MAP15: Internal Reaches (Community Chest)

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This level occupies the map slot MAP15. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP15.

MAP15: Internal Reaches is the fifteenth map of Community Chest. It was designed by Samuel "Kaiser" Villarreal.

This level contains a secret exit leading to MAP31: Mt. Chaos.

Walkthrough[edit]

Map of Internal Reaches
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]

Open the door in front of you. Run to the north of the next room, and hit the switch. Go through the tunnel with the armor bonuses, and hit the eastern switch. Run back to the north of the room, and go through the opening. Drop to the ground from the walkway, and run through the southern door. Open the next two doors to the west. Go around the curve, and open the eastern door. Press on the lift in the south, run in the alcove, and hit the switch. Take the lift up, and hit both switches in the newly-revealed closets. Head north, and through the eastern door. Run east until the walls open to the north, east, and south, and then grab the blue key in the east. Flip the switch behind it, enter the southern alcove, and go through the western opening. Take the northern lift, hit the switch, and quickly run to the southern lift. Take it up, hit the switch, and then dash over to the western lift. Ride it up, open the blue door, head north, and open the northern door again.

Jog to the blue door in the west, go up any of the rocky stairways, and head to the switch in the southeast. Hit it, go down the stairway, and enter the eastern tunnel. Take the teleporter, and then jump to the teleporter in the northeast. Go back in the teleporters you arrive in three times, and grab the yellow key in the next compartment. Enter the teleporter, and return to the western, blue door. Go up the stairway again, and open the yellow door. Go up the next staircase, run to the east, and flip the switch in the northwest compartment after it opens. Once the southern wall is lowered, enter the hallway, go up the next stairway, and open either of the doors. Flip the switch to the west to raise "steps" at the edge of the platforms in this area. Go into the teleporter and run southeast until the northeast wall lowers. Open the doors, go down the stairs, and trigger the western switch. Go back out, take the southeast teleporter, and open the southeast doors. Open the eastern door, take the lift down, and flip the eastern switch. Return to the outside, drop back down, and open the eastern, blue door.

Go across the bridge, open the door, and run to the switch in the east. Flip it, and run up the southern stairway. Open the door, head over the bridge, and flip the switch on the other side. Return to where you came from, and head up the stairs to the north. Flip the switch to lower the pillar. Grab the red key sitting on it, and leave through the next two doors to the west. Head through the red door at the north, and go under the skylight to open closets to the east and west. Hit the switch in the northwest compartment, go through the doorway, and go into either one of the northern corners in the next room. Hit the switch.

Other points of interest[edit]

Secrets[edit]

  1. Press the wall next to the marine's corpse at the starting area to find a backpack. (sector 38)
  2. After pressing the final switch in the room with crates (east of the starting area), enter the closet with the medikit in it, and press the western wall to find a secret tunnel. (sector 60) Lower the lift to find a blur artifact.
  3. At the southwestern part of the level, before the curved passage, press the switch to the north, and then the second switch behind it to lower walls to the north and south. Take the now-revealed northern lift, and ride it to the top. Turn east and press the wall to find a box of ammo, a box of shells, and a box of rockets. (sector 153)
  4. In the southwestern, curved passageway, one of the northern walls at the southern part of the route is misaligned. Press it to find a switch. (sector 146)
  5. Press the switch in secret #4, then run to the northern part of the hall to find megaarmor (sector 148). The switch only works once.
  6. At the switch lowering the eastern part of the eastern bridge, press the opposite wall to find a switch. (sector 391) Press it to open an alcove to the southeast containing four health bonuses, a medikit, a box of shells, and a light amplification visor.
  7. After lowering the eastern part of the eastern bridge, go back outside, and look inside the teleporter at the southeastern platform to find that the eastern wall now has a completely different texture. Enter this teleporter, and then use the teleporter you ended up on to come back to the first one. After this, turn east, and go through the fake wall into another teleporter. You will end up in a secret room in the northeastern part of the map with two stimpacks. (sector 429) Press the paneled wall in the southwestern part of the area to lower a soul sphere (you can notice it near the switch that lowers the western part of the eastern bridge).
  8. After getting the red key, go back up the northern stairs, and enter the alcove there. From there, run as fast as you can back and up the southern stairs, through the southern door, and then west through a hidden door, before it closes back. Take the lift (sector 472) up to the platform beyond, where you will find a plasma rifle and a energy cell pack.
  9. From the platform south of secret #8, find a misaligned texture on the western wall. Press it to reveal another secret passage. (sector 473) West of it, you will find a health bonus, a box of rockets, another energy cell pack and a computer map. Go down the stairway until you reach a dead end with a western wall that can be pressed on.
  10. Before exiting secret #9, find the alcove with the switch to the north and press it. Exit the secret area and head south. The bars east of the southern blue door will be raised. Enter the cavern (sector 501). You will find seven health bonuses, and an invulnerability.
  11. From the entrance to secret #10 (just before the bars), enter the cavern, run to the silver teleporter while dodging the hanging corpses, then through the nukage to the secret exit, (sector 509) just past the beginning of the western wall. Straferunning recommended.

Bugs[edit]

One of the ambushing spectres (thing 389) at the yellow door staircase teleports into a stuck position.

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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 (normal exit)
UV speed (secret exit)
NM speed (normal exit)
NM speed (secret exit)
UV max 10:30.17 Dylan Gill (TheV1perK1ller) 2017-06-21 cc15-1030.zip
NM 100S
UV -fast
UV -respawn
UV Tyson
UV pacifist (normal exit)
UV pacifist (secret exit)

The data was last verified in its entirety on January 13, 2022.

Deathmatch[edit]

Player spawns[edit]

This level contains seven spawn points:

  1. facing east. (thing 737)
  2. facing east. (thing 738)
  3. facing east. (thing 739)
  4. facing south-west. (thing 740)
  5. facing south. (thing 741)
  6. facing west. (thing 742)
  7. facing north. (thing 743)

Statistics[edit]

Map data[edit]

Things 814
Vertices 2893*
Linedefs 3344
Sidedefs 4655
Sectors 580
* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 2605.

Things[edit]

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

Technical information[edit]

Inspiration and development[edit]

Trivia[edit]

This map is part of a mini-series which includes Internal Reaches 2 (also known as Kaiser_1), Internal Reaches 3 (as MAP18 of Community Chest 2), and Internal Reaches 4 (also known as Kaiser_8).

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