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

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[โ€“] MrScottyTay 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Near impossible on my tiny phone haha

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks 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€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you shoot from cover, some come to find you. Back into corner and rapid fire, not a great plan, but got it on about 6th try.

[โ€“] MrScottyTay 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's more that my phone is quite literally tiny. 3" screen, 480x854

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] MrScottyTay 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Unihertz Jelly Star. I wanted a modern phone smaller than my pixel 3. Seemed to be the only viable option at the time. It's crazy how big phones are now, even the compact ones are bigger than what I class as a big phone

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

huh neat, I didn't know that was a thing! I'm tempted because I feel like I'd be less inclined to doomscroll on it, which seems like a feature rather than a bug.

it seems kinda thick though, do you think it's more comfy in a pocket despite that?

[โ€“] MrScottyTay 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's more comfy in the pants despite the thickness.

Think about how much a thin but big phone sticks out when placed on a cylinder. This has less surface area that's touching your leg so you barely feel it.

Doom scrolling can still happen on this phone like but it does make certain stuff just make me want to wait till I'm at a computer to do it instead, like shopping and whatnot. So I find that a plus, somewhat.

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I wish my phone was a bit smaller, but it's already on par or smaller than most of the industry (Pixel 8).

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks 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.

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 2 weeks ago

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€“] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The awkward controls make it unfair.

... But then, IDKFA works

Which MEANS

An AI could totally cheat this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

An AI would play this better than any human.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe, unless the AI pretends to suck.

[โ€“] Oni_eyes 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I just tapped it and it showed one

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Works in Safari

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

doom without sidestep? no thanks

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks 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€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I am on mobile but will try on computer

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

No strafe. Ughhh

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

That was surprisingly difficult.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

This is fucking amazing

[โ€“] Dindonmasker 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

RNG in doom, that's illegal :D

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks 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 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks 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€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

what a chimera ๐Ÿ˜ฐ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks 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.