IWAD: doom.wad
Map: E1M7
Category: UV-Max
Skill: 4
Sourceport: dsda-doom-0.29.3 (-complevel 3)


Time: 2:05.94



Comments:

Hard to believe it's been 20 years since I last played this map trying to break the 2:20 barrier.  Those old runs sure look slow as hell by today's standards though.
Saw my 2:19 record got beat and got inspired to pick up doom again to give this run a shot.  Run definitely didn't look promising at first as I was getting times in the 2:30s-2:40s - but kept at it and eventually saw better times, and then started seeing way better times after finding the -time_all feature within dsda.

Biggest route change comes from killing the monsters behind the red key door with the help of rocket shot from a window in the hallway.  Not sure if it's actually faster than the in-fight way though, maybe just more reliable.  I get a massive time save at the chainsaw area, where an imp opens the door twice and lowers the lift for me.  Unfortaunately, all that advantage and more gets lost later in the run.  I think this was on pace for a sub 2 minute run had I not botched the rocket at the radiation switch and if the two imps at the end were better positioned at the blue key door.  Oh well, can't really complain though, those bastards could have easily wandered off the map leading to yet another missing kills run.



Author:  hi jango

