This information has mainly been copied over from the Duke Nukem 3D guide. Also the guides on SRC. It has to be checked point by point to make sure it applies to RR as well. How this will be done is by creating new sub-topics under every topic from the old guide, and gradually promoting them to be the main topic and deleting the old information, although at the same time, some new information may be discovered that applies to Duke 3D, which needs to end up in that guide. Also RR-specific topics have to be covered on this page eventually.

All the testing is currently being done using the GOG release which packages RR, R66 and RA into one.

Any information that should be added later is demarked with XYZ.

There is going to be false or speculative information in this guide for a long while. Feel free to contribute your knowledge. That's why this is a wiki. If you're not sure where to put something, you can bring it up on the discussion page (top left link) instead.

New information (?) for Duke 3D

Ideas for how to bind keys for SR-50. Some given here.

• The freezethrower damage is reduced with every bounce?

• You can also use the RPG for a damage boost.

• The level skip trick can be made consistent in v. 1.5 like this at least: hit the nuke (you don't have to wait for the alien voice), immediately hit F1 then F2 (or any similar key) then ESC in rapid succession. Now the game isn't properly paused anymore. Wait a few seconds, enough for the nuke sound to have finished presumably, and you should go to E1M4.

• Your velocity vector doesn't get reset based on collisions, i.e. when you're running into a corner, it's still the same as before you hit it. This is evident when you release the movement keys, since as you roll down to a halt you can end up moving further towards the wall or corner.
  • For the same reason, it seems that the game either gives you the frame's full movement or nothing, and it doesn't place you right next to the object you're colliding with.
  • For this reason, you can't hit a wall to quickly get rid of a lot of momentum in a particular direction. If you have to pick up an item or use a switch in front of you then do a 180, the optimal thing is to start slowing down before you've reached the target already.

• Using mouse analogue movement increases your cap speed during any kind of movement?
  • It could be this just changes your movement angle, but it's unclear how this can happen without also increasing the speed. Another thing that might be happening is that the maximum speed is the same but you accelerate to it faster after shooting guns with recoil.

• To quickly skip the level transition, try holding ESC. Spamming inputs? High FPS helps?

• E1M1 strafe llp (?) through the fence surrounding the rooftop at the start.

• E2M1 force field shaft clips don't require steroids.
  • There's several clips that are presented as steroids-only in the red-stars guide that are NOT steroids-only, though perhaps that was meant as a guide for SS runs and ILs.

• When there's a forcefield, it can potentially be used to help with clipping. You just collide with it and see which directions you can get it to push you back. This push combined with natural movement should make clipping easier. This can be done in E2R1 inside the long chute to get out on the first level.
  • This only worked once. It doesn't seem easy to do at all. Might have been a fluke.

• Are the requirements for using a switch through a wall at all related to those of shooting through walls (PC is in multiple sectors)?

• Seems you're sometimes protected from nearby explosions if you just crouch? This stops using the explosion for boosting though.

• The boost from taking damage is relative to the amount of damage. (linearly?)

• There's sometimes a second explosion from the same source if Duke dies to the first one?

• It looks like Duke's reach is greater when he's standing as opposed to crouched.

• You can use a switch from an angle that's slightly past 0 degrees (around a corner).

• In Babeland, you DON'T have to jdj to get the shotgun inside the booth at the start, just ducking is enough. This is clearly because Duke's 3D coordinates are used to calculate distances from objects and when he crouches, this brings them closer to objects on the ground. You usually end up picking up the item when you uncrouch, not when you crouch. This could simply be the way the movement is a bit slower at first (?), giving more frames when you're closer to the object compared to towards the end of the crouching motion. Apparently the height of objects on the ground is not zero.

CONFIRM

• You can sometimes warp between two locations back and forth. Seen in Pigsty going between the lobby and the interrogation room.

• Seems the consistency (and possibly also range) of ledge pushes can be increased by also doing a jdj.

• You can buffer various actions before entering a security camera view, including shooting. Duke is frozen in time during the time you're looking at the screen.
  • You can also hit ESC and use at the same time to enter the view automatically after resuming (though this doesn't happen after reloading that save file, suggesting buffered inputs aren't stored in save files).

• You can buffer/hold ESC to sometimes skip the end-level stats screen before anything has even been shown.

Unanswered questions

• What exactly isn't paused when you enter the help screen (coming from the menu)?

• What kind of clip is it that you can do in Duke E3M6 to get through the red card door when the train rolls past?

• In the fernito Glitch City map, there is a part with a questionmark on the wall where you have to close a vertically opening door to push yourself through. What is this trick exactly? A "generic clip"?

• Does disabling the Leonard talk option do anything to your time? In Duke 3D the same option makes levels/episodes start faster.

• Can you suicide at the end of levels to regain health?

• Is it okay by SDA rules to rebind keys in a way not available in the config file or setup? I.e. making TAB act as ESC?

• Can you skip two levels like in Duke 3D? In Duke, it seems to help if you bring up the help screen while waiting for the sound sample to finish.

