Guess the map (13th edition) (done)

[NuMetalManiak]

Previous editions: 1-10, 11, 12

 

Well, I'm back after a decent recovery even though I still have some chest pain, shame it's not a Friday the 13th but we'll get right into our 13th edition of Guess the Map. The idea is simple, you see screenshots of map layouts from the widest pool ever that is doom content, and you're free to guess as many maps as you can. Each and every map will belong to a different wad to make things varied and interesting, and they can belong to Ultimate Doom/Doom 2, Final Doom, Heretic, commercial and non-commercial PWADs from those games, and partial/total conversions as well. As per usual, the difficulty of the guesses will grow gradually, with random spikes and thorns and whatnot, so basically a contemporary sort of difficulty curve, and I have decided to do some edits to the images to get rid of teleporter closets and such to make things a bit more interesting overall.

 

We are however reminding you of a couple important notes:

 

- Answers MUST be hidden in spoilers, no exceptions. If you don't use the spoiler option, your guesses won't count.

- You may resort to the search bar, web pages, or whatever assistance in case you're not 100% sure of the wad and/or slot but feel like you've seen the map before. 

 

Like before, the screenshots will be accompanied by a hint for each one. A new hint for each will be revealed on January 29th and we'll spice things up a bit by adding 3-4 letters of either the WAD title or (in a twist, and only if possible) the level title along with the new hint. Answers will come by on February 5th. Let's play ball!

 

01.

Spoiler

-DON'T DEAD OPEN INSIDE, well I mean there's sure going to be some Walking Dead here.

-Many hidden doors here aren't really that obvious
-ADZ

 

02.

Spoiler

-A nice, familiar layout, wait are those initials at the bottom left? What for?

-If this were the normal game, I would have come from Earth. But I came from Mars instead.

-WOLF

 

03.

Spoiler

-A rather adventurous level that people would have to basically explore everything to get through.

-It seems to contain a little of everything, a waterway, a pit, a crusher, a wide-open field, and even a section that looks like part of E1M7.

-RYO

 

04.

Spoiler

-The exhibits are not only alive, but monstrous and hostile.

-The two sections at the top have a spiderdemon and a cyberdemon, while the rest of the bestiary is in the other doors.

-IRTH

 

05.

Spoiler

-Dashes and smatherings of red and blue, but not many lines.

-No you're not hallucinating, or are you?

-NE3

 

06.

Spoiler

-While familiar to those old megawad junkies, this is clearly some soldier's recreation area.

-Not a sad song mind you, a soldier's recreation area.

-PDOW

 

07.

Spoiler

-A "secret" level of sorts, don't be a lost soul trying to work your way around it.

-This level's secret exit is in the flame. Are you a bad enough dude to make it across max damaging lava or do you need a radsuit?

-DINS

 

08.

Spoiler

-Very detailed, but the astute can observe some familiar layout pieces.

-It's actually NOT designed by Tormentor667, even though it feels like it could be.

-KNEE

 

09.

Spoiler

-Deus Vult took some heavy inspiration from this.

-Some consider it the first slaughter map.

-ARES

 

10.

Spoiler

-Howdy partner, just thought I'd come in with my good ol' six shooter and have a nice ol' time in this ol' town.

-The name of the town is based off of a town in Texas.

-STFU

 

11.

Spoiler

-Cave and temple systems, nicely atmospheric due to the not so pollutant "Pollutants" in the background.

-Made by a Japanese author

-MIND

 

12.

Spoiler

-Several pieces of geometry on the west side of the map really do resemble some parts of Scythe MAP30.

-Damn those bridges on the right side take FOREVER to rise up! I wanna get a good time!

-RKC

 

13.

Spoiler

-Numbers, cracks, and a widely-revered author for this map.

-The author decided to make this as a warm-up while doing design for another game.

-PHOB

 

14.

Spoiler

-Beautiful star platforms and a cyan scape with warped areas, even the bookshelves!

