DM-Ghoul -alpha-

It's a rather cool conversion but overally feels too much UTish than UT2K3ish, I mean lack of details and variety: it's almost always the same textures on the walls and on the grounds, the same colors in lighting, walls are often empty and slightly boring,...

The lift which leads to the Shock Rifle doesn't fit the medieval theme IMO (take a look to DM-DE-GrendelKeep or DM-Inferno to get some ideas...) and the texs on the curves above this weapon are not aligned. The Mini-Shield looks all alone under this wooden ramp: look for some sort of pedestal to put it onto and the whole area will probably look better. A lot of borders are missing to hide the textures transitions between perpendicular surfaces and the ones you placed don't have the appropriate color IMO (they don't stand out of the wood, something more white is needed to get a strong contrast with the dark wooden floor...), the ramps themselves are often abrupt and 'squarish', hence the UT feeling: you have a higher polys budget with this engine and you should really exploit it in putting more curves and bevels instead of making ramps connected perpendicularly without any surface of transition, you can also use stair brushes which present a more interesting surface than a flat ramp -especially for ancient atmospheres- and of course some static meshes too... Don't hesitate to put some beams under these ramps too: this will give them more solidity, they look a bit like floating against the walls atm. The terrain behind the Rocket Launcher could 'invade' a part of the room of this item: replace the BSP floor with a terrain and blend the pavement tex with the rock/sand one in making small variations of height here and there... Missing pavements/bricks in the floor/walls are pretty common but almost always do their job very well, still a possibility to consider. Be careful with the texs from Arborea: they don't fit very well the medieval theme IMO

Lighting is far too much flat: you really need to implement more contrasts in reducing the radius of the local lights which will make the shadow areas stand out more. Check out DavidM's lighting tutorial on our Mapping Ressouces page to get an idea about how to set properly a basic lighting. Put some variety in colors too: it's all red and blue/green atm and all areas tend to look the same which doesn't help player orientation... Also, be sure to use a color which matches the light sources (yellow/orange torches don't produce red light...) otherwise this looks odd. Try to set up a sound atmosphere as quickly as possible in order to build the sound scheme in the same time than the rest of the overall mood of the map. In the same way, do a choice of soundtrack ASAP and change it later if you think it doesn't really fit in the end.

Gameplay-wise it works well IMO and shouldn't require work on this point but be sure to put some pathnodes in there to be able to test it unless you can find or have friends who have a server...

Keep up!