...so good to see Jack is still lurking. Well done Shambler! 

What do you mean by retro lighting, and what would be better / more modern??

I'm aware it's a bit dark but OTOH I did focus on getting several things hopefully right, e.g. correctly positioned sunlight, proper light sources, some fill lights but not too many, subtle coloured lighting, etc. Keen to know what I missed (apart from still using minlight, if that's retro then I'll stick with retro!). 

Except the cheap spawn in the dark that I heard but didn't see until he'd already knocked half my health off. Good job the little shit fell in the moat.

I only played on skill 1, because I'm pretty out of practice, but I managed to clear the map without too much trouble, although there was a moment where things felt a bit hairy after the aforementioned spawn appeared.

I didn't like that I couldn't shoot the vore through the grating, although it would have messed up the SK area combat I guess. That was pretty fun actually. I love fighting vores.

I made a demo, just because it's you, Shambler.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1S4irtQRbGPKlK4TX7UqVL3RmQEUc1FLZ

Really good first map attempt overall, and I hope shamsp2 is in the works :D 

 

come back!
favourite mapper ever, I think. 

shambler, playing through your first map and really enjoy it. I just saw that there is your second map available here too. Will sure grab it afterwards. Lets hope for number 3 :D 

Thanks for your comments. 

I like the map. The final fight was a bit husrh, but otherwise the map was really cool and fun.

First run demo, skill 1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OYtvAjHAri12XaJvb88h3etmweyf1dT6 

Great first effort, Shambs. Late to the party, as per my custom, but I'm catching up.
While looking for the way to exit the first area (btw, the 3 sides rock door sucks big time) I accidentally broke the map, and I figured you'd find more interesting seeing how I did that than how I died in my first run through the intended route. So there goes:

Speed Demo

happy you finally came around to producing maps. 

Yeah I admit the rock entrance should have been made clearer. I completely underestimated the typical Quake player's determination to ignore persistently ignore an obvious "secret" entrance, marked in 3 different ways, in a small area with no other options, and instead contrive to steep slope climb which never appeared in any Id map nor any custom map as far as I know.... But I learnt my lesson, and also the wise words of negke: "The players are the worst thing about mapping" ;).

If you fancy a catch up.... https://teamshambler.blogspot.com/2019/05/mapping-portfolio.html some may have proper running potential... 

...but I don't.

I've already done some catching up and I gotta say you've got some real mapping skills, mate. Gonna write something thread by thread. Maybe post a coupla demos, too.

As for the secret entrance, it's not that it wasn't obvious enough, but I personally did not like organic stuff as rocks moving like automated doors... I'd have preferred like a func_illusionary or sumthin'...