Bloodflood

If you enjoy "frugality" maps where you have to calculate every bullet you expend, abuse tysoning + chainsaw range just to save a few bullets, and feeling vulnerable all of the time, this is the map for you. All of the hallmarks of its creator "Master" Sverre Kvernmo are here: liberal use of barrels, hidden weapons (the RL pickup could almost qualify as a secret!), nasty traps, and ammo & health "balancing" that would put even the Finnish Frugality Formula to shame. As usual, you will find yourself trading health of ammo, a cruel proposition indeed when you really don't have much of either.

The blue key trap is indeed very cruel, but, luckily, easily sequence-breakable, even in Vanilla (in fact I wonder if breaking it was the intended way of completing it...hmm). Othen than that the map really is well designed and ahead of its time, but it also nastily stings the player every which way. The fact that it's a "dual purpose" DM/solo map, means that there are inaccessible areas containing ammo/weapons/goodies that you desperately need most of the time but you can't have 'em, plus that (seemingly) inaccessible Yellow Key door fuckery at the end...

First in the Cabal Series from Master Sverre Kvernmo. Small but tough gameplay. An important element in any powerful black magic is huge amounts of blood. Watch the bloody sea rise.