E3M2: Doom - The Movie (Serenity)
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E3M2: Doom - The Movie is the second level of Serenity. It was designed by Björn Hermans and Holger Nathrath, and uses the music track ACTION4.MID by Voyetra Technologies.
Contents
Walkthrough[edit]
Essentials[edit]
Open the door to enter a courtyard with a few zombiemen, then climb up the steps on the west side to a hallway and follow it north and east until you reach a door at the very end. Go through the door to a room with six exits, open the north-eastern door to find a couple of zombiemen guarding a switch, then flip it to open the south-eastern door so you can access a second switch. Flip the second switch to open the computer walls in the previous room, revealing a few shotgun guys, then step past that wall and open the blue panel on the east wall to enter a room with two skull switches. Press the northern switch (the southern switch opens a secret) to open the south wall and reveal a few monsters guarding a teleporter.
Enter the teleporter to go to the E room and destroy any waiting lost souls (plus demons on Ultra-Violence and Nightmare skill levels), then go up the staircase in the south-west corner and turn left at the top to climb a second staircase. At the top of the second staircase, open the door and collect the radiation shielding suit, then head south through two doors and run across a gap to a third door that leads to the exit room. You will drop into a damaging pit with a few zombiemen (and lost souls on Hurt Me Plenty or higher), and the pillar in the middle of the pit is the exit. You can drop down to the pillar from the doorway, but if you miss it, press the skin wall on the north-east side of the pit to raise a small platform that will give you enough height to reach the exit.
Other points of interest[edit]
In the hallway leading to the room with six doors, you will pass a door in the south wall that has a megaarmor behind it.
In the room with six doors, go through the south-west door to find a chaingun.
In the E room, use the lift in the north-west corner to go up to an overhead room with a chainsaw.
Secrets[edit]
- Before accessing the teleporter to the E room, press the southern skull switch to open an alcove with few monsters and a medikit. (sector 64)
- The platform raised to reach the exit counts as a secret. (sector 159) However, if you reveal the platform before stepping on the area where it appears, its secret property will be erased, preventing 100% secrets.
Bugs[edit]
It is possible to prevent 100% secrets by erasing the secret property from secret #2 (see Secrets.) If this happens, only 50% secrets will be possible.
Demo files[edit]
Areas / screenshots[edit]
The stairs near the start
The E room
The Doom movie?
The blue room with the teleporter
The E room
The chainsaw
The end
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 | 0:45.40 | Neurometry | 2017-12-30 | ser2-045.zip | |
| NM speed | 0:52.57 | Serge Marudov (Never_Again) | 2012-11-20 | serennm_na.zip | |
| UV max | 2:27.69 | Pseudonaut | 2024-07-25 | ser2m227.zip | |
| NM 100S | |||||
| UV -fast | 4:14.51 | Serge Marudov (Never_Again) | 2001-11-25 | seren_na.zip | |
| UV -respawn | |||||
| UV Tyson | |||||
| UV pacifist |
The data was last verified in its entirety on August 13, 2024.
Deathmatch[edit]
Player spawns[edit]
This level contains four spawn points:
- facing west. (thing 158)
- facing north. (thing 159)
- facing north-east. (thing 160)
- facing south. (thing 161)
Statistics[edit]
Map data[edit]
| Things | 162 |
| Vertices | 688* |
| Linedefs | 781 |
| Sidedefs | 1108 |
| Sectors | 160 |
Things[edit]
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:
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Technical information[edit]
Inspiration and development[edit]
An early version of this map appeared as E2M1 of the collection "Nathrath's Fab Four" (NATHRATH.WAD).[1]
This level is based significantly on MINE1.WAD, an example WAD that was included with Geoff Allan's Doom Editor - The Real Thing v2.60b4.[2] It proliferated on BBSes throughout 1994 with no attribution, and was used as the basis for some levels, including by designers without any knowledge of its authorship. Allan is not credited in Serenity's textfile, nor does it mention MINE1.WAD.
Trivia[edit]
- The movie screen shows a shot of the Supreme Leader, as portrayed by actress Anjelica Huston in the 1986 3D film Captain EO, originally exhibited at Epcot.
