I'm having problems using my home office because we way passed thermal sensation of 40 Celsius every day here. A pleasant mountain weather. Like Mount Vesuvius erupting.

Still, I could play ad_crucial, ad_dm1, ad_lavatomb, ad_obd and take a look at some test maps. Finished dm1 and crucial.

I started by ad_dm1 for the emotional memory. Also because I like to see Fifth's designs. Having played some dm1 remakes, I can't recall better gameplay than this one. The level is interesting, with lots of nice little moments and many layers of enemies. But the expanded parts don't seem to fit classic dm1 area, imo. Dm1 is all corridors and rooms (except for that lower open area), the new spaces are big courtyards. The level feel "patched". The final result is a very pretty and enjoyable level, though.

MFX's Crucial teached me how proper base mapping should be. I lived a true adventure there. That Dark Forces' flying sentry is an awesome enemy. It's interesting to see tight spaces that don't feel cramped and dark spots that don't look poorly done. It's great to play against a number of weak to average enemies and not get bored, quite the opposite. It takes tr00 level design to do it right. Thanks for the lesson. I missed a more epic ending, but nevermind.

(lunch time over, brb). 

Here is a year and a half well spent. I can only imagine the amount of energy you put in this and can only be grateful. Be sure every minute was worth it. We mappers now have a wide variety of weapons and enemies to tell our own tales. 

I am still progressing through this level and its pure joy. I love the visuals and pacing. Lovely game design and a little bit of story layered in to the map making it feel like some lost child or Hexen and Quake... I would have paid money for this package from you guys for sure. I would love to see making of videos for each map and what went through your heads when making these spaces. The new enemy additions are great and inject so much life into this game. I wont be surprised if this mod becomes the new base level for all future SP Quake maps. Such a good foundation of tools to create tons of compelling new levels with great gameplay. Lovely Xmas gift! Thanks to everyone that had a hand in making this pack! Its full of so much win! 

That end level.
And its intermissions. 

3 lame demos:

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/demos/ad_dm5_lava_obd_adib.7z 

Well thank you everyone for your feedback and demos so far, it has been awesome to see what people think of the MOD.

I plan to be gone for a while so if there are any questions, problems or stuff, hopefully the rest of the AD team will jump in and help.

I highly recommend you download the latest patch as it does fix a lot of issues with DP and scaling of monsters for higher skill levels.

I hope everyone had loads of fun with the final map by MFX!

I wish everyone here a happy new year! 

I have to thank the previous commentor, Sock, it was an awesome experience doing things we love together! I thank you and everyone involved for all the experience shared, all the insights i've got from you guys is priceless and unforgotten.

Ijed! Spirit! Ionous! Scampie! Lunaran! my precious testers, you were golden.

I salute you, and sock.

May you live long and prosper. 

i forgot, Qbism Super8 supports the mod now too!

https://qbism.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23&sid=f4c0cfe7ee6879f67e70fe04ab598f9c

For all you pixelconnaisseurs... 

nah, im not drunkk 

Cruical Error (ad_cruical) - 2nd attempt
Gave this map another go, and when I was at the point where I got stuck last time, I just found the way forward immediately (it was a fairly hard to see small opening but the monster trail kinda guided you to it). Anyway, finished the map fine. For some reason shotgun combat feels satisfying now because of the projectile shot, so I didn't get bored plinking away at all the grunts and enforcers, and really loved it once I got my mitts on some meaty guns. Brushwork was truly splendid, as is the mfx way.

Smash and Grab (ad_test1)
Yeah, yeah - I know, test map - but it's very polished like a typical sock map. Exploring this map to hunt down all the monsters and secrets is great fun and it would be a totally valid campaign map if access to the exit was held off until a little later.

Arena Town (ad_test6)
Again, polished. There's a lot to see and do. Visually fantastic. Shitloads of exploration and 120 monsters to hunt down. With a few changes to the player routing to make the journey to the exit more structured, this would be one of my favourite sock maps. 

For some reason shotgun combat feels satisfying now because of the projectile shot, so I didn't get bored plinking away at all the grunts and enforcers....

Dude, that is what we thought dudes would love, dude. 

I tested something? :O

Guten Rutsch! 

of course you tested some "areas" of the bog. Slide well, mhahaha! 

AD_Swampy... this map torments me. 400 out of 428 monsters dead. Access to the exit portal but I am still missing 6 of the 8 tomes?? Man what evils is this... anyone care to share some tips on finding the rest of these suckers? or at least where is some silver keys? Love the map but dang its massive... I hear the evil chanting sound and know books are close behind locked doors with no way of getting to them! 

I'm reigning that swampy Grizly Grotto as if I lost my diary Beyond Believe. 

(see my previous post, I really want to experience that mod at its fullest) 

MarkV or Darkplaces?

If you really want to stick to Quakespasm, are you sure that in its commandline you have included the argument "+set max_edicts ###" or the like as recommended in the readme? 

Ok so 7 tomes have been found... so one left to go! I have a door left to open that uses a purple key... and I have 16 ut of 25 secrets found and 5 monsters left to kill ha. I've had a great time so far with this map. Now to find this last bit. 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9cN5yUBCeP5TkhOOHdybGRHeGM

I haven't watched these, so I hope they are not screwed up. 

"You need permission"

great link Zwiffle 

https://i.imgur.com/wW1dH66.gif 

I DO have permission. 

Then no wonder the rest of us cannot get to the files, dead men only have access to dead files... us living souls cannot access dead files without dying, thankfully Google is there to save us from your evil zombie trickery!

RIP 

Yea found em all and got my reward. And almost all the secrets. This map was soo good. 

Putting "+set max_edicts 2048" into the .bat file I use to execute quakespasm (because somehow quakespasm doesn't remember "sndspeed 44100" and "fov 105" even if I put them into an autoexec file, and that's fucking annoying) doesn't do a damn thing, the error is still there. And I'm using QS 0.90.1 as stated in the readme.

Maybe you guys should've done more tests, as for now Darkplaces seems to be the best candidate.