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This pack is plain amazing. One map nicer than the other. Wow!
I still have to finish Willem's map without dying in that lift though. :P "I still have to finish Willem's map without dying in that lift though. :P"
There's a pretty easy trick to it but I won't spoil it unless everyone gets stuck there. Be-ea-eaut-ifulll start map! Good job nonentity :D
I will play through these maps as soon as I get the time, more later! I'm very pleased to see this many entries, more than I'd expected. Good job, guys. Boring skill 1 firstrun demos with lots of dying and drunken laming: http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/demos/coag3demos_negke.zip
And a superficial ranking since this was meant to be a contest: 1. spy 2. ericw 3. RickyT23 4/5. Willem/Trinca (tied -can't decide) 6. gb spy: Small, but solid layout and style. A bit tricky in places but very enjoyable overall. Probably comes closest to what I had in mind for my map (besides the brown brick theme). ericw: Most Coagula contest-like of the pack for some reason. Pretty hard in the beginning, but then it worked out fine. Expect more Shub deco in the future. ;) RickyT23: Basically good, also given the short time you made it in (?). Somehow felt something was missing, though - a certain ingredient. Still fun. Colored lighting looked weird, especially with that brick texture. Willem: Good theme (original Coagula) and I liked the blocky geometry in places. The monster jumping was neat, though their void behavior looked kind of strange and there was always the risk of Fiend superjumps. Gameplay was fine until the elevator. I obiviously didn't get the idea or whatever method you intended for the player, so it ended up being a very frustrating ending for an otherwise potentially nice map. Trinca: Clean construction that could have used more slopes and less boxy walls. Reminded me a lot of one of your speedmaps (a sequel probably). There were too few medkits for my taste and too many Hellknights. I found the frustration level in Willem's and your map to be quite equal, that's why your tied for the 4th spot. gb: Unfortunately, the map looks very basic and rushed - hardly any details and good lighting. I understand it's because of the deadline and all, so that's ok. The fiend pit/lift thing was cool, though it could have done with different monsters (kind of reminded me of that one Doom map - e2m2?). Could be called truely oldschoolish if playing with sunglasses, I guess. Would have been nice with more polish. nonentity: Nice start map, especially as I expected something way simpler. Its style reminded me of qtfin. Also yay for the negke exit. The ladders are a bit odd, I would have prefered narrow half-spiral staircases or something like that (to fit better with the theme). I'm a sucker for broken bricks and loose stones. I played all the maps without the skyboxes, by the way. Shame on those of you who used that pseudo-space sky texture. None of the maps had proper 'void lighting' which made some of the Scrag encounters challenging and some kind of annoying, but never mind. Anyway, thanks for these maps - it was about time such a pack was released again. OK, before anyone else gets too irritated
An evening of RQ for this, but was well worth it - and to finish all maps will cost me another.
Don't read too much into gameplay comments - modified progs. These will all sound like negative comments, but hopefully they're constructive. ericw: This looked great until I got a bit higher up and the platforms got thinner, then just good. Still above average visually but it seemed a bit odd. Also died more from falling than the monsters, though that's probably just my clumsiness. Was tough at the start because of all the Ogres but got alot easier towards the end - Id've preferred kill 16 Vores as opposed to 4 Shamblers, who I could just back away from. Very solid map on all fronts and seemed to keep the DM format well. Trinca: Clean looks, if a bit bland. Gameplay was good although a bit more mix would have been nice - a few more in your face enemies just for shits and giggles, like Spawn and Fiends. Strong Trinca theme. Start map - looks great. Only annoyance is having to bunny hop the rocks every time or play on an easier skill start2 or some spawn trigger hack could have solved. Ok so I played less than a third. Getting old. ricky - another very good map, not as detailed as usual but they style is still great and fresh for both quake and coagula. I liked the colored lighting again, you definitely know how to use it. Would have preferred slightly more broken up texturing.
ericw - nice visuals but the gameplay was terrible IMHO. It's pretty much a selaex box arena and the horde combat didnt work for me. Nice shub use and skybox though. trinca - solid build style but repetitive and flat. Gameplay is 2d only which is a shame. Developed well enoguh from the speedmap but might have been better to keep the speedmap style but build from scratch. nonentity - brilliant start map! havent played the others yet. Play this pack: the shots look good.... more feedback later :)
ricky's map is fucking brilliant, highlight of the pak, here's skill3 demo
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/demos/spy3_rickyt23.rar One can finish Ricky's map quite fast, I accidentaly did so on my first attempt. 0:35, beat me!
Unfortunately it runs not so great for me, I died some because of laggyness (no VIS?) & jump over the void. willem - nice build style, very clean, very pleasing. Nice use of the jump void too, clever. Gameplay was fine but I do think the elevator was a misstep. I worked out what to do quick enough, but then it just becomes a boring ride down :)
gb - um, quite plain and the gameplay is ridiculous. where's the ammo? spy - very nice looking and playing map. one of my favorites from the pack along with ricky's.
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