ZDaemon Thursday Night Survival #251 - Plutonia Nightmare! Continued...

That's right, we only got to MAP18 last week before switching modes.
What, you thought we were just going to give up without finishing?

You've all had a week to recover from the chaos caused by the first 18 maps, and now it's time to finish what we started and take on the last 14 maps. Including MAP22. And MAP32. Have fun!

DMFLAGS: 1174487140 / 806496256 / 0
IWAD: plutonia
PWADs: plutmidi (optional)
Maps: 19-32
Lives: 1
Players: 25/100
Item Respawn Time: 60 Seconds
Player Join Limit: 3 Minutes

Date: 2nd June 2016

Euro session: 19:00 BST/14:00 EDT at [L@P], Germany (usually lasts 6-8 hours, sometimes much longer)

Get ZDaemon and join in.

Oh shit.

I don't feel like I'm ready for another 6 hours of continious dying... But maybe I'll come.

So, we failed the first map of the maplist, got the following three four golden obits:

"Choft fell for Choft's tricks."
"Keyboard_Doomer probably tried playing keyboard-only."
"lego shat a brick."
"lego will lie in bricks of the end of the ambush." (apparently, I missed this one)

...and got kind of very stuck on the second still the first map of the maplist (MAP19); all in the first ten minutes xD

It took up to 48 marines almost hour and a half, but we finally beat MAP19 xD

We have just broken the record for the server population. If you want to help us some more join now!

So... IT FINALLY HAPPENED! 49 is not the magical number anymore.

LONG LIVE 51 56!!! (or hopefully not very long:)



And ye olde 51 screenshot...

Holy crap, that's insane!

Doomkid said:

Holy crap, that's insane!

And what would you call 56? :)

Crazy session lol. With the exception of 21, every map is like a struggle. But it was pretty fun to discuss strategies with people and eventually get stuff done by cooperating well. These maps weren't intended for this kind of playing at all (nightmare, hordes of players, invisibility spheres giving actual invisibility, monsters being able to open fast doors, etc), but somehow there is a lot of depth to it anyway.

Yeah, it was like a string of MAP14s...

We managed to finish whole !6! maps this session; what a performance! But, sarcasm aside, that was actually quite a feat. Anyway, it means we still have 8 maps left to play, but we will be taking a break from Plutonia for a few weeks so that we can recover. Do not rejoice that we will forget about it though; we WILL come back, and we WILL finish it!

In the meantime, let's enjoy the fun memories and mental scars we are taking away from the last two sessions :) Thanks everyone for coming!

So you couldn't beat Map25? Were there at least some good attempts?

kuchitsu said:

So you couldn't beat Map25? Were there at least some good attempts?

Nope, most of those who would know what to do left so we bailed. We had a (rather quick, lol) tr rotation and then an rd + fast rotation also adding maps from part 1.

For map 25 the rocket jump should be quite easy to do in zdaemon, so if you can get past the first part it shouldn't be too much trouble. If the rest of the maps are anything like with non-multiplayer monsters then you should have an easy time.

So well done making it that far! Sorry I didn't stick around longer, especially the second session, I just wasn't in the mood for watching 1 person wait for respawn items followed by attempting to get past 3 cyberdemons in close encounters :)

@ZeroMaster

Cheers for joining us again. I can imagine how frustrating it must be to know the route and what to do but to have to wait for 5 minutes as several players camp one secret to get health and armor and then drop like flies anyway. It was annoying and normally we would solve this either by lowering the item respawn time or giving some health/armor at spawn to all players but it was the first map of the maplist and it felt doable with just a little bit of cooperation so we didn't want to give in just yet. Hope to see you in part 3 as we finish this.

I've tried and yeah, map25 RJ isn't too hard to do - what might be more problematic is to get enough health for it among all of the other players :)
I was even able to do the glide before the RJ but I can't seem to actually teleport after doing it. How the hell does that work?


Anyway, enough of the talk. The session statistics follow:

First blood:
sid0rv | couldn't evade a revenant's fireball 11 seconds after joining

First blood in subsequent rotas:
2nd rota (total randomization): ErisFalling | couldn't dodge a destructor's rocket 18 seconds after joining
3rd rota (random damage with -fast): ErisFalling | splattered by a cyberdemon 53 seconds after joining
4th rota (standard randomization): Malfunction | punched by a revenant 1 minute and 19 seconds after joining

Peak server population:
56 - new record \o/

Overall number of players that connected during the session:
172

Player death counts by obituaries (1st rota/2nd rota/3rd rota/4th rota):

