http://www.quaddicted.com/eyesock.html

quaddicted rocks.

Haven't tried this map yet, but then I've not played many new releases later. I've got quite a backlog to work my way through :( 

Oh god, that screenshot. THE HORROR! 

is definately better looking than that map. Its about 30 times bigger too! 

Sure. However, let's keep in mind that back then we had Quake (the original from id, no special engines), basic textures, r_speed limits, etc.

You know - control and restraint. :)

Plus, I sucked. I mean 'Eye Socket' isn't bad as first maps go but I definitely had a lot of learning to do. 

>We all had first maps. Look up "Eye Socket"

wow, i've just realized you are "Taskmaster"

one more a legend :) 

I seem to recall a Doom II map, 99 Ways to Die, was it? 

Yeah, '99 Ways To Die' for Doom2 was my first LD experience for realz. 

I can sympathize. I would hate for anyone to dig up my first map (released for Thief). It makes my
first Quake release look like the Taj Mahal in comparison. 

>I can sympathize. I would hate for anyone to dig up my first map (released for Thief)

link please 

that is not going to happen. If you do happen to find it, I would not even claim ownership. It is that bad. 

I think the only reason Eye Socket wasn't a complete abomination was because of my earlier experience with 99 Ways To Die. That map gave me a decent foundation of knowledge to build on. 

>If you do happen to find it, I would not even claim ownership. It is that bad.

I don't care, i love that game (Thief) 

but I wont claim that as an excuse, some mappers have made some Godly Good levels with Drome.

Honestly, I would not know where to hunt for old Thief maps these days. 

dm-stomp from the RTNP mission apck, I think at one stage I even requested you for a UT version willem. 

DM_Stomp ... wow! I actually had to google around to figure out what that was. Turns out I made it! I can barely remember it and all I could find is one small screen shot. Shame... 

I can mail you the unr file if you like :) 

I havent played the map in a while, so nostalgia may be making it out to be better than it actually was :) 

I'm positive that nostalgia is playing a role here. :) 

I played through. This was a fun map, huge and with some challenge on skill 2. There were no unfiar sections and supplies were ample enough. Using infighting helps as well.

Some of the textures were a bit ugly but other areas looked fine with the Q3 choices.

I did get stumped by the frozen monsters so I did get an easy preview. Once I set -developer 0, it ran fine.

I got all 8 secrets but one was a bit tricky. Some you easily tripped over, others needed some searching - all were fair.

Good map and I hope you make more. 

>Some of the textures were a bit ugly ...

which one? 

it felt a bit like a supersized speedmap. obviously it couldn't have been made in the same kind of timescale but it had a bit of a 'quantity over quality' feel about it all the same..

the gameplay just seemed to be horde after horde of samey gameplay; there was always shitloads of room to move about in so it was rarely ever a challenge, except for the end battle and when i practically ran out of ammo on the shamblers near the start. then there was the layout.. despite it being one of the biggest maps i've ever seen it only took me ~25 mins to complete (marcher was over twice that, warpc 4x), since it was pretty much just a linear run'n'gun with no exploration or backtracking, and nowhere requiring hesitant gameplay..

still, it wasn't BAD by any means. it was fun enough for a quick blast; some of the designs were cool (if simple) and the impressive scale was nicely pulled off. i just probably wouldn't have spent three years making it :P 

finally had time to play the map properly!!!

Positive:

i think is bloody ownsome, scale of map is very good and the use of the textures was pretty good for the size of the map with a good layout.

Negative:

to many hordes and few amo and spawns in your face suck a lot... better guns early would make game play much fun... the few amo and small guns made game play slow and bored! in both demo 1st run and 2 run died because of no amo... :( and when we died because of no amo is terrible :\

http://trinca.quadditec.com/temp/trbod.dz


p.s�� I think you have lots of potential hope to see more from you ;) and next time make a smaller map ;)

thks for the fun map my friend more please!!! 

errr sorry URL is wrong

http://trinca.quaddicted.com/temp/trbod.dz 

I eventually played with Winquake, fun blast from the past. Map was fun, I've got no complaints apart from monsters spawning in my face. The end bloodbath was better done than I expected. The bell tower was terrifying!

BTW, Mike, thanks for the tip, going to 800x600 does indeed fix that error but GLquake crashes when I try 'map bod' afterwards. No error message. Hmmm. 

have some information about the crash, address, registers, Dr.Watson report or similar? Or is it a system lockup?