Lost and Foundry

Had some fun with this! I think the change from Defenders to Eliminators must have really helped this map, nothing about the enemies stopped me from blastin' and the level progression felt unique (loved walking atop that crane thing) without getting bogged-down with a giant key hunt or multiple paths.

I echo the other reviews in saying that the visuals are pretty lackluster, I liked the idea and visual layout of the rooms but the actual texture choices were very chaotic and all of the texture scaling was a bit unpleasing to look at. I did really enjoy the ending though, getting that little glimpse of medieval bestiary and a skyline was a neat topper to a map otherwise filled with grungy tech-sewer-base aesthetics.

Great effort for a map which I assume is your first. Here's a video of my blind playthrough. I missed a nailgun which I'm sure I just looked over because I'm playing in an overly well-lit room.

Map is not sealed.

Combat is simplistic and I found myself getting stuck on ladders.

Not a fan of the enemies where grenades bounce off of them, especially when I was saving grenades for real tough combat, and ran out of shells and nails, then ended up throwing grenades at grunts that... don't take grenade damage, lol.

Textures were scaled both up and down in some places, making depth perception and overall texture work just look ugly.

If this is a first map, I think the scale and scope of the project is commendable, but I'd be more forgiving if the map had been sealed. It's one of those things where if you don't know what vis is, you just shouldn't be releasing the map.

Very enjoyable. Relatively simple architecture but good layouts for the fights, some fun little set pieces, and paced well.

Very charming old school progression, felt and looked half-life-y in a way with cool setpieces required to go forward. The combat is fun, think there could have been a couple more monsters added to the higher difficulties or even a bigger variety but what was there was good. The sci-fi flavour text like "security X turned on/off" is not immediately obvious as to what door or elevator it corresponded to but it's hard to get lost in the map, so it's not a big issu. A nitpick would be that 2 elevators seem to not allow for backtracking in an ideal way, wanted to find the 5th secret and if it was near the start then one would need to noclip, getting the other 4 was fun though even if they were quite easy. Eager to see future releases!

Good map. Has vibes of 90s map style. Also, reminds Shrak )for Q1) and Juggernaut (for Q2) sometimes.

I would add marks where to go, in case you get lost or you save the map and load it sometime later, you can forget what areas you cleaned etc.