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You will need a bit of patience with this one ๐Ÿ˜‡

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[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Near impossible on my tiny phone haha

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The hit boxes appear to be huge. I got it just by turning and shooting from the starting position.

Fun, but a relatively simple script could likely be developed to solve these.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I expected to have to do more than tap the fire button.

[โ€“] AnAustralianPhotographer 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you shoot from cover, some come to find you. Back into corner and rapid fire, not a great plan, but got it on about 6th try.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's more that my phone is quite literally tiny. 3" screen, 480x854

[โ€“] clickyello 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Unihertz Jelly Star. I wanted a modern phone smaller than my pixel 3. Seemed to be the only viable option at the time. It's crazy how big phones are now, even the compact ones are bigger than what I class as a big phone

[โ€“] clickyello 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

huh neat, I didn't know that was a thing! I'm tempted because I feel like I'd be less inclined to doomscroll on it, which seems like a feature rather than a bug.

it seems kinda thick though, do you think it's more comfy in a pocket despite that?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

It's more comfy in the pants despite the thickness.

Think about how much a thin but big phone sticks out when placed on a cylinder. This has less surface area that's touching your leg so you barely feel it.

Doom scrolling can still happen on this phone like but it does make certain stuff just make me want to wait till I'm at a computer to do it instead, like shopping and whatnot. So I find that a plus, somewhat.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I wish my phone was a bit smaller, but it's already on par or smaller than most of the industry (Pixel 8).

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Why does it have to be on a hard level with just a pistol, tho? lol I turned the first corner and was obliterated by imp fireballs before I knew what map I was on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I beat it by kiting some of the shotgunners to come past the imps. 3 Easy kills.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The awkward controls make it unfair.

... But then, IDKFA works

Which MEANS

An AI could totally cheat this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

An AI would play this better than any human.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But could it be made to differentiate a human from an AI?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Maybe, unless the AI pretends to suck.

[โ€“] donio 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

No WASD, no strafe, not fair.

I got it by running around the imps and going for the grunts (all enemies are "monsters" in Doom)

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Reposting from my other reply: There is strafe actually, even two ways of doing it, using original DOS bindings: < and > or alt + left/right arrow. For me the easiest way to do it without strafe is just to move forward a bit, then go back and wait for dudes to come in from the right. Dealing with imps is really hard since their fireballs are sped up significantly. I tried a bit more and it seems it's possible to actually beat this level properly. You can get other weapons and powerups. It's just really hard with speed mode and nightmare difficulty.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Honestly, the easiest way is to move forward a bit. The imps can't hit you, and the grunts will come toward you, so it becomes a shooting gallery instead of you being in a bullet hell.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Too many imps in the center square. Too easy to just get ganged with fireballs. I found that I needed to hang out in the hallway and get the marines that were coming in.

WTF? Is this Nightmare difficulty? Just how many enemies are crammed in the hallways here.

I get that this is a joke project. But, if you were to reduce the difficulty to some common denominator, it could actually be a viable CAPTCHA. Then again, there's already good AI bots that could dominate this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It is Nightmare difficulty, on a hidden level as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

No strafe. Ughhh

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Not only nightmare, it's also -fast. Click how it works in the bottom of the page.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I love it, but can't get the keyboard to display on mobile

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

It didn't work on chrome for me, but does on Firefox.

[โ€“] perfectduck 7 points 6 days ago

I just tapped it and it showed one

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Works in Safari

[โ€“] steeznson 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is there any strategy for this level apart from kiting the enemies into your line of sight while you are shielded from the centre cube? Maybe the WAD could be tweaked. Cool project though!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

One fun and moderately easy strategy is running into forward tunnel all the way down into the pit, killing a sergeant for a shotgun, running through acid into the room with health and pickups on the left, and then killing 2 more imps. PS: I'm doing it with strafe through (< and > or alt + arrows).

[โ€“] Dagnet 12 points 6 days ago

Had to bait them into coming towards me, many deaths before I managed tho. Still better than most captchas

[โ€“] iAvicenna 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

doom without sidestep? no thanks

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's a bit of a secret feature, but there is strafe actually, even two ways of doing it, using original DOS bindings: < and > or alt + left/right arrow.

[โ€“] iAvicenna 2 points 5 days ago

I am on mobile but will try on computer

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

That was surprisingly difficult.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Idk why you say i would need patience. I cleared it under 5 seconds. Maybe i had good RNG.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

RNG in doom, that's illegal :D

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I tried going straight, but after a while I noticed there's actually an invisible pinky over there.

Also is the sound too high, or is it just me not rememberering right?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

This is fucking amazing

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Well I think I'm a robot. Couldn't do the things that it's asking me to do. So I guess I'm a robot. Beeboo beeboo boop beeboo beeboo bee boop.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

what a chimera ๐Ÿ˜ฐ

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Took me 2 tries, advanced a bit, retreated and waited for the dudes to walk into my line of pistol fire

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

This is the way. You only need 3 kills, so there's no need to deal with the caged grunts in any way whatsoever.