IronEagle Competition 62: ADoom

Welcome to another new year (2024, where has time gone?) of ironmanning! Here we have the latest installment of the IronEagle competition, the ironman challenge that welcome everyone who plays Doom, from the new youngster that just installed Doom to the grizzled veteran that's been playing since December 1993 and everyone in between. As long as you enjoy playing Doom, and are willing to give it a try continuously and without saves, then feel free to join us!

 

This month, participants will challenge themselves against ADoom, a limit-removing 9-map episode replacement for Doom, released by Adam F. Smith in 2019. (No, we're not playing an Amiga port of Doom, wiki aficionados.) This episode begins at Observation Post Romero, which was built shortly after the discovery of some sort of green marble "temple." Unfortunately for the inhabitants of Observation Post Romero, demons emerged and killed everyone (as tends to happen in such events). Now you have been sent to find a way into the "temple" and to stop the demonic invasion at its source in Hell.

 

Participants must play these maps on complevel 3 or Doom(strict).

 

Download ADoom (version 1.1) here.

 

ADoom starts at E3M1. Survival is reaching and clearing the metal room with the exit switch (the room beyond the three key pillars) in E3M7. (It is impossible to complete E3M7 due to the ending platform being surrounded by impassable linedefs. There is one secret map, which is reached from E3M6, as usual. The secret map is not mandatory.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

Rules:

The rules are basically the same as they have been. Either demos or streams are permissible. If you are creating a demo, post the demo. If you are streaming, post a video of the stream. Even if streaming, you can still submit a demo, if you want to.

The basic rule is that you submit a demo/stream played at a particular difficulty level (HNTR, HMP, or UV) and you play without saving and reloading, ending your run when you die (or survive).

 

The following are allowed (but not required):

• Freelook
• Crosshair
• Mods that are COSMETIC ONLY

 

The following are NOT allowed:

• Crouching
• Jumping
• Mods that change ANY aspect of base gameplay, including (but not limited to) enemy behavior, enemy speed, player abilities, player speed, weapon damage, ammo, and enemy drops.

 

Further, more specific, rules are listed below:

Any port is accepted provided it will actually run the mapset. There is no preference.
 

 

Category System:

• Category 1: Blind run.
  • This explains itself. You have no knowledge of the wad and have not played/seen it before. I'm willing to be somewhat lenient with this Category.
    • For example, if you die early in Map 01, and then decide to play again for your run, you can still call it Category 1.
• Category 2: Non-blind.
  • If you have played the wad before and/or possess significant foreknowledge, your run is non-blind. Basically, anything that is not Category 1 is Category 2.

 

If you're unhappy with your blind run, feel free to record a new run, and submit that run instead. (Just don't submit your first run.) If you want to submit your first run, no matter how you perform, by all means, go ahead and do it. You shouldn't feel that you HAVE to submit a run you're dissatisfied with, just to preserve a "Category 1" status. If you want to go back and submit a second run, you're welcome to do so, but, at this time, it won't be counted.

 

 

Difficulty System:

You may submit a demo/stream for only one of HNTR, HMP, or UV. Choose only one, because subsequent submissions will be rejected (i.e., if you submit a HMP demo, the HNTR demo you then submit will be rejected). We're not using the 1CC rule set here. Your first submission is what counts.

 

Only runs from the same difficulty will be pitted against each other. Each difficulty will be graded separately.

 

 

Submission:

When you submit your run, please the include the following information:

• The category (1 or 2)
• The difficulty
• If you survived, your time
• Whether you completed the secret map
• If you didn't survive, the map where you died
• Time of death
• Kill count upon death
• Time upon entering your map of death (if you made it past the first map)
• The port you used (if you included a demo)
• A link to the stream/video (if you did a stream)

 

You may include a commentary about the maps or details about them, if you want to. If you do include specific information about the map (e.g., "The demon trap in Map 08 is rough"), please put it in a spoiler, so that people that want a completely blind experience won't be tipped off. If you're just putting in a general comment (e.g., "Pro tip: don't get hit"), then no need for a spoiler.

