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The version includes all of the previous maps too, 5 other arena maps by NotoriousRay, BlackPope, [Kona], Speedy, and the Polish connection MisYu+QurneL. Even if you may not get the opportunity to play it, the maps are well worth a look if you haven't seen them before.
And of course, the mod itself is pretty damn sweet! Thanks Electro! They look really really awesome! What fantastic brushwork, texturing and lighting! Quake 2 textures used to maximum effect right there!
Thanks guys. I posted it here because I just wanted to show some screenshots of proxmap6, since it is quite likely nobody will ever actually play the map.
Of course it doesn't hurt to pimp the mod a bit, but I know it has a very limited audience here (and I don't want to steal Electro's thunder!) i will play a little for sure... last night was trying sauerbraten :p but today i will try this for sure!
check this, i was just searching around some of the defunct Q2 mapping sites, and found this non-defunct news entry on Musashi's page:
http://musashi.planetquake.gamespy.com/index.html This guy's making a Q2SP pack and the news post is from 2009! from a full replay of the original game+mission packs! Enjoyed it greatly and went on search for some new stuff.
Found some garbage on Tenfour forums(they still keep track of all releases for several games) and was thinking about why noone does not map anymore for Q2... With acceptable quality, I mean... This stuff rocks!!! I never played Q2... maby i should one of these days?
I think I just played the first and second level then got bored :| It will seem dated and fairly horrible if you're walking into it for the first time in 2009. It was AWESOME at the time when it came out but now
... in the same way that I still like Jack Kirby far better than, say... Joe Madureira or Jim Lee.
I think that it can be enjoyed greatly even now, to me it's just a solid piece of action/storyteling with great interconnection and replay value, plus the "athletic" gameplay that only belongs to old school FPS. To be honest, I'm not an heavy game player, I play almost exclusively FPS, so maybe I don't have a broad range of examples to compare Q2 to, but I think a good Tank/Gladiator/Gunner brawl still holds his own in his league. Ah, Trinca, Q2 is WAY easier than Quake, turn up the skill level. if you still like quake1, then just think of quake2 as a really polished total conversion with its own custom engine. There are cool new textures, some great level designs with neat chunky architecture (the cooling facility and waste levels were my favorite, you can clearly see that they are the successors to tim willits' e3m5 and e4m1 maps in quake.) Also jail4 (i think?) was a really cool moody stone jail map with heavy angled architecture, and the city levels are great, and there's a low grav secret level, etc. etc.
Probably the big area of dispute is whether the monsters were as fun/well designed to fight as quake monsters, and whether the weapons were good compared to quake. Couldn�t get used to the yellow light, supposed it could be the atmosphere of Mars.
There are Q2mods where the light is white. Best memory are the cave part with the outer defense attack. One of the best mapping skills. And although better of engine and all, it couldn�t attrack me more than Quake1. Dunnoh, perceiving a monster better, don�t make it a better monster. I really should play Quake 2 again. Never finished it actually. Well I'm sure I stored that CD in a safe place, finding it will be easy I bet.
I agree it's now a very dated FPS, but...
great interconnection and replay value, plus the "athletic" gameplay that only belongs to old school FPS.
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