Excellent map. There's no health supply at all in the last bit but it's fair if you know where to go to get cover. Music is very atmospheric too.

Outstandling visuals, coupled fairly nicely with good gameplay. The massive difficulty spike at the end was a bit much though. Still a can't miss.

Great map. Good ambience and balanced difficult. One of the best ever. Just a Must-Have.

Congratulations.

Works 100% with Darkplaces Engine.
Doesn't work with WinQuake, FUHQuake.
With FTEQuake the map seems that has "sv_gravity 200 or something".

But I found a small bug:

In the keep entrance, where a Yellow Key is required to open an horizontal bar, it's possible to reach that place without the key, by the right stairs and then jumping up to the sloped border.

This level was fun, though it does have some flow issues like Ubermann was saying. Excellent hard to find secret areas, if only because it was so dark. I can't believe I didn't get the bookshelf secret until last :P 5/5 excellent atmo!

If you want to use FTE you have to set cl_netfps to 0.

Always been a fan of Mike Woodham's FMB maps.. just a wholesomeness about them :) recommended!

amazing.

No question, this is a stone-cold classic map. Beautiful to look at, lovely to play, and very high RE-playability. 5/5 is a no-brainer.

Anyone who's not yet seen the sequel (a three-map pack of which this is the first) should get over to https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/fmb_bdg2.html ASAP!

Two questions about secrets.

First, how do I get up to the blue armour in the ogre's balcony very near the start? I've hunted around that library forEVER and not found a thing.

Second, I see the rocket launcher up in a niche on a ledge above the main area, just outside the windows that overlook it from the first room. But I can't start to find a way up there. Anyone got it?

Oh, and while I'm asking: after you drop down from the bridge over the lava onto the ledge from which you reach the lightning-gun secret, how on earth do you get back up?

Oh, scratch that last question -- it's really obvious, I don't know how I didn't see it before :-)

Clue: you need to read a bit more

Clue 2: a shootable button opens the bars on the windows

whoever gave this an obsolete tag has a special place in hell

I'm guessing the "obsolete" tag was a reference to https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/fmb_bdg2.html including an updated version of "This Onion"

This is a common example of how you know you're playing a 5/5 map form the first minute, or as long as you take to reach that first view of the main area throug a spiked window. You know you are at the beginning of something great. Atrociously difficult at the first play, it can be somehow smoothered down with the systematic application of the rocket laucher and the many red armors available through secrets, exploration and a bit of luck, which makes any regular player happier defeating such an impressive level.

Still, there are some confusing shortcuts, some of them can lead to a dead-end (or just a dead player) but at least two of them can cut down the map to one third of the total lenght and it is not particularly difficult to think do or to do it. By using some of these, some secrets are not working or maybe are related to killing a monster I skipped. I guess it is intentional but if something can be broken, I am the kind of silly person that does it.

Anyway this is the kind of work focused on the awesomeness, exploration and challenging encounters more than a science project, I never expect to find 100% of secrets, nor they are a must to finish the level. 5/5.