Author: DoomRater
Series: ZDoom 1.22 and up (2.0.47 recommended)
WAD version: Final
Out of the few marines that survived, you've been thrown into a cell. The monsters gloat at your capture as they lock the cell door. As you search your surroundings for a way out, you see another marine in the back.
"Don't bother, friend," he tells you, "they'll be back soon. The survivors of the event call it 'Ultimate Fight', for lack of a better description. They take the new guys there first." You ask him, "'Ultimate Fight'? That sounds a lot like the UFC in 20th century." "Right on the dot," he says. "It's a octagon shaped arena, but before you go there you'll be dumped into a hallway with a berserker. Tis the only way to survive, by beating up your friends..." Bastards probably watch it and get off on it too. You snarl, "How long have you survived in it?" He speaks defensively, "Whoa, whoa! If I knew any other way out of that cage I woulda taken out as many of them as I could, even try to draw a fight between a coupla of them. But there's no way out of there. My buddy and I searched for hours until we were tired out. That's when they came in and beat on us, taking us back to our cells. "I didn't resist fighting after that. I've seen some guys dragged out and killed right on the premises for not fighting. They sometimes make the fights viewable from the viewscreens when there's a big fight going on. We learned fast, you don't fight, you die." It's hard to accept that fact. But perhaps that by convincing the demons you are bloodthirsty for their enemy, they might let their guard down. So reluctantly, you sit and wait for the guards to come back. Maybe they won't take him this time...DoomRater is a 19 year old programmer who seems to have too much time on his hands. He can never figure out whether he should stay and hug his plushie or get some real work done! His current obsessions are Saria from Zelda 5 (Ocarina of Time) and pugilists.
Bots aren't really fair in this level. Y'see, they get up in your face and punch a little bit better than you, so they will most likely outfrag you.
You'll get a berserk at the start of the hallway. Just run for the teleporters and punch away. In singleplayer you'll need to punch to activate the monsters so that they run around and actually yell at you.
In Deathmatch, if you kill the player that has been in the octagon the longest the monsters will cheer!This is a pretty small level, and you're welcome to build an actual singleplayer point to this. If you're going to distribute this WAD, though, make sure that this file and the original WAD are unmodified and included in the package.
If you'd like to distribute this modified, just send me an e-mail. It's at the top of the document.