Well, kind of, but not really what you might expect. A few days ago Enjay has released his latest masterpiece called Waterlab which is a medium to large map for the newly released GZDoom 2.4.0 inspired by and partly based on Waterlab for Doom Legacy (some people might still remember the doom port and the demo map that showcased Legacy's unique water effect). Next to the overuse of rusty metal - that I personally admire - you can expect a lot of new custom monsters, atmospheric dynamic lighting and a lot of other fancy things. You can get a detailed information, more screenshots and the download link of course from the ZDoom release thread - it's definitely worth playing!

A few days ago I was lurking around the Doomworld forums and found an interesting thread from reveilleun about floppy disks he found - filled with 1,44 MB of custom material. Linguica posted a very interesting thread about some more addon cds which are directly hosted at the archives.org with even more '94ish material that I found supercool as it retrieved a lot of memories from my childhood about exactly these addon cds. I am not sure if everyone else was aware about it so I thought it's a good idea to share it here as well.

Ever wondered what Doom would have look it it was released 18-20 years later? Well, wonder no more: What looks like a mockup first is actually a remake of Doom on the idtech4 engine (based on Doom 3 actually) by the modder Reinchard. Your chance now to play a pre-beta version. If you expect some more advenced architecture or level layout - I have to disappoint you, because the main goal of this mod is to recreate classic Doom with his dynamic gameplay but with better graphics and lighting - so the author calls this a replica instead of remake. So far there is only pre-beta v.1.5 version, so there is still some bugs here and there (expect many texture misalignment). GameHacker, which is the project leader still working on it, and he doing really titanic work with all this levels (you can play even e1m8b). Interested? Check the thread just now!

In the past few months, GZDoom has evolved in the definitely most advanced sourceports - not only in terms of technical possibilites but finally also when it comes to visuals. Only few mods have really used the new possibilities but one mod finally took it to the boundaries: Doom Slayer Chronicles. The author bifurcator says, it is "compatible with all known gameplay mods for Doom2 and takes advantage of the newest features of GZDoom, such as hardware shaders, full-screen post-processing, PBR textures (normals and specular maps, also often called "bump mapping"), high-resolution textures, and of course dynamic lighting." The screenshots already speak for themselves. Check the development thread at ZDoom for some animated footage and more information, as this is close to a release.

Since a few months now, GZDoom supports PBR materials. Some dedicated modders thought it might be a good idea to generate normal/roughness/metallic/ao maps for the good old classic doom textures. First I thought "Can this look good?" - well, it really does. The current state can be found at the development thread at Doomworld and I really hope that these people get the rest pulled of. It feels very modern and still gives you this slight retro-look that we all love so much.