MAP04: Descending Inferno (Legacy of Rust)
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MAP04: Descending Inferno is the fourth map in episode The Vulcan Abyss of Legacy of Rust. It was designed by Samuel Villarreal (Kaiser) and uses the music track "Callous Regard" by Xaser Acheron.
Contents
Walkthrough[edit]
Essentials[edit]
Open the door to your right to enter a storage room with zombies, then go behind the metal column in the middle of the room to find some boxes and climb them to get on top of the crates. Run north to an alcove with a shotgun and a button, press the button to open the door on the west side of the storage room, then go through it and follow the passage to the southern side of the room. Open the large door here to get outside, then head south past a red door until you go down some steps to a lava pool. Climb the steps on the south side of the pool and go east to a door, pass through it then follow the path north to another door that has a chaingun behind it; note the cacodemons that are released nearby. Run up the steps with the chaingun to reach the ledge ahead, then head south past some demons and imps to find a rocket launcher next to a button. The button will lower the pillar holding the red keycard in the lava below.
Head north to get back to the red door and open it to enter the main building, kill any waiting imps and zombies then go east and north to another door. Pass through it and go round the corner to a button, press it to open the bars at the top of the steps (which will close behind you) then go to the south-west corner of the next room to find a mancubus guarding another button; more demons, imps and zombies will teleport into the room behind you as well. Press the button to open the central column and reveal a berserk pack and a switch, flip the switch to open the north-west door then go through it and press the button on the south wall to lower the pillar holding the blue keycard.
Leave the building and go up the steps leading to the starting room, then run east to a ledge with an armor and flip the switch here (requiring the blue key) to open the bars below. Go through the bars and follow the path south to a set of yellow bars, then climb up the round staircase nearby and press the gargoyle switch at the top to open a barrier in the lava behind you. Take the incinerator that was on top of the switch and use it to kill any demons waiting behind the barrier, then continue east through a metal archway and kill a mindweaver waiting on the ledge ahead before using the nearby steps to climb up there. Head north to a small building and open the door here to face shocktroopers and chaingunners, then press the button at the north end to lower a metal block outside, letting you step past it to a small bridge guarded by a mancubus. Go through the door here to see a caged mindweaver, then head clockwise around the cage to the south-west corner of the room to open two closets with various monsters. Flip the switches in both closets to open the bars in the south-west corner, open the door behind them then flip another switch in front of you to retrieve the yellow keycard.
Drop into the lava below and climb the steps to the yellow bars you saw earlier, open them then follow the path past some demons until you reach a lift with blue triangles on it. Flip the switch next to the lift, then ride the lift up to get back inside the main building where the southern doors have opened. Kill the vassagos waiting in the final room, then press either of the buttons in the corners to open alcoves behind you containing more vassagos. Once they are dead, press another button inside the alcoves to open the bars blocking the white exit teleporter.
Other points of interest[edit]
Secrets[edit]
- In the storage room at the start, go to the southern side of the room and open the east wall, which looks different to all the other walls in the room, to find a fuel can and a button. (sector 51)
- Press the button in secret #1, then go back to the northern side of the storage room where a cage with imps has opened. Shoot the gargoyle switch in this cage, then go back to the connecting passage where the west wall has opened. Go through and run up the steps to land on the platform with the supercharge. (sector 86)
- After getting the red key, go back up to the button that lowered the platform it was sitting on. A compartment with a baron of Hell and a megaarmor has opened nearby. (sector 286)
- On the way to the east end of the map you will see a crate with an armor on it. Walk through the lavafall east of this crate to find a hidden button, press it then go back to the top of the round staircase in the previous area. A wall has opened here, letting you run up the steps behind it to land on top of the crate. (sector 452)
Bugs[edit]
Demo files[edit]
Areas / screenshots[edit]
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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 Tyson | |||||
| UV pacifist |
The (absence of) data was last verified in its entirety on August 11, 2024.
Statistics[edit]
Map data[edit]
| Things | 588 |
| Vertices | 4208* |
| Linedefs | 4249 |
| Sidedefs | 6525 |
| Sectors | 672 |
Things[edit]
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:
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