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	Message: : : Last time on tour of duty, we explored a relatively simple map compared to : the last two, stopped the reactor from exploding (I think?), and left with : the invincibility still active. You do still have that invincibility, : don’t you? Because it will be useful here. : We start out in a square area full of narrow crushers on all sides. With some : invincibility leftover from Galactica II, we don’t take any unavoidable : damage. Be sure to go on the right first to grab some AR ammo. In the next : corner a bunch of fighters teleport in and there’s a hole in the floor : that’s our only way out, but we should skip that for now and go around to : the next corner to read a terminal (or not, if you’re re-entering and : already read it): : : : : : Still failing to communicate with the y’gnoml, I see? Our goal is to get up : top of this tower. Simple enough; the only problem is, as we’ll soon see, : we just keep proceeding downward through this map. : We go back to the corner with the hole in it (possibly taking damage if our : invincibility wore off) and walk through some long, winding, twisting, : narrow corridors full of fighters — in an inward spiral pattern, so we : know this is going to be another one with a useless automap. : Don’t believe me? : : Tell me that’s useful. Don't worry about it too much, because this map is : thankfully strictly linear and fun. No forced sequence-breaking through : unassigned polygon trigger errors or annoying switch hunts in vacuum here; : just point A to point B. : At the very end, we drop down another level onto a platform with drones : firing at us from across the gap. This map is called Tower of Babel (are : we going to meet a cyberdemon here?), and it’s easy to see this is going : to be like Hard Stuff Rules. This is a tightly woven, compact mess of a : multilayered map. : We jump across platforms, hot pfhor goo beneath us, firing down drones until : we reach a dead end and a drop without goo. We could fall down the final : pit with a button that lowers the platforms into a donut staircase, but : doing this makes the goo inaccessible, with only square holes remaining : that are too narrow to fall down, but this is a hint that these are drains : into a central well. There’s a save coming up, but we have to swim under : the goo before reaching that point to find the secret, and this was a : tricky one for me until Martin spelled it out with a map snippet: : Several times I swam into the central area and found nothing but the : teleporter out of here, but the south wall is actually a door that opens : up when we tab it, leading to an elevator out of the goo with a 2x to : recover our health, some ammo, and a secret terminal: : : : : : The only way out is to swim back to the teleporter, and three 2x canisters : nicely teleported onto the teleporter (there’s a tongue twister for ya) to : make sure we escape without damage, but it’s a bit redundant as a 2x : shield charger is coming up immediately after this. : The stairs eventually lead to an outer square around the map, with a door at : the north end opening to yet another drop. This map is all about points of : no return, isn’t it? But this level has a yellow shield recharger, so : hooray! Behind the door, a trooper-pirate teleports in just for me to gun : him down. A couple more teleport in, and it looks like were going down : another level of the tower from a staircase on either side. And… the : stairs have the pfhor goo texture on their sides for some reason. : : Blue Fighters teleport in on the bottom, and we finally get our PB. Behind us : is a door, with a large central elevator, and we’re finally going up! So : the whole reason we were going in circles around the center is because : this big elevator was here. There’s a big room up top full of s’pht — I : mean, Galaxans — and I wonder if there’s any 5-D space violations here. : Killing galaxans just makes more appear, so what we have to do is dance : around the room pressing buttons that opens up other buttons in sequence : until we get the exit door open. I wasn’t paying attention to the sequence : to draw a chart, so… you’re on your own. Just circle strafe and you’ll be : fine. The door thankfully closes behind us, locking out the respawning : galaxans, and there is a terminal: : : : : Looks like we're getting out of here to aid our kindred humans in the fallout : of a dogfight; and with that, we’re entering a new chapter: Retribution. : What a fun and short map to counteract the frustration we've endured since : we got on the Galaxan ship. Guess they wanted to cap it off with something : nice to remember before we left it. There has been a slight deviation in : this story from the M1 version: I believe in the original, there was no : crash; the dogfight was still ongoing and we were going to fight off the : pirates by boarding them in space. Join us next time to see where we end : up in this version of events.
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