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Re: Bumping orange robots

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From: war... warlock
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 17:11
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In article <3ecqle$1...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> bka...@aol.com (BKayOK) writes:
>From: bka...@aol.com (BKayOK)
>Subject: Bumping orange robots
>Date: 3 Jan 1995 19:38:06 -0500

>     No one has mentioned this so let me be the first. Try bumping into
>the orange robots a couple of times. After two or three bumps you can blow
>them up. But they are blasting you while you are bumping them. I found on
>level six that you can get out of the replicator room quicker by bumping
>the orange guys ahead of you and blasting them at close range thereby
>letting you get out to do battle with the red spiders with more health.
>     What a game!! I was on level 16 of Doom2 but I just zipped it and put
>it to sleep on my hard drive. Playing full screen in compete darkness is
>the best.I cant wait so bye.

Actually, the "bumping" strategy, which I have been calling "ramming", works 
*very* well against the blue enemies.  Apparently if you bump them once real 
hard, you throw them into a spin and then they can't shoot you as they are 
facing the wrong direction.  Those blue lasers are *FAST*! 
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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 17:11:09 GMT
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