Dominic White posted:

To this day, a lot of people still haven't figured out the proper technique to using the BFG. You need to treat it like the SSG, but much bigger, and with a far wider cone of fire. It does pitifully low damage if you're just slugging away at enemies at long range, but you can one-shot the spider mastermind if you smack it point-blank, as it's a wide enough target to effectively catch the full power of the blast. This doesn't work nearly as well in Brutal Doom, but the spider's brain is much more vulnerable to direct damage, to it's safer to engage at range.

H2Omelon posted:

I will take this opportunity to pimp a guide I wrote on Steam that details exactly how the BFG works:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=113150999

Now you all have no excuse for not knowing. It has pretty pictures too!

The Kins posted:

So as to save WHOIS John Galt's effort in keeping the Reelism Hype Train chugging along, the big update is getting unleashed on Valentine's Day. Five new maps, nine new reels, three new bosses. It's a lot better than the previous version, and people seemed to like that a lot, so I'm looking forward to the reactions!

Here's the updated intro sequence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyRSuvEha1A

H2Omelon posted:

I will take this opportunity to pimp a guide I wrote on Steam that details exactly how the BFG works:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=113150999

Now you all have no excuse for not knowing. It has pretty pictures too!

H2Omelon posted:

I will take this opportunity to pimp a guide I wrote on Steam that details exactly how the BFG works:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=113150999

Now you all have no excuse for not knowing. It has pretty pictures too!

Javaman98 posted:

It's funny how that guide is written with a single player twist. I'm pretty sure everyone who played doom multiplayer in an serious capacity knows exactly how the BFG works. I never once considered any implications for single player games. Good Job though spreading that knowledge.

Dominic White posted:

Oh, fully agreed that it doesn't work in any intuitive fashion - it looks like a great big rocket launcher that seems to do a secondary, invisible wave of damage to everything in the room. You either need to experiment a lot, or be told outright how it's actually functioning. Once you do know the secret, it's ridiculously powerful. If you've got nerves of steel, you can two-shot the Cyberdemon too.

Cream-of-Plenty posted:

I wish the Doom BFG functioned more like the BFG from Quake 2. For the uninitiated, the Quake 2 BFG functions a lot like the Doom BFG in the sense that it launches a slow moving ball of energy. The difference is that, as it travels, the Quake 2 version shoots out beams of energy that lock onto nearby enemies and deal additional damage. I also think the ball terminates in an area effect explosion, which can damage multiple enemies (unlike the Doom BFG).

Babylon Astronaut posted:

I'm pretty sure the BFG ball causes splash damage. I always learned that there are 3 ways to get killed by the BFG: direct hit, splash, and tracers, in that order.

doom wikia posted:

When the trigger is pulled, there is a pause of 30 tics (about 0.857 seconds) before a green and white plasma ball is ejected. If the large plasma ball hits a solid object, it explodes and causes 100-800 hit points of damage to the target, in round multiples of 100.

After a further pause of 16 tics (about 0.457 seconds), additional damage is calculated: 40 invisible tracer rays are emitted by the player in a cone-shaped area (about 45° half-angle) in the direction the plasma ball was fired. (If the player has turned around, the direction of the rays does not change — they are still traced in the direction of firing of the original plasma ball. If he has moved to another location, their origin moves along with him.) Each ray causes 49-87 points of damage if it hits a solid object within 1024 map units. Even cyberdemons and spiderdemons, which are immune to blast damage, are affected by these rays.

Therefore, the minimal damage of the weapon is 49 points (if an object is hit by one ray and not the plasma ball) and, hypothetically, the maximal damage is 800 + (40 × 87) = 4280 points (if the plasma ball hits an object for full damage and all 40 tracers also hit the object for full damage). However, even should all 40 rays and the energy ball hit a single target, that much damage can still never actually be inflicted due to the periodicity of the simplistic pseudorandom number generator used by the Doom engine.

Contrary to section 3H of the BFG FAQ, the tracer code does not include horizontal auto-aiming (although, like any bullet attack, each tracer can auto-aim vertically).

Because the BFG projectile does not cause standard blast damage, it is safe for the player to use at point-blank range. In fact, this is often the preferred method of usage against large monsters, as this allows more of the tracer rays to strike a single target for concentrated damage. Conversely, because each ray can strike a different target, a large group of monsters can be damaged by the tracer rays if the weapon is fired from a moderate distance.

Babylon Astronaut posted:

I see. I'm guessing this isn't something skulltag added either? I might have just been misreading http://www.gamers.org/docs/FAQ/bfgfaq/#3A as they refer to the tracers as "the blast area."

Flannelette posted:

If the BFG is fired so that multiple balls arrive at the same time will it create all the rays for each ball or are all but the last ball's rays cancelled out?

The Kins posted:

So as to save WHOIS John Galt's effort in keeping the Reelism Hype Train chugging along, the big update is getting unleashed on Valentine's Day. Five new maps, nine new reels, three new bosses. It's a lot better than the previous version, and people seemed to like that a lot, so I'm looking forward to the reactions!

Here's the updated intro sequence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyRSuvEha1A

The Kins posted:

I'm not really sure how Doom's managed to last nearly two decades with an active community, because nothing - NOTHING - will ever top this game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inzeVWdQfn8

The Kins posted:

I'm not really sure how Doom's managed to last nearly two decades with an active community, because nothing - NOTHING - will ever top this game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inzeVWdQfn8

Yodzilla posted:

Good lord this was something actually sold in stores? I've never even heard of it before.

manMachine Games posted:

Angst-Rahz Revenge is published in Germany by SoftKey International.
Retail price is 29.95 USD.High Quality Packaging.
The rights to North America and Japan are still available.
We are open to licensing and distribution agreements.
Angst is the first of four games:
Angst-Wrath-Attrition-Fear
All four games are already licensed to Softkey International for
Germany.

ChickenHeart posted:

If you want a picture of the future of Brutal Doom V18, imagine a Doomguy crushing a zombieman's face in with a rifle - forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRQOqkxOZXk&list=UU_NSOckDnuypJK_FpCO6ogA&index=1

Tiger Schwert posted:

Tiger Schwert posted:

There's an interesting comment in the Brutal Doom sourcecode. Right at the start of the GORE3 text lump :

pre:

// Watch how the plasma magic can instantly turn an average white guy into a friend of the family faster than Rap.
// Plasma Deaths.