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DoomUK said:


My memory might be playing tricks on me here, but I'm sure PSX Doom's manual made the same mistake. Someone who owns a copy of PSX Doom would have to clarify it, parted company with mine about 10 years ago.

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vdgg said:
Before grabbing any of the Doom FAQs, I had my own intuition about monster "toughness" (hit points). The most incorrect one: pain elementals have more HP than cacodemons. No matter what weapon I used, it took ages to kill them (e.g. 3-4 SSG shots for a caco, at least 5 for a PE). Reading through the HP list was like "Oh, really? can't be true!"

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qoncept said:

Lost Souls getting in the way. Or maybe the fact that their a nuisance while cacodemons are so much fun to kill.

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hex11 said:


PE goes down pretty quick if you get up right in its face with a chaingun (or sometimes SSG, but the reload time is iffy). As soon as I see one, I make a mad dash towards it and start hacking... But if there are big monsters around (like barons) and you're low on ammo, it's useful to have the dumb lost souls around to bump into them. That gets boring, but it's better than having to punch barons (unless you're really good at that).

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kmxexii said:
Darting in with a punch does more damage than just standing and flailing (I still do it though for mobility)

Also the swing shot thing

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Deathmatcher said:
-It took me a while to realize there were two different zombies in Doom: "Wait a minute...some have bald heads and some have green hair..."

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Maes said:


The fact that one gave you just a pat on the buttwhile the other pumped you full of hot, manly, magnum buckshot didn't ring any bells? :-p

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Z86 said:
The softer sound belonging to the riflemen, and the more animalistic ones belonging to shotgunners.

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hex11 said:


PE goes down pretty quick if you get up right in its face with a chaingun (or sometimes SSG, but the reload time is iffy). As soon as I see one, I make a mad dash towards it and start hacking... But if there are big monsters around (like barons) and you're low on ammo, it's useful to have the dumb lost souls around to bump into them. That gets boring, but it's better than having to punch barons (unless you're really good at that).

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ixfd64 said:
I had a couple of misconceptions about Doom in my n00b days:

1. When I first played Doom, I didn't know it wasn't possible to jump in the game. My friend didn't know either, and the two of us spent several minutes trying to find the "jump" key.
2. During that same session, we thought the way to open doors was to shoot them. D'oh!
3. Back when shovelware CDs were still common, I once saw one that offered 2,000 new levels for Doom. I wasn't aware of how loading custom WADs worked at the time, so I thought the product would actually modify Doom and add 2,000 levels to the game. I remember thinking, "if idclev## only allows two digits, then how am I going to select levels beyond the ninth episode?"
4. Speaking of #3, I didn't know that the majority of those levels were downloaded from the Internet. I thought, "designing those levels must have taken this company a VERY long time..." Good times, good times.

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Optimus said:
I am just wondering now and never thought before, what was the meaning of the word "stimpack"? Stimulation pack or something? Like a painkiller?

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Slippy_Pig said:
I thought Partial Invisibility made it so that you could sneak around everything...

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