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Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)

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Respawning monsters on this map = absolute chaos. It's so random, it hurts. I tried Looper's UV Max route for this map: first making the mancubi in the circular area in-fight, then getting the berserk, and finally the rocket launcher. This route failed miserably bad; in-fighting is nice and gets you closer to 100% kills, but with respawning monsters, after you get the rocket launcher and try to go back to the circular area, most monsters have respawn and are now blocking your path to the BFG. Firing some rockets can clear some of them out, but it's usually not enough to clear all of them, then you run out of rockets, switch to the chaingun, but it's too late because the large cacos, pain elementals, and mancubi are now completely blocking the way.

Instead of doing this, I decided to stick with Ryback's UV Respawn route: going for the rocket launcher first, and then going to the circular room and getting the BFG. This worked much more consistently, and soon enough, I was able to beat Ryback's time of 3m31.60 (1st @ dsda) by a single second. Even though this is good enough for me, I'm sure it's possible to go much lower than this time by:
- Making fewer movement mistakes
- Focusing more on killing just low-tier enemies
- Better managing the rocket-launcher/BFG ammo around these types of enemies
- Skipping the room with the nukage area and the 2 pain elementals (not sure if possible)
I'm not sure about this last one because that room gives you 1 rocket and 2 BFG blasts. Ammo will be even more tight if you skip this room.

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