As in Ocean Pacific?

http://www.op.com/history/

If so, they are certainly well-suited for underwater encounters ;-) 

Example,
I have played a map called mexx4. It's simple, small, bare, no new textures, no new critters, no great arch. etc. but it's was more fun for me than other beefed up maps, because it was closer to quake's core IMHO.

the mexx series contains some of the greatest quake maps i've ever played, although i wouldn't say 4 was one of the better ones. 5 is in a similar style to it, only much bigger & better. 8-10 are just plain awesome! 

how you guys are talking about proper monster use in a '96 game :> 

these are from quake expo:
http://www.quakeexpo.com/booth.php?id=69&page=117

I mixed the colors of the textures a bit to make them more bloody (a really amateurish job), give a look if you like (2.2 mb to use with pack above).

http://www.filefactory.com/file/8d4f4a/

p.s. dopefish lives 

1. it would be cool to have a *skip texture so that we can remove faces on water brushes.

2. turtle/speedmap theme idea: make a map that uses every entity type in quake at least once. 

Unless I'm the only one on earth who missed this map, in which case, bleh.

Yes, you are.

P.S. LOL @ you, speedy, quakecorpse and everyone.

P.P.S. Cheers for finding my site Aguire, I didn't know what PQ had changed the URL to! 

a lot of links both on and off planetquake that still are screwed and you'll have to try the different new URL formats to match the old links.

Typically, if the old link was www.planetquake.com/xyz, then the new one might be either:

hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/xyz or
xyz.planetquake.gamespy.com

I haven't figured out the difference yet. And some sites seem still to be vanishing; Talon's Strike was there maybe just a week ago and now it seems gone.

And other PQ sites reload all their images over and over for no obvious reason ... 

You mean a different skip tool to the one that already exists? Or that works better? 

i mean, a skip that doesn't generate mixed face contents type errors when you put it on a brush intended to be liquid. In other words, an expansion to the functionality to remove both skip and *skip. 

Talon's Strike was there maybe just a week ago and now it seems gone.

Argh. Hope it comes back.

(also, I have looked multiple times for a working URL to Crash's Quake Pages, which is the only major SPQ review site I don't have a link to on the links page. Any clues in that direction would be appreciated.) 

http://www.quake2.com/crash/
I once started mirroring some old sites at Quaddicted, abandoned that soon though. Seems like I should continue with it... :\

Haven't got Talon's there unfortunately. 

cool, thanks! I didn't realize at first that his quake2 site included a redesigned archive of his quake1 reviews. 

hey, does anyone remember how to get the regular search window instead of the 'new and improved' winxp version? i did it before, but have since forgotten how. :S 

was gone for a long time from that link, but suddenly it just returned ...

I have Talon and other sites locally here if they disappear permanently. There's also the Internet Archive, which has some stuff. 

necros: tweak ui, and then in the explorer menu. i think 

ah, that explains why i could never find it. Becuase I thought I had tried that URL before. 

okay, added crash to the links page. 

Does anyone know where VoreLord vanished? Or does someone have a different email address of him apart from the yahoo.com.au one? 

I've been using skip for water brushes in my basepack map and although hit and miss, it does seem to work most of the time. Seems that the more complex the water section the more likely it is to work correctly. I don't really have problems adding new windows with water on one side and air on the other in my basepack map, though I had a lot of trouble doing it when I was trying to make a tutorial.

I asked Tyrann if he was going to improve skip anytime soon, but he is busy with work, rl and... WoW.

Seriously, someone should try and sue Blizzard for wasting so much of the world's time :) 

if anyone does do a skip-like tool then it is also worth making it work with lava and slime I think. 

Answering the question you messaged me on irc:
The LD.org logins changed a month or so ago. The IP is now 64.22.68.72 and the username should have '@leveldesign.org' appended to it. Password shouldn't have changed. Let me know if you still have issues 

http://www.filefactory.com/file/57d168/

These are two base packs. Inside you can find some extra sounds and graphic, but there is also a progs.dat.

In that progs.dat i tried to improved standard quake's gameplay, you can find:
rocket-ogres,turbo knights, dumbed down-spawns, nails-enforcers, bomb-zombies, nails ejection (a lot, quake has a nail also in the logo :),
arch-shambler, zombie ripper-gauntlets etc...

If you have some spare time i would like to suggest a e1m8 or e4m7 on hard/nightmare
skill with that patch.

Sadly i'm not a coder so i miss the ability to add also other things like:
pentagram of regeneration, shootable vore's ball ... and, maybe, the ability for the wizard to summon dumbed down-spawns (like the mancubus)and for the arch-shambler to summon zombies or re-animate dead monsters
while charging ...

but, i hope that someone somewhere can find all this a bit useful ( and fun).

p.s. credits, i have to write the list i know ( with asterisks, caps and so on ... ) 

how many extremely badly functioning d/l sites there are on the net ...

Could you please upload to e.g. http://shub-hub.quaddicted.com instead? 

I have tried to download your file, but I gave up after a while. Please place a copy on shubhub. 

It's just a bunch of Quake3 weapon models & sounds and "funny" qc stuff. Nothing too interesting nor special.