This son of a bitch...
>>3056627
just strafe a lot
dont use explosives either they take more damage from nails or the ssg
Run up close to him so he does his melee attack. Back up before he hits you, unload what you got, repeat. Time it just right.
>>3056995
This + Super Nailgun or Lightning Gun = A very dead Shambler killed quickly.
>>3056627
There's regularly a Quad damage rune near them.
>>3057517
Oh GOD.
>>3057517
Once they get going they are a pain, but often times they will have a short pause where you can shoot them, or like mortems keep you can bounce grenades before you ever meet them.
>>3057552
I usually use explosives on them, my safety be damned.
I used to think of the shambler as a mini-boss first time playing through Quake but in custom maps they're just a regular monster, they're everywhere. You can bait his melee which makes it beatable with a regular shotgun but it's a little difficult. Usually I just bait it's lighting/colgate toothpaste attack and run around a corner and basically cheese him that way.
>>3057610
I think it was supposed to be a mini-boss, but they're used so often in custom maps that they're not all that special.
Somewhat like the Cyberdemon, actually.
>>3057517
They’re pretty easy to kill with the rocket launcher.
Too bad you get it very late in the last episode.
>>3057517
>these fuckers in dark levels
almost ruined episode 4 for me completely
>>3057517
BLECH
i just want to be swallowed whole
>>3057517
KILL IT WITH ROCKETS
>>3056661
>Strafe
Try that strategy. Strafe to dodge the lightning without cover and report back.
>>3056661
>strafe the giant hitscanner with 100% accuracy
You don't have much experience with shamblers, do you.
>>3058392
Wrong type of Vore
>>3056627
That versus the alien grunt from half-life - who win?
>>3059384
Looking at the numbers, the grunts melee is weaker than quake shotgun, his hornets are weaker and slower than nail gun. Shambles smash attack would kill grunt in one hit with grunt having hard difficulty health. Grunt is a baby back bitch compared to shambler.
>>3056995
Yeah good luck doing that in Nightmare difficulty.
>>3059478
Nightmare is the only way to play this game. Works just fine for me. I'm only talking for about close range encounters such as in OP's picture. Obviously at a distance, i would take cover around corners, popping out briefly to shoot grenades or rockets.
>>3059723
Why would you waste rockets or grenades in shamblers who recieve half damage from such weapons?
>>3059724
To avoid getting damage yourself retard
>>3059724
I like to save my nails for things such as fiends. And the shotgun is pretty useless at long range.
>>3057517
Oh my glob, fuck these things so much. When I did my Nightmare run, most of my deaths were caused by these pieces of grape jelly. That guttural croaking sound they make on wake-up is still burned into my memory.
At least we can thank Id for not including the Vomitus in the final release of Quake...
Right, so I finished Quake in nightmare (with the secret levels). How do I install the mission packs for Quakespasm? I only have a 35 MB .pak file but I don’t know where to put it nor how to launch it.
>>3056627
This piece of shit honestly scared the shit out of me the first time...
>>3060406
BLUHHH. *BOOM*
Player was slimed by a Spawn.
>>3060421
make a subfolder called something, put the pak file in that folder, make a shortcut for quakespasm and add -game something at the end of the shortcut's path, like this:
D:\quakespasm\quakespasm-sdl2.exe -game something
>>3060651
You can also make a bat file doing this, which is what I do with the expansion packs and map packs that need their own folder instead of dumping them into the id1/maps folder.
>>3060651
Works. Thanks!
>>3057857
They're harder to kill with the rocket launcher than the SNG/Nailgun because they take half damage from explosions. Meaning they're about 3 SNG's worth of damage each. SNG's shoot 10 per second and does 18 damage. They have 600 health. That's 3.4 seconds of constant spray.
Rocket launcher shoots 1.25 per second and does 50 damage. Twelve rockets for 600 damage and that's 14.4 seconds.
Which sounds easier?
Thunderbolt/shafting does 30 damage per bolt, 10 bolts per second. Twenty bolts. Two seconds.
Guess what you want to use on them. If you have Quad even more so
>>3060710
I talked about spawns, not shamblers.
>>3060710
The Lightning Gun is my go-to weapon for multiple Shamblers. It wrecks them.
The SNG is fine for multiple Shamblers as well, but that's usually my crowd control weapon.
>>3060620
I can hear that wet, wobbling sound still...
>>3060651
>>3060690
These instructions are a bit wonky, you won't get the special HUD elements to work by doing this.
Mission pack 1 should be installed in a subdirectory called 'hipnotic'. Then run Quakespasm with '-game hipnotic -hipnotic' on the command line. Same thing with the Rogue mission pack. quakespasm -game rogue -rogue.
>>3057517
DELETE THIS
RIGHT FUCKING NOW
>>3057517
>see one
>rocket launcher or LG
>boom
or if he starts following
>select nailgun
>run away from it backwards
>keep your reticule still in its jumping path
>hold mouse button down
yes, this is without auto aim on, sv_aim 2
>>3057517
DELETE THIS
>>3057546
>>3058152
>>3060406
>>3060620
>>3060909
>>3061047
>>3061093
BLECH....................WAAAGHSHSHSHSWAAAASSHGHGHGHWAAAGHSHSHSHWAAAASHSHSHSHSGHGHWASHSHSHSHWAAASHSHSHWAAHSHSHSH
>>3057517
NO
NO
FUCK OFF
I was playing Quake a while back and holy fucking shit, once these bastards popped up... I don't think I've been as mad at a game in a very long time
>>3060997
>Changes in 0.90.0
>Command line: "-game {quoth/hipnotic/rogue}" is now treated the same as -quoth, -hipnotic, or -rogue.
>>3060406
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8
>>3060721
My bad on that. Thought it was the shambler comment. Yeah RL/GL is good for them.
>>3060406
>tripfag
>oh my glob
Please fucking die now somewhere public you fucking useless twat.
>>3061314
How do you like spike mines or hell spawn?
>>3061314
If you know where they are and pay attention you can easily kill them before they even start jumping around. That being said, they're at best a minor nuisance if you're decent at the game.
