Thanks, guys. It's a shame more people didn't join this challenge. This is probably the lowest quality 1st place I've ever seen on PixelJoint, and that's not false modesty or fishing for compliments. I know where I'm at. Oh well.

 Congrats one 1st!

 Congratulations!

 @DatMuffinMan: Thanks for the feedback! You're definitely right about that, I just couldn't for the life of me figure out how to fix that with the palette at my disposal. Changing the hue of the armour made him less recognisable as Doomguy, and making the trees more blue / grey just made them look weird and sickly. Working with this palette is like a Rubik's cube. You change something one place, it means you have to suddenly change a lot of colours, to avoid a crash.

 I think that the fact that the trees have as much contrast as the doomguy make them seem more prominent then things in the bg should be. The doomguy himself is great though. 

 haha i love how you made the preview seem ominous then the full view is a beautiful blue sky day 

 I like the colors I used it and the idea.