ZDaemon Thursday Night Survival #250 - Plutonia Nightmare!

After the years you have spent with us we are reaching another milestone together. We believe after all this time dedicated to TNS you can't really blame us for going completely crazy and the result of our lack of sensible judgement is something spectacular - Plutonia on Nightmare! difficulty. You don't see a carnage like this every day so we hope you are ready to be a part of this and will come celebrate with us.

We might be getting a guest appearance by a speedrunning superstar very relevant to the WAD and difficulty we are playing but what's more important is to get through this challenge together!

Sincerely looking forward for your pain and anguish,

TeamTNS

P.S. 22 coop cyberdemons on map32 say hi.

DMFLAGS: 1174487140 / 806496256 / 0
IWAD: plutonia
PWADs: plutmidi
Maps: 01-32
Lives: 1
Players: 25/100
Item Respawn Time: 60 Seconds
Player Join Limit: 3 Minutes

Date: 26th May 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.

The MAP32 intermission text says it best:

"No one gets out alive."

very brewtal, much dying, such challenge!

I'll be making a proper highlights video for this session. It might be the last video of TNS I ever get to make, so yeah.

Also plutmidi \o/

Meh plutmidi. Not a big fan, sorry. I'm already too used to the songs that play in Plutonia. I would prefer if it was optional. (OR make an optional wad that brings the original songs back)

Session should be awesome in any case!

Per request plutmidi was changed to be an optional WAD. If you don't have it downloaded already and want to use it, download it manually.

One hour into the session: MAP11MAP12, ~40 people, and a ton of hilarity xD MAP04 was the truly evil one though, someone will surely add how many tries that one took, as I only remember it was "A LOT" :)

Two hours into the session: We finally beat MAP12 only to get stuck on MAP14, lol.

Map14 will not end without a lot of pain...

Three hours in: still MAP14......

Surviving on map14 is futile. 4 hours now.

Four hours in: Guess what!

Highlights were plentiful and should make for a very great video. Great session for the most part but nearly three hours just failing the same map is just silly imho

Silly would be a clear understatement. Insane wouldn't quite describe it either.

Five hours in: This happened a few seconds after round xyz started xD



GOODBYE MAP14!!!

We officially ended the Nightmare part of the session after MAP18 and will be playing the rest some other week. I think it is safe to say that some of us will probably have enough Nightmares already just from experiencing MAP14.

We have switched to a total monster randomisation rotation to relax a bit now. Let's hope for not too many destructors.

Just finished 2nd rotation and I'm off to bed. This was quite a session, I had a blast.

I had to give up on map14, glad to hear you guys accomplished it

remember the fallen. And always maximize your damage. Just BFG that mancubus at point blank range

How was MAP14 beaten? Was JCD really blasted to the exit? I just remember I had hardly left the starting room when the level ended suddenly.

valkiriforce said:

How was MAP14 beaten? Was JCD really blasted to the exit? I just remember I had hardly left the starting room when the level ended suddenly.

Yes, JCD used an Arch-vile jump he's very familiar with since he has coop speedrun records in both UV Speed and NM Speed categories with this trick. It requires a specific positioning of the Arch-vile and is therefore pretty hard to achieve with other 20 players running around.

The coop demos are definitely a recommended watch from me since I had no idea you could jump such a long distance with the help of an Arch-vile before watching them myself.

Damn, missed the completion of map14....

I think most of us missed it. Like, I was on the server, but JCD finished it while I was still observing the starting area waiting for a good opportunity to spawn. :)

To be honest it was a little bit disappointing that after all these discussions on how to beat the map, it wasn't team effort that won but just a single guy. Oh well.

Hey, TNS video from yesterday 35 mins from 4 hours xD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ9iQC2ECWs&feature=youtu.be

AF-Domains.net said:

Damn, missed the completion of map14....

kuchitsu said:

I think most of us missed it. Like, I was on the server, but JCD finished it while I was still observing the starting area waiting for a good opportunity to spawn. :)

To be honest it was a little bit disappointing that after all these discussions on how to beat the map, it wasn't team effort that won but just a single guy. Oh well.

That can only mean one thing: Thursday Night Survival #251 - Plutonia Nightmare! (map14 revisited)


To add to Memfis' thoughts I think JCD might be the only one who knew what was going on. Everyone else was like "What the actual fuck just happened?" and didn't believe the exit was legit.

It's a shame we probably don't even have an eye witness.

Keyboard_Doomer said:

That can only mean one thing: Thursday Night Survival #251 - Plutonia Nightmare! (map14 revisited)

I somewhat seriously kinda want it to happen. :P But many players would be probably too annoyed. I know zeaz didn't appreciate our masochism at all.

Maybe duck can create a special server or something for this map. :) Perhaps it doesn't really require many meatshields if everyone works together.

^ I really liked the idea so there's a server for it now :)
zds://37.157.193.245:10001

Friday Night Survival Deathfest, anyone?

