Have you ever worked as a tour guide at Jurassic Park?

Gta players: i hate that stupid helicopter mission in vice city is so stressful Doom players : *demonic laughs*

He sounds like he has had enough of this map.

If you want the real definition of Hell on Earth, try doing this level on a Smartphone with just the touch screen

I've done many Levels without Guide, but I watch every Episode of this Guide just because they're so entertaining!

Speedruns of this map are wild.

You don't have to circle completely around the pits to raise the platforms. The first one will start raising once you pick up the Plasma Rifle. The second one will raise once you step in the middle. The third one with the Invulnerability what I do is I land next to the Invulnerability, but not grab it, I just make the platform to raise up and once it's up then I pick up the Invulnerability so I could acutally make a use of it. Also you don't need the blue key, from the start you can go to the far right, go through the door into the ledge room, drop down to the poison and then just go around the ledges and take a teleporter that will teleport you onto the platform with the Radiation Suit next to the Invulnerability. And also this map is one of the reasons why use source ports like GLBoom+ so you wouldn't have to kill Lost Souls and then deal with problems like the Lost Soul teleporting to the start of the map.

it's pretty neat that they have electric switches in hell

I'm definitely calling Lost Souls "Ass Souls" now. ^^

I remember this map was insanely difficult for me when I first played as a child. The blue keycard room's acidic walls made it really confusing for me back then xD. Great memories.

"OK, you know what? Just die!".....lmao!.....

I think they call this level "the chasm" becuse it makes you want to throw your pc off a chasm.

The annoyed BMD is seriously funny though. "And then this crap raises up..." 😅 Really enjoying all your content!

The blue room feels like some sort of alien spaceship.

This map... it never ceases to amaze me. You pretty much hit the nail on the head by saying about how this map (well, particularly the last area) is like a giant middle finger. It's like they just give you all these really good maps, and then they throw this one at you as an attempt to just troll you. It's craziness. Regardless, you managed to pull through it just fine.

The most politically correct voiceover for the most politically incorrect game (at the time)... :-))) Love this stuff!

The “secret” to the secret invulnerability is to use the shielding suit on the nearby ledge. Teleport to the suit via the teleporter next to the megasphere, equip it, then drop into the lava pit surrounding the invulnerability. Start repeatedly activating the outside wall to raise the lava floor and repeat 13 times until the lava is even with platform on which the sphere sits. Race across the platform to pick it up, and continue activating the outside wall 4 times until you can proceed down either ledge. If you remain on the platform instead, the surrounding lava will raise automatically, and you must activate the lava wall to raise the platform up. The invulnerability lasts long enough to be useful in fighting off the lost soul ambush after teleporting into the final room. Just be quick navigating the ledges to the upside-down body teleporter.

i used to hate this level when i was little. with the thin walkways and poison down below and just the huge level design i could never get past it lol. but i have to say looking back on it now, it has its own look and vibe and i can appreciate it. im kinda hoping to see some levels like this in the next doom tbh . just big nonsensical rooms and pathways and monsters everywhere, i think that's the doom feel right there. gr8 walkthrough m8!

I love your comments while playing XD And also, congrats on doing 100% on every map, this is indeed a long and tedious work, figuring out how everything works, or even if you don't, and just watch/read playthroughs it is hard as hell to memorie, so great work! I love your videos :D

The music for this level is one of my favorite in the entire series.

Doing my first playthrough in over 20 years and this is one of the few maps I still remember well. Back when I was 13 or so it took me forever to get past this. I got stuck in the first half for a long time before I found the second teleporter on the chasm floor that took me back to the top of the pillars and then figured out how to jump back onto the main path. Getting into the secret control room. Then there was falling into the poison pits. The use of height and scale is memorable - very new for games of the time, it's too bad they didn't use this more (the Circle uses it, another memorable level). I also like how it encourages literal tiptoeing around rather than charging into things. The color palette here is just very "Doom" to me. The music matches up pretty well too. I wish the level were a bit longer and more interesting but then I remember when I used to make my own levels I would sometimes run into crashes when areas had lots of scale and also lots of detail. There were some hard limits on what could be visible.

This is such a funny, but precise narration. The best there is!

This map would make you wish that you could look down.

Hi BMD. So ridiculous this level is. The video you made of it is very entertaining and it is THE video that brought me to your channel. Back in the days I played doom and doom 2 and final doom just on the original playstation. And while looking for the creepy soundtrack of Aubrey Hodges for this games who did an amazing job to create such a tight atmosphere by the way, your video of this map came on. I didn't know the map because it was one of many the psx-version not have in it. So I watched it and was infected. Thank you. You do an amazing job not only on doom.👍❤

Thanks so much for this vid because I was hopelessly lost in this map!

A BIG MID-FINGER TO THIS MAP AND MID-FINGER FOR THE INVULNERABILITY SECRET. A big & to this map. :D & & &&&& &&&&&& &&&

Bro your walkthroughs are so interesting that I could watch them all night thanks for them brooo you fire

Thanks so much, i'm new to gaming and I downloaded doom for the laptop and your walkthroughs are my failsafe when I get stuck xD

Oh, they die with so delicious sound, those big red tomatoes! :)

oh my god. i have giggled several times through your playthroughs, but when you said ass-soul. i fell off my chair. doom player from the beginning. love your commentaries. subscribed.

theres this little hole by where you grab the shotgun and the cacodemons come out. you cant fall through it but never save your game while standing on it. when you reload you will fall through it and be stuck in a death loop and theres no way out.

15:34-18:50 I felt your pain BigMac. This is truly the monopoly of gaming pain. You honestly made this map look easy. That is a feat which has previously been impossible to me. I knew you were awesome, but this just proves it. I now really want to become your first disciple.

I love your DooM videos! I also like your American accent to learn because I'm a Russian studying English and that's really useful for me

I'm trying to go for Superior Fire Power which is completing Doom 2 Hell On Earth On Ultra Violence difficulty! I love what you have taught me thus far!

My favourite part is when the lost soul teleports; especially since you had just called them ass souls. They might as well live up to the name.

I don't know why, but this is my favourite map. Really. Greets from Poland. Good luck!

Despite all the comments I really liked this map when I was exploring it for the first time. Especially red steps and blue water room, because those are the things we never see in any other map of any of Doom series. It's interesting to see something new you know.

I imagine the trololol song beginning every time a platform raisis up after the narrow ledges XD

I think this map is good practice in saving your game and saving it often. The narrow ledges w/o teleporters come up after you get the blue key, so if you weren't saving up to that point you're SOL and gotta start over.

Can't say I'm a fan of this map either. I admire you going back for that Lost Soul that teleported. I'd have left him.

This map is really outstanding so I want to say a couple of words about it. Overall I like this map. It's definitely one of the hardest in doom2 but it's very interesting at the same time. It keeps you concentrated and pushes to think. Also I'd like to give some tips. In the area with slime near exit I usually make one shot from BFG when coming from teleporter for the first time. That way most of lost souls will be killed and there will be only couple of distant lost souls remaining. You can easily kill them via supershotgun or chaingun. As for the secret with invulnerability I've found a way to take this without waiting. You just need to lend on one of the borders of the platform with invulnerability. You need to go there standing little left or right from the center. Probably it's easier to do from the area with the suit and the box of rockets. So you''ll be on the platform but you won't pick up invulnerability instantly. Then bigger part of platform will begin rising. You should take a step to right or left to fall on the rising floor. And then rise it to maximum level. Invulnerability now will be lower than you. And then you should take a little step down from one of the corner to center area with invulnerability. You'll be there without picking it again. And then turn to the wall and press Use button on keyboard couple of times. Center area will rise step by step until it will became big flat square area. Then you can make a step from invulnerability to left it for later or pick it up and run to do whatever you want. And so you can use full time of invunerability bonus. However it took some time for me to do this. So you probably will need to make saves before the secret and before the area near exit.

After you grab the useless invulnerablity, if you keep pressing use instead of getting out when the lift is level with the platform around, you can continue to rise it up until the ceiling

Thanks David I appreciate that you helped me with doom

"Your hate has made you powerful" Jeff, lol. This map is nonsense, chaotic and like you said, a "big middle finger", especially at those narrow ledges and platforms raising up after you pass them. That invulnerability was pointless too. In brief, this map explore the flaw in Doom at the time, the "fake" 3D enrironment, because Doom is actually 2.5D, so you can't use the Z-axis to look up and back that probably would help a little bit on this map. Anyway, nice job for beating it.

