In celebration of 20 Years of Quake, Executive Producer Jerk Gustafsson from MachineGames (Wolfenstein The New Order 2014), released a custom singleplayer mappack called "Episode 5: Dimension of the Past" last week. It contains nine small to medium-sized levels of various themes including a start map, a secret map and a deathmatch arena.
Quake 20 years anniversary – a new single player episode of Quake
Episode 5: Dimension of the past
START – Dimension of the Past – (Introduction level)
E5M1 – The Military Base – (Easy: 34, Normal: 43, Hard: 51) (Secrets: 6)
E5M2 – The Power Supply – (Easy: 54, Normal: 69, Hard: 78) (Secrets: 5)
E5M3 – The Dark Days – (Easy: 43, Normal: 53, Hard: 59) (Secrets: 5)
E5M4 – The Catacombs – (Easy: 58, Normal: 75, Hard: 86) (Secrets: 7)
E5M5 – The Stronghold – (Easy: 42, Normal: 54, Hard: 59) (Secrets: 5)
E5M6 – The Underworld – (Easy: 49, Normal: 61, Hard: 69) (Secrets: 4)
E5M7 – The Otherworld – (Easy: 48, Normal: 63, Hard: 68) (Secrets: 5)
E5M8 – The House of Doom (Secret level) – (Easy: 32, Normal: 39, Hard: 45) (Secrets: 1)
E5END – The Year Zero – (Easy: 15, Normal: 20, Hard: 25) (Secrets: 2)
E5DM – The Theater of Doom (Deathmatch level, 2-6 players)
Editor used: Worldcraft
Installation:
Create a „dopa“ folder in your Quake directory
Extract all files to the new folder: Quakedopa
Start the dopa.bat file (new demo indicates it started correctly)
Start a new game
Jerk Gustafsson
June 22, 2016
The mappack is a mix of Quake 1 original and later fan mapping trends. Unchanged are the Q1 textures, monster, sounds and soundtrack, to get the retro feel alive. The gameplay is very fluid. It also has good visuals and nice ideas and fights in it. Some secrets are hard to find. I played Q1 right before the new mappack so i can say for sure its a good one. For reactions of the release surf to the mapping site
func_msgboard.
The choice of the engine client it is up to you.
Quakespasm, DirectQ, Dark Places or even a QuakeWorld client like ezQuake will probably do it.
I prefer Quakespasm for Linux, Mac and Win 32/64.
Some tips
Play with crosshair on - crosshair 1
Play with shadows on - r_shadows 1
Play with old soundtrack - steam
Play with a slightly better looking HD Shambler - func_msgboard
Vertical autoaim off & swim faster - quaddicted
Get it, play it, celebrate Quake!
Links:
twitter announcement,
quaddicted download
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it just needed a proper coverage.