2 killed themselves. (1/1/0/0)
14 died. (9/4/0/1)
74 mutated. (60/4/9/1)
0 were squished. (0/0/0/0)
8 went boom. (7/0/1/0)
46 should have stood back. (37/3/4/2)
36 were killed by a zombieman. (32/0/4/0)
90 were shot by a sergeant. (74/0/16/0)
405 were perforated by a chaingunner. (354/1/49/1)
12 were slashed by an imp. (12/0/0/0)
79 were burned by an imp. (72/0/7/0)
18 were bit by a demon. (16/0/2/0)
49 were eaten by a spectre. (42/0/7/0)
105 were spooked by a lost soul. (81/0/24/0)
2 got too close to a cacodemon. (0/0/2/0)
59 were smitten by a cacodemon. (37/0/22/0)
26 were punched by a revenant. (21/1/3/1)
312 couldn't evade a revenant's fireball. (271/4/36/1)
51 were squashed by a mancubus. (35/0/16/0)
64 let an arachnotron get them. (53/0/11/0)
5 were gutted by a Hell Knight. (3/0/2/0)
81 were splayed by a Hell Knight. (67/0/14/0)
14 were ripped open by a Baron of Hell. (13/0/1/0)
101 were bruised by a Baron of Hell. (85/3/13/0)
225 were incinerated by an archvile. (199/1/25/0)
8 stood in awe of the spider demon. (7/0/1/0)
443 were splattered by a cyberdemon. (407/5/31/0)
0 were surprised by the zombie's weaponry. (0/0/0/0)
2 were mauled by a Mauler Demon. (0/1/0/1)
0 were charred by a pain soul. (0/0/0/0)
0 were melted by a pain soul. (0/0/0/0)
0 suffered psychic trauma from an aracnorb's brainwaves. (0/0/0/0)
0 were perforated by an Arachnophyte. (0/0/0/0)
51 couldn't dodge a destructor's rocket. (4/47/0/0)
1 was terminated by the Badass Cyberdemon. (0/1/0/0)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2383 deaths overall. (1999/76/300/8‌)

top 10 players with most deaths (deaths/joins, death ratio):

ErisFalling      131/141, 92.91%
fred512          124/135, 91.85%
Keyboard_Doomer   90/109, 82.57%
zeaz              87/93,  93.55%
Ancalagon         79/93,  84.95%
sid0rv            78/83,  93.98%
Malfunction       71/78,  91.03%
valkiriforce      65/65, 100.00%  <-- There's a lot of these. Especially if you'd only count the 1st rota :)
memfis            59/61,  96.72%
rhinoduck         56/61,  91.80%

       Map                   Attempts     Deaths      Time spent      Note
                              needed                  on the map
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
MAP19: NME                      27          680        01:34:00
MAP20: The Death Domain          9          292           41:39
MAP21: Slayer                    1           27           01:18
MAP22: Impossible Mission       20          550        01:20:37        *
MAP23: Tombstone                 9          195           53:23        **
MAP24: The Final Frontier       12          214        01:07:47
MAP25: The Temple of Darkness    3           41           07:18        ***
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL                           81         1999        05:46:02

This is the 33rd highlights video I've worked on, it's also the last. It's been mostly fun :P
Glad I could wave goodbye to the series with a session so spectacular that all the best bits only just fell short of an hour.

"Highlights are up."

Nice vid, it's fun to rewatch these memorable moments of frustration and triumph. Thanks for doing these. :) The statistics always surprise me, Tombstone definitely felt longer than 9 attempts.

You should put up a list of everyone who had a 100% death/join ratio.

As you wish, I'm including player statistics from the Nightmare! rotation for ALL players.

