Boxy rooms but some neat details and decent build quality. Lots of promise there. Gameplay seemed tricky. 

but I couldn't figure out how to proceed after reaching the door to the laboratory. I shot two out of four base-buttons, unable to locate the last two, and every door seems to be either "rusted shut" or requires a key?? Alas, no demo for you, have this speedrun instead 

Do you have fullbrights disabled? 

Very nice dungeon with a Honey vibe. Lots of neat little touches like those cozy carpets in some places, and especially the lab room itself. 

Thanks 

blind demos https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33279452/daz_symphony.zip

Enjoyed this a lot over all. Nice details and felt pretty old school in its layout and combat. Some things I noticed:

- Lighting was too dark over all
- Grenade bounce puzzle needed more affordance given to it. As it stands it's one of those "all or nothing" puzzles where the player gets it quickly or runs around in frustration for a while (me! yay!) not realising what they have to do. If the player could see the button but not shoot it directly, it would have helped a lot. Another idea would be to train the player that buttons open those sorts of doors and are always adjacent like that, so the player can make the connection between the GL and getting a non LOS button hit off.

+ Cool small details that didn't get in the way of gameplay.
+ Some well thought out traversal areas towards the end.

I think the lightning issue could have been solved with some nice fill lights in most of the areas just to illuminate the corners a little. As it stands it can be quite hard to understand the layouts of some rooms and areas when there is pitch black lighting in a lot of the playable space. I'm sure this is somewhat subjective however :)

Cool map! 

There's a little room which appears to be missing a texture : its ceiling is all black.

Many corridors are too square (old school) for my taste. Needs more details or complex geometry.

Overall, it's a nice map. 

Do you have a custom texture pack installed? If the answer is "yes", try to remove it and see if you still have that texture error. There's a good chance that it's a conflict between two textures sharing the same name. 

Sadly this isn't a blind playthru :( But here it is: http://www.quaketastic.com/files/demos/damage_inc_symphony.zip

It's on Nightmare and... I played a little cautiously so I didn't die and break the demo. It was close a couple of times!

This is a great blend of the original Quake feel combined with improved level design, modern touches and detail to make it fabulous.

Really nice work Ubiquitous, thank you,
- danage_ 

Works fine in Darkplaces with RTworld turned off, not too dark for me. I noticed a misaligned texture after you take a swim, in the dead end behind where you emerge. Also, you can actually skip most of the level by jumping to the silver key from the highest pole of the scaffolding next to it. I'll save my review for Quaddicted.

@DaZ Grenade bounce puzzle? What grenade bounce puzzle? You mean after the short swim, right? You don't need to do that, just hop on the railing and you can jump to the other side from there. 

Thanks for the feedback and demos everyone. I just posted a new version with a few fixes.

+ I changed the wording of the door/grenade puzzle a little to more clearly hint what is going on (but I don't want to make it too obvious, otherwise it wouldn't be a puzzle).
+ I fixed a ceiling that was, indeed, textured black by accident
+ I fixed a misaligned texture.
+ I fixed a couple of places where sections of the map could be circumvented bu jumping (darn you and your jumping skillz Mugwump).
+ Fixed some random world geometry saying "You Need The Silver key" because it was configured as a door.
+ Added a couple of fill lights, although the map remains low key overall. 

Forgot to say, the link to the new version is here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/h0epdwstgwz2kyi/symphony_v101.zip 

It's a good idea to submit a map as news if it's still in beta. 

darn you and your jumping skillz Mugwump

Ha ha, I'm not that good but I like to explore... 

Last time, I posted my map in the beta thread and metslime transferred it into the news. You can't please all the people all the time. 

http://celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=3&start=13863&end=13864 

So rekt. 

It wasn't said "I posted it here because it's a beta" when I asked why it's not news. It didn't say it's a beta either in the func post, or in the website post. In retrospect it shouldn't have been moved to news if it wasn't complete, but there was no way of knowing that. 

 

Played your updated version.

Skill 2, 83/83 Kills, 2/2 Secrets

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0exk9n8snkp5efq/mjb_symphony.zip?dl=0

Wow Ubiquitous, you really stepped it up here. There is nothing but improvement from your previous map offering. Lighting is much better this time around and they have believable sources too! Lots of unique little odds and ends found here that help give it a more original theme. I love the rugs and the study/research room. Gameplay wasn't overall challenging but it wasn't a walk in the park either.

Small nitpick I personally have is requiring the player to use ammo or shoot to solve a puzzle. It is unlikely but what if the player runs out of grenades before figuring out what they have to do? I also got utterly lost at the start for about 5 minutes not knowing you could climb over the rubble (Looked like obstructed background to me). Other than that, nothing jumps out as me as critical. Love the vertical layers introduced and the fact you created a shortcut back up if you fall. Very cool map title too!

Now I expect the next map to outperform this one! ;) 

(some SPOILERS below)

Positives:

+Lovely work; much improved from your previous map.
+Loved the use of a special item as key (felt very negke-ish).
+Really liked the somewhat realistic props.
+Liked the puzzle-based progression overall.

Negatives:

-Agree with Daz that the lighting is too dark.
-Agree about the grenade puzzle too.
-The teleporter that appears at the end traps you if you try to backtrack for secrets (as I tried to do): you get stuck underneath the teleporter brush in the windtunnel and there is no way out. Maybe you can place a shortcut teleporter somewhere else, e.g. have a section of wall open up or something? 

... or make the trigger_teleport bigger, I guess, so you get teleported instead of getting stuck underneath a world brush? Maybe that was the idea? 

I expected people to complain about the map being too dark. But I don't think any changes are required. I don't even think the grenade puzzle had to be changed. People don't like being inconvenienced today, but I fear that following every advice of this kind may lead to a diluted experience that you just stroll through, shrug, and forget about it.

BTW, there's a floor switch closer to the end that's repeatable for no apparent reason. 

Nice map. Too dark for me as well but other than that great. Hope to see more from you. 

well that was quite nice. right up my alley stylistically. Nothing overbearingly impressive but consistent use of a few nice unique elements/ textures etc to spice things up and some nice combat setups... quite a pleasant layout too.
Definitely a step up from your last effort, with not a lot of time in between. Looking forward to more medium sized maps like this in the future!
Thanks