Prepare for another 5 hours....

What a session. Thanks to everyone who visited and a special thanks to ZeroMaster who accepted our invitation and joined us for about an hour and a half.
We have broken the record for most deaths in a session by a big margin and quite obviously also for most deaths in one rotation and one map :) Cheers, JCD, for putting us out of our misery.

Statistics from the session follow:

First blood:
hyperstyle | should have stood back 58 seconds after joining

First blood in subsequent rotas:
2nd rota (total randomization): rhinoduck | in MAP02, couldn't dodge a destructor's rocket 13 seconds after joining
3rd rota (total randomization still in effect): ritual | splattered by a cyberdemon 33 seconds after joining
The settings were switched to random damage after the first try but the rotation ended sooner than it started. See below.

Peak server population:
44

Overall number of players that connected during the session:
130

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

1 killed himself. (0/1/0)
14 died. (1/13/0)
90 mutated. (84/6/0)
0 were squished. (0/0/0)
0 went boom. (0/0/0)
78 should have stood back. (73/4/1)
1 was killed by a zombieman. (1/0/0)
120 were shot by a sergeant. (120/0/0)
265 were perforated by a chaingunner. (264/1/0)
4 were slashed by an imp. (4/0/0)
83 were burned by an imp. (83/0/0)
4 were bit by a demon. (4/0/0)
28 were eaten by a spectre. (28/0/0)
103 were spooked by a lost soul. (103/0/0)
6 got too close to a cacodemon. (6/0/0)
221 were smitten by a cacodemon. (221/0/0)
44 were punched by a revenant. (41/2/1)
518 couldn't evade a revenant's fireball. (517/0/1)
39 were squashed by a mancubus. (39/0/0)
47 let an arachnotron get them. (47/0/0)
13 were gutted by a Hell Knight. (13/0/0)
147 were splayed by a Hell Knight. (146/0/1)
3 were ripped open by a Baron of Hell. (3/0/0)
40 were bruised by a Baron of Hell. (40/0/0)
314 were incinerated by an archvile. (314/0/0)
2 stood in awe of the spider demon. (1/0/1)
598 were splattered by a cyberdemon. (582/14/2)
0 were surprised by the zombie's weaponry. (0/0/0)
0 were mauled by a Mauler Demon. (0/0/0)
0 were charred by a pain soul. (0/0/0)
0 were melted by a pain soul. (0/0/0)
0 suffered psychic trauma from an aracnorb's brainwaves. (0/0/0)
8 were perforated by an Arachnophyte. (0/5/3)
70 couldn't dodge a destructor's rocket. (0/68/2)
1 was terminated by the Badass Cyberdemon. (0/1/0)
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2862 deaths overall. (2735/115/12)

Session lasted for 7 hours and 25 minutes. After reaching MAP18 it was decided to leave the remaining maps for a future session and the 2nd rotation was started. After successfully finishing it MAP01 in the 3rd rotation only observed one try on the old settings from previous rota and one try on the new settings and the session came to a halt.

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

memfis           121/129, 93.80%
rhinoduck        120/134, 89.55%
JCD              110/119, 92.44%
DaIcemann76      105/109, 96.33%
valkiriforce     103/116, 88.79%
fred512           98/105, 93.33%
Keyboard_Doomer   97/117, 82.91%
The_Hat           95/97,  97.94%
Malfunction       95/108, 87.96%
Choft             92/101, 91.09%


party poopers:
MAP14

Additional statistics specifically from the Nightmare! rotation:

       Map              Attempts     Deaths     Time spent     Note
                         needed                 on the map
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MAP01: Congo                1           5          01:54
MAP02: Well of Souls        1          13          05:30
MAP03: Aztec                1          11          03:56
MAP04: Caged               12         335          28:13
MAP05: Ghost Town           2          55          05:48
MAP06: Baron's Lair         1          14          01:36
MAP07: Caughtyard           1          20          01:08
MAP08: Realm                1          14          02:26
MAP09: Abattoire            1          32          03:57
MAP10: Onslaught            1          26          02:07
MAP11: Hunted               1          14          02:16
MAP12: Speed               10         351          41:27
MAP13: The Crypt            1          15          01:57
MAP14: Genesis             78        1662       03:18:41        lol
MAP15: The Twilight         1           9          01:28
MAP16: The Omen             9         133          26:15
MAP17: Compound             1           5          00:56
MAP18: Neurosphere          2          21          02:59
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TOTAL                     125        2735       05:32:34

2735 deaths and the net time of 5 hours, 32 minutes and 34 seconds constitute glorious 8.22 deaths per minute. There are no better words to describe this other than... GJ TEAM!

Hope you all enjoyed your dying and we are looking forward to finish this trial by fire with you a week or two from now starting with MAP19. Your extraordinary meatshielding skills will be needed!

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