Iwad:      DOOM2.WAD
Pwad:      Abandon
Map:       06
Skill:     4
Category:  UV Max
Exe:       dsda-doom 0.29.4 -complevel 9

Time:      45:32

Author:    Dheta

Comments: 

Attempts: 268 - so yeah i should probably have picked an easier and less abrasive elite map for my first one but i had my sights on this map since the moment i started doing demos as a long term goal.

First of some general aside about the run itself, most of the strats are come from crusador and ori's runs, with some minor modifications. I spent alot of time trying to find a better strat for the opening, cause just sitting behind the cybers and waiting for infighting is rng as fuck and doing it for 200+ attempts did not look appealing, that little movement i do around the edge feels better but theres still some rng, dunno if that's a me issue or the fight just being fucked. Only serious difference is doing the PE together with the cybers and mancs in the third fight, honestly im not even sure its a time save half the time, but if you just sit behind cover and plasma PE's while the cybers kill shit its super consistent so no reason not to do it like that from my pov.

While just about every fight in this map can be done 100% consistently, theres one serious problem in this map and it's the complete lack of block lines, you will be losing attempts 16 min in cause a damn imp or rev got pushed into a death pit in the bfg fight, and during the fight before that the two turret viles sometimes just gets lowered unto the floor turning a free fight into a complete shitshow, and there's also a random pit to the side of one the viles which you can push the vile into if you don't know it's there, which you wont untill it happens to you and boot up the editor to see where the fuck the vile went. Above issues plus the extreme nerves that start to kick in after you're done with the checker board fight makes this map incredibly dauting to max.

So why would anyone even bother to max this? For myself Abandon was one the early pwads i played and i was not even remotely good enough at that point, i shambled through map 05 with save scumming and got stone walled by this behemoth, had to cheat in ammo just to get through some fights and at the time i hated this map like nothing else. But then i replayed it half a year later and had a ok time, then the next replay had a pretty great time. These days this is one of my favourite maps ever made, atleast playing casually, between that and the ass kicking it gave me the first time i felt like i just had to get a max of this map, both to give it some more love, but also a milestone for myself to see how far i've come skill wise in the 2 and half years i've been playing pwads.
