The DWIronman League dies to: Perdition's Gate

[dew]

Memfis said:

I just suggested the simpliest and the least painful solution. If you get stuck due to a mapping error, rewind 30 seconds back and avoid it. Noone benefits from you quitting the game when you become trapped: you feel bad about losing even though you did nothing wrong, the organiser feels bad about picking a buggy wad. But let's all ruin the fun for ourselves because of dogmatic rules.

A cheat by any other name would smell as sweet. This is literally the same reasoning people apply to "let themselves" rerecord in speedruns and forget to mention it. How the hell do you even start softening Iron Man/Hardcore rules? It's like removing the core principle of the event and there's probably a billion ways of abusing it past "giving people another chance".

[Zulk RS]

Here's my complete run split into three videos. I must say, I had a good run. If only I were just a bit more careful...

Spoiler

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

[ZeroMaster010]

Died on map 27, I think I could have beaten bloodite's time (would have been close), but what a random way to die.

I died in the megasphere secret room, there were some hellknights there that I figured I could ignore for a short while. Then I walked into a corner where I was actually completely stuck between the hellknight and the hanging corpse thing. I was so certain I would be able to run straight forward, but with 96/76 health/bluearmor they killed me in 3 hits. A bit unlucky, with a SSG blast to the HK I could have gotten out and grabbed the mega, but instead it was 172+ damage from 2 melee hits + fireball.

I've played this wad once about a year ago, and I've watched 4shockblast play it. Also checked where the second secret exit was, I probably would have missed it if I didn't. Maps 16 and 22 were really close for me, should have died there.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gavbqqxlu3rw7rf/perdgate-zm-ironman.lmp?dl=0

[ClumsyCryptid]

Tag teamed by an Imp and an Arachnotron on map 09.

Submission is being uploaded as we speak.

This post will be edited later with proof.

Edit: Proof

Edit 2: Didn't do the youtube code right.

[Jimmy]

Pencil me in for a streamthrough of this on the 21st at maybe 8PM EDT.

EDIT: Countdown: http://itsalmo.st/#timeforjimmytomeetperdition

[Rathori]

"Pfft, this map is easy, I can't die here", thought I on Map 09.

Demo or YouTube:

Ignore all the shitty aiming on map 01, I had just come in from the cold when I started recording.

[an_mutt]

I'll be streaming a playthrough of this today at 8PM, or in about 6 hours.

[purist]

DEAD. And dead last on the leader-board with a lowly MAP02 death in the chaingunner black out trap...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/88l2q7e44e3zzyk/pg.lmp?dl=0

[FearTheReaper]

Oh, so links to that reviews site are not illegal now? I remember someone losered and banned just for mentioning name of it.

[joe-ilya]

Do I have another chance? I'm not listed as someone who lost yet.

[WH-Wilou84]

Yay, made it !
Demo : here
Play time : ~2h15

I almost thought I was done for on map 30 with the two Cybers and that pesky AV on the stairs, and there were a few close calls on some maps, but overall the wad's on the easy side. It's pretty solid for its time, and I didn't know much about it before this month.

I did watch some of you guys' streams and 4shock's UV Max demos on maps 15 and 31, just to make sure that I could find the secret exits.

Congratulations once again, Krypto.

[SleepyVelvet]

DNF (MAP07) - trapped behind a yellow door that apparently opens only once

prboom-plus.exe -file .\PG-RAW.WAD -skill 4 -record noisy.PG-RAW.lmp

comp-settings might be illegal too, i dunno

edit: door of despair.

edit: player's context - i played the first 3 maps about a year ago, the rest is blind; didn't even realize two other people got claimed by the evil door. Also, my vote is to treat gamestopping bugs as #PartOfTheGame, or put an asterisk on people who do do-overs, if they are allowed.

[Suitepee]

https://www.twitch.tv/johnsuitepee/v/102103348 = my livestreamed run, dying on map 10.

Two-shotting Cyberdemons in a small pain sectored space can be difficult....

My previous playthrough of PG (in January 2015) helped me out a little bit, but the one time I need a 2-shot to come out first time I messed up somehow. I had no choice but to take the fight though after I found map 10's BFG secret and where its teleport placed me (right next to the Cyber in the pain sector).

