E4M8: Airborne Abomination (The Joy of Mapping 5)

E4M8: Airborne Abomination is the eighth map in episode As Heavens Fall of The Joy of Mapping 5: Winter Weekend. It was designed by ArtificialDemon and uses the music track "". The par time defined in MAPINFO is 9:00.

Secrets

 * 1) Flip the switch just east of the start while standing slightly to the right to ride a platform up. Head west and drop south behind the crate to get rockets. (sector 2)
 * 2) See Secret #1. This secret and Secret #3 are inaccessible due to being right up next to the west wall. (sector 1684)
 * 3) See Secret #1. (sector 1695)
 * 4) Open the door south of the blue door and head west to another door. Go to the small crate and open the south wall to get a backpack and energy cells. (sector 795)
 * 5) In the blue key room, head to the southeast and open the north wall to find a switch. This lowers the big crate with the megaarmor. (sector 148)
 * 6) Go to the red switch at the southwest end and flip the backside switch. Run back to the east side here and go west to get a soul sphere. (sector 442)

Bugs
An energy cell (Thing 854), a medikit (855), three armor bonuses (856 through 858), and three health bonuses (859 through 861) have no flags set for any of the three difficulty classes, so they do not actually appear in the level.

Current records
The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:

The (absence of) data was last verified in its entirety on February 26, 2023.

Player spawns
This level contains six spawn points:
 * 1) facing east. (thing 106)
 * 2) facing north. (thing 108)
 * 3) facing east. (thing 228)
 * 4) facing south. (thing 229)
 * 5) facing south. (thing 230)
 * 6) facing east. (thing 231)

Things
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level: