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secret not triggered
monsters delay spawned but never called weird clipping due to misc_mdl and derp unfair balance on nm at some point... light being broken in DP some booktextures i messed up and misaligned them Are there any serious consequences/side effects from overwriting files in my original AD folder with the 1.5 AD files?
Beyond previous saves not working. In my haste to play asap I missed the fact that this is more substantial than a simple update, like previous versions. You'll be replacing older versions of files with newer ones, the replacements being mostly tweaked stuff from 1.42.
Should work, but: Do a new ad15 folder! Previous demos on ALL MY maps won't work for sure, i changed too much in the end. was so cool in FourFeather, it'll be good to see him again - yeah I know, I still haven't found the time to play swampy, but I'm playing 1.5 ATM so I'll finally get to it.
praise:
Leptis Magna was a ton of fun. ~1hr, 15/25 secrets. The low, rhythmic thump at the beginning of the level was brilliant. I found it very eerie, menacing and mysterious. It set a tone that I really liked. Not sure why it didn't persist throughout? complaint: Golem knights (not sure what they're called) play the classic squishy gib sound when gibbed rather than a stony debris sound. Happens with the GL anyway, not sure if it's weapon specific. More to come, looking forward to playing more of this. I spent about 5 (yes, 5!) hours exploring Leptis Magna. Magna indeed! This map is magnificent on all accounts. Those pink vores and their offspring badly need a reskin, though, or at least a more subtle recolor. Got all kills but couldn't manage to find that damn one remaining secret, even when noclipping through the map several times.
22/25 safkngadfkngandkjsfgnsdnfjg!!!!! will have to go back in then.
This might be my favourite Quake map for all the obvious reasons. There's so much goodness in all aspects it's ridiculous. The only issue I have is the combat before the GK is awkward and always drains too much health/ammo. Other than that it is 99% perfect. Oh, btw, the book and pedestal before the MH bridge aren't like in AD1.5 w/ QS. BTW if you fix anything, fix the goddamned Golem instant death trap arena in Azad, especially since they're nail resistant and someone is trolling providing loads of nailboxes.... BTW, I'm constantly forgetting to say that golems (at least the smaller ones) tend to blink (disappear for a frame or few) quite often.
QS. I almost never bother to do a secret hunt on quake maps, but the quality of AD maps in general do make it a pleasure to just stroll through after killing everything, peering excitedly into every damp, musty crevice, hunting for those elusive red targets that yield such satisfying treats when unloaded into.
found 12/25 so far in Swampy. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rbbrON4c1_o/WEwMiNqkf-I/AAAAAAAAAks/KYNDpncClOEqgAy4mMvbZV9UbEI1XxOwACLcB/s1600/quake.jpg
Last one I got was the Pent before the zombie blood pit. Got all books and dopefish etc. I'm also (finally!) playing Swampy currently. As I speak, I'm at 425/510 kills on skill 2, 19/25 secrets and 235 mins playing time and I'm fuckin' loving it!
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skill 3 59:47 ; 8/10 secrets ; 326/328 monsters ;; 5 deaths another hard map. the final fight is a very hard. i liked the possibility of using traps against the monsters https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B72Jjyg-RfNFV0J5aHJZckRMbHc ad_swampy skill 3 109:50 ; 20/25 secrets ; 507/514 monsters ;; 0 deaths wow. huge and interconected. in lenght it almost feel like a full vanilla episode. it's much more fun too. it's hard to find all the tomes, but i did it. i didn't find all the secrets even when i really tried. this will be fun. i also found a rocket launcher when i killed almost all monsters. yikes https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B72Jjyg-RfNFLVBoOG9FV3JaUmc btw, 1gb demos? those particles sure are heavy. at least they compress at around 9% of the original size https://www.twitch.tv/negke
For the next 2 hours, negke derps swampy. He's already ruined things by killing an ogre fisherman... Monstrosity was well polished. Couldn't find one last secret.
