Zero Master | Doom II: Sunder - Map 32 (The Harlot's Garden) UV-Max in 1:08:28 @ZeroMaster | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Runner: Zero-Master
Date: 2022-02-04
IWAD: Doom2.wad
PWAD: Sunder 2407.wad
Category: UV-Max
Map: 32 (The Harlot's Garden)
Source Port: DSDA-Doom v0.22.5
Time: 1:08:28
Description:
The first UV-Max of this level, because the only other person to do this level ignored a cyberdemon even though they frequently fall down and are easily dealt with in such cases.
Lost two attempts at the final fight. The first one I took 6 mancubi fireballs in about 1-2 seconds trying to push through that did 336 damage before I got killed by a 7th hit. I could have taken between 48-384 damage from those 6 hits, so a bit unlucky with 336. I didn't feel bad about it, forgot to pick up some health vials anyways, not that they are necessary of course.. Then the second attempt which I did on the same day as this successful run some similar stuff happened, but I had enough health to grab the last megasphere. But max health doesn't really last long when you take a completely random cyberdemon rocket. I couldn't see the rocket past all the corpses so I didn't even notice it before it hit me. I guess after the luck I had an hour into map 15 I had to pay for it here.
Sunder map16 route is mostly done, the map is really long and a completed run should take somewhere around 2 hours, hopefully just under it. It's not looking as bad as I thought it would be, I think the last sections are easier than the final fight of map32, but on average it's more difficult and it's significantly longer. I've had ammo issues in practice so I'm afraid of running low near the end as well.
Comments about the run:
Went mostly as expected with exception of the final fight.
For the final fight I took a lot of damage again trying to get through the mancubi.
Then I nearly died when I had to push through the cacodemons, didn't have much choice as my ammo was running low and I didn't want to take damage going for cells on the left side.
Nearly died at the very end to a surprise cyberdemon, somehow I just didn't see him and I had to just go for it as I was afraid I'd get hit by something else or bump into a wall if I backtracked.
Route/Strategy:
pastebin.com/27E9kwrP
Runner: Zero-Master
Date: 2022-02-04
IWAD: Doom2.wad
PWAD: Sunder 2407.wad
Category: UV-Max
Map: 32 (The Harlot's Garden)
Source Port: DSDA-Doom v0.22.5
Time: 1:08:28
Description:
The first UV-Max of this level, because the only other person to do this level ignored a cyberdemon even though they frequently fall down and are easily dealt with in such cases.
Lost two attempts at the final fight. The first one I took 6 mancubi fireballs in about 1-2 seconds trying to push through that did 336 damage before I got killed by a 7th hit. I could have taken between 48-384 damage from those 6 hits, so a bit unlucky with 336. I didn't feel bad about it, forgot to pick up some health vials anyways, not that they are necessary of course.. Then the second attempt which I did on the same day as this successful run some similar stuff happened, but I had enough health to grab the last megasphere. But max health doesn't really last long when you take a completely random cyberdemon rocket. I couldn't see the rocket past all the corpses so I didn't even notice it before it hit me. I guess after the luck I had an hour into map 15 I had to pay for it here.
Sunder map16 route is mostly done, the map is really long and a completed run should take somewhere around 2 hours, hopefully just under it. It's not looking as bad as I thought it would be, I think the last sections are easier than the final fight of map32, but on average it's more difficult and it's significantly longer. I've had ammo issues in practice so I'm afraid of running low near the end as well.
Comments about the run:
Went mostly as expected with exception of the final fight.
For the final fight I took a lot of damage again trying to get through the mancubi.
Then I nearly died when I had to push through the cacodemons, didn't have much choice as my ammo was running low and I didn't want to take damage going for cells on the left side.
Nearly died at the very end to a surprise cyberdemon, somehow I just didn't see him and I had to just go for it as I was afraid I'd get hit by something else or bump into a wall if I backtracked.
Route/Strategy:
pastebin.com/27E9kwrP
![Doom II - Map 10: Refueling Base - UV-Speed in 11 seconds [TAS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fI-Skyu1jyI/hqdefault.jpg "Doom II - Map 10: Refueling Base - UV-Speed in 11 seconds [TAS]
This is a Tool-Assisted Speedrun
Runner: Zero-Master
Date: 2021-02-06
IWAD: Doom2.wad
Category: UV-Speed TAS
Map: 10 (Refueling Base)
Tools: XDRE 2.21
Time: 11.97
Description:
The hardest void glide ever discovered.
