/vr/ - Retro Games

Playing through City Assault with Hideous Destructor is a rite of passage.

>>5261627
>>5261590
Also read the manual in the .pk3 or zip file using Wordpad. It explains a lot. Also don't expect the game to give you any slack, play on Ugly until you have the hang of it.

Cheese if you have to, but HD is about surviving each level, not killing everything.

Make sure you figure out how to use the scanner in medkits because it is your best way of figuring out how badly you are injured.

Also Stimpacks are there to slow the bleeding and dull the pain/that shake you get when you get hit/hurt. This will give you a chance to save yourself with a medkit or bandages.

>>4735328
>>4735327
Yes you are.

HD isn't that bad but it is fundamentally an entirely different game from standard doom. And I mean it genuine is an entirely different game and there is not a single thing you can take for granted from your knowledge of standard doom.

The big, BIG problem with the mod is that there is no way for it to physically force you to find the manual in the Hideous Destructor-master folder, run it with word/wordpad and then read as much of it as you can understand, and play with it for a half hour on the lowest difficulty until you know how everything works. A pretty good comparison would probably be it's Red Orchestra to Doom's Call of Duty (not a quality assessment just a comparison).

The health and wounding system is NOT that punishing, but it is weirdly obtuse. It's basically a simplier You can't heal yourself with your body armor on, and if you get lit on fire, taking off your burning body armor is one of the only things that will put it out.

Yeah it's obtuse and kind of ridiculous with a level of detail, but there is an interesting, impossibly tense experience to be had. It's pretty much the opposite of a power fantasy.

... aside from well... >>4735489