yes, it rocks.
large, with funneh gameplay. with GOOD textures.
/me stares at Shambler.

hey u LOTW bitches, go write LOTW for it! 

That's one large map! Beautiful textures, architecture that's fun to jump on... I was surprised a couple of times by some enemies that dropped out of nowhere and nearly killed me...

It's one of those maps where someone from sda makes a speed nightmare 100% demo that you can watch while you enjoy a bowl of popcorn =)

I recorded my first run on the map... I thought I was close to the end when I died but that was wrong... The map never ends! Great! I died short after the "hyper cube" elevator. http://www.mandelmassa.net/other/menk.dz is a 9 minute demo recorded with JoeQuake, which btw had no problems with this map whatsoever! 

hope the dm map will be also great like this one! :) can wait to see that! 

Just played through the map and had a lot of fun. Ammo when I needed it and enough health to survive the last battle... even for me.

Nice map, definatly one I'm going to play again. 

Incredibly enjoyable map. Instant classic. Gameplay was superb and the vistas were very impressive. So naturally I had to go and make a half-assed speedrun of it =)

Here's the easy run of Menk in 4:14. It aint a nightmare100%, but perhaps it's worthy of a bag of popcorn =)

http://myth.as/files/menk414.dz 

mwh was kind enuff to point out a secret quad and a whoppin shortcut, so I made new run. Time 3:39.

http://myth.as/files/menk339.dz

But I'll stop bothering you guys now =) 

I've got all the kills, but only 5/7 secrets. Good job hiding them! (though I guess having a level this big is a good start). 

Kay & Mandel: thanx for demos :) I enjoyed watching them a lot

mwh: well, some secrets there are really hard to find. To be honest they were even harder to find, so thank my betatesters for showing me that fact. If you (or anyone else) want to find more secrets, mail me and I'll give you some keys. 

If you haven't played the map yet you maybe don't want to read this...

I also only found 5/7 secrets and that includes taking a peek in the .bsp :-)

I found 100H in lava, ring in the wall, quad in the roof, YA in the water, secret exit and a red armour in a wall which I cannot work out how to get to. The last secret I have no idea what or where it is.

General comments: Lovely level, and that includes the lighting. The look and feel were consistant and good and even though I despise jumping puzzles I didn't find these too hateful.

I agree with something Shambler said which was that there were so many decorations that looked like they should have been secret openers that I soon got fed up even trying to find secrets. :-)

Great fun. 

heh, the last secret is 100H in the corridor leading to the large hall. It's in the one of traps where walls drop to reveal ogre and 2 hellknights. Look up often there, you'll see the secret and the button somewhere near (also close to the ceiling)

And the RA secret opens by the button (brick with a different texture) that you may find near the water (look back when you get out of water)

And thanks for other comments:)
Anyone for nightmare run? 

i love to make, but my perfect configs is in fuhquake in joequake i can make bunny as well as in fuhquake :( i�m a dm player that somethimes play single... 

and in multiplayer with joequake give this error!<<SZ_GetSpace: 8014 is > full buffer size>> there is no way to fix it? 

for more info and solutions. It's probably fixable in the map, but it might not be easy. Most likely it'll affect gameplay in Hard skill. 

Even with your hints, finding the button for that 100H secret was pretty tough :-)

Great map, btw. Who's going to take on the NH? 

What about trying to get to the switch overlooking the lava pool much sooner, e.g. using multiple Voreballs to get up there?? 

That sounds possible, but probably somewhat difficult. If the map was added at SDA we may get to see it. But I'm not gonna run it unless there's a record to break =) 

I'm not going to bother doing anything unless it increases my cocksize! 

Whell in that case, judging from the evidence one can only assume...

*drumroll*

...that you've never done anything, ever! 

YES!

(come on, beat that!) 

This map is huge. Although not really a fan of egyptian themed maps in Quake 1, I like gameplay of this one, visuals being solid. 

Those links lead to (most probably) spyware nowadays. At least in a Gecko browser (Firefox, K-Meleon) clicking on them wants to install a addon. Here:

Download:
http://pulsar.quaddicted.com/maps/menk.zip
http://www.quaddicted.com/filebase/menk.zip

Screenshots:
http://pulsar.quaddicted.com/files/menk1.jpg
http://pulsar.quaddicted.com/files/menk2.jpg
http://pulsar.quaddicted.com/files/menk3.jpg

PS: I really love this map. It's got so many different aspects of Quake gameplay stuffed in it. 

fixed the URLs 

That makes me feel old.

Still an awesome map! 

Sock, I guess you saw this one but in case you dont... it uses yours egypt textures! 

just don't look at comment 4.