The Doomer Boards Quiz Game Thread - Intermission

Projectiles trigger WR/W1 lines maybe?

It's actually quite hard for me to succinctly explain this one, but here goes...

Discovering a secret in Doom requires that the player's center be located in the sector's bounding box, and that the player be touching the secret sector's floor. In Doom 2 map15, there is a secret with a teleport inside that is too small to fit the player's bounding box, thus the player's center can be in the secret, but the player will "hover" over the floor. This means the secret is not counted as "found."

However, in 2018, ZeroMaster discovered a way to achieve both conditions, which was previous believed to be impossible. ZeroMaster lured a Pain Elemental to his location and had the spawned enemy (lost soul) occupy the same position as the player (Zero Master). This caused a condition in the code to not update a global variable which is used to update Z-height values after collision checks are performed, effectively "sinking" the player into the secret sector, and ensuring both conditions are met.

If more details are needed, let me know.

Flamethrower

The Unmaker (from Doom64)?

I see. Well, this is a cheat-only weapon, added in v1.40. This explains why I forgot about it. There is a different weapon, which exists already in the initial v1.30, can be placed in a level and, in fact, can be picked up in at least one secret location during the campaign.

That's correct. If you get it in the secret room in MAP11, then MAP19 becomes much easier.

Scoreboard
SilverMiner - 3 points
wernergoldberg - 2 points
noisomedead - 2 points
Nockson - 2 points
switchblade - 2 points
JadingTsunami - 2 points
thundercunt - 1 point
Xeep-Eep - 1 point

Let's try a visual riddle now.

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Q16. The above animation (you may need to click the GIF) demonstrates an experimental feature in a Doom port, which was eventually discontinued (the feature, not the port). Which port, and what is the feature?

I think it was in more than one version, but maybe it was only hardcoded for MAP30 in 1.12? That's where I remember it from.

Scoreboard
SilverMiner - 3 points
wernergoldberg - 2 points
noisomedead - 2 points
Nockson - 2 points
switchblade - 2 points
JadingTsunami - 2 points
Xeep-Eep - 2 points
thundercunt - 1 point


Q17. In the vanilla Doom games, list 4 differences (gameplay, visual, or others) when warping to a map using ipxsetup -nodes 1 -warp XX versus a simple doom -warp XX?

You got 3 out of 4 right! It doesn't enable deathmatch mode, though (unless you add -deathmatch or -altdeath parameters). There are at least 2 other things I can think of. For a complete answer, can you recall one of them?

As I said before: never played DE, but watched some YT videos about so:
1) There's some kind of flashback to Slayer's part where he is learning (?) with some other sentinels' candidates I suppose. As I recall he says "Rip and tear" there, which is a reference to Doom comic.
3) I don't remember if it was in DE or D2016, but there was a reference to Doot revenant in some kind of promo material.

Yes, all three are correct. I assume that by 'respawning' you are not referring to items or monsters but to the player, in other words - the level does not restart upon the player's death. You got the point.

And you also get the point for this one, for getting 3 out of 4.

1. "Rip and tear" is what I had in mind as well. I guess it is quite recognizable.
2. The password to unlock Doom2 in the Fortress of Doom is FLYNNTAGGART.
3. Doot Revenant is the one most will know. Also, the combat tip for the Tyrant is a clear reference to the "Protip" meme.
4. It does say on the wiki that the zombie soldiers were modeled after the D64 zombies. I don't find it as obvious as some do; however, the D64 bonuses from the remaster are definitely correct. It seems there was also a D64 marine skin at some point. To me, the Unmaykr is the clearest reference, being a secret (well, semi-secret) triple-beam rapid-fire weapon.

So looks like we can wrap up this holiday blitz season, and switchblade finishes at the top this time, thanks to the final two questions! A very even scoreboard this time, wow.

Final Scoreboard
switchblade - 4 points
SilverMiner - 3 points
wernergoldberg - 2 points
noisomedead - 2 points
Nockson - 2 points
JadingTsunami - 2 points
Xeep-Eep - 2 points
thundercunt - 1 point