Dang. Im late af, but i don't care. I have watched almost all of these doom 2 walkthroughs. Helped me with weapons, and overall health sustaining. Even though this is like, 3 or more years ago, keep this up! I love your walkthroughs, (especially go 2 it, that made me laugh hard). Anyways, keep this up!

"Ass- soul" LMAO love that.

About the "futile" secret. You can jump onto the platform but not take the invincibility sphere. Only touch the trigger. You can even drop to the poisonous floor after you have collided with the trigger. The floor raises (it's safe after the collision) and you can grab the sphere.

That invulnerability secret that makes you to raise the platform, it's possible to raise both of the platforms up to the ceiling. And that teleport infront of the megasphere platform got raised up somehow, how did you raise it?

That blood splatter around 4:22 was so awesome

After all my following with this walkthrough I am finally beginning to understand the fist!

11:30 just don't grab it. Land on the platform (without grabbing the invulnerability), wait for the platform around you to raise, then drop off and press space on both the middle and outer portion to raise everything to the same level. Then grab the invulnerability and run over to the next area with hell knights and mancubi.

Love your comments on this map so much :D

Love your voice

15:27 Lost Souls last resort: teleporting to the beginning of the level(maybe that ASS SOUL knows you hate narrow ledges). Anyway this was fun to watch. School starts tomorrow(luckily it starts in the afternoon) so yeah, not looking forward to it. But your awesome videos make my day awesome. Keep it up :) P.S. Sorry for the long comment.

You know what this map needs? a few CyberDemons and SpiderMasterMinds shooting at you on the narrow ledge zones.

Also, 18:00 as is usual with switches in Doom, you don't have to ride the platforms up to press the switch, switches and doors activate regardless the height difference from you (just like in the industrial zone, the red door can be activated while you're riding the lift up, although that's not advisable since there's probably some imps waiting behind)/

i know it's an old video, but what exactly raise the lift for the mega sphere in 14:05

18:40 The Gameboy version has teleporters in the poison and the ledges are wider. I don't know if it's different on the hardest difficulty

This is so funny, especially when you say, "Don't be an ass soul" and "Stupid-ass souls!" as punny names. Also, you couldn't understand the plot of the blue room, let alone the narrow ledge walking, especially with your voice trembling and quivering as you go along. And the part when you get all jumbled trying to explain what's going on, it made me literally LOL! Anyway, this Chasm map is evil, end-of-story. Nice vid on how you survived all this with all the bravery you have. :)

This is one of the best designed maps in Doom 2. It's absolutely gorgeous. If only they had skipped the skinny walkways it would probably be in my top 3 for Doom 2. It's very reminiscent of the first two chapters of Doom in my opinion. The walkways are incredibly stupid and are a huge detraction though unfortunately

I love it .. The map is so complecated ..

Making it to the near end of the level just to fall into the green acid, one of the worst feelings ever.

Ah, the chasm. I just like this map. Its really nice looking especially considering its a Sandy's map. I understand some parts of it are tedious, but I just cant help it, I love this map. Anyway I'm a sucker for doom 1, 2 and Final Doom, I like all the maps, hehe.

I swear this map has a map’s worth of optional content

at 11:49 iirc you CAN trigger the line that will cause the floor to raise without falling down (for example at one of the edges of the small paths by "jumping" from one side to the other in a small step just a bit over the border) so it should be possible to actually benefit from the invul by first waiting for the floor to be up and then jumping to the item.

Can you do a Speed run of Doom 2 with nightmare?

Really good video you explain very well 👍👍👍👍👍👍

I am a bit against the majority here - I love the design of this level and the hellish feel with all the ledges and lost souls and damaging floor, green slimefalls etc. so much, that I frankly believe this to be one of the best maps in all of Doom II.

Thx again for the help

Going through all your walkthroughs again. I found that some of the vids didn't have a thumbs-up....ugh...fn u-tube. I just played this level today.

the end where the platform goes up is made for people who don't think they need a red keycard so they go back and find out you need and then they can go back instantly

"The slime is coming out a steel ceiling" - they might want to have a word with the builders about a major dampness issue there.

