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Serious Sam: Extended Encounters - Episode 01

Difficulty ratio between original and new levels is a significant increase, making it pretty unbalanced. As @pibab said, Temple of Ptah is impossible to complete without cheating, strongest weapons and sprint do not help at all. The Plantations level begins to stutter and FPS drops as soon as spaceships spawn.
That's my experience for now, i haven't completed it yet, but overall, mappack is good, fun and refreshing to Sam veterans who played this game many times.

As for cons, it needs to be better optimized. Sudden FPS drops are happening while I'm playing, making it almost unplayable until i reload a save or restart the game. It can go away by itself after a few minutes, but that's rare. I don't know whether it's due to my PC being a little bit outdated or the game itself, but nonetheless, I think it can be better optimized. Difficulty on some levels is ridiculous, too many enemies are spawning in narrow spaces. In open spaces they ambush you nearly every time you make 20 steps while you're progressing.

Good mappack. Added new guns, enemies and, of course, levels. The map design and visuals are stunning, the guns are awesome, new enemies and variants of existing enemies are brutally good. Lore tablets are nice additions to the game. Sprinting is a nice addition for someone who likes using it. Reusing old levels from Serious Sam Alpha is a great thing you did.

I know how to use the sprint key, and as far as I can tell, my settings are basically default.

Idk what you have on your pc. And in your game settings. Maybe your sprint is unbinded. Or maybe you just multiple pressing, not hold?

Because i mean hold that button, not a hitting.

I don't know about that, because I'm hitting sprint and it's not doing anything at all.

I mean, you can run faster like in Serious sam 3. Just pressing Shift button. I don't like this option. TFE and TSE never had that. This is so not canonical for game. And also sprint don't have any animation. Looks ridiculous.

@pibab, quick question, what do you mean there's a sprint added with this mod? Where???

Mappack looks cool in graphic way, weapons from ss4. Brutal animations. Some new enemies, some new weapons, new levels. But difficulity on some levels is a impossible hell. Which makes you think about start using cheats in the game. Or maybe skip that ridiculous level.

how many times i tried finish this campaign on HD version second encounter. And i always can't normally beat this. Because difficilty. It's very hard was on HD second encounter. And it's also super hard on Fusion, bruh. Level "Temple of Ptah" pissed me off. Why so many enemis on some small room with many frogs, kleers, skorpions?? How i should beat it? They always spawning and spawning. I been played this on SAM difficility. I know SAM should be super hard. But.. There no balance, really. How i should complete that room? I dont wanna choose easy or normal for beat this level. Those difficulty are booring for me. Also adding sprint in TFE, weird option. That thing also pissed me off. I unbinded sprint button. And beat all levels, but not a "Temple of Ptah" with that room, where i should kill everyone for activate some script to open big door or something idk. Sprint also not helping bruh.