/vr/ - Retro Games

collider (300min-amok.wad)

this map is competently made: good layout, architecture, detail, and so on. it is quite a challenge, probably harder than the average plutonia map - but sadly in ways that are annoying, making the player wonder why he is bothering, rather than compelling him to rise to the challenge and do better.

the first part of the map up to the ssg switch, you have 5 or 6 stimpaks, in a wide open area with lots of hitscanners, plus much of the floor is damaging and you are often required to cross it. i really think this first part of the map needs a radsuit somewhere. perhaps replace the otherwise rather useless 20-health-potion secret with a radsuit.

returning to the start (via yet another unprotected run through lava) and through the now opened rear barrier (with sergeant ambush) and dancing around on a ledge while some revenants/mancubi/arachnotrons kill each other, i spot the bfg but find it is inaccessible, as the floor beneath me sinks into yet another lava pit. at least here a radsuit is provided and a soulsphere is given when you find the way out. somehow the radsuit doesn't last quite long enough to kill all the monsters in the pit. finally we can press a switch to raise a bridge to the land opposite the start, and another barrier which looks final.

by now of course you will have noticed this far platform has a cyberdemon. it's most likely killed you with stray rockets several times already. finally up close, it can be dealt with. however it does help you by killing off most of the other ranged threads over there.

the final part of the map shows you the exit then blocks it off, having you running around more lava while another group of large monsters attack each other. by now you may have a blue armour and plenty of ammo, and two radsuits are provided, so you can play more freely. a second BFG and an unvulnerability appear, but good luck running up a pillar sequence past the guard revenants while surrounded by spiders.