Cheats

    dnkroz -- God mode
    dncornholio -- Same as above
    dnhyper -- Instant steroids!
    dnclip -- Walk through SOME walls
    dnstuff -- All keys, ammo, weapons, and items
    dnitems -- Full armor and all keys
    dnkeys -- All keys
    dnweapons -- All weapons and ammo
    dndebug -- Just shows info, not needed...
    dncoords -- Display coordinates
    dnshowmap -- Display entire map
    dnunlock -- Toggle all doors
    dnscotty### -- Warp to episode #, level ##
    dninventory -- All inventory
    dnmonsters -- Toggle monsters on/off
    dncashman -- Throw cash when spacebar is pressed
    dnending -- End episode
    dneat -- Full health
    dnnuk -- Full ammo
    dnskill # -- 0-nomonster 1-4 is skill level
    dnview -- Same as F7
    dnrate -- Displays frame rate
    dncosmo -- Displays "Register Cosmo today!"
    dnbeta -- Displays "Pirates Suck!"
    dntime -- Displays a message
    dntodd -- Displays a message
    dnnuj -- Turn on jetpack 

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Cheat	Effect
rdguns	give weapons (hit 99 for bowling ball mode)
rdinventory	all inventory items
rdkeys	all keys
rdall	health, keys and weapons
rditems	all items
rddebug	debug mode
rdyerat	display coordinates
rdmonsters	toggle monsters
rdmoonshine	moonshine mode
rdclip	no clipping
rdshowmap	shows the map
rdunlock	toggles locked doors
rdskill[x]	choose skill level from 0 to 4 (0 is no enemies OR items?; is 4 Psychobilly?)
rdmeadow	level warp (1-2 followed by 01-07)
rdfuckngo	level warp (1-2 followed by 01-07)
rdrate	toggle FPS
rdview	toggle 3-p view
rdelvis	god mode
rdhounddog	god mode
rdcluck	shoot feathers (is this spelled rdcluk?)
rdbeta	message
rdrafael	message
rdhounddog	message
rdteachers	message (also toggles monsters?)
rdmaxx	message
rdtime	remove aiming feature on guns (slower gameplay?)
rdgofuckinxtoy	X-rated mode (?)
rdcritters	toggles enemies on/off (Toggles Monster Respawning) (different from rdmonsters?)

• Pushing the ` button should bring you back to life with 2 hp?

• Invulnerability is kept between saving and loading. This allows you to be invulnerable playing on the fourth setting.

Unsorted

• Holding either SHIFT or either ALT key delays map zooming until you release it.

Convenience

• Hit ESC to consistently get through the level end screen fast.

Enemies

• Enemies can open locked doors. Observed with a Billy opening the door leading to the docks in E1M1.

• Enemies take the most damage when explosions happen XYZ

Movement

Strafe-40 and Strafe-50

Similarly to Doom, Duke3D handles Duke's movement such that strafe running (forward/backward + strafing), a.k.a. Strafe-40, causes Duke to move faster.
Again similarly to Doom, Duke3D also allows for Duke to run even faster by double strafe running, a.k.a. Strafe-50.
This can be performed by holding down forward/backward + strafe + the strafe-on modifier (typically alt) + a turn key.
These techniques are named after the Doom strafe running techniques -- the 40 and 50 in the names refer to Doom engine units, not Build engine units.
In 1.3D and 1.5 (and presumably also 1.4), you cannot turn while the strafe-on modifier is held -- even mouse horizontal movement will strafe instead of turning.
In the Megaton Edition, the strafe-on modifier does not affect mouse turning. Thus, strafe-50 is no longer limited to mainly running in straight lines.
Strafe-50 can now be curved and weaved around corners without alternating with strafe-40, and can also be performed more easily and consistently for long periods of time.
This is especially true if one remaps the control buttons so that there is no need to release the mouse in order to press the turn keys.

Mouse analogue movement

• Using mouse analogue movement increases your cap acceleration during any kind of movement, but probably doesn't change the actual cap speed. The difference in acceleration from the mouse compared to the keyboard keys is so big that the mouse can completely nullify the keyboard acceleration, moving you the opposite way instead.
  • This is useful in RR since shooting guns while moving forwards causes a backwards recoil that slows you down, but you can't also simultaneously aim up and down with the mouse.

• Left, forwards and pitching down are the positive directions, right, backwards and pitching up the negative ones.

• Mouse analogue mapping options allow assigning either X-movement (strafing), Z-movement (forwards and backwards), or Y-rotation (turning) to a mouse axis. The "rat aim" option maps Z-movement to pitching the view instead. This is the only way to get mouse aiming.

• Any time the strafe toggle is hit, turning maps to strafing instead.

• When X is mapped to strafing and the mouse is moved forwards or backwards, you get a wobbly left-right strafing. Similarly when X is mapped to turning, it jerks the view left and right.

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Straferunning: Strafe-40 (SR-40) is when you move along both the forwards-backwards axis and left-right axis at once. Strafe-50 (SR-50) is when you also hold down the strafe toggle key while turning left or right, and it adds even more speed. The figures 40 and 50 are vestigial and refer to Doom engine units, not Build engine. The exact speeds for the Build engine are XYZ.

One way to bind your keys form SR-50 is to have all of "strafe left", "strafe" and "turn left" bound on the same key, and similarly with moving to the right. You may want to keep another set of keys bound to just "strafe left/right" to be able to corner and dodge enemies more efficiently. E.g. S and F can be bound for SR-40 and A and G to SR-50.

If you have extra mouse buttons, binding two of them on "turn left" and "turn right" might be sufficient.

You will also want to be able to hit crouch and jump at the same time as the SR-50, and generally at the same time. One idea is to bind jump on SPACE and crouch on C so you can hit them both with the thumb simultaneously.

Underwater Swimming Movement

Swimming underwater causes Duke to move more slowly than swimming above the water's surface.
Submerged, Duke moves somewhere between 1.4 and 1.5 times slower than he would at the water's surface (tested in version 1.3D).
Using steroids does not appear to change this speed multiplier (i.e. Duke will still move slower underwater while on steroids than at the water's surface while on steroids).

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Jetpack Movement and Steroids

Jetpack movement is very similar to underwater swimming movement in Duke3D, but there are some differences.
Unlike swimming underwater, using a jetpack does not usually hinder horizontal movement speed.
Note though, jetpack movement hinders steroid movement speed.
For this reason, it can be useful to let Duke fall in order to allow him to move faster horizontally.
If a certain elevation is required, Duke's jetpack can be toggled on and off while using steroids to achieve a slightly faster movement speed.
Additionally, it is worth noting that Duke cannot submerge into water if he has his jetpack turned on, but he is able to surface from underwater while using a jetpack.

