MAP30: Threshold of Pain (PlayStation Doom)
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MAP30: Threshold of Pain is a map exclusive to the PlayStation and Saturn versions of Doom. It is the thirtieth and final map in the Ultimate Doom portion of the game, ending with a phenomenal arena battle against a large group of Hell knights and pain elementals, and being followed by a text screen.
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Contents
Walkthrough[edit]
Essentials[edit]
Other points of interest[edit]
Secrets[edit]
- (sector 112)
- (sector 173)
Bugs[edit]
During the final battle, lost souls may easily be spawned outside the boundaries of the level. Should this happen, and the souls move far enough outside the boundaries of the map, the level will become corrupted in memory and, if the game does not immediately crash, it will become gradually distorted, with linedefs moving out of their normal positions and properties of sectors changing unpredictably. While this bug can happen on any PlayStation Doom map containing pain elementals, it is particularly prone to happen here. Care should be taken to try to contain the pain elementals to the center of the room to avoid this.
Areas / screenshots[edit]
PlayStation screenshots[edit]
PlayStation Doom TC screenshots[edit]
End Area.
Sega Saturn screenshots[edit]
The first room of the map. It is filled with weak enemies.
Taking the berserk triggers a trap with Pain Elementals.
You will have to run across those platforms to the Partial Invisibility at least twice in order to complete the map.
The blue gate reveals the switch which opens the teleport that leads to the final room.
Music[edit]
The map uses the following music tracks:
| Port | Track | Composer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sony PlayStation | "Steadfast Extermination" | Aubrey Hodges | See PlayStation Doom music. |
| Sega Saturn | "Mutation" | Aubrey Hodges | See Saturn Doom music. |
Deathmatch[edit]
Player spawns[edit]
This level contains eight spawn points:
- facing south-east. (thing 2)
- facing north-west. (thing 3)
- facing south. (thing 4)
- facing north. (thing 5)
- facing south. (thing 6)
- facing north-east. (thing 7)
- facing south-east. (thing 8)
- facing south. (thing 9)
Statistics[edit]
Map data[edit]
| Things | 512 |
| Vertices | 998* |
| Linedefs | 1056 |
| Sidedefs | 1425 |
| Sectors | 252 |
Things[edit]
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:
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Technical information[edit]
Inspiration and development[edit]
Trivia[edit]
- The end of this level is one of only two text-based intermissions in PlayStation/Saturn Doom (marking the transition between Ultimate Doom and Doom II). Interestingly, the text itself is used, rather freely, from the intermission after MAP11: Circle of Death, pertaining to "your victory" enabling "humankind to evacuate Earth and escape the nightmare", with absolutely no mention of the events of Ultimate Doom itself. The Marine then has to find the "source of the alien invasion", placing him at MAP01: Entryway (marked as "MAP31: Entryway") with a pistol start instead of MAP12: The Factory.
External links[edit]
- Video of Threshold of Pain from the PlayStation version of Doom. (Part 1 of 2)
- Video of Threshold of Pain from the PlayStation version of Doom. (Part 2 of 2)