I play tested normal and hard mode.. made sure that player haa enough ammunition if player plays well.. by that I mean no 50-70% misses. And try to save cells.. or even try to find all 3 secret silver keys.. It is experimental map as well. My principle was.. 3 is more than just 2. 

Hopefully that jam7_start map has skill select room? 

experimental gameplay mechanic

Oooh I am intrigued to see what this exactly entails!

Ionous is creating a start map I believe, so yes it would. 

You pretty much couldn't finish my Jam 6 map on skill 2 with 100% kills unless you also found the one secret. I consider that a design flaw, but eh, hard is hard. 

 

Isn't skill 3 = nightmare mode? Are enemies respawning in that mode? 

Nightmare in Quake isn't quite as crazy as Doom. No respawning monsters, just more relentless AI - faster reactions, higher rate of fire, feeling less pain.

Older versions of Quoth had an issue where the new monsters weren't very well differentiated between nightmare skill and regular skill levels. I particularly remember an oversight where a monster went into pain animations more often in nightmare because his threshold was so high. The most recent patch attempts to redress this, and increase the contrast. Mostly by nerfing monster AI, although there were a few that we boosted in nightmare instead (like Rocketeers). 

So I've received four maps from people (thanks for sending them in). My own poor contribution is also done.

I, however, did not have time to finish the start map, which I would like to include. After polling the entrants, they were fine with me finishing it off. So I'll be doing that today and tomorrow, aiming for an early Sunday release.

With that in mind, if anyone else there wants to finish up their map, they would be welcome to do so. I will accept submissions up until whenever I finish the start map. 

 

Can't wait! 

There really is no hurry, spend as much time as needed* 

 

We have to remember not every player is even that familiar with console commands* 

So is Skacky going to be also in (if he has time), that would be great! 

so it seems we're still fixing yet balancing our maps? I just want to make sure, because that's how I understood it, until the sunday or when ionous gets start map finished. 

Yeah I have to fix ammo crates because they are fullbright in dark rooms... Any clue how to fix this? 

Nope, not going to be in. 

Brushwork crates or ammo pickups? If pickups, remember they take their lighting mostly from the first solid surface below. So if they sit in the dark on a func_wall or something and the floor down below is bright, they will be bright too. 

It's in a fully dark room. doors and buttons are dark, but ammo pickup laying on the floor is fullbright... maybe there is some leak or something? But compiler doesn't cry about any. 

Ammo pickups are external bsp files and as such, will always be fullbright.

Quoth has an option to make ammo and health use a common combined model, which then takes lighting from the lightmap. 

Thanks. Looks like aflag 1 in a worldspawn fixed the problem. 

Skacky really is the worst cocktease around these parts! On the plus side, this means there's a chance for an addon pack where even good ol' useless Daz and negke can join... 

But isn't it good thing that they're full bright gameplay-wise? 

 

You like to hide them, i see ; )