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Kenri of the Yuri	Posted: 5/12/2012 7:06:05 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 001
Level: 43 Editor	http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game_NA.php id Software has done something extremely cool and released a free, in-browser version of Wolfenstein 3D for the game's 20th anniversary. This is a game that is very near and dear to my heart, being one of the first video games I played. (Killing Nazis - totally kid-friendly!) It's also a pretty important game. While it wasn't technically the first FPS, it was the first "modern" FPS: the first game recognizable as an FPS like the FPSes we have today, and even if it didn't CREATE the genre, it codified it for years to come. However, I know for a fact that some of you ungrateful peasants have not beaten, or perhaps not even played, this landmark game. So it is time for a CHALLENGE. That's right - I, Kenri, am challenging you, TFN user, to beat Wolfenstein 3D! And if you defeat me at my own challenge, there will be FABULOUS PRIZES~ (fabulousness of prizes may vary) How to Enter the Challenge 1. Go to the website I linked above (http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game_NA.php) 2. Start a new game 3. Configure your controls if you want 4. Start from Episode 1, mission 1 and work your way through the game. Secret levels are optional. 5. Post screencaps of your end-of-level results to get credit for your accomplishments. Achievements BUT, because we live in 2012, this game will have ACHIEVEMENTS~ (collect achievements to earn points (points may or may not be meaningless)) 1. Elevator Action (10g) - Clear your first level. 2. Scratch One Boss (50g) - Clear episode one. 3. The Doctor is Out (50g) - Clear episode two. 4. Stupid Jetpack Hitler (100g) - Clear episode three. 5. Wolfensteined (100g) - Clear every level. 6. Found the Space Bar (10g) - Find your first secret. 7. Secretkeeper (25g) - Clear a level with 100% secrets. 8. Master Cartographer (500g) - Clear every level with 100% secrets. 9. You Murderer (5g) - Get your first kill. 10. Killing Spree (25g) - Clear a level with 100% kills. 11. God of War (500g) - Clear every level with 100% kills. 12. Minimum Wage (5g) - Collect your first treasure. 13. Six Figure Salary (25g) - Clear a level with 100% treasure. 14. The 1% (500g) - Clear every level with 100% treasure. 15. Completionist (50g) - Clear a level with 100% kills, treasure, and secrets. 16. Get a Life (25g) - Find and screencap 9 different Extra Lives. 17. Where's My Sandvich? (10g) - Clear a level with the chaingun. 18. Brought a Knife to a Gunfight (10g) - Clear a level with the knife. 19. Should've Brought a Map (10g) - Clear secret level 1. 20. Still Hate Secret Levels (10g) - Clear secret level 2. 21. Pac Your Bags (10g) - Clear secret level 3. 22. BJ Belmont (10g) - In E3M9, kill the five Hitler's ghosts and take screencaps of their corpses (alternatively, if your average kills reads 100% at the end of E3M9, that works too). 23. Mr. Invincible (500g) - Clear every level with 100% health. 24. i'm 12 and what is this? (-1000g) - Clear the game as a stupid babby. 25. Germany's Leading Cause of Death (1000g) - Clear the game as death incarnate. 26. Achieve This, I Dare You (ALL THE POINTS) - Clear every level including secret levels, with 100% kills, 100% secrets, 100% treasure, on death incarnate difficulty. ~~27. Solve My Maze, Superman! (A LOT OF POINTS) - Solve the infamous E2M8 maze. (Take a screencap at the end.)~~ 28. I Play Assorted Video Games With Writeups (5g) - Do a writeup for your playthrough of a level. 29. Even More Stupid Writeups (50g) - Do a writeup for a collective ten levels, including at least two boss levels. 30. At Least You Didn't Quit During Episode III Like Some People (100g) - Do a writeup for every level. ~~31. Takes Damage to Save Time (50g) - First on TFN to finish the game.~~ MORE TO COME MAYBE (you can also suggest them, but they must be verifiable somehow) (also, it would be a good idea to have some identifying mark in your screencaps if you're doing stuff like beating a level on death incarnate with 100% of everything. it's not that I don't trust you, it's just... okay i don't trust you.) Note: All the "clear every level with 100% of something" achievements exclude E2M8 because fuck that level. If 100% of a thing cannot actually be gotten in a given level, get the max instead. Secret levels are always excluded except for #5 and the achievements that specifically mention them. IMPORTANT (READ THIS): #16 has been changed #22 has been changed #24, 25, and 26 may not be confirmable LEX WINS: #27 is not possible to complete #31 is no longer possible to achieve Game Mechanics For those who have never played Wolfenstein 3D before, here are some tips to keep in mind: 1. It's 1992. There are no NPCs. If it moves, shoot it until it stops moving. 2. Yeah, you can use the option for mouse controls... if you're a big whiny baby who can't deal with 1992 FPSes. 3. Hit space bar while hugging a wall to check for secret doors. 4. Collect treasure for points. Amass points for lives. Collect ammo to shoot things. Collect guns to shoot more things. Collect keys to open doors. Shoot anything the moves. Find the elevator to clear the level. 5. There are only three guns and ~~you can't switch between them~~ you can swap between them and it's super useful if you need to conserve ammo which you shouldn't on Episodes 1-3. This is Wolfenstein and you are BJ - you ~~will always~~ should probably use your best gun. 6. The three guns are: the gun, the bigger gun, and the biggest gun. You want that last one. The second one's okay too. 7. To defeat the blue-clad enemies, shoot at them until they die. 8. Eating delicious floor turkey restores health. (AKA The Castlevania Rule.) Eating delicious floor dog food restores less health. Eating delicious floor health kits restores the most health. 9. Strafing is SUPER FUN and also helps you stay alive! Fabulous Prizes So, what do you get for doing all that? How about this: to show you how serious I am, if you take me up on my challenge, I will do a thing of your request (within reason). The more points you get, the less reasonable it can be. This can be stuff like giving you shrines, playing a game or watching a TV of your choice, reading terrible fanfiction, writing terrible fanfiction, even buying you something (hint: get a LOT of points if you want to ask for that one). Why can I offer this? Because I know nobody here will actually take me up on this. And if you do, you won't actually beat the game, because Hitler is just more of a man than you are. So there. crosses arms Leaderboard 1. Celtic - 2745g (1st to kill Hitler) --- "You're childish. What are you getting? Are you getting strawberry? Ha! That's such a childish flavor, only children eat strawberry."
	Message last edited by Kenri of the Yuri on 5/23/2012 at 02:35:47 AM.
