Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough

Joe Siegler · 09-04-2008, 03:49 PM

Something I've wanted to do for ages now I'm finally getting around to doing. It's a walkthrough for Duke Nukem 3D. We have a few of these on our website (Shadow Warrior, Max Payne 1, and an aborted attempt at Max Payne 2). But never one for Duke3D.

The primary reason is grabbing the screenshots was a pita on the old DOS version. DOSBox was an option, but I never really looked into that for some reason or another. Now that we finished the Duke3D port for the 360, I thought about using that version to grab screenshots, mostly because the development kit tools make it braindead easy to get screenshots. The game is the same as the original, so all the art and level design is the same, so I set out to finally make an official walkthrough for the game.

Take a look, and tell me what you think of it. As the walkthrough is 100% my work, I have to admit to being curious to see what people think of it.

http://www.3drealms.com/duke3d/walkthrough/index.html

I'm not ready to post it as news on the front page of the 3DR site, so I would prefer folks not spread this to other sites until I have completed the work. Thanks.

Yatta · 09-04-2008, 03:53 PM

Awesome stuff. Many people shall be pleased.

XTHX2 · 09-04-2008, 05:27 PM

Very cool Joe! It looks awesome. Even though I finished the game millions of times, I still enjoyed reading it. Oh and, there's a typo at Death Row's 4th Secret. ("cell")

Joe Siegler · 09-04-2008, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by XTHX2

Very cool Joe! It looks awesome. Even though I finished the game millions of times, I still enjoyed reading it. Oh and, there's a type at Death Row's 4th Secret. ("cell")

No irony in having a typo when pointing out a typo, eh?

XTHX2 · 09-05-2008, 03:56 AM

Argh damnit

Joe Siegler · 09-05-2008, 08:09 AM

111 pageviews and only two comments? That bad, eh?

stumppy84 · 09-05-2008, 09:18 AM

Good one Joe! It would be cool if you could throw some stories or some never seen development stuff in.

XTHX2 · 09-05-2008, 09:22 AM

I think it is perfect the way it is now. It's a great thing to have secrets in a seperate place... Really

ZaphodB · 09-05-2008, 09:34 AM

Ill be taking a look at it later next week for sure. I don't think I ever found everything (although I have spent hours on some levels searching).

Jinroh · 09-05-2008, 09:37 AM

Awesome!

Learned a lot of secrets I had forgotten about and I got Duke3D back in '96! o_O

Thanks Joe this is awesome!

Player Lin · 09-05-2008, 10:02 AM

Cool! A Walkthrough with secrets list... ****ing awesome!

Joe Siegler · 09-05-2008, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by stumppy84

Good one Joe! It would be cool if you could throw some stories or some never seen development stuff in.

That's not really the point here - its supposed to be a walkthrough, not a "tell all" about the game, and not really a behind the scenes thing, either.

XTHX2 · 09-05-2008, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Joe Siegler

That's not really the point here - its supposed to be a walkthrough, not a "tell all" about the game, and not really a behind the scenes thing, either.

Isn't the general purpose of walkthroughs are to help people pass where they got stuck? That's a bit unnecessary for him to ask it anyway

JobivanHiob · 09-05-2008, 11:06 AM

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Mr.Fibbles · 09-05-2008, 02:25 PM

Its Latin. . . I don't want to translate.

He is using a filler (lorem ipsum. . ) to take up space until he writes an intro.

crunchy superman · 09-05-2008, 03:30 PM

Nice work, Joe - I'm enjoying the read.

One thing: on secret #2 in Death Row, don't you have to hit "use" on the altar to open up the wall?

Joe Siegler · 09-05-2008, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by crunchy superman

One thing: on secret #2 in Death Row, don't you have to hit "use" on the altar to open up the wall?

Yup. Forgot that. Actually, now that I think about it, I do recall thinking I had to write it, but forgot to actually do so. Added - thanks.

XTHX2 · 09-05-2008, 04:35 PM

I don't want to be the bugger of you but uh, you typed incubator wrong

And then, you put Spaceport at the top of the page for the link of incubator walkthrough. Just saying

Joe Siegler · 09-05-2008, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by XTHX2

I don't want to be the bugger of you but uh, you typed incubator wrong

And then, you put Spaceport at the top of the page for the link of incubator walkthrough. Just saying

Did you miss the big yellow text that says "Work in progress"?

Seriously, I wouldn't comment on the "current" level, you're always likely to be looking at an incomplete thing, as I am generally still working on that one.

XTHX2 · 09-05-2008, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Siegler

Did you miss the big yellow text that says "Work in progress"?

Seriously, I wouldn't comment on the "current" level, you're always likely to be looking at an incomplete thing, as I am generally still working on that one.

