Secret exit in No Rest for the Living map 4, Hell Mountain (original) (raw)

How to access the secret exit in Doom II: No Rest for the Living level 4, Hell Mountain, which leads to level 9, March of the Demons:

(Note: To view a video demonstration of reaching the secret exit on this level, click here.)

When you first appear on this level, you'll be at the south end of the map and facing east, down a long, dark corridor. Go to the end of the corridor and turn left/north. Proceed into the outdoor area, and continue north, staying close to the right-hand wall as it curves around to the west. Continue north/northwest, staying toward the right when possible, until you come to the end of the open area (which is near the center of the level).

Nearby you may see a curving, stair-stepped tunnel leading clockwise up and around to the north, with blue health potions sitting along the left-hand wall on the steps. Just southwest of that curving tunnel's entrance you'll see a demon-faced wall panel. Walk up to it, and it will drop down, allowing access to the west half of the level.

Step through, and look right/north for a closed wooden door, and go through it to enter the east side of a large chamber. Walk north a few paces, turn left and head west. Continue west to a 3-way intersection and turn left/south. Go south through the wooden door into a smaller chamber, and continue south through the next wooden door. Go up the steps and go through the door on your left at the top of the steps.

Walk a few paces forward/east, until you come to a red pool. Look right/south, and you'll see a wide, red waterfall. Step through the waterfall into a small, dark area beyond.

Activate the back/south wall of this place, and it will drop down to reveal a teleporter pad. Step on, and you'll appear in a circular chamber located at the north end of the level. Pick up the red skull key here, and step on the nearby teleporter pad.

You'll re-appear back at the red pool, standing just north of the waterfall, and facing north. Follow the red pool north, dropping down a level. Continue north a few paces until you come to a fountain-like object in the pool. Turn right/east, and look for shallow steps leading up and northeast to where the yellow key sits on the ground.

Grab it and head north a few paces to the wooden door, and go through. (This is the same wooden door you went through just after lowering the demon-faced wall panel earlier.) As you enter the chamber continue straight ahead/north this time, to the yellow-keyed door ahead. Go through it to enter a short north-south chamber.

Go north to the far end and out the open doorway there. Continue north a few paces to a small brown rocky structure ahead. On the southeast/right side of this structure is a short wooden elevator/lift. Activate it and ride up.

At the top of the structure, on its west edge, is a switch. Beyond the switch you'll see the open end of a short east-west passageway, ahead and below you, where green and brown walls meet. Activate the switch, and the right-hand side of that short passageway will open up to form a new passage leading north. From the switch, drop down and go into that newly opened northern passage.

Along the floor on either side of this short, dark passage you'll see candles. Follow the right-hand wall a few paces until you come to a shallow indentation in the wall. Activate this wall panel like a switch, and it opens to reveal a tiny chamber, with a skull switch in the chamber's north wall. (Note your position here in this tiny chamber, as you will come back to it in a moment.)

Activate that skull switch, step back out of the chamber, and look right/north to see that another area has now opened up.

Walk north a couple of paces and look to see 3 vertical bars blocking off the base of a stairway on the left, and a second skull switch to the right, on the east wall.

Activate this switch, then go back a few paces south, then east to the first skull switch in the tiny chamber, and you'll see that the east wall of the chamber has opened up to reveal a few small steps that lead up to the east.

Go up the steps, and at the top look left for a third skull switch, and activate it. Head back down the steps, past the first skull switch, and turn right/north and head to the stairway that was blocked by the vertical bars (now removed).

Go west up the stairs. Note that halfway up this staircase there is an invisible floor trigger (or "tripwire"), which temporarily opens the secret-exit chamber.

As you get to the top of the stairs, a short elevator/lift will drop down momentarily, then rise again. Get on, ride up, then quickly Run forward/west to the secret-exit chamber. It will be ahead and slightly to the left/south. If the chamber closed before you got inside, simply go back to the stairway and try again.

Click here to access a YouTube video which demonstrates the walkthrough above.

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