: Once again, I liked this level. It was a nice challenge on TC. It's a good
: level for someone to practice using their Fists.
Or hooks as the case may be. John has a good point - for the less-experienced player, there is ample opportunity for practicing fisting skills. The easiest to learn is evident in the large open areas, where there is ample room to move around. Here you can simply circle around the baddies and hit them while dodging their weapons fire. With luck they'll take each other out, leaving less work for you. With practice this approach becomes second nature and weapons become almost irrelavent except when dealing with troopers (unless you're John Sumner).
The cricling technique can sometimes be used in corridors, but it's often easy to become trapped by a monster who catches you smack against a wall. Often you can escape by reversing course, but sometimes it's too late and one of the other monsters will have you penned in. A better approach in corridors is to circle back and forth from side-to-side as you strike. The enemy weapons fire with luck and skill will pass to your side each time. In narrow corridors, however, there just may not be enough room to side-step. In these cases you need to be able to strike and retreat backwards without taking damage. With slow-firing monsters such as compilers, this is easy. In fact with compilers there is no need to step back at all - just keep fisting and you can knock them off, one at a time. In Marathon you can do this with hunters, but not in PF. On the Job is a great level for practicing fisting fighters in narrow corridors. With practice you can strike and fall back before the fighter's staff can hit you. Since the corridors are long here, there is plenty of room to practice this technique and with an accessible PB and shield recharger, to recover from your errors.
Go ahead - give it a try.
