Tribute to the Lamplighter - stonework in space?! A Boom map

I've never played any of your maps before, but I assume you've done some work before because this is very good. The detail and texture alignment is very clean, the lighting is impressive, the new textures fit cohesively. Very nice job.

I did like most of it, but I did start to get frustrated towards the end, and eventually got frustrated and gave up after dying to the very last trap so many times. Although it was difficult on UV, in general it played very nicely. Very little features of the maps were offensive to me. The following are mostly minor gripes.

A lot of these traps have a tendency to deplete my entire ammo inventory. There are quite a few areas where you drop off into a new area with no way to return. If I don't use the intended weapons, I can be light on some ammo, and maxed out on others with no way to collect the ammo I left behind, which can make the traps that come next pretty tough, resource wise. There's no way for me to know this without having played the map multiple times in advance. I feel like a backpack would be really kind here.

Additionally, it was often pretty difficult sometimes not to step on essential items mid-dodging like medikits when I have 97% health, or shellboxes when I have 48 shells. At this stage in this level, I can't really think of many ways I'd shuffle the items around. This is because most of the trap designs are centered around tight spaces without much place to move. In your next maps you might want to consider building out more locations/alcoves specifically just for the items you intend to drop in there.

There's two super shotguns in this map, I don't know how I would have been expected to get through this if I missed the first one. The cacodemons in the trap just before said super shotgun heavily abuse the high ledges. I have to employ a lot of technical crowd control to keep them from getting a lot of unfair verticality on me with their infinite heights. I'd probably consider a different kind of encounter here in my opinion.

I liked how the last part repurposed the start area but the area uses a lot of floor detail and impassable lines for all the monsters there. I had a really hard time controlling my player character and dodging missiles when I needed to, and I really just kinda stopped having fun at that point.

I hope to see some more work from you in the future. I'd like to see your future maps utilizing other linedef actions other than teleport ambushes to summon monsters in too.

Thanks a lot for the comments and demos 40oz, nnnvork! I had no idea that softlock was possible, haha.

Hello, everybody — after a long delay, here's an improved version of the map:

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Overall, the map remains very similar to v1. Changes include:
- the fight for the blue key, and the final battle, have been redesigned: monsters trickle in one group at a time, rather than all at once. This should make these fights less frustrating and (slightly) easier.
- the super shotgun has been moved to make it impossible to miss.
- a railing was added to the stairs in the red key room, to keep players from falling into the drink and getting mobbed.
- fixed a softlock in the damaging floor hallway (found by noisyvelvet).
- a number of minor aesthetic fixes.

Unless any critical flaws are discovered, I'll be uploading to /idgames soon.