oh, in 141:23 including my massive (and unsuccessful) secret hunt at the end. 

That new Scrag Boss is the fucking coolest and Quakest looking addition since Quake itself. That pisses all over 95% of custom additions for sheer style, quality and aesthetics.

Just found that chap now. I think one of Lunaran's creations from that project he teased waaaayyy back? 

 

 

Boss Scrag model and animations are from Lunaran (Zombie Knights were too), but it's code is completely different in AD than it was in Lun's project. 

Is accessed via the same underground area where the key is. That gives you two rooms and a hallway to search. 

Up to 21/25 in....errrr.....3:15 hours. Only 7/25 during actual gameplay. The only thing I'm aware of I haven't got in is the "Opens from the other side" door in the lower swamp. One of the alcoves has an unlit torch but I can't get it to do anything.

As for the map, spectacular design, unbalanced gameplay. Early traps and later spawners needed more testing. I went from running around with 6 HP to having 2 YAs in a row, from passing 6 health pots to axing a Shambler with 20hp. The boss arena I couldn't make myself finish in one session and had to come back to it. The exploration on the upper areas was cool and the exploding room was brilliant especially as I'd just tossed a couple of Gs in there to get rid of wizards and did not expect THAT much destruction.

Now that fucking door.... 

in ad_magna I found a thing where grenades fall through the geometry, it's where the floor thing collapses.

a demo of said bug

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/108695968/hole.dem.zip 

Is in that small room with the locked door. And requires no special triggers to find... 

218:46 22/25 250/251.

Pheew! Let's Quake on sunday (aand monday!). What an epic adventure. This is no map. It's a maze! a full adventure GAME! Found the 'Serpent' Key quickly, but took me 2 more hours to finally access it! Thank you for this amazing puzzle experience. Final battle was to hard for me even on easy, until I found my way to the rafters... Gosh. Many deaths and quickloads but no demo, sorry. Believe me: I bow down to this magnum gift. Emotion and tears rush to my eyes facing how vivid and fresh the 'old' Q1 is still today thanks to the incredible creativity and patience of master mappers like you guys. PuLSaR and Ionous (love your dane), I give you my hottest burning Quake hug!

Last time I was sweaty like this after a Quake run was in Swampy!
And about Swampy I wonder if the last door to exit (4 runes found) is fixed in AD 1.5 on easy. In AD, I had to noclip my way through it to access the final slipgate. 

Cheers Ionous At Work. A rare secret that isn't a ledge jump or a button (I thought that was the theme of the secrets).

205:00 24/25 488/488 and that's enough for now. Will go back and do a skill 1 run at some point. 

Sock's new start map is wonderful! The design is the highlight of AD aesthetically....maybe. But really fucking cool anyway. 

I'm glad that the snowy Jam 2 map got reworked for this mod. It might be my favorite Quake map ever, only rivaled by Day of The Lords.

I thought the original was somehow more cozy than the AD version, but maybe it's just baby duck syndrome. The new final setpiece is very cool. 

requires to look at the direction nobody ever looks in quake. 

Somehow, I enjoyed 95% of Arcane Monstrosity this time
Yeah lots of subtle changes to the layout, more ground space, better monster timings and some new and old secrets. All the jims up to the final battle are much easier as they use a new height key system.

Arcane Zendar - a hell of a lot tougher reboot than Arcane Monstrosity (although I only died twice at the Scrag) but as fun as ever. I took yet a different path to my other 3-4 vanilla playthroughs. New scrag AI is a bit annoying. New Ogre z-aware AI seems sensibly toned down.
The extra garden event was added for players who played the original and would probably be playing on automatic by now. The ogres are setup different than normal with brown skin one's not having Zaware functionality and the metal ones are full on grenade to the head zaware!

Sock's new start map is wonderful! The design is the highlight of AD aesthetically....maybe. But really fucking cool anyway
Thanks man, very much appreciated. I did a mini 24hrs mapping crunch session to complete it before release, so its a bit rough around the edges. I assume everyone has tried the new start map while holding a rune? ;)

So I am planning a patch before xmas to address some of the code bugs and to include the final map for AD 1.5 The forgotten Sepulcher by Henrik which is a crazy bsp2 150K marksurfaces monster!