Celtic Guardian 7	Posted: 5/13/2012 12:18:13 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 002
Level: 41 New Moderator	I will totally do this. --- "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears
xp1337	Posted: 5/13/2012 1:23:50 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 003
Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major	You're right. I won't. Which is truly unfortunate because I'm confident if I would, I'd be able to do just about, if not, everything, and get you to watch Fate/Zero among other tasks. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
Celtic Guardian 7	Posted: 5/13/2012 1:55:51 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 004
Level: 41 New Moderator	So, want write ups here? Or another topic? --- "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears
Kenri of the Yuri	Posted: 5/13/2012 2:33:09 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 005
Level: 43 Editor	So, want write ups here? Or another topic? Either way works! You can make another topic if you want, but there's no real reason to. You're right. I won't. Which is truly unfortunate because I'm confident if I would, I'd be able to do just about, if not, everything, and get you to watch Fate/Zero among other tasks. Okay? I'm sorry for providing you with a free game that is fun and also offering you stuff you want if you play it. --- "You're childish. What are you getting? Are you getting strawberry? Ha! That's such a childish flavor, only children eat strawberry."
xp1337	Posted: 5/13/2012 2:36:49 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 006
Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major	Okay? I'm sorry for providing you with a free game that is fun and also offering you stuff you want if you play it. I wasn't criticizing you! It's just, the amount of things I'd need to do, and the kinds of things I'd need to do, to participate in this just completely turn me off to this. I'm just saying, being an FPS, I imagine were that not the case, I'd devastate this. That comment seems pretty uncalled for! Now OoT Achievements? Sign me up for that! Or I guess Record of Agarest War. Those are the two games I'm playing at this point, but I feel like OoT is the only one anyone would be familiar with. >_> --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
Kenri of the Yuri	Posted: 5/13/2012 2:51:39 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 007
Level: 43 Editor	Yeah but that's different. Because you're playing them anyway, for one thing. Getting people to play a game they don't want to play is the entire point. <_< --- "You're childish. What are you getting? Are you getting strawberry? Ha! That's such a childish flavor, only children eat strawberry."
xp1337	Posted: 5/13/2012 2:54:07 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 008
Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major	More like you know the second you attach prizes to OoT I'll just play endlessly until I get everything to make you watch Fate/Zero. And that I'd succeed! >_> Well, unless you set crazy goals like "Get the WR." <_< --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
Kenri of the Yuri	Posted: 5/13/2012 3:25:11 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 009
Level: 43 Editor	BONUS CHALLENGE: OCARINA OF TIME 1. The Hat Trick (EVERY POINT) - Get the WR in OoT, MM, and WW simultaneously. 2. Get Off My Lawn (500000000g) - Beat the game as Old Man Link. 3. One Hit Wonder (123456789g) - Kill Ganon in a single hit. 4. A Cosmic Accomplishment (999g) - Beat Cosmo in a race. 5. In High Spirits (5g) - Learn to Spirit Hover. --- "You're childish. What are you getting? Are you getting strawberry? Ha! That's such a childish flavor, only children eat strawberry."
xp1337	Posted: 5/13/2012 3:49:53 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 010
Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major	In High Spirits (5g) - Learn to Spirit Hover. I could totally do that, but ugh, any% is a lot more tolerable to me lately and this would require me to stop that. Plus you'd want photo proof and I'm totally not doing that. >_> --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
Celtic Guardian 7	Posted: 5/15/2012 6:05:38 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 011
Level: 41 New Moderator	So I started this last night and finished the first episode today. Here are my fabulous write ups, complete with screenshots! [Spoiler for Wolfenstein 3D, Episode 1, click to show]First of all, a bit of history. This was my first ever video game too, and I played it at about age three, I believe. Could have been two. Anyway, I barely remember anything about it back then, other than playing it on the laps of my parents. Mom apparently thought it was okay because I was killing Nazis. Oh and it's a video game. For all essential purposes, I am entering it blind. Combined with my lack of playing FPS, this ought to be fantastic. HERE IS OUR ENGAGING STORY AWESOME I picked normal mode, also known as "Please don't hurt me." It's my first time that I actually know what I'm doing to some extent, cut me some slack. Floor 1 First things first, I oriented myself with the controls. Arrow keys move, X shoots, Z strafes, Space Bar opens doors and such. Easy to remember, annoying to use. After examining cells, I found my first soldier, the general grunts with brown outfits. After shooting everything but him like a retard, I finally did get him to die, and found that all soldiers who get killed drop ammunition. This is very good or I would be stuck with just my knife in no time. Even with terrible aim, the general soldiers are easy to kill. What I did not expect was for a German Shepard to glitch through the wall and bite me while I could not return fire. That was unfortunate. After some backing out and playing around I did kill the doggy and find some plates of turkey/chicken/meat legs. Plus dog food. Very nutritious. (I think the dog food showed up here, it might have been level two though. They kind of blur together.) Not much of remarkableness in this level. I did decide to make sure my screen capturing was working and took my very first picture of the LP here, though (check the dates/times in the story ones, I got them just to post for these write ups). It went poorly. But all the rest made it okay, so just admire the random green barrel I guess. I hate all the barrels in this game, and the wells, and the cages. I keep trying to examine them like it's a flipping RPG. I want to say there was no key in this level, or if there was, I honestly don't remember getting it. I did find the elevator in short order and took it down to the next floor. Oh, and I spent a lot of time pausing and talking to Kenri about what I was doing, hence why my time down below is so enormous. THOUGHTS: Easy first level, helped me to get a feel for the game. ACHIEVEMENTS GOTTEN: 1. Elevator Action (10g) - Clear your first level. 9. You Murderer (5g) - Get your first kill. 10. Killing Spree (25g) - Clear a level with 100% kills. 12. Minimum Wage (5g) - Collect your first treasure. 