[Congestion 1024] MAP30: Nullified Departure (UV-Max Demo, 3 Segments)
6first off: i did record this demo in three segments and staple them together. why? because i was having a miserable time and would rather be doing anything else. the segments are cut after killing the two static archviles and after killing all the cacodemons, if you're curious.
the first half or so of this map is great, actually; lots of combat squeezed into a very tight area with a lot of flexibility to how you approach it. because this is a map 30, monsters can telefrag other monsters so it's possible to strategically trigger encounters to cut down the number of monsters you actually need to kill yourself. they can also telefrag you, although in this part that's not too much of a concern. the part with the cyberdemon is trickier due to archviles covering most of the area you'd want to use to kill it. but trying to kill the archviles first will probably just lead to getting shot in the back with a rocket, so i went for the two-tap on the cyber and then took my time with everything else.
then... the icon of sin comes out with its monster spawning. fortunately, you can get a stay of execution by hiding from its view. this lets you take care of the numerous cacodemons that fly in, plus three mancubi outside the arena. this strategy comes courtesy of cryoniq, the uv-max record holder, and without it the uv-max is probably not possible. once that's done, it's time to trigger the icon of sin for real. there's basically no strategy here that can help - just run in circles, and hope that you don't fall off and die, or cut the teleport pad a little too close and get telefragged, or turn a corner and walk directly into a mancubus. oh and you need to save all the ammo you can get too, because after hitting the second to last switch, twelve barons teleport into the corner cages and need to get killed asap. this would be incredibly awkward even if there wasn't a random army of monsters trying to kill you . once that's done, hit the last switch and breath a sigh of relief. at least you don't have to shoot the romero's head at all.
oh and since the uv-max record didn't kill the 6 outermost mancubi, i didn't either. so that's why we end with 138/144 kills.
congestion 1024: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/lev...
get the demo: https://s3.yrriban.net/doom/1024_map3...
source port used: dsda-doom 0.27.5
sound font used: arachno.sf2
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