Changes: MAP31: Wolfenstein (Doom II)

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This level occupies the map slot MAP31. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP31.

Template:Doom II 31-32 MAP31: Wolfenstein is the first secret map of Doom II and can be accessed via MAP15: Industrial Zone. A faithful remake of the first level of id Software's Wolfenstein 3-D, right down to the textures on the walls and the inclusion of the bonus level-exclusive Wolfenstein SS enemy type, "Wolfenstein" was designed by Sandy Petersen and uses the music track "Evil Incarnate". From this map, the player can choose between accessing the second secret map (MAP32: Grosse) or returning to "normal" Doom II gameplay (by exiting to MAP16: Suburbs). Only the SS Trooper enemy from Wolfenstein 3-D has been included in Doom II; all Nazi soldiers from the original map have been replaced with Wolfenstein SS, and Nazi attack dogs have been replaced with Demons.

Despite previous claims that id would not be modifying the versions of Doom or Doom II included with Doom 3: BFG Edition, the secret levels have been heavily censored; all Nazi imagery, including swastikas and portraits of Adolf Hitler, have been removed, and most disappointingly, all Wolfenstein SS enemies have been replaced with standard Former Humans. Additionally, because of this removal of the reference, the level has been renamed "IDKFA" after the classic Doom cheat code (which has also been removed from the BFG Edition). This also seems to be the case in the so-called Doom: Classic Complete package on Steam.

Strategy

Sssample — Fighting a Nazi soldier in MAP31.

Walkthrough

As the secret levels are based on levels from Wolfenstein 3D (specifically, floors 1 and 9 of "Escape from Wolfenstein"), the layout is fairly straightforward. From the start, go through the door ahead of you. Turn left and go through the door at the end of this hall (A). Continue through one last blue hallway and you'll arrive in a large grey room (B). Go through the door across from you once again. Proceed through the wooden hallway and through the door at its end. In the large wooden room, turn left, head through the door, around the bend in the next hall, and through another door. From the stone room, continue due south through another trio of doors (C). You will now come to an intersection; go left again.

Once in the final room, you can either flip the exit switch in front of you, which takes you to MAP16: Suburbs (D), or see secrets #2-4 for instructions to the super-secret level, MAP32: Grosse.

For those familiar with floor 1 of the shareware version of Wolfenstein 3D, each brown-uniformed guard that appears in the "I am Death Incarnate" skill level are replaced by SS officers (1 in skill levels 1 and 2, 2 in skill level 3 and 4 in skill levels 4 and 5) and the dogs are replaced by Demons. In addition, the hallways appear larger and the guards smaller than in Wolfenstein 3D.

Doom_II_-_Wolfenstein — Doom II - Wolfenstein

Secrets

Official

At the east end of the map is a blue, T-shaped hallway. Take the door at the south end of this hall into a room with several alcoves in the walls. The back wall of the southeastern-most alcove opens, revealing a decidedly non-Wolfenstein secret area containing a BFG9000, a megasphere, a super shotgun, and several backpacks (E).
In the room with the (regular) exit elevator, instead of flipping the exit switch, open the southwestern corner of the room to reveal a secret area with a medikit (F).
Secret exit: Open the western wall in secret 2 for a soul sphere to reveal the secret exit elevator. It will take you to MAP32: Grosse, the second and last secret map of Doom II.
Before hitting the secret exit switch, open the southern wall of this last area to reveal a soul sphere (G).

Non-official

These are a pair of hidden areas present in the original Wolfenstein game that do not count towards Doom's secret tally.

In the first wooden hallway, the back wall of the western alcove opens.
The painting of Hitler in the stone room in the northwest corner of the map opens.

Bugs

Two demons in sector #41 (on ultra-violence or nightmare) occupy the same location, and are immobile until one is killed.
One Wolfenstein SS in the northern-most alcove sector #51 is flagged as deaf, while his 3 companions are not.

Differences to the original

As already mentioned, the map is a replica in layout of the first map of Wolfenstein 3D.

