/vr/ - Retro Games

in your ass (300min)
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i don't like this map. writing maps never play well, they are inherently a linear corridor crawl, because you're playing through the shapes of letters.

worse the health/ammo available is abysmal, so you need to know entirely in advance what's coming, to plan your weapon usage, and play in the most absolutely defensive negative way in order to avoid damage - there is 1 medikit, and 6 health potions, available, and a green armour.

so i died several times. attempt #1:

right from the start you have no weapon and are faced with 4 troopers and a sergeant. okay but then as soon as you move 8 lost souls come out of the walls. running past gives a chaingun but releases 6 imps. going round the corner wakes up 4 demons. i suffered total ammo exhaustion, reduced to unpowered punching through a dozen demons/imps/lost souls.

attempt #2:

i was like "fuck this" and turned on iddt, which revealed the chainsaw behind me. the imp closet didn't open but i lost too much health chainsawing skulls. with <50% health i went up the lift and found 40 shells+ssg but up ahead a half dozen cacos and a pain elemental. i stupidly hung back trying to shoot them from afar, depleted my ammo again. eventually decided to run in to finish off the pain elemental, but took one too many hits from its death spawns and remaining cacodemon.

attempt #3:

i started off playing more carefully, and was lucky that somehow the lost soul closets at the start didn't open. i reached the cacos/elemental again with 49% health, but managed to pass them this time. however with only 14% health and the 6 health potions / green armour i was not equipped for the rest of the map. however, the next section has you fighting against only one or two monsters at a time - they might be archviles/revenants but you can't get outflanked by a single monster.

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