 

Attempting to max the maps is not necessary to win.
 

Ranking for this mapset will be determined by:

• Survival +1 (with secret map)
• Time for survival +1
• Survival (without secret map)
• Time for survival
• Map of death (in descending order: E3M7, E3M9, E3M6, E3M5, E3M4, E3M3, E3M2, E3M1)
• Time it took to reach the map of death
• Kill count in the map of death

 

If you die, please wait a few seconds before quitting.

 

 

Breaks:

Everyone gets tired. Sometimes people survive longer than they expected. Nature calls. Every now and then, there are family emergencies. Needing to take a break shouldn't necessarily end a promising run. While you should try to complete the run in a single setting, this isn't always possible. If you have to take a break, try to make it quick.

 

 

Happy Dooming!

 

 

 

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Edited January 3 by Pegleg : Change complevel to 3 and survival to E3M7.

RESERVED

Category: 1

Survival

Time of survival: 64:43 (14:38 in map)

Killcount: 111

Port: Woof v2.0.2

Complevel: 2

 

JAN24-NMB-C1_ADOOMV11.zip

 

Notes spoilered, but has some very important info for anyone doing runs this month:

 

Edited January 3 by No-Man Baugh : additional info

Category: 1

Difficulty: HNTR

Dead on: E3M9

Kills: 28/28

Time on E3M6 exit: 48:56

 

Inescapable pit.

 

ie_andromeda_adoomv11.zip

 

5 hours ago, No-Man Baugh said:

So at the very end of M7 I hit an invisible wall right infront of the exit switch, so I had to exit out without as I was effectivly sotflocked...

I also saw some suspect HOMs and weird heightened floors on m4 so this could be a complevel problem??? I ran this wad in DSDA-Doom on Complevel 3 and the same invisible wall problem happened so I suspect this is just a problem with this map on vanilla comparability and anyone running this should be aware of this since I suspect this isn't an issue only I'm gonna run into 

It's actually a level problem - the platform where the exit switch sits on is surrounded by impassable linedefs on all sides so you can't access it.

Edited January 2 by Andromeda

Category: 1

Difficulty: UV

Dead on: E3M3

Exited E3M2 at: 11:46

Kills: 12/42

 

DWIE_24_01_adoom_SCF.zip

 

 

13 hours ago, Andromeda said:

It's actually a level problem - the platform where the exit switch sits on is surrounded by impassable linedefs on all sides so you can't access it.

 

In light of this, I have changed the survival to reaching that point in E3M7. @No-Man Baugh Change your performance to a survival.

 

I also changed the complevel to 3. I always forget that Doom is now considered to be complevel 3, because I associate complevel 3 with Thy Flesh Consumed. Playing the mapset on complevel 2 wouldn't make a big difference in performance.

Category 1: 
Difficulty: UV
Dead on: E3M5
Kills: 2 on that map, 1 by myself and after I died a posthumous infight kill lol
Total time: 30:27

 

 

IEagle_Helm_ADoom.zip

Category 1:
Difficulty: UV
Dead on: DNF on E3M4 (softlocked due to Tag 0 stairs)

Should've seen it coming... also I decided not to redo this because the whole effect was quite amusing...

 

ironeagle_jan24_naza.zip

New year, new me and all that. I'll try to participate more.

 

Category: 1

Difficulty: UV

Survival, no secret map

Time of survival: 38:42  - last enemy in the exit room dead

Killcount on last map: 104/111

Demo: dd_dwie202401.zip (dsda-doom 0.27.2 -cl 3)

 

Commentary:

 

That was certainly a doom 1 episode alright.

 

Edit: I took a peek at E3M8 separately out of curiosity and all I have to say is "I sure am glad this set is broken at M7".

