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alterworldruler said:
My map17 which is now worked on by Kyka was inspired by Map14 Steelworks from the original TNT. There are certain similarities at the start.

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Megamur said:
Oh, excellent. TeamTNT always threw in a few clever puzzles here and there to break up the blasting. I look forward to having my brain (slightly) twisted. :)

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Pottus said:
The new texture pack version is crashing Chocolate Doom.

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I might get you to change the eye in the second screenie, seeing as those eye textures are intended for the level 30 icon fight. Sorry.

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purist said:
Made some decent progress on Spider Colony today. I think I will be sending the first draft to playtesters tomorrow if I can throw in some additional secrets, fix a few niggles, tweak the gameplay and implement difficulty flags.

I've taken some pics in GZDoom but I've tested for VPOs (none) and SEGS (some, hopefully not crippling) in chocorenderlimits:

I've enjoyed working with the texture pack by the way. Any takers for testing?

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I'd be disappointed to lose those eye screen textures. I've used them in three areas and are a kind of theme. They seemed a good techbase/Hell crossover point. You're the boss though and if it's going to spoil the last map I'll find a replacement for them

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TheMionicDonut said:
It doesnt say you are a tester Kyka.

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I'd be disappointed to lose those eye screen textures. I've used them in three areas and are a kind of theme. They seemed a good techbase/Hell crossover point. You're the boss though and if it's going to spoil the last map I'll find a replacement for them

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OK. Let's leave those eyes in your map for now, and we can always make a final decision later. I would probably rather we keep them for level 30, but I am open to using them perhaps elsewhere also. Generally whoo seems happy enough to let me make a lot of the decisions regarding textures and themes, but in the end, whoo has the final decision on this. So if I decide to only reserve the eyes for level 30, you can always appeal to whoo, seeing as he is the higher authority in this project that me. :)

The only thing I will say is maybe take down the screens with the eyes in them. That way, we won't show the eyes to everyone before we release the final mapset.

And they are good looking screens. Thanks for your work. There is possibly a couple of texture choices I am not sold on, but it looks like a really unique and fun map. :)

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Concerning the eyes, you can keep them in the map, but stick to one variation (ex: don't use COMPEYE1 in one spot and COMPEYE3 in another spot.) The use of it in your map can foreshadow the boss, which the player will be reminded of in MAP30 when they start seeing the eyes again.

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TheMionicDonut said:
It doesnt say you are a tester Kyka.

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Whoo said:
Looking good purist.

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Concerning the eyes, you can keep them in the map, but stick to one variation (ex: don't use COMPEYE1 in one spot and COMPEYE3 in another spot.) The use of it in your map can foreshadow the boss, which the player will be reminded of in MAP30 when they start seeing the eyes again.

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Also TheMionicDonut I'm currently trying to navigate the puzzle in your map. It's quite nice, but with a few problems. I'll detail them in a PM.



He's always been an "unoffical" tester. Regardless, I'll go ahead and add him to the list.

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Do you want me to use COMPEYE more often in map30? I can put it in a few places. Also, you want me to drop one or two in map28? They werent part of the texture pack when I made the map.

Also, New testing version forthcoming, it makes the puzzle a little less...impossible.

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Pottus said:
Map doesn't work in Chocolate Doom Purist... Linedef 2202, 2198 had unknown texture RDDP01

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Pottus said:
Ok quick overview, there seems to be a lot of of missing Upper-unpegged on this map and bad Y-Alignments particularly on the ROCK5 and some of the REDROCK1 it shouldn't take more than 30 minutes to fix all this I would think it's very straight forward.

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Pottus said:
- Zombies don't wake up when you shoot at the start kinda strange
- You can hide in the secret near sector 295 no monsters can get in or effectively shoot in because of the torch

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Pottus said:
- No consequences for taking rocket launcher, plasma, BFG, or SSG
- Plasma and Rocket launcher are too close together

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Pottus said:
- METAL2 panels have TEKWALLG on the sides which I thought was bad use of material design
- Un-natural blocking near sector 104 and 248 recommending using a MID-TEXTURE on those windows

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Pottus said:
- Cyberdemon presented little challenge, you can lure him out and shoot from on the ledge while his rockets hit the wall preventing him from leaving the room he is in would be much more difficult.

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Pottus said:
- Ammo at end of map was way too low I didn't have anything to fight off the arachnotrons
- Also about ammo I found my self doing quite a bit of hunting and it got tedious having to back track to find more

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