Gros Rat

Gros Rat
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Author	Roofi
Port	Vanilla Doom
IWAD	Doom II
Year	2019
Link	Doomshack

This level occupies the map slot MAP01. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP01.

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Gros Rat (French for Big Rat) is a vanilla slaughter map for Doom II. Released in September 2019, it was designed by Roofi in 30 minutes, as part of a speedmapping challenge held on the Doomworld forums. It features a MIDI rendition of "Milk It" by Nirvana (from In Utero).

Walkthrough

Map of Gros Rat

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.

Secrets

1. Go to the small nukage pool southwest of where you teleport and go through the slimefall to get a soul sphere. (sector 32)

Demo files

The release includes a separate demo file, GrosRat_Roofi_304.lmp, by the author. It requires Doom II v1.9 to be viewed and runs for 3:16.29 (6870 tics), showing off the level on Ultra-Violence.

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 13, 2022.

Deathmatch

Player spawns

This level contains four spawn points:

1. facing north-east. (thing 217)
2. facing north-east. (thing 218)
3. facing north-east. (thing 219)
4. facing north-east. (thing 220)

Statistics

Map data

Things	237
Vertices	302*
Linedefs	267
Sidedefs	433
Sectors	44

* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 223.

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Heavy weapon dude	13
Imp	17
Revenant	27
Cacodemon	4
Pain elemental	6
Hell knight	9
Baron of Hell	8
Arachnotron	2
Mancubus	11
Arch-vile	2
Spiderdemon	1
Cyberdemon	3
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Rocket launcher	1
Plasma gun	3
BFG9000	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Box of rockets	27
Energy cell pack	17
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Medikit	10
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Supercharge	1
Megasphere	1
Backpack	1
Radiation shielding suit	1
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Blue keycard	1
Red skull key	1
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Teleport landing	1

Multiplayer
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Heavy weapon dude	13
Imp	17
Revenant	27
Cacodemon	4
Pain elemental	6
Hell knight	9
Baron of Hell	8
Arachnotron	2
Mancubus	11
Arch-vile	2
Spiderdemon	1
Cyberdemon	3
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Rocket launcher	1
Plasma gun	3
BFG9000	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Box of rockets	27
Energy cell pack	17
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Medikit	10
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Supercharge	1
Megasphere	1
Backpack	1
Radiation shielding suit	1
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Blue keycard	1
Red skull key	1
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Cooperative start	4
Deathmatch start	4
Teleport landing	1

External links

• Doomworld forums thread
• Doomworld forums post
• Download from Doomshack
• GrosRat.wad - Wad Archive (archived 🏛)