Mod Lab: The Thing [Doom 2]

Something has been awoken from it's frozen dormancy and now stalks an isolated research outpost. It's inherent goal to seemingly assimilate, mimic life and spread to every lifeform encountered, possibly to reach every corner of the globe if given the opportunity.
John Carpenter's film "The Thing" is a 1982 sci-fi horror classic, where an American research team discover a hostile shapeshifting alien lifeform, able to absorb and mimic other life. As the entity, The Thing, copies select team members, paranoia grips the ever diminishing group and they must determine who is human and who is The Thing to save the planet from certain doom.
This mod combo isn't an exact fit to the ideal horror genre rather it's an attempt to combine mods to create a vaguely "Thing" video game. This is more for action oriented gameplay than survival horror though there is suspense provided by the inconclusive status of defeated enemies here.
Whilst The Thing "Man Is The Warmest Place To Hide" v.03 mod is abandoned it does offer a decent weapon set, apparently drawn from the time the film is set in. The enemies included are varied, not exactly accurate to the series though possessing the features of The Thing and are mostly melee based.
For instance, some once defeated may revive entirely, spawn a Head-Thing (A quick spider like creature) or rarely emerge into a more powerful form. This will bolster the given enemy count significantly and offer some jump scares. In addition, explosive weapons here, whilst effective at first, will cause multiple Blob-Things to emerge and chase the player down, these being decent at dodging attacks.
In terms of establishing an eerie atmosphere, the mod also includes a "The Thing" soundtrack and radios as a decorative item, repeating the looped message of a desperate defence against an unknown horror.
The map, "Outpost 13", named in reference to the main setting of the original movie, is a short, single level map, featuring a well detailed environment, numerous enemies and hidden secrets throughout. Please note, freelook is locked for this map so remember to enable it via console command "sv_freelook 2"
Additional mods added were to provide reference to the film and add to the atmosphere for establishing horror elements and action gameplay, well ideally at least.
The "RMG's Utils" mod provides flares, an invaluable item in the film and here an inventory item with customizable settings for color, active duration and are included by default. Whilst a more practical light source, the flashlight mod "Flashlight++" caused noticable lag when in promixity to the main base.
"VHS&CRT Shader" provides a VHS filter to assist in providing a horror atmosphere, as if viewing the decayed quality footage of a survivor's tale. This being customizable in terms of noise quality, frequency of lines and other related features. The "Fish Eye Post Process" mod provided a strong visual distortion to achieve a wide angled field of view. This was to add to the alien feeling, an unnatural view of something outside of the mundane occuring.
To achieve active weather conditions, the "Universal Rain and Snow" mod proved invaluable, providing customizable snowy effects and limited it's effect to the outdoors only. As for the action gameplay, the mods "Simple Motion Blur" and "Universal Weapon Sway" were included to add to the frantic atmopshere, providing movement effects to gameplay.
If you could comment and let me know what you thought of the mod combo, what worked or didn't work, that would be appreciated.
"Man Is The Warmest Place To Hide" The Thing Mod v.03;
Uploader - The Philosopher
Link to mod - forum.zdoom.or...
Outpost 13;
Uploader - brullov
Link to mod - www.doomworld....
[Mod] RMG's Utils;
Creator - RastaManGames
Link to mod - www.moddb.com/...
Flashlight++ (v9.1);
Uploader - generic_name_guy
Link to mod - www.moddb.com/...
VHS&CRT Shader Mod by DRON12261 v2;
Uploader - DRON12261
Link to mod - github.com/dro...
Fish Eye Post Process;
Uploader - nashmuhandes
Link to mod - github.com/nas...
Universal Rain and Snow;
Uploader - Boondori
Link to mod - forum.zdoom.or...
Simple Motion Blur 1.04;
Uploader - Pixel Eater
Link to mod - forum.zdoom.or...
Universal Weapon Sway;
Uploader - Boondorl
Link to mod - forum.zdoom.or...