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second paragraph: "Prepare to put your Doom Pedantry Hat on for this one, because the secret has been known, and considered a bug."

• ehsankia 8y ago
  I was curious about that. Did they mean that they knew where the secret was but not how to trigger it, or that people already knew how to trigger it? And to be fair, finding the secret is often only half the challenge, actually getting it is the hard part. And I'm assuming this "bug" was intended, I doubt they would design the game with an intentionally impossible level to 100%.
  • jonny_eh 8y ago
    Ya, it's not clear if they intended for the workaround or not.
    • chungy 8y ago
      It was a mapping error. If the engine works completely correctly, it would be impossible to flag the secret sector as found. However, Doom has bugs... so it actually turns out to be possible to trigger it.
  • lloeki 8y ago
    My guess is that a secret was placed there but the room was different, and playtested this way, then it was modified to add an elevator, but not playtested for the secret then, and the thing slipped through and sticked. Or that for some reason at a given point during playtesting the engine had a bug that would allow the secret to be triggered, and a later global fix for that situation made the secret impossible to trigger.