bal: Whoa, sexy!

dans: Short but fun! Really liked the Serious Sam vibes at the beginning.

fairweather: Most fun gameplay! I loved the "agility puzzle" part, this kind of stuff is way too rare and rarely done so well. Also on-point monster encounters. I am looking forward to playing more from this mapper!

ing: Not sure... I loved the plain brushwork for the moving parts parts. But then I reached those two teleporters, went through one, had to backtrack a LOT and now I am all out of ammo and there are tons of monsters. Gotta try again but I am not sure the progression works if the map is meant to be played for perfection (again and again). The start part would be too normal for me then. Please don't ever use the Quake intro/demo track for a proper map again...

I don't usually comment on a speedmapping pack until I've played all of it... but bal! WHAT a map! I loved it!

Ack. Another map by Danzadan where I can't save the game without crashing Quakespasm. If Darkplaces worked better on my system, I'd be happy.

Fairweather: Nice map. I couldn't find the extra key needed to enter the Forgotten Grotto, so I cheated my way in... and in my opinion, it's the best part of that map. Almost too bad that you can finish the map without visiting it.

Shambler's map is really nice; love the giant-sized, nay, cyclopean aspect of it. But I ran into an issue leaving the level... riding the last lift up to the teleport thingy, I kept "hitting" something and the lift would go back down. No idea what I was hitting.

OKAY, so one last comment... uKKo's map is beautiful! I loved the last bit in the theater; even though the level was basically over, it was kind of surreal and cool.

What means "speedmapping"? I very often see strange packs without preview, but I dont know, what I have to expect from them. Maps for speedrun? But here I dont see unique speedrun-features. Fastly builded maps? But here I see maps with a lot of details on big objects, they dont see as fastly-builded. What means "speed"?

It means maps made within a short time frame. Originally two hours, then a couple of hours. The last few packs were made in a couple of days.

Modern quake editors allow to create so big and detailed maps so fast? Very nice. Ish, caverns and switches looks like early versions of Tomb Raider, very nostalgic. Ing, please, twice more powerups... healths, ammo etc...

Greate pack! Bal and Ish maps alone are 5 stars!

Playthrough of Upturning the Jeweled Chalice by ionous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYcKynvBobM