Paul Bunyan In Miniature

[eldogo]

Now that I have some degree of employment confirmed, I'm able to treat these next few days as a four day weekend, and not four days of house arrest. No longer feeling like I had to stay in perpetual stand-by mode, I went out and did some yard work. My yard is now about four or five bushels smaller. Low-hanging branches begone

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[magicmarmot]

I've made it through FC a couple of times. The second time I explored and found a lot of hidey-places where I could do sniping from a distance and knock off the enemies as much as possible before I had to get in the down-and-dirty.

I don't remember specifically what the last level is. I do remember that I spent a lot of time on my belly slow-crawling through foliage.

[magicmarmot]

Oh, Jeebus, the volcano.

Yeah-- there's a trick that has to do with jamming a chair in the first door so you can go back to the armory and get more ammo. The Fatboys can't make it through the door.

[eldogo]

I read about that trick online someplace. It took me about seven tries just to get the chair to the door. I kept pushing it into walls and corners, or I'd hit some bug in which the chair got physically pushed into the floor (!), or the game controls would just have me walk over the chair without touching it.

Then I finally got the chair in the door. While trying to kill the first Fat Boy the chair gets knocked out into the volcano side and the door shuts. I'm still inside. When I open the door again there's five Fat Boys there. Instant death.

I'm kind of irritated at a first person shooter in which the key act in completing it is pushing a damn chair around, and there's no real pushing or carrying function on the part of the player.

[saveau]

Actually, the way I completed the "Jack versus the Volcano" level was simpler from a gameplay standpoint (if extremely annoying from a design standpoint) -

When I opened the door, I crouched down at the far right inside the door so that the door frame was between me and the Fat Boy (I just waited for him to come to me). He would come up to a point where his arm and shoulder were visible and just stop - If I couldn't see his face, he couldn't see me (rather like the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal). Then I shot him in the elbow. One bullet at a time. Over and over. Until he died. Then repeated the process for the others that came to the same spot, switching weapons as necessary. It's tedious, but it gets you into the caldera with enough ammo and health to survive everything else if you're careful. I spent about an hour dying over and over again until I accidentally discovered that trick.