[TAS] Doom: Eternal III - Map 24 UV-Max in 8:43 by Dimon12321

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Published on July 14, 2020 10:53:32 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UenjWVKxFvs

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Doom Eternal (2020)

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This is a tool-assisted speedrun that devastates Map 24 of Eternal III quickly!

Sourceport: PrBoom+ 2.5.1.4cl2
About 80% of input was made in XDRE 2.20.

Music: Alien Vendetta - Map 8

Map 24: Rainbow Bridge

--- 1. Blue key section ----

So, at the beginning, I killed all the monsters. Backpack helped me store more ammo which helped me at the end of the game. After beating all the demons, I was meant to beat 4 hell knights nearby, but it would be time-consuming, so I decided to leave them for later. Also, I invoked 2 cacodemons, waiting behind the bridge, to make them fly to appropriate places.
North-western room (sector 304) was pretty dangerous. Fortunately, I provoked 4 cacodemons to fight with other monsters, so I could clean the room faster.
It was a big luck for me to have those 4 hell knights walking around in the northern part of the bank (sector 156). I killed them all and save a lot of time!
Cleaning the North-western room wasn’t that hard. However, monsters could kill each other better =)

--- 2. Opposite side to the Blue key section ---

The first part (rooms with sectors 229, 230 and 244) is self-explanatory. Just running around and killing everything. The most difficult moment was killing 3 imps with a single SSG shot.
The second part was hard. As soon as you enter the balcony area (sector 159), the closet opens and 5 cacodemons fly out and teleport to different places, trying to surround you. Fortunately, that section isn’t that fast because you must activate 2 switches inside the towers in order to advance with the map. By the time I was about to leave that section, the most problematic cacodemon had reached me and I killed him, so the route wasn’t spoiled.

--- 3. Central castle (sector 1 and all around it) ---

It’s self-explanatory. At the beginning of it, it’s a multilevel route to kill all the monsters. After using the red lift (sector 6), I ran for the plasma gun secret which required 4 switches to be activated. It was a good time to use SSG instead of fists.
The next part was really hard. You must activate a switch to open an underground room with cacodemons, two of which are placed near the teleporting linedefs (444 and 445). The sound propagation is terrible. They wake up if make noise in the sector 48, so I kept silent for a while, just to kill those 2 cacodemons which could break my route. That part was remade twice because of my carelessness.

--- 4. Square of the damned (sector 378 and everything around it) (part 1) ----

Firstly, I had to run through a big square hallway which featured some wallrunning. To open the inner yard, you must reach the opposite part of the hallway, head back to the opened door, use a lift and cross a special linedef (3002). Killing monster on the way was hard because Plasma Riffle is the most unpredictable weapon in terms of damage manipulation. Fortunately, I killed everything as planned.
The inner yard (sector 380) features a secret section with monsters and ammo, so I headed to it first. The switch on the opposite wall opens the door to the outer yard (sectors 396 and 404) which is filled with monsters and 2 cyberdemons among them.

--- 5. Northern part and the Red key section (sectors 396 and 123 + 120, respectively) ---

The 1st cyberdemon was out, so my target was to make monsters fight him. Fortunately, some work was already made for me + invisibility helped me manipulate cyber’s blasts.
As soon as you leave the front area (sector 120), the first layer of the central square (sector 381) starts lifting down. Even though, I met 2 revenants in time, most monsters bypassed their teleporting linedefs and started going out of the inner yard towards me. Afterwards, I had to change the route slightly.

6. Square of the damned (part 2)

I planned to encounter the inner yard directly, but was meant to run through the northern part of the hallway to kill a bunch of bastards. Also it was the most appropriate place to kill one of 2 arch-viles. Ironically, it bypassed its teleporting linedef as well.

After shooting everything in the inner yard, I headed to the red door and activated the switch to be able to use the lift inside the central square (sector 491). Well, this sector isn’t the best possible to shoot monsters on balcony areas, so I didn’t spend much time fighting Doom’s aiming system.
After you enter the yellow key room, the last 2 closets open up, so I run through the whole square hallway for the last time to kill them all.

--- 7. Southern part and the exit ---

This section was partically made in slow-motion + segmenting because the 2nd cyberdemon’s neighbors (things 245 and 246) flew inside the hallway and were about to enter the secret room (sector 470) which would break my route. So, some time was spent on their route manipulations. At last, I killed the remaining monsters. The last one had died 2 tics before I finished the map.

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