Going Down - MAP28: Necropolis (Blind Ultra-Violence 100%)

[@lexyeevee]

i think one of the cleverest parts of this wad is how it sets itself a constraint (levels must fit within a given box, the size of the building), but then repeatedly breaks it in ways that REALLY enhance the sense of space. the VR level had a separate area that was "virtual"; the time travel level obviously had two areas; the elevator breakdown played with it a bit; roof rage let you go to the rooftops of the surrounding buildings; several of the later levels have a skybox; and now here we are finally, at the very bottom, with a level that's still compact but clearly not confined to the same size any more. makes the entire set really feel like one big coherent space. i don't think there's much else like it.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

There are the 1024 and 2048 series of maps, where everything needs to be within a square of that many map units per side.

[@podfuk]

I always prefered smaller levels filled with creativity, rather than big sandoboxy arenas

[@QuiltedDusknoir]

Are you on break from consuming CP to be here?

[@Vomarsk]

"Where are the Cyberdemons? You're supposed to help me!" - Decino, after killing 4 Cyberdemons

[@roodledoot]

"There's gotta be more cells!" Bruh you shot them all from downtown like really fat rockets

[@GabrieleRusso93]

14:18 Dude you accidentally blasted that lost soul shooting from miles away ahahaha

[@mattj2217]

"No enemies spawned" cyriak: "about that..."

[@staticfiend]

So sad we’re so close to the end, been thoroughly enjoying this play through.

[@LordSluggo]

Maybe the real Going Down was the demons we met along the way

[@emmecuh]

One goes, another one shows up. Everything is temporary in this world, except the doom itself.

[@Glass_Desert]

We still have Ancient Aliens to look forward to

[@helton3425]

Tell me about it, been waiting a year for this masterpiece of a playthrough to happen

[@SnowyRVulpix]

Really loving this and i can’t wait to see what his next blind mappack is

[@psyxypher3881]

"Cyberdemons? I eat those for breakfast! Doctor says I need the iron!" -Decino

[@Tyrian3k]

14:25 "Let's not die, shall we?" The timing of those words was impeccable as usual.

[@nicolaslopez1953]

decino is like the anti Coincident of sorts: he avoids jinxes with those words :p

[@waxkun]

@@nicolaslopez1953 yeah, when coincident says something like that, he immediately dies or takes a face rocket lol

[@ZomB1986]

My leg twitched

[@daviddeltoro1808]

The way Decino says "Caco" is so satisfying

[@MrDopeKeen]

DooM turned out to be a tonal language

[@iguana9173]

Yes it is.

[@MrEW1985]

It is the Dutch way of speaking English

[@rogermucroy750]

It's my text notification sound.

[@samuelfreeman5483]

Gotta love Cyriak. His maps are hard, but fair. Their difficulty definitely comes from the encounters and spaces, not refusing to give you weapons, ammo, and health. He always gives you plenty, you just have to be careful. What a great designer.

[@Ayeloo]

At around 14:18 you shot a rocket at the cacodemon but ended up sniping a lost soul across the map lol

[@decino]

Delicious.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Trick shot!

[@TheRealNormanBates]

Cacodemon: “Ha HA! You _missed_ me!” Decino: “… did I?” Lost Soul: 😡

[@doomerrasa8475]

I gotta say, the moment where you get on the lift and it finally starts going up after everything you've been through, it's just such a powerful moment Before I played it I was told going down was basically the best wad ever and ever since I've played it I've been mad because that's so uncontestable. Like, only thing that came close for me is ancient aliens. Maybe I'd find sunlust better if I actually played it? Either way, going down is one of the few wads (even in the notables) to truly achieve uniqueness of this calibre, and it's maddening

[@fluffydestroyer8336]

something I notice about going down is how cyriak's not afraid to use some lower-powered stuff like zombiemen and green armour. lot of wads seem to have a green armour in the first map and a secret mega armour too. also something cool is how the really powerful stuff like BFGs and megaspheres are only a thing in the later and more intense maps (which also give you a large quantity of weaker enemies to satisfyingly splat with the BFG)

[@DinnerForkTongue]

IMO BTSX and Eviternity make better use of green armor pickups, but on the monster side, I agree. Mouldy is too good a mapper to stay with the cheap difficult enemies, he uses the whole buffalo.

[@MrCantStopTheRobot]

Most people seem to think of Doom as a one-way progression, ever-more powerful, ever-larger, ever-more numerous, but it's more like a rhythm of highs and lows when done perfectly. Like breathing. No different from any other medium.

[@Dwars]

This one was quite an adventure to do with the strategy in my own playthrough. Getting the blue key and activating the blue switch brings in the entire level to fight, but it was rather cathartic to do the level in less than 6 minutes. It's almost weird seeing your more cautious blind approach at this point.

