Doom III Resurrection of Evil Boss Guide by Kridly Kridly@Hotmail.com Version 1.2 /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ [ Table of Contents ] \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ 1. Introduction 2. Legal Information 3. Helltime Hunter 4. Berserker Hunter 5. Invulnerable Hunter 6. Maledict a. Preparation b. The Battlefield c. The Fight 7. Conclusion 8. Contact 9. Version History 10. Credits /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ [ Introduction ] \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ Hello, and welcome to my Doom3 Resurrection of Evil Boss guide! If you are like me, then you found the boss battles of RoE to be very difficult. I was playing on veteran mode, so maybe that had something to do with it. I have developed strategys for all the bosses in the Resurrection of Evil exponsion pack, and I hope they come in handy. /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ [ Legal Information ] \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Don'ts: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not post the guide on your website without my permission. The sites that already have permission are: If I find it on your site and you never asked me for permission, I will take legal action against you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Do's: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are not on that list above but would like to be able to post this guide on your website, then just send me an Email at Kridly@hotmail.com and I will check out your site, and if I think it is okay I will let you know that 6you may post this guide on your site. /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ [Helltime Hunter ] \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ The first boss fight is not that hard as long as you know what you are doing. You won't be moving much, and the only weapon you need is the Grabber. You'll start out on a platform, with Helltime on an opposite platform facing you. He has three attacks. He can fire a single fireball at you, he can fire a barrage of fireballs at you, or he can warp around the battlefield chucking fireballs at you as he goes. Nothing you can't handle though. At first it will seem like he is invincible, but that is just because there is only one way to damage him. See those two turrets on the sides of the room? the ones that fire those big blue fireballs. You have to catch those with your grabber and then fire them at Helltime. Do that seven times and he will fall, granting you the Helltime power up for your artifact. Now you know how to hurt him, and here is how to keep him from hurting you: Single Fireball attack: It's easy to avoide this one. You can hide behind one of the two pillars, strafe out of it's way, or cathc it with the grabber. Barrage of Fireballs: His hardest attack to avoid, I have found only one way to not get hurt from this. When you see him getting ready to fire, quickly go behind one of the two pillars, so that he is directly on the opposite side of it from you. All of the fireballs should crash harmlessly into the pillar. Warping: Seems easy at first, just dodge the fireballs he throws at you. On the final time he warps though, he'll try to directly attack you. get in the centre of the platform, wait for him to warp towards you, and then quickly sprint away from him. He'll get nothing but thin air. /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ [Berserker Hunter ] \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ The second Hunter, and also a huge pushover. You only need two things for this battle: The Artifact and the Double-Barrel Shotgun. When the battle begins start by getting out the artifact. He will power up, revealing an orange glowing object in his chest. Get out your Double-Barrel shotgun and start nailing the orange thing at close range with it. After a bit of damage, his chest will close back up,and your goal now is just to stay away from him until he re-charges (you will know when he does because the room gets dark). Once the orange thing is back, just pound him with the shotgun some more until he closes up. Rinse and repeat until he dies, granting you the BerserkerArtifact power. /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ [Invulnerable Hunter ] \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ Finally a challenging boss fight! Unlike the last one, this Hunter is not easy. After the cut-scene just start shooting him with the weapon of your choice. When you get low on health or souls just go under the floor via two holes near the walls. When you are under there make sure you crouch so Invulnerable's Shockwave attack does not hurt you. Anyway, after you do enough damage, he will start drawing electricity from one of the four power generators in the room. This makes him invulnerable. Use the Artifact now. Go to whatever generator he is drawing out of, and click on the green panel. This will open a panel exposing the Power Cell. Pound the power cell with whatever you have until it explodes, and what do you know; he is no longer invulnerable! Keep doing this, while making routine trips under the floor to re-stock. You may want to use the artifact when you are hurting him also. Eventually all four power Generators will be destroyed. After that is done then just finish him off, and you'll have a fully operational Artifact, with Helltime, Berserker, and Invulnerable all in one. /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ [ Maledict ] \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ Okay here it is: The big battle. Lets start with preparation: -=[Preparation]=- Okay, before you get here, you will obviously have to beat the rest of the game first, but that is not what this guide is about now is it? Let's start with the final room. Seeing as you have been in Hell for a good bit,you are probably a little freaked out, and the huge Maledict Statue inthe center of the room isn't helping. Don't worry though, because there are no more enemies waiting for you in this room, so feel free to walk around a bit. Make your way to the center of a room, and stock up on ammo, souls, and health. You will be needing it all greatly in the next few minutes. After you are sure you are ready, you need to switch to the grabber. That's right, the wimpy little grabber. For the upcoming battle, you will only need 4 weapons: 1: The Grabber 2: The Artifact 3: The Chain Gun 4. The BFG 9000 No rockets, no Plasma Rifle, just those four. One very important thing that you should memorize is where those weapons are in relation of each other while using the mouse to scroll through them. It is VERY important to be able to switch quickly between them if you want to do this battle right. For instance, after using the artifact (Which you WILL be using in this battle) your weapon will change back to the one that you last had out. Now, if you went straight to the artifact from the Grabber, after you use the artifact your weapon will change back to the grabber, instead of something in between the grabber and the artifact. If you switch to any other weapons than the ones you are using, it could really throw of your groove. During the next section, I will be listing the amount of mouse scrolls needed to switch the next correct weapon. When you are sure that you are ready (and have the grabber out as your weapon, remember) then step in front of the big green portal and quick save your game. You are most likely going to do a whole lot of quick loading until you get a feel for the battle. -=[The Battlefield]=- In this battle there are a lot of things I am going to be telling you to do, so I will make a little map to help me in my directing. I am really bad at this so bear with me. N aaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa a C. a M. a C. a a a a a a aaaaaa a Ea aW a G. a a a a S. a a a a F. F. a aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa S Okay, I know it ain't great but I think it'll work. I'll describe the points: A: Well, basically the edges of the big platform that you are on. Either there is a drop off after that point (instant death) or there is something in the way (The big skull that Maledict sits upon). S: Your starting location, but not really important. G: The first place where you'll want to head after the battle begins, you stand here with your Grabber and take out the four The Forgotten One's that come rushing towards you. F: These spots are where Maledict will appear when he is going into his fireball-spewing stage. I think it is random with what one he appears at. While Maledict is in either of these spots you will be stuffing his head full of lead (hey it rhymes!). C: These spots each have one corpse to recharge your artifact at, and you will be standing here while Maledict does his nasty Meteor Storm attack and while you are nailing him in the head with the BFG. M: This is where Maledict sits while he calls down a nasty Meteor Storm. He is sitting still here so it is a great time to use the fully-charged BFG on him. Well I think that takes care of everything and now you are ready for the fight. -=[The Fight]=- Okay, you just walked into that green portal, went through the freaky tunnel, and watched a cute cut-scene. Now you get to see some action! Right as the cut-scene ends quickly run to point 'G'. Doing so will save you a lot of flaming pain from Maledict flaming breath, and get you to where you are supposed to be. Now Maledict will come up from the north side of the platform and float above point 'M'. He will summon 4 The Forgotten Ones, and one at a time they will come rushing towards you. This part seems hard, but it is actually really easy, because the demons come only one at a time, and Maledict won't be attack for a bit. Okay, so you are standing in point 'G' with the Grabber out, and they start coming towards you. Here is the trick: When they are summoned, the demons are way high up in the air. To attack you the must first drop down to the ground. So simply aim your Grabber under the spot where they are spawning, hold down the trigger, and they will fly right into your.. Magnetic clutches. There are two spawning to west of point 'M' and two spawning to the east of it. The ones on the west side will come first, and then the east. Just take all four of them out, and then quickly switch to the Artifact (up 3 scrolls on the mouse) . Use it, and your weapon will change back to the grabber if you scrolled fast enough. From the Grabber, scroll down five times to the Chain Gun. Do this while turning around to face the south side of the platform. You should have been in the battle for about 15 seconds by now. Now Maledict will appear at either of the two 'F' points, and you should have the chain gun out and the artifact activated as he comes up to float on those points. As soon as you can, start pumping him full of lead with the chain gun and try to get him in the head as much as possible. It shouldn't be too hard. Here is another trick that