This is a DHT5 exam file. Its place is in the doom/dht-exams
directory.
The DOOM Honorific Titles
Created by Frank Stajano on 1994 05 01
Josh Horwich hereby conquers the title of Doom 1 Incubus (D1I).
Exam file name: D1I-JBH.ZIP
Title conquered: DOOM 1 Incubus
Author: Josh Horwich
Completion date: 1995 05 24
Game and version used: DOOM v. 1.9
Log entry:
CHAL: D1I JBH Josh Horwich 36 22 32 FFR-RRL-LRF
:
[email protected] (Josh Horwich)
Substitutions? None
Expansion to the base : E2M3, rated as a hard level
System used: 486/66 VLB with SoundBlaster16
Controls used: keyboard + mouse. Config is :
Move Forward D
Move Backward C
Turn Left W
Turn Right R
Use SPACE
Fire G
Speed On A
Strafe On ALT
Strafe Left S
Strafe Right F
Free interpretation: E2M4 Nightmare
Comments:
E3M6 - Trivial. I choose the simple route - kill shotgunner, then
my dance, then kill shotgunner and something in the building (to
fulfill the 'kill 2 after dance' rule), run to secret switch and
hit it through the wall (this trick courtesy of Jonathan Hoof's
excellent D1L LMP)
E2M2 - I considered this the hardest of my base levels. Dance is
right after the blue key. Straightforward berserk fist work until
I acquire the much-coveted plasma gun. Took me quite a few tries
to finally get this one right.
E3M2 - Straightforward - I get the green armor, then the
plasma gun. Then I dance. Then it's off to the blue key, round
the cacodemons, then I hose down a bunch of lost souls. Funny,
the kill screen shows 0%, despite much lost-soul death. Hmmm.
I would have called it a medium myself, but I'm grateful I
got this instead of E1M3 or E1M5!
E2M3 - My out-of-base expander. Took me about 100 tries. I
finally settled on a pattern of getting the chaingun, then
the berserk fist, rad suit, and armor in the chaingun room.
Next I go for the shotgun, then toward the plasma gun. After
killing 2 lost souls, I do the dance (while invisible). I
get the blue key, then the blue armor, then it's off to the
races toward the exit. Nice 6% health I have when I square
off with the last cacodemon, and a spectator warned me of a
distinct shortage of bullets while killing the last few Pinkies.
I call it hard, as it was distinctly more difficult than my
medium (and also much harder than my 'hard' E3M2 - but I'm
still happy I didn't get E1M3!)
E2M4 - My free level. I was reading Jonathan Hoof's ideas on
the fact that D1I was 'closed' already, so I decided to test
his theories (see D1I-JRH.TXT). So I did E2M4 on Nightmare as
well. It also makes up for the fact that early D1I contestants
had to expand the base twice due to the impossibility of both
original hard levels (E1M3 and E1M5), but I got E3M2 instead.
Dance at start, grab the shotgun. Then it's a slalom thru the
imps, and a shotgunning of the baron by the blue key. Next I
backtrack toward the yellow key, kill two shotgunners, grab
the key and run from the baron. Next is a quick health treat,
then the plasma gun. Hose a few cacodemons, and bolt for the
end area. The rest is straightforward. If I were expanding the
base with this level I'd have called it a medium (but a little
on the hard side - it was tougher than E2M2). Perhaps a future
D1I contestant will put it in the appropriate spot.
Hopefully my experience with D1I will inspire others to try it,
as there's at least 2 out-of-base levels that have been attained
before (E2M4 by myself, and E2M5 by JRH). Also with two doable
hard levels (E3M2 and E2M3), doing the double-base-expansion will
not be necesary for some. But then again, when JRH theorized
that D1I was about closed, only E1M3 and E1M5 were available.
Author Info:
Doom 1 Master
Doom 1 Speedy Gonzales
Doom 1 Grand Master
Doom 1 Incubus (pending uploading of this, of course)
Soon to be Doom 2 Master (need to package it still, I'm lazy!)
Soon to be Doom 2 Speedy Gonzales (need a free LMP still...)
