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Iwad:      DOOM2.WAD
Pwad:      00-AV.WAD
Map:       MAP26
Skill:     4
Category:  UV Max
Exe:       dsda-doom 0.29.3 -complevel 2

Time:      56:08.06

Author:    yrriban

Comments:
we're back with another redux demo for the index.  map 29 of alien vendetta got
slid down to recruit and map 26 has been put into that slot.  which makes sense
as this map is way harder.  i think i prefer demonic hordes and no guts no
glory over this, but it's definitely harder than both of those.  it's one of
those maps where if you don't know what's going on you'll wind up dying pretty
much immediately.  but it's easy enough to bail off the edge, run out of the
central area and get down to work.  we start with clearing out the whole back
area, which is absolutely packed with monsters.  the most obnoxious bits are
probably those archviles, plus the pain elementals that get let loose when you
approach the center.  the upper area isn't as bad, although that one revenant
room kind of wrecked me this time as i got kind of greedy.  hitting the
switches here though gets you access to the blue key battle.  pretty
straightforward circle strafing but it's pretty easy to get stuck.  then we
have to clear out the central area and get at the yellow key, which is far and
away my least favorite part of the level.  especially the archvile telefrag
setup that has a 50% chance of you telefragging the archvile and a 50% chance
of getting stuck in point blank range with one.  looking at some other demos i
could probably route this more aggressively and use the invuln early.  but this
route works well enough.  then we're down to the finale, which i always kind of
forget about.  honestly let it get the better of me here and wind up get pushed
around a lot.  but we get it done.  you can try and circle strafe and bfg your
way through but i find that a little hair raising to do at the end of the demo.

it's been pretty much a year since i first demoed the level and i've improved
by... taking four minutes longer.  i was really not in the best of states
recording this though, sort of like the fire and ice demo.  it is what it is.
