MAP01: Into the Gate (Hell Revealed)

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

MAP01: Into the Gate is the first map of Hell Revealed. It was designed jointly by Yonatan Donner and Haggay Niv. It uses the music track "Suck This" from Rise of the Triad.

Description[edit]

According to the Hell Revealed info pack:

The beginning map is the invaded lab. Your mission is to clear the area, find the gate that will start your mission and enter it. Note to coop players: Please don't pay attention to the Cyberdemons outside. If you want to play Hell Revealed in cooperative mode, you should be prepared to face many extra enemies. Note to deathmatch players: This level is probably quite good for deathmatch.
Size: small
Difficulty: easy

Walkthrough[edit]

Map of Into the Gate
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.

Essentials[edit]

You begin at the foot of a raised walkway, blocked by a caged door. Run onto the walkway and the door will lift. Head forward and follow the passage left. Open the door at the end of the passageway and head left. In the room beyond this next door is a switch which opens the exit area. Run back into the teleporter room and run to the exit.

Other points of interest[edit]

At the beginning of the level, go through the teleporter behind you four times. On the fourth time, you will be warped into a dark room containing the credits for Hell Revealed, the URL of its official website, and a message reading "HAVE A NICE STAY." Go through the teleporter in this room to return to the normal level. You can go back to this secret room any time you want.

Secrets[edit]

  1. In the room with the raised platform with several demons on it, open the computer bank to get a rocket launcher. (sector 33)

Areas / screenshots[edit]

Speedrunning[edit]

Routes and tricks[edit]

In terms of the speedrun route, this level is quite similar to MAP01 on Doom II. All speedruns on this level take the same route, running down the passage and straight to the exit. The principal difficulty is finding a path around the monsters on UV difficulty. At first players went for the shotgun at the start [1], but aiming takes too much time and it is faster to straferun the whole level pacifist style. [2] Nightmare! demos follow the same route, but taking more time to ensure the monsters will not take too much health off the player. [3]

NM100S recordings require only one change to the route, picking up the rocket launcher en route to the exit. However, this also opens up a shortcut: taking the first door on the left (avoiding the first group of monsters alltogether), strafing past the imps and taking the rocket launcher. This leaves the player with a rocket to use on the two chaingunners, making the rest of the level easier as well. [4] As a result, the NM100S is actually faster than the standard Nightmare! record.

In runs requiring 100% kills, there is again very little optimisation to be done. The player runs through the level on the same route, and in the final room a whole bunch of monsters teleport in. This is the only area of the level that can be made faster: when entering the final room, the player will immediately run to the exit switch, then head back and run to the exit. This triggers a linedef which allows a group of imps to teleport in. At this stage the room will already be full of former humans, sergeants, and teleporting demons, so the player will run back to the room containing the two chaingunners, the entrance of which is usually blocked by demons and easily guarded. A good time is dependent on how quickly the monsters teleport in and how effective the infights are. [5]

UV -respawn is almost exactly the same route, except the cacodemon can be skipped and infighting plays a greater role at the end. [6]

A handy berserk pack makes Tyson easy, the only significant time delay is having to use the pistol on the cacodemon from medium range.

Current Compet-n records[edit]

The Compet-n records for the map are:

Run Time Player Date File Notes
UV speed 00:07 Adam Hegyi 2001-02-08 hr01-007.zip
NM speed 00:08 Karim El-Sheikh (Kimo Xvirus) 2009-12-16 hn01-008.zip
UV max 01:16 Laszlo Gere (Slade) 2014-02-15 hr01-116.zip
NM100S 00:09 Adam Hegyi 2001-05-02 hs01-009.zip
UV -fast 01:32 Radek Pecka 2002-08-07 hf01-132.zip
UV -respawn 01:24 Chris Ratcliff (Ryback) 2001-03-30 he01-124.zip
UV Tyson 01:48 Laszlo Gere (Slade) 2014-02-15 ht01-148.zip
UV pacifist 00:07 Adam Hegyi 2001-02-08 hp01-007.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on July 4, 2020.

Current DSDA records[edit]

The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:

Run Time Player Date File Notes
UV speed 0:07.31 El Juancho 2022-08-18 hr01-731.zip
NM speed 0:08.69 Karim El-Sheikh (Kimo Xvirus) 2009-12-16 hn01-008.zip
UV max 0:58.97 mhrz 2022-05-05 hr01-058.zip
NM 100S 0:09.57 Adam Hegyi 2001-05-02 hs01-009.zip
UV -fast 1:26.14 Andrea Rovenski (Cyberdemon531) 2023-01-12 hr01f126.zip
UV -respawn 1:24.60 Chris Ratcliff (Ryback) 2001-03-30 he01-124.zip
UV Tyson 1:44.03 Andrea Rovenski (Cyberdemon531) 2024-02-24 hr01t144.zip
UV pacifist 0:07.97 Adam Hegyi 2001-02-08 hp01-007.zip
NoMo 0:06.69 El Juancho 2022-08-17 hr01o669.zip
NoMo 100S 0:07.97 Kyle McAwesome 2022-04-22 hr01os007.zip
Stroller 0:15.34 Aleksey Kamenev (4shockblast) 2020-08-26 hr01str015.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on March 8, 2024.

Deathmatch[edit]

Player spawns[edit]

This level contains six spawn points:

  1. facing north. (thing 135)
  2. facing south. (thing 136)
  3. facing north. (thing 150)
  4. facing north. (thing 151)
  5. facing south-west. (thing 152)
  6. facing south-west. (thing 154)

Statistics[edit]

Map data[edit]

Things 169
Vertices 711*
Linedefs 750
Sidedefs 1159
Sectors 119
* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 599.

Things[edit]

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

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