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StupidBunny
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Khorus said:

Oh yeah, I do that too. If I have the chaingun, I'll switch to the pistol and shoot once if the ammo count isn't even.

I do the same thing with the chainsaw/fist sometimes

12-14-11 19:14 #

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ellmo
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StupidBunny said:
I do the same thing with the chainsaw/fist sometimes

Haha... oh wait.
OH WAIT. I see what you did there!

12-14-11 21:37 #

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HavoX
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In Brutal Doom, I reload my weapons a lot even when I don't need to, especially the Rocket Launcher.

12-15-11 00:53 #

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jdagenet
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HavoX said:
In Brutal Doom, I reload my weapons a lot even when I don't need to, especially the Rocket Launcher.

Me too, I do it for everything and, I constantly "crack my knuckles" for no reason even without a Berserk.

12-15-11 00:57 #

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GoatLord
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I reload the weapons a lot too, I don't know why. Actually, now that I think about it, it's probably out of the fear that I'll shoot a weapon once and have to reload, which can be problematic in serious firefights.

12-15-11 01:52 #

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DarkJedi188
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1.) I keep selecting the Ultra-Violence skill setting for every new WAD that I launch. And I would only resort to a lower skill setting if I realize that the WAD doesn't have sufficient amounts of ammunition and/or healing items on Ultra-Violence.

2.) I keep pressing the quicksave button after every few kills, regardless of how tough or how easy a WAD plays for me. Just to be on the safe side. I hate starting things from scratch merely because of a blooper, no matter how small. (TBH, I'm actually like this in almost all the areas of life, not just in gaming.)

3.) I keep whoring the shotgun/supershotgun either until it runs out of shells or until the marine's health drops as low as somewhere between 10% and 20%. (Yes, I even approach Barons and Revenants and Mancubi with this weapon as my primary choice).

And that's about it, I think.

12-15-11 02:47 #

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Jimi
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I shoot single zombiemen with the supershotgun, because sometimes I'm too lazy to switch to some other weapon.

I also hit quick save after every few kills, not that I ever really load, unless I totally screw up, die or if I was just trying something stupid/unusual/whatever. But I noticed that if I didn't quick save constantly, I got really stressed, even if I was doing just fine in the game. But that's not very nice, since I play Doom to relieve my stress, so I had to continue quick saving... Maybe there should be a game that's just about quick saving, or maybe I should just go to sleep now.

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GoatLord
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I tend to be really insistent on point-blank super shotting hell barons and hell knights, even though it can sometimes result in them smacking the shit out of me and costing me my life.

12-15-11 07:09 #

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Optimus
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C30N9 said:
When I get the shotgun and the super one. After I kill monsters in front of me, I switch to the normal gun and shoot to make the shell ammo "even" and switch back to the super one. Yeah really I do that. :P

Omg, recently I am doing this too :)

12-15-11 13:47 #

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Jimi
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When I have 200% 200% health and armor, I get really frustrated if I take damage, even just some minor scratch from a zombieman's bullet. But when I'm below 100% and have no armor, I push forward with complete disregard for taking damage. Eventually I either die/reload or find a berserk or megasphere.

12-15-11 15:13 #

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Creaphis
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stewboy said:
Occasionally while playing, my Doomguy person gets an itchy back, and I have to scratch it by rubbing it against a wall.
I'm not kidding. I really and truly feel his 'itch'.

Has anyone else got that, or am I really weird?

I used to do something like this in real life. Occasionally I would sense that an inanimate object around me was uncomfortable, so I would have to fix it.

Now that I'm aware that Doomguy's back can get itchy I'll probably have to do the same thing as you.

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DuckReconMajor
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Jimi said:
But that's not very nice, since I play Doom to relieve my stress, so I had to continue quick saving...

For me it's the opposite. When I play with saves I'm always stressing over whether I just made the 'optimal' save, like I'm scared I'm going to save myself into an unwinnable situation, even when I'm at 199% health and almost full ammo.

12-16-11 05:27 #

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qoncept
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I've always played the entire game holding shift to run. I'm not sure if you could use capslock in the official games but I know you can in all the source ports I've played.

I also never knew you could use period and comma to strafe, so I've always used ALT and still do. I remember thinking how awesome the controls were on PSX because the shoulder buttons let you strafe with only a single key. But I just can't play without my left pinky holding SHIFT and left thumb tapping ALT.

12-19-11 20:10 #

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Pirx
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Jimi said:
When I have 200% 200% health and armor, I get really frustrated if I take damage, even just some minor scratch from a zombieman's bullet. But when I'm below 100% and have no armor, I push forward with complete disregard for taking damage. Eventually I either die/reload or find a berserk or megasphere.

oh yes.

iirc i posted in response to someone else with the same habit how i used to play final doom in coop with another guy when i came out, and we were using savegames and reloaded the game because of some minor scratch. somehow we perceived stronger monsters as "worthy" enemies that didn't request a reload, but losing that 200/200 to something like an imp, no way ;)

12-20-11 20:04 #

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Splatter
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I always wait until the E1M8 music is reaching its climax to step through the Phobos Anomaly.

12-22-11 03:41 #

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Antroid
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I play everything on UV and rarely save to make it tense, and then when i die after either being stupid or the map being not fair enough to a first time player i often can't bring myself to start over from the very beginning and quit.
Also i play even the most vanilla wads with zdoom :D Although by default i have vertical mouselook off, sky stretching off and the compatibility options set to as doom-like as zdoom can do.

12-24-11 20:32 #

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Rambosee
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Playing a map.
Come up to a cyberdemon facing away from me.
Have a BFG and a perfect chance to shoot him and retreat, then rocket pelt.
Chainsaw him in the ass instead.
Without saving.

12-25-11 01:08 #

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Face23785
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ArmouredBlood said:
I sometimes get fancy when dodging and screw up

I do this whenever I come across a situation with alot of mancubi. I'll stand there trying to time all their fireballs and fuck up, even if there's convenient cover nearby. On the other hand, I mop the floor with groups of revenants, dodging in between their slow-ass, predictable missiles. If there's any other monsters around I'll get the giant conglomeration of missiles to slam into them once I'm done.

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