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Subject: Marathon tips
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I'm playing marathon (m1a1) through once again, only this time on total carnage.

I'm up to cool fusion, and the part in the level where you dive into a well lit room, which immediately becomes a darkened pit of pain when heaps of pfhor and troopers pour into it from openings in the walls.

Even with 2X shields I don't have enough room to dodge all the grenades and energy projectiles flung at me. I've tried using the flamethrower, but I take too much damage too fast.

Normally I'm fine, with enough space. I puched my way through most of the rose - it's the narrow confines that cause me grief.

I'll give it another go tomorrow, but I was wondering if any of the vid masters here can give me a few tips about getting past this point on cool fusion.

  • 09.19.2004 6:22 AM PDT
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My suggestion: use the Wave Motion Cannon! ;)

  • 09.19.2004 3:47 PM PDT
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Vidmaster tips and tricks for Cool Fusion.

  • 09.20.2004 3:02 PM PDT
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The wave motion cannon is the one that took pirated copland betas as ammo?

I think they are now waste'm combat shotguns (which can be found on a certain level containing a terminal with the line "I've got a shotgun and you ain't got one")!

Hangbrain - thanks for the link - I am hoping that method will work for M1A1... and that I have a saved game before I killed all the pfhor in pit A :)

EDIT: I got it - the vid master trick didn't help me, as none of the pfhor were keen to jump into pit b, but I changed tactics and, rather then dodging heaps, focused all my fire on the troupers in turn. This got me through.

I declare this thread open to anyone who needs help in marathon!

[Edited on 9/21/2004 2:18:37 AM]

  • 09.20.2004 4:22 PM PDT

No, the Pirated Copland Beta fired Windows NT as ammo. It was a jab at Microsoft, because it was pretty obvious (to most people, and by most, I mean Mac-using) that it was a (very, very awful) rip-off of Apple's planned "Copland" operating system (which was eventually toned down and released as Mac OS 8. The whole project was put on hold for a while, until "Rhapsody" was announced, which never surfaced. Mac OS X is basically what has finally grown out of the Copland project).

- Reiginko

  • 09.21.2004 2:48 AM PDT

Ach! Was ist los?

Correction: Copland grew into OS 8/9, Rhapsody grew into OS X.

--Sgt. Smith has way too many Macaddicts around the house.

  • 09.21.2004 9:19 AM PDT