Saturday, November 22, 2025

Map23: Barrels O' Fun


@john2001plus
13 minutes ago (edited)

4:00  Again, the first punch doesn't work for me.  They don't die with one punch.  I had to grab the berserk pack at the beginning of the map, and I'm not sure if it loses power with time.   To avoid the pinkies I had to let them get close and then do a 100 yard dash, with a little zig zagging, to reach the tunnel.  From the entrance of the tunnel I was able to chainsaw all the demons.

I entered this level with almost no ammo and 6%  health, which is how I finished the level.  This is my usual experience with Doom II.  Lacking health and ammo, I had to get very creative at every point in the map.  Sometimes I had to run away from battles and revisit them later.  I had to do many hit and run attacks, hitting enemies repeatedly this way.  I had to kill the last Arachnotron with the chainsaw because I was out of ammo.

This is my first time playing this map on Ultraviolent.  Still, it was no picnic on the easier levels.  It is a very difficult map. 

The two secrets I didn't discover until after I had reached the exit.  The extra health and few rockets would have been a big help.   Had I known the secrets I would have had a slightly easier time.  I've been trying to explore these maps on my own.

My actual play time for this map was over an hour.   I frequently saved my progress and reloaded many times after dying.  


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Map23: Barrels O' Fun

@john2001plus 13 minutes ago (edited) 4:00  Again, the first punch doesn't work for me.  They don't die with one punch.  I had to g...