MAP27: Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls (Ancient Aliens)

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This level occupies the map slot MAP27. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP27.

MAP27: Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls is the twenty-seventh map of Ancient Aliens. It was designed by Paul DeBruyne (skillsaw) and uses the music track "Garden of Lost Souls," composed by Stuart Rynn (stewboy). The par time is 9:00.

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Walkthrough

Map of Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls

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. Pass the saucer on the far western section of the map and jump to the teleporter behind it. You can walk up the neon walkway to claim rockets and a soul sphere. (sector 1480)
2. At the area to the south that requires three keys, from the saucer on the west side (which you can access with either the red key or via the saucer on the east side from the yellow key area), drop down to the north to get medikits and an energy cell pack. (sector 1732)

Bugs

Eight monster closets targeting the yellow key are likely to break in multiplayer and as a result fail to teleport at least half the included monsters (eight), making it impossible to achieve 100% kills. This happens because playing co-op increases the amount of monsters per closet from one to two, with the first monster now blocking the second one from teleporting after it, as these closets lack a looping mechanism to allow the monsters to attempt to teleport again if the teleport destination is temporarily blocked by another actor. While the closets can also fail to function correctly in singleplayer, this is far less likely to happen, as it requires monsters from an earlier ambush in this same area to still be alive and wander over the teleport destinations at the exact time the second ambush is triggered.

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	9:15.71	Andrea Rovenski (Cyberdemon531)	2016-10-15	aa27-915.zip
NM 100S
UV -fast
UV -respawn
UV Tyson
UV pacifist
NoMo	1:04.71	Inuk	2023-10-09	aa27o104.zip
NoMo 100S	1:19.94	Inuk	2023-10-09	aa27os119.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on November 2, 2023.

Statistics

Map data

Things	826
Vertices	21378*
Linedefs	25849
Sidedefs	46336
Sectors	3542

* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 21378.

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Zombieman	9	10	10
Shotgun guy	24	26	26
Heavy weapon dude	8	9	10
Imp	51	71	83
Demon	2
Revenant	11	13	18
Cacodemon	10	13	13
Pain elemental	1
Hell knight	9
Mancubus	9	12	12
Arch-vile	4	4	6
Stealth plasma alien	37	60	63
Alien guardian	3	4	4
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Super shotgun	1
Chaingun	1
Rocket launcher	2
Plasma gun	2
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Box of bullets	6
4 shotgun shells	18
Box of shotgun shells	1
Rocket	84
Box of rockets	9
Energy cell	20
Energy cell pack	4
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	25
Medikit	30
Armor	2
Megaarmor	1
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Armor bonus	22
Health bonus	17
Supercharge	3
Berserk	2
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Blue skull key	5
Red skull key	5
Yellow skull key	5
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Exploding barrel	108
Teleport landing	74
Voodoo doll	6

Multiplayer
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Zombieman	9	10	10
Shotgun guy	24	26	26
Heavy weapon dude	8	9	10
Imp	74	98	106
Demon	2
Revenant	19	21	30
Cacodemon	10	13	13
Pain elemental	1
Hell knight	9
Mancubus	12	16	16
Arch-vile	5	5	7
Cyberdemon	1
Stealth plasma alien	37	60	63
Alien guardian	3	4	4
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Super shotgun	1
Chaingun	1
Rocket launcher	2
Plasma gun	3
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Box of bullets	6
4 shotgun shells	18
Box of shotgun shells	1
Rocket	84
Box of rockets	9
Energy cell	27
Energy cell pack	4
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	25
Medikit	30
Armor	2
Megaarmor	1
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Armor bonus	22
Health bonus	17
Supercharge	3
Berserk	2
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Blue skull key	5
Red skull key	5
Yellow skull key	5
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Cooperative start	4
Exploding barrel	108
Teleport landing	74
Voodoo doll	6

Trivia

• The name of the map was based on the fourth movie in the Indiana Jones franchise with (nearly) the same name.
• In the comment section under the playthrough of this map on decino's YouTube channel, skillsaw shared the following information about this level:

"When dew playtested this map I'm pretty sure he immediately pointed out "uhh, you know this map is REALLY easy, right?" and I was fine with that, this is just a more chill/vibes oriented map. I was really happy with the atmosphere of the exterior areas and how well stewboy's midi gelled with it and wanted that stuff to be more forward than the combat. Wish I had done some more maps in this visual theme though!

The floating rocks are as you said a lengthy animated texture (with a matching solid black animated texture for the back of the midtextures [sic]). I probably could have just done this with sector platform movers."

―Paul DeBruyne (skillsaw) 

External links

• Ancient Aliens demos at the Doom Speed Demo Archive