-All three of this level's secrets are the keycards. I wonder what they are for?

-LAB

 

15.

Spoiler

-Don't mind me, just going on the streets with my viking equipment exploring an area populated by former human-like things.

-For some reason I spent a lot of time in that hedge maze area to the north. A secret was there, but I kept thinking that I was going to run into a dog friend again like the last level.

-GNUS

 

16.

Spoiler

-The title of this wad is an odd combination of three different words

-One of the top 100 WADs of all time.

-FISH

 

17.

Spoiler

-A HUGE field of grass and stone, lots of pillar hopping but lots of fun exploration to be had and not too many enemies to deal with.

-Yes those structures at the edges, you can reach them.

-RAV

 

18.

Spoiler

-Partially invisible hell knights? In an Ultimate Doom set?

-It is at least the last level, on the edge of something.

-TORM

 

19.

Spoiler

-Mind those damn turrets, especially at the north end.

-Secret map

-GAME

 

20.

Spoiler

-The north wall has too many cyberdemons to kill, and the exit area also has cyberdemons while you're in an enclosed space.

-The east caves, where you start, are just "crackling".

-ALM

 

21.

Spoiler

-Depending on your skill, you'll be racing through hordes of former humans, demons, and imps, or barons, spiderdemons, or cyberdemons.

-Although it looks like a racetrack, take your time, especially with the hordes.

-666

 

22.

Spoiler

-Some might find this "corridor of death" quite familiar...

-Surely slaughterfest junkies would probably enjoy this one, along with a piano rendition of the original game's music.

-TAR

 

23.

Spoiler

-It's not quite Hogwarts, but there seems to be something about this town that has some wizardry to it. Better bring a staff and crossbow just in case.

-This was taken and put into some treasure chest later on.

-ITCH

 

24.

Spoiler

-An extremely large exploratory level, with flowing currents going clockwise. You're liable to take more than two hours exploring just about everything here.

-Big, ZDoomy, and earthly, but surprisingly NOT the level with the most secrets in the wad.

-NKO

 

25.

Spoiler

-A map that was preserved in a compilation megawad, although the original file is said to have disappeared from the internet.

-Look out for all the cyberdemons on the west side of the map behind the cages. RUN!!!

-ES2

 

Let's see how well you can do!

Edited February 5, 2022 by NuMetalManiak
***SEE LAST POST FOR ANSWERS***

[vdgg]

no hints

Spoiler

1.Evilution MAP15

2.Marswar/marsw301 MAP31,NL initials is a big hint itself

hints

Spoiler

13 e1m4b

18 Death Tormention 3 E4M8, cool map, even if very dark

 

[NaZa]

No hints:

Spoiler

1. TNT, MAP15
2. I wouldn't know otherwise but I've played Marswar very recently so I know that's Marswar MAP31.
3. -
4. -
5. -
6. -
7. -
8. -
9. SQUARES.WAD
10. -
11. -
12. -
13. John Romero's Phobos Mission Control
14. -
15. -
16. -
17. -
18. -
19. Mapgame E1M9: Slipgates
20. -
21. -
22. -
23. -
24. -
25. -

 

With hints:

Spoiler

1. TNT, MAP15
2. I wouldn't know otherwise but I've played Marswar very recently so I know that's Marswar MAP31.
3. -
4. -
5. -
6. -
7. -
8. -
9. SQUARES.WAD
10. -
11. -
12. -
13. John Romero's Phobos Mission Control
14. -
15. -
16. -
17. -
18. -
19. Mapgame E1M9: Slipgates
20. -
21. -
22. -
23. Curses, it's a Heretic map that's NOT from Heretic...
24. Don't know, judging by the hint I'll go on a limb and say Legacy of Heroes MAP08? I don't know what level is that long...
25. -

 

Lmao

[RHhe82]

Here be my guesses:

 

Spoiler

1. Didn’t understand the hint, but this looks like TNT Evilution’s MAP15, Dead Zone. Was that the name? TNT MAP15 anyway.

