Sure, they aren't going to look the same as Heretic's textures, but we can build something vaguely reminiscent of the originals. Heretic has its own (very limited) texture set, but thanks to Doom's texture montaging system we can recreate all of Heretic's textures using Doom's patches. Some of the monsters have been duplicated and have had their hitpoints and other properties tweaked slightly to match the Heretic equivalents, but they're still "Doom" monsters, not Heretic ones. The most important thing this does is map the doomednums (the "editor" numbers that are used in WAD files to identify thing types) so that they spawn Doom monsters and items. Dehacked Patch. Heretic has different monsters and items, but using Dehacked we can map those onto Doom monsters and items.Okay, what this really is: a hack to see just how true it really is that Heretic is just a "reskin" of Doom, by seeing if it's possible to make Heretic levels load with doom.wad. Fortunately all hope is not lost, because now there's. Inside are dozens (dozens!) more WADs waiting for you to play, but you only have Doom and you can't afford to spend the $4.99 you desperately need to purchase Heretic on Steam. But now what? Searching in vain through the idgames archive you discover a folder named "heretic". You've successfully played through every official IWAD, every WAD file in the idgames archive, every shovelware CD from the '90s you've been able to get your hands on. The story so far: after 25 years you've finally done it.
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