Doom II: Sunder - Map 18 (The Singing Void) UV-Max in 56:01

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Published on February 22, 2022 4:05:10 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=augH-dMYixA

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Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)

Duration: 56:10

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Runner: Zero-Master
Date: 2022-02-19
IWAD: Doom2.wad
PWAD: Sunder 2407.wad
Category: UV-Max
Map: 18 (The Singing Void)
Source Port: DSDA-Doom v0.24.1
Time: 56:01

Description:
Did this a few days ago, just didn't want to upload immediately after map 17. I really enjoy this level, definitely one of my favorite ones. With my route here it turned out to be one of the easier levels, though I did get a bit lucky at the red key fight.

This map introduces the new monster called Hive Mother. I personally really like it and thankfully it doesn't have immunity to splash despite its size so it's not super tanky.

Next up is map 19... actually I did that one a few hours ago too, if you've played that level you might wonder how I managed to get that one done so quickly.. all I will say is I used nearly every trick in the book :) Not sure when I will upload it, friday or saturday most likely. I'll be taking a break for probably a couple of weeks before I get to map 20.

Comments about the run:
Overall happy with it, my time isn't that far off from what I get in practice compared to my other new sunder runs.

Had a different plan in mind for the start, but I messed up the linedef skip. Worked out ok anyways.

First blue key fight I had some extreme luck with none of those initial revenant rockets being seeker missiles as those are quite hard to dodge at the start. I shouldn't have damaged that hell knight stuck on the stairs.. never considered it a possibility for a monster to block other monsters from getting up like that. Also shouldn't have dropped down so early, or at least used more rocket splash first.

Second fight I forgot to wake up the cyberdemons before activating the switch. Infighting wasn't optimal, but overall it seemed ok. Just needed a lot of plasma to take down the cyberdemons and some extra rockets for everything else. Also at about 17m50s in I don't think I've ever had a cyberdemon rocket that close to my face and it not hitting me.. wouldn't have been an issue if it did hit as I will pick up the megasphere in the next area anyways.

Third fight all cyberdemons teleported without me having to really go out of my way which never happened in practice, so that was nice. I don't think this fight could have gone any better.

Nearly fell off going into red key/hive area.

I didn't mean to wake up the cyberdemon in the second red key fight, but he didn't get in the way so it mostly went as I planned.

Absolutely insane third fight, dropping down from 172 172 to 1 hp is not something I think I've ever experienced in a demo attempt before. And this is after the absolute disaster with the cacodemons which I somehow survived as well. This fight is not that difficult, the cacodemon being really far above and also being behind me was unlucky while the 1 hp moment was my fault, bad movement because I was impatient.

At yellow key first fight it's quite dumb to pick up 50 health when you plan on picking up the megasphere anyways, but I don't expect to have any need for them. Usually I don't need to grab the megasphere immediately, but I was too low from red key area. Even though 100/82 is still good I was afraid of taking a cyberdemon rocket when I start the fight, which seemed to happen in practice a couple of times. If it happens then I would survive, if it doesn't happen then I will probably have no further issues anyways.

The revenant sounds had me convinced there were remaining monsters in the next area, so I had to take a couple of extra run arounds to check to be sure.

Final area was no problem, cyberdemons mostly behaved nice. I forgot how I was supposed to release the last 3 cyberdemons, so when I started the fight I didn't want to go back into the center out of fear of cyberdemon rockets. So I decided to run around, luckily that worked and I didn't get blocked too badly, but I should have practiced that more. Took some unnecessary projectiles, but there's so much health it's no problem.

Was afraid I'd run off by the exit there for a moment.

Route/Strategy:
https://pastebin.com/CH9SZweG

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