Pwad:      http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/games/idgames/levels/doom2/v-z/zap07.zip
           (Or mirrors...)
Pwad name: Zap 7: Highground
Maps:      7
Skill:     4
Category:  Speed + Pacifist
Exe:       Recorded with PrBoom 2.2.4 with -complevel 0 (doom2.exe comp)
Time:      0:11

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

Stats:     Kills     0%
           Items     0%
           Secrets 100%

Comments:  

A magnificent map 7 clone, by talented WAD author Andy Badorek (see also: 
MM map 21, MM2 map 22, the other maps in the ZAP series, and demonipa.wad). 

This map has a setup that just screams for this kind of trick: an easily 
accessible rocket launcher and a wide gap down to the exit. There's a 
soulsphere too, which I first used (see zap7-015.lmp) until I realised you 
could survive the blast. I tried to do the jump with only strafe-50, but 
having tried it for some time, it seems to be *just* out of reach (seeing 
as Badorek was a speedrunner, he surely was aware of strafe-50 and rocket 
jumps, so this shortcut was probably planned!).

I consider 0:11 to be a very good time here, as I can hardly see anything 
better than 0:09 being done on this map -- unless of course someone manages 
the jump without the rocket launcher, in which case optimum is probably 
0:05.

The run is pacifist as well (you would only lose time killing off any 
monsters with this route), and lemmings.

This map is highly recommended for those of you who like short, intense 
max runs. Claudio's max run of this map (zap7-254.zip at the SDA) really 
does it justice.

Kristian Ronge

zuckuss@bigfoot.com