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Rules:
- No Deaths
- No Mid-Level Saves

I know there's already more than a of these, but I still wanted to give my own shot at this sort of thing. A deathless, saveless run of Diabolus Ex with Hideous Destructor (which I will be referring to as HDest for short), a Doom II mod that turns it into a milsim of sorts. As someone who never plays those kinds of games, I still get a lot of enjoyment with this mod, and it's one of my favorite mods out there...even if it is quite frustrating at times. It doesn't help that I played and recorded this after a month or longer break from the mod (and Doom in general), so I'm more than a bit rusty (if I was ever good to begin with).

Back to Diabolus Ex, it's a very good map to go through with Hideous Destructor, and it feels weird going through it with vanilla and even other mods despite the fact that this map wasn't specifically made for HDest, mostly because there's a lot of close-quarters combat, which I feel suits a mod like this best. Some moments can be pretty intense, such as the office room and rooftop firefights. The cyberspace areas are very risky to go through, especially the first one where you can get easily sniped by zombiemen and jackboots, not to mention you encounter a cyberdemon there, and the second one, while not as risky (you can run through it pretty easily if you know what to do), has an archvile, at least one hell knight and cacodemon, and I think a few imps and babuins. I usually don't go through them since they're thankfully optional, so I could be either missing a few details or getting some things wrong.

I'll admit that this took me about 75 attempts, only a few of them successful. The first success was when I was in VC with a friend. The second was when I didn't realize I had my microphone on and it was picking up my voice, and since I'd rather just have these gameplay videos have no commentary (for some reason my computer can barely pick up my voice regardless of the headset I use), I decided to do some more takes until I finally got a third victorious run that lacked my (barely audible) voice, which is this here video.

Let me know what you think and what I can do to do better in both this game and doing video stuff (I hope the audio in this video doesn't sound too bad...).

Recorded using OBS, and I play GZDoom in windowed mode.
Starting Loadout: Rifleman
Difficulty: Hideous/Ultra Violence

Mods and Addons used (note that at least a few of these link to posts in the Hideous Destructor Discord Server):

Hideous Destructor: https://codeberg.org/mc776/hideousdestructor/releases
Caligari's Ugly as Sin: https://github.com/caligari87/Ugly-as-Sin
Melodica's HDest Addons: https://discord.com/channels/425899670800433153/713246305392001055/713868587387060259
Accensus's HDest Addons: https://gitlab.com/accensi/hd-addons
Tartlman's HDest Addons: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=66091
HexaDoken's HDest Addons: https://discord.com/channels/425899670800433153/713246305392001055/764486783101566976
Zikshadow's HDest Addons: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=53251
Eric's Blursphere Sounds: https://mega.nz/file/yqIwlKgQ#0EZL12Gp1jkpX04xSt8FquuoDNSgeg-SSUveILRG2hY
Testament Holmes's HDest Brightmaps: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/462331550768431104/778331964386050108/hd_brightmaps.pk3
Darker Variant used in this video: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/462331550768431104/778339380770111518/hd_brightmaps_darker.pk3
Spy's Insurgency Sound Effects: https://mega.nz/#!ZL4SAKLI!6J51CXcME_GWVJDYPfeWVMNZGDJhRo5acyIM-PsPhz8
Insurgency SFX for Potetobloke's weapons: https://mega.nz/#!hCoFjYDQ!YuObGzyTo0pK6StWGfft_wSz20DEKil2nBzAARinNBU
Sledge's Taunt Replacer: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/462331550768431104/504521757345054730/hdtaunt.pk3
Saltshaker: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/713246305392001055/765273220840423424/hdsaltshaker.pk3
Peppergrinder: https://gitlab.com/hdiscord-saltmines/hd-peppergrinder
Potetobloke's Weapons Pack: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/425910931998900225/782682566426886154/HDest_PB_Weapon_Pack_4.4.2c.pk3
Right's Weapons Pack: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/462331550768431104/746524715832705104/RRRRweapons4.4.2a.zip
Yholl's HDest Unique Monster Sounds: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/462331550768431104/754597040784146482/hd_uniquesounds.pk3
Josh771's Hideous Action Bubbles: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=68745
War Trophies: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=67054
Diabolus Ex: https://www.moddb.com/mods/diabolus-ex/
Nashgore: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=62641
SBrightmaps: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=29792
ZFootsteps: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1coHM-ZJey45JPpRjmPPCDGxLHQSEWCno/view
HQ Doom Sounds: https://www.perkristian.net/sounds/pk_doom_sfx.zip
MariFX Shader Suite: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=103&t=63394
Helmet Doomguy Mugshot: https://www.moddb.com/games/doom/addons/helmet-doomguy-mugshot