The Proving Ground is a pair of maps designed for net-play. The first one, Spirit in the Sky, is set in a large complex. It was originally intended as an improved Waldo World type arena, but I added so much stuff that it became a world of its own. It will probably be most fun with 3-6 players.
Deep Pfhreeze is set in the hibernation quad of the Marathon. (Wonder what's hibernating....) Since this level is a little smaller than Spirit in the Sky, it will probably be more fun with 2-4 players.
Neither level has any real tricky secrets. There is a secret passageway in Spirit in the Sky, but it is pretty easy to find. There are also a pair of doors in Deep Pfhreeze that ended up pretty hard to see.
To play these levels:
1. Rename your original map file to something like "Map-Original"
2. Rename this map file to "Map"
3. Put this map file in the same folder with Marathon.
4. Get out yo' gatt and start blastin'.
Hope you enjoy these levels. And remember that this is just version 1.0. That means this is just a first attempt. There are still several bugs that need to be fixed. And since I did this over the summer, I didn't have any way to see how the maps played over the net.
Since these levels were intended for net-play, that caused some serious setbacks.
However, I think they will be playable (and a lot of fun).
Anyways, *please* let me know if you have any comments about them. (If you enjoyed them, didn't enjoy them, thought they needed X, thought they could do without Y, thought I should shove a big pole up my ass, thought I should shove a big pole up *your* ass, etc...). Even if you don't have anything to say, I'd just like to know that you downloaded them.
Also, feel free to modify them or include them in any other collections. Just notify me first, if you please.
Thanks to Steve Israelson, the maker of Pfhorte--the best map editor out there.
You can e-mail me at:
kghastie@engin.umich.edu until August 31, 1995
kghastie@artsci.wustl.edu after September 1, 1995
If you don't get a response from those, try kghastie@engin.wustl.edu