 

Perhaps I’d do well the try my hands on the first editions of this quiz to see more easy iwad-stuff and well-known pwads I have played :( Then again, I rarely study automaps outside of spotting potential missed secrets.

[Doomlover77]

Spoiler

5. Zone3.wad for Doom ?
9. It’s 1squares.wad by Costa Lappas from 1994 for Doom2. 
10 I’m sure it’s from Fistful of Doom

Unsure if it’s map 1 or 2. Excellent map though. 
21. sector666 for Doom2 ?

 

Edited January 30, 2022 by Doomlover77

[gaspe]

Spoiler

5. Zone 300 MAP25, wouldn't have guessed without the hint

7. NEIS E3M5

 

[Cammy]

Spoiler

#3: Geryon from the Master levels

#14: Lullaby

#20: MAP29 from Realm of Chaos! I spent a long time tweaking that map for the remaster project - I'd recognize those caverns anywhere!

 

[SiFi270]

Without hints:

Spoiler

1. TNT Evilution Map15: Dead Zone

3. Inferno part 6/Master Levels Map17/replaces Map08 on its own: Geryon

10. Fistful of Doom Map01

With hints:

Spoiler

4. Rebirth Map32

9. Squares (pretty embarrassing to need a hint, but to be fair there's quite a selection of Dead Simple clones to throw me off)

15. REKKR E2M6

23. Kaiser 21/Heretic Treasure Chest E1M4: Town of Witchcraft. Looking at both maps on the wiki, it seems to be the standalone version here.

25. Heroes 2 Map01 (since it was designed by the person who compiled the whole megawad, this may actually have been its only release)

 

[galileo31dos01]

Spoiler

01. TNT Evilution, MAP15

02. oh no

03. some master level... Geryon

04. The Rebirth MAP32

05. ?

06. eh? the Requiem version I suppose, MAP09

07. No End In Sight, this is when it gets tricky because of secret exits and map order fuckery, umm... E3M5

08. waiting for next hint

09. o_o

10. I guess it's this wad with sheriffs and stuff that I'm thinking of but have no idea how to describe...

11. mm

12. Dark Covenant, MAP07 ... I really did thought the same about scythe when I played this

13. yikes

14. Lullaby? i don't know gzdoomies :l

15. something from REKKR methinks

16. ...

17. no idea

18. no idea 2

19. pretty sure that's Mapgame, as to the map... E1M9

20. so basically Realms of Chaos, MAP29

21. no idea 3

22. no idea: no wad home

23. asdfasdf

24. :(

25. definitely no

 

[RjY]

Welcome back!

Sight:

 

Spoiler

01 TNT map15, Dead Zone
02 Wolfenstein-- no wait
09 1squares.wad, famously the base of Deus Vult. ... Edit: nice, I predicted the clue.
25 Heroes 2 map01. Luckily, I replayed this after map18 -- aka njdoom e3m7 -- was in edition 6.

 

Clues:

 

Spoiler

05 Likely from one of: 100lines, Zone300, or Zone400. But which.
06 This is a Worch, isn't it. Not MM2, must be Requiem. There it is, map09.
08 Now you mention it I can see Doom E1M2 under there. Some Doom1 remastered project then.
10 What's the name of that Western-themed wad. A Fistful of Doom?
14 Some post-2013 neon void with a replaced PLAYPAL, I lost track of them all :).
15 Vikings? from Rekkr?
17 Grass and stone: Gravity, by Eternal. I think the second map.
18 Invisible hellknights: Death Tormention 3. The last map. "Darkness, darkness, darkness!!"
19 Turrets: Mapgame. E1M9.