I have long suspected that a void glide might have been possible here. However, none of the walls have anything in common with any void glide ever done before, so it wasnt too unreasonable to assume it might just be impossible.
The recent Courtyard void glide through the door however showed what a larger momentum boost can do which gave hope for these types of angles. Since the wall isnt axis aligned it extends the required distance for doomguy to move before he no longer overlaps with the wall, in this case by at least 16/104*32 (=4.923) units. So the total distance to move is 36.923 units if one could somehow move exactly along the x axis to the left.
What usually happens when you perform a void glide is that you move very fast in both the X and Y direction, in this case you have to move in the negative x and negative y direction and the void glide might be impossible if you too far in the negative y direction as it extends the required movement in the negative x direction by too much. But it turns out that there is a coordinate that actually allows for movement only along the negative x direction, which is if doomguys upper right corner is perfectly on top of the corner vertex.
However, that is only half the story. If you were to place yourself at this exact position you would have no way to be able to build up momentum towards the wall you are trying to go through, as any movement would slide you along the wall itself. There is of course only one solution to this, which is to have something block your movement, namely a monster. Though the massive problem is that its incredibly difficult to manipulate monster movement to such precision. You dont want the monster to block the position you are trying to reach, and if it is a small distance away then you will always slide along the wall.
Trying to pull this off with monsters was complete hell. Geting anything to stand in a certain area is extremely annoying, and then having to check over and over again if you can move yourself to the exact coordinate while getting punched in the face only adds to the frustration. But, with enough dice rolls it eventually worked.
So with the perfect position and the momentum buildup doomguy here moves a distance of 36.936 units, only 0.013 units above the minimum requirement, and goes through the wall. This is basically impossible without TAS.
I still have some new tricks to show off that I discovered several months ago for ultimate doom, but itll be part of a longer TAS demo, which I hope to finish some day.
Thanks for watching.")
![Ultimate Doom: Knee-Deep in the Dead (Episode 1) - Ultra-Violence Speedrun in 3:08 [TAS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ggkWumfXTXo/hqdefault.jpg "Ultimate Doom: Knee-Deep in the Dead (Episode 1) - Ultra-Violence Speedrun in 3:08 [TAS]
This is a Tool-Assisted Speedrun!
Runner: Zero-Master
Date: 2021-06-18
IWAD: Doom.wad
Category: UV-Speed TAS
Map: Episode 1 (E1M1-E1M8)
Source Port (demo): XDRE v2.21
Source Port (video): PrBoom Plus v2.5.1.5
Time: 3:08
Level Map - Time
Hangar E1M1 - 0:07.97
Nuclear Plant E1M2 - 0:17.97
Toxin Refinery E1M3 - 0:29.97
Command Control E1M4 - 0:10.77
Phobos Lab E1M5 - 0:28.94
Central Processing E1M6 - 0:35.97
Computer Station E1M7 - 0:51.94
Phobos Anomaly E1M8 - 0:11.23
Description:
This is a built demo, meaning each of the 7339 frames were entered manually. Some sections take quite a bit of effort to get right for several reasons including: monster manipulation, wallruns and momentum conservation, linedef skips, void glides and other misc things.
Ive been wanting to do an episode 1 TAS for a long time, because some time ago I discovered some new tricks that wouldnt be useful outside of a TAS.
E1M1: First I had to overcome the roadblock which is E1M1 in 7 seconds. Incredibly annoying to pull off, the wallruns at the start were hard to get right and getting around the monsters in the acid room was very time consuming. Fortunately I had no trouble grabbing the shotgun once I did manage to get to the second last door quick enough.
E1M2: The start was difficult, getting the wallruns and getting to the red key... but worst of all was going down those stairs, took so much effort to get it looking ok. I then had massive issues getting past some of the zombieguys for some reason, the rest was easy fortunately, only needed a lot of re rolls to get the needed monster movement in the last room.
E1M3: Figured the most difficult parts were done after E1M1, even thinking I could perhaps save 2 seconds on this level... but no, making it to the blue key was not too bad, but getting back through the hallway was absolute hell. Hallway blocked by imps, couldnt keep good momentum going through the hitscanners, if I could get through I would get blocked by the shotgunner by the door, and if I got past him I got blocked by the spectre instead. Eventually I managed to get through, but then I had an imp infront of the fence blocking a wallrun, and having lost too much time already I had to go back and re roll again.
