MAP04: Watchtowers (Anomaly Report)

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This level occupies the map slot MAP04. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP04.

MAP04: Watchtowers is the fourth map of Anomaly Report. It was designed by Michael Jan Krizik (valkiriforce) and uses the music track "Rage," originally composed by Mark Klem for Requiem. The par time defined in MAPINFO is 1:20.

Walkthrough[edit]

Map of Watchtowers
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 start near the small south-eastern building, which contains the exit teleporter. Go west across a bridge with a shotgun and kill the zombiemen waiting by the southern building, then go down the stairs at the center of the map and enter the building ahead. Kill the shotgun guys and spectres waiting inside then enter the eastern room and look behind the crate to find the red keycard. Go back to the southern building and open the red door to get inside it, then press the button under the window to open the path to the northern building and bring in a couple of imps.

Go to the north building and press the skull switch east of it to lower the pillar holding the blue keycard, kill one or two demons and imps that appear behind you, then go round to the north side of the eastern building to collect the key. Go to the north-western building and open the blue bars to get inside, then enter the teleporter to go to the south-western platform with the yellow keycard. Take the key and fight off the imps and zombies that teleport behind you, return to the teleporter to go back to the north-western building, then fight through two cacodemons to get back to the south-eastern building and open it to reach the exit.

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Secrets[edit]

  1. After opening the western building, go to the steps east of it to hear something lower. Quickly enter the western building, take the steps down, and take the teleporter before it rises to get a berserk pack. (sector 37)
  2. Enter the northern building and press on the north side of the switch column. Head west and to the north-west corner to find a teleporter taking you to an armor. (sector 54)

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Current records[edit]

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

Run Time Player Date File Notes
UV speed
NM speed 2:08.23 Andrea Rovenski 2022-06-13 ar04n208.zip
UV max 1:36.31 Andrea Rovenski 2025-02-05 ar04-136.zip
NM 100S
UV -fast 2:51.97 Andrea Rovenski 2022-06-02 ar04f251.zip
UV -respawn 1:52.60 Andrea Rovenski 2022-06-02 ar04r152.zip
UV Tyson 4:44.23 Andrea Rovenski 2022-06-02 ar04t444.zip
UV pacifist
NoMo 0:37.77 NoisyVelvet 2022-06-14 ar04o037.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on March 3, 2025.

Statistics[edit]

Map data[edit]

Things 113
Vertices 716*
Linedefs 539
Sidedefs 860
Sectors 94
* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 460.

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

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