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New Q1SP - The Masque Of The Red Death
After much pain and suffering, I present The Masque of the Red Death - a seven story nightmare castle full of pain and suffering.

download: http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/planetquake/tronyn/maps/masque.zip
readme: http://www.planetquake.com/tronyn/masquereadme.txt
screenshots/etc: http://www.planetquake.com/tronyn/

I'm issuing a warning right now: the system requirements for this map are extremely high, and as far as I can tell it will only run in Darkplaces or aguirRe's custom engines. Also, the map requires Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon.

I've tested the hell out of this thing, and I think it's reasonable, but I don't doubt that some people will find it very difficult. Most players will likely die several times on their first run through. I hope supplies are sufficient and that everyone who plays is able to get it working and doesn't die of frustration either in that process or because of the dense horde combat.

Edit: Skill settings are only functional via the console, not via the enclosed start map.

Thanks to my playtesters - Mike Woodham, Necros, and Kinn. A particular thanks to aguirRe both for playtesting and for all of his technical help and the entity corrections that he made.
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Mission Packs 
I can't use either levels. The full games don't exist anymore. Do you have download for all the files needed for each one?

as 
See Post #11. 
that pack should let you use the map without the mission pack. 
recorded a drunk demo of this map on hard, I'll upload it soon 
can't wait, will be the viewing event of the year. 
Drunk Runs 
Should be an official SDA type event

Possible format

e4m7 -- Azure Agony, 26:34 minutes
Half a bottle of Jack, polished off a six pack and downed a muscle relaxer. 
Drunk Demo 
i wanted to just to email it to Tronyn, cuz I don't have enough place on my server (it's 5+ mb dziped). But if anyone can host it I'll post it for everyone's viewing.

I was drunk in the beginning (and almost got killed in every room) and became more sober during the map progress. 
Oh I Should Have Used Preview Option 
-to
place=space 
Lol 
sounds awesome
Yeah I dunno if my university account can handle 5MB, and I haven't set up my netgames@netdp.com account yet after my big crash/computer fuckup.
I could get a hold of it I could put it up though. Hmmmmmmm....
Maybe I could just give you temporary access to my PQ account and you could put it up for whoever wants to view it?

Btw, drunk runs - sounds like a damn awesome idea to me. Liquor and video games - good combination. 
Pulsar 
send to spirit@quaddicted.com 
Can I Just Reiterate... 
...that it is really cool that you released this Tronyn, this has been one of the most exciting Q1 releases for a long time, and it's got me wishing there was more of it/them ;) 
Thanks For Your Compliments & Comments... 
I'm glad the release worked out well.

It took me a damn long time to get this out. Most of my other Q1SP maps that I'm still working do approach this in scale, though they don't have quite the vertical element this one does. 
Hihi 
Spirit/PuLSaR 
You'll get better compression ratio with 7zip when compressing non-standard demos like this one. DZip cannot parse it and will therefore fall back on standard zip. Using 7z instead, this demo shrinks to 3.5MB. 
Demo... 
...from PuLSaR was fun, I watched it from start to end.

Funniest moment was when you asked "where are the secrets" and you were standing riiiight next to one (I believe, the wall sure looked a bit strange there).

Thanks for keeping me up a good while in the middle of the night =) 
 
Funniest moment was when you asked "where are the secrets" and you were standing riiiight next to one (I believe, the wall sure looked a bit strange there).

Yeah, I noticed it when I watched my demo. That wall with strange texture. And button in the ceiling near to door. I found it later.

I feel secrets when I'm drunk =) 
Eeek 
Well, I didn't like the visuals I saw so much at first, but this ended up being a great map indeed, layout and gameplay were awesome, great work. 
Very Nice 
this has likely all been said already, but i'm too lazy to read 70+ posts now:
i really enjoyed this map. hard skill was great, challenging (died two or three times in some areas on the first try) but not overly difficult. the scale was impressive - and so were the r_speeds in the atrium. :) it was good to have some proper horde combat again.
the mountain tour with the rune chapel was cool, too, though i got to the rune before i pushed the button in the clocktower.

lighting felt a bit rushed in places, but it was still ok. unfortunately there were some obvious misaligned textures that could have been fixed easily (hello beta-testers?).
i also wonder what hipnotic was needed for - if it was just for minor stuff like the spawn code or something, an included progs.dat would have been better in my view.

i had some other things to mention in mind, too, but i can't remember now...
anyway, nice work! 
Vertical Progression 
I finished this map, found 4 secrets and went back and found 3 more.