28. I Play Assorted Video Games With Writeups (5g) - Do a writeup for your playthrough of a level. FLOOR 2 More prisons! And more dogs oh gosh help. Bad dog. >=( So for this level, I decided to take my time, do a lot of searching to see how much I could uncover. I killed a bunch of guys, including a new enemy that I swear spawned out of nowhere. Kenri tells me that should not be possible, so perhaps my browser lagged out their arrival or something. But it looked like they magically teleported in on me. I forgot to take a picture so I went back to photograph their corpses later. For America! So there are a lot of different background textures, and by that I mean gray stone, blue stone, red stone, or wood. Not that I found any red stone this early, but hey. Here is an example of wood. OH MY GOSH WHAT GREAT GRAPHICS Also here are more things I try to examine for items and get nothing out of because this is a FPS not Final Fantasy: Something far more interesting though. I came to the end of a corridor that only had two plants flanking it. Well clearly that was suspicious, so I used my all-mighty space bar and found... My first secret! It had food and stuff. Oh, and I found the gold key earlier, which every level requires to get to the elevator. Unless I was right with not finding one in the first level. I seriously think I just didn't notice getting it. Also worth noting is I got my first extra life here for going over 40,000 points. You get one life per 40,000 points gotten, and those can be gotten as bonuses at the end of the level or from collecting treasures. Treasures like chests, crosses, goblets, and crowns. So what did my intense over-twenty-minute search get me? Not even 100% kills. Good grief. It was at this point I decided I would take this first playthrough to just, well, play, and not worry about trying to ace any levels. THOUGHTS: Still nothing difficult. ACHIEVEMENTS GOTTEN: 6. Found the Space Bar (10g) - Find your first secret. FLOOR 3 More of the same, really. I tend to get injured doing stupid mistakes but it's all part of the learning process. My lack of pictures for this and the next few floors tell me nothing really interesting occurred. There were no obvious secrets this time so I just went through as quickly as possible, as can be seen by my ratios below. The percentages of someone who did not care. THOUGHTS: I swear I will have more to say in more interesting levels. FLOOR 4 So what was the most exciting thing to happen in floor four, which should be an intense floor because it is the number of death? ...I beat it in EXACTLY ten minutes. Not 9:59, not 10:01, 10:00. Aw yeah. THOUGHTS: For floor four it sure was not dangerous. FLOOR 5 This was my last floor of the night, because I was feeling nauseous from the shaky nature of the game. And, uh, it still had not much worth noting. I still did not die, I still was finding some treasure but not a lot, and I must have really wanted to get out of it because my kill ratio was sort of low. Oh and I got another life. I also found out the ammo limit is 99. A pity. THOUGHTS: Seriously if there was anything worth noting I would have taken more pictures. FLOOR 6 After leaving it on the win screen the entire night, I got back to playing this morning. The first regular soldier I ran into nearly made me jump a foot in the air and mash the X button because I honestly did not expect him to come so quickly, but it went smoothly after that. And I found... My second secret! Believe there was a Med Kit back here that I left, and went back to get after being shot. Note that I had six lives leaving here. This will be important. THOUGHTS: Whose idea was it to hide random items behind Nazi symbols? FLOOR 7 This level. Ugh. I had a moment of utter idiocy here. See, I cleared the level, found the elevator to leave and everything. But I had found a Med Kit in a room earlier and my health was a bit low. So I decided to go back and get it. After several minutes of not finding it, I found a soldier I had missed and killed him. And then I went from like 69% health to 0% by a soldier headshotting me from the back. I had gotten my seventh life before then, so I was back at six. See what little ammo I have? You lose everything and go back to the start if you die. Not cool. So I got to do this level all over again. It and its stupid halls of pillars and tons of soldiers. I swear if this was based off real history we would have never had to fight Germany because this guy would have killed all the Nazis before it even began, that's how many are in this prison. So okay. Six lives. I was annoyed because I wanted to try getting to nine. But I went on and got in a firefight that sort of lagged due to the amount of soldiers coming through doors. And then... I noticed something... odd. I... uh... WHAT? Where did those extra three lives come from? How did I magically max out? It must have been a glitch but for the life of me I can't tell how it happened. Oh and I found a secret I missed my first run through, which gave me back the chain gun I lost. So that was something. Third secret found. I got all the treasure for the first time! If only I had found the other secret, I would have maxed out... THOUGHTS: I don't even know what to say about that life thing. Just, what. ACHIEVEMENTS GOTTEN: 13. Six Figure Salary (25g) - Clear a level with 100% treasure. ACHIEVEMENTS GOTTEN VIA GLITCH: 16. A Cat is You (25g) - Clear a level with 9 lives. FLOOR 8 This level was... not very notable. I literally found no treasure, but that must be because they're all in secrets because if my secret ratio is anything to go by, there are like over ten secrets here, good grief. Fourth secret! And I have no recollection of what was there. Also there were nifty purple bird flags that were new to this level. I thought they would lead to something important. It didn't, but it had health at least. THOUGHTS: Where are my shinies. FLOOR 9 This floor is literally just a boss fight. Here is how my first encounter went. And my second. "Whoops." I took a break after that, leaving the game paused, for a few reasons. One, I felt like whining to Kenri. Two, I had to babysit next door. Three, I felt like whining to Kenri. On my third try this evening, I found my fifth secret! It has like six Med Kits, a chain gun, and enough ammunition to supply an army. So again I question why it's just sitting back there. This is how much good it did. So, the boss is a jerk with two chain guns. On my next run, I strafed like no tomorrow, firing with my own chain gun. I ran back to get Med Kits when weakened and returned to the fight. Here is the result. I should get a secret achievement for that 1% victory, holy heck. Oh and you can see my lives glitched and I'm at 9 again for some crazy reason. I don't even know. I grabbed the rest of the Med Kits and refilled my ammo, which turned out to be useless because those don't carry over to the next episode. But oh well! I used the chain gun against the boss but unequipped it before running out, so I don't even get that achievement. Figures. THOUGHTS: Screw that boss. ACHIEVEMENTS GOTTEN: 2. Scratch One Boss (50g) - Clear episode one. And here is our great ending! Looks like we're not done yet! Next time, Episode 2! TOTAL ACHIEVEMENTS THUS FAR: 1. Elevator Action (10g) - Clear your first level. 2. Scratch One Boss (50g) - Clear episode one. 6. Found the Space Bar (10g) - Find your first secret. 9. You Murderer (5g) - Get your first kill. 10. Killing Spree (25g) - Clear a level with 100% kills. 12. Minimum Wage (5g) - Collect your first treasure. 13. Six Figure Salary (25g) - Clear a level with 100% treasure. 28. I Play Assorted Video Games With Writeups (5g) - Do a writeup for your playthrough of a level. TOTAL ACHIEVEMENTS VIA GLITCH: 16. A Cat is You (25g) - Clear a level with 9 lives. [/spoiler] --- "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears
Kenri of the Yuri	Posted: 5/15/2012 6:53:05 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 012
Level: 43 Editor	You have been awarded with 135g! ALSO ACHIEVEMENT 16 HAS BEEN CHANGED, I APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE --- "You're childish. What are you getting? Are you getting strawberry? Ha! That's such a childish flavor, only children eat strawberry."
xp1337	Posted: 5/15/2012 12:33:59 PM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 013
Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major	So, I actually did play this for a bit, and I think 70% of the difficulty is finding a control scheme that isn't terrible. The remaining 30% is the terrible hit detection. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
Kenri of the Yuri	Posted: 5/15/2012 9:29:27 PM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 014
Level: 43 Editor	I recommend using a joypad if you have one. It doesn't actually offer joypad support, but you can work around that with JoyToKey. http://www.electracode.com/4/joy2key/JoyToKey%20English%20Version.htm Bind strafe to LT, movement to the Dpad, fire to RT or a face button, open to a face button, Esc to start. Works pretty well. Also in my experience the terrible hit detection works exclusively in your favor. --- "You're childish. What are you getting? Are you getting strawberry? Ha! That's such a childish flavor, only children eat strawberry."
