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
Jason Henry hereby conquers the title of DOOM 2 Incubus.
Exam file name : D2I6JPH.ZIP
Title conquered : DOOM 2 Incubus
Author : Jason Patrick Henry
Completion date : 10-23-97
Game and version used : DOOM II v. 1.9
Authentication dance : FRF - FRR - RFF
Log entry
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19970910 0936 CHAL: D2I6 JPH 20 10 17 (00)
19970910 0936 : Jason Patrick Henry
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System used : A crappy 486/66mhz, 20 megs RAM, lousy old
Fahrenheit video card, ancient Soundblaster16.
Pretty good Fujitsu keyboard.
Map17-NM was recorded on a slightly less crappy
P133 with a really cool 17" monitor. :)
Controls used : keyboard only, default configuration, with strafe
left/right redefined as Z and X respectively
(not used in any of these recordings)
Free interpretation : Map18, Tyson + SSG :)
Comments:
This exam was HARD, I tell ya...I don't think living humans were made to
play Doom in Nightmare!!!
MAP20-NM.LMP: "Easy" is a liberal word for this level, although compared to
the others, it certainly falls in that category...the biggest danger is the
2nd pain elemental, often he will spit out souls that will knock you in the
lava, almost certain death if that happens. Time = 3:44.
MAP10-NM.LMP: Peo's route in his shotgun-only lmp (NM10-SG) makes this one
relatively easy, I used more than shotgun though. :) Time = 2:35.
MAP17-NM.LMP: When I saw that I had drawn this level, I nearly cried...but
it could have been worse, I suppose. It took over six hours and 100's of
attempts to survive this one, mostly on my brother's P133 (I quickly learned
I needed the extra fps in order to have even a remote chance of survival...)
The part that had me stumped was dealing with that damn arachnotron guarding
the yellow key. I watched dozens of NM17 lmps, and they all used the same
method, jump in the radiation and hope to get lucky. I tried that but only
survived once in about 30 tries, with so little health that I had no chance
of surviving the rest. Finally I came up with my own method, by taking the
soulsphere AND the invisibility first and killing that damn spider from
outside the pit. It works like magic, you're almost guaranteed to reach the
yellow key with at least 150% health!
Although I've done map11 on NM before, which is also ranked as a hard level,
the two maps are worlds apart -- map11 is only hard for the first minute,
once you get the red key you're almost sure to make it. This one stays tough
all the way through, there are parts which require pure luck (hell knight &
invisible pigs) and other parts where you should EXPECT to lose 100% health.
:) The final chaingunner battle here nearly gave me a heart attack, as I
watched my health drop from 85% to 3% in less than a second... Time = 6:35.
FREE-NM.LMP: Originally I was going to do map18 with -fast, but it was too
easy, the monsters killed each other so quickly! So instead I settled for
regular UV, using fist only, except for 7 cacos where I used SSG. I guess I
could have used pistol against them to make it a true Tyson lmp, but that
would have been really boring...yeah, that's the ticket. Time = 10:28.
Author info: 30 yrs old, living in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Today's earthquake forecast calls for sustained shaking of 3.0 to 4.0 with
occasional jolts up to 5. Check out my homepage at
http://www.wgn.net/~space
to see what a completely obsessive nutcase I am. :)
Thanks to: Frank Stajano for DHT
id software (duh)
Peo Sjoblom, my "Doom guru", for all his helpful advice.
My brother Dan for letting me borrow his computer. :)
All the others who have completed NM17 previously -- Istvan
Pataki, Anthe Kren, Peo, and doubtless others I'm forgetting.
I wonder if anyone's done that level from scratch, WITHOUT
the jump-tricks? :)
