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fun fact, the cycloid emperor can be killed by just flying up really high and waiting directly above him The cycloid emperor still tries to shoot straight up at you, but due to his enormous hitbox he just shoots the rockets at himself.
@The Xenomorphian that jetpack has added countless hours of entertainment and creativity to duke nukem custom levels......if the only downside is that you can kill the cycloid emperor in a super specific way if you know exactly what to do.....i see no downside at all
It's funny how, in-universe, they'll rush out a Duke Nukem movie during an alien invasion but take 12 years to make the game Duke's playing at the beginning of DNF. :P
I'm a bit surprised that when he was asked if a game that very falsely depicts him waiting like a goddamn toady for ammo drops and backup during a fight he actually won single-handedly with the wide repertoire he was carrying - something he knows to be the case because he was fucking there - was any good, he answers in the affirmative :/
*employees at gearbox find 90% completed duke forever build from 2001 on an old backup server* "hey randy pitchford can we release this somehow to the fans" "no" "why not, well fix it up and make it working, you dont even have to pay us well do it for free" "no" --heavily based on a true story
I'm curious how, even after that, a Gearbox employee (or former employee) didn't end up leaking it. I guess it must've been in a certain state that wasn't easily leakable, I've worked on projects in my career that require weird server connections to run in debug so maybe that's why it never got leaked.
That point about "a real level designer" has been on my mind since Sigil. There's moments where Romero is really just trying to "get" you with cheesy traps that are easy to see through, and it really stood out as this exchange between level designer and player. It's something I've been missing especially from newer games, but never really knew how to put that to words.
Simple really. When you make games or levels in this case just because it's your job and not because you have fun and love making them you get boring stuff like most games today. Thankfully there are still teams out there doing this because they love it...until publishers like 3D Realms come along and wreck your game's fame and all your hard work in a day. :(
The N64 versions of Duke aren't really even bad. There is also The Manhattan Project, though it's a 2.5D platformer. Though I guess zero hour is third person so whatever. The Serious Duke 3-D uses sounds and assets from The Manhattan project as well.
Doom 3 survivors just fighting just to live Civvie: *Murders for sport* Duke Nukem babes pleading for death with survival most likely impossible after whatever's happened to them: Civvie: *Bends time to "save" as many as possible*
Well civvie has good intentions and it is stated that everyone but the doom guy himself died at the mars base, with or without civvies help, they were dead
I thing I discovered when playing duke 3D (dos version). If you shrink the babes and then hit them with the freezer. after the shrink wears of they are: A: like 20% bigger B: invincible This can be very handy in some situations... like the final boss avoids spawning assault commanders by accident.
World Tour has the evil of Pitchford all over it, but the catharsis of listening to commentary tracks where Blum & Gray spend most of The Birth saying how bad he is at level design almost made it worth the price of admission.
You don't like the Freezethrower, Civvie? I'll just say this: it's by far the best way to stunlock to death the bomb drones in levels where you don't have doors to hide behind, without wasting Ripper ammo that's best used on things that are more than annoyances. Hopefully you get to read this before you start recording Pro Nukem 3D: The Birth.
they just dodge it. or you have to get pretty close. I just use the pistol, pretty reliable from a safe distance. or the expander in ep 4, kills them fast, accurate, they can't dodge it.
They only dodge it if you fire once or twice. If you shoot it in a constant stream, they get confused and keep changing directions. Plus, long-range combat isn't really Duke Nukem 3D's suit unless you count the pistol autoaim.
@@LeFaucheur You don't always have room to plink with the pistol, and when you do they take more than 12 shots so the reload pause can let them in close. The expander ammo is rare and I tend to use it to blow up clusters of enemies when my RPG ammo is low. In Babe Land, for example. The freezethrower has no such situational uses and it's easy to waste ammo on a frozen enemy. Not drones, though, the FT kills them outright. (And turrets depending on the level.)
@@DinnerForkTongue yeah, I'm not a big freezethrower user. actually I probably use the chaingun more than the pistol on sentry drones, but the pistol works pretty well, especially long range. I think room is far less often a problem than losing track of them. the main map where room is a problem would be warp factor
Freezethrower is great against Protector Drones in Birth. It does a lot of damage and stuns then so you can kill them without having to burn all of your chaingun ammo. People seem to not like it as much in this game though. I guess it's because the Shrinker is just so strong.
corhellion Ion Maiden & Brutal Doom Extermination Day: "Somebody call for us?" Civvie: "Oh yes." Blood 2: "woohoo!" Civvie, Ion Maiden and BDED: "NOT YOU!"
11:06 I had no idea that was an abortion clinic all the times I played. I thought it was the apartment of a crappy dentist or hairdresser and the fetuses were jars of pickles. They probably _are_ pickled, but...
