MAP03: Gythop's Pyramids (Avactor)

Avactor maps
MAP01: La Muerta Island MAP02: Sunlight Source MAP03: Gythop's Pyramids MAP04: Rest of the Sages MAP05: Calculating Under Pressure MAP06: Mount of Steel MAP07: Europhan's Hall MAP08: Violent Geometry MAP09: Overflooded with Ideas MAP10: Critical Crossing MAP11: The Final Theory MAP12: Back to the Surface

This level occupies the map slot MAP03. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP03.

MAP03: Gythop's Pyramids is the third map of Avactor. It was designed by Eradrop and uses the music track "". The par time defined in the DEHACKED lump is 26:00.

Walkthrough

Map of Gythop's Pyramids

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

From the starting ship, proceed up the steps to a large jungle space with several pyramids. Head north to the vault-like structure and enter. Follow the left path around to the skull switch, and press it to reveal the red skull key. Collect the key and continue up the left path to an optional red skull switch which opens a nearby building with a mega armor. Back in the jungle, use the red skull to enter the red-fire pyramid and ride the lift down to the sunken hallway.

When you run across the lava pit, bars will rise to stop you. Facing back the way you came, shoot the bull switch on the left to raise a platform on the right. Use the platform to reach the right side and press a switch to remove the lava. Collecting the optional berserk pack will drop you into a small ambush; jumping into the water will trigger another, larger ambush. Proceed up the stairs to the shoreline, continue north past the red teleporter, and drop in the window of the sunken hall. A switch opens a connection to the previous hall. Across the walkway, the path leads to a large outdoor area with a temple.

Travel to the left around the temple and up the stairs to the top. Enter, grabbing the plasma gun and fighting off the ambush. Shoot the skull switches to escape, then head back to the sunken hallway. The walkway will fall, dropping you in the first hall north of the bars. Approaching them will lower them. At the other end of the hall, a dark stairway silently warps you back to the jungle area near the blue skull key. Pressing the skull switch will lower the column; collecting the skull key will block the stairs and trigger an ambush. Press the skull switch in the monster alcove to remove the bars and climb the blue-fire pyramid.

Inside, cross the room and activate the far door, dodge the crushing ceiling, handle the ambush, press the skull switch back at the entrance door, then travel through the finally-open far door. Reaching a cove on the far side of the island, your exit ship awaits; activate the skull switch halfway down the stairs to access the dock and escape.

Secrets

1. After the first ambush, in a monster alcove, shoot the skull switch to raise two platforms then run across to collect a backpack. (sector 3976)
2. Atop the red-fire pyramid, around the left side, a shadowed alcove contains a backpack. (sector 3031)
3. Atop the blue-fire pyramid, fall down the left side into a hidden area. (sector 3886) Your reward is a backpack and several close-quarters fights.
4. To the east of the vault entrance, near a large bloodstain, activate the wall to reveal some ammo. (sector 2354)
5. In the sunken hallway, collecting the radiation suit in a lava patch will lower you into a lava room. Past several crushers, you can collect a soul sphere. (sector 2556)
6. Near the outdoor area temple, two bull switches hidden along the shore raise platforms to run across to the north. (sector 3772) Your reward is a BFG 9000.
7. When the bars in the sunken hallway retract, a teleport alcove opens nearby. (sector 1230) Your reward is a large cell pack.
8. Near the red pyramid, an alcove with a green mask wall opens upon retrieving the blue skull key. Behind the mask wall is a bull switch; activating it lowers a nearby teleporter to an overlook at the start with a soul sphere. (sector 737)

Speedrunning

Routes and tricks

• Likely due to a multi-use voodoo doll, the blue pyramid cannot be opened until after the red pyramid is complete, limiting potential sequence breaks.

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 April 3, 2022.

Statistics

Map data

Things	2309
Vertices	24117*
Linedefs	21437
Sidedefs	38473
Sectors	4028

* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 17803.

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Zombieman	6	1	0
Shotgun guy	5	25	10
Heavy weapon dude	12	10	20
Imp	72	92	110
Lost soul	38	23	12
Demon	74	66	79
Spectre	2	3	5
Revenant	3	21	43
Cacodemon	2	21	35
Pain elemental	0	1	1
Hell knight	17	12	10
Baron of Hell	1	0	1
Mancubus	3	12	17
Arch-vile	1	3	3
Cyberdemon	1	2	2
Chaingun statue	0	6	12
Plasma tank	0	2	4
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun	4
Super shotgun	2
Chaingun	2
Rocket launcher	1
Plasma gun	1
BFG9000	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Clip	34
Box of bullets	22
4 shotgun shells	57
Box of shotgun shells	13
Rocket	30
Box of rockets	2
Energy cell	10
Energy cell pack	7
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	40
Medikit	36
Armor	3
Megaarmor	1
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Armor bonus	65
Health bonus	106
Supercharge	2
Megasphere	1
Backpack	12
Berserk	1
Computer area map	1
Radiation shielding suit	2
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Blue skull key	1
Red skull key	1
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Exploding barrel	16
Teleport landing	35	35	36
Voodoo doll	10

External links

• Avactor: End of the Fifth Circle demos at the Doom Speed Demo Archive