[Tetanus] MAP04: Asphyxiate (UV-Max Demo)
6i went back on forth on whether or not i liked this map, and i think i've settled on not really liking it all. the start is a tough scramble to quickly arm yourself before getting overwhelmed, hopefully using the barrels to your advantage, and getting your hands on a chaingun before the pain elemental figures out where you are or starts infighting. the rest of the level is either more perfunctory than that, or close-range rocket launcher sweatfests that are difficult to do consistently. the first one i mostly evaded by prevented the elevator from rising up and in the second it's necessary to be very fast or the revenants will pin you. i tried a bunch of things with the last encounter, and the most consistent thing i came up with is to hold your fire and wait for infighting to pick up, although you'll have to hope that enough enemies, and especially the archvile, get distracted long enough to make sufficient space for yourself. no matter how you do it, it's really not fun at all and can often just lead to being stuck in a corner with a useless rocket launcher while revenants punch you to death.
tetanus: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/s-u/ttns
get the demo: https://s3.yrriban.net/doom/ttns_map04.lmp
source port used: dsda-doom 0.27.5
sound font used: arachno.sf2
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