This is a great map and does what I have tried to do in maps that I've made. That is to make the player fight their way upwards in a meandering and varied manner. This is an excellent map for vertical progression and the player is able to see many layers above. It makes you want to push on just to see what's above. It's cool to look out from up high from windows that were far up from the ground. It's very 3 dimensional.

I've always liked id textured maps and the Gloom Keep style textures are nice to see in a new map. This map has massive scale to match the massive mob combat. I played on Hard and died enough times but in general felt that the generous supplies, mega-healths and powerups made it very manageable without finding a lot of secrets (I found 3 during play). I had lots of spare ammo and mega-healths after 100 enemies or so had been killed.

This nitpics would be some misaligned textures, some obvious clip brushes (with 8 secrets to find, I'm going to search every ledge so clippys just seem unfair), there were some buttons that should have been set to no return and there were some cases where opened doors stuck through adjacent walls. Nothing really bad - just picky things. Being able to touch the sky is also bad form but with a map like this, I can accept it.

Overall, a great vertical map that felt huge, had lots of secrets to find (and they're fair) and one with a style of layout that I try to build myself (although my vertical segments are much shorter and less layered - this map is very inspiring.) 
Oops - Played On Normal 
I used the start map to set skill and just read that you need the console.

So I didn't finish on Hard. 
If There Were 
404 monsters, it was on Hard, 215 on Easy and 340 on Normal. 
Hmm 
on hard skill, could you not find something? 
Tronyn 
Well, I finally found time to play this nice level...
So, the architecture layout is very interesting, and +400 monsters is also impressive!! After the first door, seeing the horde of scrags, knights, ogres, I asked myself one moment: "did you install correctly hipnotic pack ?" And yes I did...
IMHO, the most interesting thing is the texturing: particularly the evil ambiance you created with blood everywhere. It's a Doom "Hell On Earth" tribute or what ? ;) Try just adding a low density red-dark fog and you can have an real unreal bloody ambiance more frightening than the original... the more in last area near the end door with bloody meat everywhere.... brrr...
Gameplay was never boring, and ammos/health/armor/monsters balance was very good, maybe too much items, but anyway, it important to finish the level in a confortable way...
Overall verdict is like others said: the most good evilish level I saw from years ago..
Thanks alot for this pure moment in Hell.. ;) 
Thanks For The Comments 
JPL and everyone else. This release worked out better than I was expecting. My next site update will contain aguirRe's hipnotic mini-pack so anyone can play the map as well as (probably) a fixed start map so the skill select works.

Thanks for the review UWF, I appreciate also your including some background about the story. I thought that in this map the player would be/play as the "specter" mentioned in Poe's story that travels through the castle sowing death - having the player a bad guy instead of a good guy. 
Finally Got Around To Playing This... 
I only found out about it the other week, and then didn't have any of the right engines to run it, so give me a break :)

What awesome work! The map looked pretty great and played even better. I found the start a bit brutal, and there were a couple of trouble spots for me, but I saved often and once I had the rl it became fairly reasonable (skill 2).

I was constantly running out of ammo early on (although I always had grenades, so it was fine) but later on there was more than I could pick up.

It was a great moment when I got the rl, as the horde combat in open areas became even more satisfying. The quad run under the shambler cage was particularly good fun.

Actually, I haven't finished it yet because I was near the end and my gf looked a bit pissed off that I'd been playing quake for half an hour or so - then I fell off the top near the run and quit. I will finish it later.

Performance was ok on my laptop. Generally very smooth, with only some minor slowdown (maybe 20fps or so, so not a big deal) at the top of the level near the RA secret on the rocks. My system specs are modest (2ghz pentium-m, 512mb, gf ultra 6800 go) and I ran at 1600*1200, so I'm not complaining about performance.

I was a bit dissapointed to discover that it doesn't work in Fitzquake. No offense to other engine coders, but aside from the 256 unique models limit, Fitz is by FAR the best engine for SP Quake. I have it running 1920*1200 widescreen and set to look like winquake on steroids (GL_NEAREST with fullbrites etc.) 
Uhuh. 
Actually, I haven't finished it yet because I was near the end and my gf looked a bit pissed off that I'd been playing quake for half an hour or so

Did you sperm up her nose to show you pay her enough attention too? 
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