Pwad:      http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/games/idgames/levels/doom2/m-o/metro13.zip
           (Or mirrors...)
Pwad name: Metro13
Maps:      13 <- NOTE!
Skill:     4
Category:  Speed + Pacifist
Exe:       Recorded with PrBoom 2.2.4 with -complevel 0 (doom2.exe comp)
Time:      0:26

Author:    Kristian Ronge
Email:     zuckuss@bigfoot.com (primary)
           d99-kro@nada.kth.se

Stats:     Kills     1%
           Items     0%
           Secrets   0%

Comments:  

Heh. :-)

"Long" story short: Doomworld Forums regular Ducon found a trick jump to a 
teleporter which effectively allowed you to skip all three keys for a 
speedrun here. So I was tempted to try it out.  I added a trick myself (the 
window jump), to allow for a pacifist run. It's possible to pass the imps 
without this jump, but it's much harder.

I got a 1:03 where I waited for the lift to rise because I thought it would 
be too hard to jump through the window on the way down. It turned out it 
wasn't really that much harder, just a little bit, so I made another run in 
0:57, with this improvement, but otherwise identical.

Then, Grazza told me that the switch you teleport to in the end (that gives 
access to the metro section) can be pushed from below, which of course 
shortens the run significantly. I then did a third speedrun with this trick 
and with a time of 0:34.

Well ...

This seems to be one of those days where we have difficulty running out of 
new tricks...

I discovered half an hour ago that you can access the metro section earlier 
by jumping over the descending wall from the ledge you teleport to through 
Ducon's trick jump. Sigh. So it was back to square one. This took quite some 
time to get, since there are four(!) tricks in short succession, but on the 
other hand the time is (IMO) superb! The run is pacifist as well, of course.

So, route credits to Ducon and Grazza (and myself, heh). Thanks, guys!

I said it before, but now I am finally done with this map. Pity that I 
didn't know about the switch trick when I made the max run. It could surely 
have saved some time.

Kristian Ronge

zuckuss@bigfoot.com