@AverageJoe8686 What an amazingly fresh statement I have never heard in all my years. "5.56x45mm is better" [insert random bullet here] is better. 5.45x39mm is better than 5.56 because you can shoot it out of an SBR with less issues and accuracy loss. 7.62x51mm or 7.62x54R are better because you can hit insurgents way up in the mountains with less pitiful drop-off than 5.56. 7.62x39mm is better because it over penetrates light cover. Didn't someone invent .300 AAC Blackout, (a 7.62×35mm round) expressly for the purpose of making a punchier gun than a 5.56 AR, that used the EXACT same magazines as a 5.56 AR, and preforms ultimately better out of a short barrel than a standard 5.56 ever could? _Hmmmm._ Why would they ever do such a thing, 5.56 is perfect...! Nevermind the fact that anyone who isn't afraid of a little additional weight can comfortably carry 330~ rounds of 7.62x39mm on their person for a "combat" load. Nevermind the fact that 7.62x39mm is cheaper than 5.56 (on the US civilian market) and you can run steel case with no issues out of an AK, which I've yet to see with any steel case .223 ammo I've ever used in an AR-15. Nevermind the fact that pansies complain about the weight of warsaw-pact weapons / cold war battle rifles (and their ammo) because the insanely light AR-15 and its variants have ingrained into their soft heads that "a nine pound rifle" is quote: "toooooo heavy!" When in reality a 10 pound rifle (like a Yugoslavian m70) isn't even close to insanity, go grab an m60, m240b, or literally any proper GPMG ever made if you want to complain about weight, not an AKM. This is of course Ignoring the fact that weight is a natural recoil reducer and that "lighter" guns aren't always necessarily better. There's a healthy balance you've gotta hold, or you end up with a gun like the AR-10 that doesn't weigh enough to help combat the recoil of a full power 7.62x51mm round in full auto. But what do I know, 5.56 is clearly the best round ever built, _some guy told me so!_ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@xmm-cf5eg Don't look at me. I did my military service while we were still using the ye olde G3 that gave the AK a run for its money in terms of durability and reliability. I've lugged my share of gun and ammunition around. Of course, I'm sufficiently Norwegian that I am for very strict civilian gun laws, but hey.
Only other guy who did music from the 90's I can say that rivals Bobby Prince or Lee Jackson would be Alexandra Brandon, the guy who did Jazz Jackrabbit's soundtrack.
@@sernoddicusthegallant6986 The slimes are probably the most dangerous enemy in Quake. There's a part in Episode 4 where you get pushed down into a pit with them, and on Hard there's LOTS of those bastards there, absolute nightmare.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine I remember getting through that without getting hit the first time, but I forgot to autosave so when I had to do it the second time I got wrecked xD
Ok I think if 3D Realms actually does still have the 2001 build of Duke Nukem Forever, they should give it to Civvie and have him play and review it and that's the public reveal.
@@Isaacfess no but he needs too. Randy just needs to give the IP up, preferably back to 3D Realms but at this point 3D realms may not want to be involved with the game property that almost got the studio shut down lol
The helicopter isn't mirrored, the text on it isn't backwards: it's M3KUN, which means if it were backwards, it would have 'normally' had a backwards k and 3. And the 3 isn't a backwards E, because it clearly has rounded corners. Also, the 3D Realms logo just above that is the right way around.
I have never clicked a link faster in my life. I was not disappointed. Recently found you Civvie. Quickly became a big fan. :) Good luck in Super Prison though. :(
Useful tip about freezethrower: Sentry Drones can’t evade projectiles of this gun, so it’s a very good weapon against them. And also, this gun is effective against enforcers who comes in groups, since shooting them with Ripper makes them automatically shoot at you, and shotgun can be a bit problematic to use against groups of them….
I've been really depressed about things in my personal life, but I always get an HONEST chuckle out of your videos. Katie's editorial work is Absolutely amazing. Your videos were the spark to build a PC of my own and get back into some of my hobbies that I truly enjoyed when I was younger. Thank you.
@@madmonty4761 what the hell does that have to do with the comment you’re responding to? Also, DNF isn’t even that bad. Everyone acts like it’s the worst game of all time when it’s not. It’s just painfully average.
The "rails" aren't actually electrified on Rabid Transit but they are on the Dark Side trains. You can still get run over though. Also, Brutal Doom Extermination day has a metro level like this crossed with Blood 2 if the latter was actually well done or even medium rare. It has properly shaped escalators leading down to it like in Ion Maiden despite being the Doom engine and like Blood 1, you kill the train. Backtracking down the tunnel is impossible though as there's a lava pit using the instant death floors from Strife. If the Doom Slayer chose to speak, he'd say here: "I should have known those demon bastards booby-trapped this subway."
@JOEL BARRY COTTER Thanks! If I fail, I will. But I would be willing to settle out of court for say.... a Pro Duke Nukem Forever video (including DLC).
Good luck! I remember one exam where I had to study for a test the next day, but I kept watching Friends episodes. After each episode I'd say to myself: "okay, just one more, and then I'll start." I ended up watching a whole season and had to go write the test with no sleep at all. Good times.
Saving the babes seems like an exercise in futility and even if you do save them imagine the ptsd they have to live with... EDIT: Pro Rise of the Triad when Civvie?
He still has The Birth to cover, and the World Tour edition (Hi Randy, you fuck!), and Life's A Beach, and Duke it out D.C. At least he already covered Nuclear Winter. "It's not nice to shoot Santa."
18:40 Rooms like that make you wonder why Duke never got a nuke, or his equivalent to a BFG. It seems so odd that Duke Nukem never got Nuke, and an old asian man got so many.
Civvie: *Saves literally 100% of the babes* Leela: You let too many girls die. You have failed in your mission. Civvie: FUUUUUUUUU...! The Rose and Bob BQ in Pro Marathon Trilogy are gonna suck. At least Liacrow's awesome Marathon Redux mod makes those escort missions winnable.
Tight script work, absolute gem to listen to, got me back into my 90s shooter love - please don't change or sell out Civvie you seriously are such a great channel to tune into
Okay so the first time I looked at that comment, it took me a moment to remember what it meant because my first thoughts actually ran to the RKO Outta Nowhere. Which I'd forgotten about until now.
"Subway library"... I think that reference is Richard Donner's Superman movie, where Lex Luthor had his base in the subway or the sewer or whatever for some reason
Genuinely surprised you didn't point out the shortcut in fahrenheit. At the very beginning of the level, the exit is right behind a large pipe with a crack wide enough to throw a pipebomb through, so you can set off the destructable wall behind and exit the level first thing. =D
I was on the toilet taking a poop watching this, and 18:37 literally scared the shit out of me. Thanks Civvie! Duke Nukem 3D, best laxative of the 90’s!
