I was particularly impressed with the secrets -- even if I only got 4/8 -- and how the teleporters "opened up" to allow for easier backtracking. Good layout, well-balanced difficulty -- on normal, at least -- and a nice mix of textures help this map shine.

Great job! 

Dude is starting to rise up to my top 5, definitely.
This map is a nice big hunk of Distrans goodness, with all the hallmarks of his style - great secrets, wierd but great texturing, a very clean build, and several distinct "themes" kind of smashed together, in a good way.
Everything Generic said - I never felt like I was going to die, so I would have liked a slight increase in difficulty on hard, but that's probably just me.

Secrets were great, and I'm looking forward to replaying until I can discover the few I missed!

Negke - I'm glad that you rode Distrans til release, even though I'm not sure what that means exactly. 

Drew: I actually complained about it being too hard in places on skill 2. So either distrans toned it down again or you are teh 1337.

Atmosphere > difficulty. 

Non-"broken" zip here: http://www.quaddicted.com/filebase/qt_pre02.zip
You will probably be able to extract the other fine but to me it seems that the header is broken.

Loved the map. More later. 

A new QSP offering! And from Distrans, no less!!!

Great architecture, awesomest(!) blend o' textures.

Good fights, tried out only skill 3, died 2 times in the last room, 6/8 secrets (at least one found in a non Kosher way). The level is a little underpopulated, and this is probably a good thing, lots of atmosphere here (Negke: agreed). Sure, it's not hard as it could, but, given the kind of heat Dis received upon Ruined Nation, I wouldn't complain about it. This is a great offering!

SPAWNS!!! So nice to be greeted by them!
Why don't they get more love?

Juggernaut: not really threatening, you're able to bomb him well before he even gets near... A flock of red enforcers would have been a little more innerving.

Fantastic backwards connectivity, apart from not being able to get back up after final fight to search remaining 2 secrets (useless, I know, but I always like to grind monsters first and then complete the secrets count).

Awesome effort, Dis, Thank you!
Come back soon with some other stuff this awesome!!! 

But, I did a 2nd run through, found all secrets the intended way and a coupla unmarked ones(neat!).

One thing I did not mention in the previous post is the optimum health/armor balance in here.

Gorgeous scenery. 

The raisins of Quake. 

... again released a pure jewel.

We want more ! We want more ! 

I replayed it today and I think it actually benefits from not getting too heavy until later on in the level.

I withdraw my previous statement. 

Cool map.

Layout feels pretty Kona-like in parts.

Difficulty is well balanced, until after the silver key where too many of these blue enforcers show up in cramped spaces.

I didn't finish it, because around that part I started dying too often and got frustrated.

I think the blue and red enforcers suck, quite simply - sadly, this reminds me of the crappy Quoth enforcers (and the difficulty that comes with those) in Ruined Nation. One of the problems with those is that they have ridiculous HP - the red guys are super hard to kill, which feels crappy. Are they made of explosion-resistant titanium or something? Meh.

Well. I got lost after the button that opens all these security panels - I ran around looking for them. Did not find where I was supposed to go until I had pretty much gotten lost, which contributed to my frustration.

Basically, unreasonably hard monsters + getting lost = frustration = I Quit.

Otherwise, this was cool .

Thanks distrans. 

I helped test and that was over quite a long period of time. Distrans takes his time with his maps and it shows in the quality.

I liked the classic Quake vibe even with newer textures. The exploration and winding layout was fun along with the Zerstor gore. I had enough practice that I could record it start to end without dying on Hard but that's because I had practice and knew where all the secrets are. While I don't know the mechanics of the Red Guys, I believe you need to keep mhammering on them or they regenerate but I could be wrong. I fought them aggressively but was more cautious with spawns. 

And they goes down.