WAD: Ancient Aliens
Map: 22
Skill: 5
Category: NM-100s
Exe: Dsda-Doom 0.29.4
Time: 5:01

Author: 	Kinetic
Demo Date:	May 22nd, 2026
Attempts:       126
Practice:	???
Grind:		3 hr 7 min
Goal:           First Exit
Satisfaction:	:D :D :D

- complevel 9

Comments: 

This was actually a pretty hard run. I know many of my Sunlust maxes took 4+ hours, but this felt a lot harder than those. The issue with this one is that it's not too hard to survive until you get to the last secret. The pain elemental and chaingunners and sniping viles and the respawning aracnotron all either kill you or chip your HP down to almost nothing. If you get past that, then you have to hope nothing is in your way along the terrace and ledge-walk/teleport sequence to the final area. The teleport sequence's final teleports sometimes have enemies blocking from underneath, so you can get scratched for massive damage trying to teleport since they are blocking you from crossing. Since the player usually has no armor and less than 80 HP left at this point, it's usually death. The final area isn't too hard but with such little HP, it's very easy to die from one bad rev rocket.

In this run, I was able to preserve 75% of the mega by the time I went for the third secret, which is really good, I escaped the area with basically half a mega, which is great for getting to the final area. But no enemies were blocking me as I went to the final area, it was completely ideal, and I was mostly unscathed. I went to the final area with super super good HP and armor, and that was enough for me to pull through. Definitely hardest run in this table so far.