If I die in a level, am i supposed to start from the beginning?

[Elllll]

Because all through The Ultimate Doom, i just saved my game and reloaded to before i died.
Thanks.

[Kaiser Ducky]

If you die, you restart the current level and lose all your gear. So, you spawn with just your pistol and 50 bullets.

You can just load your game to avoid this though q:

[Elllll]

Originally posted by Kaiser Ducky:

If you die, you restart the current level and lose all your gear. So, you spawn with just your pistol and 50 bullets.

You can just load your game to avoid this though q:

I know. What im asking is whether its considered cheating to do so.

[merchantmudcrab]

It is not, Saving always has been a feature of doom.

[Kvaal]

Its not cheating but every map in doom and most wads is designed so you can beat it starting with the pistol

[Phoenix]

Regarding Doom, you can save anywhere at any time. Quicksaving is not considered cheating but is a deliberate part of the game's design. Anyone who says it is cheating is just expressing a playing style opinion. Some people don't like Quicksave, some people don't like Checkpoints in newer games. That's just preference. Just be aware that you CAN quicksave in a bad spot - like right before a fireball kills you - and not be able to avoid it. It's a good idea to do a manual save at the beginning of each level so that if you accidentally quicksave where you DON'T want to you won't have to restart the level with just your pistol or play from the beginning.

Generally speaking, in single-player games, if the game allows you to do something via normal methods - a menu action or button press - then it's not cheating. If you have to type in a secret code to do something and that something makes you invincible or gives you all the weapons at once, that's considered cheating. Typically these codes are left in by developers for "debugging purposes"... though the real reason is there's times it's just fun to be an unstoppable killing machine and just BFG, rocket, or Berserker-punch the crap out of everything in sight with complete impunity - and the devs know that, which is why they left them in for players to find and abuse as desired.

There's no "achievements" in the old Doom games so using a cheat code won't do anything negative. The only score kept is your % of secrets, kills, and items found at the end of a level, and time to completion of said level, so using a single-player cheat code isn't going to knock you out of anything except for the satisfaction of having beaten the game the legit way.

[Adeadpsych0_0X]

you're supposed to load a previous save. only if you're doing a challenge run should you attempt starting the level with just the pistol

[Phade]

Originally posted by Telf:

Originally posted by Kaiser Ducky:

If you die, you restart the current level and lose all your gear. So, you spawn with just your pistol and 50 bullets.

You can just load your game to avoid this though q:

I know. What im asking is whether its considered cheating to do so.

Nah, some people just prefer starting from a pistol start from an added challenge.

[James]

I loved pistol starts. I remember all those nights trying to beat each individual level with only a pistol start. I think every official Doom game had an emphasis on being possible via pistol start.

[KVELLER]

Originally posted by Classic Doom Uv-Maxer:

Yeah I only do pistol starts as it makes the game too easy with saves
Even then it's still easy

It's easy when you have played through the game a hundred times ;)

[James]

Originally posted by KVELLER:

Originally posted by Classic Doom Uv-Maxer:

Yeah I only do pistol starts as it makes the game too easy with saves
Even then it's still easy

It's easy when you have played through the game a hundred times ;)

No matter how easy it is it's still oh so much fun.