All my demos can be found here:
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Explanation of what's happening : (Also top video is the Cyberdemon perspective)
To make it simple:
1- lure out a pain elemental to one of the sides, make the cyberdemon hit him but move quickly to the other side so the pain elemental doesn't get hit by the 3 rockets and die
2- wait for the pain elemental to "shoot" a lost soul that triggers the cyberdemon counter-attack (this is kinda random due to how lost souls hitbox works)
3- PRAY to the lost soul to be in the few pixels position you need him to be so the shot can go through :)
and with a bit more explanation, problem was exactly the 3rd point, and had 3 different requirements:
1- you would need to move behind the icon so the lost soul pathfinding was in the right place in the moment of the cybers attack
2- the cyber has to attack at the right time, if attacked earlier, he would shoot the ceiling, if attacked later, he would hit just below the brain
3- and ofc the third reason why this took so many tries, you have also to wish that no other Lost Soul or other flying enemy is between the cyber and the brain
Author: Pleymo
EXE: prboom-plus 2.5.1.5 cl4
IWAD: plutonia.wad
Category: Pacifist
Date(DD/MM/YYYY): 17/05/2020
Time with -levelstat:
MAP30 - 3:41.37 (3:41) K: 10/19 I: 1/8 S: 0/0
Download demo here:
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Well... what to say... I'm spechless tbh....
This was a hell of an adventure, thankfully after 829 tries it got done.
Let's gonna start from the beggining of this madness.
First of all would be saying Thanks to NightTerror
cause it the end this strategy worked thanks to him.
Cheers to you my man!
I started this madness when I saw Decino's "Doom Challenges Deemed Impossible" video
but of course, the strategy of using the Archviles, while possible, was extremely difficult.
Many months later, after NightTerror managed to get Tnt 05 pacifist,
we both started talking about the other pacifists left.
Making the obvious choice, the easiest was Plutonia map 30, and even yet it was a bit crazy.
After few strategies that didn't work related with the stairs, he got the amazing idea of using them,
but to trigger any Pain Elemental that came to make the Cyberdemon shoot the brain, a bit crazy right?
But after few tries, we saw that the rockets were actually in the right vertical axis, just needed more aiming.
It was then when I remembered the Archviles strategy, the platform below the icon doesn't do damage so why not?
And it was perfect, apart from the Lost Souls, no other Flying demon would enter, now we only needed the LUCK.
On the run nº 179... got the first hit... and it could had been the RUN ...
if it wasn't for a suicidal Lost Soul, that one saved their invasion day lol
And on the run nº 539... got 2 hits... but only did 248 damage... then died...
And well, you're reading the txt of the run nº829, THE ONE (and only for now).
I know this was long, and that I said I was spechless... but my god I can't stop smiling from this.