[Doom] Plutonia2 Single Segment UV-Max Speedrun

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Published on October 28, 2023 3:00:11 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iPmSI0Wt7Q

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Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)

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Doom 2's PWAD "Plutonia2" my play video

Game: Doom2
PWAD: Plutonia2
Skill: Ultra-Violence
Map: 1-32
Time: 4:46:35
Category: UV-Max (100% kills and 100% secrets)

The megawad was released in 2008, partly because it took quite a while from the time the project was announced to its release as an unofficial sequel to Plutonia, I remember well that the response was quite tremendous at the time. It was also the year I started speedrunning, and I too have played some maps on this wad many times and for many hours for a faster records. It is one of the WADs that I have a deep emotional attachment to. That's why I wanted to try this D2ALL and since Doom's 30th anniversary is coming up, I decided to give it a go.

The maps in Plutonia 2 are quite complete for a work made within the limitations of Vanilla Doom, but they also have a lot of bugs and were quite annoying, with many of them ruining the UV-Max rules. Some maps encounter bugs that some enemies don't teleport from inaccessible closets forever. The individual incidence itself is low, but many maps have that bugs, and if you play through from map 1, it is by no means unlikely that you will get stuck with it somewhere. Map 3, map 17, map 20 and map 25 are the ones I encountered during this attempt. The incidence of six revenants not teleporting is particularly high on map 25, where it takes more than three hours to get there. I have encountered a few of these in the past, including during the UV-Max challenge in IL run (p225-645.lmp) and this practice. I encountered it twice in D2ALL attempts and those runs were ruined. These bug encounters are something that cannot be prevented by any ingenuity on the part of the player, and it seems very unreasonable. There are players who would like to see a rule revision in this point and discussions about it, but due to the small number of D2ALL challengers, not much progress can be made.

The biggest problem in terms of difficulty is Map 30. The other maps are also difficult, but they are trivial problems in front of Map 30. Map 30 requires precision shooting from the edge of a particular platform to launch rockets into the boss's weak spot, but the platform is so small that you can easily fall from it due to enemy fire. You can barely fire three or four rockets before you fall off the platform, and if you are lucky you can fire a lot, but it is quite rare. The chances of hitting the target accurately on the first shot are quite low for me, and I can only correct my aim slightly in the right direction from the feeling I get after three or four shots. During practice, if I was lucky enough to stay on that platform for a long time and fire 10 rockets in a row, I could almost kill the boss. However, it took me more than four and a half hours to get here and it is quite difficult to play that calmly when I am quite exhausted. In fact, on this run, it took me quite a while to finish off the boss, although I was lucky enough to have lots of opportunities to shoot lots of rockets at each other. There are moments when it is quite possible that the lost souls could have self-destructed in the rapid approach, but it was a miracle that they were really avoided. I practised a lot, but it is still a map with quite a lot of luck factors. I feel that precision positioning and shooting can solve the luck factor, but I couldn't. I died on map 30 twice in episode 3 movie attempts and once in D2ALL attempts. Starting from even map 21, it takes about two hours to reach map 30, so it is by no means easy. Just because Map 30 has a strong luck factor, D2ALL can be one of the most difficult WADs.


Plutonia2 download here:
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/megawads/pl2


Time Stamp
0:00 - MAP01: Comeback
2:08 - MAP02: Jungle Spirits
6:30 - MAP03: Skull Island
13:11 - MAP04: Filth
16:48 - MAP05: Flooded Chapel
22:33 - MAP06: Collider Complex
34:31 - MAP07: Enemy Caught
39:38 - MAP08: Harmany
44:14 - MAP09: Wormhole Zone
51:05 - MAP10: Cosmodrome
56:38 - MAP11: Arch-Violence
1:09:06 - MAP12: Imprisoned
1:15:48 - MAP13: Hard Facility
1:27:45 - MAP14: Charon Eclipse
1:33:12 - MAP15: Where Hate Runs Red
1:37:32 - MAP31: Cybernation
1:42:53 - MAP32: Go 4 It
1:55:53 - MAP16: Predatorium
2:02:06 - MAP17: Nuclear Horror
2:16:21 - MAP18: Buckets of Blood
2:27:56 - MAP19: Hecknology
2:38:38 - MAP20: Lurking Fear
2:52:48 - MAP21: Assassin
3:04:18 - MAP22: Locus Perditus
3:17:11 - MAP23: Aztecorum
3:28:53 - MAP24: Outpost of the Evil Dead
3:36:06 - MAP25: Black Ice
3:48:23 - MAP26: Plutopia
3:57:30 - MAP27: Red Hot
4:04:56 - MAP28: The Bloodwall
4:22:05 - MAP29: Ticket to Eternity
4:47:03 - MAP30: The Gatewatcher

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