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BESTIME.TXT :-)
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Best Times for DooM II...
A "while back", "someone" [ sorry I didn't make a note of who ]
posted a question of best possible times for DooM II by running
through the levels and only doing whatever was necessay to get
through them.
This proposal involved using saved games and re-re-trying each
level until a GREAT time was set and moving onto another level.
A fine idea, but how could these times be verified, etc.
FYI: The DooM -Record'ing facility will record .LMP files from
saved game positions BUT there doesn't appear to be any method
of -PlayDemo'ing these back - tried it, doesn't work :-( Though
IF you find a way we'd like to know ;-) so that wouldn't work.
Anyway; since I was already running a DooM "Competition" Area
[ which had been accepted on the Primary DooM Archive 'CDROM'
since early '95 ] of .LMP -Record'ings based on kills/secrets
and/or "speed"; I waded in with my size whatevers and said :-
"Why don't you just -Record all your efforts and enter them ?"
That way would involve NO savegames and NO real cheating :-)
This table is the result (so far)...
All -Record'ings were for an "Episode" of DooM II - Levels 01
thru' 10, 11 thru' 20 or 21 thru' 30 - OR a "Whole-Damn-Game"
.LMP on UltraViolence (Only) with the final judgement down to
the shortest OverAll times, as given by the game engine, taken
for each of these achivements.
Par. Best
Time Time Author FileName Best Weapon ?
Level 01 0" 30 0" 06 DL 0917UV01 Pistol !
Level 02 1" 30 1" 03 DL 0928UV01 Shotgun !
Level 03 2" 00 0" 40 DL 1026UV01 Chaingun ?
Level 04 2" 00 0" 43 DL * 30UV3609 Shotgun
Level 05 1" 30 0" 35 DL * 30UV3609 Double Barrel !
Level 06 2" 30 1" 11 DL 0904UV01 Plasma Gun ?
Level 07 2" 00 1" 03 DL 30UV4145 All But BFG !
Level 08 2" 00 0" 39 DL + 30UV3853 No extra ?
Level 09 4" 30 1" 25 DL 0917UV01 No extra ?
Level 10 1" 30 0" 42 DL 0942UV01 BFG ?
Level 11 3" 30 1" 16 DL + 1315UV11 Rocket Launcher
Level 12 2" 30 0" 53 DL + 1331UV11 BFG ?
Level 13 2" 30 1" 29 DL * 30UV3609 Still No BFG ?
Level 14 2" 30 1" 12 DL + 1315UV11 No BFG ?!?
Level 15 3" 30 0" 46 DL * 30UV3609 BFG !!!
Level 31 2" 00 0" 37 DL + 1331UV11
Level 32 0" 30 0" 21 DL 30UV4528
Level 16 2" 30 0" 38 DL + 1315UV11
Level 17 7" 00 3" 06 DL * 30UV3609
Level 18 2" 30 0" 29 DL * 30UV3609
Level 19 3" 30 0" 59 DL * 30UV3609
Level 20 2" 30 0" 49 DL + 1315UV11
Level 21 4" 00 0" 51 UG + 0911UV21
Level 22 2" 30 0" 53 UG + 0911UV21
Level 23 3" 00 0" 58 UG + 0911UV21
Level 24 2" 30 0" 53 UG + 0911UV21
Level 25 2" 30 0" 52 UG + 0911UV21
Level 26 5" 00 0" 46 UG + 0911UV21
Level 27 5" 30 0" 45 UG + 0911UV21
Level 28 7" 00 0" 47 UG + 0911UV21
Level 29 5" 00 1" 55 UG + 0911UV21
Level 30 3" 00 0" 31 UG + 0911UV21
DL - Daniel "Demonlord" Lindgren (
[email protected])
UG - U. Girlich (
[email protected])
AK - Andreas 'Anthe' Kren (
[email protected])
EM - Eric Mullins (e-mail? I give up)
I nearly forgot to say that all of these .LMP's are available
for downloading - as compressed .ZIP files - from:
ftp.cdrom.com plus its many mirror sites from the directory
pub/doom/lmps/COMPET-N/doom2/10lvs/... as "????uv?1.ZIP"
AND/OR "filename".ZIP
pub/doom/lmps/COMPET-N/doom2/movie/... as "30uv????.ZIP"
[ AND While you're there also GET...
pub/doom/lmps/COMPET-N/doom2/movie/30NM6520.ZIP
Because this is ** >> THE .LMP << ** to See !!! ]
As you can see these "best times" were not only set by different
people they also involve even more -Record'ed .LMP's - sometimes
certain strategies that cost more time on some levels save even
more time overall. It's a case of "swings and roundabouts" - on
some levels it is better to "waste" a bit of time on one level
so as to get well armed and dangerous for the next. However, if
you really wanted to set the _best_ever_ possible time for some
particular level you could spend a serious amount of time on the
previous levels getting extreemly well equipped ready for a best
ever attempt - This would be 1) boring and 2) silly - The TEN
levels requirement gets around this situation such that each and
every attempt is more "real", although one older .LMP suffered
from this - Eric's LV07 in 1" 08 (which is now beaten) was from
his "Episode One" in 21" 29, which does not compare at all well
with eg. "Demonlord's" old 09" 42 entry... but it was the "best
so far" at the time !
Also I didn't pay much attention to what weapon you might leave
each level with but the "Best Weapon" fields do say where you may
or may not pick up a "bigger gun" depending on "how fast" you are
trying to complete each of the first ten or so levels since an
attempt to grab BFG, for example, may not arise for some time.
If you wanted to you could add up these best times for 01 thru'
10, 11 thru' 20, 21 thru' 30 or even _all_ of them to get the
best "theoretical" times for each achivement but this would be
rather artificial because of the above "swings and roundabouts"
consideration. I'll just end by saying that the best times so
far are...
0904UV01.ZIP "Episode 1" in 09" 04 by "Demonlord"
Was:
0925UV01.ZIP "Episode 1" in 09" 25 by Anthe Kren
And:
+ 1315UV11.ZIP "Episode 2" in 13" 15 by "Demonlord"
2nd:
. 1434UV11.ZIP "Episode 2" in 14" 34 by Anthe Kren
And:
+ 0911UV21.ZIP "Episode 3" in 09" 11 by Uwe Girlich
Was:
1627UV21.ZIP "Episode 3" in 16" 27 by "Demonlord"
And:
* 30UV3609.ZIP Whole Game! in 36" 09 by "Demonlord"
Was:
+ 30UV3853.ZIP Whole Game! in 41" 45 by "Demonlord"
Was:
30UV5713.ZIP Whole Game! in 57" 13 by Uwe Girlich
If you think you can do any better, you know where to contact
me and/or upload your .LMP's - Alternatively if you think you
can do better on some level/s but can not beat these current
"episode" times, remember that the 10LVS "Compet-N" is still
open to m/any other entries of "Level N thru' Level N+9" but
note that if you choose to go through level(s) 31 (and 32) as
that is the faster route that these do NOT count towards the
overall total of TEN - Level N thru' Level N+9 Only & Fast !
Errors and Omissions to Me.
S.;-)
S. Widlake
[email protected]
