A hint: instead of running straight for the key buttons, go explore the map first in order to gear up and get an idea of the layout (so you don't end up being lost and out of weapons/ammo right away).

There are more hints (spoilers) in the text file, in case you get stuck. 

...adding a hint to the 2nd post now, bitch. 

Cunt.

Cunting fucking dongle. 

i'll have to get back to you later on this map. i haven't even got a chance to try out tronyn's yet. :S 

this looks damn cool you've got a gift for original designs with id textures. Like the shub usage. 

Skill 0/1: regular progession mode (collecting keys, pushing buttons, that kind of stuff)

This is about as far from "regular progression" as Quake gets.

Very impressive map. It's about as far from standard Coagula as Quake gets too. It will probably give me nightmares tonight. The gameplay is....interesting. Perhaps too interesting... 

...and you pop up with this!

I wanna be your dog. 

Have to be face to face for that, and standing in a different place. 

cant wait to get back and play this. 

Failed to kill all zombies. :( Decided to quit Quake before they finished me.

Went on to read the spoilers.

Found out I did the exact opposite of everything I was supposed to do.

This is a GREAT map, Negke, and you're a genius. Unfortunately I'm not half as smart as you...

Let's see if a nightful sleep does something positive to my grey matter.
I somehow doubt it. 

so pumped to finally play this

and yet oddly scared by everyones comments! 

Right from the start, I could tell this was going to be interesting. I especially applaud its non-linearity, and its respawning items. Combat was challenging on skill 2, but not to the point where it would be overly difficult. Pretty balanced.

Its easy to get lost though. Trying to find your way around the map when a lot of the areas look very similar is tough. I spent at least a minute just trying to find the palace elevator.

The final battle with the vores was very clever, I liked that.

Unfortunately, I could not find the exit to the map, and ultimately gave up on it, which left a rather bad impression on me. Still, I managed to kill every monster.

This is a very fine map. It's not one of your better works negke, but it no doubt was enjoyable.

First run demo for your convenience. http://qrf.mine.nu/~orl/misc/coag3_negke_orl.zip 

started a demo - will upload soon. 

Each tower has a different color on its side (red, yellow, blue) and its Shub disappears after the tower has been cleared. This might help for better orientation. Apart from that, the layout is basically simple: left path goes up, right one goes down (or vice versa). Yeah, I'm somewhat biased here...

The zombie fight takes place in the central building, i.e. not the towers. Keep this in mind when looking for them. Finding the barriers secret is very helpful here.

The palace elevator is at the very top of the map. After the boss fight, you have to press the button again and step on the platform.

Orl, you did quite well - didn't seem to be really lost until the end. I think skill 2 kind of assumes prior knowledge of the map (from skill 0 or 1). 

nice level. i hope that nonentity will release an updated version of his start level for coaugula contest 3 to enable playing this level together with rest of the cc3 pack. 

skill 3 demo
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/demos/coag3_negke_spy.rar