Best wishes, mfx. Get well soon. 

This pack is great fun, will take me some time to beat all maps. 

Daz beat my map on skill 2. Without dying once.

Fascinating. And if you DON'T get the second Pent secret????? 

best part, food tasted fine. 

Ok, Tens' map is the most E4 of the lot. In fact, it's more E4 than E4 itself. It's pure, distilled E4 and if someone told me that it was an original map that was cut for whatever reason, then I would believe them.

Not sure about the random scaling of textures though. 

You can survive the arena without taking it. 

How the bloody 'ell does that teleport twist hack work? 

you can fuck with the "roll" of the player view angles when teleporting. I never knew that! 

Have you never played that SM map with the angled door?! 

 

That had you walking on the walls, briefly. 

I never bothered playing speedmaps. Seemed a bit of a low signal-to-noise ratio with those chaps. 

was the second wow moment of this jam. I walked 3 or 4 times there just to enjoy that effect.
The first wow moment for me was Tens' "lights off and spawn sounds nearby". I was sure that quake maps could not scare me anymore. But I was wrong.

I love surprises in quake maps (if they don't insantly kill you). I hope to see more sudden things like those in quake maps in future. 

Of wacky ideas all cool stuff was explored though - Negke's stuff comes to mind. 

Many thanks to Daz and Elgu for streaming and showing the skills:)

Nightmare 100% on Red Hatred:
http://quaketastic.com/files/demos/retrojam4_skacky_nm100_paru.zip

Playthrough on nightmare in two parts with loading a save before the pit:
http://quaketastic.com/files/demos/retrojam4_skacky_nm_nosecrets_paru.zip

Shambler, you could also choose not to jump down into the pit.

The effect in Scampie's can be found in the first 100brush competition: stamppot by zippie is the map.
https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/100brush.html

Hard 100%demo on retrojam4_pulsar:
http://quaketastic.com/files/demos/retrojam4_pulsar_hard100_paru.zip

I recall what I read in the Nehahra thread:

#82 posted by HeadThump [65.140.53.229] on 2005/10/25 15:22:53

'Inside of every player is a masochist, inside of every mapper is a sadist, and most often they cohabitate in the same specimen --'

Inside Of Every Mapper Is A Sadist
#83 posted by PuLSaR [80.80.111.129] on 2005/10/25 16:17:03

'yeah it is' 

why negke didn't make a map for this jam, considering his love to spawns.

So that makes me a spawn king of this jam =) 

Don't remember the session, must have been in the early 2000s. There was a angled door with fantasy (Alice?) textures iirc. 

Not a sm. 

Yeah! zippie from https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/100brush.html 

Yep, that was the one.

All it takes is an 'angles' '0 0 -90' key on the teleport destination. Sadly it seems the view angle can only be tilted so much in either direction... But it does rotate monsters!

Originally the map was going to be 'just give the player all the powerups in the world', and I just had a shit ton of monsters and quads and pents and all 4 runes everywhere... but a tarbaby kept accidentally going into that teleporter and rotating which was absolute nightmare fuel. Also the map wasn't interesting at all, you need so much space for 'lots of powerups' to really work... so I changed it to be more of a small lowkey puzzle. 

http://quaketastic.com/files/demos/rjam4_pulsar_easyruns_paru.zip
I think the second route should be faster, though much harder too.
The quad gj might be doable without the RA. It should be possible
to do it much farther from the exit, possibly off a fiend. 

 

...isn't just the same as the first route with a very slow Quad gj added? 

Also, my quad gj is very slow indeed.
However, taking the RA makes the beginning a bit slower, but the quad boost should more than compensate for it, I thought. Unfortunately I lack the skill to demonstrate it clearly.