MAP07: The Beating Heart (Heartland)

Heartland maps
MAP01: Subway Sandwich MAP02: Bruce R. & Son Construction Co. MAP03: Reservoir Dog MAP04: Routine Flaring and Flailing MAP05: Titan of Industry MAP06: Get Shafted MAP07: The Beating Heart MAP08: Arrhythmia

This level occupies the map slot MAP07. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP07.

MAP07: The Beating Heart is the seventh map of Heartland. It was designed by Paul DeBruyne (skillsaw) and uses the music track "Souls Symphony" by Stuart Rynn (stewboy). The par time defined in MAPINFO is 35:00.

Walkthrough

Map of The Beating Heart

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

You begin in an elevator that is descending to a castle. The castle gates require your backpack (which will remove all ammo and the ammo capacity upgrade) and all weapons except for the fireaxe to be placed on pedestals to be opened. Then you must fight waves of demons, imps, Hell knights, cacodemons, and mancubi. After surviving through those waves, you will obtain the rocket launcher, submachine gun, and shotgun. After fighting more waves of monsters, you will obtain all of your weapons again.

Following, you will have to battle against the final boss, a giant heart. The heart will summon four waves of varied monsters, after each wave you can deal damage to the heart. Once the heart explodes and its sprite disappears, the level ends.

Other points of interest

When pistol starting this level, the castle gates do not require any weapons to proceed.

Secrets

1. From the area in the southwest of the map that has the three switches in the middle of it (in front of the big gate leading to 'The Beating Heart'), take the path leading to the blue skull key. Once you re-emerge into the open you will see a pillar-like structure standing in the middle of the path with the road after it splitting into two forks, one going upstairs and one downstairs. The pillar-like structure has a candle in each of its four main sides. Press against the side that has a green candle in it and follow the fork of the road that leads downstairs. A wall will have lowered, revealing a new path to your right that brings you to a megasphere. (sector 5106)

Speedrunning

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 June 26, 2022.

Statistics

Map data

Things	3898
Vertices	26108
Linedefs	33733
Sidedefs	54642
Sectors	5916

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Zombieman	82	99	114	146	146	146	146	146
Shotgun guy	55	56	68	86	86	89	89	89
Heavy weapon dude	8	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Imp	422	510	649	786	786	792	792	792
Demon	11	27	49	49	49	49	49	49
Revenant	29	33	54	66	66	66	66	66
Cacodemon	44	60	64	68	68	68	68	68
Hell knight	107	138	142	161	161	164	164	164
Baron of Hell	6	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Arachnotron	10	20	27	31	31	31	31	31
Mancubus	37	44	51	61	61	61	61	61
Arch-vile	0	1	2	2	2	2	2	2
Spiderdemon	1
Rocket zombie	1	1	1	4	4	4	4	4
Suicide bomber	43	63	72	86	86	86	86	86
Grell	30	30	51	75	75	75	75	75
Catharsi	24	48	49	64	64	64	64	64
Cybruiser	13	17	29	29	29	30	30	30
Heart	1
Weapons	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Shotgun	2
Super shotgun	2
Rocket launcher	2
Fire axe	1
Dual pistols	1
Submachine gun	2
Dual SMGs	2
Flamethrower	2
Cluster bomb launcher	2
Ammunition	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Clip	5
Box of bullets	67
4 shotgun shells	24
Box of shotgun shells	29
Rocket	30
Box of rockets	274
Small fuel canister	44
Large fuel tank	42
Health & Armor	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Stimpack	30
Medikit	103	103	103	105	105	105	105	105
Armor	5
Megaarmor	7
Orange armor	2
Items	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Armor bonus	43
Health bonus	45
Supercharge	9	9	9	6	6	9	9	9
Megasphere	11	11	10	8	8	11	11	11
Backpack	1
Berserk	1
Invulnerability	2	2	0	0	0	2	2	2
Megapack	13
Keys	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Blue skull key	1
Red skull key	1
Yellow skull key	1
Miscellaneous	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Teleport landing	53

Cooperative
Monsters	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Zombieman	82	99	114	146	146	146	146	146
Shotgun guy	55	56	68	86	86	89	89	89
Heavy weapon dude	8	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Imp	422	510	649	786	786	792	792	792
Demon	11	27	49	49	49	49	49	49
Revenant	29	33	54	66	66	66	66	66
Cacodemon	44	60	64	68	68	68	68	68
Hell knight	107	138	142	161	161	164	164	164
Baron of Hell	6	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Arachnotron	10	20	27	31	31	31	31	31
Mancubus	37	44	51	61	61	61	61	61
Arch-vile	0	1	2	2	2	2	2	2
Spiderdemon	1
Rocket zombie	1	1	1	4	4	4	4	4
Suicide bomber	43	63	72	86	86	86	86	86
Grell	30	30	51	75	75	75	75	75
Catharsi	24	48	49	64	64	64	64	64
Cybruiser	13	17	29	29	29	30	30	30
Heart	1
Weapons	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Shotgun	2
Super shotgun	2
Rocket launcher	2
Fire axe	1
Dual pistols	1
Submachine gun	2
Dual SMGs	2
Flamethrower	2
Cluster bomb launcher	2
Ammunition	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Clip	5
Box of bullets	67
4 shotgun shells	24
Box of shotgun shells	29
Rocket	30
Box of rockets	274
Small fuel canister	44
Large fuel tank	42
Health & Armor	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Stimpack	30
Medikit	103	103	103	105	105	105	105	105
Armor	5
Megaarmor	7
Orange armor	2
Items	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Armor bonus	43
Health bonus	45
Supercharge	9	9	9	6	6	9	9	9
Megasphere	11	11	10	8	8	11	11	11
Backpack	1
Berserk	1
Invulnerability	2	2	0	0	0	2	2	2
Megapack	13
Keys	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Blue skull key	1
Red skull key	1
Yellow skull key	1
Miscellaneous	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Cooperative start	4
Teleport landing	53

External links

• Heartland demos at the Doom Speed Demo Archive