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Full-Height Jump from Water

Jumping after surfacing from water with the correct momentum, especially while moving into sector boundaries, will cause Duke to jump out of the water with a full-height jump instead of simply bobbing at the surface of the water.
Movement on the surface of the water can cause Duke3D to realize Duke is in water and reset his jump to bobbing.
For this reason, hammering jump to catch an early frame after surfacing can improve the chances of a successful full-height jump.
In Duke 1.3D, full-height jumps from water were automatic, as Duke would automatically jump upon surfacing.
Additionally, it has been observed in 1.3D that Duke can very rarely glitch and become stuck on top of the water, unable to submerge until he makes a full-height jump.
It is unknown whether the "unable to submerge" glitch has been fixed in later versions, potentially as part of the other water movement changes.

Video tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqQ3pbVYc3I

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Safety Falls

Stair-stepping causes fall damage to be avoided.
If you are falling a long distance, moving into a ledge such that you collide with its corner and stair-step onto it can save you from taking any damage.

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Hazards

The Void of Space

If Duke enters a sector tagged as having no atmosphere, Duke will immediately die.
This can be seen in 1-8 Dark Side by clipping out of the dome immediately by the starting area.
Originally, before leaving any space craft or station, Duke was supposed to require a Space Suit (which functioned similarly to scuba gear), but this idea was scrapped.
This means that any sector tagged as having no atmosphere is usually untraversable.

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N/A?

Clipping

Projectile Clipping

Projectiles fired along certain lines while Duke spans multiple sectors can be forced to pass through walls.
This can be useful to trigger explosives or destruction that can open up areas and allow skipping segments of levels.
Missing the proper setup to clip explosive projectiles typically leads to Duke's demise.

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Pipebomb Clipping

In addition to the ability to throw pipebombs through small cracks and openings, pipebombs can be pushed through certain solid walls (particularly those which are child sectors).
When Duke is tight against a wall, he can drop a pipebomb through the wall if it is thrown without any velocity.
There are multiple methods available to accomplish this:

• after beginning to throw the pipebomb, crouch or uncrouch just as the pipebomb is being placed
• crouch and aim at a slight angle up
• rapidly hammer the fire button

Note that pipebombs that are being thrown are not affected by Duke's momentum.
The velocity at which pipebombs are thrown is primarily affected by the length of time the fire button is held before the throw.

Further, in the original 1.3D release, pipebombs could be thrown through extremely thick walls into neighbouring sectors if thrown with the proper angle to the wall.

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Water Surfacing Clip

Duke3D expects that there will be enough vertical and horizontal space in a sector above an underwater sector to safely house Duke.
If there is not, Duke will typically immediately die upon surfacing.
This behaviour is potentially the cause of the somewhat useful clip out of water in 2-1 Spaceport through the force-fields at the bottom of the Red Key chute.

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There are no force fields but things like doors near water should be tested for this.

Landing Crouch Jump (also known as Jump/Duck/Jump)

By crouch jumping while landing from a jump or fall in the direction of a small opening, Duke can slide into vertical spaces smaller than he should normally be able to move into.

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Small Ledge Push

Duke's collision resolution while on small ledges is volatile.
If Duke crouch jumps while moving towards a wall while on a small ledge, Duke will clip into the wall, and potentially through it into a neighbouring sector.
When Duke is forcing against a wall while on a small ledge, Duke will be pushed backward a small amount without forcing him back so far as to knock him off the ledge.
This causes Duke to visibly jitter backwards and forwards while the movement keys are held.
This jitter is related to two clipping bugs in Duke3D, and its presence is an indicator that a clip (or imminent squash death) may be possible.
A ledge must be smaller than 224 build units for Small Ledge Pushes to be possible on it.

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SLP

Large Ledge Push

Large Ledge Pushes are completed by crouch jumping while landing from a jump or fall during which the corner of Duke's hitbox collides perfectly into the corner between a wall and the surface of a ledge.
A ledge must be smaller than 320 build units for Large Ledge Pushes to be possible on it.
Large Ledge Pushes allow for Duke to clip through thicker walls than a Small Ledge Push would allow.
Performing Large Ledge Pushes while applying strafe-40 allows Duke to clip through walls of sizes 64 build units or less.
It is possible to perform a large ledge push on ledges smaller than 224 build units, but if the large ledge push is missed, this can easily prove fatal depending on the wall thickness (as a Small Ledge Push will typically occur instead on improper landing).
When attempting a Large Ledge Push, you will know if you are close to achieving one if Duke does not make a sound on landing.

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LLP

Extra Large Ledge Push

Extra Large Ledge Pushes are performed by intersecting the corner of Duke's hitbox with the outside corner of a ledge (rather than the inside one as in a normal Large Ledge Push).
If this is performed accurately, Duke will slide into the floor for a short duration of time, during which time, Duke will be able to clip through walls.
This trick appears visually similar to the Safety Fall glitch, both of which appear to be linked to how Duke 3D handles stair-stepping.
Extra Large Ledge Pushes are known to work without steroids on ledges up to 384 units large, and are also known to work with steroids on ledges up to 576 units large.
Ledges of 512 units appear to be too large for one to even begin clipping without steroids -- by the time Duke reaches the wall, he's already visually popped out of the floor.
Similarly to a Large Ledge Push, you will know you are close to achieving an Extra Large Ledge Push if Duke does not make a sound upon landing.
It is unknown exactly how large dividing walls can be before they will no longer allow Duke to Extra Large Ledge Push through without being crushed.
Extra Large Ledge Pushes definitely allow divides of 64 units without steroids and 128 units with, but further testing for upper limits is required.
It is suspected that performing an Extra Large Ledge Push on a ledge which allows Large Ledge Pushes may allow one to survive travelling through larger dividing walls than allowed with simply a Large Ledge Push (as is the case with a Large Ledge Push on a small ledge).

