Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-5557418-20131202044007/@comment-3547390-20140108033029

Wait, you are playing Dark Forces too? Is your Thief playthrough on hold?

It is a much better game with these improvements. Hopefully I can figure out the sewer complex. Well, wish me luck, time to find out where that Moff Rebus has hidden himself.

If I am right, Level 4 is where I ragequit last time after barely and aimlessly wandering until I found Rebus in level 3. Maybe run will fix some things, but from what I remember I failed at leaving the starting area due to it being a large chasm.

Now for a bunch of very weird questions on lives to learn how the game works. Say I am on level 2 and find that extra life, beating the level with 4. As you said, I will start the next level with 4. But say I played that level again. If I quit before beating the level would it change the data, or would beating the level not have any change either due to it only saving your best stats? Could I eventually get to the final boss level with 9 lives if I replayed the key levels with lives and got those extra lives? Can you start a level with less than 3 lives?

EDIT: Extremely limited ammo, large maze with buttons, respawning enemies that are tiny and hard to hit, extremely dark rooms that are hard to navigate in, sewer monsters... Yeah, this level is a nightmare! I pressed some buttons, don't know what they did. I also keep finding myself in the same areas.

Sewers... why did they have to make it sewers....

I am going out on a limb here, but area 4 seems virtually useless. Sadly, I failed at the mission. Those thermal detonators are difficult to use (had 28 but couldn't hit anything with them)! I ended up making it past an area with Grans throwing grenades, dying when I hit the droids in the next room after a difficult leap. I assume I was making progress based on the fact that I never saw grenade throwing enemies up to that point.

EDITEDIT: Redid the mission and beat it on my last life. Those little droids are almost impossible to hit and take so much of my life. I found out that they do indeed give you 3 lives. But I also found out that they do not give you ammo, meaning I am starting level 4 with no ammo besides those infernal thermal detonators which I usually end up injuring myself with. Am I doomed? Not sure if they can reach across chasms of doom. Sprinting is what got me in this situation (respawning enemies really breaks the idea of ever controlling an area).

I also learned something after completing the mission. Pressing F5 means a headlamp appears, those mysterious packs I kept seeing are apparently batteries for it. So all this time I could have used a light...

By the way, what is a headwave? Does Katarn have psonic force powers I didn't know about either? Maybe that was what the power packs the robots gave me were for. So maybe I can use headwave to drag stormtroopers to their death?

Also not really sure how infared will help me at this point. Now I am worried I will fight invisible enemies. Oh boy, respawning invisible tiny robots of death in the second sewer level!