Getting to the secret level at Mt Erebus, can't make the jump

[Goosepants]

I've tried numerous times but I can't get in the blue walls to access the secret level. I play on ps3 but that shouldn't matter, they put it in the game. I go to the big side of the platform and make the leap but can never get in. Any tips?

[Doomkid]

Try running at it diagonally, this increases your speed.

http://doomwiki.org/wiki/Straferunning

[Marnetmar]

You're supposed to grab the nearby Invulnerability sphere and rocketjump backwards off of the ledge.

[Goosepants]

Thank you

[Doomkid]

Marnetmar said:

You're supposed to grab the nearby Invulnerability sphere and rocketjump backwards off of the ledge.

I never even realized this, I always just sr40'd to it.

[ASD]

Straferunning is disabled in PS3.

[Doomkid]

That's really odd, do you have a source for that? I don't doubt it, I'm just curious. Was there a reason given why they removed it?

[Nictendo]

Doomkid said:

That's really odd, do you have a source for that? I don't doubt it, I'm just curious. Was there a reason given why they removed it?

It's more just a function of the analog movement of a control stick as opposed to the digital movement of a keyboard. It wasn't intentionally patched out, but rather a side effect of the nature of the control scheme.

[antares031]

IIRC, the original method to reach that secret exit, intended by developers, was the first horizontal rocket jumping in FPS history.

[printz]

Meh. First time getting to E3M9 was by mashing the walls until I found the secret, just like in Wolf3D. Basically, I kept hitting the space key on the blue box until I wonderfully hit the exit switch. I believe id even made a patch to prevent that, but apparently they failed. I wasn't aware of rocket jumping and wasn't crazy/suicidal enough to try it (in fact I was totally afraid to use the rocket launcher).

[unerxai]

Yeah, rocket jumping is the intended way to do it. I don't think the official levels were created with strafe running in mind since you can break many of them by doing it.

[lazygecko]

Romero confirmed that the rocket boost method was intentional in one of the Devs Play videos.

[HavoX]

antares031 said:

IIRC, the original method to reach that secret exit, intended by developers, was the first horizontal rocket jumping in FPS history.

Interesting. But just because the devs intended for us to reach that secret exit, doesn't mean there's a wrong way to get there... heck, I don't even recall reaching that exit that way ;)