[@badendhappy2903]

This has got to be the world's longest elevator ride.

[@RussianSevereWeatherVideos]

If they go 100 meters down every map that's a lot of distance.

[@mmcilroy821]

Ah yes, the hellevator. Imagine it's down for maintenance and you have to take the stairs.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Depends on how bad you need to visit the loo...

[@stephenmanuel9860]

Mass Effect on 360 sends its regards.

[@n00f]

11:45 >Cyber alert sound >Cyber alert sound >Cyber alert sound >Cyber alert sound decino: oh theres only one cyberdemon? That's no big deal, you can infight :)

[@gorisonodorob]

"... half of them were revenants." Your average plutonia experience

[@OmarHyari2009]

And the other half chaingunners

[@Bengaltiger1289]

Ngl I'll be sad to see the end of Going Down. Thank you Cyriak Harris!

[@lankymaccrazyhair264]

"Map twenty-holy moly that kill count" Best intro so far

[@b.griffin317]

3:06 Three minutes in and Decino has already killed over 300 monsters. All in a day's work for doomguy.

[@AegisAmaranth]

The buildup to this city, it does not disappoint. Decino, dancing with the death, as elegant as ever. "Are you sure, we're going up?" "Feels like we're going... downn..."

[@edwardealdseaxe5253]

"Map Twenteee-- ...Holy Moly that kill count" Best opening.

[@reptongeek]

#triplecrown Decino: Pinky, what are you doing here? Pinky: Nuthin' Just watchin the game. Having a Bud Quake also has a map called The Necropolis E1M3

[@bendzam.6068]

Oh, The Icon of Nevermind, my favourite enemy in the game.

[@lunex8783]

As he was clearing the imps on the stairs I had flashbacks to him saying "imp cliff"

[@cocyxtheskeleton]

Hope you consider doing more blind playthroughs in the future! I've been really enjoying this series

[@johnromero1029]

I really liked watching this one, had no doubt you'd beat it.

[@raymooray]

I had a feeling you'd ace this one since slaughter maps are your element, but I didn't think you'd do it that easily. Amazing! Up next: some familiar scenery!

[@gregmiller7224]

Sad to know that there are only a couple of maps left, I’ve really been enjoying this playthrough. Rather than just looking out for the yellow thumbnails, I’m now on the lookout for the near-daily Going Down vid. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow has in store!

[@LogicDolphin]

"This is the type of map I'm good at -- slaughter-ish." ...this is slaughter-ish?! Not straight-up slaughter? Oh my.

[@narmale]

pfft... vs sunder's furnace? or Okuplok... yeah... 'ish :P

[@arthurbarros5189]

The birds are chirping. The flowers blooming. The children playing on the park. Decino is invulnerable shooting the BFG nonstop at a sea of revenants. My heart is warm, and all is well.

[@eduardodiaz9942]

Yep, I had a similar reaction the first time I saw that kill count, Going Down has up until this point been about relatively low enemy counts and suddenly you're hit in the face with a 4 digit one. Also, as much as I've grown to appreciate Cyriak's soundtrack, I can't help to be reminded of Manilla Road's Necropolis. Great tune, if you like 80s metal you should check it out.

[@mysteriousstranger2287]

Oh man, I'm gonna listen to that! I heard their Crystal Logic, liked it

[@Dollar_Store_Cacodemon]

As we draw in on the end of Going Down now decino, I do hope you plan to do a few more blind runs but I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that you need to make sure you pick the right WADs for it. The BTSX2 blind run didn't quite work but Going Down was the perfect fit for the format.

[@Jobby_James]

Comparing this map to Going Down's earlier maps, this has certainly increased in difficulty. With a kill count of 1143 and a large arena with spooky bois and many other of Doom I & II's monsters, this might as well be a map made by Ribbiks. Because with the kill count like that and a large arena, fair use of metal walls and flooring, tons of detail and love put into this fairly small slaughter map, it reminds me of wads like Sunlust. I am amazed that this wad explores a surprising amount of themes considering (in my opinion) its simple narrative and favouring vanilla Doom assets to tell the story. Then again I don't really play slaughter maps as (particularly some) are very daunting and tend to lag on the computers that I typically play Doom on.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Nah, this is much easier than Ribbiks's fare. You get disgusting amounts of recovery items and enough invuls to chain together for the whole thick of the map if you rush all the switches and turn the teleport reinforcements into one single mass of infighting violence.

[@SpunkMayo]

Yeah we all watched the video, too, man.

[@liamaldrich2476]

You might notice that this actually lagged out decino's machine when he was shooting bfg at the imps. Even a powerful computer can be slowed down by all this nonsense!

[@DinnerForkTongue]

@@liamaldrich2476 I ran Going Down on GZDoom and the framerate in this map always hovered at around 30, with dips to 20 now and then.

