MAP31: Cyberdemon Vertigo (Plutonia: Revisited Community Project)
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MAP31: Cyberdemon Vertigo is the first secret level of Plutonia: Revisited Community Project. It was designed by Whoo, and uses the music track "Getting Too Tense," composed by Robert Prince for Doom II. The par time defined in MAPINFO is 2:00.
Contents
Walkthrough[edit]
Essentials[edit]
Other points of interest[edit]
Secrets[edit]
Official[edit]
- Secret exit: While progressing through the map, the platform behind the rocket launcher east of the lift you rode down from the map start will lower. Use the teleporter and carefully ascend the stairs in front of you as stepping on every second stair opens the pair of gargoyle faced stone walls behind you, releasing monsters. Walking between the topmost candles (on the second stair from above) for the first time (note: do this before using the switch in the monster alcove) lowers a wall in front of you, preventing you from using the gargoyle switch behind it. (It is possible to reach the switch by straferunning over the trigger so that the wall lowers behind you. You can open it from inside.) Descend some stairs and open the lights in the back wall of the third eastern monster alcove, revealing a switch. Push it (note: you can do this only once, so do not push it when the wall has not been lowered yet) to open the wall upstairs and use the gargoyle switch behind it to lower the southernmost walls, revealing a megasphere and a new teleporter that leads to a white teleporter (sector 362) near the secret exit to map MAP32: Have @ It. You can explore the rest of the map and decide later to use the normal or the secret exit.
Non-official[edit]
- Stepping on the topmost stair (see official secret #1) opens a door downstairs. Enter it and push the switch to open the western door. Enter the teleporter behind it to land up in the first room you entered in this map. Walk to the northwestern part of the map and kill the cyberdemon. There is a niche with a fake switch in the northern wall of the room he was hiding in. As you enter the niche, a wall in the south starts rising. Quickly (strafe)run there and step on it before it rises too high. After the wall stops rising, walk to the east on the ledge and use the teleporter to get to a secret credits room (sector 392). There you find five rocket boxes, five bulk cells, two soul spheres and two megaspheres. Since you will not be able to come back here without cheating, grab anything you can. Step on the demon face on the floor to be teleported back to the first room you entered in this map.
Bugs[edit]
The hall of mirrors effect can occur in the central courtyard.
It is possible to get stuck in the room where you encounter the first cyberdemon: You open the door to this room from outside (linedef 242), cross the trigger to close the door (linedef 54) and have to reopen it by pushing a switch (linedef 106) that can only be used once. Outside again, if you press the use key in front of the door, the door lowers after some seconds and will stay shut for good, keeping you trapped inside: Either right now if you reentered the room before the door shut, or during later map progress when you will be teleported back into the room again.
There are two ways to prevent the player from reaching secret #1: Either by first using a switch (linedef 1530) to raise a wall before it is lowered, and then lowering the wall by hitting the trigger (linedef 750), thus blocking a needed switch (linedef 727) permanently. Or, similar to the previous bug, by reaching the needed switch (after using linedef 1530), but instead of using it, turning around and using the already permanently raised wall (linedef 242), going to the south of the wall and waiting to let it be shut for good.
None of the items in the deathmatch arena are flagged as multiplayer-only. As a result, it is impossible to attain 100% items, as some items listed in the table below are placed there, out of reach from the singleplayer/co-op area.
The deathmatch arena has its own secret exit room (sector 614 being its teleporter landing) similar to the one in official secret #1, but it is inescapable since the teleporter back out is missing a teleport destination.
An energy cell pack (thing 62), three energy cells (194, 345 and 346), and two barons of Hell (198 and 208) have no flags set for any of the three difficulty classes, so they do not actually appear in the level.
Design oddities[edit]
The deathmatch area has counterparts of both the secret room and non-official secret room, both modified to have damaging floors. More oddly, the deathmatch counterpart of the non-official secret holding a credits room features firesticks (things 405–408) that do not spawn on easy skill levels and happen to be the only multiplayer-only things in the deathmatch arena.
Demo files[edit]
Areas / screenshots[edit]
Speedrunning[edit]
Routes and tricks[edit]
Current records[edit]
The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:
| Run | Time | Player | Date | File | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UV speed (normal exit) | |||||
| UV speed (secret exit) | 1:03.09 | Phml | 2011-03-05 | pv31-103.zip | |
| NM speed (normal exit) | |||||
| NM speed (secret exit) | |||||
| UV max | 2:44.71 | rd | 2018-06-03 | pv31-244.zip | |
| NM 100S | 0:57.86 | Aleks Shahov (Plut) | 2013-02-03 | pv31s057.zip | |
| UV -fast | |||||
| UV -respawn | |||||
| UV Tyson | |||||
| UV pacifist (normal exit) | |||||
| UV pacifist (secret exit) | |||||
| NoMo (normal exit) | 0:55.94 | Aleksey Kamenev (4shockblast) | 2013-08-12 | prcpnomo.zip | |
| NoMo (secret exit) | 0:44.94 | Aleksey Kamenev (4shockblast) | 2013-11-16 | prcpnomo.zip |
The data was last verified in its entirety on June 3, 2022.
Deathmatch[edit]
This level includes its own, separate deathmatch arena.
Player spawns[edit]
This arena contains eleven spawn points:
- facing south-east. (thing 240)
- facing north-east. (thing 241)
- facing west. (thing 242)
- facing south-east. (thing 243)
- facing south-east. (thing 244)
- facing south. (thing 245)
- facing north. (thing 246)
- facing south-west. (thing 247)
- facing south-west. (thing 248)
- facing north-west. (thing 249)
- facing east. (thing 250)
Things[edit]
The following things (per skill level) are placed in the arena:
| Weapons | 1-2 | 3 | 4-5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shotgun | 5 | ||
| Super shotgun | 2 | ||
| Chaingun | 1 | ||
| Rocket launcher | 1 | ||
| Plasma gun | 2 | ||
| BFG9000 | 1 | ||
| Ammunition | 1-2 | 3 | 4-5 |
| Clip | 6 | ||
| Box of bullets | 2 | ||
| 4 shotgun shells | 5 | ||
| Box of shotgun shells | 4 | ||
| Rocket | 1 | ||
| Box of rockets | 5 | ||
| Energy cell | 4 | ||
| Energy cell pack | 3 | ||
| Health & Armor | 1-2 | 3 | 4-5 |
| Stimpack | 5 | ||
| Medikit | 6 | ||
| Megaarmor | 1 | ||
| Items | 1-2 | 3 | 4-5 |
| Armor bonus | 4 | ||
| Health bonus | 4 | ||
| Berserk | 1 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1-2 | 3 | 4-5 |
| Deathmatch start | 11 | ||
| Teleport landing | 3 | ||
Statistics[edit]
Map data[edit]
| Things | 409 |
| Vertices | 2659* |
| Linedefs | 2850 |
| Sidedefs | 4932 |
| Sectors | 623 |
Things[edit]
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:
* See Bugs section. |
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Technical information[edit]
Inspiration and development[edit]
This level was inspired by Cyberden, the secret level of The Plutonia Experiment. It was built Doom Builder 2 in over thirty hours.
Trivia[edit]
- Of the three MAP31 slots in the Plutonia series, Cyberdemon Vertigo is the only one that has two exits, one to MAP16: Gambit, and one to MAP32: Have @ It. The other two only contain single exits leading to their MAP32 slots.
