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Iwad:      doom2.wad
Pwad:      junkfood2.wad
Map:       MAP57
Skill:     4
Category:  UV Max
Exe:       dsda-doom 0.29.4 -complevel 9

Time:      14:48.37

Author:    bluii

Comments:  new hardest max, first marine difficutly completion for the doomed index.
oh my GOD this map is so much harder to deal with than it seems. like yeah sure its mainly slaughter, but youre also dealing with like a thousand or so monsters at once. and yeah sure a lot of those are mainly filler like imps or pinkies, but theres also a decent chunk of revenants and normal cybers that can easily ruin your run in a matter of seconds, ESPECIALLY because of the reflective pink walls.

after the initial wave of most of the map's population, the red key area is pretty negligible as most of the time a lot of the monsters on that platform are already dead, so its just some quick cleanup before getting the blue key for the final fight. speaking of, thats when my nerves really tend to pick up while trying to run this map. i try to get rid of as many 1k cybers as possible during the invuln time, and then i stick to the back and clean up the cybers on the sides when it runs out and before the gates behind open back up. but leaving the arena is far from beating the map, as theres PLENTY of 1k cybers to clean up. i stand back in the main area while doing so, as staying there when the gates open would be a bad idea due to the leftover pinkies taking up a lot of space, and getting back in would probably just result in a bunch of cyber rockets heading straight to me, so standing back and picking them off with the bfg is really my only option. and even then, i still have to worry about cyber rockets bouncing off the reflective pillars and killing me like two did one time back to back. its a slow and arduous process, and i wish i could do it faster without risking a near 15 minute long run every time i get to this point, but better safe than sorry.

anyway, after 211 attempts (nearly half of them being from the winning session ALONE), i have a new hardest and a marine difficulty map under my belt :)