Chaco
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I am bad at mimic puzzles. I am bad at mimic puzzles with inaccessable-until-solved roach queens. And I am especially bad at mimic puzzles with roach queens and orbs and mimics not even oriented the way you'll be.

Any sort of general hints for solving this one?

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Oneiromancer
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General hints? Take your time with each move, looking at all 3 chambers. Don't worry about the roaches in the mimic chambers until you've taken care of the ones threatening Beethro. The Undo button is your friend, but you don't have to avoid every orb. In fact, you could hit several orbs and still solve the room, although you need to be aware of which ones you are okay hitting (there is one in particular that is always bad). And once you've hit an orb, you can hit it as many times as you like, so that makes the area a bit more safe. When the queens spawn, make sure Beethro's back is to a wall or pit so that you can more safely kill the oncoming roaches. And once you've totally cleared a mimic chamber, you can kill the mimic via the bombs. Convenient, eh?

Game on,

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Chaco
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You make it sound easy

Fine, fine... *grumbles and goes back to game*

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Oneiromancer
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Nah, it's not easy...it's definitely the hardest room in the hold. Mostly because most of us don't want to move very slowly and carefully when playing. It actually used to be 1S 1E and then I switched the two rooms to get a better ramping of difficulty.

Game on,

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Alneyan
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A trick that may help you, depending on how you play:

Chaco
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Gragh! I just realised that my entering sword orientation makes absolutely no difference, as the mimics will rotate to the appropriate position!

At least I've made some progress. I can drop about a quarter of the trapdoors without trapping a seep.

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Oneiromancer
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Chaco wrote:
Gragh! I just realised that my entering sword orientation makes absolutely no difference, as the mimics will rotate to the appropriate position!

Mwahaha! I love it when people "appreciate" the scripting...it was rather subtle for this room if you don't bother leaving and re-entering.

Game on,

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TripleM
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Oneiromancer wrote:
Mwahaha! I love it when people "appreciate" the scripting...it was rather subtle for this room if you don't bother leaving and re-entering.

Game on,

Heh. I left and entered about 3 or 4 times with swords in different orientations before I realised what was happening.

Ezlo
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I've been working on this room for about five months now on and off. Can I have a demo maybe?

Sillyman
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Please?

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jbluestein
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File: BGF The Fourths Level 1S1W Victory.demo (2.5 KB)
Downloaded 89 times.
License: Public Domain

Here you go. It's about twice as long as it has to be, but it does work.

Josh

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Sillyman
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It's a good thing that it's overly long, that way stinkin' cheaters like me don't get on the highscores .

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