Adonis: Escape from Urania, by riderr3
adonis.wad
https://www.dsdarchive.com/wads/adonis

MAP09 - Shatterhead
UV Max
Exe: DSDA-Doom 0.28.2 -complevel 9
Date: 20.12.2025
Player: vdgg
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| Kills:   174/174   102 % |
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| Items:    41/62     66 % |
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| Secrets:   8/8     100 % |
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| Time:    < 9:48 >        |
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| This awesome mapset deserves more demos, yet I barely made it      |
| before the end of 2025, so it has one demo per year :)             |
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| My favourite is MAP04, next is MAP13, but I wanted something       |
| easier so I started playing some other maps. I was not that far    |
| away from discarding this one as the megaarmor secret gave me      |
| way too much trouble. I could have all monsters dead in x minutes  |
| and you would then add two minutes as I was trying to make this    |
| jump and was failing and failing.                                  |
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| Then I remembered GarrettChan's db_qad demo: in order not to waste |
| time on missing imps which was quite likely, he dealth with the    |
| imps at the start. So the same strategy could be applied here.     |
| I didn't really needed that blue armor and making the jump with    |
| monsters is not any easier, but I could just "do my failing" and   |
| restart. The jump is very unintuitive, the angle and speed are     |
| awkward but it is very satisfying when you make it.                |
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| As for the rest of the map, I would like to talk about two spots.  |
| The plasma rifle area with an out-of-place swastika has this kind  |
| of desing where your rockets miss and revenant hit you with 80%    |
| damage. I usually start with 200/200 and finish with 100/green     |
| armor which may not be enough for the next fight with the HKs,     |
| plasma dudes and revenants. In this demo I only got one hit from   |
| a rev and one from a caco fireball and had 170% health which was   |
| very unusual.                                                      |
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| Another unique spot is inside the "mouth" with really deadly lost  |
| souls. I didn't find the rocket launcher safe enough there.        |
| The rest is pretty straightforward, the mapper throws at you a few |
| hordes with one arch-vile each so you can eventually die.          |
| And I often did. Happy to get this under 10 minutes despite        |
| a few inaccuracies.                                                |
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