Over the course of 2021/2022, multiple people in the marathonruns.net discord worked on a project that had the goal of making maps that intentionally went against the conventional style of mapmaking normally associated with Marathon. Instead, what you are about download is an incubator anthology of maps that promoted thinking outside the box not only for the mapmakers in making their respective maps, but also for the players themselves tackling them.

We're gonna be completely honest with you, this is definitely not easy. You will more than likely spend countless attempts on some, if not all maps. With this said, be creative and you may find alternative solutions to what may seem like the intended solution. If you are truly stuck on a level and need the minuscule life preserver of help, you can ask in the #get-a-clue channel in the official hellpak discord (link in the readme) and we can provide a somewhat hint at what to do.

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In addition to perusing the fine selection of experimental gameplay in this beautiful space station of a map pack, why not also take 2 seconds of your day to switch over to the full original soundtrack, which features 10 tracks not part of the map pack itself. Similar to hellpak the map pack, hellpak the OST also follows the same experimental and avant-garde principles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djme8sJfwOo

Good luck and Finish Durandal.

This is the same ball-busting, intentionally obtuse, infuriating gameplay content as 42069.4, but with all custom graphics removed.

Due to my ever increasingly sour disposition since the release of this in regards to generative art and the "Generative LLM and Machine Learning Hellscape" (I am not calling it the 2 letter buzz word), even if it was made in the early days of a hellscape(2020-2021), I have invoked the "dungeons poobah" card and pulled the original uploads of Hellpak Vol 1. Treellama went through and removed all PICTs in the mappack (Ty for helping me with this). Even the non-generative art in it. Scorched earth. Other than this, this should play exactly like 42069.4 and prior iterations. There will be a "directors cut" in the future with entirely new artwork, created by humans, based on said human's interpretations of the original prompts that Aaron fed into whatever the hell they used to make the things that were in this prior. I will even personally make a few new levels on top of this as a added bonus going off of things that have been learned since Vol 1 and the mapping period of Vol 2.

Support human artists, I am begging you.

-tb

The original changelog as follows:

Hopefully the final point release of Vol 1 as we focus on Vol 2.

‘Perfect Matred’: Game balance issues and possibly occasional crashes. It’s been like half a year – you think I remember?

‘hsinif ladnarud’: Exited to the wrong level, resulting in an unintended case of a level transition without an autosave.

‘Bungie, did you get that thing I sent you? It came from me. It cam’: Its victory condition was more unforgiving than we meant it to be because we overestimated something about an earlier level. (Left intentionally vague to avoid spoilers.)