I guess I missed that again

Anyway, just wanted to say in case you may forget

Shielder · 09-06-2008, 01:25 PM

A very minor thing really, but in Death Row - Secret #2, where you've written "First you need to shoot out the stained glass window on the left. Once you've done that, it will turn the room red...", in the PC version at least (not sure about other versions though), pressing "use" on the altar instead turns the room red.

Apart from that, this is a great walkthrough so far.

Superczar · 09-06-2008, 02:36 PM

Heh, I never did do that Time To Kill walkthrough you asked me to do many years ago...

Damien_Azreal · 09-06-2008, 05:01 PM

I like them Joe, very nice work.

And with the XBL release close, should come in very handy for those out there not that familiar with the game.

themaniacboy · 09-07-2008, 10:26 AM

1 word: Awesome

hightreason · 09-07-2008, 04:16 PM

It's great.
It was always Duke 64 i needed the walkthru's for though, I still dunno how to get into that place at the end of the street in level 1 (with the big doors that have black mesh over them).
Wait, i'm going off topic...
Anyhow, yeah, it's good.

hightreason · 09-07-2008, 04:26 PM

i did forget to point out (though you may have thought of it already) is it would be cool if the Previous/next links were at the bottom of the pages as well.

Joe Siegler · 09-09-2008, 04:46 PM

Making some progress. I've got 7 of the 11 levels for Episode 2 done now. Hoping to be totally done with Episode 2 on Thursday, and start in in Episode 3 Friday.

Joe Siegler · 09-11-2008, 04:42 PM

Finished Episode 2!

ZaphodB · 09-11-2008, 04:44 PM

Yay!!!!

Joe Siegler · 09-11-2008, 04:46 PM

Some of those levels were real pain to get all the secrets. Especially if you did not have a jetpack. Yes, I'm looking at you Lunar Reactor!

Dark Side was rough too, as there was one I thought I needed a jetpack for (turns out I didn't). I had to go back TWO levels to get a jetpack, and play my way back again. That really sucked.

(The one I'm talking about was the one where you jump off the train)

Ironside · 09-11-2008, 05:01 PM

Your getting into the areas where I need help.

Chip · 09-12-2008, 06:40 AM

As an added bonus, are you going to add in all the "random texts" that are around the place?

Like "Bite me" found above one of the toilets in Lunar reactor or "You should not be here yet!" found at the very end of Raw meat (which needs DNclip for) and the many others....

Joe Siegler · 09-12-2008, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Chip

As an added bonus, are you going to add in all the "random texts" that are around the place?

Like "Bite me" found above one of the toilets in Lunar reactor or "You should not be here yet!" found at the very end of Raw meat (which needs DNclip for) and the many others....

No, I am not. There are way too many of those, and this project is taking long enough as it is. The odd thing like that is in there, but I'm not planning on covering every single thing, nor how to get every object and item in the game.

It's a walkthrough. I tell you how to finish the level, how to get all the secrets. That's what they're for.

Edit: There's no DNCLIP in here anyway, so you couldn't get to the one you're talking about anyway.

Micki! · 09-13-2008, 02:32 AM

Very Cool walkhrough... It's very user friendly with all the screenshots, too...
I never managed to find all secrets in Duke3D... Perhaps, i should folow this walkthrough once it's done to finally get it all...

XTHX2 · 09-16-2008, 01:38 PM

I see you've started to the 3rd Episode already Joe! Good luck for the rest, not much left!

Joe Siegler · 09-17-2008, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by XTHX2

I see you've started to the 3rd Episode already Joe! Good luck for the rest, not much left!

http://www.3drealms.com/duke3d/walkthrough/e3m6.html

I just got done with Tier Drops. What a pain in the ass that was. There's no obvious "path" through the level, so I had to spend time figuring out what the level designer was trying to do. I couldn't figure it out, so I had to actually call Levelord on the phone. Fortunately he remembered.

Short of it is it was supposed to be a DM only map that got plopped into single player as a secret level, so there is no obvious way through the level except the 10 second path.

As for "not much left", my goal when I started this was to have it finished before Arcade comes out which is next Wednesday. That means I have to be done with it by close of business on Tuesday. We'll see if I can still make it.

Theminimonk · 09-17-2008, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Siegler

http://www.3drealms.com/duke3d/walkthrough/e3m6.html

I just got done with Tier Drops. What a pain in the ass that was. There's no obvious "path" through the level, so I had to spend time figuring out what the level designer was trying to do. I couldn't figure it out, so I had to actually call Levelord on the phone. Fortunately he remembered.

Short of it is it was supposed to be a DM only map that got plopped into single player as a secret level, so there is no obvious way through the level except the 10 second path.

As for "not much left", my goal when I started this was to have it finished before Arcade comes out which is next Wednesday. That means I have to be done with it by close of business on Tuesday. We'll see if I can still make it.

