Argh i'm doomed!!!

[The Tuffen]

I have to agree with The_Emperor, it is a shame that you don't have that many enemies at once any more. I used to love playing the original doom and having to kill loads of enemies (usually with a BFG )

I'm quite used to facing imps now although its the revanents that r posing a real proplem for me. Also instead of wasting ammo to check if a zombie will get up whip out your flashlight and hit the corpses with it. It does the same job and you don't waste any ammo (pistol ammo is a rarity i've found and i'm constantly out of it)

[The_Emperor]

Yeah the problem with that is that if he IS a zombie once you whack him he will get up and start pounding on you!

Anyway I did run low on pistol ammo at one point and started meleeing corpses instead, I just remain ready to change weapons if he decides to get up!

(ALso getitng rid of all the corpses by Gibbing them is a good way to keep track on where you have already been)

[Nelson]

Tired of switching from the shotgun to the flashlight?

Check this out:
http://ducttape.glenmurphy.com/

[The_Emperor]

LOL The Duct Tape MOD... Excellent!!

[Ser Clegane]

One important and useful thing i found out, and its especially useful when fighting those surprise attacks in doom 3 is to bind the flashlight to the right mouse button, as someone suggested above, since i'm pretty easy to freak out, i get frustrated finding that F key ~:p right now i have a much easier time killing monsters and less frustration, oh and also cuase less damage to the keyboard ~:p

Very good idea - I just started to apply this and it makes life a lot easier.

When I panick I really have difficulties switching by using the keyboard (I just "accidentally" clobbered a Maggot to death with my flashlight - fortunately these buddies are less tough than they look like
)

[The Tuffen]

There's quite a few mods available all ready, some that i've heard about are ones that make the enemy bodys not dissolve when they r killed. One also makes zombies get back up unless you completly finish it off. There are also weapon mods ranging from changing what weapons fire to adding new weapons.

Havn't tried any of these yet but may download a few off them. Have a look at http://dlx.gamespot.com/pc/doom3/index.html for a pretty big selection of mods

[Despot of the English]

Tired of switching from the shotgun to the flashlight?

Check this out:
http://ducttape.glenmurphy.com/

Thanks for that I'll try it out .

I think Doom 3 is pretty good but not as good as Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I think the game is very linear, more so than any FPS I have ever played: so far, I've only played a few levels, there have been no narrow shafts to crawl through and nothing to climb on to reach another part of a complex. I do like the gloomy atmosphere but it's a shame that it has to be so dark so much of the time because you cannot truly appreciate the great graphics of the beasts who want to rend you limb from limb.
So I think overall Doom 3 is a good game but not as great as I was expecting.

[Despot of the English]

I've been playing more of Doom 3 and it is great having the duct tape mod. I really hope that they make another AvP using graphics of this quality.

PS Just found the plasma rifle!! AHAHA!

[King Edward]

Plasma Rifle is great but eats ammo!! use it Sparingly!! Does anyone else find the Chain gun take far to long to start shooting??

Also how much of a pain in the butt are those pesky spider jobbies???

Man i love this game!!! Im gonna frag me some demon ass as soon as i can get out this bloody office!!!

[Leet Eriksson]

Plasma Rifle is strictly used to beat the revenants, the shots are big enough to be able to render the revenants rockets useless.

The spiders are really annoying, once you kill a bunch another bunch crawl up from behind, always look behind you after you kill some.

[King Edward]

Plasma Rifle is strictly used to beat the revenants, the shots are big enough to be able to render the revenants rockets useless.

The spiders are really annoying, once you kill a bunch another bunch crawl up from behind, always look behind you after you kill some.

I've not come up agianst any Revenants yet. Those floaty demon things take some putting down though. Are they the Doom 3 Cacodemons? their lightning attack is hard to avoid. Also the lost souls are far nastier in doom 3 than any previous incarnation.

[Despot of the English]

Those spider creatures are easy to kill with just a pistol but only so long as there's some convenient place to shoot them from. Otherwise I'm down to using the machine gun.

From reading the posts here I see I have much more Doom to do! I just met some giant big spidery thing who was pretty pissed off that I strolled into its lair. I fragged its ass with the plasma rifle but now only have 40 shots left .

[King Edward]

I met my First Revenant last night and have to say i was a little dissapointed, his rockets are easy to pick off (esp with plasma rifle) and dont hurt you anywhere near as much as in Doom2. Im gonna go back to the start and up the difficulty as I dont want to be dissapointed like this when i bump into Hell Knights and Mancubious.

[Despot of the English]

What is a Revenant? Sounds like some kind of Undead beast with a big gun.

[King Edward]

Actually it IS an Undead Beastie with 2 Big Guns!!!

[Somebody Else]

Yeeks! Darkened corridors! Silly lack of sensible flashlight! ZOMBIES!!!

I have a thing about people's bodies being usurped. I can handle ugly monster thingys, but the undead... urgh...

Maybe I should go back to America's Army or something.

[The Tuffen]

What is a Revenant? Sounds like some kind of Undead beast with a big gun.

Revenenats are nasty i find, I wouldn't mind if you had a large space to try and take them out but usually your in a confined space and they have homing rockets.

