@a1ba when i was playing with my dad, we were playing some very early release version of quake and couldn't figure out how to beat it (not to mention both of us "grew" on doom and didn't use mouse at the time) so we just

>In early releases of Quake, it was possible to kill Shub-Niggurath with brute force by shooting her until all 40,000 hit points were expended, which would then cause the game to crash. This was fixed in version 1.06.