What are your pet peeves in maps when speedrunning?

[Starduster]

RNG, which rules out any map ever made.

[Ludi]

Ribbed corners, like in the Sigil cyberdemon maze. It's really fucking frustrating to have to restart a run just because someone got too handsy with detailing.

 

That goes for Postal 2, my preferred speedrun game as well, although you abuse the bad collision for skips in that game.

[Bob9001]

Getting stuck on everything, goes back to the people mentioning detailing, make the detailing pass-thruable so it doesn't block the player.

[Looper]

The Blockmap bug. It fucks up the melee, the ssg and the bfg. (SG is already fucked up.)

Map full of diagonal walls in cramped spaces.

Bulletsponge fights: you hold the ssg down for 12 minutes (and 7 seconds) to kill 100 barons without any risk. It's ok when you can just alt+tab and watch youtube meanwhile the fire key is stuck down.

[Kinetic]

On 7/29/2022 at 8:16 PM, Starduster said:

RNG

To elaborate, when a mapper makes a fight, where the only viable strategy, is contingent on a random event occurring. Such as a fight where survival is contingent on a cyber shooting quickly, or a fight where you're forced to eat damage and the damage can range between not that bad to insta gib, and there's absolutely nothing you can do to avoid it. The vast majority of fights thankfully have strategies that can avert being up to RNG, often times I think if a person calls RNG on a fight, they are either running the wrong strategy or cannot execute the non RNG strategy.

[David Asaad]

lack of monster block lines

[xit-vono]

one more thing: BFG balls disappearing into the void, especially if it happens on a wall that looks solid.

[Dimon12321]

Placing chainsaws close to linedefs that reveal a secret or an area with monsters which otherwise cannot be killed. This makes players spend more time on switching to berserk, especially in long runs.