quick doom 3 ques - how avoid getting hit

Clark the White

Clark the White

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Hi folks,
I'm playing through doom 3 and its good (although the constant darkness gets a bit tedious after a while imho) but I keep getting hit by ONE annoying type of enemy. Its the humanoid type dudes which charge at you and hit you with an extended arm (this is the only type of attack they have). They are not very tough and I'm not stuck on them or anything but it does annoy me that they hit me EVERY time they get close. The only way I can avoid this is by picking them off at a distance, but mostly thats not possible. I have flukely (if thats a word) avoided them before but is there some specific way? can one of you people fire it up and give it a go?


I strafe right - they seem to hit me
I duck - they hit me
I try to outrun them backwards - they hit me
I turn around and run to get distance they hit me
Im pretty sure i strafed left as well before - they hit me
I've tried jumping backwards while starfing to the side - they hit me
....you get the picture.

btw Im not bad at strafing I can almost always avoid getting hit on other games and online so its not that I just suck (can I say that word in this context here? if not moderators please edit post)

many thanks dudes :p
 
Duff-Man said:
You just have to duck...

Timing is the key. Try it a few times on the same guy and you'll get it. It's a good way to get rid of them as well - you can get a couple of shotgun shells off nice and up close while he messes around.
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excellent i will give that a try then and let you now how it goes.


.....its payback time!!!! (always good to end a post on a cheesy line if poss!)
 
Lol now you've told me how to avoid that annoying enemy guess what?.....
I havent encountered one since!!!! sods law!

anyway whilst we are on a doom thread I have another question or two about the storyline.

why is it that when the "evil" came from hell and turned almost everyone into zombies etc you survived and was not affected yet the scientist dude in the same room as you was, and the marine (wearing the same equipment as you) in the next room was?

does the game ever explain this?.. i'm currently at site 2 near the end but so far there has been no explanation at all.

also I bought Quake 4 the other day but not installed it yet. What are your opinions? is it a better singleplayer game than doom 3? is it bigger than doom 3?
and one more thing is the Resurrection of evil expansion for doom 3 worth a buy? how many hours of play does it give roughly?

cheers
 
thanks for the reply. :)

I've finished Doom 3 now, but I have another question about the storyline.What the hell is all the "fleshy growth" all around the facility, what is it supposed to be? I don't expect any1 to know this but I thought I may as well ask just in case
 
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