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                     The DOOM Honorific Titles
               Created by Frank Stajano on 1994 05 01

David Gerdes hereby conquers the title of  DOOM 2 Master (D2M)

Exam file name          : d2m-dpg.zip
Title conquered         : DOOM 2 Master
Author                  : David Gerdes
Completion date         : 1996 01 18
Game and version used   : DOOM II v. 1.9
Log entry               :
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CHAL: D2M  DPG David Gerdes               03 11 18  LFL-LRF-RLF
   :          [email protected] (Dave Gerdes)
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Substitutions?          : YES, MAP03 with MAP27, MAP13, MAP20
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     : MAP07 D2GM rules  showing fireballs thru wall

Comments                :
                         Map 11  Dance is just before I enter the blue door.
                           Guaranteed to be a dozen laughs as the Arch Vile
                           gets away from me and revives no less than
                           eight monsters including an Arachnotron.

                         Map 18  This is a fun level. I would rate it a medium.
                           You get to watch me walk into the Baron/Demon
                           room with an empty BFG in hand.  real smart.

                         Map03 just wasn't inspiring so I did two 'Hardest'
                           levels.  I have just never  liked level 24
                           so I did 27 for the 3rd substitute.

                         Map 07  Free Interp.  Listed in D2GM base as hard.
                           I used to like Map 07.  First time I ever
                           played it with -fast I beat it with no problem,
                           so I thought it would be an easy free interp.
                           Then the more I played it, the more I seemed
                           to die on -fast.  Finally I realized that the
                           fireballs were frequently coming right through
                           the walls.  So in this lmp after I kill all
                           but one Mancubus, I take some time to show
                           without question the fireballs flying through
                           the walls.

                         Map 13  The lmp reminds me of Desert Storm with
                           all the green tracers shooting into the sky.

                         Map 20  While working on this level, three times
                           I got stuck in a dead end in the room with the
                           plasma gun.  I get behind the large door so that
                           I can open it again after it closes, and a
                           Cacodemon would inevitably get stuck at the top
                           in a position where I could not see or kill it
                           and preventing the door from raising all the way
                           up.  In this case, the switch does not work to
                           lower the door and I am thus trapped.  I should
                           eventually have the lmp of this available
                           on my web page listed below.

                         Map 27  Not much to say. Is a nice level,
                           not all that hard if you take it one area
                           at a time. Only real mistake was accidentally
                           teleporting near the end, which threw me
                           off with the Revenants.

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 and I was hooked.  I
                         played it way too many hours and then put it on
                         the shelf.  Last year I was enlightened to the
                         way of mousing and started playing deathmatch. And
                         finally when I got my Pentium and bought Doom 2,
                         I really got into the game.  Hopefully, achieving
                         this title will complete something and I will be
                         able to walk away from it for a while.

                         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.