Like, some people I know refuse outright to play Bloodlines because close combat is not available in first person. To me both Bloodlines and TDM lack good animation from 3'rd person. I'm sure that such dedication and level of quality warrants a special honorable mention. That's exactly what I meant, new FM's with their options of walkthroughs and ways to find secrets are new maps and new features in and of themselves. Genres like stealth and strategy games were, are and in the foreseeable future a niche. Besides most people playing Doom 3 are interested in shooting stuff Killing Floor stuff. TDM is not talked about on the Doom 3 board because TDM is standalone for a few years, so there's just no need. TDM has been greenlit on Steam, therefore when it's done it gets a spotlight on Steam, sanctioned by the powers that be. The Bloodlines patch isn't available on Steam and still I get a lot of discussion in the normal Bloodlines board. Also I'm surprised that there is no TDM board in the Steam community, like e.g.

Still announcing a new version that has new weapons or items or similar beats improved graphics all the time as people lust for things like that! I even notice this on the Bloodlines patch, people always ask if the next version has new maps or features and don't care about bug fixes.

I don't know, I rarely use anything beside the blackjack myself. And there you have a modification that rivals in longevity with Deus Ex mods. Bloodlines Unofficial Patches would never get popular if there wouldn't be a compact community on Steam with guides on how to install, use, walkthroughs and so on. Moreover a lot of modds on Moddb have a good community on Steam or other platforms. It's no surprise TDM didn't make it in the top 100 because there hasn't been much to show really. And it's a huge and hard effort in any game. This effort would be much better spent at improving existing animations. For example, who uses mines/spy balls? Is it justifiable? I don't know how many people use those special tools that already exist. I know it's the choice of the team to not add new features but then nobody should be surprised that the mod won't stay on the center stage forever.

Where are new kind of special arrows? Caltrops? Easy installer? Kicking? Burricks? Werebeasts or whatever enemies that were discussed lately? You won't get players to vote for the mod each year by improving EAX or soft shadows. Indeed, but I don't think many mappers do this on their own very muich when it's a lot of work that's probably used for one mission only.

Moddb mod of the year 2019