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==== Suicide exit ====
==== Suicide exit ====
Suicide Exit (also called Deathslide) is a technique where the player intentionally kills the character to exit a level. Dead actors in the Doom engine acquire momentum on death by a weapon (which will have a degree of knockback) or by a nearby explosion. The engine considers a corpse to have 0 height, so a dead player can slide their corpse under locked doors and into otherwise unreachable places which can trigger a level exit. This was discovered in 2001 by speedrunner Vincent Catalaá. More information, including techniques and demos, can be found [http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Suicide_exit on the Doom Wiki].
Suicide Exit (also called Deathslide) is a technique where the player intentionally kills the character to exit a level. Dead actors in the Doom engine acquire momentum on death by a weapon (which will have a degree of knockback) or by a nearby explosion. The engine considers a corpse to have 0 height, so a dead player can slide their corpse under locked doors and into otherwise unreachable places which can trigger a level exit. This was discovered in 2001 by speedrunner Vincent Catalaá. More information, including techniques and demos, can be found [http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Suicide_exit on the Doom Wiki Suicide Exit page].
==== Wallrunning ====
When moving along a north/south or east/west wall, the player can move against and along the wall (ie: by straferunning into it) to accelerate to a very high speed known as a wallrun. This occurs because the engine recognises the player runs into a solid object and attempts to "slide" the player along the object, as coming to a sudden stop the instant you touch a wall is not very plausible. However, no check is made to see if the player has already "slid" against a solid object. Given the right angle, a player can "slide" two times per check resulting in achieving double movement speed.
Sprites in Doom (called Things in the engine) all have square "bounding boxes" in the Doom mapping format. As such, it's also possible to run into Things and accelerate in a similar fashion. This is known as "Thingrunning".
An amateur player can easily wallrun on most maps, an ideal setup for thingrunning can be found in the rows of barrels present on Doom II's MAP23: Barrels o Fun. More information and demos can be found on [http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Wallrun the Doom Wiki Wallrun page].
== External Links ==
== External Links ==