Pistol Starts in BFG Edition

[FixbotWill]

One thing I discovered recently:

in the original Doom 3 and RoE, if you use console commands to warp to a specific level, the game starts you with a fair amount of weaponry.
In BFG Edition, it doesn't. yoiu start with the pistol and 12/36 ammo. 12/24 in the Lost Mission for some reason. and in Resurrection of Evil, you start off holding the grabber but if you ever switch weapons, you can't switch back to it. You'll never have the soul cube or artifact.

This does present something of a new challenge. I've been playing through the levels on all three campaigns with a pistol start on each map. Veteran difficulty. Some of them are quite challenging.

Have completed most of the maps. Ones I have not been able to traverse so far:

Caverns 2 (can't even get out of the first room)
Caverns 3 (impossible due to no Soul Cube)
Erebus Labs 6 (there are no weapons and not enough pistol ammo to kill the Berserk Hunter; don't think it can be done with the fists)
RoE Hell (no weapons; it might be possible to kill the Maledict with the grabber, but it would probably take hours)
Both Hell levels in the Lost Mission

Also, Delta Labs 2b wasn't a 100% kills playthrough.

[SuperFly]

For clarity -- you are saying that even if you re-acquire the Grabber/Cube, after this console method in RoE, you won't be able to re-access them?

[FixbotWill]

Soulcube - you'll never have it, end of story. Or the Artifact. Unless you're playing on Nightmare, I guess (haven't tried that though)

Grabber - if you use console command to begin a particular RoE level, then you initially start the level with the Grabber equipped. HOWEVER you don't actually have it in your inventory... so if at any point you switch to a new weapon (including if you pick up a new weapon), you won't be able to switch back to the Grabber.

[FixbotWill]

trying them on Nightmare now, and on Nightmare you have the Soul Cube at all times. You'll start each level with 100 health (which will deterioriate) and an uncharged soul cube.

[FixbotWill]

as for Resurrection of Evil - on Nightmare you'll always have the Artifact with all three powers (but there are no corpse charges until after the Helltime Hunter), but you won't have the Grabber except for the second half of Erebus 1.
This means Erebus 2 is apparently impossible - no way to kill the Helltime Hunter. But you CAN kill the Berserk Hunter thanks to berserk fists. I haven't been able to get 100% kills on that level yet though, the first outdoor section is a real pain.