E1M4: I saw no way of saving a second on this level. 9 seconds would be easy if you could somehow get the pinky to open the door for you, so who knows.
E1M5: It took a little bit of time to get the start smoothly, then once I was going to go up the stairs I was getting blocked by the imp and zombieguy. I had no ways of manipulating them so I ended up running around the imp at the bottom of the stairs so I could shoot earlier upstairs. I got all the way to the rocket launcher without any trouble and I was surprised that I finally had some luck going my way. Of course the door into the next area was closed and nothing was even close to opening that door. I decided to go again and the part where I was frustrated with the imp and zombieguy blocking my path no longer mattered, as I needed to get close to the window to wake up some monsters to open the door for me and so running around the zombieguy was fine.
Getting up to the secret area went rather smoothly, I think I got lucky by getting past the pinkies with some nice momentum so easily, but I dunno, could probably have been faster. Then theres the new E1M5 trick, going out of bounds and back in bounds almost immediately to save roughly 5 seconds total.
E1M6: I start with a linedef skip on the lowering wall and use a shotgunner to block it on the way back. I manage to reach yellow key a bit more quickly with the rocket launcher from E1M5, and then I use the new skip to go through the fence and save over a second. Some crazy speed, maxed out at 30 in both x and y direction and it lasts quite a while since Im in the air.
E1M7: Thought this level would be easy and Id get through it quickly... that probably would have been true if I didnt decide to go for a second improvement. The 3 areas that consumed the most time was the hallway after the big lift on the way to red key, the red key area and the entire last area. I wasnt expecting a couple of shotgunners to idle on the elevator, I was planning on firing a rocket towards the imps in the last area which would have been a massive help considering how long time that took to do, but that didnt look possible without losing time.
E1M8: Uses a void glide which is similar to E1M5, and with the more recent nomonsters trick it saves a lot of time by not having to wait for the pinky to do the void glide and it also being a more direct route to the exit.
More of my Tool-Assisted Speedruns can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSY2ZP_tOA_jO9bfmslJBjBdQJ55CwfzM
Thanks for watching!")
![Doom II: No Chance - UV-Max in 6:57 [TAS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iFjFd4pi2vM/hqdefault.jpg "Doom II: No Chance - UV-Max in 6:57 [TAS]
This is a Tool-Assisted Speedrun!
Runner: Zero-Master
Date: 2023-06-26
IWAD: Doom2.wad
PWAD: nochance.wad
Category: UV-Max Reality TAS
Source Port: DSDA-Doom v0.26.2
Time: 6:57.66
Description:
Looked like a fun map to TAS since you have so many options on what to do.
Might be possible to do it in under 6 minutes, didnt put much effort into this so with cleaner movement, better route, more efficient ammo use and better luck I could see it being doable. Too much effort for me though, I think I got decent infighting here and since its just under 7 minutes its good enough for now. Not bothering with no damage taken would of course make things a lot easier.
Maybe Ill do a non-TAS run some day, under 20 minutes is possible.
Route:
Main idea: get the BFG immediately and try to get as much infighting going as possible.
BFG is easily available at the start here, yellow key is closest followed by red key and then blue key.
Not that many monsters at red key, but it doesnt take too much time to get to and a lot of the monsters will gather up at the edge of the entrace to that area, so it gets done second.
So first get yellow key as quickly as possible to get everything teleporting in and try to take out as many arch-viles and pain elementals as possible along the way.
Next Ill get red key and clear out the red key area so I dont have to go back that far and leave most the other monsters alive for infighting. It could maybe be faster to just leave immediately and come back for clean up later, but there werent enough monsters here for me to do that.
Then blue key, since the corridor is quite long and theres a lot of arch-viles I went with clearing it all out, another possibility would be to grab the key and leave while infighting happens and hope that enough monsters die for it to be worth running through a second time.
The rest is just clean up and get to the exit.
Tools used:
Rewind/segmenting
Building (frame by frame inputs)
Slow-motion (25% mostly)
Always SR50 + SR50 on turns
Input/coordinate display
2xIDDT")
