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Ionous started way back in the first 100 brush competition. Followed by at least one speed/snail map. One for the Contract Revoked add-on: The Lost Chapters. Then onto jams of various sorts as well as two (?) AD maps. IIRC
Blougsburgh: Nice bug find. I did not encounter that in testing.
Vondur: Thanks for the demo Sleepwalker: First stand-alone release. All my other maps have been part of larger projects. Brassbite: See Pritchard's link. And yes, map jams and AD were were most of my other works are found. Shambler: The modifications to the news post made my morning. The demos made my day. Killed by a windblast. That was fantastic. Topher: Thanks for the demos. distrans: Guy knows his Quake history (as far as my contributions go). 2.5 AD maps (lavatomb, dm5 and half of Magna). such a meticulous little gem!
I managed to break one or two things in this but not to a degree of unplayability. Played on hard, hovered on the edge of death for most of the level. Same for ammo. Pretty harrowing, in a good way. Thanks for creating this. No demo because I'm a shitty non contributing fuck. I messed up a bit. The readme explains.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nzh8yjhklpoayww/brassbitedemo.zip?dl=0 if you look the map in a map editor, this map is like the 768 pack, but with 1024 units
i have to play those maps, i only tried a few minutes I really enjoyed this one. Cramped combat has always been a pleasure to me, and this was flawlessly executed. Not just looking good, but the many doors, panels, and walls that open and close revealing new areas and unveiling monsters. I especially liked the opening and closing ventilation ducts that push you off the platform, making you time your jumps carefully.
There's a surprising amount of gameplay packed in this tiny map, and it sure won't feel tiny. Congratulations on your first standalone map, its a real winner. First run demo, hard skill: http://www.quaketastic.com/files/demos/orl_ion01.rar It's really interesting to see what fits in a 1024^3.
I liked how the title referred to the acid under the level, ein kleines S�uremeer! I was really challenged by the map, and because I'm really bad at Quake even Skill 1 killed me many times. Like any Quake player I think the metal theme is awesome. My only criticizm is pointed at the pushtriggers, as those didn't work 100% of the time. I'm inpressed by how you fit 7 secrets inside the map. I love the name of the map and I have the strong opinion that naming a Quake map is poetry. Keep up the good work! I wanted to drop a beta of my first map soon... ... I find german titles funny, especially because the grammer has a high chance of being messed up! In this case Ionous just didn't have an � and an �.
Played skill 3, 63/67 kills, 4/7 secrets. One of the few maps I didn't feel the need to scrub for secrets on.
First off, very challenging. I was under 10hp most of the playthrough. Monster encounters were constant and stressful. One of the spawns got stuck by the lift at the very bottom when you get the GK and I had to listen to his slimy ass jumping around the pools the rest of the game. But I hate spawns enough that I preferred listening to him jump in endless torment rather than go down and deal with him. After you get the silver key and take the starting vent back up to the main floor, there's a shambler and spawn. I had 7hp and a quick save at that point. I died maybe 10-15 times just trying to get out of the shambler's range when I flew up. Unavoidable damage is never cool. Your dynamic elements were hit or miss. The vents are cool in concept, but I didn't much like them here. Some of the more complicated setups you had worked maybe 50% of the time. I was crushed by the GK lift once for whatever reason. Why did you put the biosuits in the acid? Just forces you to take some damage before you can grab them. The overall vertical/cramped design made for stressful play. Thin walkways coupled with the side vents that push you off said thin walkways made me afraid to press my move keys. The very top space was just an absolute clusterfuck of fiends, vores, knights, and scrags. Definitely wouldn't have survived without respawning HP packs and MH. It wasn't a bad map. The geometry was cool and the dynamic elements (when they worked) were cool as well. But the heavy use of fiends, vores, and shamblers made it stressful enough that I didn't think about exploring or even enjoying myself. I just wanted to survive. Demo Why did you put the biosuits in the acid? Just forces you to take some damage before you can grab them.
OR... you could grab the new biosuit just before the previous one expires. grab them.
OR... you could grab the new biosuit just before the previous one expires. But all the biosuits are in the acid. You MUST take damage at the start, even if you do decide to hop from acid pool to acid pool with the suits. What's intriguing about maps like this one is the challenge of getting mileage out of a limited space. Layout and progression are much more vertical and condensed than in regular maps. Makes for some intresting setups, how to reuse areas, possibly change them by opening up or closing parts, interacting with the environment at different heights, and so on.
Of course, the downside is that often movement and combat suffer since confined spaces can get problematic in Quake with it's speed. Easily feels cramped if the player bumps into walls all the time, or unfair if being cornered by enemies with little room to escape; or if the environment works against the monsters even more than under normal circumstances, up to the point of rendering them useless or negating encounters and ambushes. Should be explored more, I think. Bit of a technical challenge not unlike 100b or 1024 maps.
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