I was already glad you ended my most nightmare...that it would be unplayable.
After I had the map finished I altered the secrets, so I had no idea if they would be usefull enough.

Now I'm trying to record a demo, without using them and that's more than an aprehension. I just can't play with +mlook, i'm more a keybordfreak.

Strange enough, the one hom you reached wasn't deletable or the whole map collapsed on too many lightmaps. 

a nice map, it's good to see you're making progress. this level looks pretty good has an interesting gameplay and it is large [i](very imho: large=good)[/i].

and one more thing: I found some good oldskool tricks/gameplay elements in both this map and e4m4 remake that we usually forget to use in modern maps. I won't reveal them and will use them in my new maps. 

E4M4 was mine . . .

But not too good, just a turtlemap. Maybe I'll finish it properly after Warp. 

I already saw Ankh shipgoating to places I didn't held possible.
Glad the level gave you inspiration.

...had to think pulsar sometimes while making the map...

I was playing the DMM newboss and have to admit he's even harder than in my level. And has the proper size to hit. 

I guess I played it in unusual way, will try to record a demo of my route... 

Great you like the level.

Sorry the Polyp has a damage seize of 64 while it is 256.
Restored the screenies. 

That's close to my first run, just for fun.

http://www.primefan.ru/stuff/quake/ph.dz (2Mb)
http://www.primefan.ru/stuff/quake/ph.zip (7Mb)

There's a bug encountered in the demo; a similar bug occurs on the higher ledge above the GL. 

I will take a look. 

Hey Madfox, I played this about 2 years ago, and took a look again. This level has no problems (caves look good) and it was made 2007. Abandon is 2007, but I just read it's all your early work redone into a pack. Both have lots of good ideas and game play, with Phantom being more elaborate. 

Formally the level is right, but some things like the polyp damage only low region could be better. At that time I was jamming with the extra-mod
and wanted something done with the func_water_lift.
It didn't work out so I took the Gondola part.
And something I learned on this board, how to avoid a cubick map without leaks.

Abandon is released in 2004. I made some random changes and created another pak.Most levels were made before 2000 when I had no internet.
As a matter of fact I was surprised to see there was still so much feedback on a '96-game. 

Droog_Andrey@- I watched the demo and must say I'm surprised in how many way people can play a level. When mapping I always tend to give the player's choise a two way options, making the gameflow as wide as possible.

Jumping over the minecache into the shaft was one of the things I couldn't seal off. By taking this track you ended in a gamepath just the opposite that was made. Still I was quiet surprised seeing you getting back through the level.

I must agree the platform nearby the gondola has a bug, there's a hollow brush in the wall.
I had a hard time staying under the max_planes limit while hussling with these failing polys.