vittro
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Oh man, I'm sick of Abyssian Fortress... It has got a lot of cool rooms, but these type of rooms, like "let the player do it" without any lynchpin or puzzle elements. This room is based on tar cutting, bleah. I cleaned the first part without problem, but in now in the second part of the room when Beethro hear the mother "I am not afraid." I can't manage to cut the tar...

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Blondbeard
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Crappy tip, but try to clear the left part of the room first. By the the way: I too hated this room

sjschaffner
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This room is no longer fun!! If I could bypass it an finish the level I would. I am stuck in the middle section and have come close many times without success. If anyone has a major hint to clear out enough of the middle section to get to the mother before the doors close or the tar obstructs the opening please help. I just don't see the point of a room like this. Overall TCB is my favorite of the 3 holds, but this is ridiculous. If anyone has some major suggestion I would appreciate it.

CuriousShyRabbit
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Here are two general strategies that helped me:

Order for clearing tar off the pressure plates in the middle section:

Timing:

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sjschaffner
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Thanks much for the thoughtful reply. One other question. Do you leave the babies in the middle section to come back to later after killing the mother or do you remove them all on the way up?

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Blondbeard
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It seems a lot easier to kill the babies.

sjschaffner
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Thanks much!! I finished the room. You have been very helpful.

Bobpie
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All it takes to beat this room is 4 things.
1.timeing
2.patence
3.efficiency
4.The ability to restrain yourself from destroying your computer.

Songsmith
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CuriousShyRabbit wrote:
Timing:

Click here to view the secret text

×Open the last door to the mother right after she spawns, so you'll have plenty of time to get in to the top chamber.

Thank you!

philb
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I'm going crazy - like everyone else ! Has anyone got a demo, please ?

Briareos
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File: TCB Abyssian Fortress 1N Victory.demo (8.4 KB)
Downloaded 178 times.
License: Public Domain

Sure thing... though if you go at it more reckless you can be quite a bit faster...

np: Yello - Blue Green (Solid Pleasure)

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bwross
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sjschaffner wrote:
Thanks much for the thoughtful reply. One other question. Do you leave the babies in the middle section to come back to later after killing the mother or do you remove them all on the way up?
Blondbeard:
It seems a lot easier to kill the babies.

Really? Because I found it a lot easier to leave babies
Made the second part quite easy actually.

I liked this room. It's largely tactical, but it's absolutely not true that you don't have to think about what order to do things and time when to do them. If you charge into this room without thinking you will almost certainly fail.

schep
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bwross wrote:
I liked this room. It's largely tactical, but it's absolutely not true that you don't have to think about what order to do things and time when to do them. If you charge into this room without thinking you will almost certainly fail.

Okay, so maybe you can be clever here. I just

philb
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I tried to watch the demo from Briarcos but got a message that told me that the demo had been made with a more recent version. So I couldn't open it. I'musing version 3.0.0 for Mac. Is there a way around this ?

Briareos
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philb wrote:
I tried to watch the demo from Briarcos but got a message that told me that the demo had been made with a more recent version. So I couldn't open it. I'm using version 3.0.0 for Mac. Is there a way around this ?

Well, there's no patch for the Mac OS X version, but you could download the TCB 3.1 installer from the downloads page, export your player from the 3.0 version, make a backup of all DROD-related files (in your home directory), install the new version and re-import all other holds you had imported followed by importing your player file.

This probably is more work than you might have wanted, but I'm afraid most people are probably using 3.1 by now...

Maybe Mike could cook up a patch for Mac OS X for the 3.1.0.55 patch?

(NB: I don't even have a Mac, so I might have forgotten a step or two above...)

np: The Orb - Orb Is (Shopping Version) (Bicycles & Tricycles)

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FROST
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I have already completed this room from the south but cannot figure how to restore to come from the north, can anyone provide an answer - if it's possible?

Nuntar
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On the restore screen, you can click on the checkpoints if you stepped on them while solving the room. You'll have to play the rest of the room after the last checkpoint again (or the whole room if you didn't use the checkpoints). Then create a new tar baby before exiting to the north

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FROST
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Nuntar wrote:
On the restore screen, you can click on the checkpoints if you stepped on them while solving the room. You'll have to play the rest of the room after the last checkpoint again (or the whole room if you didn't use the checkpoints). Then create a new tar baby before exiting to the north

thanx fellow gamer, that was what I needed.

karlpopper
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The Pearls video walkthrough: efficiency rules.

Lets Play DROD The City Beneath Part 86


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