Insomnia and Zerstorer, and Warpspasm are my all time favorite map packs for one reason. They fill me with a feeling I can’t quite put my finger on. It’s like a mixture of apprehension and lethargy in the pit of my stomach. Whether or not it’s pleasant is debatable, but it’s an effect which adds immeasurably. I call maps packs like those “oppressive”, since I can’t come up with a better word for it. It’s not a bad thing. If anything it makes finishing a map EXTREMELY satisfying, and surviving each fight is at least as much an accomplishment.
Thanks for help to get this secret in Subgud, i have thought it’s a bug that this door / wall isn’t opening after shooting the sign at the floor. Once i have even put there a granade not knowing it’s the issue, but probably i was looking in other direction and haven’t seen the opening (it’s really shortly!).
Now i still have problem to find how to get the secret in the 3rd map, this shelf with the ogres, i guess there is other way than rocket jump.
I’ve played dozens (hundreds?) of maps and packs from this site and this has the best start map. Warpspasm is a semi-close second, but these two start maps are miles ahead of any other pack.
I know EXACTLY the feeling Lord is talking about, and I love it too. When a map stops feeling like Quake and starts to feel like an ordeal you’re desperate to survive, other packs just seem… lesser. Petty may be a better term.
KEEP IN MIND: A pack dragging on is not the same thing. Nothing feels repetitive, the fights are always fresh and different from the others, and the item balancing is all but perfect. I had fun until I was a whole new level of immersed, and then I continued having fun.
God, I love this pack.
Oh, and if you’re looking for secrets or nightmare mode, it usually takes me about ten minutes in a Warpspasm map if you use noclip. If you aren’t having any luck finding a secret, just open the console, type the word NOCLIP in and hit enter, and you’ll start walking through walls. set a couple of keys to swim up and swim down, as that’s the only way to move vertically in noclip. Items that move become transparent when you’re inside of a wall. That means monsters and many traps, but more importantly it means doors and buttons as well.
I record dirty walktrough of Insomnia with 100% secrets and kills.
Demos recorded using modified Quake engine, showing outlines of
invisible objects for finding shooting position of first attack,
and some more “improvements”. I’m not going to use this engine
for multiplayer or other fraud, only for development of “tactic”.
I am now too lazy to clean walktrough and record the demo on an
unmodified engine.