	Message last edited by Kenri of the Yuri on 5/15/2012 at 09:30:07 PM.
xp1337	Posted: 5/15/2012 10:57:42 PM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 015
Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major	"Write-ups" [Spoiler for Wolfenstein 3D, click to show]I am playing on Bring em on, or whatever the second-to-highest difficulty is. Floor 1: Oh my god, these controls are awful. And I can easily see this getting really obnoxious really quickly. This is not promising at all. Floor 2: Okay, enabling the mouse makes things slightly less awful, but still awful. And yes, trying to keep track of where I am and where everything else is is just going to be terrible. Floor 3: Oh dear, it seems for once my not playing these contiguously is going to be to my detriment, seeing as how I start with basic equipment now. I literally spend 90% of my time lost. What a "fun" game. Floor 4: You know, I kind of wonder if music/sound effects would help me because they don't work for me so I wouldn't know. Anyway, apparently I somehow aggro'd the entire building on me and even though I put up a valiant effort and was winning like 10v1 for a while there, I think the game thought we were playing some kind of zerg rush mode and just destroyed me, as I can't think of a logical explanation of why I was still facing enemies from the direction they ultimately killed me from. [/spoiler] --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
xp1337	Posted: 5/15/2012 10:58:11 PM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 016
Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major	And no, I don't have a joypad. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
Kenri of the Yuri	Posted: 5/15/2012 11:19:23 PM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 017
Level: 43 Editor	And yes, trying to keep track of where I am and where everything else is is just going to be terrible. How so? If you mean the fake 3D, then it's not as bad as it seems. If you fire vaguely in the direction of the enemy, you can usually hit them, and they can't really do anything tricky because of engine limitations. If you mean each enemy having hearing/sight ranges and set patrol routes... then welcome to Wolfenstein 3D, manipulating that is like half the game. I literally spend 90% of my time lost. What a "fun" game. I did recommend using maps. <_< Floor 4: You know, I kind of wonder if music/sound effects would help me because they don't work for me so I wouldn't know. You should be able to enable them in the options... Or maybe you already tried that, I dunno. Enemies generally shout warnings when they see you, so yes, it should help (patrolling enemies don't, though, IIRC). Anyway, apparently I somehow aggro'd the entire building on me I assume you're trying to exaggerate, but this can actually happen. I don't really recommend letting it, except in controlled situations where you have the chaingun! --- "You're childish. What are you getting? Are you getting strawberry? Ha! That's such a childish flavor, only children eat strawberry."
xp1337	Posted: 5/15/2012 11:28:09 PM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 018
Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major	How so? If you mean the fake 3D, then it's not as bad as it seems. If you fire vaguely in the direction of the enemy, you can usually hit them, and they can't really do anything tricky because of engine limitations. If you mean each enemy having hearing/sight ranges and set patrol routes... then welcome to Wolfenstein 3D, manipulating that is like half the game. I mean in the "getting lost" sense. Hit detection is another issue where I literally have to train myself to assume the firing path is off the crosshair because my miss rate skyrockets when I try anything mid-to-long range with the crosshair. I did recommend using maps. <_< That that should be a recommendation supports my comment, IMO. You should be able to enable them in the options... Or maybe you already tried that, I dunno. Enemies generally shout warnings when they see you, so yes, it should help (patrolling enemies don't, though, IIRC). ...Please give me some credit here. Of course I have them enabled. It's the default anyway, but I've tried turning it off then back on as well. I assume you're trying to exaggerate, but this can actually happen. I don't really recommend letting it, except in controlled situations where you have the chaingun! I don't know if it was an exaggeration! I wasn't around long enough to confirm. I was eventually taken down in some kind of "Et tu, Brute?" moment when all of a sudden a damn strike team burst in from the door I entered, and thus should have been cleared out, and it was just too much after everything else I had done, and even then I still almost won that fight too! --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
Kenri of the Yuri	Posted: 5/15/2012 11:43:38 PM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 019
Level: 43 Editor	I mean in the "getting lost" sense. Hit detection is another issue where I literally have to train myself to assume the firing path is off the crosshair because my miss rate skyrockets when I try anything mid-to-long range with the crosshair. I wouldn't even use the crosshair, personally. Wasn't part of the original game, AFAIK. Your call though. That that should be a recommendation supports my comment, IMO. Hey, it's an old game. They expected you to make your own maps as you went. It's dumb, but that's how a lot of old games were. ...Please give me some credit here. Of course I have them enabled. It's the default anyway, but I've tried turning it off then back on as well. Someone on B8 said they had to enable them in the options. shrug --- "You're childish. What are you getting? Are you getting strawberry? Ha! That's such a childish flavor, only children eat strawberry."
Kodan	Posted: 5/16/2012 2:17:42 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 020
Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major	I'd try this but I'm too busy playing Fallout: New Vegas and World of Warcraft. >_> <-> "What the fuck is Alice doing in Wonderland anyway? Who the fuck told her she could leave the god damn kitchen in the first place?" -Random guy on Xbox Live http://www.backloggery.com/kodan882
Celtic Guardian 7	Posted: 5/17/2012 6:05:45 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 021
Level: 41 New Moderator	[Spoiler for Wolfenstein 3D, Episode 2, click to show]In our next exciting episode, we are going to take down an evil scientist! Because even old games loved evil scientists. FLOOR 1 Remember all of those boring stones and wood textures? Now we get boring stones with yellow moss to show we're in a different place! This was no harder than anything I had done before, but hey, it's the first floor. I don't expect it to be amazingly difficult. The one worthwhile thing to mention is these jerks. Kenri calls them mutants, and that's probably the right name for them. I was calling them Frankenstein's monsters but mutants is far easier to we'll go with that. Anyway, here I was just surprised to see a new enemy. He didn't actually get to do anything. Yet. There was a secret that I found quickly because of the suspicious bones and gold symbol. Too bad the other suspicious bones and gold symbols had nothing. This one had a chain gun, which was great because, as you may have noticed from the first picture, starting a new episode resets everything, therefore I no longer had the goodies I collected from episode one, floor nine. I actually got all the enemies! Not too shabby. THOUGHTS: A nice, easy level to ease me into the level, and I made out pretty well. FLOOR 2 This level. This level is where it went "hahaha this is no longer episode one and you are going