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From its initial release to right now, I'm still playing this pack. There was so much I missed my first time around, and am now going back and trying to find everything. A mod of this size just insists replay-ability, not to mention the maps which in my opinion, have more atmosphere and heart put into them then anything I have seen in a long time, even in recent titles.
The only other release that could possibly rival this is Rubicon Rumble pack. I even said at the time of its release that nothing could top it, but this may have accomplished just that. The amount of content in this mod is just staggering, this isn't a mod its an expansion, a game all on its own. If there is someone new to Quake and they just finished the original campaign and are craving more, this will be the first mod I direct them to. I have only one gripe, and sadly its a big one. I did not enjoy the changes to the shotguns, making their shots projectiles. It completely threw me off my game, and in the end I wound up missing my targets more often than hitting them. That's the only thing I would change, to give them back their standard behavior. This one's a real Hall-of-Famer. Congratulations to all who are involved, you should be very proud of what you have accomplished. Actually I was going to post the two things i liked best about the mod (other than new levels) is:
1. the new sg/triple sg. Partly due to the increased damage - it feels like I finally levelled up after 20 years of playing, and can now blow old id monsters away. But I got used to the projectile sg and quite liked how I had to aim slightly ahead of fast moving monters. It adds a small increase in skill required. 2. breakables For me Arcane Dimension sits there as a perfect foundation for future maps now as well. I look forward to what crazy settings folks come up with because even now I think folks have barely scratched the surface with what can be done using all the custom func / deco and sound tools along with the plethora of particle and trigger entities. The audio and visual landscape has a ton of new tools to play with and the gameplay... much fun in store!
Should be studying the test levels now.
Still, I miss a better boomstick. Maybe Daya's pistol, who knows. I agree with Kona's two good things (projectile shotties & breakables).
Have now finished mfx's and sock's maps, found all the runes, only, what another 5 to go, oh and the 11 test maps... How can I tell which maps I finished? Some particles changed to slow drifting grey ones, is that it? I cannot tell what the remix maps tell me, I know I played one of them but they still look active with some yellow particles. Crucial is missing the same indicator I believe?
can we rename this to New Q1SP Mission Pack rather than mod. There is more gameplay here than in either scourge or dissolution.
@ijed, I think you have been a developer too long! There is certainly a lot of broken stuff in this MOD but there is also plenty of cool stuff. Also I never make maps to rush through, there is always layers of stuff waiting for explorers!
@orl, wow thank you for the compliment! The Shotguns changes can be reverted back, console command "impulse 130" or "upgproj" or add 131072 to the temp1 variable in quake.rc @Kona, my 2 favourite things in this mod, is breakables and minions! I love that there is plenty of different monsters which spawn more monsters! It creates a lovely feeling of chaos! @Skiffy, well the source is freely available, anyone can use it as a base for their own projects if they want. I am sure there will be maps released which require AD as a dependent. @spirit, the only information passed between AD maps is runes and they are shown in the room below the skill pillars. I decided to keep all the maps open so everyone can re-play them with different skill levels and pick and choose what they want to play. In hindsight it probably would have been a good idea to show progress in some way in the start map, oh well! :D Ah, I could have sworn the particles changed :D
Dear Lunaran and Baker, Quakespasm does NOT record over reloads. SpiritQuaddict was squished Quickloading... Loading game from /home/me/.quakespasm/ad/quick.sav... Completed demo Host_Loadgame_f calls CL_Disconnect_f calls CL_Disconnect calls CL_Stop_f calls which stops the recording, at least if I understood it all correctly. :( They said it continues recording over death and map change, not loading a save file. AFAIK, no engine handles that.
Maybe you modern people like to restart the whole map each time you die. I quicksave and continue from that...
Still playing this mission pack too. Seriously incredible stuff, I keep replaying all of the maps. A lot of the vibe reminds me of Castlevania, which isn't a bad thing at all. Favorite thing to do in the whole map pack is using the shadow axe for all of Necrokeep until finding the plasma gun, then using that whenever the situation presents itself. Can't wait to see new maps made with this mod in the style of Warpspasm where the plasma gun becomes the primary weapon.
@spirit -- like Scampie pointed out that wasn't what we were talking about.
Maybe you modern people like to restart the whole map each time you die. I quicksave and continue from that... Mark V doesn't need you to quick save. Type load a0 (90 seconds before death), load a1 (3 minutes before death) or load a2 (4.5 minutes before death). The only reason I wrote that feature:
One time I was in the middle of a really good Skacky map (mapjam1?), had played for 45 minutes I didn't have it in me to redo all of that gameplay. It's an emergency "I forgot to save" fallback to prevent that scenario. The first auto save, (less than 90 seconds ago) isn't necessarily enough time to avoid your doom. Hence, 3 auto-saves spaced apart by 90 each. Just to avoid the "I invested in a hour in this great map and forgot to save" problem. FWIW I think sock may be working on a patch that will make AD usable with software-renderer engines.
I get all my playing done with Quakespasm, i saw a screenshot MFX posted of the mod running in qbism so I wanted to try it out.
patch that will make AD usable with software-renderer engines
Indeed, patch 2 will be finished in a week or two and fix AD to work with WinQuake engines. In the meantime be careful downloading patches from other sources, they are not fully tested.
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