Fredrik
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I've long wanted to see a UV speed TAS of Dystopia 3, because the maps are beautiful and there are some really cool shortcuts. Today I loaded dyst3 in prboom-plus to play the first few maps in slow motion just to try out routes, using save/reload to manage the shortcuts and stay out of enemy fire, but otherwise not trying to optimize anything. I got the following times, some of them improvable by several seconds:
map01 - 0:20
map02 - 0:38
map03 - 0:39
map04 - 1:16
map05 - 0:48
map06 - 0:07
The tricks/routes I've come up with:
map01 - Hit all switches in the main room before they rise.
map02 - Jump through the window to skip the blue key. I also grab the blue armor here for better odds on map04.
map03 - Damn, if the death trap had 5 seconds longer delay or the mancubus wasn't there, you could run directly to the exit without finishing the race. Anyway, there is still a nice trick on this map which is to get a monster to open the yellow key door.
map04 - Only trick I've found here is skipping switches in the first room.
map05 - Yellow key can be skipped. Brief detour to grab supercharge for map06.
map06 - Arch-vile jump to exit.
Unfortunately, the fun ends on map07, which is essentially a big maze with monsters blocking your way everywhere, and that's where I quit playing for now.
The idea is that I'll actually record this when I get the time... (unless someone else wants to do it)
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05-01-07 17:41 
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