This excellent expansion/6-map pack is brought to us by the talented vIE888, who has graciously allowed me to adapt it to work with the epsilon packs. It's a very difficult, tricky and puzzle-y sort of set, bound to test your brains. Even the first level is pretty tricky to get through (hint: you need TWO tridents, not one)! Another hint: the end sequence text is a joke (as explained on the moddb page, there is no "commercial version"...). Enjoy! And make sure to thank vIE888 on moddb! Full installation instructions and notes on the website or in the expanded description below.
Description:
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This excellent expansion/6-map pack is brought to us by the talented vIE888 (https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-myths), who has graciously allowed me to adapt it to work with the epsilon packs.
It's a very difficult, tricky and puzzle-y sort of set, bound to test your brains.
Even the first level is pretty tricky to get through (hint: you need TWO tridents, not one)!
Another hint: the end sequence text is a joke (as explained on the moddb page, there is no "commercial version"...).
Enjoy! And make sure to thank vIE888 on moddb!
Requirements:
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* Quake Epsilon build
(or any modded darkplaces build with (at a minimum) the quake reforged bestiary skins, shambler castle pk3, rygel texturepack (or QRP texturepack) and dp pretty water mod in your id1 folder).
* Quake Epsilon Mission Pack 1 addon (will run fine without it, but I've designed this to inherit some graphics, settings from the MP2 addon)
* Quake Epsilon Mission Pack 2 addon (will run fine without it, but many textures will look blurry)
* the full commercial version of quake (ie. full-version .pak files copyed into your id1 directory)
* NOT required: full commercial version .paks for quake mission pack 1 and 2
Installation:
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1. Unzip it into your main quake directory.
2. Run the game:
Windows: (double-click) quake - the myths.bat
Mac: (double-click) quake - the myths - mac
Linux: (double-click) quake - the myths - linux
Not-quite bugs:
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1. Not quite a bug, but to get into the room opened by the silver key on the 6th level, you have to jump over the tiny bit of wall at your feet. Otherwise you might assume you're being invisibly blocked. Not immediately obvious.
Differences from original the myths package:
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1. Demo's!
2. Some older models stripped away.
3. A few models added courtesy of Quake Reforged, fragger, lightning hunter, the Shambler castle team/OoPpEe and Seanstar.
4. Handy startup batch files added.
5. Original quake flame models added back in (otherwise any build using the small mod compilation and these maps will have no flames in some places).
6. Start map renamed to start.bsp so the user can start from the menu.
7. .ent and .rtlight file generated for start map to properly differentiate from id1 directory start map.
8. My .lit's and .dlit's added.
9. Alt-dragon and mini-dragon (wizard) skins from Seanstar used.
10. All files extracted from .pak in order to override any files in id1 directory - particularly the myth's progs.dat, which is required to complete the game.
11. Inherits other settings and graphics from mission pack 1 epsilon build if present.
12. Made a rudimentary rtlights for level 3 so that you can see correctly with "Full" lighting enabled.
13. Now has it's own unofficial soundtrack! (except first level, for various reasons, including atmosphere) by Ochre.
14. Fragger's skins updated, touched-up.
15. Updated lighting for map 3.
Sources and thanks to:
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The Myths: Moddb.com
Alt-Monster skins by the Quake Reforged team: Quakeone.com
Alt-dragon/wizard skin from Seanstar: Quakeone.com
QR bestiary dragon skin: Www31.zippyshare.com
Fragger Skins (detail added by me): Quakeone.com
Lightning hunter's Classic Grunt: Quakeone.com
Modified fragger/reforged gremlin: Quakeone.com (since updated in this pack)
Ochre's Fictional Soundtrack: Ochremusic.com
My 'mixed' colour demon mod - modified from seanstar and classic hipoly skins (source for seanstar and classic: Quakeone.com)
Christopher Leary (ochremusic.com) has kindly provided me with the unused tracks that he made for the halflife 2 mod, "Metastasis". I've looped and joined them into a soundtrack for The Myths, along with two of my tracks for the opening level and between-level music.
Google drive link here:
Drive.google.com