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 David Gerdes hereby conquers the title of DOOM 2 Grand Master (D2GM) Exam file name : d2gm-dpg.zip Title conquered : DOOM 2 Grand Master Author : David Gerdes Completion date : 1996 01 24 Game and version used : DOOM II v. 1.9 Log entry : - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHAL: D2GM DPG David Gerdes 32 31 15 LLF-RRF-FLL : dpgerdes@rafiki.spyglass.com (Dave Gerdes) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Substitutions? : YES, MAP32 with MAP26 (out of base) System used : Acer Aspire P100 Win95 Controls used : Mouse: Left - Fire Right - Forward Keyboard: A - Use S - Strafe left F - Strafe right SPACE - Fast Free interpretation : Added MAP13 to base Additions to the base : (13H) (16H) (26M) Comments : Whew. That was intense. Now when playing normal UV everything is in slow motion. In one of the amendments to the rules, Frank mentions that it is now possible for one entry to add three levels to the base. I figured that was a decent goal so that is what I have done here. Sorry Frank, I hope I didn't give you too much extra work. Map 32 This one has been played so many times and so many ways, there was no way I could do anything unique, nor improve on all the good recordings out there. So I substituted this level with an out of base level. Map 31 Should be listed as easy. Map 15 This was fun, but at almost 40 mins, it got way too long. Map 13 I did this in D2M and knew it pretty well so I picked it for my Free Interp to add it to the base. (It is also in group Hardest in D2M) Definately a lot nastier on -fast. Map 16 I guess this one is my required out of base addition. This level was downright hard on -fast. This one was probably the hardest of the levels I completed. Actually the first 5 minutes are murder, after you get a little control over the situation, then it runs very smoothly. The authentication dance is in the Revenant room. Map 26 This is the substituted level for Map 32, as per section 6.6.2 The Appeal Mechanism for Advanced Titles. Compared to all the other levels (cept 31) this was by far the easiest. Author info : It was back when playing the shareware Doom and I caught myself leaning forward to look around the window to snipe on E1M7 that I realized how unique this game was. I have loved this game ever since. I have finished Heretic, Dark Forces and almost finished Marathon, and in my opinion Doom is unquestionably the best. The atmosphere, the personality and detail of the monsters, the completeness of features and quality that went into doom are unsurpased. This is to say nothing bad about the others either. I thoroughly enjoyed Dark Forces and Heretic as well. So bring on Quake! Oh, and this is to ID. For Quake, PLEASE allow us to reasign the 'q' key when recording demos. I have screwed up so many good recordings by accidentally hitting that key. While I waited for my challenge, I filled my time by recording lmps played by D2M rules. You can see all the levels of Doom 2 completed >= 100% kills at http://www.spyglass.com/~dpgerdes/doom/ As of this writing I have not completed two levels. I will get back to them after I complete my D2GM title.