Zommggggg real real fun map!!! enjoy it a lot!!!

Love the architecture, layout and monsters placemente!!!

Perfect Hard Still

Not impossible at first run and real real fun... even scare me the last 3 shamby.

thank you very much and there it goes my first demo!

http://trinca.quaddicted.com/temp/cjhsp1_trinca.dz 

Right in the middle of the main atrium.

Tyrquake? Wha? 

Found it by noclipping around. It would have been nice to have it a little earlier, with those death knights.

Tyrquake: http://disenchant.net/ 

What a refreshing map. Really nice gameplay all the way through and the changes in architecture kept it interesting until the finish, really nicely done.

Two things bothered me - the Shambler placement was sometimes a bit off, compared to how all other monsters seemed flawlessly placed to take advantage of the environment and the player. The map was mainly tested for normal?

Armour seemed very light - 4/8 secrets, two of those being armour, and just before a nasty / big fight each one; without them I'dve been in deep shit.

Otherwise a great map - both the things I mentioned being very minor problems indeed, only visible at all because of the otherwise excellent level of qaulity.

I did get trapped behind the lift that goes down to the first circular portal, unable to escape.

First part of an episode? 

I enjoyed this one immensely. The architecture and gameplay were classically executed throughout. I never came close to dying even when diving after two Shamblers with nothing but a grenade launcher left. Of course I did find the big secret at the end to help me through the final combat ;-)

Welcome back, indeed! 

stylistic traditional quake. The lighting was maybe a bit unhighlighting. The theme was at least solid, maybe complaining about sticking too much to the same textures would be missing a point.
Was a bit hard gameplay wise, mainly the shamblers. Played on normal.

Many times the monsters were placed nicely so you had to move to avoid getting hit. Also the level winded around itself pretty well. And there were different sections like the lava towers.

I still don't like death knights, they have too many hitpoints and are so damn slow that it's almost always just a boring super shotgun exercise. 

shot2 looks cool.

Have you made any maps before this? That's pretty impressive looking for a first map if not. 

The darkness secret was great as well. 

This level is very good. Really good - like Terra. I love the brushwork!! Sooo simple but very effective! (the opposite of my current venture - sooo complicated but ineffective) The lighting seemed a bit dark in places, but it was pretty atmospheric.

Made me wanna stop making my sucky Doom3/Dkt level and do a Mid-evil one!!!

Ho hum.

One thing though. I was making you a skill 2 demo, and just after the zombies I find myself cornered by a feind with only a GL. I have like 100 health at this point and loads of yellow armour, but the fourth grenade killed us both. No shells + no nails + corner + feind = NOT FAIR!!!

Was enjoying it though!!!

Ill do a NH l8R!!!!

Thanks

PS - Simulacrum - Wanna collaborate and do an ID-style episode? (I read your readme - ha ha car park ;P )

PPS - serious about the episode though. 

I did a rather crappy q1sp back in '01, and a section of the second map of OUM. This is my first 'proper' map though.

http://teamshambler.planetquake.gamespy.com/rev010806.html#2ndreview

Ricky: I recommend barely using the shotgun before you get the super shotty. There's plenty of nails up to that point, leaving you quite a few shells to attack the fiends with. As for the episode...I'll think about it:) 

got that one, I quite like it.

Looking forward to this. 

A fiend should die after the third grenade :) 

The fiend did gib on the fourth grenade. I thought I would survive the last grenade too, I had 40 health.

http://shub-hub.com/files/demos_singleplayer/rickycjhsp1.7z

Just to clarify, I still thing the map was pretty well balanced, it felt pretty well balanced and I was having lots of fun :D but as you will see by the time I got the GL I had no nails and no shells (so I was very happy to see the GL)

I personally didnt think that I had wasted a lot of shots. 

Had a LOT of fun.

First run on skill 1 was smooth and enjoyable, shamblers didn't bothered me as some said, and the hellknght's packs where a pleasure to kill: a couple of grenades in the middle and then shotgun till their dead.

Second run on skill 2 was hard, but I died only once.
And here is my demo for darkplaces in skill 3

http://shub-hub.com/files/demos_singleplayer/ci475_cjhsp1.zip

unfinished! :)-

I'm very happy that this map has a special twist for coop play. I love maps with good coop support, usually are the one that I treasure in my hard drive.

Architecture simple, dark, green! beautiful

I hope to play some more maps form you, an episode in collaboration with RickyT23, maybe? 

Really enjoyig level! Very balanced and smells proper oldskool. Need more of such goodness :)

Here's my first run demo. I died trying to solve the button puzzle there in the end, too bad I didn't use the teleporter to the secret room, otherwise i'd survive :)

First run demo: http://vondur.net/files/cj.zip 

This was great. I haven't enjoyed a q1sp this completely for a while.

30 minutes, 7/8 secrets ( which were good )

More feedback later maybe. 

This map is a winner !

Geez ! Another great map in my permanent Q1 map collection. Thanks a lot, this one is terrific. I just can't believe how long is the life of this old and venerable game !

The architecture is simply perfect. My only complain is the lack of atmospheric sounds in many rooms. 

This one is really good. E1 theme, yet different to original E1. Good fun, very large, a lot of space to move. Two shamblers guarding the gold-key-door found me hurt and unprepared= quick and brutal end during first play (but I got far, didn�t I).
OT1: I recommend playing CZG�s e1m1rmx before this one to gain the mini-episode-1 feel (you are teleported from infested slipgate complex idbase to strange dimension-used in my In Ovo mini-episode too), it�s also good idea to use new NIN 4CD Ghosts as soundtrack to this map too. Some of the tracks fit to quake well (some less).
OT2:+few quake1 fanart drawings I made during weekend are to be found here
http://www.drawingboard.org then go to Superheroes/Quake1 fanart
or here
http://www.comicspace.com/jaromir83/ 

Fully comparable to CZG�s czg03 map (next E1 style masterpice). Which means something. 

I really digg the jumping-over-lava room, columns with twisted metal bars. Lighting is perfect (not only) there. Good to know the map is so huge, cjhsp1.bps means as much for E1-like level editing as ant.bsp means for rusty-metalic-windtunnel level editing. 

Reminded me some of the E1-styled mexx series levels. Such epic this one is! 

Good job, man! I was having a great time in it. Really nice classic Quake map.

It crashed for me on stock Quake on OSX after I went through a double set of double doors, but until then it was awesome. I guess I need to use a more modern engine? 

Oh, and I loved the part with the winding staircase that kept going up and up to different floors. Really nice idea there! 

Just to prove that I'm a maniac, I did my first playthrough on Nightmare skill, killed 140 monsters, found 3 secrets and exited in 25:10 with 1 health left.

Very good architechture all around, lots of space to move and escape if monsters scared me too much. Every time shamblers appeared, I was shocked: "Is this my end?" I managed to survive though, except I had to noclip at one point because I was trapped behind a lift and there was no other way out. Also, I did the same mistake as Vondur in the end. :P

Then I recorded a speedrun on Easy skill... finishing in 3:15.

http://nahkahiir.thps3.net/quake/cjhsp1_2510.zip
http://nahkahiir.thps3.net/quake/cjhsp1_315.zip 

I can send you a beta of Fitz SDL, if you're interested. It seems to run fine.