to suffer for it". Oh, it started out innocently enough... What a suspicious cross. Let's use our handy space bar. Well I'll be, a secret! It is worth noting that you have to get this secret to beat the level, making this the only time you absolutely have to get one out of the first two episodes, from what I can tell. Lots of stone and metal halls to go through here. The stone section leads to a gold key guarded by a blue uniform guy, so I was fortunate to have gone that way first. Then there are metal hallways with more guys to shoot. It is very different from every other level, as you can see, because more metal was involved. I got my first extra life too. It won't last. You might also notice I have the chain gun on because I was going for the achievement of ending the level with the chain gun. This also does not last. (Yes I know I could have waited and just equipped it later, shush.) Also this mutant was hiding behind the block and nailed me pretty well. Not enough to kill, but well. So, because I didn't learn my lesson the last time I got killed backtracking just to look around after already knowing how to leave, I went and did that. And I remembered to take a picture of a sign. Those are new. Not useful or anything but new. And then I died. Oh. So what happened? I should have taken pictures, but I didn't. There is a section near the beginning of the level with a hall that has two ends. Both ends are corners with mutants hiding behind them. If you kill them, you can collect a crown behind each. Good, right? Not when the mutant one-shots you as you come around the corner. I did not see it coming and was killed. Since I knew where they were, at least I could avoid dying again, right? If I was competent at this game, maybe. Now, to be fair, tactics that usually would have worked do not against mutants. The other enemies all will come out to attack you if they see you. Mutants do not. They wait to ambush you like the little/big creeps they are. So they would not come out even if I walked close to them or fired to alert them. I tried strafing to fire, duck out of the way, and hope they would walk into my bullets. This does not work because they do way too much damage and it is impossible to avoid getting hit this way. I also tried strafing into their faces to fire constantly and make them die before they could kill me. That also did not work. What DID work was coming within like one millimeter of their location, in which they would finally step out and take several shots to the chest. I killed both without an issue when I realized this precise distance would lure them out. In short, screw these guys. I also could have just skipped the crowns because I wasn't going for 100% treasure, but I am stubborn as heck and was determined to kill these things after they killed me. Not my wisest moment. I did manage to get from one life to two, at least. And I remembered to take a picture of this place before looting it. Seem too good to be true? ...Well it isn't. Oddly, there is no mutant hiding behind the metal box. In fact, there are no enemies at all. I was honestly stunned. I got my revenge by killing everyone. THOUGHTS: I severely dislike those mutants. FLOOR 3 It's funny how paranoid levels with wide halls at the start make me. Anyhow, interesting fact about my situation in this level... I came in with a total very close to 80,000 as my score. If you die, your score resets to what you entered with. Hitting 80,000 again would give me another life. So really, the only way I could get a Game Over here is if I fail so badly at killing three brown uniform soldiers that I couldn't get that extra life. Didn't plan that out at all, but not a bad strategy for something like the hardest difficulty level, if it can be pulled off. Anyhow, finding the gold key here was easy. There are two mirror rooms, each with a small room inside. I went into the one with the key first. The second one I was suspicious about. Hahaha so saw that coming. I unloaded on him the second I slid the door open. Nice try at trolling me, game. ...Too bad I then died to another blue uniform guy elsewhere. That is the only time I have been killed by one of them, as a side note. He sideswiped me or something. Then I glitched to four lives... ...And died a second time to put me back at three. My death this time was quite valid though. See, I died in what I call Death Hallway. Why do I call it that? Because- -oh hey, I glitched to five lives- -this hallway is death waiting to happen if you rush through it. And mind you, I did not rush through it. That nice silver key (which looks more blue but whatever) is a new item and you need it to unlock another door to the elevator. But just sitting there? I doubted it. So I went slowly... and still got ambushed on both sides by two mutants that killed me. There are actually four total, but I was able to carefully lure them out the second time. I hate those mutants. Oh and check it out, a secret! I believe this brought me to several ammo clips, med kits, and treasures. You could actually see them behind pillars but not reach them. THOUGHTS: Have I mentioned my hatred for those mutants yet? FLOOR 4 Dude what the heck was that? The moment I arrive in the level soldiers and mutants come after me. How incredibly rude. (To be fair I expected this to happen eventually, but it was still rude.) Mutants hiding behind doors made me lose a lot of health quickly. But at least I got to six lives, with the new one being legitimately obtained. Eventually it came to this. It was at this point that I said, "I am so screwed." And then I was saved. Med kits I love you forever. I also found this secret. It had something like ammunition and food, if I recall correctly. It was nothing amazing but hey, free stuff is free stuff. Also I somehow managed to overlook the location with the gold key for quiet a bit of time despite it being the hallway you START IN FRONT OF. Brilliant move on my part. There's proof that the game clock keeps ticking when it is paused. I left it paused on this level for a long while, and it shows. THOUGHTS: I don't like being attacked instantly. It is not nice. FLOOR 5 Here I was treated to a place with bright red ceilings in the hallways. I was so excited at this. It was not a very hard level though. ...Until that. That went poorly. But my 1% self lived until I could heal up again. Oh and apparently I glitched to eight lives. Oh look a secret! Here is what was in this secret passage. The amount of turkey and treasure you can stuff into one hidden section is rather amazing. Of course, when I think hidden passages, I think to look in dog kennels. I can't remember what was in here so it was probably not very important. Now, this room. This room was funny. It has a ton of metal blocks that people could hide behind with tons of ammo and a chain gun in the middle. So I strafed all around the room out of fear of mutants being ready to ambush me. Instead there was just this shmuck, who died easily and let me grab the items. Wow, a third secret, and it has... My first extra life in physical form! Eight to go! Interesting note, you can pick these up even with nine lives. Healing items and ammunition will not be taken if you are maxed out. I found the exit soon after that. Man, I am really bloodthirsty if the kill percentages are anything to go by. THOUGHTS: More proof that those mutants just mess me up. FLOOR 6 I stopped for the night after floor five, and resumed here. This level has lovely purple walls that would later be inspiration for Theresia, so let's all thank Wolfenstein 3D for that great contribution. Also there are sometimes blood splatters on the walls. This was also inspirational. At least this game doesn't have a totally moronic protagonist. Nice try, Mr. Mutant. This