hexenstar

My plan at the current pace is to have 2 weekly Doombuilder sessions with Legend-9, which i have been keeping steady, despite other concurrent works. Approaching the end of the ex-refectory map remake, and thus getting that much closer to the Chapels, where the amount of work is infinitely smaller. Still, battle design and testing remain. And now there is re-scripting too, cause i don't want to have this issue of events not being executed due to Doomsday nonsense disagreements with Doombuilder logic. Basically, the map is being remade from scratch, and even though i am at the lower end of ideas, i would never compromise and create bland corridors. As one great character once said: "lot on your knife", LOL.

In the Quake department, the plot most certainly thickens. While addressing the critical sounds of the original was not a huge deal, even despite significant problems and the ways that Quake1 mangles all sound effects; doing so for Quake Combat and Quake 1.5 is a totally different story. Quake Combat in particular. Its soundscape is crude and messy. More so, the creator clearly thought "more is better", while quality and even coherence - can just go to Hell. As another great character said: "Not a great plan" :-) So basically, i have to polish/remake the entire soundscape of Quake Combat, cause having half of it in high quality and the other half of it sound like dirt - is no way to do things. So i am working on that now. It's going well though, the testing is already in the 4th episode and with the exception of a couple of particularly obnoxious ambient FX, which took me a while to trace inside the QC mess - i've been able to tackle all the problems without a hitch. Though i will say, luck was on my side too. Luck, in no lesser way than ingenuity - was definitely at the helm of this journey. The exceptional compatibility of a project like D13, across all of the top-tier Quake adventures (AD, QC, original +expansions) - is something that does not appear to exist in the Quake mod scene. Until now.

I also should be starting the final tests on Unwrath V2.1 asap. Yeah, there is more good stuff coming. More fx that sounded like cockroaches-eating-people-eating-pringles (or is it the other way around, lol?) have been eliminated from the game. And atmospheric polishes in particular. Water effects. Massive fixes on this one. Music remakes for Episode 3. Andrew Hulshult definitely was on to a great trick in Aeon of Ruin with his plan on how to deal with its 2-3 hour levels, but in Episode 3 - he abandoned that idea and started to slack on an intergalactic scale. Also, even his original great idea - he didn't bother too much on maximizing it. Too bad.