For the Doom2 semi-megawad "Operation : BIOWAR" by Chris Harbin, Paul Corfiatis and John Bishop

File required: biowar.wad
Download link: http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/games/idgames/levels/doom2/megawads/biowar.zip

Map02: Terror Core

Skill: UV Pacifist/Speed

Kills         5%
Items         0%
Secrets       0% and Time 0:09

This is a Doom2.exe-format demo (recorded with glboom 2.2.6). Plays back with Prboom and Eternity.
PrBoom download link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/prboom (Budko's version: http://www.geocities.com/e6y/doom.html)

Description: Funny, I felt like recording something, but couldn't think of anything so decided to watch some demos instead. I'd never played Biowar and sat down to watch Sam Woodman's demos. I only got as far as map02 before noticing something interesting: an obvious possibility for a suicide exit. But how to make it work?

Firstly, the gap between the walls and the bars is 24 units. You can get a "wobble" from them (I'll call this a "jaws wobble"), but you can't glide past them - it has to be a death slide. The slide is quite long though, and it's hard to get much speed from anything. At first I thought I needed to get the blue key to reduce the length of the slide, and a momentum-preserving wobble would just about do the trick. I got a 0:19 using that method (included in the zip). However, in that one I got a "big wobble" and went flying into the exit at such speed that I felt it would be possible to manage without any keys.

The surprising thing about the "big wobble" I get in this 0:09 is that I'm not even in the 24 unit gap. Weird. I get plenty of momentum from the combination of strafe-50, and shotgun blast and a few demon bites.

For anyone looking to research this stuff in more detail, here are my coordinates in the last few gametics:
tic      health   X     Y    Z    dY
0:09.43    3     227  -103   0
0:09.46    0     228  -103   0     0
0:09.49    0     228  -127   0   -24 <--- more than normal max speed with strafe-50
0:09.51    0     228  -148   0   -21
0:09.54    0     228  -167   0   -19
0:09.57    0     228  -184   8   -17
0:09.60    0     228  -202   8   -18
exit

Graham "Grazza" Burgess
GKBurgess@compuserve.com
