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Conference 501clb::pcdoom

Title:Doom - The Game
Notice:Doom stuff - see 183 Out of HOURS Access
Moderator:BAHTAT::HILTON
Created:Wed Jun 15 1994
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:212
Total number of notes:3287

96.0. "Doom 2: Level 9 - The Pit" by KDX200::ROBR (Daybreak at the bottom of a lake...) Tue Sep 06 1994 00:20

    
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96.1platforms rise too fast, system compensation again?DAVE::MITTONToken rings happenTue Oct 11 1994 13:178
    Is it my pentium again?
    
    I cannot run fast enough to get on the rising platform in the toxic
    pool where the backpack was.  (one room clockwise from the yellow card
    room)   The yellow card room was also very very hard to do.   I had to
    practice running and moving over a dozen times to get it.
    
    	Dave.
96.2Run key?BAHTAT::HILTONBeer...now there's a temporary solutionTue Oct 11 1994 13:425
    re .1
    
    You are using the shift key for running, right?
    
    Greg
96.3what kind of chump do you take me for? ... first class! (FS ND)DAVE::MITTONToken rings happenTue Oct 11 1994 21:211
    YES. (not this again)
96.4RTOEU::TOTTORuf doch mal an -1258Mon Oct 24 1994 07:085
    Hi,
    
    where can i find the yellow key??
    
    thomas
96.5keep lookingDAVE::MITTONToken rings happenMon Oct 24 1994 16:4819
    After you get the blue key, it unlocks a closet with a switch.
    Push the switch and a wall on the side of the room behind you raises.
    (where the steps-to-nowhere raised earlier) Turn around quickly and
    run into that room, as the wall will close.
    
    In there there is a triangular kiosk with three switches on it. 
    Each opens one of the three doors on the opposite side of the kiosk.
    The yellow key room is on the left.   You will find yourself
    overlooking a slime pit with three platforms on the other side.
    Imps mulling about on each.
    
    mild spoiler follows:
    
    You have to jump in, there is a Radiation suit in the right corner,
    hit the lowest platform,  hit the switch inside, then turn and run like
    the dickens for the center platform.   You should be able to figure it
    out from there.
    
    	Dave.
96.6RTOEU::TOTTORuf doch mal an -1258Tue Oct 25 1994 06:275
    It works!!
    
    thanks, 
    
    thomas
96.7ID commands work in PAUSEDAVE::MITTONToken rings happenWed Oct 26 1994 21:2312
    RE: .1  cannot run fast enough!
    
    My final solution is to punt.  The tip of the night is noticing that
    you can type idclip while in PAUSE mode.   So my solution now is...
    
    - run... don't make it.  Hit PAUSE
    - type IDCLIP, 
    - unPAUSE, move onto platform, PAUSE
    - type IDCLIP, 
    - unPAUSE and continue
    
    	Dave.
96.8FORTY2::HOWELLJust get to the point...Thu Oct 27 1994 08:043
    but that's cheating.... :-)
    
    Unless this is the old 'I cant run fast enough' bug ?!
96.9pause/idclip not necessary ... keep trying!SUBPAC::MAGGARDIntegrate!Thu Oct 27 1994 14:177
Some of the platform rooms around the acid pit have TWO switches.  One lowers
the next platform, the other doesn't.  Make sure you hit the right one.  It
*IS* possible to run and make it.  Run backwards while turning away from the
switch and toward the next platform to save a second or two.

- jeff
96.10FORTY2::HOWELLJust get to the point...Thu Oct 27 1994 14:3615
    Yes, one platform has two switches....
    
    
    		____________________________________
               /                                    \
    	      /  _____                         ____  \
    	     / /     |                         |    \ \
    switch 1 **      |                         |     ** switch 2
    	_____________L_________________________L_______________
                             enter here
    
    You want to press switch 2 and then switch 1 if I remember rightly.
    
    Dan
    			
96.11Wrong room, wrong problemDAVE::MITTONToken rings happenThu Oct 27 1994 19:477
    RE: .9, .10
    
    Yea, I know that.  My problem is with the next room clockwise, with the
    backpack and the computer map.   I _cannot_ RUN fast enough to make
    that platform and I've practiced dozens of times.
    
    	Dave.
96.12I may never get past this levelCXDOCS::PIERCEFri Oct 28 1994 14:017
    I have the same problem with running. I have only made it back to the
    top level once in about 100 tries.
    
    How do you get back out to the kiosk once you get to the top level?
    
    jerry
    
96.13something to do along the wayDAVE::MITTONToken rings happenFri Oct 28 1994 15:036
    RE: .12
    
    Look at the diagram in .10    You have to throw switch 2 to open the
    door.   (aahhh darn...)
    
    	Dave.
96.14skip itCSC32::J_ALLENTue Nov 01 1994 16:477
    
    This is the one "feature" I hated in the pit. I got real tired of
    throwing the switch and running my little heart out only to miss the
    platform at the last nanosecond. It would not have been so bad if this
    had been a one time deal but 3 times!! In the end I just skipped all the
    crud and restored my save before I jumped down into that area.
    jeff
96.15It can be done (just).LARVAE::GILBERTLWed Nov 02 1994 08:368
    Well, it is possible. I did it after about 10 attempts. I switched off
    and came back to it refreshed and it was then I managed it. I've got an
    idea that brushing against walls as you run and turn the corner to get
    to the platform may slow you down. Certainly when I did it, it was a
    clean run and to the closest part of the platform.
    
    Lawrence.
    
96.16FORTY2::HOWELLJust get to the point...Wed Nov 02 1994 08:4612
    It took you this long to realise brushing against walls slows you
    down?! Sheeesh, how did you ever do Doom 1 ?!
    
    No, but seriously, I find it helps (when you want to run someplace
    quickly) to run in MAP mode with the zoom turned up a bit. You can
    position yourself much better in this mode.
    
    Some people call it cheating, I call it using a simple 2D
    representation of the area to achieve my ultimate aims of fragging more
    evil types ..... :-)
    
    Dan
96.17MSGAXP::MUSHOVICWed Dec 21 1994 17:2310
    	RE: .5

	> After you get the blue key...
    
    	OK, I guess I'm stuck. I can't figure out a way to get to the blue
    	key. Can anyone help with a spoiler..?
    	
    	Mike

    
96.18SUBPAC::MAGGARDIntegrate!Thu Dec 22 1994 13:307
> OK, I guess I'm stuck. I can't figure out a way to get to the blue key. Can
> anyone help with a spoiler..?


Check out the FAQ note (dir/title=faq)... there's a "Blue Key FAQ" in there!

- jeff