E2M8: Hellgate (Doom: Damnation)

E2M8: Hellgate is the eighth and final map in the second episode of Doom: Damnation. It was designed by Ofisil and uses the music track "Conquerors". The par time defined in the DEHACKED lump is 3:00.

Essentials
As the level starts you will see a water pool with eight platforms, holding a total of twelve barons of Hell along with a shotgun, a chaingun, a chainsaw, a rocket launcher, a backpack, a berserk pack, a supercharge and a megaarmor. Press the satyr switches on the marble columns to lower the platforms and collect the items, then press the unlit gargoyle switch in the middle of the pool to lower a platform with an invulnerability.

Pressing the gargoyle switch will also lower the outer walls of the arena, revealing cyberdemons to the north - one on easy skill levels, two on medium, or three on hard; a large number of lost souls, imps, demons and barons will also start teleporting in, so stay on the move. Once all the cyberdemons are killed, the level will end automatically.

Secrets
There are no official secrets on this map.

Speedrunning
As this level does not contain official secrets, the NM 100S category is redundant.

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 December 21, 2021.

Player spawns
This level contains eight spawn points:
 * 1) facing north-west. (thing 1)
 * 2) facing north-east. (thing 160)
 * 3) facing north-east. (thing 161)
 * 4) facing north-west. (thing 162)
 * 5) facing south-east. (thing 163)
 * 6) facing south-west. (thing 164)
 * 7) facing south-east. (thing 165)
 * 8) facing south-west. (thing 166)

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