Anyone know where I can find a decent collection of curated Doom mods?
The link attached to this post contains all Cacoaward winners from 2004 to 2020. I have seen a few others on Archive.org such as this one but they seem more focused on backing up everything.
I am wondering if there is a collection of total conversion mods like Total Chaos, Trench Foot, and Ashes 2063 for example.
I imagine there are a lot of best Doom WAD lists out there but it would be nice to not have to go through the effort of downloading them individually.
https://archive.org/details/all-of-cacowardsOpen linkView original on leminal.space
I guess I consider the Cacowards themselves as the most visible curation of Doom mods online. I'm not aware of anyone repacking sets of mods together for convenient download.
That's kind of a thing in the Bethesda mod communities where installing multiple mods together sometimes requires compatability changes and so a curated mod collection is actually a multi-mod in itself. But most Doom mods tend to be singular things or easily composable.
I use Doom Launcher to manage all my mods and maps and it works very well for that, letting you easily build sets of mods+maps to use together, and it can download files from the idgames archive so that's convenient too.
Otherwise, i dunno, maybe this is a good pitch for a Doom-heavy YouTuber like Mutant Mods or Mr. Icarus? It's extra work for them, but doing a showcase video plus a bundle to get all the mods showcased would make for fun content. I imagine that getting permission from all the authors would be troublesome though.
Thanks for responding!
Is there something like this for GZDoom? A lot of what I have been playing says to use it specifically.
I have been following Mutant Mods for a while. decino and Vargskelethor's Vine Mapping Contest 2016 also showed off some neat Doom maps. I'll check out Mr Icarus.
I didn't think of that part. I guess I am too used to seeing massive WAD collections posted and sold everywhere.