🚀 go-pugleaf

  My first stupid Duke trick related to jumping: ever notice that if you
time it just right, you can be 10 feet from a pig cop but still manage
to jump so his shotgun blast goes right beneath you? I like this! You
can charge right up to him, fire off your first blast, jump his first
blast, then land and kill him.
 

  My other stupid duke trick requires some "setting of the scene."

  I work 10 hours on Saturday each week baby-sitting a computer lab at the
university here. To say this job is unchallenging would be a vast
understatement. Fortunatly, it does give me lots of time to play Duke!
Perhaps too much time...

  I went through level 1/Come Get Some in god mode, cheating in some ammo
when necessary.  I killed all the enemies but one with bullet weapons and
left their corpses laying where they fell. (I couldn't help killing the
guy at the movie theater entrance with an RPG shot; I had to get into
the movie theater somehow.)

  As I was littering the landscape with corpses, I was careful not to
shoot fire extinguishers, windows, lights, or anything else that might
be better... shall we say "detonated"? ... later on. ;]

  Finally the level was clear. Miraculously, all the windows, fire
extinguishers, lights, bombable walls and floors, etc... were still
intact, with a few exceptions like the wall into the movie theater
lobby, the screen, and those walls whose explosion is triggered by
your mere presence.

  
  I hit '6' and started planting pipe-bombs. Ducking is really helpful for
this; it doesn't take several tries to get the bombs exactally where you
want them.

  One bomb for each corpse. A bomb at each video game in the arcade. One at
the window behind the movie screen; one at the window in the projection
room; one underneath the self-destruct panel window. One bomb for each fire
extinguisher. One for each yellow high-pressure tank. One for the TV in the
secret. One for each trash can. One for each toilet or urinal. One under
the mirror. One on the bomb-able section of the cat-walk that leads to the
self-destruct panel. One for the fire hydrant. One on top of the tree. One
at the base of the 'No parking' sign. Just for the hell of it, strap on the
jet-pack and put one on top of the crate at the start of the level. ;]

  Stand back. Hit the button.

  Whoah! Have you ever been playing Descent, suddenly after-burned into
a new section of the level, and had the whole machine stop while the memory
manager thrashed madly at the hard drive, trying to load the new graphics?

  That's the sensation I got. After the button went down, a pause of about
a half second occured. The frame-rate indicator suddenly dropped to "4."
And then... KA........ BO...... MM...... I've never seen a bomb blow up
in slow motion before. 

  I was kinda dissapointed. I guess after all that effort, I expected one
of the buildings to come down, or something. ;]

          -Ben
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         --Ben Cantrick. Email to cantrick@nyx10.nyx.net--
>"Some people think of their body as a temple. I like to think of mine as an
amusement park. S'great." -Warren's Kei, via Yuri.  >"You never know how far
a frog will jump until you punch it." -Hillary Clinton, speaking on my campus.