24/03/2014 - "Nali Canyon" by Paul C. Roberts

[Delacroix]

Map Title: Nali Canyon
Author: Paul C. Roberts
From: Hollow
Filename: Hollow3.unr
Music Files:: Vortex.umx




Video Playthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkHkKFX1Lbg

Synopsis: Your quest for "going around and shooting stuff" has led you into a Nali canyon. Now, find the two secret keys the "visitors" have left...

Discuss!

[Annetteblue]

Hm, the map looks very interesting. However, I can't download it. Delacroix, may you send it to my email, please?

[NaPaliShore]

Hm, the map looks very interesting. However, I can't download it. Delacroix, may you send it to my email, please?

Go to http://www.oldunreal.com/maps/single/ and click on the link for "hollow.zip".

[Annetteblue]

Hm, the map looks very interesting. However, I can't download it. Delacroix, may you send it to my email, please?

Go to http://www.oldunreal.com/maps/single/ and click on the link for "hollow.zip".

Thank you!

[Semfry]

The canyon's shift to darkness is quite menacing (even if it the degree of blackness doesn't make much sense), but the rest of the level is a bunch of overly dark cubic rooms that doesn't add to the exterior impression at all, especially as I can see what the designer seemed to be going for (some type of Cappadocia type structure). Like the rest of the later maps it pales in comparison to the first.

[Hellscrag]

The main thing I remember about this map is that, without dodging enabled, you can't actually complete it. That caused me a bit of a problem the first time I attempted to play it, as in my early Unreal days I had dodging disabled (I kept accidentally dodging at the worst times, e.g. when standing next to lava or the edge of Na Pali Haven...).

[Mister_Prophet]

I used to mess up dodging all the time. I remember peering over cliffs at the gorgeous views (as they were at the time) and in my excitement I dodged myself into oblivion. Lots of moments like that.

Still, I never disabled dodging though. It's strange that dodging was never directly incorporated into gameplay in Unreal and RTNP.

[salsaSkaarj]

Hahaha, bottomleft picture sets all bells tolling here. I don't know how much time I spent looking for another way down since I couldn't make the normal jump (I tried and tried and tried).
And then I asked the question here and the answer came promptly: dodge jumping! That suddenly made certain battles a bit easier.

For the rest, it's a fun level, not especially hard but still containing enough surprise attacks to keep one on one's toes (e.g. the mantas from that canyon).

There is something which has bothered me all these years and it probably started with this map. How on earth (or on Klingon whatever) is it possible that there is only a way down, and no way back up? In most maps there is always a way back (be it broken for the sake of gameplay, or blocked by some disaster) or at least a hint/sign of some construction which would allow travel in the opposite direction.

[Semfry]

The cave to the left when you jump down is probably supposed to be a hint of an alternative route, except the bars are badly placed so you can just walk past them and see the dead-end.

[Hellscrag]

There is something which has bothered me all these years and it probably started with this map. How on earth (or on Klingon whatever) is it possible that there is only a way down, and no way back up? In most maps there is always a way back (be it broken for the sake of gameplay, or blocked by some disaster) or at least a hint/sign of some construction which would allow travel in the opposite direction.

Levitation. The Nali only need to say "zeem-zeem-orrrrm" enough times and they float right back up to the upper level.

[UB_]

Nali can just teleport.