i was a little worried about making it through this map, but it wasn't as rough as i thought it might be (although there was a fair bit of saving and loading). the part that tripped me up the most was definitely all the cyberdemons (13 of them!) and especially the ones that need to be fought in close quarters. something to work on for the future.
in any case, the plutonia experiment is substantially more fun so far than tnt, except for when it's putting you in a maze with a bunch of archviles. more on that when i finish the other half of the levels.