Despite the very critisism of what doom 2 fans have over this level of the chasm I actually enjoy the whole entire exploration process of the map itself although to quiet and spooky sometimes but like the musical tone

nice,nice,nice work BMD,you are superstar.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤗🤗🤗🤗

Hey Big Mac I was wondering did you ever do a video for no rest for the living

Nicely done walkthrough :) ... I'm one of those who like this map, but just slightly above average maps. What I especially like is that the map name perfectly fits to the design of environment and really looks like a big chasm of hell, on the other hand I don't like maps that don't respect this rule, like map 22:The Catacombs, which REALLY doesn't look like some sort of catacombs. And btw I think that invulnerability can be used for future, because if you're precise with your movement, you can land on that platform without grabbing it and wait for the platform around to raise up.

The blue room is beautiful..

Restarted the map and and I'm about 3/4 of the way done with no damage. Running over lava or sludge sometimes does damage but I save before crossing if I take damage. This map is a pain in the ass!

When you grab two radiation suits at once does the effect last twice as long?

Did you pronounce cache as catch?

Very nice video's!! Doom is the best game!! And i like you're voice🖒

i guess whenever theres a room with a water ceiling in vanilla doom, its supposed to be "under water". and since there is only a red (blood as in bloodfalls) and green (slime as in this map) "water texture" with the pouring down animation, they for some reason resorted to that "tech" type blue texture on the walls for "under water". i too always wondered why there wasn't a blue water texture for the side walls when i was doing maps.

I love the aesthetics and the design of this map but I agree, those ledges are an absolute pain. If they put teleports in the poison, it wouldn't be too bad. Inescapable pits are one of the worst parts of doom 2.

Another thing about this map, which you didn't mention is that narrow ledges and the four secrets aside this map is completely unmemorable. I keep forgetting half the areas in it, and I can't say that about any other map in this game. Btw I have found the map with 100 items, it is Refuelling Base.

I think i can explain some weirdness in this map. First the maze-like room with walls of slime and a different scealing - well it's because the walls aren't isolated in Hell so moisture just take over and literally come out of the walls lol The blue room with all the demons and a water scealing is probably like that because of the global warming, yes even in Hell it gets warmer lol Now back to the video itself, you did a good job to go through this map without falling in the poison death traps (of even a greater job to contain your hatred toward this map lol) Keep it up my friend and till next time take care :)

You can know when BigMac is annoyed by a level when he starts to complain about the room designs and purposes.

The rooms with those narrow ledges I just take them one area at a time and I save the game on each ledge so that if something happens I don’t have to go back very far and it’s manageable. I don’t like the level much myself but I like the challenge of it.

I think I found a glitch in the Nintendo Switch version on this level, if you quicksave on top of the narrow ledges, it'll make you fall into the poison and prevent you from moving at all, basically softlocking you in place. I learned this the hard way

You can rise the platform with the green sphere (god mode) without grabbing it.

11:25 i don't know if my version of the game is weird but what i do is the following: i jump on the edge of the little platform where the invulnerability sphere is and i don't grab it. then i can press the use key with a little delay in between the seperate "pressings" of the use key so they little platform rises up. you will need to do this multiple times. when the platform is high enough i strafe run to the area where radiation suit and the rockets are, after i grabbed the sphere. then i head in the direction of the megasphere and when the first split comes up, i head to the right. at this point my invulnerability is still active and i can easily kill a few of the tougher enemies in that area (i usually play on hurt me plenty so for me there are two hell knights and two mancubi i can kill before the sphere runs out).

Excellent

Hey Big Mac Davis, just out of curiosity what is your opinion on Brutal Doom and Project brutality?

What I like to do with the thin walkways is get to them before I have the red key and save my game. Then I'll walk along them to the red door where I will save again. Now I have a solid platform from the teleporters to the red door.

Is there a chance you'll be doing a Quake walkthrough at some point?

I have no idea how sourceports handle the matter, but I found it amusing that you went after that one Lost/Ass Soul knowing that they don't count as kills in Doom II due to Pain Elementals, on DOS anyways.

I like the mini slime maze personally, it reminds me of that Windows 95 maze screensaver for some reason.

Totally agree with you on this map Big Mac. Really don't like the narrow ledges; if I did I would play Super Mario Brothers or something similar.

Isnt this level supposed to take place in Hell? What is with all the human technology?

I would like to ask a question, if you were to go into a doom 2 map editor, and alter this map, how would you make it better, also, i dont see why people hate lost souls, can you please inform me.

You know the map was terrible when such a wholesome and sweet guy like BigMacDavis goes on a rant to talk about how much he hates it.