[@IgnoreMyChan]

14:20 Poor lost soul caught a stray rocket fired by decino at 14:19 🤣

[@johnarmstrong5533]

Getting outdoors into the hell city is a real escalation, and that gets combined with the astronomical increase in monster count to result in a epic confrontation at the end of the journey. Nothing left to do but head back up and win the game.

[@johns1625]

Man I remember just a few years ago getting really into Doom and fawning over how beautiful and smart the Plutonia Experiment was. But WADs like this are just a pure work of art. So complex and beautiful!

[@GameKnut]

I knew you'd breeze through this one, but it's still fun to watch. Next map: Doomguy finally takes the sensible approach to this whole business.

[@DEdens1525]

Beautiful design.

[@markh.876]

Lovely visuals of the necropolis overspilling with skellies angry you interrupted their sleep.

[@Ennello]

This map is exactly what i meant with a bite-sized map with a not-so-bite-sized kill count. So much fun. Slaughter(y)map done right. Now it's time for the big finale

[@andrewd.4439]

Great to see more of Going Down

[@n1pplel3sscage22]

Cool map! Am always happy to see you drop a new vid.

[@DopeonaRope]

cyriak really knows how to fuel the power fantasy with good amounts of ammo and power ups

[@Maldito011316]

Going Down and Sunlust are my favorite decino cinematic universe series

[@mishtimou2705]

I never watched your videos so early before. But tonight was exceptional. About you being proud: Dude, you finished Sunlust on UV Max. You should be proud of yourself already.

[@musthavechannel5262]

"Holy molly, that kill count" sounds a good name for this map. haha.

[@themartonjanos6194]

Honestly impressed you pulled this one off in one piece. But then again, from a person who completed Okuplok and most of the Sunder maps - regardless how long they took - this should not be surprising.

[@TheBrassDancer]

That looked like a hell of a lot of fun. Literally… a *hell* of a lot.

[@johndelta00]

That lost soul kill at 14:21 is so damn satisfing.

[@ablayhappy8969]

This is so cool man, 1143 kils, you did good! This is was very epic! You really professional man!

[@paramite0915]

I waited all wad to see you struggling with this one but you did it with blind run.

[@expendableround6186]

This kill-a-thon took me over an hour to triumph over, and Decino casually overcomes it in less than thirty minutes. Wow. Going Down is NOT meant to be played when one is starting out on WADs.

[@matheusrios4223]

this series is so fun, I'm sad its coming to an end.

[@michaeldonoghue9015]

I am going to be devastated when this WAD is over. It has been so entertaining and fun to watch you go through it. This won’t be my last time through your Going Down playlist.

[@jasonmaguire7552]

Love the inclusion of blind runs- great format

[@Flickeralex]

Incredible run as always, Decino!

[@TheMisterGuy]

That was awesome. This whole map set is great!

[@BearInThaWoods]

Hands down my favorite map of the wad. When i start playing Going Down i always think of this map as my goal. Just playing it is so rewarding. Not too difficult and not too easy. Perfection

[@MrAh1123581321]

Thank you so much for doing these. It's an absolute delight watching you wreck shop.

[@feliperojas-doomride]

I can not believe you beat this one first try. It took me so many tries even on HMP and using saves. I was certain you would have had to practice this map before beating it on a single segment run. I am honestly incredibly amazed. Very well done

[@hajo5400]

This map is one of the lesser 'gimmicky' levels of the wad. Not that I see that as a problem. On the contrary, Cyriak's ability to create fun slaughter with beautiful visuals is on par with Insane_gazebo in some regards truly shines (although gazebo is still on another level when it comes to micro and macro-detailing). What amazes me about Cyriak is his versatility as a mapper. He shows impressive creativity and every level feels unique. Even the lesser levels aren't really boring, more so that there's better levels in the mapset. I'd say that this is one of the best levelsets ever released for both difficulty junkies as well as the more casual players. My hat's off to you, Cyriak! EDIT removed minor spoilers

[@keithpratt6894]

Another Decino video! Loving the daily content

[@Roy-hn4ek]

Slaughter-ish... well yes, after all the insanity you've been through in other playthroughs, yes, i guess this is only just a little bit slaughter-ish 😅😅 Well played as always, you nailed this map, even blind. Getting close to the end.👍👍

[@motherbrain4718]

Wow, I'm honestly shocked. I guess I shouldn't expect anything else from you, considering how good you've gotten at DOOM, but I was sure this map would be the one that finally gave you trouble. I can't believe the ease through which you played this WAD, with only a handful of deaths that don't even reach single digits. The sadist in me is sad that we don't get outtakes, but a showcase of your skill is just as good. Kudos to you.

