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- Well...time to write this stuff again.
-
- Anyway, this is a port of a port of the old Ledges.wad (for Doom 1)
- It was mutated into Doom 2 version back in the golden days
- of Doom, and thus became Arena-II, and proved itself many
- times in the field of battle. It was always one of my
- personal favorites, and thus, it has made the trip to Duke
- Nukem with much glory.
-
- Basically, its rooms ranging around a central arena, with a few
- ledges jutting into the main area...the layout provides
- some room to fight in, some hallways and nooks for ambushes and
- chases, and the ledges provide quick access to the main area
- (be prepared to lose up to 15 life when you leap, though).
- The design also makes the strongest weapons the hardest to get,
- with the RPG and Devastator (shrinker, steroids, and jetpacks
- aren't in the level by design) taking a while to grab, although
- some quick leaps can net you both the devastator and the rpg
- and some tripbombs. Try it, you'll like it.
-
- Ledges was an outstanding Doom wad, and it's still great for
- Duke.
-
- Yes, it is hard in single player....on purpose. Basically,
- why bother with it by yourself unless you wanna get some
- practice? Well, dodging kamikaze robots and butt rockets
- ought to help...and don't forget there are guys hiding behind
- most corners. Fun! :)
-
- Bugs/Problems
- The weapons are pretty well laid out, however the freezethrower
- is easily accessable. Some people do not like this.
- I balanced this out by limiting freezer ammo...
- If you still think its too powerful for its location, duck. :)
- It isn't much better than the chaingun, overall. (IMO, of course)
-
- The mirror...well, the mirror has to be blown up twice, and it
- goes nutso if you duck and look at it...but, I attribute
- that to the crappy help file...to get it even to that status
- I had to cut & paste it out of an original level...its not great,
- but at least RPGs explode on it now :)
-
- The glass....can't be bulletholed. Exploded, but not shot.
- I had this working fine, but it messed up, and I
- don't feel like fixing it again. ;)
-
- The prong door (near the bathroom door, holds freezer & 30% health)
- sometimes messes up...don't fiddle with it too fast and it should be
- fine. This, however, is not my fault...the build docs warn
- that it could happen, as the prong-style door was not tested in
- the game itself. So complain to 3D Realms :)
-
- The WAD2MAP program didn't like my arena-ii pwad. So I grabbed
- DeuTex, merged it into my Doom2.wad as MAP99, extracted & converted
- with WAD2MAP, and voila. Except for the fact that the level had
- to be shrunk by 60% beforehand....the duke conversion scales it
- up. Any decent level editor (for Doom) should do map scaling.
- -Geo/Ralgha
- I can be reached at jmhows1@mik.uky.edu if you just can't contain
- it to catch me on IRC (as Ralgha)
-
- Now go kick some bottom-dwelling, scum-sucking, algae-feeding ass!
-