/vr/ - Retro Games

What would you say is your greatest Doom achievement?

For me, it would probably be completing Deus Vult II MAP23 from a pistol start on UV -fast (90% kills, and without the shortcut secret exit)

I just beat Plutonia for the first time on UV -fast, including the secret levels, with only one savegame per level (always at the start.) A few musings:

1. Shotgunners and chaingunners are hyperfast death turrets. They almost turn Doom into a cover-based FPS at times.
2. If you get cornered by three or more demons/spectres, and you don't have a plasma rifle or BFG... bye.
3. Lost souls attack constantly, and even just one of them can quickly kill you if you're not ready. Pain elementals shoot them at lightning speed, using them as shields to render them invulnerable, unless you get up close or use the BFG.
4. Some enemies actually get easier. Arch-viles stand still instead of running around resurrecting monsters, and cyberdemons are much more predictable.
5. The relative difficulty of levels isn't what you'd expect. One of the hardest levels was MAP25 because of all the traps and hitscanners, whereas one of the easiest levels was MAP32 because there was plenty of health/ammo and mostly just projectile monsters (which don't become much harder.)