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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #15 on: March 09, 2012, 02:19 »

-blowing up the backpack and missile launcher -_-

Oh yeah... this so much.
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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #16 on: March 09, 2012, 07:08 »

Bad habit:
Playing DoomRL while at work/sleepy/drunk/pissed off/stressed/horny/showing off to friends/whatever other distraction you can imagine.
I'm nearly constantly under at least one of these conditions - maybe that is why I am such a lousy player ...
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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #17 on: March 09, 2012, 09:40 »

Bad habit:
Playing DoomRL while at work/sleepy/drunk/pissed off/stressed/horny/showing off to friends/whatever other distraction you can imagine.
I'm nearly constantly under at least one of these conditions - maybe that is why I am such a lousy player ...
Now, where have I seen this quote before?

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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #18 on: March 09, 2012, 09:45 »

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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #19 on: March 09, 2012, 11:43 »

A really nasty habit is to run around holding the key. Several YASDs, fortunately, help to cure that.
From my personal experience: I stopped doing that after my character drowned in lava in the Chained Court after the level was cleared.
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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2012, 09:49 »

1.  Clear all levels to 100% when not on challenges.  I can, with great difficulty, bring myself to stop attackign a pack of 4 former sergeants on AoB.

2.  Hoard medkits and any powerup greater than a small health globe.  I always like to save them until the end of the level.  After all, I can *probably* survive with 36% health, right?  I am somewhat reasonable when it comes to using small medkits  but I am terrible with large medkits, which I generally don't use unless I hit 20% health or less.  This has led to many mancubus deaths.

3.  Hoarding plasma cells.  After I figured out how to clear city of skulls with rocket jump (after you pull lever and after the agony elemental spawns), I found the BFG wasn't really necessary.  But I still carry around 5 stacks of cells with almost any build, just in case.

4.  Hoarding rockets.  I like to save a lot of rockets as insurance for the Wall.  But post-wall there is no reason whatsoever to hoard so many.  I will typically carry 2-3 stacks around until I end up discarding them for something more useful.

5.  Avoiding radar shooting in hell.  The thing is, I *hate* blowing up items/powerups as a result of barrel explosions.  But I need to do this more, especially to detect Mancubi. 

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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #21 on: March 12, 2012, 04:12 »

I've got a new one - treating the tactical shotgun like it was a combat shotgun (or rather like it was standard shotgun). I rarely realize that I can unload all the shells at once without reloading.

I also try to start running even though I'm already running, getting an instant tired tactic.
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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #22 on: March 12, 2012, 18:42 »

I didn't know you could turn off running early. I don't think that's too useful. I guess you could wait until an enemy fires, then turn it off and fire yourself without the accuracy hit. I guess you turn it off once you find good cover. That's pretty useful.
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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #23 on: March 13, 2012, 04:35 »

2.  Hoard medkits and any powerup greater than a small health globe.  I always like to save them until the end of the level.  After all, I can *probably* survive with 36% health, right?  I am somewhat reasonable when it comes to using small medkits  but I am terrible with large medkits, which I generally don't use unless I hit 20% health or less.  This has led to many mancubus deaths.
Last time I was playing some easy mode and I had 6 small and 1 large Med-Pack. Guess what? I got KOed by a Former Human.
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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #24 on: March 13, 2012, 22:40 »

Dualreloading with enemies in sight. Costed me a YASD vs a lava elemental HNTR last night, when the beast decided to walk towards me and melee instead of whacking me from a distance against fireproof red armor.
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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #25 on: March 13, 2012, 23:47 »

Dualreloading with enemies in sight. Costed me a YASD vs a lava elemental HNTR last night, when the beast decided to walk towards me and melee instead of whacking me from a distance against fireproof red armor.

I'm playing a MGK build right now with combat pistol (P1) + GCB. I can't remember the last time I had to reload. And even if I do, it just changes the firing mode on the GCB. You have to reload them manually. It's kinda nice, really.

Here's a good habit I've been encouraging lately: any time I hear a mancubus, arch-vile, or revenant, I switch to red armor, even with my speedy dodge builds. (Not like you can dodge their attacks, anyway).
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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #26 on: March 13, 2012, 23:54 »

that was an MGK, but no Beretta or any other pistols, just two P-modded ones.

well, you CAN dodge an archvile attack, you are given ~1.0s after "The arch-vile raises its arms!" message, but the attack has splash radius 2. I have managed to get 0.5 walk speed with tactical armor/boots and 2 HR levels and Scout, or 0.4 with phaseshift boots/A. (No phaseshift armor together with boots tho)
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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #27 on: March 14, 2012, 22:45 »

Accidentally going down the white stairs instead of the red.
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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #28 on: March 15, 2012, 01:31 »

Accidentally going down the white stairs instead of the red.

...and vice versa. WTF am I doing in the mortuary?!
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Re: Bad habits
« Reply #29 on: March 15, 2012, 03:23 »

...and vice versa. WTF am I doing in the mortuary?!

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