Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20150204202730/@comment-1496755-20150427083200

Hmmm, I think I know the platform you speak of. But I didn't need noclip to overcome it - the secret is to get out of the water with the "swim up" command, not with "jump" (the Q1 engine treats them as two different things). With swim up, you should be able to "launch" yourself out of the water and get onto the platform.

So, did you enjoy the mission pack? Did you find the hidden portal for nightmare difficulty?

To add to what you said about Quake III - one of the things I liked the most about it is that each Tier (that's how its episodes are called) has a distinctive theme of its own (like Q1's episodes). For example, T1 is like Doom - a symbiosis of demonic and technological elements. T2 has a sci-fi feel with some fantasy elements, T3 has a gothic atmosphere, T4 - high-tech military/industrial installations, T5 (my favorite) is fire & brimstone demonic stuff, and T6 is in outer space.

TA is more like an arcade - there is no clear structure to the SP campaign. But the team games are fun :)