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Final ‘Doom 2’ Secret Attained After 24 Years
Say what you will about speedrunning (I don’t care for it), there are some players who happen upon some admittedly cool things while doing it. Such as a secret that had been hidden for almost 24 years in normal playthroughs.
According to Doom‘s designer, John Romero, a runner by the name of Zero Master uncovered Doom 2‘s best-kept secret: a previously inaccessible portion of the map found in the Industrial Zone map, which Romero himself had designed. Truthfully though, the secret had actually been known to players for a long while, but up until now, you could only get to it using the ‘idclip’ command. Zero Master is the first to get it without using the cheat.
CONGRATS, Zero Master! Finally, after 24 years! "To win the game you must get 100% on level 15 by John Romero." Great trick getting to that secret! https://t.co/Im9BSP5Eyh #doom
— (@romero) August 31, 2018
The secret goes like this, as explained by Romero: “A secret teleporter [in the Industrial Zone map] is marked as a discoverable “secret”, but when you touch it, you never enter the sector. So you would never get inside the teleporter sector to trigger the secret. The only way to trigger this secret is to be pushed by an enemy into it!” According to Zero Master, Doom 2 only registers when a player gets a secret “if Doomguy’s center is within the secret area and if he is on the same height as the secret sector [of a map].”
Zero Master found a way around this in the Industrial Zone map by luring a Pain Elemental, having it attack him with a Lost Soul, and using the knockback to push him down into the secret. “This forces you down to the lowest floor the moving door is on, which puts you within the secret sector and on the same height, thus triggering the secret,” Zero Master said.
As I said, it’s pretty cool when speedrunners happen upon things like this that not only make you appreciate the effort to discover the secret, but also makes you want to load up Doom 2 and try it yourself. Then again, do you really need a reason to play Doom 2?
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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