guy was hanging out in an empty room, so clearly something was suspicious. I found this secret, which brought me to... Holy mother of. At least the protagonist can retire after this. This was just icing on the cake. Then the game decided to troll me. I was wondering what the silver elevator was for. Turns out two mutants were behind it. "Awesome." ... ..... .......... are you ***** serious i hate myself so much right now THOUGHTS: How the heck did I manage to screw up that? ACHIEVEMENTS GOTTEN: 7. Secretkeeper (25g) - Clear a level with 100% secrets. FLOOR 7 This is the easiest level ever if you just want to get through the game. The key and elevator are literally so close that you could probably beat it under thirty seconds. (No I did not test this out.) But there is one catch. If you find this secret, it leads to a much bigger part of the level. I went down it a bit before going, "Why am I doing this?" and leaving on the elevator. So long, suckers! ...Huh. Judging by those totals, it probably actually is a pretty small level, since I skipped out on it fairly early. THOUGHTS: That was a nice change of pace. FLOOR 8 Nobody cares about the level here. Let's talk about the maze. At first I was like "ooooh a secret." Then I was like "ooooh a secret in a secret." Then I was like "...wait another?" Now, I take pictures of the secrets I find just to show which ones I found without an FAQ or map, since I'm not using either this first run of mine. But there are like ten thousand secrets in this maze that just lead deeper into the maze, and screw posting photos of all those. It'd all look the same anyway. I played around a bit before wondering why I would want to when it was my first run. So I left. I did find this secret in another area though. That was nice, I guess. Wait, I almost got 1/4th of the secrets? That maze must not be as bad as I thought. THOUGHTS: I'll get you next time, Lex Luthor! FLOOR 9 After the previous boss level, I decided to search for secrets first and foremost. Great success! Wooooow. (There's also a chain gun that can't be seen here.) But wait, no health? Surely there must be some. So I looked some more. ...What the heck was the point of that secret? It literally gets you nothing. Oh wait, found something. That's more like it! Okay, time to take on the boss! Welp. Time to whine to Kenri some more. Several hours later, I came to try again. Hello again nine-life glitch. This happened after shooting down the two mutants in the doctor's lab. More details on that in a moment. First, see that I died again. Now, here's the best picture of the boss I got. There are two mutants in the room, but you can stand in the door and mow them down with the chain gun. It does not aggro the not-good-at-all doctor. Once they are dead, go back, stock up on ammo and health as needed, then go back to lure out the doctor. He throws knives and can kill you in like four hits. A professional player would easily sidestep the knives while shooting him. A FPS newbie like me just dies. But do keep in mind I was also lagging like MAD. This has been happening a lot recently, where when I get into fire fights, the sound and music glitches up and everything goes really jagged and slowly. It was happening against this guy full force. So I muted the sound and music. Then I did the cheapest thing I could think of: I lured him into the room with the health items. Strafing while shooting, I hit him, and usually managed to dodge. When I couldn't, I was standing on health items that would refill me. I am not ashamed of doing this because ** bosses in this game. I would have taken a picture of his corpse, but it instantly took me to the victory screen. Notice how I have zero ammunition and the knife? Yeah, apparently my last rounds killed him, automatically switching me to the knife. It would NOT have been pretty if he survived that. THOUGHTS: Not as bad as Chaingun McGee, but then again, it was easier to be cheap here. More engaging story! Episode three awaits, where we will (hopefully) finish off Hitler! ACHIEVEMENTS GOTTEN: 3. The Doctor is Out (50g) - Clear episode two. 18. Brought a Knife to a Gunfight (10g) - Clear a level with the knife. 29. Even More Stupid Writeups (50g) - Do a writeup for a collective ten levels, including at least two boss levels. TOTAL ACHIEVEMENTS THUS FAR: 1. Elevator Action (10g) - Clear your first level. 2. Scratch One Boss (50g) - Clear episode one. 3. The Doctor is Out (50g) - Clear episode two. 6. Found the Space Bar (10g) - Find your first secret. 7. Secretkeeper (25g) - Clear a level with 100% secrets. 9. You Murderer (5g) - Get your first kill. 10. Killing Spree (25g) - Clear a level with 100% kills. 12. Minimum Wage (5g) - Collect your first treasure. 13. Six Figure Salary (25g) - Clear a level with 100% treasure. 18. Brought a Knife to a Gunfight (10g) - Clear a level with the knife. 28. I Play Assorted Video Games With Writeups (5g) - Do a writeup for your playthrough of a level. 29. Even More Stupid Writeups (50g) - Do a writeup for a collective ten levels, including at least two boss levels. [/spoiler] --- "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears
Celtic Guardian 7	Posted: 5/19/2012 4:00:33 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 022
Level: 41 New Moderator	[Spoiler for Wolfenstein 3D, Episode 3, click to show]It's time, gentlemen, for Hitler to die! FLOOR 1 My fantastic boast lets me lead off by... having a really easy first level. No seriously, I know first levels are easy, but this was like cakewalk level easy. Okay, maybe a tiny bit harder. I did lose some health as you can see there. Anyway, first secret! It had nothing worth noting. The really good news: mutants are never going to show up again. The whatever news: white shirts now show up. They move faster and tend to hide more than other soldiers. They also die easily. I don't like them, but if it comes to having either them or the mutants, I will take a roomful of these guys every time. And a second secret. Yep. Very exciting. Also noteworthy is that you only need a gold key to beat this level. Man I just love getting 100% kills don't I. THOUGHTS: Hurray easy levels. FLOOR 2 Next is... another rather small and easy level. Well then. Secret one! I think it had treasure. Don't quote me on that. Secret two! Which had something! Yeah really there is like nothing to say about this level. Whoooooo! THOUGHTS: It's pretty sad that my first completionist success was in the third episode of the game. Says something about its difficulty. ACHIEVEMENTS GOTTEN: 15. Completionist (50g) - Clear a level with 100% kills, treasure, and secrets. 