"The Present" was released in 2003, a year after release of "Halfquake Amen".
So, this add-on was actually a present for all players to celebreate a birthday of "Halfquake Amen". This add-on was created by "TheAwake" and "sirion".

Muddasheep told me something interesting about this add-on:
TheAwake and sirion visited me in 2003, and TheAwake started making the map on my pc during the day while I was at work, when he had to leave he continued working on it from his home and I think it got delayed for a week. The intro was changed once because TheAwake wasn't happy with sirion's voice acting. xD
I recorded the intro right beside them in my room, and it took me a while to adjust to that, I was actually a bit nervous. :P
I only helped fixing some minor errors in the final map, if I remember correctly, all the rest of the maps were done by TheAwake.

Well, there's a big reason, and this reason was mentioned in one of Muddasheep's posts in Patreon:

"The Present" will not be included in this release for several reasons. First and foremost, of course, there's a ton of copyrighted material. Second, the maps were not created by me, but by TheAwake. I could probably replace all the music and stuff, but honestly, it was his vision and he built the maps around the music, so I just don't feel like it's necessary to include it.

Let's see:

1. In introduction, a delay before entering next map was reduced, because the time for a level transition was a damn long for unknown reason.

2. In original HQA, dragons are not a separate characters, they replacing the headcrabs, so if you try to run this map in HQT, you will see an usual headcrabs (HQ1 dragons, to be clear, heheh). So I have fixed this thing. IMADRAGONS is here now.


3. A doors in building with a present will not let you out that fast this time - for preventing a bug with not showing a credits in the end.

4. And, one of the most important things in HQT - a widescreen fix:

Here!
https://net.muddasheep.com/download/other/the_present_fixed.rar
(the_present_fixed.rar, 3,53 mb.)

Unzip the "hqtrilogy" folder right in the main folder of "Halfquake Trilogy" game. Say Yes for replacing the files, be a good boy. :3

You will see a new section in main menu:

Thanks to everyone who downloaded it.
Found any bugs? ASK THEAWAKE!!! jk...
Of course, report them right here.
Thanks to Muddasheep for "Halfquake DIY Kit"!