finally, played through ad_obd (not quite blindly, since i remember a thing or two about the original backstein apparently :P) and ad_swapy (100% blind) so here are skill 2 demos.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tyfshnpt5ocxxxh/arcdim_demos_pathogen_part5.7z?dl=0

3 parts for ad_swampy demo since i got kinda derpy at a certain point and thought i had triggered a door prematurely and broken the map.

epic stuff, not much more to say here. thanks everyone for awesome work! 

ok, my final score after an hour of additional wandering around:

http://imgur.com/xxsAZ5J

found 5/8 tomes... i guess that's enough for today :P 

uhh the alias commands (e.g. "feet" to turn off footsteps) don't work for me. please advise kthx 

that alias is a toggle you use post map load. I suspect what you are trying to do is turn them off always...

look in the quake.rc file and modify this section:

//-----------------------------------------------------------
// All of the MOD features can be changed before loading
// Add the values below together and update temp1
//
// 256 Turn OFF item offset (designed for new maps)
// 512 Turn OFF randomly rotate ammo/health items
// 1024 Turn ON particle system (default OFF)
// 2048 Upgrade existing Axe, +75% dmg, gib zombies
// 4096 Upgrade SSG weapon pickups, +50% dmg, uses 3 shells
// 8192 Upgrade LG weapon pickups, Direct + Splashdamage
//
// 65536 Turn ON Player Auto Aim
// 131072 Turn OFF projectiles/casings for Shotguns
// 262144 Turn OFF Z aware monsters
// 524288 Turn OFF Enemy/player footsteps
// 1048576 Turn OFF AI path extra info
// 2097152 Turn OFF Monster liquid damage
//
// For example
// 3072 = Turn on particles and upgrade axe (1024 + 2048)
//-----------------------------------------------------------
temp1 1024 

it seems that quake.rc isn't getting executed, which is why my aliases were not set.

hmmm...shouldn't that just happen automatically? 

was loading mod in game (typing game ad in console)

seems when you do this, QS doesn't load the exec the .rc file 

because re-executing commandlines or restarting demos... again... is really quite annoying.

execing quake.rc on gamedir changes just isn't a viable option for those reasons, and mods really should try to avoid needing it.
unfortunately you can't really depend upon default.cfg either, in part because you can't really depend upon config.cfg being new either.
hence why this quake.rc puts this stuff after the config.cfg file, despite it being flawed... 

I have a front end you guys probably never heard of "Quake On". I'm using Fitzquake 085 and it seems to be working okay. I am stuck in the 3rd map test 3 exploration etc. where the saws are. I can't go any farther 

press the button in the saw room, kill the monsters, and a platform should lower down with an ogre on it. You can ride the platform up to the next level 

I just played ad_test5 and noticed that all the imps were playing exactly the same frame sequence (I was dead at the time!).

Is that planned or unavoidable, because it didn't look very good? Or was it just because I wuz a gonna? 

If they all went back to their idle anim as soon as you died then they would be in sync, surely? Same would happen with any monster? 

AD_Lavatomb not using colored lights or is the litfile broken? 

Seems like ionous doesn't like much colored lights. 

Is the only AD mapper's full name I couldn't decode into a func_ nick. Who are you, freund? 

 

The legacy of pjw/RPG/ztn/czg/JPL is preserved. 

(^ not initials)

Elementary. 

The legacy of pjw/RPG/ztn/czg/JPL is preserved.

If you mean those mappers were sacrificed to The Great Goat to spawn mfx, then yeah. 

Your blood adds to the D�nereater's legacy of mapping skills. 

Under Quakespasm 0.90.1, when loading ad_swamp and at the nailgun room in The Necromancer Keep the map closes and the console says "HOST_ERROR: Ed_Alloc: no Free Edicts (Max_Edicts is 2048)" 

OK, I get it now.

I must admit, I cannot remember having five or six imps hovering over my dead body before.

I started playing through the test maps AFTER I had played the 'proper' maps and it only dawned on me on test6 that I should have played them BEFORE so that I could practice on the new or adapted enemy. Ho hum. 

I just gotta say, the only thing these new maps are yet lacking to be as immersive as a great Dark Souls level is some sort of environmental storytelling. 

...not to have to return to the start map every time but to have all the maps linked as an episode (and no, I don't know what the story line should be). 

the tools are certainly there to do that. The mod was never designed in this fashion because that wasn't really the goal of the mod. I think we'll start to see story focused Quake maps in the future though. 

sock tweaking things to take advantage of DarkPlaces features was something that I was looking forward to checking out. I've always thought it would be neat to see content properly designed for using DP's bells and whistles.

However it sounds like the AD breakables system doesn't work in DP? Which is why those three maps are broken? So I'm curious... do you guys know what is up with that, and is there any prospect of having that stuff work with DP in the future?