WAD: Sunlust
Map: 10
Skill: 4
Category: UV-Max
Exe: Dsda-Doom 0.29.4
Time: 3:50

Author: 	Kinetic
Demo Date:	April 4th, 2026
Attempts:       169
Practice:	30 min
Grind:		57 min
Goal:          	3:59
Satisfaction:   :D

- complevel 9

Comments: 

Was really struggling for :D :D or :D rating here. The start of the run I did a really really good job here, very smooth movement, all the shots were falling, minimal damage taken, and getting through everything super quick. But as soon as the manc by the plasma at the start didn't die in 3 SSG and I had to deal with the chaingun weapon swap, my momentum took a huge hit. I had a few blockmap SSG whiffs in the upper falls secret with the barrels and mancs. Other major ugly parts include coming out of the BSK temple, where I actually kind of forgot what the plan was, and thought to telefrag the cyber a bit earlier than I had intended to buy me a few extra seconds to determine what to do next. In those few seconds of telefragging, I realized what I needed to do, but coming out of the teleport destination, I had not recalled what angle I would be facing, and got turned around and had to spin around to find the opening to the temple so I could BFG the mancs. There was some ugly weapon swapping with SSG/BFG/RL for the rest of the cleanup, should have practiced the route more. I probably would redo this run if I didn't get really good BFG shots/rockets in general, especially that BFG on the 3 mancs in cleanup, it is a bit tricky to kill all 3 there in one clean shot. Pair this with the great beginning too, and I think I will just live with the ugly parts in the middle, since I think BFG shot RNG was good. 

I had made my own route initially, but I knew how open the map was, so I still watched Twilight's demo. I decided to borrow taking PG at the start of his demo, since in my initial route, I had to do the upper falls secret before doing the RC area just to have enough rockets to kill viles down there quick enough. But with plasma, I can kill them a bit faster than with SSG. I also really wanted to grab PG at the start because the exploit is kind of cool and rare. I quickly realized you could stun HK with first-frame attack provocation using pistol, allowing you to jailbreak the encounter instantly.