For the Doom 2 episode "KILL! Zone 1: The Trek Begins" by Don Howard

File required: KZ#1.wad
Download link: ftp://3darchives.in-span.net/pub/idgames/levels/doom2/j-l/kill_z10.txt

KILL! Zone 1, Map07: Dead End

Skill: UV Speed

Kills       70%
Items       40%
Secrets      0% and Time 4:16

Plays back with Legacy 1.40.
Legacy download link: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/doomlegacy/legacy_140_win32.zip

Description: Nightmare did indeed prove possible on this map, but I found it quite difficult. My first exit (6:46) was a very scrappy run, with lots and lots of mistakes, and I improvised a route near the end (the UV route would have been suicide given that I was on 15% health). This (together with an extremely fortunate error!) turned out to be a safe(r) route, so my attempts to improve the time involved a refined version of this route (so you know what the hell I'm talking about, I have included the 6:46 in this zip). After quite a number of attempts, I managed this 4:16, where things go pretty much as I intended, except for the PE refusing to die, and an appalling error where I switched to weapon 5 by mistake (instead of weapon 6) at one point where I was surrounded by monsters, costing me a ton of health; I also slightly lose my bearings just before exiting. There is of course the normal helping of unpredictable NM mayhem (e.g. a very quick respawn by one demon in particular). The time could be improved significantly, of course, with a fair bit of effort and good fortune.

Graham "Grazza" Burgess
GKBurgess@compuserve.com
