/vr/ - Retro Games

any idea how you're meant to get past this trap consistently? it seems totally luck-based to me.

for reference we have two archviles, one behind a meat shield of half a dozen sergeants, the other behind two chaingunners. there is also an arachnotron between the two groups. you are locked into the small area, and there is basically no cover.

whether you survive seems to be entirely out of your hands, instead depending completely on what the monsters decide to do.

hopefully you have enough plasma to cut through the meatshields, and interrupt the archviles' attacks before you are blown in the air, but whether their pain chances trigger is of course entirely random and far from guaranteed.

remember also that there is no cover and you have many hitscanners and an arachnotron spewing fire at you.

so, how am i supposed to play this encounter without save scumming?