Considering the other maps on that list that are also ranked low, seems more like it's indicative of the exceptional quality of the top ranked maps rather than the poor quality of the low ranked ones. ad_dm5 was awesome. No love for the Christmas jam maps but of course the quality wasn't going to be through the roof given the constraints.

Bottom line - ranks don't matter. I enjoyed your AD map anyway. 

Here is a slightly more complete listing (Tronyn missed mine, among others):
https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/?filtered=arcanedimensions

Here's another one that hasn't been added to Quaddicted:
http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=61605 

are yuo releasing a second episode of AD?

Some very nice pics can be found on the net:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRqnsjcX0AAPEnb.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkWs8eSWwAQVsAK.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Do27gk4XsAAH3GA.jpg

with hope 

#1 is Bal's WIP Xmasjam2 map
#2 is mfx's long running WIP space map
#3 is sock's current WIP map he's streaming a lot of

Pretty sure none of the related to a second episode. 

 

I get them confused. 

looks cool!
Same with Sock, obvs 

https://dustri.org/b/arcane-dimension.html 

Does killing the 8 green spawns in Sepulcher do anything? 

Besides increasing your killcount, no. 

AD still has the double megahealth rot bug. 

 

https://quakewiki.org/wiki/Quake_bugs

https://www.quake-info-pool.net/q1/qcfix.htm#megahealthrot 

By the way, there's a more elegant way to fix that, without adding an extra entity. 

I'm finally finishing up the second hub with only Sepulcher left after just beating ad_azad. I don't know what else to say aside from that it was brilliant. I loved the theme and the level of detail was mind blowing. Even something as simple as accumulated snow on the some of the steps outdoors added so much to the map.

The breakables helped the world feel alive and I really enjoyed the way that they were employed this time. Instead of just having breakable walls and pieces of wood, some major set pieces were destructible. I was pleasantly surprised when the bridge in front of the silver key lock collapsed under me after being attacked by a death knight. Pillars breaking during the four stoneman ambush and during the final boss made the fights more intense with nothing to hide behind.

I also liked how the destructibles were part of the progression like the iron wood that needed to be smashed with the mine cart. The combat was really enjoyable although the tiny room with the four stone death knights that ambush you got me several times. I didn't exactly save scum but it still felt scummy saving the game beforehand and attempting that fight a few times when I already knew what to expect.

I finished with 6/10 secrets but just like every other AD map, I'm going to attempt the 100% clear. The bruskwork was incredible and it seems like an insane amount of time must have gone into the details. I loved some of the amorphous architecture as well like the wooden platforms haphazardly arranged and supported in the room with the mine carts. Stuff like this is inspiring and I'm always curious as to how much of this was implemented or how certain ideas were conceived. My only complaint was that the map wasn't longer since I enjoyed it so much but hopefully I will squeeze a lot more time out of it as I search for the rust key and the remaining secrets. 

I'm trying to use ad_1_7p1_gtk.def for GtkRadiant, but in the properties of the entities I see basically only the angle, the model and the noise. Maybe someone has a normal ENT file? 

Is there any chance that we can get access to the wads used for these maps? I know that many were custom and/or modified by sock and others but I'm interested in some of these themes and I'm having trouble matching them. 

You can just open up the BSP's with Texmex and then save to .wad. 

Thx again.

„although the tiny room with the four stone death knights that ambush you got me several times. I didn't exactly save scum but it still felt scummy saving the game beforehand and attempting that fight a few times when I already knew what to expect.“

This is the Tronyn moment. It is doable, but very random and hard.
I toned this encounter down a lot with AD 1.7, previous setup was just mad and cruel. 

Leptis Magna is one of my favorite maps in AD and I'm playing through it a third time atm, partly to find more of those pesky little secrets.

Anyway, playing through it on Nightmare for the first time and either I suck or there is way too little ammo in it on this difficulty level. For instance, my char has 3 rockets left and nothing else when the next fight is all those statues in the gold lock area. But I've been out of ammo for most the other half of the map. Once or twice it is a bit exciting as I have to rush past a bunch of monsters in order to get ammo to actually kill them, but in the long run it is frustrating rather than fun really. Perhaps Nightmare is balanced around the player always trying to get monsters to infight? Not sure what I could have done differently, but I think I'll play it on Hard after this playthrough.

Looking forward to the upcoming update of AD btw. I'm sure it will be epic. 

But it is doable. 

Yes, pretty sure I played it on hard the last time and I had no issues with ammo or anything else then. The last fight was rather tough, but you can thankfully cheese it. 

We didn’t test AD_magna on nightmare. I’m sure it’s woefully unfair. 

I'm not a Quake master by any mean, but...

75,57
22/25
438/447

I already knew the map quite well, obviously, but did not even come close to be without ammo... 

As I said, I might very well suck. Can it be secrets? I have a hard time finding secrets i Leptis Magna - think I have 7/25. Perhaps missing out on a lot of ammo that way.