[@Dollar_Store_Cacodemon]

This map is an awesome, thrilling slaughterfest. But quite a manageable one. When I played it, I don't think I died more than just the once. The waves are quite generous and don't go too over the top like maybe Sunlust sometimes does. Its a well balanced map so again, Cyriak, nice work! 👍

[@Kingverde69]

If somewhere there is betting pool for whether Decino would blind first try this map or not, I think a lot of folks are very upset right now. Very well done!

[@LK.Cynric]

Another great level. Really excited to see how it ends!

[@Mattychef84]

Such a good map! Really enjoying this WAD!

[@foxbonesmulder]

The waves of boney boys were beautiful 🥲

[@Etrehumain123]

Duuuude this is so well done for a blind! Im so impressed by your skills

[@117Veritas]

The world building of this series is amazing. I feel like you don’t see this level of detail often.

[@EezySeven]

Did not expect you to beat this one go. I am simultaneously impressed and depressed because I die a lot in this one. But then again, I like to play this map by pressing all the wave switches as early as I can. Dunno just feel like it.

[@FromBeyond013]

sees metropolis on title, only sees blind run. My man you are a monster.

[@expendableround6186]

We are talking about the individual who DID overcome the God Machine.

[@RetroGamingWithEdgarRivera]

Welcome to Hell doomguy!!! This is the Necropolis City where all the demons lives and looks like the demons aren't pleased to see Doomguy in their city. I did play this Map City Slaughter yesterday and it was chaotic It took me like 10 times to beat the map keep in mind that I did pratice it before aside from I really enjoy this Metropolis Hellish city map definitely is another one of my favorites of this Megawad.

[@raymondbd21]

Again, 1st try success. Very good! You have a few more nasty surprises in store.

[@napstab100k]

I just cheesed the map by not shooting. It seems very fun when Decino plays it.

[@vitalyandreyev]

It doesn't seem. It is.

[@ArDeThSuNjEkOl]

I was legit excited throughout this map playthrough.... that near-face rocket was an adrenaline rush, hoooooo!!!

[@iguana9173]

Can’t believe that an imp killed the baron of hell that’s so humiliating for him.

[@KarelMika]

>checking the bookmarks >it's all "blind run" hooooly fuck

[@jordanwolfson8378]

This is some Sunlust stuff. These visuals are top tier!

[@rollerofdoom1]

This is it. The last hurrah before the end, give it all for the showdown between decino and the forces of Hell.

[@tommy8058]

METROPOLIS HAS SUPERMAN NECROPOLIS HAS DECINO.👍

[@mono4643]

14:25 Decino: Let's not die Cyberdemon: I gotchu fam

[@rogermucroy750]

This map was so enjoyable to watch.

[@superwarpig13]

Dying hell knights be like: AGUA

[@jikemenkins7098]

It was a bit risky... And I loved seeing you do it

[@kapparomeo]

With maps like this, I wonder if there's a way to generate a death heat map, colouring in the map according to the density of enemy corpses across it. It would be an interesting way to demonstrate the movement of the combat.

[@nochthitus9397]

"relaxing slaughter" you heard it here first, folks another map nailed on the blind run. don't know why i'm surprised, but damn

[@thesaaturn]

I finally started to play this WAD about a week ago and it took me about 3-4 hours to beat this map. The fact that you beat it in a single 18 min attempt blows my mind. Your too good at this game funni pumpkin man. Please downgrade and get worse at Doom, your crushing my self esteem lol

[@w0lfram582]

One of my favourite maps as well, fun and slaughtery. We're going back up bois :))

[@vicxx123]

One of the cool things about this map that wasn't properly shown in this video is that if you try to cheese some of the encounters by not firing any shots (thus preventing the extra Hell Knight, Revenant, Arachnotron and Cacodemon hordes from awakening and spawning in), you will not be able to obtain any of the Invulnerability spheres but will still have to deal with Cyberdemons and Archviles. This was obviously done to prevent pacifist speedrunners from completely trivializing the whole level, which shows how meticulously playtested it was and how Cyriak seemingly took into account even the most unorthodox player strategies and playstyles.

[@Eacowind]

Hot damn that has to be the most spooky boys if seen sandwiched in that small a space

[@etymos6644]

Excellent show, old chap.

[@mysteriousstranger2287]

The triumphant return of the Wedding March of the Princess of Death!

[@FirithPanda]

Man, this is one helluva tower.

[@dantheman2888]

This was awesome!!

[@foxbonesmulder]

Yay right after I finished the last one, we get another treat!!!

[@arthurbarros5189]

5:48 Hey Pinkie! . Decino salutes it like an old friend.

[@JuanSanchez-rg9ov]

"Arch-Viles inside the walls" That is a scary thought

[@Trencher1375]

The most fun slaughter map I ever seen.