Some screenshots 1234

If anyone has ideas, feedback or constructive comments about stuff that should be fixed then please let me know. Also if you post any comments you got to tell me something you like about the mod at same time! Got to balance out the moaning! :P 

Haven't checked the thread to see if anyone mentioned this, but I found an issue with breakable pop-in in mfx's new map (the ikwhite jam2 remake). When I first descended into the underground area, some breakable wooden panels that some ogres are supposed to break didn't appear at first, but popped in when I got closer. Then the ogres (which I didn't see behind the invisible wood) broke them and gameplay proceeded as normal. No demo so you can't see for yourself, sorry. :( No other issues with breakables popping in that I found.

Aside from that, no complaints! If these levels aren't all over Kotaku, PC Gamer and RPS et al soon I'm gonna be disappointed. If not, well, maybe in a couple generations kids in universities will be studying these maps, if this civilization doesn't collapse first. ;) 

#80 - Same thing happened to me. :( 

We can't even beg a fucking retweet from Romero about Arcane Dimensions, fuck off with thinking of any games news sites to cover it.

As long as the actual Quake community plays it and enjoys it, that's all that's needed. 

AD is of a higher caliber than many games, not to mentions mods.

Maybe AD just needs trendy, self-referential "hurr-durr it's teh 90s" type marketing so the kids will take notice. 

game journos will be sure to talk about it then. 

I don't think that expecting press coverage for every major update is very realistic. AD is a big deal in this community, but at the scale of the mainstream gaming culture it's just another niche.

People finding it interesting and talking about it from time to time is already quite good.

BTW, is bloom still being overused? I thought it was a late 00s thing, when the consoles weren't powerful enough for a passable level of detail. 

If anyone has ideas, feedback or constructive comments about stuff that should be fixed then please let me know.

My models aren't up-to-date.

Although if you want the SSG pickup to necessarily be blue, then I'll have to repaint the latest version, since it's brown.

Also if you post any comments you got to tell me something you like about the mod at same time! Got to balance out the moaning! :P

ad_magna is super neat. 

Can I ask what is the smallest / shortest ad map? 

I did a quick(!) run through the first 3 offerings yesterday night, fantastic stuff!!!
There's a couple of things about Leptis Magna that I'd like to point out, since a bugfix release is in the works.

After the exploding tower, before finding the gold key for good, I went for the rooftop to get all the stuff up there: after the first secret, going for the 2nd I saw it was possible to drop down and get the red armour encountered previously (I'm fairly sure this is not the intended way to get this secret).
Problem is, the only way down is now dropping in the courtyard but the Blue Key door is still sealed by the ambush grates and I have no way(did not find it anyway) of getting back up and resume the quest.
Had to noclip just so I did not have to start from scratch.
Later, though, I noticed that jumping on top of the exploded tower had it crumble a little more and doing so dissolved the ambush grates, is this intentional?
My guess is that the grates are meant to open/dissolve after the explosion of the tower, but somehow the deflagration did not destroy enough scenery to trigger the event... Hope this can be of some use... 

I think one of Lunaran's creations from that project
Yes indeed, the model is from lunsp2 (never released) and with Lunaran's permission for use.

3 maps played so far: azad, tfuma and magna, but yeah we should feel amazingly privileged that Quake is getting this much love poured into it (and I'm sure we do!) Thank you, very much appreciated.

I found an issue with breakable pop-in in mfx's new map
This is a MFX bug, there is a trigger there which enables the breakable. Not super critical and probably be fixed by MFX at some point.

If these levels aren't all over Kotaku, PC Gamer and RPS et al soon I'm gonna be disappointed
Mainstream media has no time for Quake Community made MODs, in the grand scheme of things we are just a niche community creating content for a long forgotten game. Quake is also too complex and annoying to setup for most modern people.

As long as the actual Quake community plays it and enjoys it, that's all that's needed Indeed! :)

My models aren't up-to-date
Not critical, the current models work fine.