/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5451717
If you cant shotgun start E4M3 and E4M4 I just do NOT know what to say to you.
Can you even into tactics?
Are you aware of infighting?

The error may be with your playing style, stop letting monsters hit you. Start using cover. Start running from monsters and evade them while you get the prizes and kill weaker monsters. Let those wandering monsters scrunch together so you can get them infighting.
I believe the question you might have is whether all of the weapons are available on a given level, as qualifying it for being shotgun start. Personally I think its irrelevant because in the next level you're likely to pick up any weapons you missed.
What you miss out on in Episides 2-4 by doing a shotgun start at a later level is all of the Cell Backpacks that the Enforcers drop in the first mission of each. Thats usually Alot of cells too. You find energy cells as you go later on when you're getting close to getting the thunderbolt (almost as if there's a logistics reason for it... hide the ammo close to where the gun is stashed). With the initial boost on the first mission you can hit 100 and use the gun as you please
Using the quintessensial Quake 1 level E4M4... you find a SSG immediately, there's a GL up by the healing pool, there's a NG and SNG later in the level. The thunderbolt hasnt shown up yet. So you have the ability to use your 3 ammo types. They even conveniently put a little tiny hole in the floor for you to shoot a grenade into so that you can grenade jump into the horizontal teleporter.

If they've bothered to put multiple instances of the same guns into the game maps as you go along, then the game can be played with a basic weapon start. Initially, I always wondered "Why am I finding another SNG? Ive already got an SNG and it was an obvious pickup?". For a long time I thought it was foolish, and people should be punished for cheating by not giving them weapon pickups they missed.

>>5452650
which part of the information do you contest?