Glitch Exhibition/Challenge Map:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vcco6puycgbrdze/ELLPush.zip?dl=0

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ELLP

Overhang Fall Damage Push (Megaton Only)

In the Megaton Edition, if Duke slides past an overhang while falling and takes fall damage upon landing, he can crouch jump during the landing to clip through some walls.
Similarly to the Shrink Ray Clip, this appears to be limited to doorways (particularly vertically opening ones) and certain sprite barriers (like grates).
This may be related to Duke's vertical velocity upon landing -- sometimes, if Duke is not falling far enough, he may not be able to clip even while taking fall damage.

Note that this glitch is only possible in Megaton Edition if vertical mouse aim is enabled!
If vertical mouse aim is disabled, Megaton will instead act like the original games and cause Duke to lose all velocity when he takes a painful fall.

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Shrink Ray Clip

When Duke is shrunk using a Shrink Ray, Duke can toggle on and off crouching and force himself into normally impassable doorways and certain sprite barriers (like grates).
Because Duke's movement speed is significantly reduced when shrunk, this often results in clipping into walls and dieing.
While unshrinking, Duke can still perform this clip.
If Duke waits until he begins to return to normal size or uses Steroids, his movement speed will be faster during unshrinking, allowing him to clip through thicker doorways.

It is important to note that Duke can shrink himself by reflecting the Shrink Ray off a mirror, but other methods of colliding with Duke's own Shrink Ray shot will not shrink him (shooting through teleporters, running faster than the shot & catching up with it).

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Generic Clip

When Duke is forced with proper momentum into force-fields, small sectors, between walls, against slopes, and into corners and seams, Duke will sometimes clip through them.
Many clips can be affected by Duke's sector to sector movement immediately prior -- some clips seem to be easier to perform if Duke has just immediately entered the sector where the clip will be attempted.
Although these generic clips do not necessarily fit in with or look like the other clips documented here, they appear to share similar preconditions and prerequisites.

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You can simply run into a thin wall in-between two sectors and you might be able to get through. This works in D3D E2R4 in the piston shafts to get inside the secret with the two atomic healths.

Clips and Movement Speed

Movement speed affects the thickness of wall that Duke can clip through.
In order to survive clips through thicker walls (or underwater walls), using some combination of strafe-40/50, steroids, and/or the knockback of explosives may be necessary.

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Acute Corner Glide

When a sector's walls form an acute angle, Duke can be forced slightly into spaces horizontally smaller than he should normally be able to move into.
This is performed by moving towards the corner and slowly rotating Duke's aim.
Eventually, when the correct angle is met, Duke will suddenly slide a small amount into the corner.
If you continue to rotate, and slide against the other wall a small amount out of the corner, you will still maintain a position slightly out from where you normally should be.
Returning back in the other direction and doing the same rotation, will allow you to force yourself even deeper into the corner.
This can force Duke into the wall and can allow Duke to clip into neighbouring sectors.
If the corner area Duke resides in is small enough, Duke will begin to exhibit a similar jittering back and forth as he does on small ledges.
In this case though, the jittering and clip probably owe significantly to the fact the two walls of the acute angled corner both try to disallow Duke from entering either of them, constantly bouncing him back and forth.
Although distinct and different from a Doom glide, this sliding trick feels similar in its execution, hence the name.

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Mirror Sectors & Clipping

Mirrors in Duke 3D have specialized sectors behind them -- these mirror sectors have special behaviours.
Mirror sectors do not render in the normal fashion.
From outside of the mirror, a reflection will be rendered; from inside, nothing in the mirror sector itself will be rendered (leading to a Hall of Mirrors effect).
For this reflection to work in certain versions of the game, the sector needs to be at least as large as the area to be reflected.
Because mirror sectors are not intended for the player to enter, attempting to clip directly into an unbroken mirror will usually bounce Duke back out.
This can be easily exploited to buffer ledge pushes and is especially useful when a push is needed at a precise angle adjacent to the mirror.
In addition, the large size of a number of mirror sectors allow them to easily be warped into accidentally.
Because Duke came from an overlapping sector, he cannot be returned back simply by resetting his X/Y location.
This leads to warps causing Duke to become stuck in the mirror sector, constantly resetting his position while inside.
(Note: noclip will allow one to pass through a mirror unaffected by this)

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The RR engine supports mirrors without an extended sector behind.

Sectors with Sloped Floors/Ceilings

Sectors with sloped surfaces behave a little strangely, sometimes allowing Duke onto them in cases where he normally shouldn't be able to (esp. if they are in motion).
Particularly, sectors with sloped floors that are moving vertically, when pushed against, can cause Duke to clip to the top of them.

Note: 1-5 The Abyss contains every of the above types of clips (save for the Water Surfacing Clip). It is a useful level for practice.

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Rotating Objects

Objects and sectors that rotate can be pushed into and cause Duke to clip to the top or bottom of them.
In Death Row, this is especially useful if one falls down the giant gear shaft, as it can be used to clip back up to safety before falling to one's death at the bottom of the pit.
Additionally, rotating objects and sectors can squish Duke into walls, sometimes causing him to clip or warp into neighbouring or overlapping sectors.
Finally, rotating doors do not move properly if Duke is standing on top of them (the game probably assumes that an actor is wedged in them, when really one is just colliding with the top of them).
This can be exploited to force rotating doors to rotate in the wrong directions, and force them through walls and sectors they should never have collided with.
Rotating doors which have sectors with enough open vertical space can thus be used to create tunnels through walls.
Sadly, rotating doors the wrong way doesn't seem to have much use in any of the original 3 episodes nor the Atomic Edition expansion beyond:

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When you're on top of the door that you're wedging like this, you can even jump up and down or climb higher with the jetpack. So long as you stay on top of the door, it can't close.

