MAP02: The Terraformer (Doom 64)

MAP02: The Terraformer is the second level of Doom 64. The level itself appears to be quite large and has an eerie music track to go with it. Most of this level is set in dark areas around the same tech base. The level introduces spectres. The reason the level is called "terraformer" is because you need to activate a large machine which crushes the ground and provides a secret part of the base for and obviously finding the exit to the level.

Walkthrough
Killing the first trooper in front of you will alert more near the starting area. Several imps to your left give a hint where to return later with a yellow key.

After cleaning the starting area, enter a smaller door in the right niche. The following room is pitch black, with the exception of red symbols on the floor. Interpreting the triangles as arrow heads and diamonds as junctions, they lead your way into the darkness. The way to the right is locked. Careful to the left: A lift takes you down to a cell block where several demons get released after you passed the hallway. But there are several boxes of bullets for a chaingun and medikits.

Returning to the darkroom, there is now a circular way in a sector with a hint of blue. One of the triangles on the floor points to a switch on a pillar in the center, which lowers and releases a blue armor, just in time before several soldiers and imps enter. A yellow platform provides a Light amplification visor. To the left of this part you can already see the Terraformer machine and a red door, boxes of bullets and stimpacks, and a soulsphere behind a partially broken fence.

The previously locked door is now open and leads into a yellow room with a box in the middle, where a Computer area map is placed on top, next to several goodies like a backpack. The box can be lowered with a switch. The door will close and requires now a blue key to be opened. In each corner of the room you will see a box where that key gets teleported from one to another, finally staying on one with a few health boni on the floor.

Four niches will open, each with two computer screen sockets and a switch in the back wall. Three of them have boni, but they are death traps with crushing ceilings if their switches are pressed. The third without any bonus lowers the box with the blue key. Grabbing it makes some imps appear.

Now you can leave the yellow room and follow the path through the blue door. The following omega-shaped floor contains a few imps and leads around a basement area with crushing ceilings. You can avoid them by trying to halt on yellow lighted floor patches and get the red key; return to the blue floor with the teleporter. The following floor contains imps in a bright lighted niche to the right, but also four rockets. Use them on the spectres in the following hallway with rotating yellow spots in the ceiling. Near the end of this floor, there is a computer screen in the wall to the right; touch it to lower a secret area with some ammo and stimpacks. Now you can get the soulsphere and return to the Terraformer control room.

Open the red door, get surprised by Nightmare imps, activate the Terraformer machine (which closes the control room), watch it working its way down into the floor, and leave the room when it finished (and unlocked the red door). Jump down the hole and find a cell block with imps and caged soldiers. The last cage with a broken fence contains a switch that opens a wall with a floor containing an escalator leading upwards to a guarded storage area.

Straight in front of you is a yellow lighted control room with imps. To the left you will see two half winding stairs to a storage room with crates. Hugging the right wall leads you to a switch that lowers a teleporter to the control room. Pressing the switch inside here lowers the yellow key, but also opens a secret area to the left of the previous switch with a few boxes of rockets.

Now back to the starting area through the broken fence and the darkroom, through the yellow door, and you can exit the level.