For the Doom 2 wad Caesar by Francois Coppex

File required: Caesar.wad
Download link: ftp://3darchives.in-span.net/pub/idgames/levels/doom2/a-c/caesar.zip

Map01

Skill: Nightmare! Pacifist

Kills       22%
Items        0%
Secrets      0% and Time 0:42

Recorded with PrBoom 2.2.3. Also plays back with Doom2.exe (v. 1.9)
PrBoom download link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/prboom

Description: Just for a laugh, I decided to try NM Pacifist. On my second attempt (believe it or not!) I got a 0:47, and I felt that I'd have a tough time doing any better - for a while I didn't even try. Still, curiosity got the better of me, and after a frustrating session where I died many many times, I managed another 0:47 (I became a zombie in this one, so it is included in the zip as CaesNZ47.lmp). Then suddenly I got a five-second improvement... Apart from losing time around the blue armour (normally more time is lost there, but every now and then you get to it without problems), everything goes pretty much perfectly. In the big arena, the speed of the demons works to your advantage - they get out of your way more quickly, and many of them get hit by fireballs, making them into a benign shield from the other monsters. I tried all sorts of strategies in this arena, involving different routes to run, and different moments to punch the air, but it obviously requires a bit of luck in any event.

Graham "Grazza" Burgess
GKBurgess@compuserve.com
