E2M3: Rec Facility (Doom the Way id Did)

E2M3: Rec Facility is the third map of The Shores of Hell in Doom the Way id Did. It was designed by Captain Toenail in the style of Tom Hall and Sandy Petersen.

Essentials
Emerge from your starting point to find a shotgun and large room with a number of places to go. There is a blur artifact in the water if you want. A secret is to the west. The two northern rooms to the west and east have a few supplies in them. There are two paths to the west and one to the east. To get a chaingun, take the east path and then climb up the stairs to the south. You will end up in the room overlooking the big room. The chaingun is on the computer. You can jump out of here if you want. If you also want secrets, you can go to the door in the south and open it. In here, explore and press switches, and if you look hard enough, you may find not only a computer area map, but two more secrets. To get the rocket launcher, take the north path on the west side, ignoring the blue door and going through some small tech vents. You can find a chainsaw in one of the side rooms here. Otherwise head straight and the rocket launcher is behind the column on the platform. Do not drop down before you grab it. In this room, you can get a secret by hitting a switch in the cacodemon's room.

Take the right path to the door on the far end near the nukage. Go through here and take the left path to a room with various monsters including a baron of hell. Behind the northern structure is the blue key. If you flip the switch on the western column, you will open a secret with a berserk pack. Grabbing this item opens a door behind you as well as a bar blocking the other path off. In this room are two teleporters leading to two different secrets. Leave this area and head for the blue door which is in the north path on the west side. This room has several columns, so go to the northernmost one and on its northern side is a switch. This lowers several columns in the room revealing monsters and the red keycard. Grab it and head for the exit. If you want to know, then take the south path on the western side and go to the door but turn left. The red hallway has the red door to the exit switch. Alternatively, if you came from the room with the rocket launcher, head out the door and go south down the hallway. Go through this door and go right and you should see the red exit hallway to the exit.

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.

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Map data
* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 853.