Wolf3d - need help, stuck on E4M7

[sathomaso]

Hi,

damn - I guess I am a n00b and need some help as I am fucking stuck on the iPhone's Wolfenstein 3D port.
Episode 4 Map 7 to me more precise.
Here's a merged screen-shot:




Started from the center "main room" with 6 doors = GREEN dot.
For the door on the right / east, the golden key is required for = RED dot.

But where the fuck is the GOLDEN KEY?!?!? :"(

I already checked the other 5 rooms, as you can see everything is visible on the map. And every enemy so far is dead too.
Good news is I found a secret entrance in the north room = BLUE dot, which led to another secret entrance and revealed another door on the map ... problem is i can't access it yet, because there's no other secret entrance which leads to it. I have already checked all the fucking walls and bricks around that area. There has to be a path to that northern door somewhere right? And I have the feeling the gold-key is hidden there as well. *argh!*

The reason why part of the gold-key door's (RED dot) map is already visible is because when I proceeded trough the south door in the beginning, some enemies stormed out of the gold-door. I saw it was open and tried to pass, but the door shut too quickly.
Don't really think it was the aim to pass without the key... guess it was just a coincidence that the Nazis stormed out already before I had the key.


CAN ANYONE HELP ME PLEASE?

The main-problem I have is that I cannot really restart the map.
As mentioned every enemy so far is dead too, so I can't even get myself killed.
And there's no cyanid-pill-option as well, lol


Anyways, when I check the mainmenu there's only:
- resume game (e4m7)
- controls
- new game
- web page

And I don't really want to try that "new game" button, fearing that all the game-progress so far may get lost.
By the way: I am playing on "Bring 'em on" skill at the moment.

Let me know, cheers
Tom

[sathomaso]

Cool beans, so that really seems to be a bug in the game.
Look what I just saw in this map-runtrough on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q_VD2HgEaM

Skip forward to 0:37 seconds, that's where he opens the secret door (BLUE dot).
So when I went in that room, i also moved the block left next to it with the Purple Eagle pendant on it (and the health-pack in front).
Anyways, this square now blocks the other secret path's block to move through entirely (see 0:47 seconds) and hinders me to get to the door.

Fantastic!!!!


So well ... I was forced to take the risk and hit the "new game" button, and apparently all the gameprogress of completed levels (in the individual skill level) is saved. So that more or less is the "restart map" feature I guess. More or less hidden 'tho, but present.

[Chokster37]

Yup. There's 2 ways to beat E4L7. One is to just shoot when you start in the level (and the guards will open the locked door for you, where you can just shoot them in the doorway for it to stay open... at least in the original wolf3d) and the other is to press that purple eagle secret passage area in the correct order. So it's not a bug, I don't think, that's just how the level was made.

By the way, I find it weird how you can see behind the locked door on the automap.
I guess that's a raycast bug with spotvis or something (seeing through the crack of the door)?