Speedrunner 4shockblast recently broke a record that had stood for many years on Doom 2's opening map, Entryway. Their new world record run is a masterclass in eking every possible advantage out of the map and the various speedrunning tricks Doom 2 players have discovered over the years.
It's not just a new record: it's a testament to how the speedrunning community pushes one another on to previously unimaginable feats.
That may seem like a bit much, but just you wait. 4shockwave's run can be seen above, and the first thing you'll notice is that it's over almost as soon as it begins.
This run of Entryway is the first-ever sub-5 second run, clocking in at 04.97 seconds, which includes all of the level's monsters and is being run on Ultraviolence (it goes down as a Pacifist run, mainly because there's no time to blow anything away).
The bar-setting record for Entryway had been set in 1998 (!) by one Thomas Pilger, a legendary figure in the early Doom scene and holder of countless records in the game.