17. Where's My Sandvich? (10g) - Clear a level with the chaingun. FLOOR 3 Here is... another easy level. These are like first episode quality write ups. A secret! Don't mind the corpse. ...At least it isn't quite as insulting now. THOUGHTS: Wait there was only one secret there? Really? FLOOR 4 Floor four... was also easy. In episode two I was dying by level two, here I am just sailing through. Oh hey more secrets of secretness. Just check out those secrets. They sure are secret. So many deaths occurred. THOUGHTS: You can tell how much these levels engaged me. FLOOR 5 Did you think the game would get harder? If you did... Nope, still easy. My space bar is getting well used. Tap tap tap more secrets. Holy heck, again?! THOUGHTS: Seriously. Easy. (Then you remember I'm on normal mode and laugh.) FLOOR 6 I stopped for the night after floor five, and resumed today on floor six, which finally had some slightly difficult parts. By that I mean you have to strafe in mazes and pray an enemy isn't hiding nearby to head shoot you. I took my time here, and while it shows, I was rewarded by not dying. Secret behind the med kit! Those sneaky med kits. Another secret they hid. Oh hey, something interesting I can mention. This secret let me get to the silver key. Why is this cool? Because I then opened the door and took out a white shirt who was facing another door. I felt like Solid Snake or something. THOUGHTS: Yeah, it got trickier. FLOOR 7 Same thing as floor six, the only potential dangers were if enemies chose to hide. Guys you need to hide your secrets in places other than blatantly obvious purple cross-like things. That's a better hidden one. Oho! Hidden life number two was in that secret! THOUGHTS: I still haven't died? What? FLOOR 8 I started in a stone room with no doors. Oh no, I can't continue, I guess the game is over. Just kidding, obvious secret is obvious. This is the second time I believe you need one to proceed. Anyhow, this place had wide halls and a lot of guys. It was still not difficult. Pushing blocks... ...for two secrets and not much profit. (Just ammo and food.) Seriously? So that last secret had ammo and health I guess. How "awesome". THOUGHTS: I seriously got to the boss without dying at all. That's crazy. FLOOR 9 Oh boy time to fight Hitler! I'll explain the level in a moment. First... The one secret I could find. it has ammo and med kits. Not as much as episode two's boss fight had, but a nice amount. And I died before even reaching the boss. Oh dear. I reached the boss and died. Died to a ghost. Died to the boss. Well, as you can see by my point total, I literally only need to kill the first ghost in the area to get a life, so I literally am in no danger of losing all my- OKAY LET'S STOP DYING TO THE FIRST GHOST PLEASE Now, let me explain what is going on here, including an out-of-time-alignment picture because it works better for narrative flow. Check it out! A Hitler ghost! They shoot fireballs at you and tend to kill you quickly. There's five of these guys, and you can completely skip two, but I did not because I am the woman. And I want achievements. Small problem: since I played through all the levels, I just get totals at the end for all the floors. So here is photo proof all five ghosts bit it. I still hate mutants more. Oh and I glitched to nine lives again el oh el. There are also two regular soldiers and four white shirts. They all suck and die quickly. So, the boss is Robo Hitler. I emptied 75 bullets on him from my chain gun once and he still survived. The time after that (my third fight versus him), I learned while running around like a little girl that there is ammo and med kits squirreled away in corners. I grabbed them to survive and shot out the Robo Hitler... to reveal... NORMAL HITLER. And then he went Super Saiyan and- Whoops, looks like he just died as regular Hitler. Nice corpse shot by the way. And check out that awesome 2% win. THOUGHTS: ...I honestly think the chain gun guy gave me the most stress out of the three bosses. ACHIEVEMENTS GOTTEN: 4. Stupid Jetpack Hitler (100g) - Clear episode three. 22. BJ Belmont (10g) - Clear E3M9 with 100% kills. 30. At Least You Didn't Quit During Episode III Like Some People (100g) - Do a writeup for every level. 31. Takes Damage to Save Time (50g) - First on TFN to finish the game. AND OUR THRILLING CONCLUSION Holy ****, Mr. Protagonist showed Hitler who's boss! Next time... More achievements! TOTAL ACHIEVEMENTS THUS FAR: 1. Elevator Action (10g) - Clear your first level. 2. Scratch One Boss (50g) - Clear episode one. 3. The Doctor is Out (50g) - Clear episode two. 4. Stupid Jetpack Hitler (100g) - Clear episode three. 6. Found the Space Bar (10g) - Find your first secret. 7. Secretkeeper (25g) - Clear a level with 100% secrets. 9. You Murderer (5g) - Get your first kill. 10. Killing Spree (25g) - Clear a level with 100% kills. 12. Minimum Wage (5g) - Collect your first treasure. 13. Six Figure Salary (25g) - Clear a level with 100% treasure. 15. Completionist (50g) - Clear a level with 100% kills, treasure, and secrets 17. Where's My Sandvich? (10g) - Clear a level with the chaingun. 18. Brought a Knife to a Gunfight (10g) - Clear a level with the knife. 22. BJ Belmont (10g) - Clear E3M9 with 100% kills. 28. I Play Assorted Video Games With Writeups (5g) - Do a writeup for your playthrough of a level. 29. Even More Stupid Writeups (50g) - Do a writeup for a collective ten levels, including at least two boss levels. 30. At Least You Didn't Quit During Episode III Like Some People (100g) - Do a writeup for every level. 31. Takes Damage to Save Time (50g) - First on TFN to finish the game. [/spoiler] --- "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears
Celtic Guardian 7	Posted: 5/20/2012 1:36:44 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 023
Level: 41 New Moderator	[Spoiler for Wolfenstein 3D, Secret Levels, click to show]I decided to play the secret levels before going back to 100% things. So here have some half-baked write ups. SECRET LEVEL 1 This was ludicrously easy. The majority of enemies are regular soldiers. There are a few dogs and blue uniform soldiers, but seriously, I was never in danger here. This place just had a lot of treasure to collect, which is probably rewarding when doing it with the rest of the episode but not so much on its own. It also is made up of like every wall texture ever from the game. Purple walls, stone walls, wood walls, name it and it's there. ...Except maybe the yellow ones, not sure I saw those. Oh and there is the first secret I found. And the second. And the third, which was easy to find because lol Hitler painting. And the fourth. And a fifth! With loot that you can see. When I was looking for the key, I found my third extra life! Here is your reward for getting to the end: a ton of crowns, med kits, and some bullets. There is also an elevator to the right that is fake. I checked the left one first, saw it was real, opened the right one and emptied several shots into a blue uniformed guy. What was my reward? The sixth secret I found. I have no idea how many are in this level since the end screen does not give totals, but hey, I found a lot! Along with two more lives! Four and five done. I hightailed it after that. THOUGHTS: Nice, easy bonus level with some good rewards. ACHIEVEMENTS GOTTEN: 19. Should've Brought a Map (10g) - Clear secret level 1. SECRET LEVEL 2 Second easiest level ever to beat, first being that other one in episode two. Too bad it had that stupid looking red ceiling again, but at least I was not here long enough to really notice. Look a secret! Then I found the elevator and left. See, this place has mutants. I hate mutants. So exploring the entire level seemed like a grand waste of time and a good way to make me angry at the world. So keeping it at like under five minutes was a wonderful change of pace. THOUGHTS: I love levels like that. ACHIEVEMENTS GOTTEN: 20. Still Hate Secret Levels (10g) - Clear secret level 2. SECRET LEVEL 3 Kenri was being secretive about this level. I wonder why? ... RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN So yeah, Pac Man ghosts, and as far as I know you can't kill them. The life I lost in that shot, however, was not to a ghost. I was running FROM the ghost and got gunned down by a hallway stuffed with regular soldiers. Whoops. Second try, I shot them all and got to the exit. I picked up a life in the process but was unable to screen cap it before I did. THOUGHTS: Love the homage. They have chalices for points and lives for power pellets and it's hilarious. ACHIEVEMENTS GOTTEN: 5. Wolfensteined (100g) - Clear every level. 21. Pac Your Bags (10g) - Clear secret level 3. But why stop there? I went ahead and photographed all those lovely lives. Six, seven, eight, nine! ACHIEVEMENTS GOTTEN: 16. Get a Life (25g) - Find and screencap 9 different Extra Lives. Next time, 100%ing things! TOTAL ACHIEVEMENTS THUS FAR: 1. Elevator Action (10g) - Clear your first level. 