This is a DHT exam file. Its place is in the dht-exams directory. The DOOM Honorific Titles Created by Frank Stajano on 1994 05 01 S.;-) WIDLAKE hereby conquers the title of DOOM II INCUBUS. Exam file name : D1I-SYW .ZIP or maybe even .ARJ Title conquered : DooM II Incubus Author : S.;-) Widlake Completion date : 24th of April 1996 Game and version used : DooM II - Version 1.9 Log entry : - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHAL: D2I SYW S. Widlake 03 05 25 RFF-FFF-RFL : S.Widlake@rl.ac.uk (S. Widlake) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Substitutions : Due to "race conditions" on Out-of-Base levels I had to get this up as fast as possible so... YES :-( LV25-NM with :-) LV13-NM OR LV20-NM System/s used : Viglen 486/66 VLB with S*B*Pro OR Viglen P90 PCI with S*G*Pro Controls used : [IBM PS/2] KeyBoard + Bent Micro$**t Mouse With everything redefined as follows... Keyboard : Default settings but with... A : Move (Strafe) Left D : Move (Strafe) Right S : Move Backwards Space : Speed On Shift : Use [- which was not used !] Mouse : Yes it is Bent :-) LMB : Fire RMB : Forward Well - after a l---o---n---g wait - I finally received my D2I exam, yesterday, and due to these "race conditions", of having to get our advanced title exams with valid Out-of-Base levels, *before* anyone else claims them, I knew I had to get this done ASAP ! ;-( I do not have a lot to say about these .LMP's - Basically they were just done... nothing particularly outstanding... just done to get a valid set of .LMP's for D2I - My second of six [ ? ] titles... [ ? ] - As if I could be bothered to complete some of these "basic" titles... Well, maybe... [ ? ] Level 03 NMare! - Easy : Yeah pretty easy - the trick to this level is the "hop" from the chaingunner into the pit with the goodies. If you don't make it, you die. Otherwise, it's not at all difficult. Interestingly, on an initial practice attempt, I made the "mistake" of opening the back room with the former humans in it. The result was that they had a fight with most of the imps in this room and many of these got killed - This was such a neat "trick" that I thought I'd use it in my exam. Anyway, I finish with over 100% Health and Armour (I think), taking no damage in the final areas :-) Level 05 NMare! - Medm : This one caught me out. I hadn't practiced it at all (apart from doing it as part of a NightMare! "beginning until death" Run ;-) so I got rather stuck trying to work out a decent route. ;-( The basic problem here is that the goodies are at the beginning and the baddies are (still) at the end. I got shot up pretty bad but I was in, just about, a fit state to finish it... That final imp was nearly enough to screw my run - Though I had the patience to switch weapons and finish it :-) A rough "Medm" level, but not nearly as bad as LV04-NM. TRY IT ! Level 25 NMare! - Hard : Sorry, I don't know this level at all well... And since I've had so l---o---n---g to practice Out-of-Base levels I have basically been *forced* (those race conditions, once again) to do TWO Out- of-Base levels (which I already know) so as to complete this D2I exam before my chosen Out-of-Base level is GONE, which was a lot easier than practicing ALL of the hardest base set... That's the way it happened. Sorry. Out-of-Base (1) - NM13 : Rated as a Medium My original intended Out-of-Base .LMP - I made this one first of all. I'd had SSooo... much practice at this level I knew that it it wasn't going to be ANY sort of a problem for me to complete ! I follow a fairly safe route and ignore any problems. Taking the teleport was a complete screw-up and I didn't clear the elevator room properly. The time - and in fact the *whole* .LMP - stinks. I can complete this level (on NM!) (well) UNDER PAR, but that is NOT a requirment for D2I, so I didn't try. I did the silly dance stuff twice - Once where I was invisable - And again at the very end, just to make sure that this .LMP was valid, for sure. Out-of-Base (2) - NM20 : Rated as an Easy! I (finally) did this one, using a combination of tricks from THE REAL MASTERS of DooM II - such as Daniel.EXE Lindgren , Sven ("dasa") Huth AND Kai-Uwe Humpert... MANY THANKS to EACH of of these "Compet-N" players plus also Anthe Kren: D2I, D2GM, D1I for his many and most friendly messages of encouragment :-) Back to the .LMP... Step one: Dodge the fire-fight ! Step two: Go get a pile of guns plus 100% health and armour :-) Take the radiation suit & plasma then run for another +100% health - Run chaingun alley then