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Doom (1993)

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**THIS IS A TOOL-ASSISTED SPEEDRUN**

IWAD: doom.wad
Maps: Episode 1
Skill: Ultra-Violence
Category: UV-Speed
Exe: XDRE 2.20
Complevel: 3
Date: Finished on 26/11/2020
Time: 3:25
Author: almostmatt1

This is a tool-assisted speedrun, built using XDRE 2.20.

For the first 80 tics of this demo, the inputs are taken from e1m1xo791.lmp by 38_ViTa_38, since he did a really damn good job. When I begun this demo I just wanted to see if I could do a 7 second reality demo for fun, turns out that didn't quite happen, but I was enjoying myself so I kept going. By around half way through map 3 realised that I could probabably decently improve the current fastest Episode 1 TAS, made all the way back in 2006, and at that point I didn't want to go back and build from the start again and so I kept the tics. Some things are changed in those 80 tics, like some firing and angle transposition, but this is fundamentally still based off of someone elses work and I want to make clear that credit is due to Vita there (for what it's worth he actually credits Looper for the "first tics" but I don't know which these are). The rest is my own work.

I got initially motivated to chip away at this after being messaged for help as someone else wanted to do a similar demo but eventually gave up on the idea, which gave me the idea to have a go myself. I didn't really have a goal time in mind but wanted to beat each level of Andrey Budko's old 3:45 TAS by at least one second, which I managed, but my main goal was just to make a tas with a 7 second e1m1 and the e1m8 void glide as they're, I think, the most notable possible improvements to Andreys old tas.

There are tics to be saved everywhere through better movement and monster luck, but in particular there are a couple of significant mistakes. In map 3 and map 5, it's possible for a monster to open a door but I didn't get this to happen. It wasn't even a matter of knowing it could happen but not being able to get it to/getting frustrated and just not doing it, I simply didn't realise at the time that it could be done and so didn't try. In map 3 after the blue door I also should have just ran past the imp so I could shoot the zombieman quicker and therefore get past him quicker, if I did this and had a monster open a door for me sooner in the level it'd have made for an easy second saved.

I did certainly prioritise sharp turning in an attempt to prioritise squeezing out time over making this aesthetic, but made an effort to transpose tics and smooth out turning while mid-air or not moving to try to make it a little nicer to watch. Where this completely fails is the end part of e1m7, with plenty of rapid turning between chaingun shots. It's a bit of a train wreck to watch. Sorry!

I'd like to thank Alps, lots of talking to him about tasing lately has gone a long way in helping reignite my interest in making them and I don't think I'd have finished this without that.
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** Viddump & Upload Details **
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IWAD: The Ultimate Doom
Source Port: DSDA-Doom 24.3
Smooth Demo Playback: On
Smooth Demo Playback Factor: 2
Change Palette On Pain: No
Use Extended HUD: Yes
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** Links **
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Demo File Link: https://dsdarchive.com/files/demos/doom/50513/ep1-x325.zip

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