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	Re: DiaBD Volunteers: The Pit
	Posted By: Martin von Randow	Date: 6/18/05 7:44 p.m.
	In Response To: Re: DiaBD Volunteers: The Pit (Steve Levinson) : Even with the pictures, it's still difficult to find. I must have gone : through the level several times before I decided to sit in that alcove : until the door closed - only then did the door to the chip insertion slot : open. This is not at all intuitive - not exactly an example of good : mapmaking technique. : What do you mean M1 on TC? With M2, Infinity and AO for the Mac, you can : still pick up everything you find. If AO SDL doesn't let you do this, : perhaps you should try M2 Win instead - and complain to the AO team. This : would put you at an extreme disadvantage - this time through I have plenty : of ammo to spare. I mean on M1 on Total Carnage you could pick up as many of each weapon as you liked - it was sort of a bug I think, running around with 20 MA75s and half-a-dozen fusion pistols, or whatever. I just always think of that when I see an otherwise pointless, albeit nice in terms of realism, armoury of one type of weapon, as here with five rocket launchers. : Not by my definition of a secret . : Chicken! : Why not use all those rockets - that's what they're for! One thing about : DiaBD - it doesn't lack for rocket ammo. Might as well use it :) Yeah, but again I don't think that would have been quick enough to do in the invincibility period - again, chicken, you could say :). But with those fighters coming in behind before you teleport, that wasn't chicken, just somehow I didn't notice them coming the first time through - had to go back there as I hadn't placed the first chip, and then found the extra fighters and there small hidden room. : Oh, it's probably worth mentioning that going through that teleporter shuts : down all the terminals on the level except the exit term. Supposedly the : supercharged transport burns them all out. If you didn't study the : terminals closely before, you'll be out of luck now. : It's probably good to mention this now since some people may want to play it : before we discuss it. There is indead a bug in Jaunt that crashes AO. I : haven't been able to track it down and I'm not sure I can figure it out in : any case. It's easy enough to work around, but it requires the use of some : minor hang time - a grenade hop over a short wall. The down side is that : you lose acess to that 3X recharger, but the monster ambushes are probably : easier taken in reverse - except for one. More on that in a couple of : days. : I'm ready to tackle it again myself - at least this time I have enough fusion : ammo to do it. I find Jaunt an interesting level for that forced grenade hop as it stands - at least they give you an assault rifle at the start for it. As for the 3x charger, you don't lose access. You can always come back down from above - in fact I went up the other way this time - rocketing myself up to the platform above in the corridor behind the 3x charger rather than doing the grenade hop. Oh well, I got through Sensori OverLord - I was on fists for most of it. Thankfully the drones, hunters and compilers are all basic with fists ... the troopers caused more trouble. But thanfully I had a bit of fusion left to shoot that one switch....

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	DiaBD Volunteers: The Pit	MartiNZ	6/18/05 3:26 a.m.
	Re: DiaBD Volunteers: The Pit	Steve Levinson	6/18/05 12:01 p.m.
	Re: DiaBD Volunteers: The Pit	Martin von Randow	6/18/05 7:44 p.m.
	Re: DiaBD Volunteers: The Pit	Steve Levinson	6/19/05 3:39 a.m.

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