2. Scratch One Boss (50g) - Clear episode one. 3. The Doctor is Out (50g) - Clear episode two. 4. Stupid Jetpack Hitler (100g) - Clear episode three. 5. Wolfensteined (100g) - Clear every level. 6. Found the Space Bar (10g) - Find your first secret. 7. Secretkeeper (25g) - Clear a level with 100% secrets. 9. You Murderer (5g) - Get your first kill. 10. Killing Spree (25g) - Clear a level with 100% kills. 12. Minimum Wage (5g) - Collect your first treasure. 13. Six Figure Salary (25g) - Clear a level with 100% treasure. 15. Completionist (50g) - Clear a level with 100% kills, treasure, and secrets. 16. Get a Life (25g) - Find and screencap 9 different Extra Lives. 17. Where's My Sandvich? (10g) - Clear a level with the chaingun. 18. Brought a Knife to a Gunfight (10g) - Clear a level with the knife. 19. Should've Brought a Map (10g) - Clear secret level 1. 20. Still Hate Secret Levels (10g) - Clear secret level 2. 21. Pac Your Bags (10g) - Clear secret level 3. 22. BJ Belmont (10g) - Clear E3M9 with 100% kills. 28. I Play Assorted Video Games With Writeups (5g) - Do a writeup for your playthrough of a level. 29. Even More Stupid Writeups (50g) - Do a writeup for a collective ten levels, including at least two boss levels. 30. At Least You Didn't Quit During Episode III Like Some People (100g) - Do a writeup for every level. 31. Takes Damage to Save Time (50g) - First on TFN to finish the game. [/spoiler] --- "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears
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Celtic Guardian 7	Posted: 5/22/2012 11:48:16 PM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 024
Level: 41 New Moderator	[Spoiler for Wolfenstein 3D, Episode 1 Completion, click to show] [/spoiler] [Spoiler for Wolfenstein 3D, Episode 2 Completion, click to show] [/spoiler] [Spoiler for Wolfenstein 3D, Episode 3 Completion, click to show] [/spoiler] [Spoiler for Wolfenstein 3D, Clarifications, click to show]A couple of notes about the above completion. First is that- OH MY GOSH GLITCH BLOCK OF DOOM ...Anyway, where was I? Oh right. I found all the secret elevators in my searches. Take a look. So if I was trying to be legit about level order those are what I would take to the secret levels. Let's talk about floor 8 of episode 2 really quickly. As Kenri noted, it is not part of the achievements, and for really good reason. Due to how the maze works, it's impossible to get 100% in. The enemies I missed, by the way, were two Hans Grosses. Yeah, the first boss. But in narrow corridors. AWFUL. You can also find three free lives, which really is not that useful because chances are you have a lot of lives by that point anyway. Kenri said the original had a lot of treasure and that sign about Aardwolf. No such thing here. Want to know how I know? Because with my mad MS Paint skills I kept track of where I went and where it was impossible to go due to how blocks shift. I went everywhere possible. No Aardwolf, no treasure. So there. Another thing you might notice is that floor 9 in episode 3 has 0% treasure. That's because none exists. I checked everywhere, even the entire boss room, no loot to be found. You might be thinking, "Wait, other bosses had treasure?" Not exactly. There were no shiny items to be found like chalices and crowns. However, there were hidden extra lives. For some odd reason, lives count to your treasure percentage. I know this because in one of the levels I missed a secret with a life (it was all I overlooked) and my treasure percentage was not 100%. So go figure. Hitler's location has no hidden lives, so 0% is it. Episode one was incredibly easy. If the level ended right after Hans Grosse, it would not be. But after he dies, you can go get health items and check the secret he was guarding, so that made it possible. Episode two was the hardest to keep 100% health in because **** those mutants. The doctor was, oddly, the hardest to complete. Why? There's two secrets in his boss room and you have to get them while he's throwing syringes at you. My strategy was to activate the one with the life, run over to activate the one with the med kits, and then grab the life before hightailing it to the larger area with ten thousand or so med kits. If I could get those two secrets without dying, the rest was easy. Episode three was easy health wise. The sixth and seventh floors have mazes that are really irritating. The seventh would have been awful if not for two things. One, MS Paint Map, which made it easy to know where to go. Two, there is nothing hidden in the dead ends, so you can skip them without worry. Hitler was oddly easy. I broke his robo suit and ran back to heal up fully before... losing track of him. After running around the entire level I finally found him and killed him before he could hit me. I had a lot more fun with this game than I thought I would. It was also fun to do all these challenges, so I hope Kenri comes up with more in the future for other games. [/spoiler] ACHIEVEMENTS GOTTEN: 8. Master Cartographer (500g) - Clear every level with 100% secrets. 11. God of War (500g) - Clear every level with 100% kills. 14. The 1% (500g) - Clear every level with 100% treasure. 23. Mr. Invincible (500g) - Clear every level with 100% health. TOTAL ACHIEVEMENTS: 1. Elevator Action (10g) - Clear your first level. 2. Scratch One Boss (50g) - Clear episode one. 3. The Doctor is Out (50g) - Clear episode two. 4. Stupid Jetpack Hitler (100g) - Clear episode three. 5. Wolfensteined (100g) - Clear every level. 6. Found the Space Bar (10g) - Find your first secret. 7. Secretkeeper (25g) - Clear a level with 100% secrets. 8. Master Cartographer (500g) - Clear every level with 100% secrets. 9. You Murderer (5g) - Get your first kill. 10. Killing Spree (25g) - Clear a level with 100% kills. 11. God of War (500g) - Clear every level with 100% kills. 12. Minimum Wage (5g) - Collect your first treasure. 13. Six Figure Salary (25g) - Clear a level with 100% treasure. 14. The 1% (500g) - Clear every level with 100% treasure. 15. Completionist (50g) - Clear a level with 100% kills, treasure, and secrets. 16. Get a Life (25g) - Find and screencap 9 different Extra Lives. 17. Where's My Sandvich? (10g) - Clear a level with the chaingun. 18. Brought a Knife to a Gunfight (10g) - Clear a level with the knife. 19. Should've Brought a Map (10g) - Clear secret level 1. 20. Still Hate Secret Levels (10g) - Clear secret level 2. 21. Pac Your Bags (10g) - Clear secret level 3. 22. BJ Belmont (10g) - Clear E3M9 with 100% kills. 23. Mr. Invincible (500g) - Clear every level with 100% health. 28. I Play Assorted Video Games With Writeups (5g) - Do a writeup for your playthrough of a level. 29. Even More Stupid Writeups (50g) - Do a writeup for a collective ten levels, including at least two boss levels. 30. At Least You Didn't Quit During Episode III Like Some People (100g) - Do a writeup for every level. 31. Takes Damage to Save Time (50g) - First on TFN to finish the game. --- "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears
Kenri of the Yuri	Posted: 5/23/2012 2:37:42 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 025
Level: 43 Editor	if TFN had custom titles I think I would give you one for that, dear god I look forward(?) to your request~ --- "You're childish. What are you getting? Are you getting strawberry? Ha! That's such a childish flavor, only children eat strawberry."
Celtic Guardian 7	Posted: 5/23/2012 2:39:16 AM UTC \| Message Detail \| Filter \| Author Profile \| # 026
Level: 41 New Moderator	Edgeworth bow Thank you. =) I'm going to think it over, but I'll be sure to get back to you on it. --- "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears