DooM 3 Ressurection of Evil

2005-10-03 09:30:59 am

Hilf Mir

Anyone planning on doing the Ressurection of Evil SpeedRun?
I know the Addon is crap, but it would be interesting to watch.

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julien

2005-10-03 09:53:38 am

Why is it crap? I loved that addon... Smiley

Apathy

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Apathy: 2005-10-03 03:40:23 pm

2005-10-03 03:40:10 pm

King n00b!

I personally thought the ending sucked.. I was going to do it, but when I'm in hell fighting last guy those meteor showers lock my comp up.. I'd have to find a real fast way of killing him before my comp locks.

LASVEGAS

2005-10-03 04:24:07 pm

Hilf Mir

You can kill him with a good supply of Ammo.
Actually, the final boss can be killed by any weapon, but it'll take long.
The fastest way is the meteors Grin

InsaneB4st4rd

2005-10-03 04:59:06 pm

Still alive...

How can you kill him with the meteors? Huh?

Apathy

2005-10-03 05:00:38 pm

King n00b!

Catch them with the grav gun, and throw them back at him.. My prob is, I can't look at the damn meteors, or my comp locks

InsaneB4st4rd

2005-10-03 05:04:39 pm

Still alive...

Ah ok i didnt know that... i killed him with the Rocket launcher and the BFG9000.

Not to look at the meteors is somewhat difficult if they are all over the place....

Apathy

2005-10-03 06:53:45 pm

King n00b!

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Ah ok i didnt know that... i killed him with the Rocket launcher and the BFG9000.

Not to look at the meteors is somewhat difficult if they are all over the place....

Have to look at the groun when they come.

I might think about doing a run, but I think I'll wait til like next month to try it..

Tuesday I have to go for an interview, and hopefully have myself a new job.. upgrade my comp a bit, and try it.

Only thing other then the ending that I don't like, is the fact that you don't get the chainsaw in it.. At least, I didn't find it while playing.

julien

2005-10-03 07:04:40 pm

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Only thing other then the ending that I don't like, is the fact that you don't get the chainsaw in it.. At least, I didn't find it while playing.

AFAIK the chainsaw was completely removed from RoE

InsaneB4st4rd

2005-10-03 08:32:17 pm

Still alive...

You can get the chainsaw only via cheats. The Double-Barrel Shotgun is a good replacement if you ask me.

Apathy

2005-10-03 10:07:13 pm

King n00b!

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You can get the chainsaw only via cheats. The Double-Barrel Shotgun is a good replacement if you ask me.

I had ammo problems while playing through it heh.. I wasn't even speedrunning, and I kept running out.

InsaneB4st4rd

2005-10-03 11:12:03 pm

Still alive...

yeah thats true...
I never had enough ammo for that thing.
You only Have enough when you find that thing, after that it seems there is a problem with the ammo supply....

Apathy

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Apathy: 2005-10-03 11:53:20 pm

2005-10-03 11:52:27 pm

King n00b!

Ok, I figure this is going to be a short game.. So here are the ups, and downs.
Ups:
Only 12 Levels.
Probably wont even be half as long as Doom3.
Way smaller file size.
SoulCube, and berserker is replaced by a demon heart/relic, which slows down time, and makes you way stronger. It also feeds off dead people's souls. It only needs 1 to be used, and you can have three at a time.

Downs:
No soulcube Sad

Wont be able to use the relic to heal myself.
Probably wont be able to use the shotgun to death because of lack of ammo, and the double barreled shot gun just makes things worse in that way.
No chainsaw Angry

Not one berserker.

I'm going to try and get at least the first level done tonight, and post it.

Psychochild

2005-10-04 12:15:56 am

Isn't the Berserker a function of the Artifact?

InsaneB4st4rd

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InsaneB4st4rd: 2005-10-04 12:19:08 am

2005-10-04 12:18:24 am

Still alive...

if you beat the 3rd "boss" the strange artefakt works like the berserker mode. Means, you do more damage (quad to be exact), time slows down and your in "God" mode.

and Sl-Mo is can be usefull to... i mean enemys arent THAT fast.

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aargh Psychochild beat me to it Grin

Psychochild

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Psychochild: 2005-10-04 12:23:37 am

2005-10-04 12:21:39 am

Takin' names and kickin' ass, I do!