We have faith in you Joe :P . Great walkthrough so far

JustLikeMusic · 09-17-2008, 01:56 PM

Cool stuff.

Still cant believe you guys are just getting around to this.

I needed this about a decade ago, but nice work dude~

Joe Siegler · 09-17-2008, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by JustLikeMusic

Cool stuff.

Still cant believe you guys are just getting around to this.

I needed this about a decade ago, but nice work dude~

The main reason I never did one is it is a pain to get all the screenshots. With the old game, I'd be saving all over the place. The replay system has been in use QUITE a lot during my work on this project.

The devkit 360 in my office lets me take screenshots from my main computer, and keeps 'em there.

alexgk · 09-17-2008, 04:16 PM

Nice work (in progress), Joe

09-04-2008, 03:49 PM	#1
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Something I've wanted to do for ages now I'm finally getting around to doing. It's a walkthrough for Duke Nukem 3D. We have a few of these on our website (Shadow Warrior, Max Payne 1, and an aborted attempt at Max Payne 2). But never one for Duke3D. The primary reason is grabbing the screenshots was a pita on the old DOS version. DOSBox was an option, but I never really looked into that for some reason or another. Now that we finished the Duke3D port for the 360, I thought about using that version to grab screenshots, mostly because the development kit tools make it braindead easy to get screenshots. The game is the same as the original, so all the art and level design is the same, so I set out to finally make an official walkthrough for the game. Take a look, and tell me what you think of it. As the walkthrough is 100% my work, I have to admit to being curious to see what people think of it. http://www.3drealms.com/duke3d/walkthrough/index.html I'm not ready to post it as news on the front page of the 3DR site, so I would prefer folks not spread this to other sites until I have completed the work. Thanks. __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16 Last edited by Joe Siegler; 09-23-2008 at 09:54 PM.

09-05-2008, 08:09 AM	#6
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough 111 pageviews and only two comments? That bad, eh? __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16

09-06-2008, 05:01 PM	#23
Damien_Azreal Super Moderator	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough I like them Joe, very nice work. And with the XBL release close, should come in very handy for those out there not that familiar with the game. __________________ Monolith Fanboy since 1997 Upcoming Anticipated Games: Doom, Shadow Warrior 2, Mafia III, DisHonored 2, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

09-09-2008, 04:46 PM	#27
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Making some progress. I've got 7 of the 11 levels for Episode 2 done now. Hoping to be totally done with Episode 2 on Thursday, and start in in Episode 3 Friday. __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16

09-11-2008, 04:42 PM	#28
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Finished Episode 2! __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16

09-04-2008, 03:53 PM	#2
Yatta	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Awesome stuff. Many people shall be pleased. __________________ Visit Duke4.net - The largest Duke Nukem fan community on the net!

09-04-2008, 05:27 PM	#3
XTHX2	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Very cool Joe! It looks awesome. Even though I finished the game millions of times, I still enjoyed reading it. Oh and, there's a typo at Death Row's 4th Secret. ("cell") __________________ ---HELLDUKE TC--- NEW STABLE MIRROR SECONDARY MIRROR ---GAMEPLAY VIDEO--- Gameplay Footage of my Mod. Last edited by XTHX2; 09-05-2008 at 03:56 AM.

09-05-2008, 03:56 AM	#5
XTHX2	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Argh damnit __________________ ---HELLDUKE TC--- NEW STABLE MIRROR SECONDARY MIRROR ---GAMEPLAY VIDEO--- Gameplay Footage of my Mod.

09-05-2008, 09:18 AM	#7
stumppy84	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Good one Joe! It would be cool if you could throw some stories or some never seen development stuff in.

09-05-2008, 09:22 AM	#8
XTHX2	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough I think it is perfect the way it is now. It's a great thing to have secrets in a seperate place... Really __________________ ---HELLDUKE TC--- NEW STABLE MIRROR SECONDARY MIRROR ---GAMEPLAY VIDEO--- Gameplay Footage of my Mod.

09-05-2008, 09:34 AM	#9
ZaphodB	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Ill be taking a look at it later next week for sure. I don't think I ever found everything (although I have spent hours on some levels searching). __________________ "If there's ANYTHING larger than my EGO I want it shot and killed right now" - Zaphod Beeblebrox This Public Service Announcement brought to you by: "The People Who Have NO Idea What's Going On" (TPWHNOIWGON) We thank you for ignoring it.

09-05-2008, 09:37 AM	#10
Jinroh	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Awesome! Learned a lot of secrets I had forgotten about and I got Duke3D back in '96! o_O Thanks Joe this is awesome!