Edited January 3 by Doomy__Doom

Category 1, UV

Dead on E3M5, 33 minutes, 36 seconds

adoom_IEbygal.zip

 

 

5 minutes ago, galileo31dos01 said:

That's a shame, though I might come back to this in the future and use boom instead, cause that typically is the workaround when you want to neglect zdoom at all costs.

I'm fairly sure that wouldn't work, sadly - I've detailed the issue above and it's not something that Boom would fix AFAIK.

Category 2(demo didn't record intially

Difficulty: UV

Dead at 11:11 at E3M4

 

Seeing as how I softlocked in the original playthrough at the end of E3M3 (if with far more health), I guess this isn't too bad.

 

 

lmd_eagle_eh.zip

Category 1

Difficulty - UV

Exited E3M2 at 15:06

Dead on E3M3 at 15:37

15/42 kills

Port - DSDA Doom 0.27.5

 

 

DWIroneagle_ADoomUV_AnimaZero.zip

The category: 2

The difficulty:

If you survived, your time: N/A

Whether you completed the secret map N/A

If you didn't survive, the map where you died: Map 4

Time of death: 57:53

Kill count upon death: 34/50

Time upon entering your map of death (if you made it past the first map) 49:55

The port you used (if you included a demo)

A link to the stream/video (if you did a stream): https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2033890528

https://youtu.be/xCKJzjXSeuU

 

Category 1 run on UV, starts at 29:15.

 

Died to radiation on E3M5, 31/43 monsters killed.

 

I've played every Ironman League and Ironeagle thus far, and THIS was the jankiest mapset I've ever had to play through for any form of Ironman. (playable for what I saw for the most part, but still...) I would strongly suggest NOT playing this one blind, since I died on E3M5 due to a "teleporter" pad in the radiation not actually working (in PRBoom at least), leading to an inescapable pit. But this had HOM's and other bits of jank scattered throughout, and quite honestly this felt more like something I'd come across in one of my playtest sessions rather than an Ironeagle. I wonder if @Pegleg chose this mapset for its jank factor on purpose, or whether he accidentally stumbled into it.

 

EDIT: Oddly, the teleporter pad on E3M5 seemed to work when I tested it in GZDoom on Doom strict compat. I did my run on PRBoom with -complevel 3 enabled. So have no idea what the !%$? happened on my run then.

 

Edited Tuesday at 06:41 PM by Suitepee

On 1/16/2024 at 1:10 AM, Suitepee said:

I've played every Ironman League and Ironeagle thus far, and THIS was the jankiest mapset I've ever had to play through for any form of Ironman. (playable for what I saw for the most part, but still...) I would strongly suggest NOT playing this one blind, since I died on E3M5 due to a "teleporter" pad in the radiation not actually working (in PRBoom at least), leading to an inescapable pit. But this had HOM's and other bits of jank scattered throughout, and quite honestly this felt more like something I'd come across in one of my playtest sessions rather than an Ironeagle. I wonder if @Pegleg chose this mapset for its jank factor on purpose, or whether he accidentally stumbled into it.

 

1. No, I did not select this mapset because of the jank. Admittedly, I did not investigate it as carefully as I should have, but I thought it would be OK.

 

2. As far as the teleport pad goes, I have no idea why it wouldn't work on PrBoom. Yes, all four sides are W1 teleports, but there is a teleport destination, and it isn't blocked by something else. And I didn't see you fall into the blood multiple times, so there's no way you could have somehow triggered all four linedefs prior to going back a second time.

1 hour ago, Pegleg said:

2. As far as the teleport pad goes, I have no idea why it wouldn't work on PrBoom. Yes, all four sides are W1 teleports, but there is a teleport destination, and it isn't blocked by something else. And I didn't see you fall into the blood multiple times, so there's no way you could have somehow triggered all four linedefs prior to going back a second time.

I would assume all 4 W1 teleports got tripped by monsters. In my run you can see how I entered on one side and then had to try a different side. Not that I knew they were all W1 lines at the time, I was likely equally close to death on that map and just lucked out that a line was still available.