Traps! Are you into traps?

For the traps and mechanisms lovers!

Whoever built maps for games, since Doom map editor to nowadays map editors and addons, which traps and mechanism caught your eye?

Separating the party members is a big troll move

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Arya_Yeshe

Guild Wars 2 laser taps are simply a treat!

To whoever had the good fortune of running the Crucible of Eternity, cheers mate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2-I1xJuc0

Arya_Yeshe

Prince of Persia

Classical traps are amazing

Ludullu

Arya_Yeshe wrote: »

Prince of Persia

I think that's the only game I've played with traps in it. I'd definitely like some in Ashes just to spice up the dungeons though.

Roxi

Arya_Yeshe

Orcs Must Die 1, 2 and 3

The invaders suffered greatly by the effective tactic of placing a square of tar on the floor and strategically positioning arrows or spikes on the wall or ceiling

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Arya_Yeshe

Dark Souls, Skyrim and many other games

Swinging Axes, it's very generic and annoying

Even tought I love a trap, I dislike it when it's set on a narrow surface like a ledge, a thin bridge, or a plank. In such cases, the only reason for the trap to exist is for someone to fall through it while crossing. I find traps more exciting when they take you by surprise or catch you off guard during a fight.

Arya_Yeshe

Bloodborne

The log trap, being caught by surprise is fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjueLckVBp8

Arya_Yeshe

Legend of Grimrock

The entire game is full of mechanisms and traps, there is a lot of pit traps and secret passages. In nearly all pit traps, if you fall in them, you will end up in a secret room in a floor bellow you, but this secret room is full of monsters, then you have to get out of that place and go back to the main path. In most cases when you leave the pit, it will be through a secret passage you missed

There is also a bunch of walls that can be moved in and out, revealing passages.

Arya_Yeshe

Tomb Raiber 2

This game had long sequences of deadly traps, rolling boulders, spike traps, walls closing in. We don't have a lot of this kind of things these days, people woud even forget to breath while crossing those areas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_2LwzXNnLY

Arya_Yeshe

Baldur's Gate 3

There's some interesting traps, you can manipulate objects and use spells to interfere with the traps. In the Dark Crypt you can place objects on gas vents and being melted when the walls start shooting flamming arrows. In this the system has a combination of traps and combination of counters against them.

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Dygz

Rogue's should have Utility Skills to Find and Disarm traps.

Arya_Yeshe

Skyrim, Resident Evil 2, Dead Space, many other games

The trap or puzzle close a door, trapping the player inside the room full of monsters and in some games sepparating the player from his allies

Arya_Yeshe

Tomb Raider: Legend, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, many other games

They all have a mix of puzzles and traps, where you gotta interact with the enviroment and move objects, or move blocks, so they will shield you from other traps like arrows being shot from the walls. Or sometimes you move blocks so you can use them later in a jump puzzle so you can progress to the next room or fight something.

They all involve problem solving skills and quick reflexes

Xnate13X

Arya_Yeshe wrote: »

Guild Wars 2 laser taps are simply a treat!

To whoever had the good fortune of running the Crucible of Eternity, cheers mate!

COE was easy. I enjoyed all the skip shortcut tricks you could abuse to speed it up. I specifically ran warrior for that dungeon after they patched teleporting through walls on elementalist. Skips were fun to find

I used to run evey different path in every dungeon, every day. Including lv 50 FOTM when 50 was max fract lv. It took a solid 24hrs with good teams to get through. I used to have people just watch as I solo bosses that people didn't know were even possible to solo. I mained an elementalist. I never was a harder sweaty nerd than the days of GW2 2012-First expansion release when they destroyed the game entirely(IMO). Although were slowly killing it with the 0 pvp updates and slow af pvm updates. All I did was farm COF back before nerfing it and making dungeons give a set gold amount each, then having to run every path of every dungeon, every day for maximized profit. This was before they released champion farming being the best gold farm. I have 24hr videos of the first champ farming route and rewards from when it came out. Bad audio sync but still..hypercam 2.

Arya_Yeshe

Xnate13X wrote: »

Arya_Yeshe wrote: »

Guild Wars 2 laser taps are simply a treat!

To whoever had the good fortune of running the Crucible of Eternity, cheers mate!

COE was easy. I enjoyed all the skip shortcut tricks you could abuse to speed it up. I specifically ran warrior for that dungeon after they patched teleporting through walls on elementalist. Skips were fun to find
I used to run evey different path in every dungeon, every day. Including lv 50 FOTM when 50 was max fract lv. It took a solid 24hrs with good teams to get through. I used to have people just watch as I solo bosses that people didn't know were even possible to solo. I mained an elementalist. I never was a harder sweaty nerd than the days of GW2 2012-First expansion release when they destroyed the game entirely(IMO). Although were slowly killing it with the 0 pvp updates and slow af pvm updates. All I did was farm COF back before nerfing it and making dungeons give a set gold amount each, then having to run every path of every dungeon, every day for maximized profit. This was before they released champion farming being the best gold farm. I have 24hr videos of the first champ farming route and rewards from when it came out. Bad audio sync but still..hypercam 2.

Oh yeah, the first time I did CoE, I blitzed it... the second time when I was with another character, I was drunk and I couldn't stop dying LOL, I couldn't believe how bad it was

Xnate13X

I enjoyed tactical, trap navigating, strategic, brain power type dungeons. I HATED trash mob cluttering dungeons just to slow you down. Some is fine but stuff like the insane amount of brutal trash mobs in The Ruined City of Arah dungeon, were so tedious that it was faster to teach new people skips than it was to deal with fighting the crap. If we had to fight everything, no one would even want to do it.

Xnate13X

Since we're on the topic of traps...
Secret/hidden jumping puzzles from GW2 were one of my favorite things in any game I ever played. They were fun to find, hidden in plain site or off the beaten path, full of traps or tricks to finish them.. SO fun.

Arya_Yeshe

Xnate13X wrote: »

I enjoyed tactical, trap navigating, strategic, brain power type dungeons. I HATED trash mob cluttering dungeons just to slow you down. Some is fine but stuff like the insane amount of brutal trash mobs in The Ruined City of Arah dungeon, were so tedious that it was faster to teach new people skips than it was to deal with fighting the crap. If we had to fight everything, no one would even want to do it.

I leveled my engineer up to level 80 by running PvP and WvW a bit, this is how much I "love" PvE

Arya_Yeshe

Xnate13X wrote: »

Since we're on the topic of traps...
Secret/hidden jumping puzzles from GW2 were one of my favorite things in any game I ever played. They were fun to find, hidden in plain site or off the beaten path, full of traps or tricks to finish them.. SO fun.

GW2 has legendary jumping puzzles, even the people who didn't like jumping puzzles, started liking them because of GW2

There is a lot of jumping and even gliding in bosses too, in the last expansion that boss in which you have to glide from one rotating plataform onto the boss plataform is a rocker of a boss

Ace1234

Yes I enjoy traps, as long as it is generally part of some puzzle/brain teaser or can be countered with some proper planning, or is there to provide some serious risk with a proper reward- rather than just a time waster that is dealt with using trial and error.

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