[DOOM II] Dark Tartarus - Map 24 : Revive Station - UV-Max in 05'13
Pwad : Dark Tartarus v4
Map 24 : "'Revive Station"
Skill : Ultra-Violence
Category : UV-Max
Time : 05:13
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About the level : A quick one. Back to a city-themed map. Obviously it was more designed for a gameplay than for an atmosphere. But the music and the theme still set a nice effect which let me enjoy the map. Concerning the gameplay, it's another cyber/vile fest. Fortunately there is an invul sphere, but it's a quite hard map for once (unless you want to do it slowly, eh)...
About the run : Timing is certainly important here. You need to bring monsters outside to go for the keys, but you also need the viles to be far from you or at least occupied when going for the second key and the three switches to open the main trap room.
The cool thing is that if you haven't fired yet, the few packs of monsters are easy to dodge until you grab the yellow key and go for the invul. As you can see, after a single shoot, not only a pack of viles and cybers are teleporting from the big lightened wall, but also traps outside are activated too. A Tartarus-style mechanism (= treadmills :p) which brings a lot of monsters and way more viles. Of course the map is beatable without the secret invul but it's so damn useful that you may want to use it. The hidden ammo principle is good (a hiding place for few seconds but make you loose few seconds too with the invul when you need to reload your bfg) and the main thing then consists of a big infight until all viles are monsters are dead except all cyberdemons. You could've used the invul against them but I find it harder to kill them when you're flying around because of the vile's fire blast... Final fight is a walk in the park, obviously. I liked it actually, and it's a good challenge to work on your timing skills.