Use Your Tools: after reading your hint I immediately solved this level! [should've solved it sooner as I was trying things similar to this but gave up....] aaaaand I see where another of ISteve's levels was inspired from!
Lets Split:
oh I just realized the intended solution is to mine to turn around in the one way wall (which doesn't work in NL) which is why the Cheapo version has terrain and steel there instead...
Can't Find Any Gaps; I don't know either; I'll have to take a closer look at this one.
Breakthrough; Because Cheapo is so annoying to use I have yet to figure out if the gap between the entrance area and the right side platforms is supposed to be two or three bridges wide >_< >_< . But I can say that the ceiling in Cheapo is in fact safe, so I may make that adjustment (Depending on what the solution actually is.)
The two original levels; Breakthrough; is imo pretty easy you just bomb the 3 pillars then build through. The other; 5,4,3,2,1... is the 4 platforms you must block and squeeze the crowd through one of the traps.
But you have no blockers on this version... I'm really curious what your idea is how it's solvable without moving the traps but without deadly ceiling; if that's what you meant.
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ah, evacuation was a backroute I can fix easily. The left side obstacle blocking the crowd in was originally steel. In cheapo when a climber bashes into steel; he does not turn around. So that needs to be an obstacle that does not allow a climber to turn around.
awww what a backroute to Locked and Loaded... I have no idea how to fix this atm...
using my own 'eye of the needle' trick as well to add insult to injury.
EDIT: and once again right after saying that I figure out a way to fix it. But I have several options....
version 3 has my fix plus cutting down the skills I don't use
while my solution is pretty intricate and puzzling I save a climber and only use one blocker
. so version 4 has these remaining skills; in case somebody can find an elegant way to use these.
Also attached these others also by Bryant I made a while back but forgot about. Still a few more of his to remake; almost all of his 20-30 level pack imo is excellent. [One is renamed because *yet again* it had similar title as another level]