Doom 2 speedrunner breaks an 'impossible' 26-year record by completing the FPS's first level in just 4 seconds
Apr. 19, 2024The original runner is Doomed
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The Doom speedrunning community has been turned upside down recently after a 26-year-old world record was beaten by just one second.
As detailed inthis videoby Karl Jobst, Doom’s oldest speedrunning world record was finally beaten earlier this month. Back in 1998, a speedrunner known as Thomas Pilger managed to set not only the world record for Doom’s first level ‘Hangar’ but also the opening level of Doom 2, ‘Entryway.’ It’s been 26 years since then and both of these records have now been beaten by just a couple of seconds.
This must have stung for Pilger, who had held that crown for 21 years at that point, but things were about to hurt even more. In the same year that they achieved the Doom world record, Pilger found a way to complete Entryway from Doom 2 in just five seconds. Thanks to its limited number of turns and its small map, this level can be completed in no time at all. This is where 4ShockBlast comes in again.
“If you were to have asked any Doom speedrunner even just a year ago if 4 seconds was doable they would have said no,” Jobst says in their video, so suffice to say, this new world record is a pretty big deal in the community. To find out exactly how this speedrun was pulled off, we suggest watching Jobst’s video for a full breakdown.
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