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I just realized that screenshot was probably taken an instant before dying. There's no way he could avoid that rocket. The real protip is circlestrafe like a motherfucker.
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You can completely cheat, though. Here's how to do it. If you stay inside the starting room, wait for the cyberdemon to get in one of the adjoining rooms, and then camp on the stairs opposite that room. The demon's rockets will blow up on the switch pillar in the middle; whereas your attacks will fly above it.
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Nov 10, 2012 16:39
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Well, I got further in the game... I got locked in a room? 
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Nov 10, 2012 16:47
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Open the walls with the little lights in front of them.
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You should turn aspect scaling on (under [render] in dosbox.conf, set aspect=true). Doom renders at 320x200 in DOS but is meant to be displayed at a 4:3 configuration. Also consider Chocolate Doom if you want an authentic Doom experience with some modern amenities like scroll wheel support.
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Nov 10, 2012 16:57
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Kakumei posted:Open the walls with the little lights in front of them. Heh, I ran around the room bashing spacebar and somehow missed them both.  Segmentation Fault posted:You should turn aspect scaling on (under [render] in dosbox.conf, set aspect=true). Doom renders at 320x200 in DOS but is meant to be displayed at a 4:3 configuration. Guess I'll sort that out to.
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A Sloth posted:Well, I got further in the game... I got locked in a room? Oh goodness is this your first time playing through? I'm so jealous 
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Nov 10, 2012 17:53
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WHOIS John Galt posted:Oh goodness is this your first time playing through? I'm so jealous No kidding. What I would give for that experience again 
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Nov 10, 2012 18:07
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Ah the experience of Doom's mean and spiteful later maps.
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x!te bike posted:Ah the experience of Doom's mean and spiteful later maps.
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I like Doom's levels way better than Doom2's. Maybe it's because it's more structured. Or just that gleeful rush of finally playing Episode 2 and 3.
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A Sloth posted:Well, I got further in the game... I got locked in a room? You're playing it for the first time in Dosbox? Are you using keyboard only controls as well? Now if you only just had a dos machine with a half broken CRT that constantly flickered you'd be living the dream!
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There's actually an Atari emulator out there that introduces color bleeding and noise and other elements of CRT gaming. Maybe there's something like that for Dosbox?
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WHOIS John Galt posted:Oh goodness is this your first time playing through? I'm so jealous Quick question, as somebody who is currently playing through Doom 2 for the first time: is there any way to make the city levels less painful? Playing Doom earlier this year wasn't so bad, but these city levels... they're not difficult (I started playing them to take a break from the ball-breaking difficulty of Scythe2), they're just bland.
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catlord posted:Quick question, as somebody who is currently playing through Doom 2 for the first time: is there any way to make the city levels less painful? Playing Doom earlier this year wasn't so bad, but these city levels... they're not difficult (I started playing them to take a break from the ball-breaking difficulty of Scythe2), they're just bland. Skip them? Doom's levels are usually designed to be possible on a pistol start (since before autosaves, you'd restart the level with a pistol and fifty rounds)
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:There's actually an Atari emulator out there that introduces color bleeding and noise and other elements of CRT gaming. Maybe there's something like that for Dosbox? http://boxerapp.com/blog/2012/10/21/positively-agog/ (scroll down a bit)
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:There's actually an Atari emulator out there that introduces color bleeding and noise and other elements of CRT gaming. Maybe there's something like that for Dosbox? That wouldn't be very accurate for DOOM unless your monitor was really hosed back then. Most of the things you describe are caused by using composite video or an rf adapter to pipe the video to a standard def TV set, and you don't get them playing DOOM on an old PC with a monitor hooked up by VGA! They'd happen on 80s computers that frequently used composite video of some kind, but not on something that ran DOOM correctly.
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Yeah I had a 14'' CTR screen back in the days and never had problems with it (it came with my old 486 DX2) and I replaced it around 1999 with an awesome AOC 17'' that allowed me to play Unreal @ 1600x1200 
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Johnny Law posted:http://boxerapp.com/blog/2012/10/21/positively-agog/ (scroll down a bit) Wow, that's awesome. It took me hours to get cgwg's CRT shader to work with MAME. Nice to see it's getting bundled with Boxer.
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The charmers over at OldUnreal have released v227i of their quasi-official patch for Unreal 1. If you haven't used the OldUnreal patch before, it adds modern renderer plugins, anticheat (Wait, people still play Unreal 1 online?!?), many bug fixes, an improved version of the updated UnrealEd from UT, a new sound system, and a native Linux port. Good stuff, and as close to a source port as we'll ever get for an Unreal game.
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The Kins posted:The charmers over at OldUnreal have released v227i of their quasi-official patch for Unreal 1. If you haven't used the OldUnreal patch before, it adds modern renderer plugins, anticheat (Wait, people still play Unreal 1 online?!?), many bug fixes, an improved version of the updated UnrealEd from UT, a new sound system, and a native Linux port. Good stuff, and as close to a source port as we'll ever get for an Unreal game. While we are at it, linked on the OldUnreal site you can find the hi-res textures for both Unreal Gold and UT. This patch and the textures gives new life to the games! http://www.unrealtexture.com/ Make sure you use at least the High-end packages (Extreme-end are a bit too much).
