[Claustrophobia 1024 2] MAP29: Taggart Sails To Orion (UV-Max Demo)

i think at this point i'm fully checked out on this wad. thankfully we're almost at the end, and the map at least has a cool midi. it unfortunately also has a 30 second intro that isn't skippable in any way. a lot of this map is pretty gimmicky and not particularly fun. the first encounter seems like it could be pretty lethal but a convenient monster-blocking linedef seriously limits the damage. maybe i should have saved shells though as otherwise you have to try and stand in the middle of the crowd of pinkies until you can step back and grab the berserk. and again, the pinkies can't get up there so are completely helpless. getting over to the other side generally depends on the archvile cooperating, and after a couple of smaller encounters you'll get some bigger weapon. what you'll find though is that there isn't really remotely enough ammo for what you'd want to accomplish. and it takes a full minute to get the cyber out, so i elected to spend the ammo and deal with the cyber later. the last bit of the map takes place in the very small back area, and at this point you're more or less going to be forced to rely on the super shotgun. the final wave of imps and a few archviles is pretty rng, but other than the baron winding up in there we got pretty fortunate. demos: https://s3.yrriban.net/doom/1024cla2_... claustrophobia 1024 2: the mystery of too many maps: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/lev... source port used: dsda-doom 0.29.3 sound font used: arachno.sf2 complevel: 9