Player: Crusador560
wad: hardfest2.wad
Map: 40
Skill: 4
Category: UV-Max
Time: 58:21.46
Engine: DSDA-Doom v0.28.2 cl9

Comments:

At long last, the biggest grind I've ever had in my experience of doing demos so far is finally over and oh man this map completly shattered my soul, sanity and made me wanna quit playing the game entirely numerous times because I just didn't have the hope anymore at all. 

The grind lasted over a year at this point, I did take breaks of course and I did demos of other stuff too because I just couldn't keep up playing the same fights over and over again and just hopelessly losing attempts to the blue key fight and the finale which killed me 4 times in total, I never wanna touch that fight ever again.

Massive thanks to Twilight's run for showing the cheese for the BFG fight, it definently helped a lot since I would sometimes die to this fight while doing it legit.

The HK fight with cybers sniping from the distance went just perfectly fine in later period of grind, I would just never die here anymore.

The outside fight with stars on the ground was always pretty easy but yet again thanks a lot to Twilight for showing the cheese for the second phase of that fight with the AVJ, not that it's too hard doing it legit but doing the AVJ just makes that phase completly free.

The fight with zombiemans would sometimes kill me for no reason, I always thought I had massive skill issue on this part for some reason, not sure why but whatever.

We arrive to the hardest fight of the map, the blue key fight. I absolutely love this fight. I would very often practice it so many times in my practice sessions. Staying at the HK side helps so much with the first phase of the fight. The second phase is harder for me personally due to need for good bfg efficiency.

Next up is the RK fight, I got so much better at this fight in the later period of grind to the point I would just never die here at all. In this run, my performance was kind of bad and had multiple close calls.

After the RK fight comes the square fight. Honestly this fight wasn't a problem at all in later period of grind as well. Massive thanks to Ancalagon for the movement pattern.

Next up is the third hardest fight in the map for me personally or the second hardest, not entirely sure. This fight caused a lot of very good runs to fail simply because of bad rng, later on I found that if you stick on the left side for few seconds before going to the other side it lures the enemies to that left side you are staying on so it makes the push much much easier.

The Revenant stair fight was an absolute disaster for me always, I was so scared whenever I would arrive to this fight and I always thought I would get unlucky with viles and just die.

The fight after the Rev stairs with 3 phases is probably the easiest later fight in the map. I didn't use the cheese that Twilight used in his run, instead I used the what I like to call ''Tunnel camp strat'' for the second phase as I found it easier and having less chances to get insta killed.

The fight with 3 cybers spawning on stairs is EXTREMELY chokable, I don't know why Twilight used the strat to rush down cause I find it to be just suicide and wanting to have an attempt lost. 

Penultimate fight cheese I was pretty confident with my setup but still wasn't really consistent with it in practice so it was always scary to reach here and potentionally fail and having to do the fight legit. Got super lucky with cybers in this run on that part.

We now arrive to the most stressful and second hardest fight in the map. The crossing is just pray, just absolutely nothing a player can do here. If a cyber decides to not be pacifist and shoot you mid cross, it's over. Had insane choke moments still in this run and nearly died even when the fight was almost over.

My best run ever and hardest map I ever did which will probably remain for a very long amount of time.


