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First demo: First run...dying at SNG trap
Second demo: Completed on Skill 1 with 3/5 secrets. https://www.dropbox.com/s/bxhkboqxtzsam1y/mjb_gift.7z?dl=0 First off let me say this is beyond impressive. This is how a remix map should be. It felt like an entirely new swampy dungeon map but sometimes I would say to myself: "Hey, this reminds me of the necropolis!" Visuals are fantastic, sound, atmosphere...just all great. I personally did not see glaring visual or sound issues...top notch! -Got stuck on a slope near the start where some shells are located...you will see in the demo. There is a sound load error (wood13?) in the demo as well. - SNG trap is FAR too quick to punish, that needs to be twice as slow in my opinion...even when I knew where the button was I almost died! -Ammo is a bit scarce at the start and I though I was being pretty gracious with the use of the ax. I found the overall difficulty on skill 1 to be quite challenging...could have passed for a skill 2 in my opinion. honestly, that's all of the issues I could see...although I am not sure what the ring key did...wonder if I missed a super secret! -Make the exit teleport a func_illusionary so Ranger doesn't start swimming before he exits. ;) -Be sure to add some neat info_intermission spots...AD can have more than one and can be cycled through! + That dark choir sound...is that from Duke Nukem? It sounds so familiar. + Lovely lighting, use of breakables are well implemented and inter-connectivity is full-fledged. I got a bit lost but I always ended up where I needed to be. +Like the secrets, missed two and I wonder how to reach that circular pool behind the bars! This makes me motivated that I have a LOT to learn when it comes to making maps. The amount of polish of this beta is outstanding in my opinion. Good job and looking forward to the release! Sorry, forgot to mention one more thing:
Developer 1 on console will show any little errors that may be present. windgust5.wav is not a looping sound. Sometimes got a message that the particle limit of 1024 was too low...could be because I was noclipping. That circular pool is where I was before...so scratch that. ;) This map is *A*W*E*S*O*M*E* !
My only complain, is the darkchoir.wav sound which I didn't even noticed in the game. Maybe it should be louder ? Here is a beta of my AD remix of e1m3
Wow! that is an amazing looking map, such crazy cool details everywhere. My feedback is part of the MFX mail, I think! :D BTW, please remix E1M4 as well!?! :D 5 tries and still didn't finish it.
Ammo is scarce as already mentioned. I think you shouldn't rely on people finding everything hidden behind breakables. Half of the times I couldn't see what I'm shooting at. Dark corners was shooting me, so I shot back. There was some clip brush (I guess) between some platform and a wall, that made it look like I'm walking on air. Can't describe the place, but it is in the demo. Difficulty felt quite hard. Don't have anything else atm. Going to wait for the next version, so I could still have a first run of the rest of the map. Here is my demos. Hope it helps. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3li06myS1r1ZDYtWnhKR3pwbTA Thank you so much for all the feedback, I have a pile of demos to review now. Although just by reading the comments I can tell the map is way too hard.
That is the problem of playtesting solo since you know everything, "oh this isn't so bad you just pick up these 2 secrets, avoid that shambler and go here!" Bloughsburgh I don't know where the darkchoir.wav is originally from, I picked it up from a Q2 map. It says volume is capped at "1", can I make it go louder somehow? I think, as you mention, a clear path is needed with the required weaponry and items to complete the map on skill 1. Then skill 2 can be the extra challenge. sock, yes the feedback is in the mail, and man e1m4 is such a great map.. don't get me started, my wife will divorce me :) Will start going through demos now, thanks to all of you, I'm looking carefully at your feedback. Got an error message while loading the map: Mod_LoadBrushModel maps/ad_e1m3.bsp has wrong version number (844124994 should be 29)
I am sad.... :( The final boss room don't allow exploration of the rest of the map. I suggest a simple hole bellow the final elevator to return back.
Ah, ok... will give it a try later... Thanks for the help ;)
And to concur with negke, would be better to make it a bsp map as far as possible :) Got it, switched back to normal bsp. On another note, a weird problem with colored lighting have occurred. I used this light setup in worldspawn:
Light Setup _sunlight 200 _sunlight_color 180 255 190 _sunlight_mangle 250 -28 0 _sunlight_penumbra 8 _sunlight_dirt 1 _sunlight2 50 _sunlight2_color 180 255 190 _sunlight2_dirt 1 _dirt 1 _dirtscale 1.5 _dirtgain 1.3 _dirtdepth 192 _minlight_dirt 1 Then to add some color to windows for a "glowing" effect I added yellow colored light, like _color 0.9 0.9 0.2 on a light entity But then the light entity emits darkness instead (no negative light value). It works fine with default color though? You should be consistent in using color values either between 0.0 to 1.0 or 0 to 255.
Try _color 230 230 51 instead. Not sure what is standard, but I think the compiler tries to auto detect what you intend, and probably got it wrong here. In a fgd file this is the difference between using (color) or (color255) on the key def. So it's still compatible we should change the default skin to a more "armoured" look so people can tell they take more damage than the dguard. But you can have a "dguard" variant that is weaker? Maybe just have a spawnflag setting?
Ah, that's from Severance: Blade of Darkness!
I knew it sounded familiar haha. Works well with the skull wizards and wraiths. Ah, that's from Severance: Blade of Darkness!
I played that game to death! loved it! pre-darksouls mechanics, crazy hard in places. I even made levels for it as the editing tools were released and easy to use. Checkout the lead artist website if you want some BoD style textures! Wow, that is pretty awesome. I could see The Island of Karum fitting the Quake universe quite well with its dismal fog and dark tones.
Took me two goes to get "into" the game, the first go ended up with the game CD in several pieces. Once I got into it it was great - the combat was very satisfying once you pulled it off, and guess what it was controllable with any config you wanted, obvi-fucking-ously. Also had great lighting for the time.
Also took a few attempts to get into the game as Sargon: the Knight. First run through was pretty bad and never took advantage of the combos (Lovely red swirls of death!). Second play was with the Tukrum:(sp) The Barbarian and fully utilized his ridiculously sized weapon's combos.
I even did a Let's Play of it because I wanted to share the passion that I found from the game's design. I recalled using that Dark Choir sound for an intro of one of the levels and sure enough I found it!
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