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DOOM® CAPTCHA (doom-captcha.vercel.app)

You will need a bit of patience with this one 😇

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[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago

Near impossible on my tiny phone haha

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

The hit boxes appear to be huge. I got it just by turning and shooting from the starting position.

Fun, but a relatively simple script could likely be developed to solve these.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I expected to have to do more than tap the fire button.

If you shoot from cover, some come to find you. Back into corner and rapid fire, not a great plan, but got it on about 6th try.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

It's more that my phone is quite literally tiny. 3" screen, 480x854

[-] clickyello@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Unihertz Jelly Star. I wanted a modern phone smaller than my pixel 3. Seemed to be the only viable option at the time. It's crazy how big phones are now, even the compact ones are bigger than what I class as a big phone

[-] clickyello@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

huh neat, I didn't know that was a thing! I'm tempted because I feel like I'd be less inclined to doomscroll on it, which seems like a feature rather than a bug.

it seems kinda thick though, do you think it's more comfy in a pocket despite that?

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It's more comfy in the pants despite the thickness.

Think about how much a thin but big phone sticks out when placed on a cylinder. This has less surface area that's touching your leg so you barely feel it.

Doom scrolling can still happen on this phone like but it does make certain stuff just make me want to wait till I'm at a computer to do it instead, like shopping and whatnot. So I find that a plus, somewhat.

[-] clickyello@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

very late response but you sold me on it.

Sent from my Unihertz Jelly Star.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Oh nice, welcome to the club! If you ever have any questions about any quirks, fire away.

I think your first port of call is you haven't adjust is getting a better launcher. I find vertical scrolling ones work best for such a small screen. I got Niagara for mine, but there might be other alternatives out there.

[-] clickyello@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

yeah I had been using Niagara on my pixel 6 but it's a little too effective for me, my main desire with getting this phone was for it to be less of a distraction so I went with before launcher and set it to text only, no icons.

so far it's been very good at doing what I need it to and then getting out of the way but I haven't had it for a full week yet so I'm not fully decided on it.

Yeah, I wish my phone was a bit smaller, but it's already on par or smaller than most of the industry (Pixel 8).

[-] donio@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No WASD, no strafe, not fair.

I got it by running around the imps and going for the grunts (all enemies are "monsters" in Doom)

[-] hisao@ani.social 12 points 1 year ago

Reposting from my other reply: There is strafe actually, even two ways of doing it, using original DOS bindings: < and > or alt + left/right arrow. For me the easiest way to do it without strafe is just to move forward a bit, then go back and wait for dudes to come in from the right. Dealing with imps is really hard since their fireballs are sped up significantly. I tried a bit more and it seems it's possible to actually beat this level properly. You can get other weapons and powerups. It's just really hard with speed mode and nightmare difficulty.

Honestly, the easiest way is to move forward a bit. The imps can't hit you, and the grunts will come toward you, so it becomes a shooting gallery instead of you being in a bullet hell.

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 23 points 1 year ago

The awkward controls make it unfair.

... But then, IDKFA works

Which MEANS

An AI could totally cheat this.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

An AI would play this better than any human.

[-] ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

But could it be made to differentiate a human from an AI?

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe, unless the AI pretends to suck.

[-] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

I love it, but can't get the keyboard to display on mobile

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

It didn't work on chrome for me, but does on Firefox.

[-] perfectduck@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I just tapped it and it showed one

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Works in Safari

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Had to bait them into coming towards me, many deaths before I managed tho. Still better than most captchas

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

doom without sidestep? no thanks

[-] hisao@ani.social 7 points 1 year ago

It's a bit of a secret feature, but there is strafe actually, even two ways of doing it, using original DOS bindings: < and > or alt + left/right arrow.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I am on mobile but will try on computer

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Too many imps in the center square. Too easy to just get ganged with fireballs. I found that I needed to hang out in the hallway and get the marines that were coming in.

WTF? Is this Nightmare difficulty? Just how many enemies are crammed in the hallways here.

I get that this is a joke project. But, if you were to reduce the difficulty to some common denominator, it could actually be a viable CAPTCHA. Then again, there's already good AI bots that could dominate this.

[-] Danitos@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

It is Nightmare difficulty, on a hidden level as well.

[-] tabularasa@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

No strafe. Ughhh

[-] hisao@ani.social 0 points 1 year ago

Not only nightmare, it's also -fast. Click how it works in the bottom of the page.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 9 points 1 year ago

That was surprisingly difficult.

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

This is fucking amazing

[-] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Idk why you say i would need patience. I cleared it under 5 seconds. Maybe i had good RNG.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

RNG in doom, that's illegal :D

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why does it have to be on a hard level with just a pistol, tho? lol I turned the first corner and was obliterated by imp fireballs before I knew what map I was on.

[-] ramius345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I beat it by kiting some of the shotgunners to come past the imps. 3 Easy kills.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

I tried going straight, but after a while I noticed there's actually an invisible pinky over there.

Also is the sound too high, or is it just me not rememberering right?

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

The sounds are completely different and I'm not sure where they're sourced from.

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Is there any strategy for this level apart from kiting the enemies into your line of sight while you are shielded from the centre cube? Maybe the WAD could be tweaked. Cool project though!

[-] hisao@ani.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One fun and moderately easy strategy is running into forward tunnel all the way down into the pit, killing a sergeant for a shotgun, running through acid into the room with health and pickups on the left, and then killing 2 more imps. PS: I'm doing it with strafe through (< and > or alt + arrows).

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Took me 2 tries, advanced a bit, retreated and waited for the dudes to walk into my line of pistol fire

This is the way. You only need 3 kills, so there's no need to deal with the caged grunts in any way whatsoever.

[-] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 year ago

Well I think I'm a robot. Couldn't do the things that it's asking me to do. So I guess I'm a robot. Beeboo beeboo boop beeboo beeboo bee boop.

[-] SitD@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago

what a chimera 😰

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