In Duke, you can force one half of a double door to stay open indefinitely even if it's supposed to close on a timer. You open the doors, stand on top of one of them to stop it from closing, and open the other one again after it's closed by itself. Now you get off the door you were on which will close leaving the other one open. E.g. E1M1 the exit from the movie theater to the stairwell leading to the street works if you sit on top of the right-hand side door while closing the other one. Doesn't seem to work the other way around.

The other way to do this is to use the jetpack and stay in front of the door you want to wedge as it's opening, then wait until the other door closes before letting the wedged door open. It will stay open.

The door to the bank in E2R1 can be made to rotate the wrong way just by standing right next to it while using it. Perhaps standing on top of them isn't actually necessary?

Sector Crushing

By rotating doors so that they collide and overlap certain other sectors, the engine will sometimes crush the relevant sectors (sometimes squishing or trapping Duke or enemies in the process).
The exact setup requirements for this to happen are uncertain -- there are quite a few levels where rotating doors into other sectors will not cause any sector crushing.
Sector crushing can be performed in 4-1 It's Impossible in the projector conference room.

Oasiz demonstrates this here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25Suq8tvVqU

Again, sadly, sector crushing does not appear to be useful for sequence breaking any of the original 3 episodes nor the Atomic Edition expansion.

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Should this really be called that?

The results of sector crushing are not invariant. It might depend on how long you're blocking the door for or something else.

In the GOG version of RA, there seem to often be instances of a glitch that causes the level architecture to be corrupt and enemies to all be stuck in a constant twitching left and right, which makes them both unable to easily hit you and very difficult to hit themselves. The sector crushing shown in E4R1 of Duke is reminiscent of this architectural corruption.

Warps

In Duke3D, maps can be built with overlapping (but disconnected) sectors (same x and y locations, but spanning different z locations).
Due to the way sector resolution is performed, clipping glitches can cause Duke3D to resolve an actor's current sector to be another different sector that overlaps the same space.
Duke (and various enemies) can exploit this, and warp from one area to another.
(Aside: Later Build engine games would add Room over Room support which would allow two sectors to be connected vertically with one another, simultaneously rendering both sectors from either one.
Duke3D does not allow this [except for the EDuke32 source port, which adds ROR support for user levels, mods, and conversions].
I don't believe Megaton allows ROR either, being based primarily on JonoF's JFDuke3D combined with some EDuke32 patches [further modified with a variety of additional changes and work].)

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RR presumably has RoR.

Train/Locomotive Sector Death Warp

If a locomoting sector exists on a map, dieing by being squished/clipping will cause Duke to teleport to the locomoting sector.

Oasiz demonstrates this here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZUwWsIx2i8

This glitch is not particularly useful, but somewhat interesting...
A user level could potentially exploit this, perhaps for a simple secret exit?

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This isn't true of RR?

Level Transitioning

Exit Trigger Buffering

By using the game menus, multiple exit triggers can be buffered to trigger at the same time, which causes Duke3D to skip levels.
The only known level this can be performed in is 1-2 Red Light District, which allows skipping directly to 1-4 Toxic Dump without having to play 1-3 Death Row.
To perform the trick, skip past the floor trigger that traps Duke, to the end of the hallway where the level exit button lies.
Wait for the "Duke captured" ending to trigger, and while the audio plays, hit the level exit button.
Press F1 to bring up the help menu and wait for the audio to finish (in-game time will still pass for a short while with the help menu up).
If you paused long enough, both triggers should now be lined up, and when leaving the help menu, both should trigger immediately at the same time.
After the intermission menu ends, you should be brought into 1-4, instead of 1-3.
Note that some other menus will work too, depending on which version of the game you are running.
Additionally, it is possible, albeit difficult, to line up both triggers to naturally end at the same time without buffering.

Silos911 originally discovered this trick, you can check out his video tutorial here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EFEJD3h6X4

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• Some levels have the possibility to exit by either whacking Bubba or entering a trigger (crossing a linedef?). These should be explored for level warps.

• The Duke 3D trick is very difficult to do consistently even with menu buffering? (v. 1.5)

Deathmatch Exits

Some levels in Duke3D contain deathmatch-only exits, provided when the normal exit in a level wouldn't be appropriate for deathmatch games.
These exits are intended to be inaccessible outside of deathmatch, but, using a variety of tricks, can often be accessed in single-player and coop.
This can be especially useful in boss levels, as fighting the boss is often slower than breaking into the deathmatch exit.

LLCoolDave demonstrates this here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXmS_uEWSNo

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Level Ordering

Using deathmatch exits can provide strange level ordering, and can also allow one to reach levels that were previously unreachable from an episode (for instance, 1-7 Faces of Death).
This can be explained through the mechanics of the four level exit types in Duke3D:

Normal Exit Nuke Button
A Normal Exit Nuke Button will typically advance directly to the next level.
The Normal Exit Nuke Button has an additional check though:
If, while using a Normal Exit Nuke Button, the level_number counter ever surpasses the 11th level (exceeds a value of 10), then it resets back to level 1.
This was most likely added for deathmatch purposes to loop back at the end of an episode.
This limits the number of levels any episode can have to 11 -- this limitation is changed in certain source ports (like EDuke32).

Secret Exit Nuke Button
A Secret Exit Nuke Button will jump to whatever level is specified by the map maker in its lotag.
Notably, all secret levels end with a Secret Exit Nuke Button (but these are usually treated differently, as per the Exit from Secret Level section below).
Additionally, using a Secret Exit Nuke Button typically causes Duke3D to believe it is entering a secret level, and thus, Duke3D stores the value of the level that you are leaving for later use.
(technical: it stores this in the ud.from_bonus variable. ud.from_bonus is set to ud.level_number+1, since ud.level_number uses a base index of 0, while ud.from_bonus uses a base index of 1 [0 is reserved])
If no level (i.e. level 0) is specified in the Secret Exit Nuke Button's lotag, or if the level specified exceeds level 11, the game repeats the current level, but treats it as a secret level.
Again, this limits the number of levels any episode can have to 11 -- this limitation is changed in certain source ports (like EDuke32).

