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Install it from your physical copy (if you had one) or borrow it from your friend or get legit keys for reign of chaos and frozen throne and install it from .ISOs lying somewhere on the internet or just grab the game from warez sites. From what I've heard you'll also need to make sure battle.net application doesn't see it or it will try to "upgrade" it to reforged version automatically. I've also heard playing reforged with classic graphics will also force old campaign without reforged changes.

I haven't played Empires of the Undergrowth so I can't tell you who would win.

Considering your keyboard layout, you probably would be better off just porting it to your arcade stick controller with stick being WASD.

Category 1 demo. Died on map04.

Category 2* demo. Died on map08.

This discussion is sort of moot because there's no 30 minute long (minimum) video essay attached to it (for reach outside of this forum), because: a) general consensus on this otf forum is that players should play however they want, that includes letting "uv or bust" players get their balls busted on uv; b) no one cares; c) 99% of the time HMP is just UV with less enemies and probably more supplies and HNTR is HMP with even less enemies and probably even more supplies, so it's in players best intention to just see stuff at it's max potential; There's also issue with pride and outlook on difficulties being skewed due to how it all was handled for years already, but that train is long gone.

Sentient barrels. Like ones from the Blessed Engine or Marsdoom.

I agree. Newest installment should've been Doom 3-2: Demonic Boogaloo and trailer's footage is certainly too bright for that. They should make it dark as fuck and give player a variety of portable light sources (torches, lanterns, projectors, flashlights, etc.) with their own pros and cons and constantly have player switch them to fit the situation. Adding sux is fairly easy and they can do it in DLCs, like TAG's plot. Not sure about sox tho, Doomslayer's always wearing boots so they would be obscured.

Category 1 demo. Died on E4M8 and my thoughts on this are "What the fuck is this?"

During UV-Max run? Yeah, I hate when monsters block other monsters from teleporting, permanently, or enemies get pushed into unreachable areas. During FDA/DWIL run? Lol, all the pissed off martians can stay behind and screw their secret deathtraps, too. However, I, too, very strongly dislike one-ways with a fury of exactly one thousand suns. But it's mostly because, usually, now 20 medkits, 2 shell boxes, 14 shell pickups, 3 green and 1 blue armors, 5 bullet boxes, 43 ammo clips, 8 rockets, 1 rocket box, 4 cell packs and 3 cells become unavailable, so I can't restock with these in case I need that.

If you're having problems committing to playing a game and are constantly distracting yourself, chances are you are just not interested in said game in the first place. However, the problem with ever growing backlog of games can only be tackled by playing the games. or nuking the backlog itself, but that's probably not the kind of advice/solution you're looking for.

Category 1 demos. Suspended in Dusk: survived in 1:36:16 Bauhaus: survived in 1:13:35

Category 2(?) demo. Died on map03, got shot by a chaingunner from a pretty far distance.

Off the top of my head gggmork, vdgg and TheV1perK1ller did some serious maps, you can search their demos/videos on dsdarchive or Youtube if you want to. My information is old as hell though, maybe there's some other keyboard-only prodigy out there. I wouldn't recommend jumping from zero to hardest stuff there is right away, though. There's insurmountable mountain of content that's far more manageable and interesting beyond "too tough for this particular control method" and if I were you I'd rather not be too worried about it. With enough experience, you, probably, will be able to tackle even that type of levels, too. Also, I would like to recommend playing in ports that have "quick 180" bind.

Category 1 demo. Survived in 3:23:39. Starting from map06 I got lost in every single map and I am sending extra negative energy to that one "switch" on map11 in particular.