E2M5: Command Center (Doom)

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This level occupies the map slot E2M5. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:E2M5.

E2M5: Command Center is the fifth map of The Shores of Hell in Doom. It contains an entrance to the secret level E2M9: Fortress of Mystery. It was designed by Sandy Petersen and it uses the music track "Demons on the Prey." The par time is 1:30.

Strategy

Map of E2M5

Secrets

1. After going through the first door, head to the left side of the next room. Pick up or walk over the medikit here and a door will open, releasing some imps. A box of shells is inside.
2. On the opposite end of the same room as secret 1, walk over the pool of blood and another room will open, also containing some imps and a box of shells.
3. Go through the door behind the Baron-faced column in the first outdoor area. In the next room, go through the door to the left. To the left of the skull/candles decoration is a misaligned wall, open it to get a chainsaw.
4. At the southern end of the map is a wooden spiral staircase. Upon reaching the top of this staircase, a room back at the bottom will open. It contains a radsuit you'll need to reach the next secret.
5. From secret 4, re-ascend the staircase and take a right at the fork at the top. Follow the nukage tunnel - near its end, there is an ammo clip sitting in the slime in front of a misaligned wall. Pick up the clip, and the wall will open. At the end of the next tunnel there is a caged Baron of Hell. Beyond him is a fairly expansive secret area with lots of goodies.
6. While still in secret 5, drop down into the nukage pit. At the end of a narrow tunnel is an energy cell. Take the teleporter to get out of this area.
7. At the west end of the map is a vaguely H-shaped green marble room. Take the left door on the northern wall of this room and hit the skull switch behind it. This raises a stairway into the fireplace in the northwest corner of the room. Walk through the fire - there is a hidden teleporter here.
8. The area on the other side of the teleporter in secret 7 counts as a secret.
9. Open the lion-faced wall in secret 8 for another hidden teleporter.
10. (Secret Exit) On the other side of the teleport in secret 9 is the exit switch to the secret level (E2M9: Fortress of Mystery). This type of switch with the red on top and the green on the bottom makes its only appearance as an exit switch in this episode, although not as an exit switch in other levels.

Speedrunning

Records

The Compet-N records for the map are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed (normal exit)	00:27	Adam Hegyi	2001-02-07	Template:Competnftp
UV speed (secret exit)	00:24	Jonathan Rimmer	2000-08-03	Template:Competnftp
NM speed (normal exit)	00:28	Ranjo "Mummi" Kahluff	2002-12-29	Template:Competnftp
NM speed (secret exit)	00:44	Xit Vono	2003-02-28	Template:Competnftp
UV max	04:35	Radek Pecka	2003-06-23	Template:Competnftp
NM100S	01:53	Radek Pecka	2002-09-26	Template:Competnftp
UV -fast	05:37	Radek Pecka	2002-09-26	Template:Competnftp
UV -respawn	03:47	Radek Pecka	2000-08-26	Template:Competnftp
UV Tyson	05:13	Xit Vono	2003-05-24	Template:Competnftp
UV pacifist (normal exit)	00:27	Adam Hegyi	2001-02-07	Template:Competnftp
UV pacifist (secret exit)	00:24	Jonathan Rimmer	2000-08-03	Template:Competnftp

Statistics

Map data

Things	326
Vertices	1235
Linedefs	1353
Sidedefs	1710
Sectors	241

Things

Monsters	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Sergeants	12	22	22
Imps	24	27	40
Demons	10	16	26
Barons of Hell	1	2	4
Troopers	14	14	14
Cacodemons	1	5	6
Lost Souls	8	17	26
Powerups	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Backpacks	1	1	1
Stim packs	11	11	11
Medikits	11	8	8
Health bonuses	6	6	6
Armor bonuses	31	31	31
Green armors	2	2	2
Blue armors	1	1	1
Berserks	1	1	1
Invisibilities	1	1	1
Radiation suits	2	2	2
Automaps	1	1	1
Light goggles	1	0	0
Weapons	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Chainguns	1	1	1
Plasma guns	1	1	1
Chainsaws	1	1	1
Ammunition	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Bulk Cells	2	2	2
Ammo clips	9	9	9
Shells	9	9	9
Rockets	2	2	2
Rocket boxes	1	1	1
Energy cells	2	2	2
Ammo boxes	3	3	3
Shell boxes	7	6	6
Keys	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM

External links

• E2M5 demos from the Compet-n database
• Top-down perspective view of E2M5: Command Center, by Ian Albert (3.31 MB JPG file)