Level Exit Countdown Timer
When a Level Exit Countdown Timer finally fires, it typically advances directly to the next level.
Note that a Level Exit Countdown Timer will not check if it is advancing past any limits -- thus, it can allow one to advance past level 11.

Exit from Secret Level
If Duke3D believes we are on a secret level (because we last used a Secret Exit Nuke Button), it will treat exiting a level differently.
Instead of doing what it normally would for any type of level exit, it will attempt to continue onward from the level which led us to the secret level.
(technical: ud.level_number is set to ud.from_bonus, but, since we are advancing by one, there is no need to adjust for the base index difference)
Now that Duke3D has returned to the normal level past the one it had stored, it no longer needs to remember that level and clears that storage.
This also ensures that Duke3D will treat the new level as a normal level.
Note that any Exit from a Secret Level will not check if it is advancing past any limits -- thus, it can allow one to advance past level 11.

The combination of all these mechanics allow players to reach strange levels in odd arrangements, thanks to a variety of interesting facts:

1. Deathmatch Exits are always Normal Exit Nuke Buttons.
   Deathmatch Exits from boss levels thus allow one to advance into secret levels without telling Duke3D to treat them as secret levels.
   This is thanks to secret levels always being placed after the end of an episode (always being designated with the greatest number designations within an episode).
   
2. Secret levels always end in Secret Exit Nuke Buttons.
   These Secret Exit Nuke Buttons are properly set to point back to the level you would typically advance to next, despite this value usually not being used.
   Due to this, exiting a secret level while Duke3D is treating it as a normal level will cause Duke3D to treat the normal level it returns to as a secret level.
   
3. Advancing the level counter past the end of an episode will cause Duke3D to load the next episode's levels.
   (note that this functionality is different in some source ports [like EDuke32])
   

These facts, combined with the mechanics of the 4 exit types, cause Duke3D to exhibit strange deathmatch level ordering.
If Duke didn't treat secret levels specially, the deathmatch level loop would not be organized in such a strange fashion.
The order appears to be somewhat intentional: it is probably a work-around to ensure that secret levels would appear at the end of the deathmatch loop (without requiring their secret exits to be hit).
This deathmatch loop allows for one to potentially marathon run episode 2 indefinitely.

RR

There are no secret levels.

Death Exits

Traditionally disallowed in IL runs, dieing while triggering the level exit allows you to start the next level with full health.
Death stops the in-game timer, so dieing screws up the in-game time for any run.
Additionally, in some versions of the game, dieing or freezing solid will not just stop the in-game timer, but also abruptly end any demo recording.

RR

Test.

Object Interactions

Switch Pressing

Switches (and other usable objects) can be operated from long distances and through some walls.
Wall thickness and angle affects how far away an object can still be activated from.
In particular, windows, especially those that open/close from triggers/buttons, often allow Duke to use objects through them (for instance, the 2-9 Overlord deathmatch exit).
Some walls are specially tagged to swallow use actions and disallow players from activating buttons beyond them.
These walls are recognizable by the fact that Duke will not make any normal use noises when the use key is pressed on them.
Push switches can also be shot to activate/deactivate them.

RR

Kick Open

Duke's Mighty Foot can kick open doors and activate switches that normally cannot be activated by shooting with any other weapon.
Even some locked doors can be kicked open.
Notably, the locked Yellow Key door on 1-3 Death Row and the locked Blue Key Doors on 3-6 Rabid Transit can be kicked open.

For a locked door to be kick-openable, the door must:

• use "doortile" textures
• have an Activator within the sector
• have wall lotags the same as the Activator
• be a door sector (not simply have a sector effector that raises/lowers the ceiling/floor)

Kick-openable locked doors contain both an Activator and an ActivatorLocked.
See http://wiki.eduke32.com/wiki/Category:Editing_Walls_and_Wall_Effects (specifically the section "Wall Information") for additional info.

Note that 2-2 Incubator's Yellow Key Door won't open because it is not a door sector -- it meets all other requirements, but it is not a door sector, having been built with a special sector effector.

RR

Remember to test the crowbar on switches that you can't use and all doors as well.

Teleporter Activation

Teleporters are normally activated when Duke initially crosses the threshold into the teleporter sector.
When trapped within the confines of a teleporter, if Duke fires any weapon that causes the teleporter to activate, Duke can move into the location the projectiles are teleporting from and teleport with them.
Easy weapons to perform this with are the pistol, shotgun, Ripper chaingun, and the freezethrower.

RR

Sounds like this is only useful if you're caught, not to sequence break.

Double Keycard Insertion

If two keypads are mounted vertically adjacent to one another, they can both be activated using the same single keycard by jumping/falling, activating a keypad, and while Duke is scanning the card, ramming the use key as you pass by the other pads.
This has no use in the original 3 episodes nor in the Atomic Edition expansion, as no level stacks keycards in this manner.

RR

N/A except if this can be done with keys somehow?

Laser Trip Mines

Placing Laser Trip Mines can be useful to safely slow rapid descent and protect Duke from falling to his death.
Additionally, placing Laser Trip Mines uses similar code as using a keycard on a keypad, but Laser Trip Mines do not allow unlocking keypads.
You cannot use Laser Trip Mines on keypads or on most doors which are not currently in the process of opening.
If you get the proper angle, you can attempt to place a Laser Trip Mine on a keypad, but it will not be placed despite the placing animation playing.
Laser Trip Mines can be placed on mirrors, and are one of many types of explosives that will not destroy a mirror.
Additionally, the laser from a Laser Trip Mine will be reflected off of a mirror if they intersect.

