IronEagle Competition 51: Monument

Welcome to 2023, a new year and a new opportunity for playing Doom. In that spirt, we have a new month of the IronEagle competition, the ironman challenge that welcomes everyone, regardless or your experience. As long as you like Doom (or even if you don't, but are willing to give it a shot), you can join us--the water is fine!

 

This month, participants will challenge themselves Monument. Monument is the episode replacement for the second episode of Doom, created by @Chris Hansen and released in 2015.

 

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

 

Download Monument here.

 

Monument starts at E2M1. Survival is finishing E2M8. There is 1 secret map, accessed (as usual) from E2M5.

 

Enjoy!

 

Congratulations to this month's winners (further details are in the post below).

 

UV: @ginc (Runner-up: @Asbadagba)

HMP: @head_cannon (Runner-up: @ClumsyCryptid)

HNTR: @Andromeda (Runner-up: Pegleg)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 and whether you also completed the secret map
• If you didn't survive, the map where you died
• Time of death
• Kill count upon death
• 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 + secret map
• Survival
• Time for survival
• Map of death (in descending order: E2M8, E2M7, E2M6, E2M9, E2M5, E2M4, E2M3, E2M2, E2M1)
• 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!

 

 

 

Previous IronEagle Competitions

Edited February 2, 2023 by Pegleg
EDIT 1: Fixed -warp number for Chocolate and Boom command lines. EDIT 2: Added monthly winners.

I compiled a list of the best performers for the previous year. As a reminder, I had a simplified scoring system (based on the 2020 Britbowl), where:
1st place = 10 points

2nd place = 7 points

3rd place = 5 points

4th place = 3 points

5th place = 2 points

6th place and on = 1 point

 

Here were the top performers for 2022. Congratulations.

 

UV

1. @mhrz               43 points
2. @dt_                  42 points
3. @NaZa               42 points
4. @Maribo              32 points
5. @Asbadagba        27 points
6. @NoisyVelvet       21 points
7. @Suitepee           18 points
8. @LadyMistDragon 16 points
9. @SCF                 15 points
10. @BoxY                15 points

 

HMP

1. @head_cannon          49 points
2. @LadyMistDragon      44 points
3. @SCF                      36 points
4. @xX_Lol6_Xx            34 points
5. @Crusader No Regret 21 points
6. @Austinado               18 points
7. @Zhaojue                 15 points

 

HNTR

1. @Andromeda  101 points
2. Pegleg             77 points
3. @Major Arlene 27 points
4. @kalaeth        13 points

 

 

These were the participant counts for each of the difficulties (people who participated at that difficulty at least once).

UV: 32

HMP: 10

HNTR: 7

 

Overall, there were 41 unique participants. Seven participants tried their hands at different difficulties, depending on the month, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Edited March 4, 2023 by Pegleg
Replaced "RESERVED" with 2022 totals.

category 1
uv
dead at 81:45

dead on e2m8
12/79 kills
did the secret map
ironeagle_2023jan_asbadagba.zip

Category 1, UV. Choked hard at E2M4 because a baron decided to stop the lift from going up to have some intimate time with me. Shame, it was going really well up to that point...

 

ironeagle_jan23_naza.zip

Cat 1

UV

Dead on E2M2 at around 13mins in

horus_ironeagle_2023_01.zip

Streamed this yesterday on Twitch.

 

Highlight video says HNTR, but I played it on HMP. I really like the maps I played, I think I got to M4 before I ran off looking for health items or ammo and died to a Caco above me.

Cat 1

HMP

Link:

 

On 1/2/2023 at 7:15 PM, ClumsyCryptid said:

Streamed this yesterday on Twitch.

 

Highlight video says HNTR, but I played it on HMP. I really like the maps I played, I think I got to M4 before I ran off looking for health items or ammo and died to a Caco above me.

 

The video linked says that the embed was misconfigured.

Category: 2

Difficulty: HNTR

Dead on: E2M3

Time: 20:48

Kills: 54/101

 

Too slow for a slow crusher.

 

ie_andromeda_monument.zip

On 1/4/2023 at 2:56 PM, Pegleg said:

 

The video linked says that the embed was misconfigured.

Click on the Twitch logo in the bottom-right of the embed.

