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Re: DOOM CAPTCHA

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Post by hansjorg »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #132
charlesabarnes wrote: post #13

I tried to do it the intended way, but found it too difficult. I was able to cheese it by staying in the starting area and killing the enemies that spawned to the right.

Well, this is not the first level, but this is the level entry weapon. Plus, left and right arrows rotate the characters since it's keyboard only, but in modern FPS you are used to having them laterally move you and you rotate with the mouse, so your reflexes are off.

As in the original, you can use alt + left/right arrow keys to strafe.

Re: DOOM CAPTCHA

#142

Post by cpill »

bilekas wrote: post #137

Well this is hard, guess I'm not a human! It's been so long since I've played doom but without strafing.. it's almost impossible!

just go forward to trigger the monsters and then immediately back to where you started for cover and then pick them off at a distance. easy!

Re: DOOM CAPTCHA

#143

Post by anthk »

mobilio wrote: post #89
mjrpes wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting; it recognizes kills made with chainsaw, gun, shotgun, machine gun, but not rocket launcher. Plasma and BFG keys don't work.

in shareware version plasma and BFG guns aren't available

The authour could had just used FreeDoom https://freedoom.github.io

which is a free as in freedom replacement for DOOM I/II and deathmatch iWADs (totally compatible with community PWADS).

Re: DOOM CAPTCHA

#144

Post by inglor_cz »

casenmgreen wrote: post #11

1. That's a tough level, one of the hidden levels IIRC. 2. It feels like "-fast" has been used. 3. The task is much, much more difficult because you can't strafe. Very cute though :-)

Yeah, E1M9 is notoriously hard with a pistol start. I immediately recognized it ... which speaks to the amount of time I spent on Doom in my youth.

Re: DOOM CAPTCHA

#145

Post by BiteCode_dev »

hansjorg wrote: post #141
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, this is not the first level, but this is the level entry weapon. Plus, left and right arrows rotate the characters since it's keyboard only, but in modern FPS you are used to having them laterally move you and you rotate with the mouse, so your reflexes are off.

As in the original, you can use alt + left/right arrow keys to strafe.

Good memory.

But very platform dependant, so maybe OP is on a browser or OS that doesn't let you do that.

I know it works on Chrome for me, but not on FF.

Re: DOOM CAPTCHA

#147

Post by teach »

anandsuresh wrote: post #140

+100 for technical chops, -100 for usability. +10 for the trip down memory lane, and the self-realization that I now suck at playing video games.

Yeah, amusingly, I use a keyboard that doesn't have arrow keys. I've bound them to a different layer, but that doesn't work well with this setup.

If this implementation supported the now-standard WASD (which was absolutely used by some high-level Doom players back in the day) AND if it allowed me to fire using the left mouse button (again, like the original game), then it would have been relatively easy to prove that I'm a human. :)

Re: DOOM CAPTCHA

#148

Post by RiverCrochet »

casenmgreen wrote: post #11

1. That's a tough level, one of the hidden levels IIRC. 2. It feels like "-fast" has been used. 3. The task is much, much more difficult because you can't strafe. Very cute though :-)

Hold ALT, you definitely can strafe. At least I could.

Re: DOOM CAPTCHA

#149

Post by RiverCrochet »

puttycat wrote: post #146

Cool, but why is this a CAPTCHA? That is a very broad definition of the test.

Well, for one, CAPTCHA means Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers And Humans Apart and I don't think DOOM as in the gameplay is Turing-complete.
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