MAP05: Core Infection (Hell Revealed)

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This level occupies the map slot MAP05. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP05.
The Cyberdemon awaits

MAP05: Core Infection, designed by Yonatan Donner, is the fifth map of Hell Revealed. It uses the music track "Task Force" from Rise of the Triad.

Description[edit]

According to the Hell Revealed info pack:

A technological level. Find the two switches that make the way to the exit.
Size: medium
Difficulty: easy

Walkthrough[edit]

Map of Core Infection
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 have two paths at the start, either through the left door or the stairs to the right. Grab the shotgun, and kill the enemies in this room, then take the stairs to a room with two mancubi. You now have a choice between the door in this room and the lift. Take the lift up and head right, following the path to a small room with a switch. Pressing this switch lowers a lift in the plasma gun room which is close to the exit, accessible from the left door in the starting room. Before heading there though, you have one more switch to press. Head back to the room which had the mancubi and now take the door to the next hallway, which contains some pain elementals. Follow this hallway to a computer room with a blue square that has a Hell knight on it. Stepping on this blue square opens a computer panel, revealing a passage with some former humans. Take the lift downwards and take the rocket launcher from the left path, then go down the right path. Keep on going down this path until you find a switch to press, and after pressing it, head all the way back to the starting room. Now open the door on the left side and use the lift to ride up to a room with chaingunners and a plasma rifle. You should see a box of shotgun shells to the north, so grab it to make the platform rise. If you want the plasma gun, let the platform rise all the way, then leave and get back on it to make it lower again, and while it is lowering, grab the gun. Then you can use the platform to rise again. This saves time from going back to pressing the switch in the center of the map. At the top, there should be some stairs, if you had hit the second switch before, so climb them and open the door to find the exit.

Secrets[edit]

  1. Near the center of the level is a large lift with a gibbed marine on it. At the eastern wall of the lift shaft is an opening, located about halfway up. You can run into it when the lift is rising or lowering. Inside is a megasphere. (sector 46) To get out of the secret area, open the southern wall to reveal a path leading back to the main area.

Areas / screenshots[edit]

Speedrunning[edit]

Routes and tricks[edit]

Current Compet-n records[edit]

The Compet-n records for the map are:

Run Time Player Date File Notes
UV speed 02:12 Jakub Machata (DooMerMan) 2003-07-25 hr05-212.zip
NM speed 05:22 Jim Leonard (Xit Vono) 2011-01-24 hs05-522.zip
UV max 03:25 Kyle McAwesome 2012-01-21 hr05-325.zip
NM100S 05:22 Jim Leonard (Xit Vono) 2011-01-24 hs05-522.zip
UV -fast 04:54 Chris Ratcliff (Ryback) 2004-08-01 hf05-454.zip
UV -respawn 04:39 Revved 2011-09-15 he05-439.zip
UV Tyson 22:10 Jim Leonard (Xit Vono) 2002-01-03 ht052210.zip
UV pacifist

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 2:12.97 Jakub Machata (DooMerMan) 2003-07-25 hr05-212.zip
NM speed
UV max 2:25.66 mhrz 2022-02-27 hr05-225.zip
NM 100S 3:17.94 Artem Safronov (SAV88) 2011-02-04 hr05s317.zip
UV -fast 4:06.49 Andrea Rovenski (Cyberdemon531) 2023-01-14 hr05f406.zip
UV -respawn 4:39.29 Revved 2011-09-15 he05-439.zip
UV Tyson 14:43.63 GrumpyCat 2020-10-13 hr05t1443.zip
UV pacifist
NoMo 0:59.57 aika 2022-02-27 hr5o05957.zip
NoMo 100S 1:10.97 Casey Alvis (Altima Mantoid) 2002-07-03 hrhelp2.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on January 27, 2023.

Deathmatch[edit]

Player spawns[edit]

This level contains only one spawn point, making it unplayable in deathmatch mode:

  1. facing north. (thing 4)

Statistics[edit]

Map data[edit]

Things 186
Vertices 482*
Linedefs 606
Sidedefs 781
Sectors 150
* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 452.

Things[edit]

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

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