Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Get your dancing shoes on! Quake wants YOU to dance

Alright, here's 1.0 of my Quake 1.5 edits for e2m8. It's in a state that is pretty functional so I might mostly call it here. I have other ideas I want to explore, but... already spent a month toying around with this thing lol.

The further you go into the video the more spoilers you'll see. I do manage to win all fights eventually xD

00:36 easy mode start
03:18 normal mode start
11:17 hard mode start
16:55 nightmare mode start

Easy mode is now nearly identical to the original 1.5 release and the whole mod was originally based on the latest 1.5 source available. I feel like easy mode hurts, but dies easily, fitting the name Easy mode. About on par with e1m7's easy.

Normal mode is actually my previous nightmare mode edit for the most part. It can hit hard, but it has limited amounts of attacks, making it easier to learn the boss without being overwhelmed from RNG. I still died a bunch to it xD

Hard mode was slapped together from nightmare, which I worked on the most. It seems functional, tough but throws in the new attacks randomly.

Nightmare mode I worked on the most. It reached a state where I barely ever won; so my answer was to have respawning health and items, which seemed more fun to me than alternative balancing or nerfing ideas.

I'm pretty satisfied with this boss, and it has been a long road. Editing him every once in a while for fun.

I'll probably upload the current mod somehow; maybe in ModDB, though I didn't keep track of all the mods I used to reach this point. And it does remain unfinished.
Still want to edit e3m8's boss more (it's currently interesting, but could use a big edit like I did for e2m8) And e4 doesn't even have a boss which I always wanted to remedy...

Anyways, maybe a proper tour of the mod once I release it. (Though the Quake LP videos I uploaded a year or so ago show mostly what it looks like. A customized Quake 1.5 experience. Maybe call it Quake 1.6? Leaning back into the original look. Would be nice if there was a toggle for the old models or new models hmm..)