Scythe Map 31 'I Dunno Torn' No Damage Completion, With Tricky BFG Grab and Live Commentary

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Published on March 26, 2022 12:00:00 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNPtbg1bXpU

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Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)

Duration: 26:58

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0:00 Intro
0:23 Attempt #1
1:12 Attempt #3 starts
7:25 Corpses at a corner
13:30 Setting up for the Best Fancy Grab
16:58 Co-ordinates, Commands & Keybinds
20:06 I've got it!
21:10 Tragic tracers
24:10 Outro

#Reality #SR50 #IDunnoTorn

This video comprises three demos, including one success and two short clips of outtakes, for the challenge of scoring all monsters, items and secrets from a pistol start on Scythe's Map 31 'I Dunno Torn' while sustaining no damage, whatsoever; a.k.a. 'No Damage Completion'. I also challenge myself to utilise one of 4ShockBlast's suggested methods for using SR50 to grab the 'unreachable' BFG, which appears to be impossible to reach due to a teleporter line.

Scythe is a popular 32-map vanilla-compatible Doom 2 megawad completed in 2003 by Erik Alm and Kim 'Torn' Bach (who made Map 31). It can be downloaded for free from: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/megawads/scythe

Thanks again to 4ShockBlast for teaching me the ways of SR50 line-skipping --- messages we exchanged are included in the video with his kind permission.

Tick and cross graphics in the outro were downloaded from:
http://clipart-library.com/clipart/riLo6XydT.htm

But for a certain BFG, this could have been a thoroughly pleasant and not-too-hard No Damage challenge, with quirky music and a dungeon-themed environment. However, when I knew that THAT linedef could be skipped, I couldn't bring myself to give up on learning how to do it.

Just learning which keys were required for SR50 was the first step --- I went on to change my mind a few times on the keybinds, before settling on the S,D,F (left hand) and G (right hand) arrangement. My second choice was to use the same keys but pressing two with each hand, but it wasn't as consistent.

Switching from PrBoom+ to DSDA Doom was crucial because when I failed the manoeuvre, I could analyse whether I SR50'd correctly from a bad starting position, or wrongly from a good position, or did everything wrong. I could focus my practice then on SR50 and the setup alternately, gaining confidence slowly but surely.

Despite hours of practice, there is another large hurdle to overcome --- being able to consistently pull off the skip quickly in order to incorporate it into a speedrun of the No Damage challenge. You'll have to watch this space to see when, and if, that happens.

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