Besides that useless comment, I don't recall the Super Shotgun even being all that USEFUL in the first place. Sure, it's amazing with the Quad Damage boost, but it's hardly nessecary. I do think though that the run could really benefit from nice use of the Artifact since corpses are shrewn all over the place, and it's not like you actually lose time activating it. I imagine a speed run of Doom 3 ROE to just be immensely easier just because of the Artifact...

Kibbo

2005-10-04 12:22:30 am

TIOLET!

I would like to see a run of this expansion. Mostly because I want to see the action of it since I have no intention of getting this expansion.

InsaneB4st4rd

2005-10-04 12:39:32 am

Still alive...

The "Über Shotgun" isnt necessary. In combintaion with the artifact it simply blows most things out of the way without real trouble.
The Normal Shotgun is still useful. Imps are crawling all over the place.
And theyr a little more powerfull "borthers", with the green plasma flying thingies. They dont take that much damage too.

Argh im telling people once more stuff they already know... im off to sleep....

Apathy

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Apathy: 2005-10-04 01:25:46 am

2005-10-04 12:56:40 am

King n00b!

Heh.. I got the first level done.. Too bad the sound dysynched. I think it was because I used 30 fps instead of the 29.97 that I used for doom3.

Anycase, I guess I have to redo that one..
I really fuggin hate those flying skulls..

John Carmack: instead of the ever so annoying lost souls, why don't stick some even more annoying buring flying heads, that have horns, and annoy the shit out of you even more.

Some other jackass ID employee: Great idea! I'll get right on it!

I guess it isn't so bad when you can use the grav gun to kill them.

Ok, redid it again.. Sound tried to desynch again.. Only difference is, it goes back.. I think it's because too much crap is going on at once.. Those damn skull things are really annoying..

The only way to stop the sound problem is to kill off every single one of them.

btw - the sound problem is basically at the end, but only for a tiny bit of time.

Apathy

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Apathy: 2005-10-04 05:09:17 am

2005-10-04 04:49:12 am

King n00b!

Ok, it's majorly desynching on the second level.. I don't exactly know how to stop this..

Doesn;t do it on any other games I have right now.. I think it's just working my comp too hard.. Oh well, I tried.

Radix

2005-10-04 05:32:30 am

I'm addicted to games

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Heh.. I got the first level done.. Too bad the sound dysynched. I think it was because I used 30 fps instead of the 29.97 that I used for doom3.

29.97 is for NTSC TV signals. When capturing on a computer you can use whatever you want. Since it's such a cpu intense game, how about trying only 20 fps?

Apathy

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Apathy: 2005-10-04 07:47:28 am

2005-10-04 06:44:54 am

King n00b!

I can try, but wont that make it look choppy?

Ok.. I tried with 20. It was not only hard to play with my fps being capped at 20, but it still desynched.. I then tried lowering all the details, and it still did it.. Thing is, when the settings were all at low, my comp ran completely smooth, even with fraps running.

I don't understand why it's doing this.. I can only think of 1 thing that might help, but doubt it, and that would be a reboot..

My comp stays on for days at a time, but never had this problem with Doom3.

OK! I found the problem! The problem is Fraps 2.6.4... I unistalled it, and re-installed 2.6.1 and the desynching crap is gone.. Least it seems so..

I used 2.6.1 for Doom 3, I then updated it.. I'm going to email the person who made fraps, and let him know about this issue.

Radix

2005-10-04 07:59:41 am

I'm addicted to games

Err, I didn't mean to limit the game's fps to 20. I just meant to set fraps to record at 20. That way the game still runs as fast as it can but fraps only tries 20 times a second to get a frame. If you frame advance through your d3 run you'll see that many frames are duplicates because fraps wasn't able to get the 30 fps you asked it to get ... so you might as well do 20 instead. Or you could try 24 or 25.

Apathy

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Apathy: 2005-10-04 08:13:55 am

2005-10-04 08:07:21 am

King n00b!

Thats what I did, but when you set the frames to record at, it also likes to cap the game at that.
The fps counter usually stay pretty much on the frame number that it's set to record at.

Edit - I don't think I get more then 25 fps when playing with fraps on anyway, so I'll just record at that.

Kibbo

2005-10-04 11:48:32 am

TIOLET!

Yes, that's the most annoying thing with Fraps. You just can't get the framerate above the set capture rate (or whatever it's called).