A: Send a screenshot and I will update with a fix

A: Mostly no, it requires specific circumstances and there's no screamers

A: No monsters or enemies, it's mostly an immersive exploration map with some stuff to find. unless you placed them or someone else or another workshop upload is f***ing with you. But there are mostly harmless events.

A: It's when you or someone else does something the map doesn't like. Maybe you need to uncover more stuff or stop goofing off. (But also it's a HL2 beta reference or a reference to something weird in HL2 retail)

A: Yes! It should work

A: All required content including a lot of custom content is packed in, including technically an entire track of music I made splitting each "instrument" into separate uncompressed .wav files, I'm pretty sure Source can't play multiple .mp3 files at the same time so it's unlikely there is a way to get around this without removing a big part of the interactivity of the map.

A: Probably not, it ran at over 100fps everywhere on a GTX 1650 / Intel Processor 300 system

A: Vertex limit, but you could also pretend it's intentional for that delicious OSHA non-compliance

A: They are "stems" of a piece of drone music I made, if you put them all in the same place you are supposed to get the full experience of the track and can bring parts in and out as you wish. But ambient_generic is the only option and seems to be very janky and inconsistent as far as playing sound all the time, at least in gmod

A: It's not supposed to be a rip off, but if after I put all the effort into this, that's all you see, then likely nothing I can say or do will convince you otherwise

A: No, slides take up a lot of the limit I am already very close to hitting, so I would have to remove entire rooms (and probably create dead ends) to fit them

A: It wasn't. When creating 3D spaces whether that's a Garry's Mod map or a Space Engineers ship, I rarely plan anything. So early on this map was just sprawling outwards, and later it was like a puzzle as I tried to fit all the dead ends together into something continuous, while staying within the Source engine limits

A: A very focused month and a half

A: Not really possible without finding a way around Source engine limits, and I don't have enough ideas for a sequel that couldn't be bigger anyway

A: I don't know, I work on a lot of other stuff besides maps, including a full time job and other stuff I do work to get paid for. This might even be my last map release.

A: I noticed some of these coming up once the map got large, I don't know a way to resolve them without making the map smaller.

A: Very unlikely

A: Maybe if you have a substantial amount of work done on it and aren't afraid of boundaries (so probably no)
No one makes mods for Source anymore anyway, at least not ones where the environmental design experience isn't just "prop_static placement simulator"

A: I would really prefer if you didn't, anyway this is right up against Source limits, so you wouldn't be able to add anything substantial without taking something away elsewhere. So editing the map is mostly going to be pointless.