[Kraellin]

hehe, ok, i've had the game for a while, but didnt install it due to some other games and a general fear that my rig wouldnt be able to handle doom 3.

and sure enough, it installed just fine, but had no sound. i did a little looking around on fan site forums and found some tweaks for graphics, but not much for sound, but i realized that what had happened was the game itself turned my sound off due to being at the minimum spec level. ok, fair enough. i could run the game. i mean, it did work, just no sound.

but, being a good little tweaker, i realized this was prolly a memory allocation thing and found a tweak for changing memory allocation in the config file. i also had to manually turn the sound on in the config file too. i had done this before, but it always reset itself when the game started up, so i still wouldnt get any sound. by altering the memory allocation and the sound together.... voila! sound!

the game is a bit sluggsih on my little 1.7 ghz machine, but does play fairly smoothly. i think i can tweak it a bit more and get it better.

hehe, nice start to this game. i didnt play very long; just long enough to shoot a few zombies and die once myself. yes, incredible graphics and good background sound and stuff going on. sets the mood pretty well.

but, i've got just one question on this thing. do i not have 2 hands? can i not hold a flashlight and a small plasma gun one in each hand? i mean, this just seems odd to me. i can sort of understand if it were a rifle, but a simple 'revolver'? and i saw the link to the duct tape mod. lol. love that idea. may have to try that one out :)

i can see i'm going to have to upgrade to a new computer and maybe even a surround sound sound system. looks like these guys have made pretty good use of that in the game engine. nice :)

K.

[solypsist]

still haven't played beyond maybe 20 minutes in beyond the intro.

anyone try the multiplayer yet? can we set up an Org room?

[Kraellin]

ok, when i first played this, i was of course impressed with all the graphics and sound and atmosphere stuff, but i thought the monster stuff was a bit weird or done kind of with an AI cheat sort of thing, especially those revenants (or whatever you call those fireball throwing things). the revs seemed to just come out of nowhere, usually from behind me it seemed, and i just thought this was kind of cheap.

so, i hadnt played any more till today. i was bored and thought i might as well get a bit more money out of this game. first thing i did was turn the gamma up. that helped. i've heard some say the flashlight is the best they've ever seen, but i disagree. there's no ambient light given off by the flashlight... you know, that slightly ligher area off to the side of the main beam. but ok, not a biggie. with the light a bit brighter now, the creature spawning started to make a bit more sense, especially since i could now see them ;) and now, instead of being constantly ambushed and very annoyed, i could actually get into the game. in fact, i got so into it, that i finished the first level, the 2nd level, and am all the way back up past the marine hq and into the admin level.

i really had to laugh when i found the bathroom. let's just say that the graphic detail is a bit more than i would have cared for ;) still, it was funny. the urinal even had auto-detect flushing :)

i've gotten the shotgun and the machine gun so far. i'm a bit disappointed with the machine gun. very weak. i think i might have missed the chain saw. i got one pda making reference to it, but never found it. i might have missed one pda; i saw it through a door that wouldnt open all the way, but never found another way around to get to it. on the other hand, maybe i havent reached the chain saw yet.

so, all in all, i'm now enjoying the game and even find myself getting a bit of an adrenaline rush in anticipation of the next ambush. oh yeah, i've also run into the big doggies. sort of a cross between a bull, a toad and a pit bull. cute. think i'll get one as a pet.

K.

[Scipio]

Does this game play with EAX? From what I hear about the game it would appear to (hearing things from behind you etc) If so I am just dying to try this game out on my new 7.1 speakers

[The Tuffen]

Kraellin, dont worry you will find the chainsaw soon enough although you will have a lot more weapons before it.

[Kraellin]

scipio,

from what i've heard, doom 3 supports surround sound. that it does or doesnt use EAX, i'm not sure, but i've always been a bit confused about what exactly EAX is or does, so you might want to check the various support sites and forums and ask there.

tuffen,

yeah, havent got it yet, but i did get some grenades and am through the administration level now. i need a freaking map of this layout. i keep finding myself running in circles :)

soly,

i tried multi last night for the first time. i maybe better wait till i get my new dsl this week. i found the lowest ping game i could find (under 100 ms) and still found myself hitting some big nasty lags where i was more or less frozen in place. i got zero kills and finally just decided i'd need the new dsl and maybe a new machine to play online.

however, if you want to arrange a time for a small test game, i'm in.

K.

[Somebody Else]

Boom!!! Shuka... Boom!!! Shuka... Boom..splat..shuka...

Zip...zip...Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Who needs a flashlight when you can light your way with gibs?

Hmm... game got less scary deeper in. More bit of flying meat though...

[Aelwyn]

I was kinda more jumpy as well during the first few levels. Now its not as much. I always play at night though, with the lights off, and headphones on, so the sound is like right in my head.

[King Edward]

Man my ass has been fried about 6 times by the bloody archvile! any tips on kicking his ass would be welcome!

[Somebody Else]

Killing archviles...

Begin with zip... zip... Have a Bzzzzzz somewhere in the middle... End with a splat.

Or a coupla shotgun blasts, or maybe a rocket - if you're feeling feeble.

I've found that if you run up to them as they teleport in, they can be shredded by the chainsaw before they do anything to you.

If range is an issue, the chaingun or plasma rifle might work. And if you're still in trouble get a BFG. If that doesn't work, then you may as well give up.

[King Edward]

Yeah but the prob with this one is that he is miles away from you so i think grenades followed by a few rockets might have to do the job. Im sendin' him strainght back to hell!!!!!!!!

[Somebody Else]

Far away hmm... well - you can dodge what he flings at you, so use the assault rifle or chaingun (if he's moving too) or the plasma rifle or rocket launcher (if he's standing still). Or leg it up to him and blow him away with the shotgun, just like everything else in the game.

[King Edward]

My Main Problem is my Innate fear of archviles from Doom 2 and Final doom, i just leg it when i see one! more aggresive strategy needed i think!

DIE HELL SCUM!!!!