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I'm getting Doom 3: BFG Edition (360 version). Will I regret this like I did the first time I bought it? 
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Mak0rz posted:I'm getting Doom 3: BFG Edition (360 version). I don't know man. With black friday coming up, I'm (assuming) BFG will be pretty cheap. I am VERY tempted to pick it up. 
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Do you have an Oculus Rift? If not, you will be disappointed again and this time there are no mods to save you.
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Apparently BFG Edition changes a lot of random poo poo in the original Doom episodes that come with it. I guess the Red Cross finally sought legal action against them for the red crosses on the stimpaks and medikits, so those have been replaced with ugly, poorly drawn pills. They also cut out the title screens and from what I've heard they also changed the secret levels in Doom 2 for some reason. Are they really that big of a change? No, not really. But it irks me. What I'm saying is if you're getting it because it comes with Doom and Doom 2, I don't think it's worth it. If you already own them, definitely not. As for the Doom 3 part, maybe if you don't already have it or if you desperately want the changes it makes to the engine, it might be a good idea.
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Chinese Tony Danza posted:Apparently BFG Edition changes a lot of random poo poo in the original Doom episodes that come with it. I guess the Red Cross finally sought legal action against them for the red crosses on the stimpaks and medikits, so those have been replaced with ugly, poorly drawn pills. They also cut out the title screens and from what I've heard they also changed the secret levels in Doom 2 for some reason. Are they really that big of a change? No, not really. But it irks me. They removed all Nazi/Hitler references from the game, and removed the Wolfen Guards from the game. They are replaced by zombies. Just found out about it. I think this is a big 'pass' for me. If I really want to play Doom3, I'll pick up the xbox1 versions on amazon.
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Hopefully this hasn't been answered in the last few pages, or something I missed in the OP but - Anyone have any recommendations for WADs to play with Brutal Doom? Friend and I just found out the greatness that is Brutal Doom on Zandronum and need some suggestions. Invasion style maps or more straightforward maps are fine too, anything that will still play ok with Brutal Doom. Suggestions for coop settings or adjustments to make this even more fun are welcome as well. Also how the heck do I get my HUD larger at higher resolutions without resorting to the old school HUD?
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Morganus_Starr posted:Hopefully this hasn't been answered in the last few pages, or something I missed in the OP but - Play Memento Mori 2. Holy hell is it completely great with Brutal Doom. I'm about two thirds of the way through on UV, and it has been kicking my rear end in an awesome way.
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The Kins posted:The charmers over at OldUnreal have released v227i of their quasi-official patch for Unreal 1. If you haven't used the OldUnreal patch before, it adds modern renderer plugins, anticheat (Wait, people still play Unreal 1 online?!?), many bug fixes, an improved version of the updated UnrealEd from UT, a new sound system, and a native Linux port. Good stuff, and as close to a source port as we'll ever get for an Unreal game. Actually what I think I'd like the most is if I could have the game render at 640x480 and stretch out to a 1280x960 window similar to what Chocolate Doom does.
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CowboyAndy posted:They removed all Nazi/Hitler references from the game, and removed the Wolfen Guards Wow, really? They gave Wolfenstein the Staatmeister treatment again? That's beyond stupid.
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Chinese Tony Danza posted:Wow, really? They gave Wolfenstein the Staatmeister treatment again? That's beyond stupid. Apparently they didn't want to have one version for Germany and one version for the rest of the world again. This way they can just sell the same game everywhere.
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Yeah, ugh. I'm still waiting to see if No Rest for the Wicked is any good, I'm mostly keeping DooM 3 around for the Classic Doom remake.
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:Do you have an Oculus Rift? If not, you will be disappointed again and this time there are no mods to save you. JackMackerel posted:I'm still waiting to see if No Rest for the Wicked is any good
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I honestly can't imagine BFG being worth it at any rate, really. Unless it makes some changes to Doom 3 apart from cosmetic ones, there's just no appeal. I attempted to play through Doom 3 once and truth be told, I just could not get into it. Shortly after the monsters finally showed up, I just kind of stopped playing. It's like the complete opposite of fun. Walking around in pitch darkness and shooting a monster when it pops out of a hole in the wall is really, really boring.
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It's the fact that the monsters don't react when you shoot them. Everything is just so lifeless. They stand, you shoot them with your piddly little machine gun, and eventually they fall over.
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They should just sell No Rest for the Living as DLC for Doom 2 on Steam. It's really great. Worlds better than all of the other levels that make up Doom 2.
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Chinese Tony Danza posted:Apparently BFG Edition changes a lot of random poo poo in the original Doom episodes that come with it. I guess the Red Cross finally sought legal action against them for the red crosses on the stimpaks and medikits, so those have been replaced with ugly, poorly drawn pills. They also cut out the title screens and from what I've heard they also changed the secret levels in Doom 2 for some reason. Are they really that big of a change? No, not really. But it irks me. Only the Doom II titlescreen. Ultimate Doom still has its normal title screen. Apparently, it's because they've based it on the XBLA port of Doom II, which had removed the Brom art piece to replace it with a widescreen thing. But here they're not even using the XBLA replacement pic. There's a full list of differences here. (As well as info on which source ports can be used.)
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