Vocabulary used in this website

Here, if you're lost with acronyms and specific terms used in this website, here is the place to be.
And i will also post some tips and tricks used in various demos and replays used by me and a lot of demos
done by other players.

• Leveltables
• Doom-centric vocabulary
• Quake Vocabulary
• ID Tech 1/2 tip and tricks

Leveltables

The system I use for sorting my demos is a "Leveltable"-based system.
This system sorts the demos based on the contents of it with this scheme :

So, each Episodic demo (A single file conaining every timestamp of the player.s) will be presented like that
For Individual levels, I will just present the level name/time.

DOOM Specific Vocabulary

SR-50

The SR-50 technique is the most basic and hard to master trick in the book of Doom speedrunning,
it consists of running and strafing using the dedicated strafe button (it locks your view) so it is mainly
used in straight lines to gain 10 ups of running speed, because the basic straferun is at 40 ups.
The SR prefix means Strafe Left or Right.
So SL-40 = Strafe Left at 40ups and SR-50 = Strafe Right at 50ups

Wallhugging

It consists at running sticked to the wall (oriented North or East of the Map) to gain a LOT
of speed (like… you're faster than a Rocket). It is very useful with a corridor with a lot of ennemies or entities that can hinder
your progress and you have an opportunity for a straight run to go faster than the ennemies in this same corridor or hallway.

Elastic Collisionning

Sometimes, if you SR-50 INTO a wall at a specific angle (0°), you will bounce back at the same speed as before (SR-50
or Forward-40), very useful if you can place it in a run and if you need to do a 180° after a button presss for example.

Door Buffering

(Very Easy to learn) It's a way to get faster in a room after you've pressed a door to open it, when it does the
opening animation, run a tiny bit backwards and at the pixel you can fit undeer the door, you SR-50 into the room
it can lower your completion time by one second PER door. It snowballs at each succesful Door Buffer,
so it is a very easy way to improve by a lot in doom demos, without doing any fancy-trick.

Quake Vocabulary

Zig-Zagging

The Zig-Zagging technique consists of running forward and quickly spamming Strafeleft and Straferight.
It was one of the first techniques used by Quake runners to gain a bit of speed in each demo.

Circle-Strafing

The Circle-strafing consists of zig-zagging AND Turning left while strafing right, and alternating the directions
It helps for a technique I will explain later in this page

Strafe-Jumping

The Strafe Jumping consists of those moves :

1. Moving forward (while running)
2. Turning left or right by 90°
3. Jump immediately after finishing your turn

It helps alot and you gain a LOT of speed.

Bunny-Hopping

Start with a Strafe Jump, stop moving forward now… you don't need to hold your Forward key anymore.
Alternate your strafejump each time you touch the ground, it needs to respect this tempo :

1. Strafejump (left or right)
2. Stop holding your forward key
3. Look right or left while strafing at the exact same direction you're looking in
4. Jump
5. Repeat while alternating left and right

Simple right ? Yeah, it's simple to learn… on a straight line, while you are soing this in a run… you have ennemies
that WILL hinder your progress, while hitting buttons and killing ennemies… while jumping, once it is
learned, proceed to the next trick.

Power Bunny-Hopping

Now you knows how to Bunnyhop, add a frame of running forward (a quick forward tap) each time you touch the ground.
It is advised to bond your forward key to W (or Z for an AZERTY keyboard) AND at the Right-click, each time you hit
the Jump button, quick-tap your right click.

You know how to gain the absolute amount of speed possible in the game… right ?

Rocket Jumping (RJ)

While holding the Rocket Launcher, jump and shoot a rocket… try it, it's fun !

Grenade Boost (GB)

Same as the RJ BUT you need to time your jump at the exact time the grenade will
explode (approx. 2 seconds, or 4 shotgun shots). It is advised to use the shotgun and shoot at the void to time the grenade
explosion.

ID Tech 1 (Quake) and ID Tech 2 (Quake II) tips and tricks