14 hours ago, Shepardus said:

Click on the Twitch logo in the bottom-right of the embed.

 

Thank you very much.

Category: 2

Difficulty: UV

Dead on: E2M6

Time: ~67:50 (1h7m50sec)

Kills: 105/219

ie51_monument_mari.zip

Category: 1

Difficulty: UV
Dead on: E2M2

Kills: 101/155

Time: 11:46

 

DWIE_23-01_monument_SCF.zip

 

Took refuge on the nice red carpet floor, only to realize too late that it was actually damaging blood.

Category: 1

Difficulty: UV

Dead on: E2M2

Kills: 136/155

Time: 19:05

 

IEmonument_SilentD00mer.zip

 

First IronEagle and my main mistake in this run is using too many bullets instead of using shells for the stronger monsters.

https://youtu.be/aqsK0YN9PSo

 

Category 1 run on UV, starts at around 1:57:41.

 

Died on E2M2 to a pistol zombie with 103/155 monsters killed. Evil mapset.

Category: 1 (Blind)

Difficulty: UV

Dead: E2M3

Kills: 94/142

Time of Arrival: 22:16

Time of Death: 33:36

Demo: noisy_monument_ironman.zip

 

Cause of Death:

Category: 2

Difficulty: HNTR

Dead on: E2M2

Kills: 43/100

Time of arrival: 4:40

Time of death: 8:49

 

ie_pegleg_monument.zip

 

I had expected to make it further, but I got ahead of myself and in over my head with an ambush. This sort of thing happens sometimes.

Edited January 29, 2023 by Pegleg
Added statement.

Just so this doesn't get lost:

 

@dt_ made it to E2M6 (plus the secret map) on UV. Category 2.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/boil6y8gg3e6gw9/dtmonument.lmp?dl=1

 

Non blind, UV (but very sketchy memory)

 

Sorry for the delay

 

Great wad, I remember this being a lot darker and more cramped than it was, but then maybe I'm getting mixed up with Nihility

 

Curiosity killed the cat

IEmonumentHMPhc.zip

Category: 1

Difficulty: HMP

Survived in 3:01:14

 

That was a pretty decent Shores Of Hell tribute. The text file describes how it was cobbled together from preexisting standalone maps, but care was taken to avoid creating jarring difficulty peaks & valleys when juxtaposing the material. It seems that all the renovations went well: this episode is a little long-winded but definitely hangs together as a cohesive whole.

 

 

Category 1, Ultra-Violence. Survived in 1:48:46. Secret map completed.

 

 

Video here:

 

Side note: maybe this is because I'm using GZDoom, but this is my second Ironanimal run in Doom 1 where I couldn't get a scoreboard/time displayed after ending the episode. Is this because I have Doom 1.9 (but not Ultimate Doom)? Or is there a GZD setting I need to enable?

 

FWIW I got my time of 1:48:46 by taking the completion time of E2M7 (1:44:20) and adding on the 4:26 of time in E2M8 from starting screen wipe to end wipe.

 

 

Edited February 1, 2023 by ginc

16 hours ago, ginc said:

Side note: maybe this is because I'm using GZDoom, but this is my second Ironanimal run in Doom 1 where I couldn't get a scoreboard/time displayed after ending the episode. Is this because I have Doom 1.9 (but not Ultimate Doom)? Or is there a GZD setting I need to enable?

I don't think GZDoom shows the time at the end of the episode, but I could be wrong.

A thank you to everyone who came out and challenged themselves against Monument. We'll be back again next month for another challenge, and hopefully everyone will be back again. Perhaps you'll even bring your friends to the party.

 

Without further ado, here are the standings for this month's IronEagle.

 

UV

1. ginc (Survived)
2. Asbadagba (E2M8)
3. Maribo (E2M6)
4. dt_ (E2M6)
5. NaZa (E2M4)
6. NoisyVelvet (E2M3)
7. SCF (E2M2)
8. Suitepee (E2M2)
9. SilentD00mer (E2M2)
10. Horus (E2M2)

 

HMP

1. head_cannon (Survived)
2. ClumsyCryptid (E2M4)

 

HNTR

1. Andromeda (E2M3)
2. Pegleg (E2M2)