MAP21: Cyberbullying: Beyond Earth (Ancient Aliens)

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This level occupies the map slot MAP21. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP21.

MAP21: Cyberbullying: Beyond Earth is the twenty-first map of Ancient Aliens. It was designed by Paul DeBruyne (skillsaw) and uses the music track "Basement," composed by Stuart Rynn (stewboy). The par time is 8:00.

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Walkthrough

Map of Cyberbullying: Beyond Earth

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. Just east from where you start is a room with a lava pit in the middle, where you see the first arachnotron in the map. Southeast of the pit, you can claim a soul sphere. (sector 921)
2. From the same starting area as Secret #1, look to the south from the west ledge and try to jump through the southwest brick wall. You will have to fall at a proper angle if you are to enter the fake wall below, which contains a plasma gun, energy cell packs, and a megasphere. (sector 1342)

Speedrunning

Current records

The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed	1:14.09	Napsalm	2021-08-30	aa21p114.zip	Cross-listed from Pacifist
NM speed
UV max	3:55.09	VisitorQ	2018-05-17	aa21-355.zip
NM 100S
UV -fast
UV -respawn
UV Tyson
UV pacifist	1:14.09	Napsalm	2021-08-30	aa21p114.zip
NoMo	0:43.71	Inuk	2022-12-22	aa21o043.zip
NoMo 100S	0:46.94	Inuk	2023-07-04	aa21os046.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on July 10, 2023.

Statistics

Map data

Things	503
Vertices	6718*
Linedefs	8068
Sidedefs	12859
Sectors	1366

* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 6718.

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun guy	8	8	11
Heavy weapon dude	2	7	11
Imp	36	39	43
Demon	4	0	0
Revenant	6	7	7
Cacodemon	2	2	4
Hell knight	2	12	15
Baron of Hell	3	0	0
Arachnotron	3	6	6
Mancubus	1	3	4
Arch-vile	0	1	2
Cyberdemon	1
Stealth plasma alien	27	37	45
Alien guardian	7	12	17
Alien guardian 2	6
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun	1
Super shotgun	1
Chaingun	1
Rocket launcher	2
Plasma gun	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Clip	7
Box of bullets	6	7	7
4 shotgun shells	3	8	8
Box of shotgun shells	4	3	3
Rocket	46	48	48
Box of rockets	9	10	10
Energy cell pack	2
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	5
Medikit	31	29	29
Megaarmor	3
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Armor bonus	20
Health bonus	41
Supercharge	5
Megasphere	3
Berserk	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
Exploding barrel	24
Teleport landing	27
Voodoo doll	4

Multiplayer
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun guy	8	8	11
Heavy weapon dude	2	7	11
Imp	36	39	43
Demon	4	0	0
Revenant	6	7	7
Cacodemon	11	11	13
Hell knight	2	12	15
Baron of Hell	7	4	4
Arachnotron	3	6	6
Mancubus	1	3	4
Arch-vile	0	1	2
Cyberdemon	2
Stealth plasma alien	27	37	45
Alien guardian	7	12	17
Alien guardian 2	6
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun	1
Super shotgun	1
Chaingun	1
Rocket launcher	2
Plasma gun	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Clip	7
Box of bullets	6	7	7
4 shotgun shells	3	8	8
Box of shotgun shells	4	3	3
Rocket	46	48	48
Box of rockets	9	10	10
Energy cell pack	2
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	14
Medikit	31	29	29
Megaarmor	3
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Armor bonus	20
Health bonus	41
Supercharge	5
Megasphere	3
Berserk	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
Cooperative start	4
Exploding barrel	24
Teleport landing	27
Voodoo doll	4

Trivia

• In the comment section under the playthrough of this map on decino's YouTube channel, skillsaw shared the following information about this level:

"Oh no, my bad on the broken cyber. Sorry about that! The cyberdemon was supposed to teleport through all the way to the end, queued behind the other, so you'd fight two cybers at the end in the room with the SSG/crushers... Meanwhile, he'd be able to harass players who fell behind from the first cage until he was able to teleport to the next.

It didn't work because the teleport destination in the final room was blocked by the first cyber, while his destination sector lowered, and so the bonus cyber walked through the teleport line and got out into the hallway, instead of teleporting to the final room. In MP, this is actually kind of funny because he'd end up blocking off the hallway which is going cause some chaos, but in single player he just turned into a sniper without a good line of sight. To make this work reliably, there needs to be a second teleport line/destination from the 2nd cyber cage.

Anyways, this was the first E3 completed, before I had figured out exactly what it was going to do. The maps I did after this (namely, 25, 27, and 29) lean way more heavily into the synthwave alien void aesthetic, which I think ended up much more cohesive. The plasma gun secret allows you to cheese the map (with the cells you can easily kill the cyber in the first cage). On the other hand, the SSG starvation was intended to make it harder to kill the cyberdemon early. I'm actually very fond of this map even though I think it's generally one of the less liked maps for most players."

―Paul DeBruyne (skillsaw) 

External links

• Ancient Aliens demos at the Doom Speed Demo Archive