This is a DHT5 exam file. Its place is in the dht-exams directory. The DOOM Honorific Titles Created by Frank Stajano on 1994 05 01 Phidias N. Bourlas conquers the title of Doom 2 Grand Master. Exam file name : d2gm-pnb.zip Title conquered : Doom 2 Grand Master Author : Phidias N. Bourlas Completion date : 1995 05 16 Game and version used : Doom II v. 1.9 Log entry : CHAL: D2GM PNB Phidias N. Bourlas (DM) 01 14 06 FLR-RRR-FFF : Phidias Bourlas Substitutions? : NO Additions to the base : MAP28 (hard) System used : Am386DX40 processor, 4M RAM, CL-GD5422 graphics card (ISA), SBPro sound card Controls used : Standard keyboard only Free interpretation : MAP32 uv-fast, shotgunning the Cyb. without hiding Comments : lmp level skill kills secrets items health armor time par -------- ----- ----- ----- ------- ----- ------ ----- ----- ---- map01-uv MAP01 uv,f. 100% 100% 100% 108% 101% 5:03 0:30 map14-uv MAP14 uv,f. 102% 0% 100% 63% 0% 15:37 2:30 map06-uv MAP06 uv,f. 100% 100% 100% 100% 107% 19:49 2:30 map28-uv MAP28 uv,f. 100% 85% 100% 172% 8% 23:50 7:00 free MAP32 uv,f. 100% 66% 100% 177% 177% 4:03 0:30 MAP01 is not so easy as it seems. Killing fast imps with the pistol, arrghhh... Face-to-face fight is death; hide behind the corner, if you want to stay alive. I completed the level with the maximum possible health & armor. MAP14 was the hardest of my assigned levels. J. Makaiwi (D2GM JRM), who added it to the base, says: "Level 14 (my out-of-base level) is a medium difficulty. There is plenty of ammo and not a lot of places where you get into hand-to-hand combat (which is what makes a -fast level hard -- for me)." I disagree, it's rather hard. Fast makes it hard when you have to fight with many monsters simultaneously, and that's the case here. Moreover, imps and humans are hard when fast; big monsters are the same (arachnotrons, archvils, etc.) Chaingunners are death. Took me about 50 tries; at last I found the right strategy. MAP06 is medium, if not easy, but surely not hard. I completed the level easily, without very good playing, to say the truth. I do the dance waiting the spiderdemon to be crushed. MAP28 is my out-of-base level. I knew well this level from my D2M and D2I exams, so I picked it up, though it's rather hard. There is plenty of ammo, weapons and power-ups, but if you don't know what to do, you are dead (in hell, of course). Took me about 50 tries. I left the NE room (5 columns, mancubi, revenants, lost souls, 3 secret rooms) for the end, in order to have big weapons and 200% health-armor when entering; but I almost got killed. I was so terrified that I forgot to pick the 4 backpacks (after killing the revenant), so I got only 85% secrets. At the end I heared something but I found anything (it's a lost soul launched outside). By the way, I hate pain elementals; when fast, they shoot skulls with the frequency of a chaingun shooting bullets. (I exaggerate, but if I hadn't the plasma gun...) Since I have no good ideas for free lmps, here is MAP32 again, as in my D2M and D2I exams. (The usual level for everyone who wants demonstrate his anti- cyberdemon skills.) Of course I have something different here. J. Makaiwi gave me the idea of cyberdemon shotgunning. As a keyboard-player, I cannot do circle- shooting so well, but in my D2M free lmp I showed that I'm not afraid of cyberdemon rockets. I fought him face-to-face, without hiding behind the corner even once! I used shotgun, rocket launcher and chaingun (without having invulnerability of course). And now I do the same thing on uv-fast! It's not easy because the cyberdemon doesn't stop shooting when fast. D2GM is my 9th DHT4/5 title (D*M,D*SG,D*GM,D*I,D1T) and possibly the last one. (I don't think there will be another D2T, except J. Hoof, and the only other possible title is perhaps the Epic D2L - but rather J. Hoof is the one going to conquer this too. :-) ) So, what remains on me after all this? The pride of having conquered these titles, some nightmares with horrible, but cute - after all - monsters, and, above all, the memories of so many exciting doomish moments. Happy dooming to all! (Aaarrghhh, bam - boom, aaarrghhh!...) P.S. I want a Pentium! (386-aarghhh...) Author info : Born on 27 Nov. 1970 in Athens, Greece. Electrical & Computer Engineer. (National Technical University of Athens) Doom Master (DHT3 title) Doom 1 Master Doom 1 Speedy Gonzales Doom 1 Grand Master Doom 1 Incubus Doom 1 Tyson Doom 2 Master Doom 2 Speedy Gonzales Doom 2 Incubus and now, Doom 2 Grand Master Author of lmp_v19.zip (lmp collection of all 27 levels of Doom v. 1.9 (ultra-violent, 100% kills, 100% secrets, max health, max armor)). e-mail: phib@danaos.ntua.gr, phib@theseas.ntua.gr