PWAD: id1.wad
PWAD Name: Legacy of Rust
Map: 2
Skill: 4
Category: UV Max
Exe: DSDA-Doom 0.29.4 complevel 21
Recorded on: 01/27/2026
Time: 07:37
Author: 300SXD
Description: 
Finally finished the max.  I tried a lot longer to get better than this but it's pretty hard to even live through this route so idk.  I think the obvious time save is to not have to hunt down monsters at the end of the run, perhaps after leaving the factory and going for the red key start going into full clear mode.  I had a couple different route ideas but this one seemed the most practical. If you do the pillar skip you can have less distance to travel, but it's more practical to have more rockets earlier on to hit good clumps of ghouls, they all clump up near the exit of the cave and directly below the stairs at the end.  The rocket jump allows you to clear out the factory in one circle and not have to backtrack for switches, which saves quite abit.  There is a jump you can do in the cave area to skip some waiting on the bridges, but I hadn't implemented that yet. I had also started implementing more punching and less shotgunning, not sure how much time that might save. Run got very clsoe when i got to the banshee ambush on the bridge, normally i have chaingun ammo saved for that but a caco followed me in and messed with me. All in all there a ton of rng or really difficult things that can happen to you throughout the run... getting into the cave after picking up the rocket launcher, the cave itself as the bridges are quite easy to fall off of, the rocket jump, the banshee ambush, coming up the steps to the two switches up top, and finally clearing the horde at the ground level. I'm really proud of this demo even though it isn't the best, and I'm glad to put it behind me. Map 3 seems a lot more straightforward so hopefully more chill. Been watching it back while typing this... I lost like 50 seconds to that pinkie, that is so sad.  It's so easy for enemies, especially things like pinkies to get stuck in random places on this map.
Video: https://youtu.be/j_coi2GT6VE