Also a bit of a rant too.
Spoiler:
There's a thing you can do involving the bridge that you can lower/raise via a button. On my 2nd run through the area, I lowered the bridge, but avoided crossing it till much later, after wandering much of the area for about 2 1/2 hrs making no progress. When I made it back, the button on one side was blinking, and when I went to press it, the screen flashed red, and the area under near turned into a red/black magma like texture, and around the bend about 15-20 of the Avoids had spawned. At that time I promptly went "Fuck it" and turned on god-mode, and found out the death was done via a script, and was stuck with "Game over" on the screen. During this time, I also had about 5-6 additional spawns of the buggers all over base. Mind you, I was also abusing a (BIND Q "Kill Monsters") to get rid of them, and watched the monster count hit 200 after a time. It was getting a bit crazy with how often they showed up after that. Anyway, made it to the lake, ran into the river, found that I was stuck in place, and died to the river monster. Did it again, and same thing after trying to cross a relatively tiny gap in the river. Pretty much gave up at that point due to the sameness, lack of a map, and dealing with 2 hit/instadeath monsters. It went from, man this is a nice atmosphere, to, why the hell am I still dealing with this BS?
Honestly, the problem with this is a few things. Most notably of it all is the lack of a map, coupled with either low light or pitch black areas. Why is a base in pure darkness, has no one heard of emergency lights? Seriously? Anyway, why is an are that is open air so damn dark anyway? It's like I'm playing a HL2 map in pure darkness in an open field. Unless I'm in a cave or a completely underground area, nighttime is NOT black. The lowest light level really should be low-light, not no-light. I get that it changes after you hit the power, but man that drove me nuts. Once the powers on tho, you're essentially lost in a large complex with no directions, not even markers for what area of the base you're in. Seriously, I wound up finding a tower by sheer accident. It's also weird that you have use the ladder to climb it, rather than the usual method of holding forward/up. Anywho, got an update, told me about going north to the lake (really useful that, what with no map, no compass, and no sense of direction whatsover), heard a roar, and then went back towards the car, figuring that the lake must be somewhere in there. Cue half an hour of wandering around finding jack all. Map would've been nice at this point, since I could have at least tell where I have and haven't been. TOO BAD YOU DISABLED THAT. Went back to the base, found the big-ass hole in the courtyard-type area, and went to the river. Wound up having 2 inescapable (and LOUD) meetings with the river monsters, upon which I gave up. I'm not gonna wander about an area with no map whatsoever in low-light.
Seriously, why disable the MAP of all things? Heck, it's only a player aid, to avoid getting lost in the maze-like levels of DOOM. Honestly, if I could have that back, I could play this again.
Actually, I may just whip out SLADE and pour through this till I find out how to re-enable it.