09-05-2008, 10:02 AM	#11
Player Lin	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Cool! A Walkthrough with secrets list... ***ing awesome! __________________ It's my ROTT introduce site, easily structure. http://playerlin.myweb.hinet.net/rott/ Sorry, please don't care my poor "Grammar of English"... faint* Sadly, it died temporary due to I used my all of times on RealLife(TM) and playing Games! XD Player Lin escaped from the hell of making website.

09-05-2008, 02:25 PM	#15
Mr.Fibbles	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Its Latin. . . I don't want to translate. He is using a filler (lorem ipsum. . ) to take up space until he writes an intro. __________________ http://thaunandshad.com

09-05-2008, 03:30 PM	#16
crunchy superman	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Nice work, Joe - I'm enjoying the read. One thing: on secret #2 in Death Row, don't you have to hit "use" on the altar to open up the wall? __________________

09-05-2008, 04:35 PM	#18
XTHX2	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough I don't want to be the bugger of you but uh, you typed incubator wrong And then, you put Spaceport at the top of the page for the link of incubator walkthrough. Just saying __________________ ---HELLDUKE TC--- NEW STABLE MIRROR SECONDARY MIRROR ---GAMEPLAY VIDEO--- Gameplay Footage of my Mod.

09-06-2008, 01:25 PM	#21
Shielder	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough A very minor thing really, but in Death Row - Secret #2, where you've written "First you need to shoot out the stained glass window on the left. Once you've done that, it will turn the room red...", in the PC version at least (not sure about other versions though), pressing "use" on the altar instead turns the room red. Apart from that, this is a great walkthrough so far. Last edited by Shielder; 09-06-2008 at 01:33 PM. Reason: Written too quickly, missed out vital bits.

09-06-2008, 02:36 PM	#22
Superczar	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Heh, I never did do that Time To Kill walkthrough you asked me to do many years ago... __________________ 'F*** Fresch!!!'.

09-07-2008, 10:26 AM	#24
themaniacboy	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough 1 word: Awesome __________________ kicking ass and chewing bubble gum,hell yes !

09-07-2008, 04:16 PM	#25
hightreason	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough It's great. It was always Duke 64 i needed the walkthru's for though, I still dunno how to get into that place at the end of the street in level 1 (with the big doors that have black mesh over them). Wait, i'm going off topic... Anyhow, yeah, it's good. __________________ High Treason (My Website) (Second Site) (My YouTube) Punk's not dead - and nor is Duke! Ever get the feeling you are being ignored?

09-07-2008, 04:26 PM	#26
hightreason	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough i did forget to point out (though you may have thought of it already) is it would be cool if the Previous/next links were at the bottom of the pages as well. __________________ High Treason (My Website) (Second Site) (My YouTube) Punk's not dead - and nor is Duke! Ever get the feeling you are being ignored?

09-11-2008, 04:44 PM	#29
ZaphodB	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Yay!!!! __________________ "If there's ANYTHING larger than my EGO I want it shot and killed right now" - Zaphod Beeblebrox This Public Service Announcement brought to you by: "The People Who Have NO Idea What's Going On" (TPWHNOIWGON) We thank you for ignoring it.

09-11-2008, 04:46 PM	#30
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Some of those levels were real pain to get all the secrets. Especially if you did not have a jetpack. Yes, I'm looking at you Lunar Reactor! Dark Side was rough too, as there was one I thought I needed a jetpack for (turns out I didn't). I had to go back TWO levels to get a jetpack, and play my way back again. That really sucked. (The one I'm talking about was the one where you jump off the train) __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16

09-11-2008, 05:01 PM	#31
Ironside	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Your getting into the areas where I need help.

09-12-2008, 06:40 AM	#32
Chip	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough As an added bonus, are you going to add in all the "random texts" that are around the place? Like "Bite me" found above one of the toilets in Lunar reactor or "You should not be here yet!" found at the very end of Raw meat (which needs DNclip for) and the many others....

09-13-2008, 02:32 AM	#34
Micki!	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Very Cool walkhrough... It's very user friendly with all the screenshots, too... I never managed to find all secrets in Duke3D... Perhaps, i should folow this walkthrough once it's done to finally get it all... __________________ A true genius does not need boundaries such as 'common sense'

09-16-2008, 01:38 PM	#35
XTHX2	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough I see you've started to the 3rd Episode already Joe! Good luck for the rest, not much left! __________________ ---HELLDUKE TC--- NEW STABLE MIRROR SECONDARY MIRROR ---GAMEPLAY VIDEO--- Gameplay Footage of my Mod.

09-17-2008, 01:56 PM	#38
JustLikeMusic	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Cool stuff. Still cant believe you guys are just getting around to this. I needed this about a decade ago, but nice work dude~

09-17-2008, 04:16 PM	#40
alexgk	Re: Duke Nukem 3D Walkthrough Nice work (in progress), Joe __________________ Playable demo this year! Confirmed!!