RR

N/A but test RR weapons for similar effect, mainly making falling safe.

Security Cameras

If you quick kick while looking through a security camera, you can kick things through the camera from its perspective.
This is especially noticeable on the main junction security camera in 2-8 Dark Side.

RR

You can also start shooting or jump or crouch, and your state will be frozen with the shot coming out of the gun after you're done viewing the camera feeds.

N/A?

Enemy Tricks and Info

Riding Flying Enemies

Most flying enemies, when stood on, will continue to move upwards towards Duke's vertical position.
This allows one to scale large vertical climbs by riding on top of these enemies.
Particularly, the Assault Commander is most useful for this, as Assault Commanders will fly very straight upwards while attempting to attack Duke.

RR

Can you ride gnats?

Shrink Ray vs. the Mini Battlelord / Understanding Enemy Collision Areas

The Shrink Ray is a weapon which fires projectiles that shrink enemies within a blast radius.
All enemies within this blast radius will be shrunk, but the radius is extremely small, making it hard to shrink multiple enemies at once.
The projectile's spherical blast radius must intersect an enemy's collision area in order for them to be shrunk.
Most enemies have their collision areas located at their feet (with the exception of some bosses).
The Mini Battlelord is such a large sprite that if the Shrink Ray hits most areas of its body (including the auto-aim target), the Shrink Ray blast radius will be too far away and will not intersect the Mini Battlelord's collision area.
Because of this, the Mini Battlelord can be difficult to shrink, unless the shot is aimed close to its feet.

Note that there is a useful glitch: any Mini Battlelord that has been shrunk will continue to not attack even after returning to normal size (until it is hit with enough explosives and re-activated).
While the Mini Battlelord is in this state, its collision area will be basically non-existent -- auto-aim will no longer target them and hitscan weapons will not hit them.

Additionally, it is useful to note that enemies will take more damage from explosives when the explosion is closer to their collision area's origin.
This is especially useful for the boss enemies.
In particular, the Battlelord boss takes more damage at its head than at its feet; functioning as if its collision area's origin is located at its head.

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Should test the effect of explosives when aiming for different parts of the enemy's body or on walls adjacent.

Other Info

Skill Modes

Duke has 5 skill modes:

/S0: DNSKILL1
A hidden skill mode that is not available in the main menu.
It can be accessed either by using the command-line /s0 parameter when loading a particular level or by typing the DNSKILL1 cheat.
Some enemies that show up in "Piece of Cake" do not show up in this difficulty (as they have a lotag greater than 0).
This mode has the fewest enemies.

/S1: DNSKILL2 "Piece of Cake"
This mode has a reduced number of enemies.

/S2: DNSKILL3 "Let's Rock"
More enemies than "Piece of Cake".

/S3: DNSKILL4 "Come Get Some"
Even more enemies.

/S4: DNSKILL5 "Damn, I'm Good"
In this skill mode, enemies respawn seconds after death unless their corpse is destroyed.
This can be accomplished by gibbing their corpse with an explosion.
Because enemies respawn, this skill mode does not have a maximum number of kills.
Additionally, typing cheats while in this mode will not work, instead typing them results in the text "YOU'RE TOO GOOD TO BE CHEATING!"
Despite it being possible for enemies to be tagged to appear only on "Damn, I'm Good" difficulty, it is atypical for levels to do this.
Instead, at this difficulty, it is the norm for levels to share exactly the same enemies as in "Come Get Some".

RR

• Difficulty settings:
  • Wuss:
  • Meejum:
  • Hard ass:
  • Killbilly: Cheats disabled.
  • Psychobilly: Cheats disabled. No saving or loading. If you try to save or load, the game is paused. Every time you hit the button again, it causes the game to stutter.

Stuff specific to Redneck Rampage

• An enemy with a melee attack can hit you through a sprite like a fence even though you can't hit them with melee.

• An enemy getting hit by a moving vehicle can glitch and cause massive amounts of blood splattering, leaving multiple sprites hanging in the air where you can only see them from certain angles. Observed with a coot in E1M1 right at the start.
  • It can also cause the dead body to be launched high up in the air, or to get stuck on the vehicle itself.

• "Hint: get into the green zone of both the alcohol and gut meters. When you're a little buzzed and have a little food in your gut, you'll kick more ass and take less damage."

• Hip Waders - Protective against harmful surfaces, speeds you up on muddy/turd surfaces. Auto activated.

• Moonshine increases melee damage? Resets guts and alcohol afterwards?

• Cows can be tipped but repeatedly hitting 'use' while next to them.

• Orange cactuses heal you by 100 health? To 100 health? Just run over them. Should be found on at least Waco and Disgraceland.

• Does pooing do anything? Requires crouching on a toilet?

READ THE CON FILES

Movement

• If you're on the rooftop of the barn at the dairy farm in E1M1 and you stand on the part surrounding the chimney on three sides, running perpendicularly towards the higher part of the roof does not cause you to step up, but running into the corner between the chimney and the higher roof does. Why?
  • This is possible even while crouched if your position has first started to jitter, which in turn will happen if you've first run towards the corner while standing before crouching.

Items

• Any edibles reduce alcohol and increase guts?

• Pork Rinds: heal 30 up to 100.

• Cow Pie: each use (of six) heals 5 up to 100.

• Goo-Goo Cluster: heals 50 up to 200.

• Whiskey: each use (of ten) heals 10 up to 100.

• Beer: each use (of six) heals 5 up to 100.

• Moonshine: Lasts XYZ. Increases movement speed by XYZ. When it hits 1% (0%?), the effect ends and alcohol (and guts?) is reset.

• Skeleton Key:

• Hip Waders:

• Vacuum Hose Snorkel:

Weapons

• Weapon recoil: Every weapon with recoil kickback seems to give the same amount of backwards acceleration. Obviously the fire rate will affect the net effect.
  • Six-shooter - happens very soon after shooting.
  • Scattergun - happens at a delay after the shots have already connected.
  • Huntin' rifle - happens very soon after shooting.
  • AAG - happens at a delay after the shot has been fired.

