Filename : abc2_2294.lmp, abc2_2294.txt
Date     : 22.12.2024
Iwad     : doom2.wad
Pwad     : abc2024.wad
Game     : Doom2
Exe      : DSDA Doom 0.26.2 -complevel 2
Category : UV-Speed
Map(s)   : MAP02
Skill    : 4 (UV)
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Nickname : alexsa2015sa
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Map 02 - 0:22.94
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Description:

The lmp is recorded against an incorrectly named .wad file because the demo author is a dummy who renames the new files all the time instead of replacing old versions with correct ones. It should sync anyways.

Attempts: 600+, ~17 successes in 0:24-0:29 range

It has a really irritating story behind it. A stock DEMO2 when the mapset was released is actually an UV speed 24.00. It is a genuine recording; I was surprised by how I managed that trying to reproduce a 0: 31 demo from an earlier pre-release version. It took something like 100 attempts all told.
...and when I tried to *reproduce* it, never mind improve, I faced the fact that *so* *many* RNG and technically demanding tricks must align together for it to be under 25.00 even. That pinky horde 1? Easy to glide past, also fuck your time if you don't. Pinky horde 2? Fuck you this one is *hard* to execute so get chewed and/or gunned down, *before* you manage to reach the red key. If you don't take advantage of a very narrow window that apparently depends on how long they take before they start moving, you're stuck in this pink morass. I had barely a dozen attempts that successfully executed it, and it saves *at least* a second, if not two.

Going back you're losing seconds to boiling pinky chaos depending on whether they are all aggroed on chaingunners, *and* the blood tunnel is full of *everything* including those imps you might have just released, and the hell-spawned arachnotron who exists to stop you cold by making a random diagonal step in your general direction. Chaingunner and shotgunner wandering around are usually dead to something they shot, but if not welcome to RNGesus country.

Additionally; I have no idea why wasting time grabbing chaingun of all things makes my runs work. Both 24.00 and 22.94 feature this time-wasting detour and I don't think I actually shoot much?
