Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Lots of open windows, an arch-vile nearby - that's right, it's an Arch-Vile Jump trick. Right here, it allow you to skip the red skullkey part.
When I watched the map in Doom Builder, I thought it was possible to grab the yellow skull at once, but it doesn't show transparent platforms correctly, all the objects are like on the ground, not in the air. So, you have to break through a narrow hallway of imps.

I don't like the weapon I use to kill imps. The plasmagun would clean the way faster, but unfortunately, I can't grab it and take a good position for jumping while AV is preparing to strike me. You have to grab the gun, then provoke AV and wait for it to strike you. That takes precious time =(

Berserk on the other hand is sluggish in that situation. You kill an imp, you wait for it to fall down. You kill an imp, you wait for it to fall down. And so on!
I had to gib most of the imps because the gibbing animation takes 12 tics compared to a regular falling in 19 tics.
Once I managed to kill one imp behind another imp! Wow. I don''t know how dehacked improves the fists, but I didn't expect it to affect the maximum punch distance as well.

The rest of the run is self-explanatory. I had to make the monsters not to block my way. Sure thing, 20 secs is possible.

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Well, that's all. That's probably my last visit to Bourgeois for the nearest future. I don't see any TAS-specific routes which would provide major improvements over real-time speedruns, except Map 27 that features a 32-unit glide to the portal at the very beginning, but it doesn't save much time and you still have to run through the horde you've just bypassed.

Looks like I want too much from this WAD, but it's bourgeois - I have the right to want anything =)