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- ATRIUM.WAD
-
- A DOOM pwad file with a really sneaky barrel puzzle
-
- Designed by Steve Taylor
-
- taylor@physics.carleton.ca (constructive comments welcome)
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-
- Atrium.wad is a fairly short DOOM level (completion times on
- the order of 5 to 10 minutes). The level is stored as E1M1. In
- particular, it contains a barrel puzzle which I think you may find
- quite challenging. You'll know what part I mean when you get to
- it. The rest of the level involves some tricky monster
- confrontations. It is not set up for multi-player currently.
-
- The "atrium" part of the level involves lots of tree decorations
- and may slow down the game unacceptably on anything but a fast 486.
- If you're having problems just cheat to get past it.
-
- The level was designed with DEU 5.0. Congrats to the authors for
- a great piece of public domain programming.
-
- To invoke the level, copy atrium.wad into your DOOM directory and
- type:
-
- doom -file atrium.wad
-
- at the dos prompt.
-
-
- *********** The Barrel Trick **************
-
- Ok, so you've tried the level once, and you've got to the barrel
- part, and now you're saying to yourself "This guy's nuts! There's
- no way to get past this without getting blown all to hell!"
-
- Well, in fact there is a way to get by the barrels without taking
- any damage at all!!! It involves the use of a brilliant little
- feature of the game (I don't mean the cheat mode ;-) ). It's
- really sneaky, but once you know what to do, it's quite repeatable,
- with a little practice. And yes, all the barrels explode in the
- process.
-
- I would love to give a little hint in this readme file but I'm
- afraid even the smallest hint would give it away. So here's what
- I'll do... if you're completely stuck, and you really care, post a
- message in alt.games.doom and I'll start with the hints. If on the
- other hand, you're the first in net-land to figure it out, post
- you're own hints to alt.games.doom and save me the trouble. :-)
-
- Steve T.