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 Mike Toliver hereby conquers the title of Doom 2 Tyson. Exam file name : D2T6MET.ZIP Title conquered : DOOM 2 Tyson Author : Mike Toliver Completion date : 1998 03 16 Game and version used : Doom2, v. 1.9 Log entry :19970715 2124 CHAL: D2T6 MET 03 04 28 (00) 19970715 2124 : Mike E Toliver Substitutions? : N/A System used : P166 with no sound. Controls used : Keyboard (default) Free interpretation : Map 28 "almost" Comments : I had this challenge for some time, but didn't do much with it. I did the easy level shortly after I got the challenge, made a few desultory attempts at map 04, then went on to other things. After I finished my incubus exams, I wanted to complete this one for the sake of closure. It's really nice to get this done, as it is the hardest title (of those currently available) to achieve. By my calculations, maybe 26 percent of the people who request this title actually complete it. Map 03 - Not much to this one. I just let them kill each other as much as possible. Map 04 - Well, this was a real frustrating experience! I don't know how many times I tried this thing - probably about 30 or so - and it was getting pretty old, dying all the time from some dumb-ass mistake or too many enemies and not enough ammo. Most of the time, there was a trade-off between ammo and health - use lots of ammo and save health, but then there's no ammo to take on the chaingunners. Use less ammo, then the imps, shotgun charlies and zombies whittle you down to nothing so you can't even make it to the chaingunner room. Thank God I didn't have this on my incubus exam.... Map 28 - This was more fun than map 04, and I suspect took fewer attempts (each attempt takes a long time, though). I have to keep telling myself to play more aggressively. When I did so (the beginning, the two arch vile room...) things worked out pretty well. However, as I progressed through the level, I became more and more nervous as it looked more and more like I had a shot at finishing this thing. I was a complete wreck when it was time to get the red key and face the revenants, as you can see from my hesitation before picking up the invulnerable. I got four of them, still had an invulnerable and decent health and I just went to pieces. Fell off the ledge, wasting precious moments of invulnerability, couldn't hit the right keys... You can't IMAGINE how tempted I was to just exit - the arch viles had revived a few monsters which I had then dispatched, so I could've exited with 100% kills if I'd left the last 3 revenants. I kept going, though. Then, down to the last revenant, he really socks me so I loose over 50% health - I'm down to 46% MAN did I want to just quit. But I had a few bullets (15 I think) so I figured I'd try and shoot him. If I ran out of ammo, I'd just leave. He died when I had 3 bullets left. So, this is truly 100% everybody dead. I know some folks think you're a weenie if you use the arch viles to revive some enemies and leave without doing everybody - but if you want to do it that way, I say more power to you. After all, it's only a game... Free - I toyed around with the idea of doing map 07 - got a few attempts of it - but I'm no Daniel Lindgren. So, I thought I'd do something I haven't seen anywhere else - submit one of my unsuccessful attempts at map 28. "Whoa - what's the idea? Why would you DO such a thing?" Well, part of the DooM and DHT experience that is seldom captured in these exams is the SOOO CLOSE attempts we've all had that makes this game so frustrating and fun. This particular attempt is one revenant shy of completion - I die chainsawing him when he gets around on me and drains away my last bit of health. You can sense my amazement as I lie there dead on the floor while he does his victory dance - none of the other 10 revenants had managed to come around on me like that. It's always the last one. Then I'm thinking "GODDAMN - I had nearly 60 bullets - I could've shot the bozo to death from a safe place!" In some ways, this is a better lmp than my successful version (it's shorter, for one thing: 47m.56s. as opposed to 59m.25s.). I tend to be more aggressive in this one, making for a more exciting lmp. Author info: Biology professor. Marine Corps combat vet ('Nam). Obsessed with DooM since 1996. With this title, I now have all the DHT 6 titles and 6 DHT 5 titles (17 total, 13 unduplicated). Since this is my last title (at least until Frank opens up some more), I just want to say "Thanks" - especially to Frank who has made this game really come alive. Also Dave Ryding, who's a better player than me (and I'm pretty damn good :-) and who introduced this obsession to me a couple of years ago. I always enjoy our visits when we stay up till dawn doomin' the night away. Also high regard to Rini, Poeppy, George Bell, Patrick Martin, Rich Sham, demonlord, etc. all of whom have made some terrific lmps. Rini and Poeppy came up with pacifist - a really great innovation (see the pacifist collection that Rini has assembled, much like George's Tyson collection). Keep doomin', folks...