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Heretic - Dark Deity's Bastion

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This map replaces E1M1 of HERETIC. It has been tested to be beatable in all difficulty levels. I even tested it myself on "Black Plague" and can confirm that it can be finished (albeit with a LOT of save/loads).

I have disabled crouching and jumping, because their use can and will break the level. Also, I recommend going to options > display options > message options, and setting "scale text in hi res" to on, because there will be messages that you need to read in order to finish the level. If you have trouble with the puzzles, even after viewing the messages, scroll down to the bottom of this text file for the solutions.

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Argenteo

  

A giant light-puzzle driven heretic mega-map adventure against the apocalyptics summoned D-Sparils.

I played with Wayfarer's Tome mod for added balance and action.

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whirledtsar

  

Great level. It's very expansive, with a lot of different areas to explore, and a nice interconnected design with many vistas and looping paths. The architecture & atmosphere of this sprawling castle are very well-done. The difficulty is challenging, but not overly punishing or ammo-starved like many Heretic maps. I unfortunately didn't find the dragon claw on my playthrough but it must be somewhere since its' ammo is all around. It ends with a boss battle against some custom D'Sparil-like bosses, which is a nice change of pace from the vanilla bosses. Really no complaints about this wad.

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WOW - what a great wad! The start is very slow, especially if you are like me and like to run around the outside of buildings/structures first and kill everything. But aside from that... everything is really well thought out: the secrets, the Four Signs of the Apocalypse, the placement of enemies, getting something other than the friggin' crossbow first!, the Golden switches of advice, the slight colour changes,

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Bloody brilliant, reminds me of that first scissorcut into a fresh piece of construction paper

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Great map but ^ I don't get the analogy. Can someone explain what it means?

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Overall a pleasurable experience if you take an even pace and don't hurry yourself. May be to expansive a map for some people's tastes. The music can be quite monotonous. The architecture is plain and simple. 4/5 from me.

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End fight @ UV is imo a bit overdone. Besides that, this wad is an absolute must-play. Solid 4.6/5 --> 5

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Great design, gameplay and final battle. 5/5

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Amazing! I'd give it 10 stars if I could.

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EPIC! AWESOME! One of the best single levels for heretic I've ever played. Gameplay is balanced, architecture is great. Play it!

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Really nice of Heretic map, good puzzles, nice map design and architectures and have fun with them, but one thing ruins whole wad...the boring final BOSSes fight...but it just doesn't hurts too much! :D 4.5/5 -playerlin

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goo heretic map

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Brilliant stuff. Huge, challenging and varied level

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Awesome map. 5/5

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