
This is a DHT4 exam file. Its place is in the doom/dht-exams directory.

                      The DOOM Honorific Titles
                Created by Frank Stajano on 1994 05 01

James L Elson ("Bowman") hereby conquers the title of Doom 2 Master.

Exam file name          : d2m-jle.zip

Title conquered         : DOOM 2 Master

Author                  : James L Elson

Completion date         : March 11, 1995

Game and version used   : DOOM II v. 1.9

Log entry               : 
CHAL: D2M  JLE James L Elson              31 30 18  LFF-RFL-FRR            
    :          Jim Elson <jlelson@utdallas.edu>                            
Substitutions?          : NO

System used             : 486/66 VLB with 16 Meg RAM & Diamond Stealth 32 VLB

Controls used           : keyboard + mouse, with everything redefined
                          as follows:
                            Forward       Middle mouse button
                            Fire          Left mouse button
                            (DMS)         Right mouse button (SEE NOTE!)
                            Speed         A
                            Strafe Left   S
                            Backward      D
                            Strafe Right  F
                            Turn Left     V
                            Turn Right    E
                            Strafe on     W
                            Use           <space-bar>
     
     (NOTE: since this was a DHT exam and its usage is controversial,  )
     (      I did NOT use the Doom Mouse Spinner while recording any of)
     (      the lmps for this exam.  Frankly, it would have been handy )
     (      when dealing with those nuisances known as Lost Souls.     )

Free interpretation     : I did MAP20 (Gotcha) on Ultra Violence with
                            100% Kills and 100% Secrets.  I chose this
                            map since it is excluded from assignment due
                            to its difficulty.  There were two reasons 
                            behind this: (1). very recently someone posted
                            in the doom newsgroups on the Net that he had
                            completed his Doom Master exam.  He caught a lot
                            of flak from a number of people who said big deal
                            cause a lot people could do his assigned levels
                            with one hand tied behind their backs, literally.
                            I chose Map20 in order to anticipate exactly that
                            sort of objection; and (2). I would have preferred
                            to do Raven1.wad on UV for my free interpretation
                            since it allows for some serious "styling", like
                            killing the archville with a combat shotgun.  Fact
                            is, I'm tired of id's levels for solo play.  So, I
                            decided to pick a level from the excluded "Hardest"
                            Base for D2M.  At least I got to kill an archvile
                            eventhough I had to waste rockets on him.

Comments                : Map31: this one was easy, I tried to avoid using
                            heavy weapons but ran out of ammo and had to use
                            2 rockets on 2 demons.  In fact, only difficulty
                            that this level presents is sparsity of ammo.

                          Map30: I was bummed to find I'd been assigned this 
                            level. It's not hard, just a pain since it's a 
                            matter of timing and luck.  (Fact is I never tried
                            finishing this level before.)  Luck comes into it
                            because sometimes as you riding up an archvile
                            or a couple of pain elementals get created.  It
                            can be done much faster once you've mastered
                            firing a rocket while jumping off the platform.

                          Map18: although it's classified as "Hard", I'd say
                            it's only medium hard since you can get almost all
                            the monsters to kill each other by circle strafing
                            and doing some broken field running.  Once that's
                            done, it's a cakewalk. (Another reason for chosing
                            Map 20 as my "free interpretation."

                          Map20: unlike the assigned levels, this one was an
                            "Instant Carnage".  The dance was done in the
                            south "guard house" on top of the door.  Main
                            problem in this level is there's only 7 rockets
                            available to take out the winner of the
                            Cyberdemon vs. Spider MasterMind battle.  That's
                            why I didn't hide behind the red panel: I wanted
                            the Spider MM to get the first licks.  Other thing
                            is it's real dicey trying to take out the archvile
                            with a combat shotgun while watching out for the
                            Baron.  But I did get to fight the other one with
                            a shotgun :-) Then of course there's those Lost 
                            Souls: they got me down to 1% twice!  This one 
                            deserves the classification of "Hardest".
                          
Author info             : They call me Bowman because I like rockets. I'm a
                            Ph.D. student in philosophy.  It probably shows
                            in that I don't know how to stop writing. So, 
                            I'll just shut up now. (:-{D  
