E1M8
- Crosses replaced with windows into tenta-tech paranoid pareidolia.
E3M5
- Final room changed into a generic, secular meeting hall. Pews are now large... brain... tentacle... things... slightly dressed up to match the classic brown decor.
Map12
- If you look out the window from around (672,1056) there's another visplane crash. That entire corridor has been greatly simplified, as well as a few things visible from that window and some nearby items.
- The switch lift is now activated on the lift itself. Computer panel stuff replaces the switch so that wall doesn't look so empty (which I can only infer was what motivated this unusual setup).
* levels: fix e1m2 tutti frutti around exit door.
Also took the liberty of fixing a longtime pet peeve I had about the really bright grey-white of the exit room steps clashing with the rest of the room for no apparent reason. (It looks less bad with Korp's new greys but we're not adding those yet...)
* levels: fix floating candle on map22.
It's fine until you actually use the secret, at which point it snaps to the top of the lowering platform.
* levels: more minor fixes.
Mostly for objects "floating" with a tiny bit of their hitbox rounded to be overlapping a higher adjacent floor.
E1M8
Inside the pillars containing the painlords there are two that spawn gore (and a dead player) in lieu of painlords only on easy. These have now been edited so that in each pillar the gore appears whenever the painlord does not. (The player has also been changed to a gore actor.)
Map03
Floaties by the first door switch.
Map23
Central room with the barrels and combat slugs has several gore decorations that do not appear on hard, but do not block movement nor represent any living monsters that might appear there in hard. Flagged to appear in all skill levels (and also not be flagged ambush).
Map25
1-pixel vertical misalignment on line 44.
Map28
Floaty medikit(s?) near (-955,-435), moved away from the double teleport pad.
Fixed the textures on that door now that the SLOPPY textures have been updated
Moved stuff around the starting skull switch so you start with a screen full of skull again.
Map29
Floaty shellbox 444.
* levels: more minor fixes.
Mostly to address #1043.
Map09
- Moved the crates in front of the eastern teleport door to keep the player from potentially falling into the gap between the big crate and the main crate rack and softlocking. The small step-crates are now also properly aligned with the flat they use.
Map14
- The entire lower floor of the big octagon room has been lowered to -56 from -48. This restores access to the alcove in front of the minigun secret, and also better aligns with the textures of several surrounding walls.
- Merged the sectors of the yellow key cage teleporter pad so the lights would sync.
Map15
- A room will lower two teleporters when you step in and two worms will warp in through those teleporters in hard, one in medium, none in easy. It looks bugged where the worms don't appear and absolutely nothing shows up, so pickups are revealed instead when they don't.
Map18
- Added one more step crate to let the player directly access the necromancer soul sphere (and the health bonus tucked away in the corner) without retracing their route back to the upper ledge.
Map25
- Got rid of that starting elevator once and for all. The only purpose in forcing that starting gunshot was to make that first room marginally more awful to pistol-start. Moved the shotgun and shells to the "outside" platforms to make up for it.
- Widened the side windows facing the yellow key so the trilobites have room to move.
- Shrunk down the exit line to make it completely impossible to trigger it while the painlord/necromancer standing there is alive.
- Added more monster blockers to the RL warp-in ambush closet, as the worms would still sometimes warp in both on the same side. I've also made the destination sectors larger as that simplifies the underlying geometry a bit.
- Flagged everything in the deathmatch arena multi-only.
- Thing 445 (last monster before SSG in hard mode) is now a pain lord instead of an octaminator.
* levels: more minor fixes.
Map13
Exit teleport pad lines now block monsters.
Map18
End soulsphere secret is now tagged as secret.
Map19
The straferun armour trench setup could not possibly work without having the worms below block your movement sometimes. The trench is now fenced off and the platform accessible by bridge; the pinkies are now spectres outside of easy and hard gives you two more of them; they can only harm you by teleporting.
* levels: readjust map28 skull.
The vertical offset would no longer be needed after #1047; however the tiling is a bit off if we need to offset this horizontally due to the additional trim, so a new linedef was added.
* levels: map26 minor fixes.
The secret blue lift switch error message would indicate it's a "door" which despite being correct from an engine point of view doesn't reflect its actual function.
The red armour secret is now player-shoot only, and the wall breach effect is instant.
* levels: fix high jump platform texture alignment.
* levels: minor E1 fixes.
E1M6
Address #976. The diagonal crate at the bottom of the nukage pool was too small and the zombieman was stuck. It is now a slightly larger crate using the big crate textures.
E1M7
Address #976. The bars around the rocket launcher were wrongly marked as secret.
E1M9
Address #976. The walk-over lift line now blocks monsters, preventing from trying (and almost always failing and just annoying everyone) to chase the player into the dead end with the armour. (I had considered raising this dead end and removing the fence, letting the player jump back into the main courtyard, but we'd get the unseen pinkie jump block problem again.)
E2M2
Make the exit into a more E2-typical FIREBLU gate.
E4M1
Make That Room look less like someone tried to draw E1M3 from memory.
* levels: more minor E1 fixes.
E1M6
Addresses #979, point 14. When you grab the chaingun in the north, you'll find 1-2 shotgunners standing at some terminals. Even though you're in plain view and clearly in a place where a person should be able to hear you, they will not hear your shots until you advance out of that grey floor. Removing the grey floor sound block lines cures this, apparently without causing premature alerting of the monsters on the other side of the green American football goal-like thing.
E1M8
Addresses #979, point 19. Lowers the pad to make the face more visible, and instead of the single torch in the middle on some skill levels you get a border of torches coming out of the nukage (which is now a hurtfloor) in all skill levels.
I've also taken the liberty of adding some progression into the southern labyrinth, turning the three "boxes" into distinct-looking columns going from masonry to monstrosity. Its purpose in disorienting the player enough to make the emergence seem to be into a new area should be unaffected. The light level is also significantly reduced, which ironically helps navigation somewhat. The final result should look a bit more like an intentionally disorienting labyrinth rather than a placeholder.
In levels/e1m*.wad files fix errors flagged by Eureka when F9 (Check /
ALL) is pressed. This is mostly missing textures and similar errors.
E1M1 Replace transparent texture AQTRIM03 on walls with AQCONC03
E1M3 Replace transparent texture AQTRIM03 on walls with AQCONC03
Floor one unit higher than ceiling in a door
Delete unused tags
Replaced transparent texture in a secret room
E1M6 Deleted inner mismatched sector in outdoor water pond
Fix Missing textures
E1M7 Fix missing textures
E1M8 Fix missing textures
Delete unused tags
E1M9 Fix missing textures
A generic term like this isn’t really suitable for trademark, nor
likely to ever be disputed. The community and the engine both heavily
bias toward “episode” and indeed most other games do.
Closes: #682
