Demon
Register | User Profile | Member List | F.A.Q | Privacy Policy | New Blog | Search Forums | Forums Home
Doomworld Forums : Powered by vBulletin version 2.2.5 Doomworld Forums > Classic Doom > Doom General > What is your favorite item? (Out of Heretic, Hexen, and Strife.)
Pages (2): « 1 [2]  
Author
All times are GMT. The time now is 00:43. Post New Thread    Post A Reply
printz
CRAZY DOOM ZEALOT


Posts: 1792
Registered: 06-06
WTF do you mean. Discs of Repulsions are as common as the flechettes. They aren't rare. It's quite usual that I can go right through a disc without picking it.

__________________
"Bow down before the one you serve,
You're going to get what you deserve!"
Old Post 09-16-08 13:21 #
printz is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Search || Add Buddy Report to mod || IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Creaphis
I will deliberately take a contrary position just for the sake of writing incredibly long arguments


Posts: 1387
Registered: 10-05
Same, I found way more disks of repulsion than I could use.

I've only gone through Hexen all the way once, though, and I think it was on medium difficulty. Maybe that has something to do with it?
Old Post 09-17-08 02:32 #
Creaphis is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Search || Add Buddy Report to mod || IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Stilgar
Junior Member


Posts: 105
Registered: 07-06
If I recall correctly, version 1.0 of Hexen had a bug where the Disc of Repulsion and the Chaos Device had their names swapped... maybe that's where this is coming from. I remember Discs all over the place, but the Device was fairly rare.
Old Post 09-17-08 03:31 #
Stilgar is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Search || Add Buddy Report to mod || IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
printz
CRAZY DOOM ZEALOT


Posts: 1792
Registered: 06-06
Creaphis said:
Same, I found way more disks of repulsion than I could use.

I've only gone through Hexen all the way once, though, and I think it was on medium difficulty. Maybe that has something to do with it?
Always play Hexen on skill 5. Otherwise you end up having more than enough items. The game is easy under skill levels lower than 5.

And as with all -fast skill levels, remember to make a new game with skill 5 before proceeding with the loadgame.

This is not the case with Strife. In there, the Bloodbath difficulty is a joke. It's designed to work like Doom's Nightmare, but since most enemies there disappear, only the annoying ceiling turrets will respawn. The -fast part only affects speeds and durations, not reaction times, and as usual it is cancelled after a later loadgame out-of-game, especially because you can't start a new game with skill 5 to preserve -fast rules as you do in other games. On top of it, ammo gets doubled. So in Strife, skill 5 is easier than skill 4. You may die easily due to the machinegun speed of acolytes, but only until you reload the game off a later session of Strife. End of story.

Has anyone found an important use for the Banishment Device? Also does it have a good use against other players (be it dm or coop)? I haven't found anything substantial... I merely try and defeat the offenders instead.

__________________
"Bow down before the one you serve,
You're going to get what you deserve!"
Old Post 09-17-08 15:00 #
printz is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Search || Add Buddy Report to mod || IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Creaphis
I will deliberately take a contrary position just for the sake of writing incredibly long arguments


Posts: 1387
Registered: 10-05
Theoretically, a banishment-device hit followed instantly by a chaos device could telefrag your opponent. Or do those devices have different teleport destinations?
Old Post 09-17-08 16:59 #
Creaphis is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Search || Add Buddy Report to mod || IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Stilgar
Junior Member


Posts: 105
Registered: 07-06
Creaphis said:
Theoretically, a banishment-device hit followed instantly by a chaos device could telefrag your opponent. Or do those devices have different teleport destinations?

I tested the behavior of the Banishment Device once, and it tries to send the banished one to a deathmatch start first, and to the sp/coop starts only if there are no deathmatch starts. So unless you're playing DM or on a map that has no DM starts, it probably won't happen. (Even in these cases, I doubt it's likely.)
Old Post 09-17-08 17:20 #
Stilgar is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Search || Add Buddy Report to mod || IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Ichor
The Mysterious Red Square


Posts: 6499
Registered: 07-02
In the first hub, you'll find precisely 1 disc of repulsion, and that's if you get to the secret map. After that, you'll start seeing them in the second hub (for instance, the wavy swamp floor room in Darkmere). They only get more common from there.

As for the banishment device, if you use it at close range, you'll only hit one monster, but it can hit more monsters from farther away. After a few moments, that one ring will spread out into several rings in a long line, each one capable of removing a target.

Finally, in deathmatch, on a rather busy map, try this: Find a nice, quiet place and use a dark servant, then banish the maulotaur. It will go to a random spot, and possibly right next to an unsuspecting victim on the other side of the map. If you have a bunch of both, you could cause quite a bit of havoc.
Old Post 09-17-08 17:38 #
Ichor is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy Report to mod || IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
kristus
Godlike/Doglike


Posts: 6363
Registered: 07-00
All the times I've "egged" a friend from his flying position and then slammed a pair into his soft supple chicken body with the crossbow.

I love a lot of items in Heretic. The time bomb of the ancients are great when you're being chased.
Tome of power is just plain awesome.

But the egg, :D.

BTW; not sure if everyone knows. But the disc of repulsion can be used to literary crush your opponents against a wall. (you just need a bunch of them to do any serious injury) And that's awesome too. :D
Old Post 09-17-08 18:09 #
kristus is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy Report to mod || IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Ichor
The Mysterious Red Square


Posts: 6499
Registered: 07-02
kristus said:
BTW; not sure if everyone knows. But the disc of repulsion can be used to literary crush your opponents against a wall. (you just need a bunch of them to do any serious injury) And that's awesome too. :D

Or just find an impassable/block monster 2 sided line and blast the monsters there. It will almost always kill them real quick.

Also:
Old Post 09-17-08 18:22 #
Ichor is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy Report to mod || IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
kristus
Godlike/Doglike


Posts: 6363
Registered: 07-00
Ichor said:
Also:


WTF? :O
Old Post 09-17-08 19:01 #
kristus is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy Report to mod || IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Stilgar
Junior Member


Posts: 105
Registered: 07-06
Yeah, that evil little trick in the video Ichor linked is another reason I like the Cleric's flechette. Does that trick work in vanilla or was it ZDoom only?
Old Post 09-17-08 19:57 #
Stilgar is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Search || Add Buddy Report to mod || IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
Ichor
The Mysterious Red Square


Posts: 6499
Registered: 07-02
Stilgar said:
Yeah, that evil little trick in the video Ichor linked is another reason I like the Cleric's flechette. Does that trick work in vanilla or was it ZDoom only?

That's actually JHexen in the video, but yes, it works on vanilla.
Old Post 09-17-08 20:15 #
Ichor is offline Profile || Blog || PM || Email || Homepage || Search || Add Buddy Report to mod || IP || Edit/Delete || Quote
All times are GMT. The time now is 00:43. Post New Thread    Post A Reply
Pages (2): « 1 [2]  
Doomworld Forums : Powered by vBulletin version 2.2.5 Doomworld Forums > Classic Doom > Doom General > What is your favorite item? (Out of Heretic, Hexen, and Strife.)

Show Printable Version | Email this Page | Subscribe to this Thread

 

Forum Rules:
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts 		HTML code is OFF
vB code is ON
Smilies are OFF
[IMG] code is ON
 

< Contact Us - Doomworld >

Powered by: vBulletin Version 2.2.5
Copyright ©2000, 2001, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited.

Forums Directory