Portable pack · standalone direct-connect · one server, every season · no Doomseeker required
Server:94.72.111.66:10666·Engine:Zandronum 3.2.1
1 · The Easy Way — recommended
One download. Unzip it, double-click, and it finds your own Doom II automatically and drops you in. This is what 90% of people should click.
• Portable Pack · Windows · no install
Unzip. Double-click. Rip and tear.
One zip — Zandronum 3.2.1 + the Brutal Doom Community Expansion + a smart launcher. Unzip anywhere and run PLAY HELLHOUSE.bat: it finds your own doom2.wad automatically (Steam / GOG), grabs whatever season's live, and connects. Nothing to install.
Direct Connect uses Zandronum's zandronum:// handler — no Doomseeker, no server browser. Click it and you drop straight in (engine must be installed first — see below).
3 · Build It By Hand — power users
Already run a portable Zandronum and prefer your own launcher? The portable pack above does all this for you — but if you'd rather assemble it yourself:
Get Zandronum 3.2.1 (portable). Grab the zip from zandronum.com/download and unzip it wherever you like (e.g. C:\Doom\Zan\). Exactly 3.2.1 — not 3.2.0, not 3.3.
Drop in your files. Put your own doom2.wad and the mod brutalv21.50.0.pk3 (Section 5) in the Zandronum folder.
Make a launcher. A one-line shortcut/.bat that runs the engine with the mod and connects — no browser:
The server rotates wads, so grab the current one as _current.wad from /doom/wads/_current.wad and load it by that exact name (the engine matches pwads by filename): zandronum.exe -iwad doom2.wad -file brutalv21.50.0.pk3 _current.wad -connect 94.72.111.66:10666 The portable pack above does this for you automatically — every season.
On the LAN with Rig? There are ready-made launcher .bat files for the local crew — rotation-proof (they auto-grab whatever the current season's running so you never think about it). Ask Rig for those directly — the public page keeps the local-network details off the net.
4 · The doom2.wad Rule
One file we can never hand you.
doom2.wad is the commercial id Software game file. You bring your own — we can't and won't host it. Already own Doom II on Steam or GOG? Then you already have it — check your install folder. A couple of quid if not. Everything else downloads itself.
5 · The Files — for tinkerers
Direct downloads, all hosted on the house WAD server.
Co-op Brutal Doom Community Expansion · Ultra-Violence · filler bots · one install gets you onto the server. You bring doom2.wad. Everything else downloads itself.
