TootsyBowl

I found The Second Encounter to be more interesting (initially) than The First Encounter's setting, and that it was going to be harder, but I thought the rest of it was easier than The First Encounter. On Normal difficulty anyway. I aspire to go back through these on Serious difficulty though, because I'm a masochist and I want to get the 'full Serious Sam experience'.

I beat FE on a less-than-normal skill rather easily. I chose it because I remembered playing SS badly, especially SE. Since it was so easy this time, I chose normal for SE and it kicked my ass a lot. I doubt FE would be as hard.

In regards to setting, I feel like SE was a bit of a cop-out. You're made to think it's gonna be about forests and hills and 3D grass, which was novel compared to FE, but after just two levels it's back to generic temples again, except more colorful and with a flat grass texture instead of sand.

Also lots of traps.

But it was pretty and somewhat varied regardless.

The sniper rifle and flamethrower and the new power ups added in TSE like serious damage for instance are really helpful. TSE is also more about gimmicky stuff like strange rooms and puzzle elements than huge battles like TFE.

I also really liked the Aztec chapter the most, and thought that was gonna be TSE's theme. Didn't care for Persia or medieval Poland as much.

When I was coding ZDoomWars I'd noclip to the open area and try stuff over and over for hours and hours and days of refinement and revision. It's a good tune!

I will be sitting and relaxing

Something similar happened for me. I spent countless hours of testing maps while mapping and D_RUNNIN played on the background in all of them, so it is now imprinted in my mind.

I wouldn't even know how to eat one. Fig Newtons are pretty good, but I already know it's not gonna taste like that... :( 

I always place as I map. It becomes part of the design process as opposed to an afterthought / chore. I also retest very, very regularly while mapping to ensure weapon, health & ammo balance is fair. I'd recommend working that way. :)

I sucked at monster placement as well. but I come to this place once in a while to check things. :D

Just put Cyberdemons everywhere.

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so much schoolwork aaaaaaa

Spotted the revenant.

Gecko Revenant!

Start revising for your mock exams , same goes with me . In fact I should stop playing and start revising about megnetism  for physics and titrations, as well as homeostasis for my upcoming tests 

Congrats, I'm still a wee baby member.

TBH, I am pretty close to being a Forum Regular.

*looks at y'all kids from above*

it's in the warehouse north of where you find the blue keycard. step on a small platform that sticks out from the ground to lower the wall to the green lock.

thank you small horse

''Something eggs on pictures.''

So deep, thats poetry. 

And even to this day, this forum just keeps BALLing about black disks.

KNEE DEEP ON EGGS!!! ( O w O)/

LOL, thanks! But I don't REALLY need it until I drop below 25 percent health. ;-)

Still 67 percent health isn't bad -- it's 2/3 of 100, rounded to the nearest integer.

I agree...magic floors popping monsters in your face is boring and uninspired. It's a cheap way to set up boring and predictable encounters. 

They're a very space-efficient way to bring monsters to places that are supposed to be (or seem) monster-less before the player reaches them.

It becomes cheap to me when it's repeated in random ways that not only surprise the player but leaves no time or space to avoid the unavoidable. The surprise factor is ok, reason why I think fastpop is more tolerable than instapop.

It's not once a week.  Sometimes it's twice a week.  But what's wrong with liking stuff?

I don't know. It's just that I never see you every often and every few days half the posts in a thread get liked by you.

Ok

That person is obviously using IDCLEV.

It takes practice. Design maps with the intention of experimenting, not for actually completing and releasing just to get a feel for what the engine is capable of.

16 or 24 units up from the ground is usually good for windows, but you'll need to use impassable lines or make the ceiling height low enough if you want to keep the player from jumping out of it.

It's also worth noting the player's view height is 41 units above ground.

My choices are restricted to:

1. Earbuds that I like, but I don't want to use them at home because overusing them is probably harmful for my hearing.

2. Old-ish cheap headphones with OK bass that hurt my ears after some time, and also have a very short cord.

3. Wireless headphones with good bass that are a PITA to tune properly, and even then a perfectly clear sound is not guaranteed.

It's not Classic Doom.

BFG Division.

u da man

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@Philnemba said:

A megawad that strictly only uses barrels to kill monsters would be an interesting if not challenging to make. With creative thing placement, barrels can pretty much kill almost anything with the exception of Cyberdemons & Spiderdemons because of their high HP.

The reason why Cyberdemons and Spiderdemons can't be killed by barrels is because they're hardcoded to be completely immune to splash damage.

Ghost monsters, on the other hand, can only be killed by certain few things, including barrels and NOT including most of the player's weapons, so they might go perfectly with your idea.

Barrels More Fun

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The reason why Cyberdemons and Spiderdemons can't be killed by barrels is because they're hardcoded to be completely immune to splash damage.

Oh wow I've completely forgotten about that XD

Don't skimp on the licorice https://www.walmart.com/ip/Panda-All-Natural-Soft-Licorice-7-oz-Pack-of-12/31219575?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227021930692&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=40890646232&wl4=pla-78820321472&wl5=9019252&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=31219575&wl13=&veh=sem

I like the normal licorice, with the twisty and rope-like shape. Period.