MAP27: Terror (Scythe)

Scythe maps
First Episode 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
Second Episode 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Third Episode MAP21: Solitude MAP22: Despair MAP23: Anger MAP24: Hatred MAP25: Envy MAP26: Fear MAP27: Terror MAP28: Run From It MAP29: Hell on Earth MAP30: Fire and Ice
Secret maps 31 32

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

MAP27: Terror is the twenty-seventh map of Scythe. It was designed by Erik Alm, and uses the music track "Waiting for Romero to Play", from Doom II.

Walkthrough

Map of Terror

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

At the beginning, get your weapons and get rid of the monsters. Head through the blood trench until you find some stairs up to a large library, grabbing the super shotgun and rocket launcher in the rooms along the way. Go through this library killing monsters and grab the yellow skull key at the end. Now head back to the blood trench, looking out for opened bookshelves with monsters inside of them. Go to the yellow bars (they are near the starting point) and open them, going to the next area. Head through here to a small room, head through this room to the next one to find the red skull key. Look out for Hell knights who teleport in, then return to the library going back to where the yellow key was. While doing so, more monsters will be available for killing. Go through the red door, and you will eventually find the blue skull key guarded by four barons of Hell. Again, backtrack through the library being wary of newer monsters, then open up the blue bars in the blood trench. Make sure to grab the BFG9000 in the center before heading westward outside. Climb the rocky stairs up and you will teleport onto a pentagram, forced to pick up a blur artifact and facing up to three cyberdemons. If you attempt to jump for the megasphere on the pillar, you will teleport back to the library, with a cyberdemon attacking from the north. Go back to where the yellow key was to find the exit door open.

Other points of interest

The only way to get the megasphere without cheating is by using the arch-vile jumps or rocket jump. However, before doing so, you must make sure that your current health value is high enough to survive an arch-vile attack or the blast damage from the rocket. This concept is similar to accessing the outdoor megasphere in TNT Evilution's MAP11: Storage Facility.

Secrets

1. At the start, drop into the blood and go north, then east. Press on the darker section of the wall to the north to get a soul sphere. (sector 206)
2. In the small library at the northwest end of the map, press on the western bookshelf to find a revenant guarding a box of shotgun shells, another soul sphere, and an energy cell pack. (sector 285)

Speedrunning

Current Compet-n records

The Compet-n records for the map are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed
NM speed
UV max
NM100S
UV -fast
UV -respawn
UV Tyson
UV pacifist

The data was last verified in its entirety on July 4, 2020.

Current DSDA records

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

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed	0:09.89	Karim El-Sheikh (Kimo Xvirus)	2012-01-11	sc27-989.zip	Cross-listed from Pacifist
NM speed	0:09.86	Karim El-Sheikh (Kimo Xvirus)	2012-01-11	sc27n986.zip
UV max	3:27.71	KineticBeverage	2024-02-04	sc_max.zip
NM 100S	0:44.60	Aleksey Kamenev (4shockblast)	2021-06-02	sc27s044.zip
UV -fast	9:20.54	Tatsuya Ito (Tatsurd-cacocaco)	2009-09-30	sc27f920.zip
UV -respawn
UV Tyson	1:07:56.43	j4rio	2021-01-31	sc27t6756.zip
UV pacifist	0:09.89	Karim El-Sheikh (Kimo Xvirus)	2012-01-11	sc27-989.zip
NoMo	0:08.94	Aleksey Kamenev (4shockblast)	2015-07-07	sc27o894.zip
Stroller	0:28.20	Aleksey Kamenev (4shockblast)	2020-03-15	sc27str028.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on March 8, 2024.

Statistics

Map data

Things	218
Vertices	1574*
Linedefs	1672
Sidedefs	2348
Sectors	287

* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 1378.

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Heavy weapon dude	10	16	18
Imp	6	8	11
Demon	5	5	6
Revenant	5	10	20
Cacodemon	1	2	2
Pain elemental	0	0	2
Hell knight	12	17	19
Baron of Hell	8	10	11
Mancubus	3	4	5
Arch-vile	4	7	9
Cyberdemon	2	3	4
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun	1
Super shotgun	1
Chaingun	1
Rocket launcher	1
Plasma gun	1
BFG9000	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Box of bullets	2
4 shotgun shells	2
Box of shotgun shells	15
Box of rockets	13
Energy cell pack	11
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	4
Armor	1	1	0
Megaarmor	1	0	0
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Supercharge	7
Megasphere	1
Backpack	1
Berserk	1
Partial invisibility	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
Teleport landing	7

Multiplayer
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Heavy weapon dude	10	16	18
Imp	6	8	11
Demon	5	5	6
Revenant	5	10	20
Cacodemon	1	2	2
Pain elemental	0	0	2
Hell knight	12	17	19
Baron of Hell	8	10	11
Mancubus	3	4	5
Arch-vile	4	7	9
Cyberdemon	2	3	4
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun	1
Super shotgun	1
Chaingun	1
Rocket launcher	1
Plasma gun	1
BFG9000	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Box of bullets	2
4 shotgun shells	2
Box of shotgun shells	15
Box of rockets	13
Energy cell pack	11
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	4
Armor	1	1	0
Megaarmor	1	0	0
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Supercharge	7
Megasphere	1
Backpack	1
Berserk	1
Partial invisibility	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
Teleport landing	7

External links

• MAP27 demos from the Compet-n database: UV speed • NM speed • UV max • NM100S • UV -fast • UV -respawn • UV Tyson • UV pacifist
• MAP27 demos at the Doom Speed Demo Archive