Eternity (WAD)

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This article is about the level set. For other uses, see Eternity.

Eternity (ETERNITY.WAD) is a Doom episode replacement mod of eight levels, created by Björn Hermans and Holger Nathrath. It is a sequel to Serenity and was subsequently followed by Infinity, the third WAD in the series. As part of their 10 Years of Doom feature, Doomworld named it one of the ten best WADs of 1994.

The PWAD includes a music track for each map, as well as a few extra graphics such as an oversize stained glass texture with a bird image, and an orange sky for the intermissions (taken from the stock E3 ending screen).

Version 1.1 of Eternity was released on November 7, 1994. It also appeared on Maximum Doom as ETERNIT2.WAD and ETRNITY2.WAD.

Levels[edit]

Map Soundtrack
E2M1: From Here till Eternity "Main Title (Terminator 2 Theme)" by Brad Fiedel, from Terminator 2: Judgment Day
E2M2: The Fat Imp Sings Your Blues "Moanin'" by Art Blakey
E2M3: Totally Crossed Out "Das Boot" by U96
E2M4: Clear & Unpleasant Danger
E2M5: Through the Eye of the Needle "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor
E2M6: The Underground "Bad" by Michael Jackson
E2M7: Escape While You Can "Blade Runner (End Titles)" by Vangelis, from Blade Runner
E2M8: Serenity Forever "Facing the Spider" by Robert Prince, from Doom

The levels spell S-E-R-E-N-I-T-Y, that is, level E2M1 has the letter S, E2M2 has the letter E and so on, with E2M8 having all of them.

Bugs[edit]

E2M3's music track causes a crash when used with Doom v1.666. Because of this, most of the replacement music is collected in a separate file, ETERMUS.WAD, so that it need not be loaded to play the episode. (The new intro and intermission tracks are contained in the main WAD.)

Speedrunning[edit]

Routes and tricks[edit]

Current records[edit]

The DSDA episode records for Eternity (WAD) are:

Run Time Player Date File Notes
UV speed episode 17:43 Elmle 2017-10-03 eteall-1743.zip
UV max episode 51:48 Serge Marudov (Never_Again) 2012-03-02 eteall-5148.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on July 27, 2022.

Trivia[edit]

  • The version 1.1 package includes a collection of review blurbs, as the additional text file SERENITY.ADD.

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