E1M4: Cowboys and Indians (Strange Aeons)

Strange Aeons maps
The Shattered City E1M1: The Traveler E1M2: Resident Evil E1M3: Shooting Range E1M4: Cowboys and Indians E1M5: Highly Terminal E1M6: Island Hopping E1M7: Halls of Madness E1M8: Deathedral E1M9: Haunted Hospital
The Stagnant Fortress M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9
The Land That Time Forgot M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9
The Plateau of Leng M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9
Out of the Aeons M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9

This level occupies the map slot E1M4. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:E1M4.

E1M4: Cowboys and Indians is the fourth map of episode The Shattered City in Strange Aeons. It was designed by Mike MacDee (Impie) and uses a music track from System Shock 2. The par time defined in MAPINFO is 1:30.

Walkthrough

Map of Cowboys and Indians

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

The three important landmarks are the watchtower due north, the dilapidated house to the west, and the warehouse by the exit slipgate to the northwest. The map's progression is extremely simple, but monsters, items, and secrets are scattered absolutely everywhere, so fully exploring the map is essential.

Go north to the watchtower first. Do a little chasm-jumping and hit the switch to raise the stairs to the yellow keycard on the rooftop. Dropping into the ether returns you to your spawn point.

Now go to the old house to the west and use the yellow keycard to get onto the balcony with the red keycard, triggering a huge ambush. There is plenty of ammo on the horseshoe-shaped cliff nearby, and the rocket launcher can be grabbed with a little parkour finesse.

The warehouse is the last stop. Flip the switch to raise the stairs to the exit (and trigger another ambush).

Other points of interest

There is a computer map behind the exit slipgate, but it doesn't count as a secret. It can help you find the trickier secret areas.

From the spawn point, you can reach a helpful ammo cache by climbing the nearest house's dinner table and jumping out the window.

There are many small islands with ammo and other goodies, so look out for them.

Secrets

1. Directly behind your spawn point is a cliffside house. Push the door in for a cache of useful goodies. (sector 52)
2. From the cliff mentioned above, you can access two more secret items. A donut-shaped rock hides a berserk pack. (sector 90) On the opposite side of the cliff is a small protrusion with a Rage sphere. (sector 0)
3. See secret #2.
4. Run around behind the old house to lower the soul sphere atop the fountain. Be quick to grab it, or you'll miss it. (sector 144)
5. From the left tip of the horseshoe cliff by the old house, you can see an indentation in the rock, which you'll have to jump over the aether to reach. If you manage not to fall back to the spawn point, examine the wall to open it and reveal a teleporter. (sector 105) It takes you to the rooftops and a secret blue armor.
6. Skip along the rooftops to the large plateau across from the watchtower for the BFG9000. (sector 93)
7. Use the bushes by the warehouse to get on top of the crates and reach the backpack. (sector 164)
8. In the dilapidated structure southeast of the start, get on the table and jump south to the rock. Head east to get a box of rockets, a box of shotgun shells, and a box of ammo. (sector 55)

Areas / screenshots

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  A really rough neighborhood.

Speedrunning

Current records

The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed
NM speed
UV max
NM 100S
UV -fast
UV -respawn
UV Tyson
UV pacifist

The (absence of) data was last verified in its entirety on June 29, 2022.

Statistics

Map data

Things	294
Vertices	848
Linedefs	968
Sidedefs	1873
Sectors	165

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Machine gun maniac	7	7	10	5	5	10	10	10
Man from Leng	5	5	8	15	15	17	17	17
Devil	14	14	26	41	41	42	42	42
Grell	0	0	3	8	8	9	9	9
Spawn of Glaaki	2	2	2	4	4	4	4	4
Demon wizard	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1
Weapons	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Shotgun	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1
Rocket launcher	1
BFG9000	1
Ammunition	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Clip	6
Box of bullets	7	7	4	7	7	7	7	7
4 shotgun shells	7
Box of shotgun shells	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2
Rocket	2
Box of rockets	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2
Health & Armor	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Stimpack	8
Medikit	5	5	5	4	4	5	5	5
Armor	1
Megaarmor	1
Items	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Health bonus	16
Supercharge	1
Backpack	1
Berserk	1
Computer area map	1
Partial invisibility	1
Rage sphere	1
Keys	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Red keycard	1
Yellow keycard	1
Miscellaneous	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Teleport landing	5

Inspiration and development

The title is a reference to children roughhousing in the neighborhood streets.