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

submitted 7 months ago by hisao@ani.social to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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You will need a bit of patience with this one 😇

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 36 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Near impossible on my tiny phone haha

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 7 months ago

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

[+] AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] clickyello@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

what phone is that?

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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 7 months ago (1 children)

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 7 months ago (1 children)

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 6 months ago (1 children)

very late response but you sold me on it.

Sent from my Unihertz Jelly Star.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 6 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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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 7 months 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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

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 7 months ago (1 children)

The awkward controls make it unfair.

... But then, IDKFA works

Which MEANS

An AI could totally cheat this.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

An AI would play this better than any human.

[–] ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

Maybe, unless the AI pretends to suck.

[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago

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

[–] perfectduck@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I just tapped it and it showed one

[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Works in Safari

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

doom without sidestep? no thanks

[–] hisao@ani.social 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 7 months ago

I am on mobile but will try on computer

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

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

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] tabularasa@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago

No strafe. Ughhh

[–] hisao@ani.social 0 points 7 months ago

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

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 9 points 7 months ago

That was surprisingly difficult.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 7 points 7 months ago

This is fucking amazing

[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 7 months ago

RNG in doom, that's illegal :D

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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 7 months ago

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

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 7 months ago

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

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] SitD@lemy.lol 1 points 7 months ago

what a chimera 😰

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 1 points 7 months 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.