I have found: If you do enough damage to him, he will skip the whole fireball stage and just fly back down to go spawn more The Forgotten One's. Try to do that as it will make the whole battle a ton easier. If you fail to do that, then just keep shooting him with the chain gun and try to dodge his fireballs until he fly's back down. Either way, after he flies back down, switch to the Grabber by scrolling up 5 times on the mouse, and move back to point 'G'. This next part is essentially the same as the one before, but I'll say it again anyway. Now Maledict will come up from the north side of the platform and float above point 'M'. He will summon 4 The Forgotten Ones, and one at a time they will come rushing towards you. There are two spawning to west of point 'M' and two spawning to the east of it. The ones on the west side will come first, and then the east. Just take all four of them out with the Grabber, and then quickly switch to the Artifact (up 3 scrolls on the mouse). Use it, and your weapon will change back to the grabber if you scrolled fast enough. From the Grabber, scroll down five times to the Chain Gun. Do this while turning around to face the south side of the platform. Now Maledict will appear at either of the two 'F' points, and you should have the chain gun out and the artifact activated as he comes up to float on those points. As soon as you can, start pumping him full of lead with the chain gun and try to get him in the head as much as possible. It shouldn't be too hard. After the second fireball round, if you did enough damage he should fly across the field doing another fire breath attack from the east side to the west side. So right after he dives down from pint 'F', run to the eastern point 'C' while getting out your BFG (9 mouse scrolls up from the chain gun), let the weapon stay at BFG for about 1 second, and then scroll down once to the artifact and get the soul from the corpse there. Now Maledict will re-appear and sit on top of point 'M' opposed to summoning more demons again. Activate your artifact, and switch to the BFG, and right about now meteors should start raining down from the sky. So you are stand at the eastern point 'C' with the artifact activated and the BFG out, start charging the BFG while walking to the western point 'C'. It should be fully charged about halfway there (be careful not to let it blow up on you), so fire that BFG shot straight at his head. As soon as the shot leaves your gun reload and start charging again. By the time it is all the way recharged and ready to fire you should be at the western point 'C'. Fire your second BFG shot at his head, and after it hit's the artifact should run out. Reload your BFG once again, and scroll down only once to the artifact. Suck the soul from the corpse near you, and head to either the western pont 'C', so that his meteors won't hit you. Also, Leanord Lee wrote: "Hi there, I just wanted to add that if you stand on the far side of the arena while Maledict does his meteor attack, you'll never get hit. This area on your map should be right between the two Fs. Basically, it's the far most part adjacent of M (or the area where Maledict calls the meteor)." After a bit, Maledict will appear and sit on point 'M' once again, and after he does that activate your artifact an scroll up once to the BFG. Start charging it and nail him in the head with a fully charged shot, reload it and do it again one last time. If you did everything right he will start lying around and the final cut-scene will start. Congratulations!! You have just beaten the hardest boss by far in all of Doom III and also the Resurrection of Evil Expansion pack. Now that wasn't too hard was it? *coughcoughcough* /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ [ Conclusion ] \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ Now that you have beaten the game why not go back and try it on Nightmare difficulty? *maniacal laughter* I hope that this guide was a big help with the big fights and wasn't to complicated. Maybe I'll write another one sometime about something else Doomey, but maybe not. We'll see. /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ [ Contact ] \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ If you have any complaints and/or suggestions about this guide then don't hesitate to shoot me an email at Kridly@hotmail.com . Anything is welcome! /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ [ Version History ] \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ----------------------------------------------------------- ~Version 1.0~ First version, posted the guide on Gamefaqs and gamespot. ----------------------------------------------------------- ~Version 1.2~ Fixed some minor errors. Added neoseeker to the allowed site's list. Added how to avoid the meteors in the Maledict fight. Added Leanard Lee to the Credits. Updated Table of Contents. ----------------------------------------------------------- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ [ Credits ] \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ This FAQ was written by me, Kridly. Special thanks to: Leanord Lee for sending me a tip for the Maledict fight. ID & Nerve software for making this great game. CjayC for hosting a great site like GameFaqs.com All the people who use this guide. THE END /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ +This document is © 2005 Kridly + + All rights reserved. + \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/