MAP18: Hard Attack (Hell Revealed)

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This level occupies the map slot MAP18. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP18.
Close encounter with a Cybie

MAP18: Hard Attack, designed by Yonatan Donner, is the eighteenth map of Hell Revealed. It uses the music track "I Choose the Stairs" from Rise of the Triad.

Description

According to the Hell Revealed info pack:

Hunted (Plutonia Experiment level 11) was frightening, definitely. But this level can make you fear even more. Where are those laughing archviles? Where are all those enemies teleporting? What are those metallic steps? There are traps everywhere you go, and some very unique areas. See if you can chase that cyberdemon to his death, or yours? This dark base is occupied with so many enemies that you might encounter problems when trying to save the game in the first room. If that happens, just save after the first room.
Size: large
Difficulty: hard

Strategy

Automap view of MAP18: Hard Attack

Walkthrough

Secrets

  1. Upon leaving the very first room a door is triggered and stays up for some seconds down the winding corridor (in the 4th bend). Behind it is a teleporter that leads to a hidden area with stairs and quite some ammo in it: 4x Bulk cell, 4x Box of shells and 2x Shotgun shells. As you enter the area many monsters come teleporting in (and teleporting wildly around the place) but since there is a Megasphere there, too, you just have to survive and will walk out through the teleporter on top of the stairs good as new.
  2. West from the large Cyberdemon-area there is an area with some Baron of Hells on pillars and some Imps and Mancubi on ledges. Behind the northern torch of the ledge you enter from is a secret door revealing a Blur artifact.

Speedrunning

See:

Current records

The Compet-N records for the map are:

Run Time Player Date File Notes
UV speed 03:48 Chris Ratcliff (Ryback) 2003-02-23 hr18-348.zip
NM speed
UV max 22:06 Chris Ratcliff (Ryback) 2000-12-31 hr182206.zip
NM100S
UV -fast 24:18 Chris Ratcliff (Ryback) 2004-08-21 hf182418.zip
UV -respawn
UV Tyson
UV pacifist

The data was last verified in its entirety on December 29, 2013.

Miscellaneous demos

Run Time Player Date File Notes
.zip

Statistics

Map data

Things 841
Vertices 1975
Linedefs 1997
Sidedefs 3013
Sectors 336

Things

Monsters ITYTD and HNTR HMP UV and NM
Spider Masterminds 0 0 2
Sergeants 2 4 5
Cyberdemons 1 1 2
Spectres 4 10 13
Arch-Viles 18 22 24
Chaingunners 10 14 16
Revenants 49 94 146
Mancubi 8 17 26
Arachnotrons 6 8 9
Hell Knights 17 27 47
Pain Elementals 0 1 2
Imps 41 62 97
Demons 4 6 7
Barons of Hell 21 41 60
Troopers 3 5 6
Cacodemons 8 20 33
Lost Souls 5 7 8
Powerups ITYTD and HNTR HMP UV and NM
Megaspheres 5 5 5
Stimpacks 7 7 7
Medikits 9 9 9
Soul spheres 6 6 6
Health bonuses 5 5 5
Armor bonuses 3 3 3
Green armors 3 3 3
Blue armors 2 2 2
Invisibilities 1 1 1
Weapons ITYTD and HNTR HMP UV and NM
Super shotguns 1 1 1
Shotguns 1 1 1
Rocket launchers 1 1 1
Plasma guns 1 1 1
BFG 9000s 1 1 1
Ammunition ITYTD and HNTR HMP UV and NM
Backpacks 1 1 1
Bulk cells 13 13 13
Shells 5 5 5
Rockets 2 2 2
Rocket boxes 59 59 59
Energy cells 5 5 5
Ammo boxes 6 6 6
Shell boxes 72 72 72