MAP30: Darkness Without End (Speed of Doom)

MAP30: Darkness Without End is the thirtieth map of Speed of Doom. It was designed by Darkwave0000 and uses "Baron's Province", an original track by James Paddock. The par time is unknown.

Essentials
After descending the river of lava at the beginning, which gives an opportunity to collect most of the weapons in the game as well as a megasphere, entering the teleporter at the end will bring the player into a small metal box with a face switch which must be shot in order to activate and escape. Upon firing a weapon, the player will hear that an innumerable amount of monsters have awakened, and will rise up near a tall tower flanked by red brick ramparts, which is the only discernable structure in the middle of a vast expanse of black void.

There are already over 4000 monsters on the level at spawn, including as many as fourteen cyberdemons. A large number of boss spawners within the tower are sending out spawn cubes at a prodigious rate, adding thousands more within minutes.

The only strategy available is to survive until the central tower lowers, a process which takes a little less than three and a half minutes. Numerous megaspheres, an invulnerability sphere, and an enormous amount of ammo are placed between the tower and its ramparts. In order to not be immediately overwhelmed, particularly by the incredible number of Barons and Hell Knights which await just outside the boundary of the void, it is necessary to start making excursions out of the central structure to kill as many monsters using the BFG9000 as possible, and then retreat for powerups and more ammo when necessary.

After the arena has been survived for the required amount of time, the central tower will fully descend, revealing a Romero's head, the destruction of which is the only means to exit.

The ending text afterward implies that the Doomguy dies anyway, however, sacrificing himself in order to hopefully destroy Hell forever. The ending expresses an attitude of cynicism toward the idea that this is really the end, however.

Secrets
None.

Current records
The records for this map at the Doomed Speed Demos Archive are:

Last updated on June 19, 2013.

Multiplayer records
Last updated on June 19, 2013.

Miscellaneous demos
Last updated on June 19, 2013.

Final time of 03:03

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