The DWIronman League dies to: UAC Ultra

Ironman challenge time woooo!

twitch.tv/kingdime

My attempt is here ( made it in ~1h48 ).

Almost got SKAGged desperately trying to rush... :)
I felt quite satisfied after bypassing most of the bosses here and there, but eventually it wasn't fast enough. Props to Alfonzo, 40oz, Pj and Krypto as usual.
Good luck, DotW... :p

Excellent pick, this one, with its unique gritty style. I've played it once or twice since it came out, and thus I knew what to expect.

Hello Doomworld,

here is my first entry for the DWIronman League:

https://www.doomworld.com/vb/attachment.php?postid=1693711

Dead on map02, cought by an (not so) surprise hellknight and failing while trying not to touch the green armor.

Survived 01:39:12

Six people of twenty-two have survived so far, which is well up on previous outings. I mean, UAC Ultra isn't a particularly hard set, but all the same; a very impressive result. Runs from some of our ironman stalwarts are still to come! Place your bets.

Okay, I also tried it - the first time!

And, you tricky bastards, you could fool me! I thought it's gonna be piece of cake, "It's only UAC Ultra, after all"...ahem, died on midway through MAP03. It was already challenging at that point. Fuck those traps.

blind run and got totally rekt by an archvile juggle on map04(?)!

was a shame as i was really enjoying the set so far - will probably play through it again

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lm5gboocw8zb2sb/uacultra-rehelekretep.lmp?dl=1

Octavarium said:

Died on map 10, Skagway, in about... an hour and forty or something? So, would have lost anyway but I'm still happy with it. Will edit this post with a link when it's done uploading, since I used GZDoom. Uh, I set the compat to strict, but I think map 7 broke anyway, the mancubus platforms didn't rise, so this demo's probably "illegal" :C Oh well.

Anyway, I've played through this several times in the past, as it's easily one of my favorite level sets ever. Definitely deserves the Cacoward it won!

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5mgJHYXle8

Spoiler

Uninteresting fun facts, the music for Skagway was the music for map 1 of Ol' No Name for most of its development, and the music from map 5 (Hardware) was going to be used for 2 until I decided to make it (probably too) huge.

i think you should set g/zdoom compat to 'boom' for boom format/complevel 9 wads

This wad is certainly not a cake walk. There are a lot of traps on every map and if you are running it for the 1st time you will get surprised at some point and die. Once you know all the traps it's a little easier but that can be said about almost any wad. The fact that there are so many survivors is more contributed to only having 11 maps. I assure you all who survived knew the wad very well and in the case of me in krypto, knew how to handle every scenario optimally.

Never done this before, but figured it would be fun to try. I've only ran through UAC Ultra once so I was definitely rusty. Got my sissy boi ass stomped by the crushers in map04 while trying to figure out the safest route. Nothing like panicking and falling down repeatedly to kill a run!

Demo! Recorded with PrBoom-Plus 2.5.1.4 with complevel 9, as per the rules.

I'm astonished it took this long for someone to die on MAP04, to be honest! The number of botched attempts at just brute-forcing it down the platform segment has caught out a number of players, including myself. Tough luck, heh.

Eris Falling said:

MAP03. Mixed feelings of despair and amusement :|

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mhMLug2XY

I've eaten some BS Mancubus shots before but this one was not a bad case. It only grazed the wall! You ate that like a french toast!

Going to be giving this a whirl in about 30 minutes: https://www.twitch.tv/dobu_gm

Having never played it, the goal is to survive MAP01 :(

Edit: WE LIVE

Edit2: WE DEAD! MAP07, let a manc push my into a corner and fry my face

Here is my attempt.

It looks like stairwell related revenant accidents are a big killer this session.

Watch me die to this challange : https://www.twitch.tv/joe_ilya

EDIT:Died at the start of MAP05 because of the imp trap I wasn't anticipating, AT ALL.

https://www.twitch.tv/joe_ilya/v/106138429

Just finished this, this episode/miniwad is one the best I have played ever. Holy shit, the gameplay and the aesthetics and the various novelties (new monster, hazard suit sections, pressure plates you step on etc)

Awesome!

Dead: Map 3

https://www.doomworld.com/vb/post/1695523

Watched Eris Falling's attempt, otherwise going in blind. Every archvile I encountered landed an attack on me, the third leaving me at 0% health. For added blooper factor, I'd left a soulsphere for later; later never came.

Here's my entry.

Map03 death due to cornering myself in a large arena. Sometimes resorting to a corner works, but not this time.. I blame the hanging body.

After recording this I did a console resurrect and played the rest of the map with deaths and without being recorded. Skagway is difficult.

Video will appear when it's done uploading.

My attempt
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vjunayivmphciqs/Americanultra.lmp?dl=0

Dead on map06, stomped by the cyberdemon.
A poor attempt at dodging, disappointed in my self.

Here's my blind attempt which I made over a week ago but didn't have time to upload until now.

Demo or YouTube:

Unfortunately, I suck at platforming, so dead on MAP 04. In my defense, I was playing in GLBoom+ which didn't have always run enabled, so I had to hold down Shift the whole time I was playing.

Also, check out 13:31 for the funniest arch-vile kill I've ever done.

*facepalm*

That was a really stupid way to go cause i knew i was possibly doing something risky there. Felt it was going ok for a totally blind attempt too.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t40cyb0xo7vujr1/ScottyUACU.lmp?dl=1

(Misc question - why can't i use attachments??)

scotty said:

(Misc question - why can't i use attachments??)

Here's the thread for that.

First demo I've ever recorded

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lu9th7dymlonkzz/dtultra.lmp?dl=1

Doom version: ZDoom 2.8.1. Freelook disabled.
Status: rekt
Time Elapsed: 01:36:15
Location of death: MAP10 - Skagway
Cause of death: Good fun though.

Wow, it seems like I spoke too soon; just look at all these fresh new deaths! And there's a Jimmybro, too (can we get a Perthbowl?). I'll check these out and update the OP in due course.

https://www.mediafire.com/?7h0g9s8kunkiwjy

I died in a dumb way on map 08.

My time was approximately 1h39.

My Saturday plans fell through.

The time for action is nigh!
HIGH NOON CENTRAL TIME!

https://www.twitch.tv/qq_nezbit/v/108124311
Let us never talk about this again.

Doing the Ironman challenge here.

lolrip.

bahahaha i even thought 'there's no way that rev can kill him; he's got 70 odd health' and... dead!