Azad was beautiful, very moody. Couldn't find one last secret. Leptis Magna was just superfun. Couldn't find one last secret. Playing through Zendar n....holy crap!! That scragmother is the mother of all coolness!! So, I don't see any fishing ogres yet. Are the older maps updated or something? Which ones do we need to replay to see moar awesomeness? ad_metmon
skill 3 28:46 ; 7/10 secrets ; 94/101 monsters ;; 0 deaths i like the style of structure floating in the void i'm loving all those grunt variants, and the flier robot is annoying in a good way, like the one in q2 i changed the cl_sidespeed to 200; that could be considered a cheat? :D https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B72Jjyg-RfNFakI2R1FVWC1wOGc ad_zendar skill 3 56:10 ; 8/10 secrets ; 223/224 monsters ;; 2 deaths nice town. another big fight at the end. and the scrag boss was challenging. the new monsters keep getting better. i'm liking these interconected nonlinear maps. you get lost playing the first time, but i'm sure these maps have huge replay value and besides replay value, you can just explore them, they are beautiful https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B72Jjyg-RfNFTWh6NDhVVzVrSmc i will make an user and write a review in quaddicted after replaying all the maps but this mod is more fun and better that all the other new games in the "old school" category and is professionally polished, something that cannot be said of modern AAA games also, in my opinion this mod is on par with the top mod/wads in the doom community (23rd aniversary!!!) in quality at leat the ones that i played and checked. congrats and enjoy the praise Well... it's Zendar.
This is definitely a more memorable update than the one from March this year (I remember practically nothing about that one). I thought I was spoiled on the Nour boss fight but I didn't anticipate it at _that_ particular moment. As Shambler said this is quite a lot harder than the original, with all the updates to the AI and whatnot. My usual tactics had gotten me well rekt. However, while this is a good update, I can't shake the feeling that it's not a very necessary update. The original Zendar was already a 10/10 map when it was ID1. I'm always a sucker for breakables and other cool stuff from AD but in this case it felt like drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa to try to make it more complete. And most importantly, the gameplay has been simplified by the removing the multiple silver key metagame, which was one of my favorite parts of the original. :( I enjoyed this version a lot, but unlike how the new metmon can definitely replace the Quoth version, I'll be replaying the original Zendar rather than the AD update. http://www.quaketastic.com/files/demos/otp_2endar.zip Playing this map really made me wish that grenades could break through glass windows instead of just bouncing off. This already exists as QC!
http://svn.icculus.org/*checkout*/remakequake/src/weapons.qc Pretty please mr SOC? Haven't played much of this but wanted to say that, from the first 15 minutes of Terror Fuma, I love the texture combinations, lighting, and brushwork. So many unique shapes that are well-proportioned and fresh, like the 32-wide pillars with terminals on them, or the big diagonal stretches of pipe. And as for textures, not only do they gel well but it's full of little references to other things that i like, such as the pipe texture from the q2 waste levels, floor panels from stecki, radiation panels from doom2, and the tech panels taken from Android Arts.
Also the little cinematic moments like the ship landing and the bugs attacking the humans. A great new theme. Loved it. So many neat moments such as the infighting, ship, pipe climbing, poison pyros! and more!
Skill 2 run knowing all the secrets and tricks. Got through it easily apart from a worrying moment in the final arena when I got trapped in a stone blitz and only just made it to the RA secret. Had a lot of fun this time, the secrets make a lot of difference.
WRT to the balance issues....the armour situation at the start might be problematic. First GA is 0 monsters Next GA is 87 monsters (87 later) This is after 2 traps, 1 combat where if you retreat you have to go through a trap again, 10 zombies you have to axe, the introduction of new ranged attack vorelings, numerous ambushes, with the DBS in a secret. Next GA is 142 monsters (55 later) Next YA is 176 monsters (34 later) Next YA is 199 monsters (23 later) Next YA is 249 monsters (50 later) After that I went questing into super-secrets and got lost.
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