For the Doom 2 mini-episode Gathering II: Darkside of the Mind by Daniel Norman

File required: NEW.WAD (I renamed it Gather2.wad)
Download link: http://www.doom2.net/~mykdoom/oldstuff/gather2.zip

Map04

Skill: UV Pacifist

Kills        13%
Items        25%
Secrets       0% and Time 1:54

This is a Doom2.exe-format demo (recorded with glboom 2.2.4). Plays back with Doom2.exe, Prboom and Eternity.
PrBoom download link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/prboom

Description: This is a substantial improvement over the 5:04(!) I recorded in March 2003. That earlier demo featured only one trick (the strafe-50 jump to the yellow key). I have added two tricks - one that I simply hadn't noticed (a switch trick), and one (an archie jump) that I knew about but hadn't succeeded with (or dared to try, given how low the chances of success were without the switch trick).
The switch trick cuts out a lengthy (and difficult) portion of the old route, and accounts for most of the time saved. The other significant saving comes from the archie jump near the end. I need to wait for him to polish off an arachnotron in this demo, but it's still a fair bit faster than having to go the long way round (the best time I've got with that route was 2:01 - included).

This 1:54 is quite a messy demo (how many bites did I need at the switch trick? Sheesh!), but it is the only one in which I have succeeded with the archie jump at all. Normally the archie is too distracted (or dead) for you to get a shot at the jump, or it is not from a useful angle.

Graham "Grazza" Burgess
GKBurgess@compuserve.com
