In this entire 50-level scenario from NEFX, complete with an entire original soundtrack, you solve platform puzzles to reach the Shells of Ascension and escape.
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2024-10-20: Marathon: Rules is now officially a full-fledged scenario. All 50 levels have been merged and flowed together into a pack complete with original music tracks and terminal messages. Get ready for some hardcore platform puzzling. You can download the whole package at the provided link, and can also just play any of the levels individually.
10/04/24: 47 new levels have been added, all of which can be downloaded individually or with the scenario at the provided link. They are:
NEFX - A Terminal Sojourner’s Heretofore-Burden Outwashing.sceA NEFX - Achievement Threshold Bringing the First of Unusual Reaching.sceA NEFX - All Around Splendor’s Longing Domain.sceA NEFX - Anacrusis Confessor.sceA NEFX - As But Neophytes Within the Room of Decision.sceA NEFX - As Circling in Madness for Beckoning the Fabric-Tearer.sceA NEFX - Aware Completion Within Bounds of the Present Strata.sceA NEFX - Behold Yet-Unreleased Truth Within the Pond of Abyss.sceA NEFX - Bricoleur, Mason, Meaning.sceA NEFX - Causeless Liberation of Fantasy Unfathomable.sceA NEFX - Committed Hermit of the Dread Tollposts.sceA NEFX - Constructing Intermicrospires Throughout the Hermetic Gradations.sceA NEFX - Contemplation of Dreadest Possibility and its According Catharsis.sceA NEFX - Contemplator of Each Bound State.sceA NEFX - Crossing the Originary in its Ensuing Contradiction.sceA NEFX - Deign of Inverted Underrealm Unbeknown.sceA NEFX - Diamondstar Circumambulated.sceA NEFX - Dissolved in the Transportation Artery.sceA NEFX - Drink of the Depths and Ponder.sceA NEFX - Eliminator Interpolator.sceA NEFX - Fall Up the Inverted Bowels of Being.sceA NEFX - Finely Precious Deciding Rods for Remote World-Affecting.sceA NEFX - Finish the First Boundary Movement in the Ladder Formation.sceA NEFX - Flipping the Pages of Keys to Perceiving What Besets.sceA NEFX - Groundwork Absolute Law Prescription.sceA NEFX - Joining Boundless Essence With the Binding Point.sceA NEFX - Lightform Blossom Circuitous Entering.sceA NEFX - Narrow Elect-Grasped Singular Melange.sceA NEFX - Nullface Enkarver.sceA NEFX - Outsider-Enveloper Rightmost Form.sceA NEFX - Parallel Return in Incursion of Greater Strength.sceA NEFX - Pinscreen Calling and Revealer.sceA NEFX - Place Upon the Flipped One’s Brow.sceA NEFX - Raising Huskthresher.sceA NEFX - Reaching the Fertile Starting Ground Through the Consuming Gateway.sceA NEFX - Redonning the Series of Knowing Robes.sceA NEFX - Reflection’s Essence’s Ingress.sceA NEFX - Rightful Struggle to Excavate the Rightful Core.sceA NEFX - Searing Method Patternstarters in the Killing Spell.sceA NEFX - Seek and Pluck From the Buriedmost Fruit.sceA NEFX - Stabbing Through Existence’s Knot.sceA NEFX - Stand to Bind From the Nothing.sceA NEFX - Surge Broadcast Ultimate.sceA NEFX - Watchtower Glare Above the Falselaw.sceA NEFX - Way Autocreating Traveler of Ownscape.sceA NEFX - Where the Pariah and Anomaly Roam.sceA
08/20/24: A new level has been added, "NEFX - The Effect of the Craft-Handing to the Disciple". It can be downloaded individually or with the scenario at the provided link.
05/21/24: A new level has been added, "NEFX - The First Chain Kick of Implication Changeover". It can be downloaded individually or with the scenario at the provided link.
2024-10-20: Marathon: Rules is now officially a full-fledged scenario. All 50 levels have been merged and flowed together into a pack complete with original music tracks and terminal messages. Get ready for some hardcore platform puzzling. You can download the whole package at the provided link, and can also just play any of the levels individually.
In this scenario shell from NEFX, you play golf...where you are your own ball and caddy. Get to the exit in as little blasts as possible, getting past various obstacles like ledges and liquid conveyors, and (if you can) collecting bonus dinosaur eggs that reduce your stroke number. There will be more levels for this too.
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[2024-08-23] A new map has been added, "NEFX - High Complex Arise". This can be downloaded separately from the scenario shell itself at the provided link.
[2024-08-23] A new map has been added, "NEFX - High Complex Arise". This can be downloaded separately from the scenario shell itself at the provided link.
In this scenario shell from NEFX, play an overhead map-only game where you have to collect as many items as possible in a limited time while navigating various color-marked liquid tides.
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[2024-08-21] A new map has been added, "NEFX - Bound to a White Elephant Won By a Wish on a Monkey's Paw". This can be downloaded separately from the scenario shell itself at the provided link.
[2024-05-23] A new map has been added, "Tracker of the Revolutionary Gridsystem". This can be downloaded separately from the scenario shell itself at the provided link.
[2024-08-21] A new Colorwash map has been added, "NEFX - Bound to a White Elephant Won By a Wish on a Monkey's Paw". This can be downloaded separately from the scenario shell itself at the provided Internet Archive link.
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.
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.)