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1) Discretion is the better part of valour:
There's often so many monsters that your best strategy is to run through the
crowded rooms hole up somewhere and wait for them to fight it out between
themselves.
2) A stitch in time saves nine:
Save after every major contact unless your in poor shape - in which case revert
to a previous game.
3) Play fair:
To get more life out of the game remember that theoretically you can play
through every level starting with the humble pistol no armour and 100% health.
In theory....
4) The offside trap:
One excellent strategy for dealing with full rooms is to open the door pop your
head in then pull back out letting the door close. Often the beasts will emerge
one at a time enabling you to pick them off.
5) Do you really need that?:
When their health is around the 85% mark many players prefer to save first aid
kits for later. Also when in a radioactive ooze. Avoid collecting a suit until
you start flashing. This will maximise your survival time.
6) Boom!!!:
Never switch to missiles in an enclosed area. They'll do you as much damage as
your enemy.
7) Walls have ears:
Using weaponry makes noise and noise brings beasts running. So avoid
gratuitously firing rounds. You'll also want to conserve ammo especially on the
Nightmare setting.
8) You have ears:
Counting the number of shouts or groans when blundering into a gang of beasts
will help you to guess their numbers. Listen for hydraulic noises: an
unexpected whoosh means you have activated a hidden switch and opened a door or
summoned a lift.
9) Tele-Frags:
On the two-player game if an opponent makes a break for the teleport follow him.
Hopefully you'll materialise over him and score a frag.
10) Caught in a trap:
When you find a key or megasphere in an empty room it may be an ambush. If
possible collect it running back towards the door. Exit before the trap is
sprung.
How to kill the enemies:
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Knight of Hell:
These junior barons should be one of your lowest priorities until they get right
up close to you. Then simply wipe them off the face of the planet with a plasma
gun.
Pain Elemental:
Chain gun these critters dead centre in the face. Hit them the moment they
appear and keep firing as they explode because they burst into these rather
ugly heads.
Mancubus:
The trick here is to stay far enough away to slip between their double missiles.
A rapid fire weapon will hit them quickly enough to prevent any return of fire.
Arachnotrons:
Hide. Then pop up and return fire with a rapid fire weapon. At close quarters
if you have plenty to hide behind use the double barrel. Three shots should do
the trick.
Heavy Weapons Dude:
Always a thorny problem these guys will be felled with just one shotgun blast.
But you'll have to work particularly fast because they'll be firing at you
constantly.
Revenants:
Keep well away from these. Best lured into corridors: out in the open the
missiles can chase you round corners. Use the super shotgun.
Archvile:
The Archvile is most vunerable when he's resurrecting a corpse. You may only get
one chance at him so now's the time to pull out the BFG.
Cheats:
=========
Use like the cheats from Doom:
iddt - Type this on the map screen several times to reveal all the objects and
the full map. It will soon erase itself.
iddqd - Degreeless mode toggle. Turns you into a god who cannot be hurt by
anything.
idfa - Full ammo & 200% armour
idkfa - Full ammo & 200% armour plus all keys
idclip - No clipping. Able to walk through walls and experience hallucinations
outside the playing area.
idmypos - Prints your co-ordinates in hex - very useful!!???!!!
idchoppers - Prints a 'Doesn't Suck' message then provides you with the chainsaw
idclevXX - Warps you to level XX. XX=Value between 00 and 32
idbehold - enables a cheat mode: follow with one of the following letters:
r Radiation suit
i Invisibility
v Invincibility
a Computer map
l Turn up the lights
s Beserker mode
3. How to defeat the last boss:
==============================
Hit the skull switch straight away and stay on the top level until the Icon has
stopped spitting monsters into the room. Clear the room level by level. Enter
the lava and push the tower to lower the lift. Get on it and fire your rockets
into the exposed brain just before the lift reaches its highest point. Three
shots should do it.
There's often so many monsters that your best strategy is to run through the
crowded rooms hole up somewhere and wait for them to fight it out between
themselves.
2) A stitch in time saves nine:
Save after every major contact unless your in poor shape - in which case revert
to a previous game.
3) Play fair:
To get more life out of the game remember that theoretically you can play
through every level starting with the humble pistol no armour and 100% health.
In theory....
4) The offside trap:
One excellent strategy for dealing with full rooms is to open the door pop your
head in then pull back out letting the door close. Often the beasts will emerge
one at a time enabling you to pick them off.
5) Do you really need that?:
When their health is around the 85% mark many players prefer to save first aid
kits for later. Also when in a radioactive ooze. Avoid collecting a suit until
you start flashing. This will maximise your survival time.
6) Boom!!!:
Never switch to missiles in an enclosed area. They'll do you as much damage as
your enemy.
7) Walls have ears:
Using weaponry makes noise and noise brings beasts running. So avoid
gratuitously firing rounds. You'll also want to conserve ammo especially on the
Nightmare setting.
8) You have ears:
Counting the number of shouts or groans when blundering into a gang of beasts
will help you to guess their numbers. Listen for hydraulic noises: an
unexpected whoosh means you have activated a hidden switch and opened a door or
summoned a lift.
9) Tele-Frags:
On the two-player game if an opponent makes a break for the teleport follow him.
Hopefully you'll materialise over him and score a frag.
10) Caught in a trap:
When you find a key or megasphere in an empty room it may be an ambush. If
possible collect it running back towards the door. Exit before the trap is
sprung.
How to kill the enemies:
-----------------------
Knight of Hell:
These junior barons should be one of your lowest priorities until they get right
up close to you. Then simply wipe them off the face of the planet with a plasma
gun.
Pain Elemental:
Chain gun these critters dead centre in the face. Hit them the moment they
appear and keep firing as they explode because they burst into these rather
ugly heads.
Mancubus:
The trick here is to stay far enough away to slip between their double missiles.
A rapid fire weapon will hit them quickly enough to prevent any return of fire.
Arachnotrons:
Hide. Then pop up and return fire with a rapid fire weapon. At close quarters
if you have plenty to hide behind use the double barrel. Three shots should do
the trick.
Heavy Weapons Dude:
Always a thorny problem these guys will be felled with just one shotgun blast.
But you'll have to work particularly fast because they'll be firing at you
constantly.
Revenants:
Keep well away from these. Best lured into corridors: out in the open the
missiles can chase you round corners. Use the super shotgun.
Archvile:
The Archvile is most vunerable when he's resurrecting a corpse. You may only get
one chance at him so now's the time to pull out the BFG.
Cheats:
=========
Use like the cheats from Doom:
iddt - Type this on the map screen several times to reveal all the objects and
the full map. It will soon erase itself.
iddqd - Degreeless mode toggle. Turns you into a god who cannot be hurt by
anything.
idfa - Full ammo & 200% armour
idkfa - Full ammo & 200% armour plus all keys
idclip - No clipping. Able to walk through walls and experience hallucinations
outside the playing area.
idmypos - Prints your co-ordinates in hex - very useful!!???!!!
idchoppers - Prints a 'Doesn't Suck' message then provides you with the chainsaw
idclevXX - Warps you to level XX. XX=Value between 00 and 32
idbehold - enables a cheat mode: follow with one of the following letters:
r Radiation suit
i Invisibility
v Invincibility
a Computer map
l Turn up the lights
s Beserker mode
3. How to defeat the last boss:
==============================
Hit the skull switch straight away and stay on the top level until the Icon has
stopped spitting monsters into the room. Clear the room level by level. Enter
the lava and push the tower to lower the lift. Get on it and fire your rockets
into the exposed brain just before the lift reaches its highest point. Three
shots should do it.