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Various rivers of lava in the cavern ('''sector 45''') and the red circle in the northwest ('''sector 38''') have [[Sector#Doom|sector effect]] 11, [[Damaging floor#Damaging floor types|a 20% damage floor]] which harms you through the [[radiation suit]], as intended by designer Eddie Nguyen<ref name=DiopatraTxt>Nguyen, Eddie. "The cavernous tunnels are also laced with flowing lava, so watch how you walk. The radiation suits don't always provide adequate protection....". DIOPATRA.TXT from {{idgames|file=levels/doom/d-f/diopatra}}. 1994-05-29. Retrieved 2017-11-12.</ref>. However, this also ends the level when your health drops under 11% (as on [[E1M8: Phobos Anomaly (Doom)|E1M8]]), meaning you can finish the level by jumping into the nearest patch of cavern lava you can find.
  
 
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Revision as of 14:53, 12 November 2017

Diopatra
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Author Eddie Nguyen
Port Vanilla Doom
IWAD Doom
Year 1994
Link Doomworld/idgames
This level occupies the map slot E2M3. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:E2M3.
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Diopatra is a single-level PWAD for Doom. It was released in 1994 by Eddie Nguyen, and is the third in a series of single-level wads, following UCA and Talpoida and preceding Sapidus.

Walkthrough

Map of Diopatra
Letters in italics refer to marked spots on the map. Sector, thing, and linedef numbers in boldface are secrets which count toward the end-of-level tally.

Essentials

Other points of interest

Secrets

  1. (sector 27)
  2. (sector 70)
  3. (sector 80)
  4. (sector 93)

Bugs

Various rivers of lava in the cavern (sector 45) and the red circle in the northwest (sector 38) have sector effect 11, a 20% damage floor which harms you through the radiation suit, as intended by designer Eddie Nguyen[1]. However, this also ends the level when your health drops under 11% (as on E1M8), meaning you can finish the level by jumping into the nearest patch of cavern lava you can find.

Demo files

Areas / screenshots

Speedrunning

Routes and tricks

Current records

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

Style Time Player Date File Notes
UV speed
NM speed
UV max
NM100S
UV -fast
UV -respawn
UV Tyson
UV pacifist

Miscellaneous demos

Style Time Player Date File Notes
.zip

Deathmatch

Statistics

Map data

Things 309
Vertices 1277*
Linedefs 1241
Sidedefs 1728
Sectors 112
* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 947.

Things

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

Technical information

Inspiration and development

Trivia

See also

Sources

  1. Nguyen, Eddie. "The cavernous tunnels are also laced with flowing lava, so watch how you walk. The radiation suits don't always provide adequate protection....". DIOPATRA.TXT from Diopatra at Doomworld/idgames. 1994-05-29. Retrieved 2017-11-12.

External links