Thanks for giving it a try! Glad you dig the style, me and my buddy are fine tuning a lot of things as we approach another beta build.
We've got some other challenges that will use the full map! Enemies will have full reign over the map instead of being isolated, and a variant of the race course on the way. We are focusing on player upgrades too; so grabbing powers from farther away is already a upgrade we're building in!
I'll take a look at Quake and certainly Tribes (R.I.P) You've got a lot of good feedback here, I appreciate you sharing that animation resource too! Animation is a pain so it's a bit on the backburner while we try to build the rest of the maps and levels. Thanks so much, and great work on V.B.H.S!!