This is a DHT exam file. Its place is in the dht-exams directory.
The DOOM Honorific Titles
Created by Frank Stajano on 1994 05 01
David Gerdes hereby conquers the title of DOOM 2 Grand Master (D2GM)
Exam file name : d2gm-dpg.zip
Title conquered : DOOM 2 Grand Master
Author : David Gerdes
Completion date : 1996 01 24
Game and version used : DOOM II v. 1.9
Log entry :
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CHAL: D2GM DPG David Gerdes 32 31 15 LLF-RRF-FLL
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[email protected] (Dave Gerdes)
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Substitutions? : YES, MAP32 with MAP26 (out of base)
System used : Acer Aspire P100 Win95
Controls used : Mouse:
Left - Fire
Right - Forward
Keyboard:
A - Use
S - Strafe left
F - Strafe right
SPACE - Fast
Free interpretation : Added MAP13 to base
Additions to the base : (13H) (16H) (26M)
Comments :
Whew. That was intense. Now when playing normal
UV everything is in slow motion.
In one of the amendments to the rules, Frank
mentions that it is now possible for one
entry to add three levels to the base. I
figured that was a decent goal so that is what
I have done here. Sorry Frank, I hope I didn't
give you too much extra work.
Map 32 This one has been played so many times
and so many ways, there was no way I could
do anything unique, nor improve on all the good
recordings out there. So I substituted this
level with an out of base level.
Map 31 Should be listed as easy.
Map 15 This was fun, but at almost 40 mins,
it got way too long.
Map 13 I did this in D2M and knew it pretty well
so I picked it for my Free Interp to add it to
the base. (It is also in group Hardest in
D2M) Definately a lot nastier on -fast.
Map 16 I guess this one is my required out of
base addition. This level was downright
hard on -fast. This one was probably the
hardest of the levels I completed. Actually
the first 5 minutes are murder, after you get
a little control over the situation, then
it runs very smoothly. The authentication
dance is in the Revenant room.
Map 26 This is the substituted level for Map 32,
as per section 6.6.2 The Appeal Mechanism
for Advanced Titles. Compared to all the other
levels (cept 31) this was by far the easiest.
Author info :
It was back when playing the shareware Doom and
I caught myself leaning forward to look around
the window to snipe on E1M7 that I realized
how unique this game was. I have loved this
game ever since. I have finished Heretic,
Dark Forces and almost finished Marathon, and
in my opinion Doom is unquestionably the best.
The atmosphere, the personality and detail of the
monsters, the completeness of features and quality
that went into doom are unsurpased. This is
to say nothing bad about the others either. I
thoroughly enjoyed Dark Forces and Heretic as well.
So bring on Quake!
Oh, and this is to ID. For Quake, PLEASE allow
us to reasign the 'q' key when recording demos.
I have screwed up so many good recordings by
accidentally hitting that key.
While I waited for my challenge, I filled my time
by recording lmps played by D2M rules. You can
see all the levels of Doom 2 completed >= 100%
kills at
http://www.spyglass.com/~dpgerdes/doom/
As of this writing I have not completed two levels.
I will get back to them after I complete my D2GM
title.
