The DWIronman League dies to: SIGIL

[Alfonzo]

May June, 2019

> Download Sigil
> NaZa's unofficial leader board

 

Leaderboard

(I went walkabout this month. Please consult NaZa's spreadsheet above for all placements!)

 

What is the Doomworld Ironman League?

The DWIronman League is a monthly competition in which participants aim to survive for as many levels as possible in the given map set, preferably in one sitting. Click the spoiler tag below for a detailed list of rules. Players of all levels of ability are welcome. It could change the way you play Doom!

 

In May June, 2019, John Romero sends us packing with the limitless Sigil, -complevel 3 (Doom (strict)). Praise Satan! This is a single episode replacement for E3 that supposes an E5 difficulty in line with the stock four episodes. I can tell you nothing more as I have yet to play it myself, except to say that yes, we are all going to die. Apparently it is also somewhat dark, so going in blind feels appropriate.

 

Note that streamers/video recorders using compatible advanced source ports may wish to use SIGIL.wad, while demo recorders must use the SIGIL_COMPAT.wad version. The level content between versions is the same and the secret exit appears in the respective M6 slots.

 

Potential Game-stoppers and Bugs

• None yet documented.

prboom-plus -file SIGIL_COMPAT -complevel 3 -warp 3 1 -skill 4 -record dwironman...

 

Spoiler

 

• One attempt on UV only. No pistol-starting.
• Demos (PrBoom+, GLBoom, Eternity or Chocolate), stream highlights and video recordings are the only accepted proofs. You must link to these runs in the thread. 
• No additional wads may be loaded.
• No cheats and no features that result in behavior beyond what is possible in the intended source port (e.g. freelook, jumping and crouching in a boom set). This includes dynamic lights and brightmaps. If streaming or recording videos using an advanced source port with compatibility options, you must display these settings on-screen before your run. In ZDoom derivative ports, "Doom/Boom(strict)" will suffice.
• If you choose to stream/record your run for video rather than provide a demo and you die before completing a single level, either on MAP01 of a set OR because a single level was selected for the month, you must display the number of monsters killed/remaining in the level before you quit.
• You do not have to play the secret levels in order to register a complete run. However, a player who finishes the game having completed more secret levels will rank higher than his/her competitors.
• You cannot load a game having progressed past the save point.
• You cannot consult Doom Builder during your run to check for map details.
• If the recording of your official run is interrupted due to technical difficulties, you are not permitted a second attempt. Any surviving recording may be used to register a DNF result.
• Accidentally restarting a level before a death exit takes you to the tally screen will disqualify your run.
• You are required to affix one of three numbers to your run informing the League of your degree of familiarity with the map/set played. Note that your evaluation should only take into consideration the content covered in your run (e.g. if you remember only one part of a level in a set you haven't played before but never reach that level, you should list your run as a [1] instead of [2]):
   

1. This is a blind run. If I have played or watched any of the level/set being played before, I cannot remember any details that would offer a reasonable advantage over truly blind players. *
2. This is not a blind run. I have played or watched the level/set being played before, or can at least remember some details that would offer a reasonable advantage over blind players.
3. This is a prepared run. Before declaring my official run I:
   • Played the WAD to some extent after it was announced for this month's challenge, and/or
   • Inspected the WAD's level design in an editor, and/or
   • Watched someone else play the WAD.

 

* "Reasonable" in this instance asks you to consider whether the details in question are worth committing to memory. As in, you would thank the person who gave you this information with a straight face and not expect to be laughed at for being an utter berk.

 

 

Previous Threads

 

2016
Jenesis (winner: Demon of the Well)
Crusades (winner: Ribbiks)
Nilla Doom (winner: Demon of the Well)
Khorus' Speedy Shit (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Perdition's Gate (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
UAC Ultra (winner: Bloodite Krypto)

 

2017
Jade Earth (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Legacy of Heroes (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Back to Saturn X E1 (winner: dew)
Mapgame (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Vae Victus 1 & 2 (winner: Demon of the Well)
Disturbia (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Insertion (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Unholy Realms (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Osiris (winner: Demon of the Well)
End Game & End Point (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Oscillation (winner: Ancalagon)
Doom The Way id Did (winner: kmc)

 

2018
Combat Shock 2 (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Coffee Break (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Warlock's Hearth (winner: Demon of the Well)
50 Monsters (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Double Impact (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Rush (winner: WH-Wilou84)
The Darkening E1 & E2 (winner: Veinen)
The Plutonia Experiment (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Interstellar Sickness & Shaman's Device (winner: leodoom85)
Doom 64 for Doom 2 (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
TNT: Renascence & Resistance (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Ultimate Doom The Way id Did (winner: Bloodite Krypto)

 

2019
Hellfire: Dreams (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Fomalhaut (winner: Bloodite Krypto)
Stardate 20X6 (winner: Bloodite Krypto)

Edited July 2, 2019 by Alfonzo
I am an update.

[Alfonzo]

*Raps fingers on desk*

[I_Punch_Demons]

Wow you had me so freaking excited.....but alas no wad. 

[Steve D]

Wowzers!!!!! Okay, Mr. Romero, hand that megawad over!!!! ;D

[Alfonzo]

3 minutes ago, Odorousbag87 said:

Wow you had me so freaking excited.....but alas no wad.

 

Imagine if Ironman had that sort of pulling power! I'd have made for the hills by now.

 

By the way, I expect us all to die horribly. Everyone. Blind, dumb and pissing our organs out in puddles of our own misery.

 

Cool!

[I_Punch_Demons]

 

 

 

1 minute ago, Alfonzo said:

 

Imagine if Ironman had that sort of pulling power! I'd have made for the hills by now.

