>No Rest for the Living - Level 6: Inferno of Blood>Ultra-Violence>Pistol start>No saves>No guides>Crispy Doom @ 35 fps, original aspect ratio, controller/D-pad onlyThis was one of the hardest things I've ever done in a video game. I breezed through every level in the official WADs up to this one and then was stuck for literally years. The difficulty spike with this level is absolutely absurd, but I have conquered. I have won.
I'm happy for you :)
>>12179673You have got video evidence of you accomplishing this, from boot-up to completion, with your hands displayed throughout, right?Anyone could just claim they've done this.
>>12179673>anything but Doom or Doom ][ (no Thy Shit Consumed or the George Lucased versions of E1 levels)>canon
>>12179682Is it really that hard to believe? Decino has a video where he does it in like 15 minutes with fast monsters. It took me 48 minutes. Also picrel is all I have for proof. Got all secrets without guides too though.
>>12179692Seeing that 92% would have killed me.
>>12179727i'm ok with it. I was diagnosed with one of the worst kinds of cancer a few months ago, had surgery to remove it and was just given a 95% survival rate by the doctors the other day. I was feeling like crap for the past month from the surgery and just started feeling better today, then I beat the level. I'll take it, man. Funny how these things line up sometimes.
>>12179673>controller/D-pad onlyI can see the rest but why the fuck would you play it that way and not m+kb
>>12179673>controller/D-pad onlywhy? we original Doomgods were using keyboard + mouse assist...LMP proofs: https://www.doom2.net/doom2/lmps/rockisland/
>>12179747Take care bro
>>12179747Good for you!
>>12179673>controller/D-pad onlyThe original doom EXE supported mouse and keyboard
>>12180587joystick too.
>>12179673>vertical letterboxDod you have your monitor turned 90 degrees or smth?
you had surgery to remove yourself?
>>12179967>>12180068>>12180587I started with Jaguar Doom which didn't even have shoulder buttons for strafing. These days I use either a PS2 or original Xbox controller. I have tried using a mouse before but it doesn't feel as predictable or precise to me. With digital inputs I can measure my turns much more precisely and it feels like it makes it easier. I don't know how anyone can play with mouselook either. It's neat but it ruins the whole flow of the game IMO.>>12180220>>12180537Thanks, frens. I'm feeling pretty good now.
>>12180935I play on a 4:3 monitor and that's just how it looks at the original resolution. I would play on widescreen but I feel it gives an unfair advantage on runs like this.
>>12179673I'm happy for you but I don't think the level could realistically be that hard. What's next for you?
>>12179747good news is with 92%, you can replay it later when you are more healthy and get 100% :)
>>12180935>>12180993>I play on a 4:3 monitorIf your monitor's native resolution is 1280x1024 (as I'm guessing from the screenshot resolution) you don't1280x1024 is actually 5:4, so you're getting vertical letterboxing because it's narrower than 4:3
>>12180587>The original doom EXE supported mouse and keyboardWho the hell gives a shit? Nobody, and I mean nobody played it with mouselook in the 90s.
>>12179673Way to go, bro! I'm doing the same thing right now. Did all of Ultimate Doom that way. Now on the first secret level of Doom II. Can't wait to do the Master Levels and then No Rest for the Living. Some of my favorite maps in both.I remember Inferno of Blood. I dies so many times and I was using saves. Brutal stage.
>>12181986I'm going to finish No Rest for the Living then move on to Final Doom, Sigil I & II, and then if I'm still in the mood I might try some of the later semi-officially sanctioned expansions like Double Impact.I have a feeling Sigil is going to be the hardest of the whole run. I did pistol start, no saves on Hurt Me Plenty when it first came out and it was brutal even at that difficulty. But maybe I'll be a better player by the time I get to it.>>12184109It really is. I mean some of the earlier maps were hard but none of them actually filtered me the way Inferno did. Persistence pays off though. I didn't touch it for over two years and then just kept coming back to it every few days until every step of it was burned into my brain.
>>12185229I should have mentioned so far I've only completed Doom I, II and Ultimate Doom, including all the secret levels and Xbox exclusive level.
>akkkthsually Doom supported kb+mouse from the start!!Sick of this meme, people are either disingenous or parotting shit when they weren't there. First of all Doom had mouse movement and you couldn't turn it off without a hack. And don't even start to pretend like everyone knew how to do that.Secondly this is the kind of mouse people had.With both factors combined, it was nothing like modern kb+mouse, which only started to be DEFAULT controls as a norm with Half Life.
>>12185252Can confirm. This is how us OGs played Doom back in the day.>some kid who's dad had a computer with two floppy disk drives made copies of the shareware version and traded them during recess>went home and had dad help install on DOS>computer was too slow to play properly, so we had to shrink the screen with "-" and play it in a small box where you could hardly see what was going on, but at least it was silky smooth and not choppy>sound? why would our home computer have a Sound Blaster in 1993/1994!>fuck this game is hard, at least we know the cheat codes!>ctrl shoots, arrow keys move, of course, space opens activates doors and switches, numbers change weapons, hold shift to runThen the next year when Doom 2 came out and people started to have more powerful multimedia computers thanks to Windows 95, we really had our dicks blown off. 17" screen, running the game perfectly smooth, and we had SOUND. It was glorious going to sleepovers and all the kids gathered around the computer in the corner of the dining room (normal place for the computer back then) and taking turns playing the game and being scared as fuck. Game was an amazing experience, and turned us 9-12 year olds into men.
>>12185264I'm a little jealous I wasn't in that age bracket when Doom came out. The scariest game when I was a kid was Friday the 13th on NES. I was in my mid-teens when Doom was released so the horror was lost on me but I can imagine the effect it must have had.
>>12185307I'm not surprised but I still prefer D-pad. It's not as fast but is more predictable.>use a mouse, just not mouselookmouselook fags btfo
>>12179673>controller/D-pad onlyHoly shit
>>12185252> this is the kind of mouse people hadAre you insinuating that ball mice are bad? This is absolutely not the case. Ball mice work extreamly well when freshly cleaned. I actual think ball mice track better than optical mice, but only right after cleaning. Optical mice are a convenience thing, but they are not outright better.
>>12187010I give (You) a 2/10 because zoomers born with optical mice in their hands may actually believe (You)
>>12179673meds
>>12179747just passing by, not a doom player, but grats dude.
>>12179747Nice, hope it goes well.
>>12179747fuck yea anon Godspeed
>>12185264I can also attest to this. Apparently there was a hardcore of Deathmatch players who did use the mouse, and did things jam bits of cardboard onto the shift key so that you always ran, and ran covert servers on their badly monitored work networks; but most of us normal people who didn't have the Internet until the late 90s and mainly played the shareware single player campaign it was keys only.
>>12179747>I was diagnosed with one of the worst kinds of cancer a few months ago,should've been me
