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Off the top of my head I don’t know the exact thing that causes the error(s) in that specific level. But we as developers don’t have the time to chase that either; bugs reported for ports and versions that we clearly state aren’t compatible won’t be addressed, it’s as simple as that. Now if you somehow get the same behavior in 0.27.5, we’d be very eager to hear it.

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I think I'm never making a map this big again. testing is a nightmare and sooo many things can break. Anyway, I *think* it's sorted out now and we'll just do a bit more testing and then another update.

Thank you for playing and taking the time to write this. As the author of map36 I instinctively want to answer point by point, but I think I might save that for a longer post like I did for the original Eviternity's map32. There are already some smaller things changed for RC3, hopefully due out shortly after I post this, that touch on some of the things you mention. But bottom line is I think maybe this map—it's vibe and what experience it's attempting to give the player—is simply not for you. Which is not only totally fine, but expected: Eviternity is—to quote Meowgi's stream—"a wad for normies" and as such it'd be a real mistake to push it into God Machine or later Sunder levels of difficulty for example. Your notes on lack of challenge makes me think you did it deathless which would be unusual but not inconcievable. Perhaps the eventual coop version could provide the extra bite, but it doesn't seem you're willing to give this any more of your time, which I won't argue with. So good news is it's a secret map and not part of regular progression, which is where we took the most risk with more niche concepts.

Thanks for the detailed notes! Makes it much easier to look up the stuff you're referring to. 1. We're looking into why these get offset; they're vanilla decorations and shouldn't be changed. 2. Good catch, fixed all these. 3. No, the core concept is to have a cyber in the center constantly (although the sector you reference is not the center one). The extra ones are backups if the one in the arena gets killed by infighting and/or the player. 4. No, it's pretty much mandatory progression. Why were you having so much trouble getting here? I suspect you solved the fight here in some very unexpected way. 5. It's lowered by killing the third flesh pod, reachable after you finish the southeastern plasma arena with the crushers.

The pressure was already overwhelming—developing this publicly would have applied truly crushing expectations. We did debate launch tactics a lot, but I’m personally happy we decided to keep it a secret.

Quite early in development it was evident we'd have to include iwad assets due to the new palette tricks, much like BTSX or Ancient Aliens. At that time I raised the issue of including the sprite fix project and I suppose smooth animations would be in the same vein. There's no decision on this yet, nor is it a priority while we fix errors that are reported. Thankfully those things could be done as an add-on later anyways, should we not find the time/patience to add them to the final version of the WAD.

This is fixed for RC3. There's nothing mega urgent for RC3 just yet, so we're still amassing fixes. A lot of players are still in chapters 3-4 so reports from 5-6 are somewhat thin. But expect another release before Christmas. Any levels that saw changes will have its saves broken, yes. And at this rate most levels are seeing some tiny change at least.

Holy moly I might actually borrow this idea for Eviternity II map36 if I have the time and the lines available. It's a perfect fit, and very nice execution.

It's by Robert Sammelin. As I'm writing this, there's 90 minutes left to get a steep discount on his Domestika illustration course =) https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/3805-cover-art-illustration-with-pencil-ink-and-digital-painting

coop support is deliberately not implemented yet and should not be tested unless you want to have a bad time. But it IS planned!

Pardon the necropost but I'll point out here that yes there will be an update to Otex containing the stuff seen in Eviternity II and more, but it's not going to be released in the near future since I have not had time to finish it. So have a bit of patience and we'll get there eventually!