MAP32: Grosse (Doom II)

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This level occupies the map slot MAP32. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP32.

Three of the four Commander Keens.

MAP32: Grosse (named MAP32: Keen in the BFG Edition) is the second secret map of Doom II and can be accessed from MAP31: Wolfenstein. It was designed by Sandy Petersen and uses the music track "The Ultimate Challenge". The par time is 30 seconds.

Walkthrough

Map of Grosse

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

Go through the door in front of you to enter a large room with pillars and candles, as well as Wolfenstein SS Nazis on Hurt Me Plenty, Ultra-Violence, and Nightmare! skill levels. Travel to the opposite side of this room. Once you get close to the door, a cyberdemon will open the door and attack. Once you have destroyed the cyberdemon (or escaped from him), enter the room it was in and go through the door on the opposite side. Kill all four hanging Commander Keens and the panel behind them will raise, revealing the exit switch. Jump across the gap with the sky floor and hit the switch to exit.

Secrets

1. The southwestern pillar in the main room opens, revealing three chainguns. (sector 8)
2. The southeastern pillar in the main room opens, revealing a megasphere. (sector 9)
3. The northwestern pillar in the main room opens, revealing a BFG9000. (sector 2)
4. The northeastern pillar in the main room opens, revealing a super shotgun and two boxes of shells . (sector 1)
5. The center swastika on the western wall of the main area opens, revealing a cache of medikits, plasma cells and a plasma rifle. (sector 7)
6. The center swastika on the eastern wall of the main area opens, revealing an invulnerability artifact. (sector 5)

Bugs

This map cannot normally be finished when using the -nomonsters parameter because the hanged Commander Keens are missing. See Kill percentage flag used for -nomonsters and respawning for more details.

Speedrunning

Current Compet-n records

The Compet-n records for the map are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed	00:11	Adam Hegyi	2002-04-10	lv32-011.zip
NM speed	00:11	Adam Hegyi	2002-04-10	nm32-011.zip
UV max	00:35	Adam Hegyi	2000-10-14	lv32-035.zip
NM100S	00:24	Karim El-Sheikh (Kimo Xvirus)	2011-11-24	ns32-024.zip
UV -fast	00:35	Adam Hegyi	1999-07-06	fa32-035.zip
UV -respawn	00:34	Adam Hegyi	1999-07-15	re32-034.zip
UV Tyson	01:08	Laszlo Vecsei (Waldon)	2000-11-19	ty32-108.zip
UV pacifist	00:23	Radek Pecka	2001-10-23	pa32-023.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on July 5, 2020.

Current DSDA records

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

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed	0:10.94	deeperjungle	2023-06-19	lv32p1094.zip	Cross-listed from Pacifist Also Reality
NM speed	0:11.91	El Juancho	2023-02-09	lv32n011.zip
UV max	0:31.74	mhrz	2023-05-05	lv32-031.zip
NM 100S	0:23.80	Aleksey Kamenev (4shockblast)	2016-05-14	lv32s023.zip
UV -fast	0:30.83	mhrz	2023-05-12	lv32f030.zip
UV -respawn	0:33.23	Decay	2021-10-21	lv32r033.zip
UV Tyson	0:48.54	j4rio	2024-08-09	lv32t048.zip
UV pacifist	0:10.94	deeperjungle	2023-06-19	lv32p1094.zip	Also Reality
NoMo	0:13.14	depr4vity	2020-10-05	lv32o1314.zip
NoMo 100S	0:29.54	kvothesixstring	2022-07-23	lv32os29.zip
Stroller	0:32.77	megasphere308	2022-07-28	lv32str032.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on September 7, 2024.

Essorg

For a Compet-n contest held in February 2001, a mirrored upside-down version of Grosse called Essorg was created. "Essorg" is "Grosse" written backwards.

Deathmatch

Player spawns

This level contains five spawn points:

1. facing north. (thing 65)
2. facing west. (thing 66)
3. facing west. (thing 67)
4. facing south-west. (thing 68)
5. facing north-west. (thing 69)

Statistics

Map data

Things	111
Vertices	229*
Linedefs	216
Sidedefs	276
Sectors	20

* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 200.

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Cyberdemon	1
Wolfenstein SS	0	10	28
Commander Keen	4
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Super shotgun	1
Chaingun	3
Rocket launcher	1
Plasma gun	1
BFG9000	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Box of shotgun shells	2
Box of rockets	2
Energy cell	23
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Medikit	6
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Megasphere	1
Berserk	1
Invulnerability	1

Multiplayer
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Cyberdemon	1
Wolfenstein SS	0	10	28
Commander Keen	4
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Super shotgun	1
Chaingun	3
Rocket launcher	1
Plasma gun	1
BFG9000	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Box of shotgun shells	2
Box of rockets	2
Energy cell	23
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Medikit	6
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Megasphere	1
Berserk	1
Invulnerability	1
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Cooperative start	4
Deathmatch start	5

Trivia

• This level is based on the ninth and final level of episode one (shareware) of Wolfenstein 3D. The level name "Grosse" is a mispelling of "Grösse" which is a reference to the name of the boss character of Hans Grösse, who first appeared in that level. "Grösse" itself is an obsolete spelling of the German word "Größe" which means 'size' but also 'height' when indicating how tall someone or something is.
• This level was going to have horizontally sliding doors like its original counterpart. The code is still present but commented out.
• The official French name of this level is Le Massacre. Taken literally, this means "The Slaughter". That the level name was substituted rather than left alone (as was the case for the preceding Wolfenstein) may indicate that the translators did not realize that it serves as a reference to the same game. Alternatively, since "grosse" is a common word in French, they may have thought keeping the original name would have been confusing.

Censorship

In the German version of Doom II, this level was entirely removed.

In the version included with Doom 3: BFG Edition, all Wolfenstein SS have been replaced with zombiemen. In addition, the map is renamed to MAP32: Keen, the music track used is "DOOM", and the Nazi iconography has been removed from the textures. However, the latter two changes have been made by modifying the resources instead of modifying the map. This has been know to cause multiplayer network game synchronization issues with the original Doom II when playing this level. A patch to uncensor the BFG Edition version is available at this ZDoom forums thread.

In the Unity port and Doom + Doom II versions of the game, the Wolfenstein SS are retained but all Nazi iconography has been censored. Swastika symbols are replaced with a stylized triangle and Hitler's mustache is removed from his portraits.

External links

• MAP32 demos from the Compet-n database: UV speed • NM speed • UV max • NM100S • UV -fast • UV -respawn • UV Tyson • UV pacifist
• MAP32 demos at the Doom Speed Demo Archive
• Top-down perspective view of all Doom II levels by Ian Albert