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You will need a bit of patience with this one ๐Ÿ˜‡

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[โ€“] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 36 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Near impossible on my tiny phone haha

[โ€“] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The hit boxes appear to be huge. I got it just by turning and shooting from the starting position.

Fun, but a relatively simple script could likely be developed to solve these.

[โ€“] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I expected to have to do more than tap the fire button.

[โ€“] donio@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

No WASD, no strafe, not fair.

I got it by running around the imps and going for the grunts (all enemies are "monsters" in Doom)

[โ€“] hisao@ani.social 12 points 11 months ago

Reposting from my other reply: There is strafe actually, even two ways of doing it, using original DOS bindings: < and > or alt + left/right arrow. For me the easiest way to do it without strafe is just to move forward a bit, then go back and wait for dudes to come in from the right. Dealing with imps is really hard since their fireballs are sped up significantly. I tried a bit more and it seems it's possible to actually beat this level properly. You can get other weapons and powerups. It's just really hard with speed mode and nightmare difficulty.

Honestly, the easiest way is to move forward a bit. The imps can't hit you, and the grunts will come toward you, so it becomes a shooting gallery instead of you being in a bullet hell.

[โ€“] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The awkward controls make it unfair.

... But then, IDKFA works

Which MEANS

An AI could totally cheat this.

[โ€“] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

An AI would play this better than any human.

[โ€“] ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But could it be made to differentiate a human from an AI?

[โ€“] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe, unless the AI pretends to suck.

[โ€“] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I love it, but can't get the keyboard to display on mobile

[โ€“] Shadow@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago

It didn't work on chrome for me, but does on Firefox.

[โ€“] perfectduck@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I just tapped it and it showed one

[โ€“] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Works in Safari

[โ€“] Dagnet@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Had to bait them into coming towards me, many deaths before I managed tho. Still better than most captchas

[โ€“] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

doom without sidestep? no thanks

[โ€“] hisao@ani.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a bit of a secret feature, but there is strafe actually, even two ways of doing it, using original DOS bindings: < and > or alt + left/right arrow.

[โ€“] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I am on mobile but will try on computer

[โ€“] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Too many imps in the center square. Too easy to just get ganged with fireballs. I found that I needed to hang out in the hallway and get the marines that were coming in.

WTF? Is this Nightmare difficulty? Just how many enemies are crammed in the hallways here.

I get that this is a joke project. But, if you were to reduce the difficulty to some common denominator, it could actually be a viable CAPTCHA. Then again, there's already good AI bots that could dominate this.

[โ€“] Danitos@reddthat.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is Nightmare difficulty, on a hidden level as well.

[โ€“] tabularasa@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

No strafe. Ughhh

[โ€“] hisao@ani.social 0 points 11 months ago

Not only nightmare, it's also -fast. Click how it works in the bottom of the page.

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 9 points 11 months ago

That was surprisingly difficult.

[โ€“] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 7 points 11 months ago

This is fucking amazing

[โ€“] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Idk why you say i would need patience. I cleared it under 5 seconds. Maybe i had good RNG.

[โ€“] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

RNG in doom, that's illegal :D

[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Why does it have to be on a hard level with just a pistol, tho? lol I turned the first corner and was obliterated by imp fireballs before I knew what map I was on.

[โ€“] ramius345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I beat it by kiting some of the shotgunners to come past the imps. 3 Easy kills.

[โ€“] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I tried going straight, but after a while I noticed there's actually an invisible pinky over there.

Also is the sound too high, or is it just me not rememberering right?

[โ€“] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

The sounds are completely different and I'm not sure where they're sourced from.

[โ€“] steeznson@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is there any strategy for this level apart from kiting the enemies into your line of sight while you are shielded from the centre cube? Maybe the WAD could be tweaked. Cool project though!

[โ€“] hisao@ani.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One fun and moderately easy strategy is running into forward tunnel all the way down into the pit, killing a sergeant for a shotgun, running through acid into the room with health and pickups on the left, and then killing 2 more imps. PS: I'm doing it with strafe through (< and > or alt + arrows).

[โ€“] SitD@lemy.lol 1 points 11 months ago

what a chimera ๐Ÿ˜ฐ

[โ€“] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 1 points 11 months ago

Well I think I'm a robot. Couldn't do the things that it's asking me to do. So I guess I'm a robot. Beeboo beeboo boop beeboo beeboo bee boop.

[โ€“] ICastFist@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Took me 2 tries, advanced a bit, retreated and waited for the dudes to walk into my line of pistol fire

This is the way. You only need 3 kills, so there's no need to deal with the caged grunts in any way whatsoever.