiderMastermind finale will trigger a Boss Rush when playing the with ScoreDoomST Add-On Pack. These include Doom2 based wads like Console Doom.
Note: ScoreDoomST is still in beta, and for the final release, there will be less health dropped to make Boss Rush even more competitive.