Runner: Zero-Master
Date: 2020-10-28
IWAD: Doom.WAD
Category: UV-Speed
Map: Episode 3 (E3M1-E3M8)
Source Port: Crispy Doom v5.8.0
Time Without M8: 3:33
Time With M8: 4:24
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Level Map - Time ep3-0337
Hell Keep E3M1 - 0:30 :)) 0m00s
Slough of Despair E3M2 - 0:15 :)) 0m00s
Pandemonium E3M3 - 0:25 :)) 0m00s
House of Pain E3M4 - 0:39 :) -0:02
Unholy Cathedral E3M5 - 0:24 :)) -0:01
Mt. Erebus E3M6 - 0:25 :)) -0:01
Gate to Limbo E3M7 - 0:55 :) 0m00s
Dis E3M8 - 0:51
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Total - 4:24
E3M8 comparison is not relevant. E3M1-E3M7 time is improved by 4 seconds. The reason E3M8 is not included is because dos version does not display the time for the final map. Even though that is no longer relevant as sourceports can determine the time, the convention is still kept.

Description:
A 4 second improvement over the previous record by Hi Jango.

My last run of this: "I definitely will not try to improve this again ever." Yeah, nevermind. Easily my most optimized demo ever, absolutely crazy run. I was attempting to beat the record by at least 1 second, I instead managed to improve it by 4 seconds. This is 3 seconds off from my best times, incredible.

This episode is just a complete dice roll all the way through.

E3M1: The linedef skip at the start here can be done normally by running quickly over it and it happens sometimes when I fail the other method, which is to just run around it. Getting past the pinkies

The imp room is pretty straightforward now, kill the first imp and just try to run in on the right (or left) side immediately. I'd say it works maybe 35% of the time. I've had a few 29 second exits here, never managed to tie the record at 28, and I only had a single attempt skip 2 pinky demons while not having to fire at them, definitely possibilities for a 27 time here if it goes perfect.

E3M2: I'll always get either 15 or 16 seconds here, as long as I don't make a major movement mistake or get blocked badly by the lost souls it should always be 15 seconds without problems. Often I get to this level with low health and get killed by the lost souls.

E3M3: I believe I used to kill the pinky at the start here, as there's a good chance it will block you later, but it's not a good use of the limited amount of cells you have. I try to quickly clear out the imps though, here 1 of them survived so my chances of clearing the jump are pretty low, but it worked. 25 seconds is my best time here and a time I don't get very often, maybe 10% of the time.

E3M4: The pinky moving out of the way or not comes down to whatever RNG index you are at, I'd say about 50% of the time he moves, so I won the coinf flip this time. At the blue key door I hug the corner because this was supposed to get the imps to consistently move to the left and I could always run past, maybe I opened the door a bit too early or something, because I got blocked a bit here and it cost me a second.

Managed to get the yellow key grab very quickly and the rest went ok, time was a 39.00 so a bit of a shame, but on the next 2 maps it went in my favour.

E3M5: I had gotten a lot of practice on this level since I had previously done both 23.97 and a 22.97 using a linedef skip for an individual level run. The linedef skip is so inconsistent that I would never want to count on it in an episode run, but it could save a second.

E3M6: I hate this level, as I never seem to get 25 seconds here, but today is the day and I finally got it on this incredible run, couldn't be more fortunate with this level. I had one run that tied the episode record where I had super bounce off of the first door which cost me a second, I've had several runs where the pinky demons survives the initial rocket like it does in Hi Jango's demo, and sometimes when he does die in 1 rocket there is somehow a demon surviving the 2 rockets and blocking the switch.

I thought the plasma spam at blue key way a bit too slow, but I barely made 25 seconds. I hug the door because there's a decent chance I do a linedef skip on the exit if I don't.

E3M7: My biggest fear is to get to this level on a really good run and get blocked by lost souls. I think I only lost a 3:36 to that once, but it happens somewhat often and it's quite painful way to lose it.

E3M8: The E3M1-E3M7 and E3M1-E3M8 routes are so different here, grabbing the BFG costs a few seconds, but you complete this level in 8 seconds. I already had a faster E3M1-E3M8 time than the record, so I went with some infighting to just survive here.

Thanks for watching.

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