
So if you want to play with a map view, there's actually a few ways to do this. If you want to play without a map view, then you already know what to do, just keep playing and exploring (practice makes perfect), but what about if you want to use a map? Many here can say they've done just that for Doom, so there's no real reason you couldn't do it for Wolf 3D if you truly wanted to, but this isn't for everyone and a map view option in game or a map print out (be it literally printed out, saved to your mobile, or looking at a physical copy of the hint book) can enhance the experience for those that want that feature. I've also played the games enough to memorize a lot of the maps. I have been playing Wolfenstein 3D long before ECWolf came into existence, so I'm use to not using an automap. I would say do what makes it fun for you.
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It’s just a reminder of where you’ve been - Plus, BJ could be carrying a paper and pencil to write down reminders of where he’s been even in WWII, I know you’re saying the map trivialises that, but the game itself also trviliazes sprinting for example - should you stop running in game just because IRL a person could never run that fast, especially without a breather? And for one more plus, no actual WWII soldier could take down an entire multi story castle full of soldiers and most stones aren’t blue, and they wouldn’t have had electronic sliding doors, and so on and so on. so we can just toss realism right out the window in this case! I mean, I can beat it without a map, it’s just more tedious. Plus there are loads of games with maps that only get uncovered as you discover those areas, just like in SNES/ECwolf. You need to pick up the hints from what you see! Unlike in Doom, in WW2 you couldn't just have a mobile computer with you updating the map as you go! Oppressive levels like E2F8 or E5F6, 7 won't be the same. You can draw a map on paper all you like, but you probably won't do it - or you'll make a simpler schematic, which is a cool way to think a problem through! And you can say that the automap is just an automation of your drawing on paper, but it really trivializes the concept. The game is supposed to be played without the automap because you're supposed to train your orientation skills! Yeah, that's possible even with the simple engine. In the first alcove to your left is a secret wall, hiding a chaingun.Damn, you are lazy and can't handle Wolfenstein. Inside is a room with several alcoves occupied by guards. In the room beyond open the door to you right. Open the door on the northern arm of the swastika. On the left side of the alcove with the second last barrel is a couple of secrets that will allow you to pick up the goodies.Ĥ. In the room beyond are some officers and some barrels blocking your way to lots of dinners and ammo clips. Go down the southern arm of the swastika and open the door in the bottom. The first secret is mandatory: it's the wall that is in front of you at the start.Ģ-3.
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This is the final trap of the floor: you're free to continue your journey towards the showdown with Adolf Hitler.ġ. Open one of the doors in the room behind the gold doors: you'll see a long hallway with lots of barrels and two silver doors in the bottom. When you open them, you'll alert several enemies, and the barrels will prevent you from retreating back fast. The final part of the map is rather difficult. Open one of them and kill the enemies inside.

You'll eventually come to four gold doors. Grab it, come back to the previous room and open the other door. In one of them is the gold key (and this one is guarded too). Opening the one on your right you'll come to a hallway with many doors. Carefully kill the guards and manage your way to a pair of doors, both leading to a room with officers and two doors.

In the new room, open the door in front of you, then pass through two empty rooms. Obtaining the gold key is a longer process: open the door in the northern arm of the swastika. Both the keys are mandatory to finish the level: the silver one is in a room accessed through a door in the western arm (it's guarded by officers). The starting room exits to a swastika-shaped hallway, with enemies and a door in each of the "arms". In order to exit your starting chamber, you have to press on a mandatory secret wall.
