Arrival (Doom 2) Map 03 No Damage Completion, With Outtakes & Live Commentary.

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Published on March 14, 2023 12:00:00 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBfBr4msLow

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Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)

Duration: 56:55

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0:00 Punched, kicked and shot
1:25 Attempt #181 starts
9:15 Plasma and the Pilgrim's Progress
21:15 Reluctant Mancubi, imps fly
30:30 To trap or not to trap, that is the question
40:35 They don't see, I get the BFG
49:15 No need to Mastermind this
51:15 Tracers not tragedy
55:55 Outro

#NoDamagechallenge #Pavera #UVMax

This video comprises one successful demo and clips of eight outtakes for the challenge of scoring all monsters, items and secrets from a pistol start on Arrival's Map 03 'Water Putrefier' with no damage taken, whatsoever; a.k.a. 'No Damage Completion'. There is commentary throughout the video, mostly streamed live on Twitch as I attempted the challenge.

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Arrival is a Cacoward-winning episode-length limit-removing mapset for Doom 2, released in 2021 by Walker 'Pavera' Wright, with music specially composed by AD_79 (Brayden Hart). Arrival can be downloaded for free from:
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/a-c/arrival

Thanks to LadyMistDragon for suggesting Map 03 in the comments for my Doom 2 Map 22 'The Catacombs' video.

My hardest yet (as of March 2023) cautious No Damage Completion challenge! I've employed a few new tricks to try to make the video entertaining, while also capturing the tension of, for example, trying to snipe a chaingunner on a high ledge nearly half an hour into an attempt, knowing that any mistake could send me back to the start.

As for the 'Pilgrim Chaingunner' in the thumbnail --- at first, even after I had finished investigating the map and started attempts, I just assumed that his initial position was close to the window where I usually killed him. When he went missing in one run, though, I became curious and played back a previous demo to discover the extraordinary journey he took to reach that position. Two gunners at the bottom of a flight of stairs bump into each other repeatedly until one is pseudo-randomly released to make the long approach towards DoomGuy.

So the legend of the 'Pilgrim' was born. But I never could have guessed how dramatically he would Arrive in my successful run (see what I did there?)

I am grateful to BigMacDavis, Decino & SoBad for making me aware of how great Arrival is, and I hope my playing style brings something different to the party. Of course I hope to honour the creation of Walker Wright and Brayden Hart with this video too.

Next for No Damage will be Scythe Map 18 'MS Futura', the last small Scythe map before things get bigger and/or tougher in that megawad. Join me on Twitch on Wednesday 15th March 2023 at 4:30 p.m. GMT!

Cake photo in thumbnail downloaded under a 'Creative Commons' license from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victoria_sponge_cake.jpg
This image, which was originally posted to Flickr, was uploaded to Commons using Flickr upload bot on 22 January 2009, 19:45 by Gveret Tered. On that date, it was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the license indicated. I cropped the image with a mask for inclusion in the video thumbnail.

The music 'Go Big or go home' in the 13th minute of the video is a royalty-free track provided by Filmora's audio library.

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