E1M5: Highly Terminal (Strange Aeons)
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| The Stagnant Fortress |
| The Land That Time Forgot |
| The Plateau of Leng |
| Out of the Aeons |
E1M5: Highly Terminal is the fifth map of episode The Shattered City in Strange Aeons. It was designed by Mike MacDee (Impie) and uses a music track from Chasm: The Rift. The par time defined in MAPINFO is 2:45.
Contents
Walkthrough[edit]
Essentials[edit]
Kill the Devils having the barbecue and choose a teleporter.
The left teleporter leads to a lighthouse and a small army of Devils. The bridge to the lighthouse -- and its red keycard -- is lowered. The switch to raise it can be seen on a rock island off to the right.
The right teleporter leads to the main area, the airport terminal. Be sure to kill the machine gunners in the control tower and on the roof of the small outpost to the left. Go behind the outpost and blast the fusebox to short out the door and get inside, past a small Flayworm ambush. The switch on the roof raises the terminal stairs, but the terminal door is locked and requires the red keycard. Go left instead and leap onto the rocky cliff, then travel through the cave: you come out in the lighthouse area. Flip the switch and dive into the ether to reappear on the rocky island. Scale the lighthouse and grab the key, but watch for the Demon Wizard ambush.
Return to the terminal and clear out the waiting room. Don't forget the ammo on the outer platforms. Take the lift up into the tower and examine the control deck to raise the bridge to the exit slipgate and release more Demon Wizards.
Other points of interest[edit]
From atop the lighthouse you can leap onto the small plateaus and gain some extra goodies, including an Ammo sphere.
A green armor is hidden between the terminal platforms, but isn't flagged as a secret.
Secrets[edit]
- Head to the west side of the larger area where the shotgun is. Shoot the panel that says high voltage and head to the east side. Here, take the lift up, then jump to where the energy cell is. (sector 51)
- Before jumping from the terminal to the cliffside cave, drop onto the narrow ledge to the right and grab the soul sphere. (sector 54)
- Once you enter the terminal through the red door, go onto the left loading platform and drop off the left side for rockets and a blue armor. (sector 21)
Bugs[edit]
Demo files[edit]
Areas / screenshots[edit]
The spawn point.
The control tower comes courtesy of a little map wizardry.
Speedrunning[edit]
Routes and tricks[edit]
Current records[edit]
The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:
| Run | Time | Player | Date | File | Notes |
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| 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[edit]
Map data[edit]
| Things | 230 |
| Vertices | 702 |
| Linedefs | 806 |
| Sidedefs | 1556 |
| Sectors | 150 |
Things[edit]
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:
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Technical information[edit]
Inspiration and development[edit]
Impie created the air traffic control tower by building it against a sky sector with lower ceiling level than the tower. The trick is obvious when the tower is viewed from certain angles.
