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Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)

Duration: 3:01

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This run was part of my "One Day Challenge", where I limit myself to a single livestream to study, route, practice, and run a single map. This was possibly the least frustrating IL of all E4, the survivability of this map wasn't that bad. The worst part is getting past the Baron guarding the red button which raises the bridge to the final area. You really need to press that button as fast as possible, or you're losing time, but the timing to do it right is extremely finicky and partly random because the Baron only wakes up in certain tics of its idle animation, which makes the whole thing quite frustrating. Thankfully that problem is not as bad for the Baron guarding the yellow key button because you need to wait for the bridge anyway. Even though my goal was getting a 1:52 (which eluded me despite the long stream), I feel that this 1:53 run is pretty good so no shame in submitting this.
Route is almost the same as Teedre's except for:
- I lower both the first cell pillar and the supercharge pillar at the same time, to save a bit of time. Possibly could have just skipped the first supercharge if my health was high enough at that point, but I really didn't want to squander my survivability so I ended up never skipping it.
- Shoot the first Hell Knight while moving backwards into the blue armor so when it dies you can just rotate 90º and keep firing into the lift room without needing to wait for the plasma's cooldown animation when you stop firing.
- Skip all radiation suits down in the lava pit and go straight for the lift on the other end. You should still have enough time to kill all the Pinkies and Spectres downstairs.
- Shoot an extra BFG shot in the last area while moving in between the right and left stairways.
- On top of the left stairway, hit the far wall and then strafe back to the right to avoid getting blocked by the first Lost Soul. I feel this should be doable very consistently even though I didn't practice the maneuver fast enough.
- Always fire any BFG/plasma you have left while making the final run to the exit to push any Lost Souls that might be on the way to block you and steal the 1:52 from you! :(
Possible improvements:
- I feel like there's something else you could do while waiting for the red key lift? Maybe shoot the Barons with plasma? Feels awkward because you'll need the ammo later for the BFG (yes, sometimes you do run out of ammo here). Maybe there's some strategy involving the rocket launcher that I'm not seeing here; either shooting rockets at the Barons while you wait, or rocket-jumping across to save even more time, even though that feels SUPER risky.

Category: UV MAX (100% kills + secrets)
This run: 1m53.46 by Coincident, 2023/07/26
Attempt: 129 of 227
Time invested: 6h
Goal: Sub 1m53
More information & demo recording on doomworld: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/55560-ultimate-doom-demos-complevel-3/?page=45&tab=comments#comment-2689297

Doom on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2300/DOOM_II/
dsda-doom sourceport: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/133096-dsda-doom-v0256-2023-01-15

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