HOW MANY SHOTS TO CAUSE THE VIEW TO PITCH ALL THE WAY UP EXACTLY? OVERFLOW OR UNDERFLOW?

• Weapon effects on view:
  • Huntin' rifle - After you've stopped shooting the huntin' rifle, the view pitches down by the same amount as the upwards pitch from one shot times the number of shots. If you shoot the huntin' rifle while the view is pitched up as high as it can be, this causes the pitch to go past neutral afterwards. It takes around 132 bullets fired in that position to cause the compensation to pitch the view down as far as it goes (it takes around 66 bullets for the view to pitch all the way up from the neutral position). Similarly, if you constantly compensate for the recoil with rat aim while you're shooting, at the end, the view is pitched too far down.
  • AAG - After each shot, there is a small shift up and then back down. If you keep firing, this stacks bit by bit until the view is at its highest after six shots. If you aim all the way up first, firing the arm cannon causes a net shift down instead, which maxes out after four shots.
  • Teat cannon - There is a right-left jiggle. The first shot and other odd shots always cause a rotation towards the right with the even shots causing one towards the left

• Weapon auto-switching:
  • Order of preference: Scattergun - Huntin' rifle - Dynamite - Ripsaw projectile - AAG - Teat cannon - Six-shooter - Powder keg - Crowbar. 3-4-5-7a-8-10-2-9-1
    • The crossbow and ripsaw melee attack aren't switched to at all.
  • When auto-switching to the dynamite, you don't see anything on the screen until you let go of the button.

• Damage values:

Weapon	Damage Per Shot	DPS	Clip size	Extended DPS	Reload time	Ammo limit
CROWBAR
SIX-SHOOTER	17?	DPS	Clip size	Extended DPS	Reload time	198
SCATTERGUN		Example	Example	Example	Example	50
RIFLE	23	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	200
DYNAMITE	100-200	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	30 (shared with crossbow)
CROSSBOW	100-200	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	30 (shared with dynamite)
RIPSAW RANGED	100 - - - -	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	30
RIPSAW MELEE	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
ALIEN ARM GUN	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	100
POWDER KEG	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	1
TEAT GUN	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	200
BOWLING BALL	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	1
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• Crowbar (1):
  • Having the crowbar out and picking up any kind of weapon will cause a switch to that weapon. Same with picking up ammunition, so long as you have the weapon.
  • DOES DYNAMITE SWITCH TO DYNAMITE OR CROSSBOW?

• Six-shooter (2):
  • After this weapon runs out of ammunition, there is an automatic switch to the next weapon, firing it once. The weapon switched to cannot be affected.

• Scattergun (3):
  • If you tap quickly, this discharges one of the two barrels. Holding the button down causes both barrels to be emptied in rapid succession.

• Huntin' rifle (4):

• Dynamite (5):
  • The dynamite is readied but not lit when first depressing the key, then lit when it's released.
  • Three-second fuse.

• Crossbow (6):

• Ripsaw (7a):
  • Bounces XYZ times with a reduction in damage dealt after every bounce (?).
  • Wiki gives 5 bounces but this might only apply to multiplayer?

• Ripsaw melee(7b):

• AAG (8):

• Powder keg (9):

• Teat gun (10):

Enemies

• Enemy names: Skinny Old COOT, BILLY Ray Jeeter, SHERIFF Hobbes, Alien HULK Guard, Alien VIXEN, Turd Minion, Ass Face (RR E1 boss), Mosquito, Cow, Pig, Dog, Chicken.
  • R66: Alligator.
  • RA: Daisy Mae, Frank Doyle/BIKER, Jackalope (Jack o'lope), Flying Saucer, Swamp Minion, Lava Minion, Groovy Old Coot (any differences to normal variety?).

• The following information was filled in using the Wuss difficulty setting.

• The wiki says Coots can be killed with just 2 six-shooter shots and Billys with 4.

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Billy (75)		5-6	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
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• Coot:

• Billy:

• Hulk:

• Vixen:
  • Tan Vixen:
  • Green Vixen:
  • Blue Vixen:
  • Queen Vixen:

• Turd:

• Ass Face:

• Mosquito:
  • Has no bbox so you cannot stand on or jump off them.

• Cow:

• Pig:

• Dog:

• Chicken:

• You can push enemies around when they're not in their attack animations?

Miscellaneous

• If your GUT is too high, you start farting, which enemies can hear?

• Sometimes the stereo is wrong (left is right). Fixed by toggling the Flip Stereo option twice?

• Sometimes CAPS LOCK stops turning auto-running on and off.

Level-specific (but not category-specific) notes

• Ruins:
  • There's a bug that prevents the opening of the third key door. You can reach the building through the platform where Bubba is though so this shouldn't prevent any objectives from being completed.

• Downtown Hickston:
  • You can parkour through the garage window into the secret area behind the gas station. You will get stuck unless you trigger the secret mid-air and return back onto the fence. You can't get the ripsaw this way.

Extra Route 66 Notes

Extra Rides Again Notes

rdjoseph Motor Bike rdarijit Boat rddonut Boat rdwholeslagle Makes you sober (Toggle??) rdgary Turn into a chicken rdtony Shrinks enemies, more and more rdvan Larger enemies, more and more rdkfc Chicken Mode rdaaron Mushroom mode rdgreg Toggle boat rocking rdmrbill Increase Damage rdrhett Kills player rdnocheat Disables Cheat Mode rdnoah Lowers weapon (alternate debug info) rdmikael All items

Check this list: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/198446-redneck-rampage-rides-again/cheats

• Weapon: Sling Blade, Swamp Buggy, Motorcycle