Doom II: No Chance - UV-Max in 6:57 [TAS]

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Zero Master

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Published on June 28, 2023 1:36:04 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFjFd4pi2vM

Game:

Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)

Duration: 7:07

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This is a Tool-Assisted Speedrun!

Runner: Zero-Master
Date: 2023-06-26
IWAD: Doom2.wad
PWAD: nochance.wad
Category: UV-Max Reality TAS
Source Port: DSDA-Doom v0.26.2
Time: 6:57.66

Description:
Looked like a fun map to TAS since you have so many options on what to do.

Might be possible to do it in under 6 minutes, didn't put much effort into this so with cleaner movement, better route, more efficient ammo use and better luck I could see it being doable. Too much effort for me though, I think I got decent infighting here and since it's just under 7 minutes it's good enough for now. Not bothering with no damage taken would of course make things a lot easier.

Maybe I'll do a non-TAS run some day, under 20 minutes is possible.

Route:
Main idea: get the BFG immediately and try to get as much infighting going as possible.
BFG is easily available at the start here, yellow key is closest followed by red key and then blue key.
Not that many monsters at red key, but it doesn't take too much time to get to and a lot of the monsters will gather up at the edge of the entrace to that area, so it gets done second.
So first get yellow key as quickly as possible to get everything teleporting in and try to take out as many arch-viles and pain elementals as possible along the way.
Next I'll get red key and clear out the red key area so I don't have to go back that far and leave most the other monsters alive for infighting. It could maybe be faster to just leave immediately and come back for clean up later, but there weren't enough monsters here for me to do that.
Then blue key, since the corridor is quite long and there's a lot of arch-viles I went with clearing it all out, another possibility would be to grab the key and leave while infighting happens and hope that enough monsters die for it to be worth running through a second time.
The rest is just clean up and get to the exit.

Tools used:
Rewind/segmenting
Building (frame by frame inputs)
Slow-motion (25% mostly)
Always SR50 + SR50 on turns
Input/coordinate display
2xIDDT

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