Maps: Okayish for the most part, occasionally memorable locations such as Osiris Temple. Neat idea of different time periods though not very well polished.

Enemies:
Invisible Swordsmen - I rather like these dudes though their animation is a tad jerky. Not sure I like the glow on them.
Mitosis Spawn - Green version that splits into 2, interesting concept but it seems too slow.
Stone Knights/Death Knights - Nice! Could use some extra sfx to match the theme of stone.
Eels - what's not to love, always need more water enemies. Nice radius zap.
Morph - meh, kinda wierd, always was confused by how more than one came but only one was the 'real' one or something. Source of the minion concept maybe?
Lavamen - Yeah!! Would have benefited from maps that gave them room to roam, they do walk/swim after all. Hmm, another liquids monster.
Wrath - creepy, I really liked the evil feeling from these guys.
Wrath Overlord - A cool boss, love the death gib burst.
Mummy - excellent, combined with ineffective effects (AD) for normal on zombies and it would be obvious that this enemy was afdected by normal weapons. 

Dragon - Great rumble, hard catch, needs a lot of ammu before it roasts with a fire blast.
Another lizzard hard to set up.

I have a memory of a strange face I saw that grew and split out transparant in front of me. 

Gorok

It's a very rare view, because the red part becomes transparant,
which in my knowing was impossible for model mdl's. 

Reading up on multithreaded programming and discovering that "Dekker's algorithm" is a thing. 

What is that from? Did you make that? 

It's a bit of a low edge commercial expansion pack for Quake.
With new monsters and weapons,
not as good as "Malice" but surely worth a try ! 

That website. My eyes.

Good to know there was a patch. To my surprise, I still have this thing installed, even though I only played it for a couple of minutes before encountering the "classic" untextured head gib bug (or something of this kind, I don't remember), getting annoyed, and switching to something else.

I even ripped the music, it seems. 

I was hyped for X-MEN: THE RAVAGES OF APOCALYPSE total conversion too, but it was mediocre...
I have same feelings for Shrak, looks lame :P 

The only decent commercial addons were the official mission packs and malice. Everything else was cack. 

...may I'll give malice a try, though.

Everything else was cack.

CACK� - a total conversion for quake, summer 2017 

 

 

 

I remember Malice's rain effect rocked my balls back in the day. Might look a bit crude now though.

I'd love to see a nice rain effect in AD. Would add a ton of atmosphere. 

There's a game-breaking issue on one of the levels. A patched map (that you had to pak yourself) was available on the official site, but I don't think it's still alive.

I don't remember hearing a lot of complaints about that problem, despite its importance. Was there a late pressing with the fixed map or something? 

QuakeC rain, every rain drop is an entity.

* Huge demos saving each rain drop.
* Huge save game files saving each rain drop. * Nearly uncoopable because huge amount of data sending each rain drop to other player(s).

Engine rendered rain or snow is only true solution:

DarkPlaces snow and rain (at 1:12) in video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkXA4BoYhiM

Qrack has engine rendered rain which isn't bad, looks about the same as the rain in the above demo.

Nehahra had a smallish area with some QuakeC snow. 

If the raindrops were 1x1x1 unit cubes, the mdl format gives you a 255x255x255 voxel grid to work with.

Give the mdl a scale factor of (4, 4, 16), then your 1x1x1 raindrops are stretched to that size, and the whole mdl covers 1024x1024 units.

could be viable, and would look good with alpha + fog. The trick would be getting the lerping right to give a convincing animation loop.. 

DP rain/snow can easily become a framerate destroyer. 

I approached the idea of snow with a sprite.
It sounds a bit rare, but what if it was added to the v_weapon so it dazzled on the video screen.

snowsprite 

Could do it as a static entity if the drop falling and splashing is a looping model animation 

All the cheetz ideas.

/Static entity idea is very, very intriguing. Becomes almost free. 

I think Seven made it and while he's awesome, I think he did it in an inefficient manner just because "it worked" (and if optimized would be seriously faster, it's not even CSQC like I was thinking initially). 

That critical point when framerate tanks was always strange to me. I appreciate the feature and it's great in a pinch. A more optimized iteration would of course be nice. I agree with you that engine-side weather is the way to go.

I've poked around at some alternatives using a "forest" of player-facing sprites for rain and a decal on the ground for splashes/ripples, which is the same way I achieved the water caustics effect I posted a while ago. This looks ok and certainly has its limitations, namely, it gets pretty cluttered in the editor.