E2M5 (Base Ganymede)
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E2M5 is the fifth map of the second episode of Base Ganymede. It was designed by Adam Woodmansey (Khorus) and uses the E1M2 music theme from Doom the Way id Did's optional soundtrack, composed by Mr. Freeze.
Contents
Walkthrough[edit]
Essentials[edit]
You begin on the east side of the map. Step off the teleporter pad and kill a shotgun guy that appears ahead, then go through the north doorway and climb the steps behind it to a door. Go through the door and head north and east past more shotgun guys to another door (a cacodemon will appear behind you on Hurt Me Plenty skill level or higher), pass through it and go north past more zombies to a plasma gun. Climb the stairs in this room to get outside and face some imps, then drop into the blood pit below and approach the door at the west end to trigger an ambush by two or three cacodemons. Go through the door and follow the tunnel to a room with more imps and lost souls, then press the skull switch in the north-east corner to open a door behind you revealing six cacodemons, as well as a monster closet to the south with demons. Go down the stairs behind the door you just opened, kill a baron of Hell that appears at the bottom then collect the blue skull key inside the eastern alcove.
Enter the teleporter at the north end of the room to return to the blood pit, where a cyberdemon has appeared, then press the gargoyle switch that has opened at the south end of the room to lower the bars blocking the steps behind you. Exit the pit then go back to the L-shaped ledge north of the start and drop into the room below with the nukage trench, then go north down a staircase to trigger an ambush by a cacodemon and imps. Open the door at the bottom of the stairs to enter a room with three more cacodemons (or barons on HMP or higher), go south into a tunnel and push past some shotgun guys to enter the next room which has some caged imps. Continue north to a cavern with a lava pit and drop into the lava to get the yellow skull key, which will cause three or four cacodemons to teleport in and raise a set of platforms leading out of the pit.
Return to the nukage trench area and open the door at the south end to enter a room with a skull column, then press the skull switch just behind the door to raise a platform that you can use to reach the ledge on the east side. Open the blue door at the south end of the room and press the gargoyle switch behind it to lower a lift, ride the lift down and kill two shotgun guys that appear at the bottom. Open the metal bars at the east end of this room and take the red skull key behind them, which will release imps and cacodemons behind you, then go down the steps at the south end of the room to enter a nukage T-junction. Take the radiation shielding suit and kill the shotgun guys ahead, then press the red skull switch at the west end of the junction to open a pair of bars blocking the northern path. Follow this path until you drop into a blood pit, press the lion switch at the west end of the room to lower the marble wall behind it, then fight off the barons that appear before using the teleporter behind the wall to go to E2M6.
Secret exit[edit]
At the nukage T-junction past the red key room, look south to see a gargoyle switch behind a red torch and shoot it. Go back to the room with the skull column, north of the red key room, where a teleporter leading to E2M9 has opened in the south-west corner.
Other points of interest[edit]
Secrets[edit]
- From the start, go north and up the steps then pass through the door at the top and look west to see a nukage trench below. Make a running jump to this trench, then follow the nukage to the south-west corner and press the west wall here to find a berserk pack, a medikit, a computer area map, and a box of bullets. (sector 462)
- At the stairwell leading down to the blue key room, drop into the lava and head north to find a megaarmor. (sector 382)
Bugs[edit]
Demo files[edit]
Areas / screenshots[edit]
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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| UV speed (normal exit) | |||||
| UV speed (secret exit) | |||||
| NM speed (normal exit) | |||||
| NM speed (secret exit) | |||||
| UV max | |||||
| NM 100S | |||||
| UV -fast | |||||
| UV -respawn | |||||
| UV Tyson | |||||
| UV pacifist (normal exit) | |||||
| UV pacifist (secret exit) |
The (absence of) data was last verified in its entirety on December 21, 2021.
Statistics[edit]
Map data[edit]
| Things | 434 |
| Vertices | 2884* |
| Linedefs | 2750 |
| Sidedefs | 4235 |
| Sectors | 478 |
* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 2272.
Things[edit]
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:
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