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This is a DHT exam file. Its place is in the dht-exams directory.

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

Mike Pratt hereby conquers the title of DOOM 2 Master.

Exam file name          : D2M-MGP.ZIP
Title conquered         : DOOM 2 Master
Author                  : Mike Pratt
Completion date         : 1995 10 10
Game and version used   : DOOM II v. 1.90
Log entry
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CHAL: D2M  MGP Mike Pratt                 05 15 28  LLL-FLF-FFF
    :          mgp@cbemg.cb.att.com
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Substitutions?          : NO
System used             : 100MHz Pentium PCI, S3 Video, 32 Meg. Memory
                          and SB Value 16 Multimedia kit.
Controls used           : Keyboard + mouse, with some keys redefined
                          as follows;   forward         e
                                        reverse         d
                                        turn left       s
                                        turn right      f
                                        strafe left     w
                                        strafe right    r
                                        fast            a

Free interpretation     : Free file is Map 32 on Ultra Violence with no
                          other parameters.  When making this recording
                          the goals evolved as the LMPs piled up.  I would
                          get one thing figured out then  start thinking:
                          "I wonder if it would be possible to ... so
                          here is the list:

                          1. Use Combat Shotgun only to take out Cyber-Demon.
                          2. Finish as fast as possible.
                          3. Do not use any of the power-ups.
                          4. Do not use any Stimp Packs or Med Kits.
                          5. No hiding, everyone gets a shot.
                          6. Finish 100% 100% 100% 200% 200%.

                          These are the results: the Cyber-Demon goes down
                          after 23 shots from the Combat Shotgun.  The level
                          was completed in 2:49 with the Marine taking 3%
                          damage to health for the entire level.  Did everyone
                          get a shot at him?  Hard to say, more or less I
                          think (not a really fair one for some of the storm
                          troopers though).  He picks up everything to
                          finish wall to wall maximun.

                          It took lots of trys to get this recording but it
                          can be done with fewer shots.  It takes me 46
                          shotgun shells in this LMP but I did it with 44
                          twice (but did not achive some other element).
                          Does anyone know what the minimun would be? (42
                          I think).

                                The stats are:
                                        Kills           100%
                                        Items           100%
                                        Secrets         100%
                                  TIME   2:49         PAR   1:30

Comments                : I was going to include the first recording of each
                          of the assigned levels but three things changed
                          my mind:  1. I could not get logged onto cdrom
                          to upload the prepared sets.  2. Working on my Doom
                          1 Masters changed my perspective somewhat.  If these
                          LMP's are not good, the opportunity is lost until
                          another title is requested.  3. Jim Hajjar thought
                          some of the original set were "pretty lame".  Most
                          of the LMPs are 100% 100% 100% and end with 200%
                          health & armor, not because the Marine avoids
                          damage but because he saves health and armor till
                          everything is disposed of.

                          Map 5
                                Map 5 is super fun to blitz and I have
                          recorded it lots of times in multi LMP recordings.
                          I try to pick everything up and finish with 200%
                          health and armor.

                                The stats are:
                                        Kills           100%
                                        Items           100%
                                        Secrets         100%
                                  TIME   8:08         PAR   1:30

                          Map 15
                                This Map caused me lots of problems.  It
                          took a lot of fumbling and bumbling before I
                          learned that to do this level well would take a
                          thoughtful plan.  I had read Section 15 in Frank's
                          document but until I got to this Map it had no real
                          meaning.  Same thing as above, pick up everything
                          possible and finish with 200% health and armor.
                          (I used the exit to Map 31 and lose about 10% health
                          & armor in the slime.  There was a spare suit, near
                          the stairs surrounded by Lava, that could have been
                          used to prevent this but I felt it would have added
                          more time than it was worth to get it.)

                                The stats are:
                                        Kills           100%
                                        Items           100%
                                        Secrets          90%
                                  TIME   18:26        PAR   3:30


                          Map 28
                                This is the only LMP from the original set
                          that was not replaced.  Mostly because by the time
                          it was started I had a lot better understanding of
                          what it took to make a good LMP.  The other reason
                          is that the poor Marine in this LMP gets down to
                          single digit health several times and is even down
                          to 1% just before going into the pit with the 2
                          Spider-Masterminds and 11 Arachnotrons. Still it
                          ends ok.  Same drill, pick everything in sight up
                          and end with 200% health and armor.

                                The stats are:
                                        Kills           100%
                                        Items           100%
                                        Secrets         100%
                                  TIME   20:26        PAR   7:00

Author info             : First, I would like to thank Steffen Winterfeldt &
                          Jonathan Hoof for making some excellent recordings.
                          If you have not seen one, get some of them.  I
                          learn something new with each viewing (especially
                          DOOM2NM.LMP).  They are like huge, visual, secrets
                          files.

                          Everything Frank wrote in the DHT5 document is good
                          advise, mostly I know from learning the hard way.
                          If you are thinking of getting an Honorific Title,
                          watch lots of other LMPs and also make and watch
                          lots of your own.  Before starting an LMP, have a
                          goal in mind then work on developing a style.  I
                          personally always try to be the aggressor and take
                          the fight forward; use the shotgun on everything
                          possible; get monsters to fight each other; and
                          chainsaw anything that seems safe for that purpose.

                          I had practiced a lot for this and thought I was
                          ready, but working on this, and especially on my
                          D1M LMPs has raised my skills a great deal and
                          renewed my interest in Doom.  But this project has
                          to reach closure at some point so the enclosed
                          files are my submissions for my first DOOM Honorific
                          Title:            Doom ][ Master.