There are some key differences though:

The wall textures come from the Jaguar version rather than the PC version. These graphics are double the resolution of the PC original textures. Though unlike that port, they are not actually used as higher resolution textures here; the level has been made double the scale of the original.
Strangely, id choose not to imitate the original map's elevator textures (and hence their textures aren't present) and instead used Doom graphics for them.
The doors and push walls operates like Doom doors, despite their look. The Doom source contains partially completed (but commented-out) code for horizontally opening doors, suggesting that at one point, id were planning to make the doors open horizontally.
While the map is largely textured like it was in the original game, all the scenery and pickups on the map are, understandably, from Doom.
The brown guards and German shepherds that occupy this floor in the original game are replaced by groups of four SS Guards and Demons respectively.
Though the map is otherwise based off the PC version of the map, it also features the additional secret near the exit from the altered version of the map that appeared in all ports of the original game.
The music in this map is from Spear of Destiny (level 21, the Angel of Death titled "Evil Incarnate"), the commercial sequel to Wolfenstein 3-D; this level featured a battle against a demon that is generally regarded as a taste of things to come from id Software, and is thus an appropriate choice.

Speedrunning

Routes and tricks

Records

The Compet-N records for the map are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File
UV speed (normal exit)	00:30	Marijo "Sedlo" Sedlic	2000-07-18	Template:Competnftp
UV speed (secret exit)	00:32	Marijo "Sedlo" Sedlic	2002-11-16	Template:Competnftp
NM speed (normal exit)	00:32	Jonathan Rimmer	2000-04-23	Template:Competnftp
NM speed (secret exit)	00:34	Jakub "Avenger" Mahdal	2000-04-21	Template:Competnftp
UV max	02:18	Henning Skogsto	1999-02-12	Template:Competnftp
NM100S	00:55	Adam Hegyi	2001-02-18	Template:Competnftp
UV -fast	02:20	Henning Skogsto	2002-03-01	Template:Competnftp
UV -respawn	02:22	Radek Pecka	2002-02-28	Template:Competnftp
UV Tyson	03:34	Henning Skogsto	1999-06-15	Template:Competnftp
UV pacifist (normal exit)	00:30	Marijo "Sedlo" Sedlic	2000-07-18	Template:Competnftp
UV pacifist (secret exit)	00:32	Marijo "Sedlo" Sedlic	2002-11-16	Template:Competnftp

Statistics

Map data

Things	317
Vertices	635
Linedefs	686
Sidedefs	783
Sectors	80

Things

Monsters	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Demons	5	10	21
SS Nazis	32	64	128
Powerups	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Backpacks	4	4	4
Stim packs	9	9	9
Medikits	4	4	4
Soul spheres	1	1	1
Health bonuses	4	4	4
Armor bonuses	56	56	56
Berserks	1	1	1
Invisibilities	1	1	1
Megasphere	1	1	1
Weapons	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Shotguns	1	1	1
Chainguns	1	1	1
Rocket launchers	1	1	1
Plasma guns	1	1	1
BFG 9000s	1	1	1
Super shotguns	1	1	1
Ammunition	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Ammo clips	8	8	8
Shells	6	6	6
Rockets	5	5	5
Ammo boxes	1	1	1
Barrels	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Exploding barrels	5	5	5

External links

MAP31 demos from the Compet-n database
Top-down perspective view of all Doom II levels by Ian Albert

