Doom 1: E1L3 - 5.7.1994 - Vanilla & Hard Doom - 100% on Ultra-Violence - (49)
2Doom Classic video #49
(5.7.1994)
(Links, secrets and more information at the bottom of the description)
Hello. Another PC Zone lvl finalist map to complete. It's the turn of 'E1L3', made by Jim Papakostas.
This one's not a strong candidate to reach the top of a competition with its randomness with floors, triggers and sectors.
• Visuals aren't great. It just feels like... randomness of a test map that has been taken one step further to be completed as a proper map tbh. Well, it's not an actual mess of textures, what you could think from those words, but the overall layout and floors lowering / raising certainly can reach very random levels.
• Difficulty is on the easy side. There's a cyberdemon, but also a number of invulnerability spheres in the vicinity, so it's not much of a threat. Hitscanners will be the biggest threat, as there's a lot of them and the room with most randomness in it, also has dark sectors with hitscanners sniping you from the darkness.
• Health / armor will be sufficient. Should have no problem to deal with the level.
• Ammunition is rather plentiful and you'll get all the weapons as well.
So, the issues that I had with this level, weren't the most serious kind fortunately...
• 1st Key is in a secret that you have to hit to open... Required to progress
• 1x unmarked secret
• Missing textures here and there, mostly steps.
• A lot of randomness of floors raising/lowering or acting as lifts in a big room with poison. Also had hitscanners in darkness, which made a rather unfun combination. Also...
• ...same room led to Red Key. How the room's floors work, it was still a bit unintuitive to figure out the clue to reach the required room to obtain the key.
Normally it would be shown with textures, reaching there via other way or via teleport.
• ...Furthermore, in the same room, button to raise bridge to BP can break... most likely linked to one of the other floors that act as lifts.
• One of the automated group of lowering/raising sectors stopped working. Trigger line to re-activate them was only on one side (down), instead of both sides (up & down).
Luckily, you could access both ways.
• Exaggerated amount of Invulnerability Spheres towards the end, 6 of them. Definitely more than, what you'd need.
In short, a rather unimpressive experience as a whole and not a very fun map either. But on the positive side, it doesn't seem to leave you stuck anywhere, if you know the way to progress.
Information:
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Author: Jim Papakostas
Date: 5 July 1994
Title: E1L3
File: E1L3.WAD
Map: E1M3 - E1L3
• Enemies: 198
• Items: 20
• Secrets: 3
Port: GzDoom
Skill: Ultra-Violence
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Vanilla Doom: 0:25
1) ................................... 2:40
2) ................................... 3:13
3) ................................... 4:35
Red Key 7:50
• Backpack 8:58
Yellow Key 9:00
• Berserk 9:46
*) .................................. 15:21
• Automap 16:04
Hard Doom: 18:43
1) ................................. 18:55
2) ................................. 20:15
*) ................................. 22:20
3) ................................. 22:55
Red Key 26:49
• Sonic Railgun 27:12 ...dropped
Yellow Key 28:13
• Berserk 29:10
• Automap 33:06
• BFG10k 34:18 ...dropped
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Referenced secrets:
1) Blue Key, Rocket Launcher
2) Chaingun, Rockets, Bullet
3) Plasma Gun, Rockets, Shells, Medkit, Cells
*) BFG9k, Backpack, Cells
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Links:
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E1L3
• ( https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/a-c/ace_dwf )
Hard Doom:
• ( https://www.moddb.com/mods/hard-doom)
Playlists:
• Year 1994 ... ( • Classic Doom 1 & 2 Custom WADs from -... )
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