could be called the crucible for its difficulty. sprawling, distinct zones. memorable map. recommended.

Dripping with atmosphere. High quality!

Absolutely Awesome on every level! Can't say enough good of this! (Actually, I'd have preferred a more evocative name... but you can't have everything, I guess)

Wowee that was a great map. 5 outa 5 for sure!

Missing a bunch of sounds... is there something else I should have downloaded?

You're on Linux, right? You'll need to rename the sound/MarkieV1 directory to be all lowercase.

negke: not exactly, because Heresy mixed a few different "spellings". If Solomoriah renames it to markiev1, additional links for Markiev1 (lowercase v) and MarkieV1 (uppercase v) will also be needed. I don't know if mappers have a tool to postprocess their maps and fix those kind of errors automatically. It would be very easy to code and they wouldn't need to worry about that while doing their actual mapping work.

I absolutely loved this map, although one of the puzzles worried me. I had just quit on two of Smilecythe's maps because of speedy puzzles that are really not my thing and I hope this doesn't become the next Quake trend, it absolutely ruins otherwise great maps for me. Luckily the less fun parts stopped right there and then.

The rest is magnificient, not far behind Leptis Magna as far as greatness goes. The map is absolutely beautiful, huge, full of enemies and secrets, and extremely varied. Thank you so much for this map Heresy!

Oh, that's perfidious! Solomoriah, try this: (http://http://quaketastic.com/files/singleplayer/maps/adheresp1-linuxhotfix.zip/ "adheresp1-linux_hotfix.zip")

..... I MARKDOWN SPIRIT

http://quaketastic.com/files/singleplayer/maps/adheresp1-linux_hotfix.zip

Fixed the sound issue with "ln -s" to make a symbolic link. Thanks for the help.

BTW utterly fantastic level.

Beautiful textures, nice map.

"mod_loadleafs: 76834 exceeds limit of 63335" error running this in quakespasm with AD1.7

^ i am an idiot, was using previous quakespasm version.

Amazing map.

Those rock textures really help with the complexity of the cliff faces while requiring only simple shapes.

It's a pity that this Dark Jewel has not received its "official" portal in new Arcane Dimensions 1.8!

Wow, what a map. Thick atmosphere, gorgeous evil flair, perfect sounds and the gameplay was lots of fun too.

This map should be in arcane dimensions

Brilliant map, certainly the best 'non official' arcane dimensions map - and, as other commenters have said - absolutely deserving of its own portal in Arcane Dimensions.

My only slight niggle is the use of LOTR art which takes me out of the 'Quakeverse' somewhat - I ended up using some concept art of Cthon run through an AI tool instead for my textures: https://storage.googleapis.com/nightcafe-creator.appspot.com/jobs/u2esboDaxD9yuUD4Lj6j/u2esboDaxD9yuUD4Lj6j.jpg

Visuals are gorgeous, and gameplay is varied and challenging without becoming a slog. Great bossfight too.

Link above should be https://storage.googleapis.com/nightcafe-creator.appspot.com/jobs/u2esboDaxD9yuUD4Lj6j/u2esboDaxD9yuUD4Lj6j.jpg

Apologies!

Obviously gorgeous, but I think the other big AD maps outclass it in terms of gameplay. Partly due to the sometimes unintuitive, timewasting puzzles.

Not a fan of the bossfight either. The way you deal with the Chthon is just weird, find a safe spot and snipe the windows with the RL, ok, whatever, sniping was always my favorite part of Quake, gg... The monsters summoned after Chthon is "defeated" were merely perfunctory.

Don't mean to be too negative, it's a great map, just not a personal fave.

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That was easily in my top 5 maps.

Can we have an updated version which runs with AD 1.81?