MAP15: Putrid Palace (Ethereal Breakdown)

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MAP12: Desiccation MAP13: Override MAP14: Secondary Engineering MAP15: Putrid Palace MAP16: Red Mist Apparitions MAP17: Switchless MAP18: Hollywood Holocaust MAP19: The Waterlogged Castillo MAP20: Haunted Eye MAP21: Blood Temple
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This level occupies the map slot MAP15. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP15.

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MAP15: Putrid Palace is the fifteenth map of Ethereal Breakdown. It was designed by HeadshotTAS and uses the music track "".

Walkthrough

Map of Putrid Palace

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.

Secrets

1. In the southwestern outdoors area, past the section with the teleporting zombies, instead of going down where the switch is, walk to the ledge on the left to make a backpack appear. (thing 358)
2. Enter the blue door, activate the lift and ride it up and then walk through the next door. Pick the small door to the left, then press the yellow torch in this room. After that, make your way back out the small door and enter the door that has opened next to the red door at the end of the corridor. Here you can find a soulsphere and a computer area map. (sector 928)
3. Once you get into the courtyard that has a pillar with the megaarmor, you can grab it by pressing the northern side of the leftmost pillar at the top, which reveals a switch to lower the pillar. (thing 384)
4. The pillar with the invulnerability sphere, on the other hand, can be obtained by pressing on the waterfall in front of it, which causes it to lower. Ride it to the top, then turn back from the invulnerability sphere and shoot at a demonic face to your left, then immediately turn around to your right to shoot at a small switch that has revealed itself above a bookcase, which will cause the pillar to lower. (thing 586)
5. In the southernmost room of the map, there is a puzzle involving timed switches that you can solve. Upon doing so, a door will have opened just out of the room and to the east, leading to a tower with a switch that can lower a megasphere in the courtyard shown outside the window. (thing 228)
6. To unlock the bars leading to the BFG9000, go to the start of the map and enter the yellow door, after which you can press the second bookcase in this room to reveal a hidden path. Climb up the steps and press a switch to lower the bars, then go to where the BFG9000 is, but it will disappear after pressing the switch to lower its pedestal. To obtain it, backtrack to the switch that lowered the bars initially, and it will be there. (thing 971)

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

Miscellaneous demos

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes

Statistics

Map data

Things	1081
Vertices	9119*
Linedefs	5471
Sidedefs	9461
Sectors	1081

* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 4453.

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Zombieman	3	6	6
Shotgun guy	12	19	19
Imp	18	31	29
Nightmare imp	40	56	62
Lost soul	6	17	26
Demon	4	6	6
Spectre	6	13	18
Cacodemon	9	12	18
Pain elemental	2	4	7
Hell knight	12	14	13
Baron of Hell	1	1	5
Arachnotron	8	13	16
Mancubus	10	18	18
Cyberdemon	1
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun	1
Super shotgun	1
Chaingun	2
Rocket launcher	1
Plasma gun	2
BFG9000	2
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Box of bullets	18
4 shotgun shells	11
Box of shotgun shells	25
Rocket	2
Box of rockets	34
Energy cell	7
Energy cell pack	9
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	14
Medikit	14
Armor	2
Megaarmor	1
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Armor bonus	18
Health bonus	50
Supercharge	3
Megasphere	4
Backpack	1
Berserk	1
Computer area map	1
Invulnerability	1
The artifact of body	1
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Blue skull key	1
Red skull key	1
Yellow skull key	1
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Barrel	4
Teleport landing	17
Projectile spot	6	8	10
Trigger	27