 

Clues 2:

 

Spoiler

05 ZoNE300.
08 KNEE Deep in ZDoom?
16 Their SelFISH Realms?
20 ReALM of Chaos?
22 Dark TARtarus?

 

Edited January 29, 2022 by RjY

[Shepardus]

Without hints:

Spoiler

9. 1SQUARES.WAD

14. Lullaby

With hints:

Spoiler

10. A Fistful of Doom MAP01

 

[SiFi270]

Only figured these out thanks to other people's guesses, mainly RjY

 

Spoiler

7. TTP Map06. Not the Requiem version.

98. KDiZD Z1M2

 

edit: oh no. as they might say in the touhou fandom, I'm such a ⑨

 

Edited January 25, 2022 by SiFi270

[FrancisT218]

Only doing ones I believe are fresh guesses at this point. (Not already guessed correctly)

 

 

8. KDIZD Z1M2 (think just a @SiFi270 misnumber there tho so not really legit new)
21. Formula 666 from 3x3 Take Two (Map28)
 

 

GWS @NuMetalManiak !

Edited January 25, 2022 by FrancisT218

[NuMetalManiak]

I've actually been well for a while. Only things I have now are a broken right hand and a lingering chest pain but I've taken plenty of medication so I should be good. New hints by the way, including letter hints (bold is wad name, bold and italics mean level name in multi-level wad).

[SiFi270]

Spoiler

11. Japanese Community Project Map19

16. Helpyourselfish (which, judging by the results I got on Youtube when I looked for a playthrough, is named after a song)

 

[galileo31dos01]

Spoiler

02. eh, Marswar? lemme check real quick.... oh my yes, MAP31, I knew it looked familiar, but wolf inspired maps aren't my cup of coffee anyways

05. I'm gonna guess 3 Heures d'Agoni... wait there's an "i" in the way, nvm

08. Knee... Deep in ZDoom? it better be

09. Squares

10. Shut the fuck up nope, not coming WAIT, Fistful of Doom, that fucker!

11. ah, yea, JPCP MAP19

13. there's so many titled Phobos, Phobos Anomaly Reborn is my choice, because Lutz is "widely-revered"

14. Lullaby definitely

15. well, obviously REKKR, and some map after a secret map, gonna say E2M6 

16. mmm yea, nothing (actually I cheated, that means I gotta take a look at the map myself soon)

17. no

18. TORMented with that one

21. k

22. Dark Tartarus, that's all I'm giving

23. ?

24. 

25. some wad called Heroes 2 I suppose

 

Get well soon btw

[NiGHTS108]

I know 22! Can't believe that knowledge of **** Tar***** would be useful one day

 

[FrancisT218]

24. Junko is the wad (but I don't know which map)

[Pechudin]

I'll give it a go.

 

Spoiler

1: TNT MAP15

2: MARSWAR MAP32, or MAP31 not sure

4: Rebirth, MAP32 I think (Zoo is its name I think)

10: Fistful of DooM, MAP01?

13: Phobos reborn or something, that Romero's recreation of E1M7 I think

 

Uh, not very well.

[NaZa]

Spoiler

1. TNT, MAP15
2. I wouldn't know otherwise but I've played Marswar very recently so I know that's Marswar MAP31.
3. -
4. Rebirth? No idea about the map.
5. -
6. Trooper's Playground? No idea about the map.
7. -
8. Knee Deep in ZDoom Z1M2
9. 1SQUARES.WAD*
10. Fistful of Doom MAP01? 
11. RKC made me think Dark Covenant, but it's a really farfetched guess.
12. -
13. John Romero's Phobos Mission Control
14. -
15. Magnus from Stardate 20x6?
16. -
17. -
18. -
19. Mapgame E1M9: Slipgates
20. -
21. Yeah it reminded me of Albert Park Circuit but no idea still...
22. -
23. Heretic Treasure Chest?
24. It ain't
25. -

 

Consulting the WIKI for more accurate guesses on the ones where I had guessed only the title, not sure if allowed, but if yes, those are my definitive guesses:

