MAP17: Processing Area (TNT: Evilution)

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This level occupies the map slot MAP17. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP17.

MAP17: Processing Area is the seventeenth map of TNT: Evilution. It was designed by Tom Mustaine, who also composed the level's music track "More" shared with MAP05: Hanger.[1]

This level was also ported to PlayStation Final Doom as MAP20: Processing Area.

Walkthrough[edit]

Map of Processing Area
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]

Yellow key

In the starting area, use the door ahead or use the second one on the east. Inside, go along the corridor to the east. At the end, turn left and take the stairs leading into a computer room, there turn left and grab the yellow keycard.

Blue key

From this room, you can descend down the stairs back to the corridor and open the UAC door requiring the yellow key, or you can enter a door in the room where there was the yellow key. Then go down the stairs. Turn right and go forth to a room with the second yellow door and turn right in this room and flip a switch. This will make the keycard accessible. Enter the yellow door.

You will be in the nukage room overrun by barrels, and there is the blue keycard in the middle of the room. Spare the barrels as they will help you after they explode later. Try to prevent the monsters from detonating the barrels. Walk over the now-risen bridge and take the blue keycard. A crowd of demons will teleport into this room. Blow up the barrels, then eliminate any survivors. Leave the room via the closest door.

Red key

Return to the first wide door near the beginning of the level. Enter a wooden room north of the door. Walk upstairs and open the blue door north of the room. In the next room, walk upstairs and take the red keycard lying on the computer panel north. Note that a pack of monsters will teleport in here.

Backtrack to the wooden room near the beginning of the level. Take the corridor west. Open the red skull bars and flip the switch to end the level.

Secrets[edit]

Official[edit]

  1. From the start, walk all the way to the opposite end of the grassy area and go through the grey door there. From here, hug the right wall until you reach a slightly different-textured wall. Open it to get to the ledge surrounding the grassy area, at the end of which is a super shotgun. (sector 59)
  2. In the room with the yellow keycard, there are two banks of computers. Pressing use on the shorter one causes a nearby floor to lower, letting you access the adjacent courtyard. There is a tall pillar with a supercharge atop it in one corner of the courtyard; the longer computer bank in the previous room lowers the pillar. So, to get the secret, use both banks before dropping into the courtyard, then run onto the supercharge pillar while it is lowered. (sector 115)
  3. After taking care of business in the room behind the blue door, pick up the plasma gun on the circular blue platform in the center of the room. This opens a door elsewhere. Go back through the blue door, and continue east down the long corridor. Near the end you will see an open wall on the left; enter it and go down the hallway (sector 188) to reach another secret courtyard area.
  4. Part of the hallway (sector 167) leading to the courtyard in secret #3. Pressing the switch in this yard opens the door directly across from the exit switch, letting you access yet another courtyard, this one containing a BFG9000.

Non-official[edit]

  • Before you start hunting, open the door behind you at the start of the level to get a partial invisibility.
  • To get the megaarmor on top of the central fountain, descend one of the two sets of stairs on either side while moving towards the fountain. You will be able to work onto a section of fence. From there, run off it onto the lower part of the fountain. "Activate" the middle section, lowering it and repeat this with the top section.

Bugs[edit]

The north-central courtyard accessible through secrets #3 and #4 can be entered, before the corridor fully opens, with an arch-vile jump through the windows. As the corridor only opens from the other side, you can become stuck with no way to escape. The other two courtyards can also be accessed via arch-vile jump, but can be exited at any time.

Areas / screenshots[edit]

  • Start area

  • Pool

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 00:08 Aleksey Kamenev (4shockblast) 2013-07-18 ev17-008.zip
NM speed 00:44 Jim Leonard (Xit Vono) 2003-07-06 tn17-044.zip
UV max 02:55 vdgg 2014-07-24 ev17-255.zip
NM100S 01:04 Jim Leonard (Xit Vono) 2005-08-03 es17-104.zip
UV -fast 03:36 Jakub Razák (method_man) 2003-07-05 ef17-336.zip
UV -respawn 02:36 Jakub Machata (DooMerMan) 2003-07-05 er17-236.zip
UV Tyson 22:05 Jim Leonard (Xit Vono) 2002-08-18 et172205.zip
UV pacifist 00:08 Aleksey Kamenev (4shockblast) 2013-07-18 ep17-008.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on July 5, 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 0:04.91 kvothesixstring 2022-03-09 ev17p491.zip Cross-listed from Pacifist
NM speed 0:10.03 Bredd 2023-12-25 ev17n1003.zip Also Pacifist
UV max 1:58.43 KineticBeverage 2023-12-31 ev17m158.zip
NM 100S 0:54.40 Márk Istenes 2025-02-21 tntmap17nm100s054.zip
UV -fast 3:20.66 Andrea Rovenski 2023-01-18 ev17f320.zip
UV -respawn 1:55.69 Phoenyx 2023-04-21 ev17r155.zip
UV Tyson 22:05.89 Jim Leonard (Xit Vono) 2002-08-18 et172205.zip
UV pacifist 0:04.91 kvothesixstring 2022-03-09 ev17p491.zip
NoMo 0:06.11 kvothesixstring 2022-03-08 ev17o611.zip
NoMo 100S 0:57.80 Elmle 2019-04-30 ev17os057.zip
Stroller 0:20.00 Bredd 2024-01-08 ev17str020.zip

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

Deathmatch[edit]

Player spawns[edit]

This level contains six spawn points:

  1. facing north-east. (thing 20)
  2. facing west. (thing 59)
  3. facing west. (thing 157)
  4. facing south. (thing 158)
  5. facing west. (thing 159)
  6. facing west. (thing 160)

Statistics[edit]

Map data[edit]

Things 260
Vertices 938*
Linedefs 1186
Sidedefs 880
Sectors 295
* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 864.

Things[edit]

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

Trivia[edit]

  • To the west of the blue key room is an inaccessible area used to store monsters for teleportation into the level. If the player uses the noclip cheat and walks into this area, they will find the letters "TOM" and "NIИ" stitched into the walls. "NIИ" refers to Nine Inch Nails, and "TOM" refers to Tom Mustaine, the designer of the level.
  • The map's first public release was as MAP06 in #1DWANGO, part of the DWANGO series of WAD files.
  • The map was initially one of the four maps Mustaine submitted to id Software for inclusion in the Master Levels; the others being System Control (the introduction map of the Evilution campaign), an initially unreleased map (available on Mustaine's web site[2]) that was rejected due to its similarity to American McGee's Doom II map The Inmost Dens, and finally the accepted map Paradox.

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ My Music (archived 🏛). Mustaine.com (archived 🏛). Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  2. ↑ Mustaine's Master Levels page (archived 🏛)
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