(Doom II) Rush: Map 08 - Land of the Demons (UV-Max Speedrun in 4:24)

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Published on January 11, 2023 8:27:09 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVcaFeFqPc8

Game:

Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)

Duration: 5:14

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Runner: D0M0
Date: 2023-01-10
IWAD: Doom2.wad
PWAD: rush.wad
Category: UV-Max
Map: 08 (Land of the Demons)
Source Port: DSDA-Doom v0.24.3 (MacOS Build)
Time: 4:24.51
Complevel 9 (Boom Compatible)

You may notice, with this specific video, the quality may be much better and improved by a ton. That's because I was only streaming the recordings at 30fps instead of the 60fps that I am using now. Get used to this change as from now on, all videos will be 60fps recordings at 4k resolution! I want this speedrun to not only be entertaining and interesting, but I want you to enjoy it in high quality and I want to not hurt your eyes.

This was way quicker than I expected, and maybe I could do a lot better in the future. Whenever I remaster the rush speedruns (which will be a series of videos in which I redo the maps for hopefully improvements in speed), I may go over this map. I already have pretty decent knowledge of how doom works and I am only aiming to get better.

With that being said, this level is truly where Rush becomes it's placement above Scythe in terms of difficulty. These rooms without an efficient strategy can be really gruelling and brutal.

I found that after 50 attempts, I was almost always getting through the first room no problem. I knew that since there were no sound blocking linedefs between the two rooms, if I tried to create some space with the arsenal I had once the first switch was hit, it would've resulted in a strategy which is solely dependant on luck. Instead, I tried to take it slow in order for the hell knights and revenants to head towards me and out of the doorway. That way I could just barely squeeze through.

What gave me the most trouble were the cyberdemons in the big room, along with the teleporting arch viles after that orange skull key. If you aren't quick enough with the invulnerability, then your run isn't going to look great. However, in this run I got very lucky, and managed to deal with these threats in pretty good conditions.

Yet again big up to Ancalagon, who got 2 mins 45 seconds for this map, which yet again is insanity. I used pretty much the same strats most of the way, except the beginning where I decided to change things up so that the run would be easier to manage.

The fact the next couple levels are pretty much BFG spam really helps, since I have gotten a lot more efficient with how I use the weapon, thanks to some of the members in the doom community, and specifically A1s. So therefore I am very much looking forward to the next couple levels.

Just 4 more levels to go until I don't come back to this wad for another while. Scary much!

Link to wad: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/p-r/rush
Link to sourceport (DSDA): https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom

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