I've always enjoyed [Kona]'s imagination in geometry and textures and his ability to create some very interesting and tense worlds. Guncotten is a visual treat and made to be studied. The ambient sounds follow you through and make it feel like you're in the visera of some wacky world far from home. I had fun testing it and playing this current release. The only problem for me was that that final teleport didn't lead to more Guncotten. After staring at an empty buffet table for awhile, having this nice spicy treat show up is a pleasure. 

map-reviewage is posted [along with another map as well].

http://www.planetquake.com/underworld/index.html 

Kona comes raging back with another map that has improved tenfold what it means to be [Kona] style

Amazing, interesting, original and unrepetitious archtecture. You're following an exponential trend in the quality of your maps' architecture, not to mention your genius with texture combinations.

Yes I'm still alive...it's just... nothing's been happing... 

You give the map pack a lot of praise and then only a 16/20? 

I still found the map quite easy to play through on hard skill, more challenging gameplay might have helped here  

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#13 posted by pushplay [24.86.74.102] on 2003/06/13 21:34:06
High quality map from Kona as always.

I took a demo of my less than impressive run through the maps, but something went wrong. My playing of the start map runs fine (and an impressive playing it is). Once the next map loads you can see that map for a second and then it goes to a grey screen with the loading sign on it. All of the messages that should be printed during the demo are within a second. The game doesn't crash, but it doesn't do anything else after that either unless I load another map.

I don't know how to rescue my demo.
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You are gonna need the file that comes with qdqstats17.zip called compile.zip. Inside are programs that can split a single demo on multiple maps, into multiple demos. You can then use your demtool to add playdemo commands at the end of the first demo to link to the second demo. This way, the demo plays back correctly. If this sounds confusing just send me the demo at yuckstuff[at]hotmail[dot]com (too many fucking spammers got my email already). 

Could I send you my multi-map demo too? I don't even have the tools you mention, let alone the competence to use them, but it seems people wnt to see this 'first run through' thing... 

Thought I'd try a Quake level after long time away and get the GP fault noted above. Is this an XP problem or am I doing something wrong? (I haven't done any Quakin' for quite sometime and time dims the memory ...)

Can anyone help?

Regards
Mike Woodham 

mapping thread would be more suited for this question. Anyway, what program are you trying to run that displays this message?

AFAIK, there are no major XP-related Q1 editor/engine/tool problems (I run XP Home myself). The only time I've seen such a strange error message was in Qoole99 and that was definitely a bug in Qoole (and not the only one ...).

[Kona]: I can only add to the others' praise above; another great map with some interesting architecture and gameplay. We want more!

Kell: You might check out LMPC at http://www.planetquake.com/demospecs for demo tools. 

wow... i remember getting that error in doom... no help here though...

also, UWF, your reviews were much better than before, no giving away of the secrets. ;) 

I'm just trying to run the Guncotton .pak from standard Quake.

Ahaaa! Just a mo .... 

OK, I give up.

Tried the Microsoft fix and several others. Seems as though this is a known problem with XP. I'll try GL Quake ... 

not sure that other map deserved a score that high though 

OK, GL Quake works. Pity 'cause I just don't like it, especially the way it handles water. Never mind, I will now play the map. 

winquake.

NT/2000 can't run quake.exe, becuase it's a dos program. 

UWF why dont you post review updates as news ?
I wouldnt know about them If I hadnt checked here and then went to see kona map review (and you have 2 other maps there ) 

I like the way it does water. Doesn't have those broken seams. Also, FitzQuake supports fullbrights. 

i didn't want to have to pimp it myself :) 

i think it was made by metal-something 

are you still working on fitzquake, metl? 

yes, now and then when i have an evening free. It's a lot harder now that i have a job. 

Glad to see you're still mapping Kona. It's been a while since I heard anything from you. Sadly, I went ahead and deleted Q1 from my computer a while ago so I can't play the maps. Screenies look good though. 

There's a friggin easy solution to that: Install Q1 again, damnit! 

That name sounds very familiar, I swear I've spoken to you before on something of a Quakey nature, am I right?

If so : Alright mate!!!
If not: Bah I suck, go away! :) 

That would be really easy if I had the CD, but I don't. :)