Highway Acceleroid Booster - a.k.a. Mega Man X meets Initial D [Doom Mod]

[Don Fluffles]

Let's talk about this wild ass gameplay mod for Doom.

I've been following Doom modder TerminusEst13 for a while. With wildly innovative mods such as Demonsteele(a.k.a. Devil May Doom) and Hellshots Golf, I always found these to be far more interesting than Brutal Doom.

Enter Highway Acceleroid Booster - a gameplay mod that channels Mega Man X but your fighting robot is also part car.



From TerminusEst13's tumblr:

Highway Acceleroid Booster is a GZDoom gameplay mod where you play as a robot girl that's part car and part super fighting robot. Armed primarily with mobility, a series of battle chips for extra combat data, and a variety of utensils installed into her gauntlets, she zips from place to place to gather additional combat data. And to help out wherever she's needed, admittedly. Helping feels nice.
Inspired by Mega Man X, gameplay feel is a little bit more cartoony and high-tech than usual, with some pretty outlandish weapons doing some silly functions.. Designed to act as a complement for sci-fi/space-age mapsets, the gameplay mod acts as a direct contrast with High Noon Drifter. Rather than being very simple and low-tech, this mod is a little bit more complicated and hi-tech.
If you've been looking for a mod where you can play as a robot, android, gynoid, or you've been looking for something to compliment Stardate 20X7, this might be up your alley.

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Because this is a gameplay mod, you can combine this with level packs for Doom 2 for some awesome demon slaying action.

If there's one thing you can take away from this, it's the closest we've got to a great 3D Mega Man X.

Project Link on ZDoom

Also you can honk.

 

[Ionic]

The part at the end when the player was speeding through the enemies with a flame trail visible in the sideview mirrors was hilarious. This WAD is like a Madlib of things I like.

 

[Portmanteau]

This is INCREDIBLE. Holy shit.

 

[Saturday]

Sideview mirrors in a first-person shooter is the dumbest thing and aesthetic as fuck

 

[aspiegamer]

I. Uh. What? It's like someone nabbed 3 random video games out of a hat and threw them together and MADE IT AWESOME.

Sideview mirrors in a first-person shooter is the dumbest thing and aesthetic as fuck

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2/10 let me know when the tachometer and boost gauge work.

 

[Don Fluffles]

Thought I might add some links to help people play this wonderful mod on Doom.

Link to GZDoom and other ZDoom branches.

Tutorials on installing and running mods(gameplay and level packs):
https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/How_to_play_or_start_wads
https://www.techradar.com/how-to/the-ultimate-guide-to-modding-doom

 

[Cheesy]

Oh man I'm a big fan of this guy's mods, he's made some really inventive stuff for Doom.

 

[sirap]

That uppercut combo

 

[Reddaye]

Terminus does amazing work. Looking forward to trying this out soon.

 

[GTAce]

Holy fuck that was epic. Especially the last two parts.