 

By the way, I expect us all to die horribly. Everyone. Blind, dumb and pissing our organs out in puddles of our own misery.

 

Cool!

If I decide to iron man it, I am going to iron man level 3. I just want to enjoy the game the first time through, then I will Iron man it. 

[Bob9001]

Is this some kind of sick joke? D:

 

Where's the ironman?

[Ancalagon]

Sigil gets postponed to June.

Edited May 4, 2019 by Ancalagon

[I_Punch_Demons]

Just now, Ancalagon said:

Sigil gets posponed to June.

If it get's postponed until June, I am personally blaming you :-P

[Alfonzo]

I'll take the odds, Ancalagon!

 

As a backup plan come the middle of the month, we can all die to Dark Tartarus instead.

[Ancalagon]

Is it cat2 if we watched the trailer?

Edit: Dark tartarus hype!

Edited May 3, 2019 by Ancalagon

[Nine Inch Heels]

1 minute ago, Alfonzo said:

we can all die to Dark Tartarus instead

make that RJ_SLAB and I might play ;-)

[Alfonzo]

13 minutes ago, Ancalagon said:

Is it cat2 if we watched the trailer?

 

It would be nice to be able to say that everyone's going in blind on an occasion like this. This sort of thing doesn't happen very often. Probably there are parts of the trailer that do offer an advantage (I haven't actually seen it myself, maybe it's not the case?), but I'm tempted to say that a Cat 2 wouldn't be very informative on reflection when the leaderboard is filled out for posterity. Everyone's basically blind, right (unless they choose not to be)?

 

Also, has Romero done in-depth plays of some of the levels on-stream? That'd definitely be Cat 2 material, and readers would want to know about it.

Edited May 3, 2019 by Alfonzo

[Pegleg]

1 minute ago, Alfonzo said:

I'll take the odds, Ancalagon!

 

As a backup plan come the middle of the month, we can all die to Dark Tartarus instead.

 

So we all twiddle our thumbs until the middle of the month? Or through the first week for those who paid for Sigil? And that's all assuming it ships this month.

 

I like your optimism, but if it were up to me, I would've picked Dark Tartarus for this month and saved Sigil for the month after it was released (to allow for a full month for anyone who wanted to Ironman it).

 

2 minutes ago, Alfonzo said:

has Romero done in-depth plays of some of the levels on-stream? That'd definitely be Cat 2 material, and readers would want to know about it.

 

Romero has played through Sigil on Twitch. He even describes where various secrets are and some of the development. Wouldn't those streams be Category 3? 

 

[Nine Inch Heels]

3 minutes ago, Alfonzo said:

Also, has Romero done in-depth plays of some of the levels on-stream

yup

[Alfonzo]

4 minutes ago, Pegleg said:

So we all twiddle our thumbs until the middle of the month? Or through the first week for those who paid for Sigil? And that's all assuming it ships this month.

 

I like your optimism, but if it were up to me, I would've picked Dark Tartarus for this month and saved Sigil for the month after it was released (to allow for a full month for anyone who wanted to Ironman it).

 

Twiddle those thumbs! Twiddle them for England! Have a cold shower, maybe. Run up a tree!

 

We have a great opportunity to die holding hands, here: each poor sap as blind as the other. How many players would hold out after release until the following month, assuming I make an early announcement for June? Probably a few. Maybe the majority, even! But we can cop a small break in the meantime, build a bit of hype and then guarantee a kumbaya death pact.

 

I think it's glorious :)

 

4 minutes ago, Pegleg said:

Wouldn't those streams be Category 3?

 

Cat 2. 3s only happen if that material is watched after the announcement.

[Sparktimus]

Here. Let's have some music while we wait.
 

 

[TMD]

And I thought my hubris was bad.

[Steve D]

1 hour ago, Alfonzo said:

 But we can cop a small break in the meantime, build a bit of hype and then guarantee a kumbaya death pact.

 

I think it's glorious :)

 

Alfonzo steps up as the Jim Jones of Doomworld. ;)

Edited May 3, 2019 by Steve D

[leodoom85]

@AlfonzoOh you mother.....

 

:D

[Gaia74]

i want play sigil!, looks so good!

 

but i can only download the wad... because I could not buy the box...............

 

:c

[SamuelNMEvander]

What is this thread?

[Scotty]

1 minute ago, SamuelNMEvander said:

What is this thread?

 

The clue is in the title and the OP, who would have thought it?

[Snakes]

This month, we're all survivors!

[SamuelNMEvander]

Just now, Scotty said:

 

The clue is in the title and the OP, who would have thought it?

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. 

[Bob9001]

2 minutes ago, SamuelNMEvander said:

What is this thread?

This is for an ironman, which is a monthly competition to see who can survive certain wads.

 

1 minute ago, Scotty said:

 

The clue is in the title and the OP, who would have thought it?

They may have no clue, *shrug*

[SamuelNMEvander]

1 minute ago, Bob9001 said:

This is for an ironman, which is a monthly competition to see who can survive certain wads.

 

They may have no clue, *shrug*

I still don't understand what that is supposed to be? Some kind of a tournament or what?

[Bob9001]

1 minute ago, SamuelNMEvander said:

I still don't understand what that is supposed to be? Some kind of a tournament or what?

It's a monthly competition to see who can survive a wad the longest or who's the best "Ironman". I'm sorry you don't understand.

 

Yes kinda like a tournment.

Edited May 3, 2019 by Bob9001

[SamuelNMEvander]

The thread doesn't explain jack...

Edited May 3, 2019 by SamuelNMEvander

[Bob9001]

Well I tried to help, maybe someone else can explain it better.