Zwiffle/czg map: Please make it darker, I don't like to see where I'm going. Also, <Cristopher Walken>what this map needs is more teacup</Cristopher Walken>.

Hrimfaxi/Drew: Wow. Big rocks. 

I usually hate egyptian maps but this one at least had an interesting layout.
Zwiffle could have taken advantage of marking gold key doors and buttons as such and not trying to camouflage them as light fixtures. 

Finally I can play this in 9 months! 

i dunno, but teacup was pretty cool until i got those walking polygon error monsters that shot with like every single weapon there is in quake. also those flying things make no sound like the shambler does before they shoot, hence they suck.

egypt was pretty cool until it got unplayable and crashed with gl_max_textures or something. 

you need QUOTH MOD, megaman...
(quothed on top of the thread, ah!)
http://kell.leveldesign.org/ 

Hrimfaxi's map was pretty damn awesome. I must say I was blown away. The only bad part was when it slowed down (about one third of the map was choppy) and the ending was kind of a letdown with the trinity secret. Other than that it was huge, bigger than the entirety of Serious Sam, tons of secrets, tons of combat. Just a great map overall. Great job Hrimfaxi/Drew!!!

CZG/Zwiffle, your map sucked hard. I blame CZG. He had subpar scraps. 

1 words "BRILIANT" :) i play this quality maps like last night and already want to delete all trincasp2 :| you guys make me puke on mine map... :| great work both! the one i like more was Hrimfaxi/Drew but more becouse i love Egypt themes...

congractilacion both for these great maps and thks for 1 pure hour off fun! will post demos wend i play alone...eheheh last night play with my kid :) 

lol post #7 was me... 

very nice maps :) 

Hrimfaxi/Drew made the best map. Nothing to say except I love it.

Zwiffle/czg map has an interesting layout, and it is very deceiving that it is not finished.. and well, where is the damn exit ?!! 

On the bridge where the two Gaunts show up, there's a ledge you have to jump to with a teleporter blocked by some bars. You have to find a button for the bars then head back and jump across to exit. 

czgiffle: yes, your map sucks. but in an enjoyable way. :) could have been a little more slopey, though. plus, i always wonder why you keep adding only so few monsters every time.
nice!

drewrimfaxi: wow, this really kicks ass. not only is it huge, drew's scrap was expanded in such an awesome way... gameplay was top notch, too. good use of ambient sounds, the sphinx statues looked cool (execpt for their backs) and i can't remember having seen the eyekeys before. :)
the fish beneath the first waterfall are stuck - i would have liked to see way more fish (like in the first water area) in general.
excellent! 

I still haven't played the new metastasis release, but I'll give this a whirl first.

I did play the first beta of Egyptian Rhapsody, and it was great. Didn't play the second because I was busy when I got the mail and then forgot about it (sorry, Hrim ;) Looking forward to checking out all the changes. 

Aborts or choppy gameplay in Fitz should be cured by using latest version (0.80) and enough heapsize (48000) like the readme says.

There are sometimes missing frames (e.g. 155-157) in the polyp animation, likely related to not resetting from cloak model when dying (QC bug). In latest DP beta, a cloaked polyp is still visible as a big white square (DP bug).

Teacups has a rogue func_door (brush entity without a brush) that can cause an engine abort ("SOLID_BSP ...") if hit by missiles near the spawn point.

Many of the Teacups torches are partly jammed into the walls, limiting their brightness. If you'd used an older light tool, they would've been completely black. Also, Teacups isn't vised at all, so it may run slow on some systems.

Egypt seems playable even in engines without extended edict support (600 limit), if the initial combats are done "carefully" (i.e. not too fast).

Some of the many Egypt paintings look better when used as external tgas, free from the palette.

I'm looking forward to play these maps! 

AguirRe just wrote a dissertation on the maps, and closes with "I'm looking forward to play these maps!" How funny. :P 

there is no fundamental reason why aguire's statements are in anyway mutually exclusive, as you seem to imply.

Aguire is helpfully listing some small technical issues, which he is an expert at. The correlation to enjoying gameplay is relatively small; if it exists at all. 

there was no sarcasm intended. Both maps look great and the above issues are either not caused by the maps at all or particularly detrimental. I was just posting my findings.