For the Doom 2 pwad Titan Manor by Jim Flynn

File required: manor.wad
Download link: none.
This is one of the Master Levels, a commercial product released by id Software.

Map01

Skill: UV Pacifist

Kills         1%
Items         0%
Secrets       0% and Time 0:35

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: It's nice to record something on an "official" id map for a change. I noticed a switch trick that would make the route to the exit quite short, and then worked on improving the details of the route to cut as many seconds off as possible. I'm reasonably pleased with this: I get the switch trick cleanly, manage to push past all three imps (lots of luck needed there) and don't get blocked on the way to the raising platform.

I found the last jump very easy to miss, mainly because I only use strafe-40 for it (my SL50 set-up isn't too fluent). I often got blocked, or ended up on the ledge just below the walkway that I needed to reach (and one time I flew straight out of the window on the far side, bizarrely). The imp down below briefly interrupts the jump, but I still make it. I fumble a little bit a few seconds before the end, but given the amount of good luck I'd had earlier, I'm not overly upset by that.

Obviously the same basic route could be used for NM Speed or UV Speed, but they struck me as less interesting: either way there would be no real resistance along the way.

Graham "Grazza" Burgess
GKBurgess@compuserve.com