Oh well, I beat an_mutt to take our score to 3-2 in my favour. Roll on December!

[rehelekretep]

NoisyVelvet said:

DNF (MAP07) - trapped behind a yellow door that apparently opens only once

prboom-plus.exe -file .\PG-RAW.WAD -skill 4 -record noisy.PG-RAW.lmp

comp-settings might be illegal too, i dunno

edit: door of despair.

edit: player's context - i played the first 3 maps about a year ago, the rest is blind; didn't even realize two other people got claimed by the evil door. Also, my vote is to treat gamestopping bugs as #PartOfTheGame, or put an asterisk on people who do do-overs, if they are allowed.

you havent specified the complevel ( -complevel 2 in this case), and i normally specify the base iwad with -iwad doom2.wad (e.g.) before the -file command.

[Jimmy]

https://www.twitch.tv/jimmybtsx

time to die

EDIT:

ded on MAP10. Thanks, Steve.

[SleepyVelvet]

Jimmy said:

ded on MAP10. Thanks, Steve.

my guess: it could have been a barrel that got nudged onto the teleporter, a barrel from the BFG room. you, perhaps, telefragged the barrel on entry to the Steve-room. I'd still give the kill to Steve, because i wanna see how many people die there by the end of the month.

[4shockblast]

NoisyVelvet said:

my guess: it could have been a barrel that got nudged onto the teleporter, a barrel from the BFG room. you, perhaps, telefragged the barrel on entry to the Steve-room. I'd still give the kill to Steve, because i wanna see how many people die there by the end of the month.

Yeah, that's what it looked like. I've definitely experienced that on map 10.

[Alfonzo]

OP updated. Steve is raking in the kills, and MAP07's YK door is not far behind. Who will step up to the plate on the 11th hour to overthrow Bloodite? And where the hell is Dime??

@Suitepee: Funny way to go, but I wonder why you didn't make for either the door or the teleporter while you were melting away in the pit. Maybe you just wanted to play the one-two punch with Steve, for show? That's the Ironman spirit!

[joe-ilya]

Again, do I have another chance to survive the megawad? I'm not listed at the OP's scoreboard.

[Jimmy]

https://www.twitch.tv/jimmybtsx/v/103453913

Reuploaded my run to Twitch, this is actually viewable with any luck.

Gameplay starts at 5:00
Heart attack occurs (during MAP01!!!) at 6:10
Official death at 1:12:45

[Jaws In Space]

Well I was hoping to do pretty good on this one, but map 4 wasn't having any of that apparently.

https://www.twitch.tv/jaws_in_space/v/103510193

[Scotty]

Meh


https://www.dropbox.com/s/yzcjxkrybilqqyg/ScottyPG.lmp?dl=1

[CapnClever]

Died to map20 start. By killing everything in view before leaving the starting room, I doomed myself to a revenant surround. Was playing reeeeally slow either way.

[Alfonzo]

joe-ilya said:

Again, do I have another chance to survive the megawad? I'm not listed at the OP's scoreboard.

The concensus seems to be with the existing setup and the reasoning is sound, I think, so I'll not offer second runs until the topic is revisited and there's an about face on the issue. If I were going to change it up, though, it'd be with the beginning of another challenge, not partway through the month!

You didn't post a first run to begin with, just quietly. I have rooted around for runs that the player made but didn't post on occasion (Saint_Guy survived the set but I somehow missed it - there's no vid to retrieve from his channel), but I'd rather not make a habit of picking up the slack.

[TMD]

Thank you for your pity : )

Here is a thing.
https://www.twitch.tv/qq_nezbit/v/104439871

[Suitepee]

So any sniff of what December's Ironman will be?

[DeletedUser]

WH-Wilou84 said:

Congratulations once again, Krypto.

Merci mon ami and congrats for taking 2nd place! ;D

Clearly 4shockblast would have taken this hands down, no competition but got very unlucky with his sensational pace. By contrast I'm certain Zeromaster would have beaten my time, considering his improved pace when assaulting MAP27 but was screwed over by nonsensical level design. Better luck next time chaps :D