ErisFalling      81/81, 100.00%
zeaz             75/75, 100.00%
fred512          72/72, 100.00%
valkiriforce     65/65, 100.00%
Keyboard_Doomer  58/58, 100.00%
DaIcemann76      54/54, 100.00%
jihado           51/51, 100.00%
[Labo7]Ziutek    46/46, 100.00%
Bardur           45/45, 100.00%
rhinoduck        45/45, 100.00%
Gu475v           44/44, 100.00%
Revenant100      36/36, 100.00%
_5150            31/31, 100.00%
Auervek          31/31, 100.00%
Malfunction      31/31, 100.00%
Volcana          29/29, 100.00%
xNFSx            29/29, 100.00%
lego             27/27, 100.00%
zezoo            26/26, 100.00%
Schizzo          25/25, 100.00%
AF-Domains.net   21/21, 100.00%
pollux_lechien2  21/21, 100.00%
Alteus           20/20, 100.00%
CooLiBoP         18/18, 100.00%
Death_god        18/18, 100.00%
Speektor         18/18, 100.00%
BenjaM           17/17, 100.00%
Spenray205       17/17, 100.00%
madkp2           16/16, 100.00%
mrbrown93        16/16, 100.00%
populous3        16/16, 100.00%
[SDA]Krawa       16/16, 100.00%
ltbodybags       15/15, 100.00%
Billy_Manicomio  14/14, 100.00%
[SDA]error       14/14, 100.00%
Velkator         14/14, 100.00%
Zero-Master      14/14, 100.00%
Imp_Jaeger       12/12, 100.00%
rost84           12/12, 100.00%
BlackWolF        11/11, 100.00%
zagorr           11/11, 100.00%
Ceppala          10/10, 100.00%
[LA]FLunky       10/10, 100.00%
St_Anger1        10/10, 100.00%
Bill_du_Texas     9/9,  100.00%
HexTheRex         9/9,  100.00%
realtv123         9/9,  100.00%
Wolfendog         9/9,  100.00%
Dastan            8/8,  100.00%
madkp             8/8,  100.00%
necrophyl         8/8,  100.00%
Yuribarber        8/8,  100.00%
s2rm              7/7,  100.00%
asmask            6/6,  100.00%
BullDozeRrrr      6/6,  100.00%
INRI              6/6,  100.00%
MrFoxy            6/6,  100.00%
Brechstange       5/5,  100.00%
esteban009        5/5,  100.00%
sweersz           5/5,  100.00%
BambiSempai       4/4,  100.00%
Bane              4/4,  100.00%
Brutal_Player98   4/4,  100.00%
[ISR]FTP_RDOOM    4/4,  100.00%
M4rc01988         4/4,  100.00%
Maeve             4/4,  100.00%
SGT_Kimble        4/4,  100.00%
[SUR]Hugoxds      4/4,  100.00%
VermilionABC      4/4,  100.00%
Aaron_P           3/3,  100.00%
bauklotz          3/3,  100.00%
Cleo555           3/3,  100.00%
maidofsquirrels   3/3,  100.00%
mainstream        3/3,  100.00%
[ok]KAL           3/3,  100.00%
[R]eala           3/3,  100.00%
ruudjo85          3/3,  100.00%
SaberPrime        3/3,  100.00%
SrgQueedlin       3/3,  100.00%
the_pero          3/3,  100.00%
ANDYK             2/2,  100.00%
[bot]tom          2/2,  100.00%
cannedgravy       2/2,  100.00%
DooM88            2/2,  100.00%
Ivan_mendozaxd    2/2,  100.00%
JJ82              2/2,  100.00%
jorge390          2/2,  100.00%
Kilgore           2/2,  100.00%
kv20s             2/2,  100.00%
[Labo7]OurBoss    2/2,  100.00%
leao_da_barra     2/2,  100.00%
NisarutoHatsune   2/2,  100.00%
[ok]fve1ts1       2/2,  100.00%
pheee             2/2,  100.00%
rent_treznor      2/2,  100.00%
ShyGreen444       2/2,  100.00%
STAR-WARS         2/2,  100.00%
The-hero          2/2,  100.00%
Tila_Tequila      2/2,  100.00%
Desguitar92       1/1,  100.00%
dimis             1/1,  100.00%
Dms3000           1/1,  100.00%
doctorbonus       1/1,  100.00%
Doomer            1/1,  100.00%
Karakurt          1/1,  100.00%
Ken_RD_           1/1,  100.00%
[Labo7]The-hero   1/1,  100.00%
Mad_Hoek          1/1,  100.00%
MasonDorobek      1/1,  100.00%
MiSerY            1/1,  100.00%
MoKeiichi         1/1,  100.00%
Noise_II          1/1,  100.00%
nvidia            1/1,  100.00%
ossi              1/1,  100.00%
pri3RaK_rus       1/1,  100.00%
Ruzni             1/1,  100.00%
simonbolivar200   1/1,  100.00%
[SPQR]Hauss       1/1,  100.00%
Thomas25_TwT      1/1,  100.00%
Tix               1/1,  100.00%
Vigilante         1/1,  100.00%
votan2005         1/1,  100.00%

122 people. GJ TEAM!


And here is the handful of our survivors:

sid0rv           62/63, 98.41%   survived MAP19 joining 33 seconds before the level exit
memfis           59/61, 96.72%   exited MAP19 and MAP23
aprosekin        54/55, 98.18%   survived MAP19 joining 1 minute and 6 seconds before the level exit
Ancalagon        50/54, 92.59%   exited MAP20, MAP21, MAP22 and MAP24
Choft            47/48, 97.92%   survived MAP24 joining 3 minutes and 23 seconds before the level exit
AnimaZero        36/37, 97.30%   survived MAP22 joining 3 minutes and 49 seconds before the level exit
Zavus            32/33, 96.97%   survived MAP21 joining 22 seconds before the level exit
hyperstyle       30/31, 96.77%   survived MAP19 joining 4 seconds before the level exit
by-Zero          20/21, 95.24%   survived MAP21 joining 3 seconds before the level exit
yagami[ABC]      20/21, 95.24%   survived MAP19 joining 1 minute and 33 seconds before the level exit
TheCupboard      16/17, 94.12%   survived MAP24 joining 4 minutes and 54 seconds before the level exit
Depth08          15/16, 93.75%   survived MAP19 joining 1 minute and 36 seconds before the level exit
urDOOMED         12/13, 92.31%   survived MAP22 joining 3 minutes and 50 seconds before the level exit
[DTU]Bots        11/12, 91.67%   survived MAP19 joining 11 seconds before the level exit
s3ns3i           10/11, 90.91%   survived MAP19 joining 1 minute and 35 seconds before the level exit
gtt               8/9,  88.89%   survived MAP24 joining 3 minutes and 50 seconds before the level exit
Egorgr_82         5/6,  83.33%   survived MAP19 joining 1 minute and 28 seconds before the level exit
BASGTA            3/4,  75.00%   survived MAP22 joining 1 minute and 42 seconds before the level exit
phenex2           2/3,  66.67%   survived MAP21 joining 34 seconds before the level exit