Love the floor in the middle being sunken down with the pillars and walls looming above. Feel very oppressive. 

just terrible.

is how I feel about the name 

I like the wooden steps leading into the lowered floor, that looks really nice. I really like your use of wood textures in this scene.

I'm not so sure about how the wooden support beams inside the door arches just end in the wall without any kind of fixture. I would add a vertical support beam on the wall that would carry the beams within the arch. 

Yeah... Made me think of the pain maze, even though the floor isn't wooden... 

HTH 

@Drew, what is terrible, can you be more specific? Lighting, brushwork, screenshot angle etc
@OTP, yeah the name is a bit cheesy but the map does feature a lot of mirrored architecture. The original name was "The Horde of Zendar".
@SleepwalkR, yeah the strong brick edge does bother me too, especially with all the nice marble door/window edges in the background.
@Shambler, the next maps does have non linear routes but it is more compartmentalized to reduce the lost factor. 

Horde of Zendar 

I love your sense of scale. 

And +1 for Zendar.

Also I agree about the comparison to E4M6. I'd love to see an elder style texture mishmash with Sock's level of detail and polish! 

Light�s, scale and textures combination are perfect. Nice work 

Looks just sweet, my anticipation keeps growing.. 

come on.

I think that the shot looks super nice. In fact, and perhaps unfortunately, I have nothing to criticize.

I also vote for Horde of Zendar. So good. 

This is the one where you're obligated to include a button under a lift, or not? 

Soaring architecture is always one of my favorite settings. That mountain church in Nehara was probably one of my favorite user made levels in any game out there that I've played, visually speaking of course. 

The one that Elek made? Wonder what he's up to these days, kind of disappeared and at one time he'd released more levels than anyone. Poor bugger must have grown up, unlike the rest of us haha. 

he does vfx at epic. http://derelict-compendium.blogspot.com 

Hey sock. I don't like that skull texture, i think when you repeat a texture like that the skulls lose their creepiness but don't add anything else. The sense of scale is great, it alone made me want to play this map. The use of wooden beams together with stone like that reminds me the Gothic series, looks good. 

>http://derelict-compendium.blogspot.com/
Damn that Quake article gave me the feels and something to think about. 

It's been far too long since I posted an update so here are two WIP shots of the final area. I haven't done anything regarding the lighting yet. I did however implement a lot of suggestions. More computers, pipes, rocks, more open, etc.

http://i.imgur.com/RHvqCoQ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/L6mmd8J.jpg 

It's been far too long since I posted an update so here are two WIP shots of the final area. I haven't done anything regarding the lighting yet. I did however implement a lot of suggestions. More computers, pipes, rocks, more open, etc.

http://i.imgur.com/RHvqCoQ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/L6mmd8J.jpg 

The pipes are awesome! The lights are a nice shade of yellow, but I would de-saturate the colour a bit, more towards being white - you want to keep it really subtle with the coloured lighting IMO. Except red - red should be red. 

what RickyT23 said about the colored lights: definitely too much, need to be smoothed...

The pipes... How the Hell have you been able to texture them this way ? What's the trick ? Please en-light us ! 

looks sweet, but thats q3 i guess? 

Looks pretty neat, but not quite as detailed as your previous shots.

I'd be tempted to put a subtle shader on the textures to make them seem a bit more metallic. :) 

But I don't like the ramp in shot 3, change to stairs! :)