[Doom 2] Epic 2 MAP 24 "Hentiamenti" UV-Fast

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Published on May 26, 2013 8:26:35 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB125psG1Rs

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Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)

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Doom 2's pwad "Epic 2" level 24 my play video

Pwad: Epic 2
Skill: Ultra-Violence
Time: 15:08
Map: 24
Name: Hentiamenti
Category: UV-Fast

This is one of the hardest maps in the wad like map 23. It was truly nightmare on fast monsters. I only found the map not impossible in the test play before the play through, so I had been anxious about the map for long time. In addition, the map was next to map 23 which was another very difficult map and it was a heavy burden.

A huge valley with narrow ledges after a big elevator especially had serious problems. There are only few poles where I could hide myself and many enemies' attacks, including homing missiles, aimed me from all directions. A tunnel which was contrary to the big elevator was a safe points, but there are two mancubi in the entrance of this. I was almost caught up by homing missiles while I was killing the mancubus, so I died of them when I went straight to the tunnel. To deal with the missiles was necessary before I entered the tunnel. It therefore was extremely hard to secure safety and I usually died before it. After I got a plasma rifle, I had to go through the ledges in the valley again, then three arch-viles and revenants resurrected by them attacked me in the broad area. It was really tricky. I managed to be in time for finishing vile's attack with stiffening time of them after their attack when I moved from a hiding place to a hiding place.

The cyberdemon teleporting continually appeared in an area after the red key's door. This area has a crusher, but many people don't know how to use it for dealing with the cyberdemon well, do they? Actually, I didn't understand it when I played this map first time. The warp point from a cage where there is the crusher is only the first platform after the red key's door. You stand in the center of the platform after I push a switch for the crusher, and then the cyberdemon can't escape from the cage and will be killed by it. However, I didn't use it in this run and I just waited the cyberdemon in front of the cage. The cyberdemon which teleported to the cage attacked me instantly without moving on fast monsters, so I made the crusher kill it easily. If I had stood in the platform, the cyberdemon wouldn't have teleported at once when it appeared in the platforms where it could see me. It was just not efficient. You might think that the cyberdemon was sometimes pressed by the crusher even if you left it, but it would not happen because all warp lines to the cage were placed in the edge side of the map. The cyberdemon therefore probably would not step on them.

The rest of this map had some hard places, though they were not as difficult as the valley area. In the yellow key's area, I went around the area and caused enemies infighting. Because I had already had enough weapons and ammo, it might not be an efficient way but it was so safe. I usually consumed a mega sphere in the cyberdemon's room until the area, so I used the way for survival. In the blue key's room, cacodemons after the blue key attacked me without moving, so they didn't teleport to this area smoothly on fast monsters. I had to hide their sights. Fortunately, I could escape from the room without getting platforms which moved up and down slowly. I would have been killed by them easily if I had fired switches to get out the room. However, I was often given terrible damage and mancubi blocked the entrance of the room, so I never let down my attention.

I played the map slowly and safely on the whole for the valley area which was extremely hard. In other wards, to survive the map took priority over all other things. I didn't felt inclined to aim a faster record because the unreasonable difficulty of the map caused me to lose my motivation completely. The rest of the wad has some very hard maps, like map 26, 28, and 29, but their difficulty probably will not exceed the map, so I can take a breath for breaking through map 23 and 24. However, they are much longer than the map and they must be hardship cased by its length.


Epic 2:
http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/?id=16262

UV-Fast is Ultra-Violence with Fast monsters.
About Fast Monsters:
http://doomwiki.org/wiki/Fast_monsters

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