🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 13 May 2004 04:34:12 GMT, Mjolnir <default@default.com> wrote:

>Hi, this is a question for Duke 3D if anyone is still out there. I was 
>wondering what difficulty the Par and 3D Realm's times (at the end of the 
>level) were completed on. I am wondering this because 2-3 Warp Factor is 
>friggin' impossible to get the 3D Realms time on Come Get Some difficulty. I 
>got 20 s over the time on what I thought was a near perfect run. When I 
>turned on the God mode I just met the time. However, when I played on Piece 
>of Cake I got 10 s below the time. I have beaten the 3D Realms for various 
>other levels, including all the ones before 2-3. Just wondering if someone 
>could help :)

I'm not sure, but I suspect that it would be on a Medium Difficulty level.

This is just like Doom - a par time is given but no information on how it
was determined.  As always, it assums you have prior-knowledge of the map,
something that is not realistic for your first-time around (even if you are
an experienced player.)

3D Realms time are definatly speed runs taking the shortest route possible.
While I have heard these values being matched or beaten, they usually take
tons of tries before they even get close.  

I have doubts about speed runs done by developers - generally games don't
have that much time in development to do anything that fancy.