Ritual

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A single player episode with 6+4 levels and start map

The pak is compatible with original quake.exe and winquake.

Base and Medieval themes with mostly ID textures with plenty of new edits.

Includes a new ambient soundtrack by The Inhuman Host.

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Authors: Zothique and Sock

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Related: Low-Poly, Pixels, and Darkness: The Making of Ritual

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Bravo, bravo, bravo. Very challenging levels almost to the point of getting lost but not quite. Brilliant design and the gameplay ramps up perfectly, lets you breath while keeping you alert. What a great episode and the secrets are also superb.
Played it twice now and the last time I found all the secret levels.
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Osh_93
as a Normal Skill connoisseur, this was an amazing challenge! specially for the secrets, leaving the first map with 0/5 secrets was crushing! but got better as it went on! found 3 secret maps which were satisfying as hell.
This is truly a great vanilla episode!

Thanks to Shadesmaster for posting it on youtube! otherwise I'd have most likely missed it or forgot I have an account here hehe.

Idk what this clip is supposed to convay, but i felt like a world record trying this for 10 minutes till it worked LOL
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Just wanted to add that it doesn't let me change resolution in Quakespasm under Linux for some strange reason. This is the first time (after having played almost every mod out there) I encounter such issue.
Anyway, great gameplay and cool maps. Really enjoyed this one!
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L
Nothing to add that wasn't written before. Great. Thank you for hours of fun.
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Shadesmaster
Loved this mapset!!!! Zothique and Sock have outdone themselves, and The Inhuman Hosts' music was awesome-sauce! had that retro feel, but detailing was way better. Gameplay, pinnacle of less is more.

Gameplay of the whole mapset - including secret levels - is here! I only couldn't find one of those dang crypts, tho!

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ComfyByTheFire
Ritual was a great time, particularly once it starts getting past the sewer bases and into the otherworld maps. It captures the feeling of the original campaigns perfectly, and has fantastic atmosphere, which the soundtrack only helps - it reminded me a bit of Immorpher's work with SMEJ. Some of the secrets were perhaps a bit odd, but that doesn't really matter much, and some were quite good, offering multiple routes to get to them throughout the map/subtly guiding the player. It was also cool to see a remake of a scourge of armagon map in here too - I don't run into that very often.
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J
Not much to add. Excellent work. Worth the time playing this episode.
Thank you to all involved!
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The_Pirate
This is absolutely excellent.

With all the new mods and bells and whistles, it is easy to forget what can be done with 'Vanilla' Quake. But here is a wonderful demonstration.

This magnificent map pack is damn close to perfect.

...There is only one small fly in the ointment: i absolutely hate "GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_LINEAR" ! Sock, how could you do it? Corrupt an innocent young mapper to use... this?

Aaargh!

Apart from that... bloody well done! Thanks for Your effort, and thanks for sharing!

...I have to go secret hunting now...
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termimad
Wonderful Vanilla Action..
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this episode is one of the best I've ever played, it was awesome! please more !
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