1. TNT, MAP15
2. Marswar MAP31.
3. -
4. Rebirth MAP32
5. -
6. The Troopers' Playground MAP06
7. -
8. Knee Deep in ZDoom Z1M2
9. 1SQUARES.WAD
10. Fistful of Doom MAP01?
11. IT IS DARK COVENANT??? MAP07
12. -
13. John Romero's Phobos Mission Control
14. -
15. It ain't
16. -
17. -
18. -
19. Mapgame E1M9: Slipgates
20. -
21. Yeah it reminded me of Albert Park Circuit but no idea still...
22. -
23. Heretic Treasure Chest E1M4
24. It ain't
25. -

[ReaperAA]

Proud to say that I only guessed two

Spoiler

1. TNT Evilution Map15

14. Looks like Lullaby, due to the start based sectors and based on the description.

 

Actually not proud at all. They are so hard for me :'(

Edited January 30, 2022 by ReaperAA

[NuMetalManiak]

It's the 5th in some places in the world already and I have stuff to do this weekend so let's get some answers done.

1. MAP15 Dead Zone from TNT: Evilution (vdgg, Naza, Rhhe82, SiFi, galileo, RjY, Pechudin, ReaperAA)

2. MAP31 Wolf 3D from Mars War (vdgg, Naza, galileo, Pechudin)
3. MAP08 Geryon from Master Levels (Cammy, SiFi, galileo)

4. MAP32 Zoo from The Rebirth (SiFi, galileo, Pechudin, Naza wad guess)

5. MAP25 Hellucination from Zone 300 (gaspe, DoomLover77 and RjY wad guesses)

6. MAP06 Deep Down Below from The Trooper's Playground (SiFi, Naza, it's not the Requiem version btw)

7. E3M5 Forgotten Caverns from No End in Sight (gaspe, galileo)

8. Z1M2 Nuclear Plant from Knee Deep in ZDoom (RjY, SiFi, FrancisT218, Naza, galileo wad guess)

9. SQUARES by Costa Lappas (Naza, DoomLover77, SiFi, RjY, Shepardus, galileo)

10. MAP01 El Passo from A Fistful of Doom (DoomLover77, SiFi, Shepardus, galileo, Pechudin, Naza, RjY)

11. MAP19 Remind from Japanese Community Project (SiFi, galileo)

12. MAP07 The Flooded Base from Dark Covenant (galileo, Naza)

13. E1M4b Phobos Mission Control (vdgg, Naza)

14. Lullaby (Cammy, galileo, Shepardus, ReaperAA)

15. E2M6 Magnus Avenue from REKKR (SiFI, galileo, RjY wad guess)

16. Helpyourselfish (SiFi)

17. MAP02 Gravitown from Gravity (RjY)

18. E4M8 Emancipation of Mimi from Death Tormention 3 (vdgg, RjY)

19. E1M9 Slipgates from Mapgame (Naza, galileo, RjY)

20. MAP29 The Fountain from Realm of Chaos (Cammy, galileo, RjY wad guess)

21. MAP28 Formula 666 from 3x3: Take Two (FrancisT218)

22. TAT26 Corridor of Doom from Dark Tartarus (RjY and galileo wad guess)

23. Town of Witchcraft (will accept E1M4 of Heretic Treasure Chest too, why not) (SiFi, Naza)

24. MAP05 Planet from Junko (FrancisT218 wad guess)

25. MAP01 evildog2.wad from Heroes 2 (SiFi, RjY, galileo)

 

And with that, 13th edition of Guess the Wad has concluded! We had at least one guess for each, with some wad guesses a few times, but this was quite a fun one. When will the next edition be? Who knows... Till next time!

[pcorf]

 

Yes, lovely stuff here!

Edited February 5, 2022 by pcorf

[galileo31dos01]

Heh, I'm embarrased about the TTP and e1m4b ones, should have squeezed my head a little more...

 

I'll see if I can get the next edition ready within this week!