take the REGULAR teleport [ This avoids the skull column. That got me every time I tried it, so I "found" a new variation :-) chaingun the caco. And then I screw up BIG TIME... This doesn't matter as the Megasphere is only a teleport away... The next two groups of monsters can drain your armour real quick, but from 200% they're not a problem. The end is just TOO easy. I was going to put this level with all the rest in the medium set BUT... With the amount of health, armour and ammo. and not a lot getting in your way... [ Nah, I've changed my mind ] It goes into the easy set ! :-) GGGG... Let's see how much of a complete b*st*rd I can be to the next guys that put in for their D2I exams - "What? Level 20 goes from Out-of-Base straight to Easy! S***, that has got to be some sort of mistake?"... Nope, I don't think so. Watch this .LMP and you'll see just how easy it really is ! Oops - I nearly forgot someone that deserves/wanted a mention... ZlatkO ThE GoDFatheR, aka T. Zajic, who has been pestering me by continually asking me where this exam has got to - GGGrrr... All those Thomas's... GooD EnougH FoR YoU !?! And do not "forget" to next time you e-mail me - Pfiati. IoW-SYW is next ;-) ;-) Oh, S*** I haven't even thought about doing a free... Oops ! But why should anyone care about a free when it is ALL about getting those all important Out-of-Base levels for a valid title... I was going to (try to) complete _yet_another_ Out-of-Base level but that's not really the spirit of this DHT thing... So I won't. Gotta leave at least something for others to do ;-) Anyway... [ In D1I-SYW.TXT - I wrote... ] I plan to do a... Free interpretation : Single-Player "IPX-NET" Session that Everyone should be able to -PlayDemo. Episode One on NightMare! As far as I can get... E1M3 probably ;-) This isn't particularly amazing, but it does show a quite differnet aspect of playing DooM - One that I've been "pushing" for over a year ;-) Anyway, try it - you might like it... So I plan to do something similar for D2I - and _this_time_ that "FakeNet.BAT" WILL be included ! ( OKay Jeff ? ;-) I ain't going to worry about how far (?) I get with this and I don't intend to make anything particularly brilliant - It's just "different" :-) [ Edited from D1I-SYW.TXT :-) ] If you're looking out for other (better) DHT exams to download then I'd suggest you take a look at all of the ???-JRH and the ones by ???-AAK. Jonathan has completed *ALL* of the possible DHT-exams [ bar ONE ] including both of the once-only and Epic "lightning" [ nine levels on-the-trot all under par ] Titles. However, Jonathan said a few thing in his .TXT files that are wrong - and invited people to prove him thusly ;-) 'Anthe' is the President of the "Club of Hoof/y Wrong Provers" - C.H.W.P. Just take a look at his .LMP's - They're excellent! And if you think he wimps-out by subtituting levels, he does this to make these exams more difficult. Oh, and before you get pissed and consider emailing me just to say that forming this Real (C.H.W.P) Club is not a "nice" thing to do... Jonathan Hoof is an "official supporter" (his words). Me - The Sixth (but nowhere near, The Last) D2I... Thanks and Respect To Steffen Winterfeldt - THE *D1S* - Frank: You didn't use LARGE ENOUGH LETTERS to decorate this player... Steffen Winterfeldt, THE "DooM 1 Schwarzenegger", D1S-SW.ZIP For completing The-Whole-Damn-Game on NightMare - GET IT !!! For his encouragement and also some assistance with this exam. [ Just a little bit is enough ;-) ] If any one in the .UK or Western Europe wants to take on a D2I over iFrag between 12 noon and 2:00 pm (.UK time) DooM or DooM II -Timer 20, Episode 1 or Smaller II levels or even some Pwad - I'll take you on "blind" if you want to win that badly - You know where to contact me... Come on people ! Not even ONE person has called me to play over iFrag since I put out this challenge with my D1I exam. Come on people ! Give me a call... I am just looking for a different game or many more (from playing just _one_ local opponant) - Even "fragbait" is welcome. I'll teach you ;-) Finally: Thanks go to Frank for creating this whole DHT thing ! Oh, in case it means anything to anyone... I run the rival (?) "Compet-N" area right next to the DHT-Exams one on the Primary DooM Archive, ftp.cdrom.com - remember to use a "mirror" site. Compet-N .LMP's - Give !!! ;-) S.;-) "E1M8-NM!1" and C.H.W.P Vice-President, and now, D1I Make that... S.;-) "LV13-NM!1 & LV13-NM!-AND-UNDER-PAR-1", and now, D2I S. Widlake (B.Sc.) s.widlake@rl.ac.uk