Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
A UV Max speedrun oh Holy Hell map 5 (= maps 1 through 4 combined) in 2h28, which beats the previous record of 2h58 by Okuplok. Holy Hell is possibly the first giga-slaughter map ever made for classic doom.
After running Untitled 2 for so long, the thought of having spare megas to recover from mistakes still feels alien to me. Despite my inicial goal being sub 2h50, I knew from my segmented practice sessions that sub 2h30 was possible. I just didn't expect to get that on the very first exit. Sweet.
There's lots of line-skips and door tricks to allow you to cheese many of the fights. The are only 2 difficult parts of this run. One is the first 15mins when you run around like a madman pressing all buttons and unleashing hell everywhere to speed up in-fighting. The second is the final arena where you do the same... but to a lesser extent. After clearing the top 2 floors where enemies don't teleport to, you can press all the buttons (including the massive arch-vile and cyberdemon invasions), and just camp on the 2nd floor where you're safe. But for that to work you need to not press the button that releases the cacodemons. This means that both the cyberdemon cleanup, and after that, the cacodemon cleanup are quite slow. But this strategy is consistent enough considering at that point you have a 2h successful run on your shoulders. Otherwise pressing literally all the bottons including the caco-trap feels like a bad decision to take such a huge risk and leave a deep run in the hands of RNG.
Some of these strats were adapted from the previous UV Maxes by Okuplok, and especially Azuruish's TAS. The rest I discovered through experimentation. The fact that I got a sub 2h30 in my first exit leads me to believe faster times are clearly possible with riskier strats and more practice. I was also running with an injured finger which made SR50 difficult to perform, so I mostly used only SL50 throughout this run. I wouldn't be surprised if someone got a sub 2h20 some day.
This run: 2:28:35.37 by Coincident, 2025/05/31
Category: UV MAX (100% kills + secrets)
Attempts: 11 (estimated total investment: 30h total over 2.5 weeks)
Demo recording on doomworld: doomworld.com/forum/topic/141120-miscellaneous-demos-part-5/?page=34&tab=comments#comment-2936739
Full unedited livestream: twitch.tv/videos/2473533891
Previous record by Okuplok: youtube.com/watch?v=cceB3AM7mPI
Doom on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2280/DOOM__DOOM_II
dsda-doom sourceport: doomworld.com/forum/topic/150766-dsda-doom-v0290-2025-04-08
Holy Hell: doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/g-i/holyhell
Written, narrated, edited, and performed by Coincident.
No generative AI was used in the making of this content.
Music from various human authors.
Thanks to the patrons who watch my videos in early-access:
AgileJackson, Billabob, Bitcore, bububerto, chillieboo, Dżozef, HexElix, Investigator Sozhran, Jonathan Cole, Jordan Musson, Leak, lee williams, Magnus Lindelöf, Matthew Gower, MaxPayne67, mEEt_ek, Nils, oldak, Ole, Phoenix, rajjdolf, SaaVaanT, Shawn Grant, ShuffleCat, SirLethbridgeStewart, Spectere, Stephen LaHay, the hellridden Baron, Ukito, Val Permyakov, Vytaan, Wackadoodle McJones, and Willem Voogt!
Become a supporter on Patreon: patreon.com/coincident
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Tags:
#doom #twitch #speedrun
A UV Max speedrun oh Holy Hell map 5 (= maps 1 through 4 combined) in 2h28, which beats the previous record of 2h58 by Okuplok. Holy Hell is possibly the first giga-slaughter map ever made for classic doom.
After running Untitled 2 for so long, the thought of having spare megas to recover from mistakes still feels alien to me. Despite my inicial goal being sub 2h50, I knew from my segmented practice sessions that sub 2h30 was possible. I just didn't expect to get that on the very first exit. Sweet.
There's lots of line-skips and door tricks to allow you to cheese many of the fights. The are only 2 difficult parts of this run. One is the first 15mins when you run around like a madman pressing all buttons and unleashing hell everywhere to speed up in-fighting. The second is the final arena where you do the same... but to a lesser extent. After clearing the top 2 floors where enemies don't teleport to, you can press all the buttons (including the massive arch-vile and cyberdemon invasions), and just camp on the 2nd floor where you're safe. But for that to work you need to not press the button that releases the cacodemons. This means that both the cyberdemon cleanup, and after that, the cacodemon cleanup are quite slow. But this strategy is consistent enough considering at that point you have a 2h successful run on your shoulders. Otherwise pressing literally all the bottons including the caco-trap feels like a bad decision to take such a huge risk and leave a deep run in the hands of RNG.
Some of these strats were adapted from the previous UV Maxes by Okuplok, and especially Azuruish's TAS. The rest I discovered through experimentation. The fact that I got a sub 2h30 in my first exit leads me to believe faster times are clearly possible with riskier strats and more practice. I was also running with an injured finger which made SR50 difficult to perform, so I mostly used only SL50 throughout this run. I wouldn't be surprised if someone got a sub 2h20 some day.
This run: 2:28:35.37 by Coincident, 2025/05/31
Category: UV MAX (100% kills + secrets)
Attempts: 11 (estimated total investment: 30h total over 2.5 weeks)
Demo recording on doomworld: doomworld.com/forum/topic/141120-miscellaneous-demos-part-5/?page=34&tab=comments#comment-2936739
Full unedited livestream: twitch.tv/videos/2473533891
Previous record by Okuplok: youtube.com/watch?v=cceB3AM7mPI
Doom on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2280/DOOM__DOOM_II
dsda-doom sourceport: doomworld.com/forum/topic/150766-dsda-doom-v0290-2025-04-08
Holy Hell: doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/g-i/holyhell
Written, narrated, edited, and performed by Coincident.
No generative AI was used in the making of this content.
Music from various human authors.
Thanks to the patrons who watch my videos in early-access:
AgileJackson, Billabob, Bitcore, bububerto, chillieboo, Dżozef, HexElix, Investigator Sozhran, Jonathan Cole, Jordan Musson, Leak, lee williams, Magnus Lindelöf, Matthew Gower, MaxPayne67, mEEt_ek, Nils, oldak, Ole, Phoenix, rajjdolf, SaaVaanT, Shawn Grant, ShuffleCat, SirLethbridgeStewart, Spectere, Stephen LaHay, the hellridden Baron, Ukito, Val Permyakov, Vytaan, Wackadoodle McJones, and Willem Voogt!
Become a supporter on Patreon: patreon.com/coincident
Catch me live on Twitch: twitch.tv/coincident
Join the community on Discord: discord.gg/nYDuB46
2nd YT channel for clips: youtube.com/@CoincidentClips
Tags:
#doom #twitch #speedrun