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 {{map|slot=MAP31}}
 {{Doom II 31-32}}
-'''MAP31: Wolfenstein''' is the first secret map of [[Doom II]] and can be accessed via [[MAP15: Industrial Zone]]. It was designed by [[Sandy Petersen]] and uses the [[Doom II music|music]] track "Evil Incarnate". From this map, the player can choose between accessing the second secret map ([[MAP32: Grosse (Doom II)|MAP32: Grosse]]) or returning to "normal" Doom II gameplay (by exiting to [[MAP16: Suburbs (Doom II)|MAP16: Suburbs]]).
+'''MAP31: ''Wolfenstein''''' is the first secret map of ''[[Doom II]]'' and can be accessed via [[MAP15: Industrial Zone]]. A faithful remake of the first level of id Software's ''Wolfenstein 3-D'', right down to the textures on the walls and the inclusion of the bonus level-exclusive [[Wolfenstein SS]] enemy type, "Wolfenstein" was designed by [[Sandy Petersen]] and uses the [[Doom II music|music]] track "Evil Incarnate". From this map, the player can choose between accessing the second secret map ([[MAP32: Grosse (Doom II)|MAP32: Grosse]]) or returning to "normal" Doom II gameplay (by exiting to [[MAP16: Suburbs (Doom II)|MAP16: Suburbs]]). Only the SS Trooper enemy from ''Wolfenstein 3-D'' has been included in Doom II; all Nazi soldiers from the original map have been replaced with Wolfenstein SS, and Nazi attack dogs have been replaced with [[Demon]]s.
+Despite previous claims that id would not be modifying the versions of ''Doom'' or ''Doom II'' included with ''[[Doom 3: BFG Edition]]'', the secret levels have been heavily censored; all Nazi imagery, including swastikas and portraits of Adolf Hitler, have been removed, and most disappointingly, all Wolfenstein SS enemies have been replaced with standard [[Former Human]]s. Additionally, because of this removal of the reference, the level has been renamed "IDKFA" after the classic ''Doom'' cheat code (which has also been removed from the BFG Edition). This also seems to be the case in the so-called ''Doom: Classic Complete'' package on Steam.
-Its layout and texturing is largely a copy of the first map from ID's previous game, [[Wolfenstein 3D]]
-In [[Doom 3 BFG Edition]] this map is called [[idkfa]].
 ==Strategy==
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 # At the east end of the map is a blue, T-shaped hallway. Take the door at the south end of this hall into a room with several alcoves in the walls. The back wall of the southeastern-most alcove opens, revealing a decidedly non-Wolfenstein secret area containing a [[BFG9000]], a [[megasphere]], a [[super shotgun]], and several [[backpack]]s (E).
 # In the room with the (regular) exit elevator, instead of flipping the exit switch, open the southwestern corner of the room to reveal a secret area with a [[medikit]] (F).
-# Secret exit: Open the western wall in secret 2 for a [[soul sphere]] to reveal the secret exit elevator. It will take you to [[MAP32: Grosse (Doom II)|MAP32: Grosse]], the second and last secret map of Doom II.
+# Secret exit: Open the western wall in secret 2 for a [[soul sphere]] to reveal the secret exit elevator. It will take you to [[MAP32: Grosse (Doom II)|MAP32: Grosse]], the second and last secret map of ''Doom II''.
 # Before hitting the secret exit switch, open the southern wall of this last area to reveal a [[soul sphere]] (G).
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 ===Differences to the original===
-As already mentioned, the map is largely a replica in layout of the first map of Wolfenstein 3D.
+As already mentioned, the map is a replica in layout of the first map of Wolfenstein 3D.
 There are some key differences though:
 # The wall textures come from the Jaguar version rather than the PC version. These graphics are double the resolution of the PC original textures. Though unlike that port, they are not actually used as higher resolution textures here; the level has been made double the scale of the original.
-# Strangely, ID choose not to imitate the original maps elevators textures (and hence their textures aren't present) and instead used Doom graphics for them.
+# Strangely, id choose not to imitate the original map's elevator textures (and hence their textures aren't present) and instead used ''Doom'' graphics for them.
-# The doors and push walls operates like Doom games doors, despite their look. The Doom source contains partially completed commented out code for horizontally opening doors, suggesting that at one point, ID were planning to make the doors open horizontally.
+# The doors and push walls operates like ''Doom'' doors, despite their look. The ''Doom'' source contains partially completed (but commented-out) code for horizontally opening doors, suggesting that at one point, id were planning to make the doors open horizontally.
-# While the map is largely textured like it was in the original game, all the scenery and pickups on the map are from Doom.
+# While the map is largely textured like it was in the original game, all the scenery and pickups on the map are, understandably, from ''Doom''.
-# The brown guards and dogs that occupy this floor in the original game are replaced by groups of four SS Guards and Demons respectively.
+# The brown guards and German shepherds that occupy this floor in the original game are replaced by groups of four SS Guards and Demons respectively.
 # Though the map is otherwise based off the PC version of the map, it also features the additional secret near the exit from the altered version of the map that appeared in all ports of the original game.
-# The music in this map is from [[wikipedia:Spear of Destiny (video game)|Spear of Destiny]] (level 21, the Angel of Death titled "[http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Evil_Incarnate Evil Incarnate]"), the commercial sequel to Wolfenstein 3D.
+# The music in this map is from [[wikipedia:Spear of Destiny (video game)|Spear of Destiny]] (level 21, the Angel of Death titled "[http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Evil_Incarnate Evil Incarnate]"), the commercial sequel to ''Wolfenstein 3-D''; this level featured a battle against a demon that is generally regarded as a taste of things to come from id Software, and is thus an appropriate choice.
-# In Doom:Classic Complete, all of the Nazi references are taken out entirely, even the [[Wolfenstein SS]] soldiers are replaced by Zombiemen. The level's name is also renamed to IDKFA.
 ==Speedrunning==