Yeah, I just downloaded that along with all the Add-On maps available in the menu from Bethesda (ie Honey, Punishment Due, Underdark, etc). Might play Sigil first as a warm up for a few marathon Quake sessions. I think reading John's Doom Guy put me in the mood for all this shit.
Also, looking at the whole thing, it's like a blast from the past mixed with the penchant for excess that you see in some of contemporary Quake mapping. I watched one youtuber review AWOL, a standalone Build engine TC, recently. I often disagree with the guy but one this that struck me in his review is that he said how the standards for retro FPS modding changed, how AWOL would have been greeted as a cool mod 15 or 20 years ago but today it just doesn't cut the mustard. And yeah, looking how many projects turned commercial, how major non-commercial projects are still incredibly slick (see Ashes for GZDoom), how many mappers are actually employed in the industry, in Quake's case how often the maps produced by veteran mappers feel incredibly polished and in some cases almost as if one is exploring a virtual art installation (I recently found out that one prominent Quake mapper actually teaches architecture at an university ffs). Peril on the other hand feels like it comes from a different age of maybe GoldSrc or such modding spaces, when you had sole inexperienced authors or small teams creating incredibly huge and ambitious stuff that was often rough af, indiscriminately borrowed assets from all sorts of places, but also offered the sort of raw creativity you couldn't hope to see in commercial projects.
Honestly it's hard to make a bad Quake map due to how solid the foundation is. Quake may not have as many fancy gimmick things compared to its contemporaries (Duke had a shrink gun, Blood a spray can flamethrower, etc) but everything just works. Weapons are solid, enemies are solid, now you just need to combine it all with decent level architecture.
Rock solid. Using the modern source port Ironwail, I've never played a FPS that was so fast and smooth and it's an absolute joy. I had to take a break to recoup my energy while playing The Necromancer's Keep in AD. This thing is just so intense - from falling into bloody pits filled with constantly moving buzz saws you have to dodge while having to fight a vore to falling into another trap where you have to simultaneously fight FOUR vores that are all giving birth to their hungry baby vores looking for nourishment - it's probably the best FPS experience I've ever had. In fact, I played a little of Elementalism yesterday, considered by some to be the Arcane Dimensions of Doom wads, and it played like dookie through a funnel compared to Quake on a modern source port. Couldn't wait to get back to AD.
Pretty sure it's Quake Champions.
