MAP15: Twilight of Enk's (Hacx)

MAP15: Twilight of Enk's (or Twilight of Enks on the intermission screen) is the fifteenth map of Hacx. It was designed by Jeremy Statz.

Essentials
You start in a zig-zag corridor - as soon as the level starts, shoot the electron through the window to your left to disarm a trap. Follow the corridor all the way north to a tazer and collect it, then head back the way you came to find that two compartments have opened revealing a keypad and a D-man. Press the keypad then run back to where you found the tazer to see that the surrounding windows have lowered, then enter the dark tunnel behind the east window to teleport to a new area. Head outside and slay any waiting enemies, including phages and terminatrixes on "Let's rip them apart!" (LRTA) skill level or higher, then open either of the doors on the east side and follow a passage round to some steps, which you can take up to a ledge that leads to the blue Z-key. Taking the key will lower the south wall in this area, letting you enter a room with a bridge over water - cross the bridge and open the locked door at the other end to enter a chamber with a photon 'zooka.

Step through the window to get back to the zig-zag corridor, press the keypad again then run back to the north end of the corridor and enter the west tunnel this time; you will teleport to a room that holds ICEs on LRTA or higher. Enter the east hallway to find a laser sensor in front of a button, step through the sensor to dim the lights and open two compartments behind you (which hold ICEs and D-men on LRTA or higher), then press the button to lower a pillar behind you holding an electron and the yellow Z-key. Stepping on the pillar will lower a wall near the button, revealing a teleporter that leads back to the dark alcove near the starting point - if you did not destroy the electron inside that alcove earlier, you will telefrag it and take potentially lethal explosive damage. Before leaving the alcove, step backwards to get some light amplifier goggles.

Return to the keypad and press it again, then run back to the north end of the corridor and enter the north tunnel this time; you will find yourself at the foot of a pyramid defended by monstructs, as well as mechamaniacs on LRTA or higher. Go round to a notch on the west side of the pyramid and press the low blocks here to lower them like lifts, go up to the third tier of the pyramid then walk north and east around it until you reach a wall. Press the wall to lower it like a lift, ride it up then run north off the end of the wall - the column ahead will open to reveal a teleporter that will send you to the south side of the pyramid. From here you can run north into an alcove with some blue bars (requiring the blue key to open), then open them to find the red Z-key.

Taking the key will allow some D-men (plus stealths and terminatrixes on "I am immortal" or higher) to teleport to the pyramid; return to ground level then go through either of the openings in the west wall to find a hallway leading to a red-floored room. Open the bars at the south end of the room (requiring the red key) and flip the switch behind them, then run through the window and step over a platform that has risen to reach another window on the opposite side. The wall ahead will open to reveal some thugs, so fight them off then go forward to a water pool with a couple of waiting phages (plus D-men on LRTA or higher) before heading south to a door requiring the yellow key to open. Kill a waiting monstruct then run through the two windows ahead to reach some steps that lead down to a doorway blocked by wooden bars. Approach the bars to open two compartments behind you holding thugs (or buzzers on LRTA or higher), then flip the switch inside the south compartment to open the bars and gain entry to the exit room.

The exit room has eight buttons in its corners, which must be pressed in the correct sequence to open and then reach the exit.
 * Press both buttons in the south-east corner, followed by the south button in the north-west corner - this will lower all the platforms by 16 units.
 * Press the east button in the north-west corner. then press the west button in the north-east corner twice, which will raise the outer platforms to the correct height.
 * Press the north button in the south-west corner twice to raise the platforms around the exit to the correct height.
 * Finally, press the east button in the south-west corner to open the doors around the exit, then quickly climb up the platforms to get to it. If the doors close before you get through them, press the last button again to re-open them.

Other points of interest
In the bridge room, drop into the water on the south side of the bridge, then follow the outer wall west to find an enk blind.

After getting the blue key, open the door on the south side of the photon 'zooka room and press the hand scanner behind it to raise a platform in the zig-zag corridor. Run across this platform to get through the window on the opposite side, then lower the lifts here to find some large ammo pickups and a valise.

Activate the northern-most pillar in the yellow key room to go up to an uzi. From here you can leap to the other pillars to get a molecule module, a case of torpedoes, a case of cartridges and a case of rounds.

A cenotrophexine is hidden under the column on the east side of the pyramid.

Secrets

 * 1) Open the wall behind the start to get a Hoig Reznator and a kevlar vest. (sector 12)
 * 2) At the pyramid at the east side of the map, enter it by using lifts at the west side of the pyramid. Inside, head north, east, and south to a stick. (sector 209)

Non-official

 * Taking the blue key lowers a wall to the south, revealing a room with a bridge over water. There is a thug at the end of the bridge - instead of killing it, alert it then go back to the entrance to the blue key area and wait for the thug to follow you to the other side of the bridge where it will teleport away. The thug will teleport to an unseen compartment west of the entrance and cross a walkover line that opens this compartment for a few moments - quickly go inside and press a skull switch, which will lower a lift on the other side of the entrance with a body armor.

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 7, 2021.

Player spawns
This level contains eight spawn points:
 * 1) facing north-east. (thing 6)
 * 2) facing south-east. (thing 7)
 * 3) facing north-west. (thing 8)
 * 4) facing south-west. (thing 70)
 * 5) facing south-east. (thing 72)
 * 6) facing south. (thing 99)
 * 7) facing south-east. (thing 100)
 * 8) facing north-east. (thing 101)

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

Trivia

 * The "normal" exit in this level actually goes to . There is a hidden switch which will take players to, but it can only be reached during deathmatch games.