Mind the banners. Follow them.

Each banner has some number of glyphs. Count them. There are four difficulty levels.

Library, Chapel, Dungeon, Tower - in that order.

Easy = go to the library, mostly straight ahead
Medium = go up to the chapel. Hang a left at the door leading to the library and take the narrow tower up
Hard = hang a right in the main hall, leading down into the dungeon
Unreal = work your way up toward the right side of the castle

Love what you're doing with the gibs. I was rather surprised to see much more than new colors/effects, which are also awesome for the blood and gibs, but giving certain pawns/pawn types unique touches really adds a touch of personality to, say, missile mercenaries/skaarjs that I really like!! Makes killing them just to kick their neat gibs all the more rewarding.

I really can't shut up about this, but the new damage effect system is incredible in that it adds so much more to the intended quality of certain enemies. I feel like I'm fighting a robotic jerk when I spar with a Shock Trooper. Or, I actually get the sense that I'm gunning down a mean chunk of steel when I encounter a hellfighter. I actually really want to utilize that feature to make some sort of custom pawn, it's that interesting.

Also liking the changes to the weapons. Clusterfucker flak especially! - the enemies, too, I think it's awesome you managed to redefine the projectiles in such a profound way that it effects strategy significantly.

And, to pretty much confirm what everyone else who has played the mod knows, the CASTLE REMAKE WAS INCREDIBLE. Night and day, really. For a while i wasn't even in a rush to start playing the actual campaign because I was just taking in the scenery of the castle. I stumbled upon the "Unreal" difficulty, hahaha, and decided for several reasons I wanted to keep looking at the map.

The Energy AR sounds and feels much more like an assault weapon, a nice boomy quality to the firing now. Like I'm in starship troopers or something, haha.

I want to say something about the new pawns before I stop ranting and go to sleep. I like them plenty! First thing I did when I got the new version was - can you guess? - Brussalids! Love everything about them, hell, I loved the idea the moment you mentioned it but actually seeing the infection process occur to its completion was too awesome for words alone to describe. I found myself highly entertained, watching a fight between a Brussalid and a Doom Trooper reach its inevitable conclusion.

And I'm pretty sure the Chunky Brute was new too. I liked seeing monsters shooting gib chunks at me for a change. I'm definitely fitting some of those into a monsterspawn list soon!

As always, this mod continues to redefine all aspects of UT - gameplay as well as mapping. That being said, I have not really seen much of the new mapping yet.. really hope my laptop works fine tomorrow so I can do so!

You have to enable the base's emergency exit lift (i.e. the one leading to Noork's Elbow in Unreal) by damaging the reactor's coolant pipe. This isn't obvious at all, and will be fixed in the first patch in another week or less.

When you get inside the reactor room, you should see two pipes leading to it: one is labeled Hot Water (pulling out irradiated coolant) and one labeled Coolant. Naturally, shooting the hot water pipe won't do much to raise the reactor's temperature and mostly just make a mess spilling radioactive water everywhere. But shooting the coolant line in its weak spot RIGHT behind the sign that says "Coolant" will eventually rupture it and start to raise the reactor temperature. Once the alarms go off, you can get out.