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://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/drsleep/gather2.zip

Map05

Skill: UV Speed

Kills        29%
Items       100%
Secrets     ???% and Time 0:45

Recorded with PrBoom 2.2.3 (-complevel 1). Also plays back with Doom2.exe (v. 1.9).
PrBoom download link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/prboom

Description: Well, this is funny. I'd managed a 0:53 in a Legacy demo (Ga05x053.lmp - no ghosts, since Legacy doesn't support them), and decided to see how close I could get to this time when using an executable that played the map as originally intended. The ghost imps in the boss brain area make quite a difference, to say the least. After some effort I got a 1:09 which looked OK to me - few obvious errors, and the method made sense (coax the baron out, and hide some distance away, drawing the AV and the ghosts away from the baron's passage). Then, just mucking around, I got a 1:01 that featured some horrible errors (running into walls, wrong turnings, etc.), where the baron just happened to come out to play very quickly. Obviously I couldn't leave that as my final attempt. So... in this 0:45 run, I make some small but obvious errors and get blocked a few times. But then, miraculously, I manage to squeeze past the baron (twice!) - and everything else - while taking hardly any damage. Unbelievable!

Graham "Grazza" Burgess
GKBurgess@compuserve.com
