Duke Nukem Forever

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Air-Duke

Air-Duke

Win air hockey with a score of 7-0 in the strip club

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How to unlock the Air-Duke achievement in Duke Nukem Forever - Definitive Guide

This method should take about 5 mins or so.

The first thing to bear in mind, your look sensitivity controls how hard you can hit the puck. If you have a sensitivity of 1 you simply can't hit it hard enough to win. For this method I recommend a horizontal sensitivity of 7, vertical can be whatever you like.

Hold your mallet right next to your end of the table, centred on the goal the entire time. You should never move it forward towards your opponent unless the puck has got stuck. Wait for the puck to come towards you and then swipe it with a horizontal movement. You will only be hitting the puck with horizontal movements, never vertical. With a high sensitivity, the horizontal hit will send the puck into the corner and it will come out at a fast speed, hopefully zig-zagging across the table. The CPU is very bad at defending against this, and you'll score fairly often. As soon as you've hit it return to a defending position, with your mallet as far back as it will go.

You'll find that some puck positions will give you more success than others. Generally if its heading towards your goal you should focus on defense, and hit it while it is still mostly in front of your mallet. If it is heading towards the back corner you can experiment, I found I got more goals by waiting until it was almost touching the back wall before hitting it when it was in the corner.
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Thank you so much for the tip on the look sensitivity. I normally play on 2 and figured the air hockey table just handled horribly all together. Got it first go after changing it. :)
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By AmileGMG on 13 Jun 2011 09:46
Thanks! Helped me alot. :)
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By FireRaiser1985 on 13 Jun 2011 18:06
great guide man been having problems with this a lot played it 15 times always losing got it first time
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By Fishy Zadok on 15 Jun 2011 09:15
On my third try it worked! Thanks!
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By Hunter#8335 on 17 Jun 2011 19:00
What really helped was horizontal 7. :)))))))))))))))))))))))))
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By CONKER1182 on 18 Jun 2011 07:34
I spent an hour with default controls struggling, drunk also, come on this see this. RAGE :(
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By TouchMyMinki on 19 Jun 2011 08:58
What a piss poor rendition of Air Hockey. Movement is so jerky, your paddle can go on top of the disc and the overall physics were crap. Thanks so that I never have to play that again!
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By meatman75 on 05 Jul 2011 01:00
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By FPSDeath on 09 Jul 2011 13:58
Good tip thanks for the help got this first time with your guide
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By PSYCH0MAN911 on 13 Jul 2011 10:12
F**k sake! I spent 30 minutes trying it with the horizontal setting on 7 and final got it! +1
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By Chilled Eclipse on 21 Jul 2011 02:26
Got it second try with 7-7 sens, thanks.
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By Shin Gatsurai on 16 Oct 2011 13:31
Good guide, worked for me.

Thanks
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By Calex dEUS on 11 Jan 2012 22:40
DAWN PIECE OF SHIT achievement.....EIGHT, 8 hellish times I have six points and the cpu scores.How I hate this crap.....

And, yes, thanks for the tips....Helps a lot!!!
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By MAX 1 DE LIFE on 11 Apr 2012 10:55
Great solution!!!smile
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By MoLoKeRzZz on 05 Apr 2013 17:21
I'm here to chew bubble gum and kick @ss, yet for some reason, im stuck playing fail minigames for stupid achievements. If I wanted to torture myself getting achs like this one, id go to the XBLA bargain bin,
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By triplewitching on 03 Jun 2013 05:17
4 and a half hours... playing this damn mini game... I hate it. But it's done. Forever. Never again. No air hockey at all.
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By AwakeDeadeye on 28 Dec 2013 00:28
I tried horizontal 7 but I found a horizontal 6 and vertical 3 works real perfect.Just try it.
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By BEATNGU 74 on 28 Apr 2014 20:22
Thanks for the tips
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By Dirk Omnivore on 29 Jul 2014 01:47
5 minutes my fucking ass. 2 fucking hours and I still don't have this fucking achievement angryangryangry
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By Arador on 02 Apr 2016 05:15
Was the best solution for me. Thanks!
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By netstryker on 15 Jan 2018 16:45
Yeah this took about 5 minutes after I decided to just be patient and focus on not letting the slow, easy to block puck score and only go right and left. I started off by really being annoyed with this solution thinking it wasn't working, but I wasn't working...
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By Dragonborn Gear on 09 Aug 2018 01:06
Perfect guide. Less than 10 minutes. Cover your hole and hit the left and right works.
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By Aphelion Rem on 23 Jan 2023 06:51
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Win at air hockey in the level Duke Nukem's Titty City with a score of 7 - Nil.

Load up 'Duke Nukem's Titty City' from the single player campaign chapter select. If you have not got up to it yet, It's the tenth chapter in from the start.

Duke wakes up in his strip club. After a brief scene in which you are tasked to find three items, you regain control of Duke at the entrance to the club. Head through the door ahead and turn left past the girls girls girls. You will be facing a bar. Make your way towards the opposite side of the room and through the door marked GAME ROOM. Head past the poker and slot machines and follow the steps left. Go through the door frames on the opposite side of the pool tables and there is a guy who will challenge duke to a game of air hockey.

To unlock this achievement you need to score a full seven goals without letting him score. If the guy manages to score a goal you can just exit with X or B and play again to start back at 0 - 0. The scoreboard on the machine will still read your last games scores but it resets every time a new game is started. For those that have not played this air hockey mini game, Its pretty simple physics using your right joystick to control a coloured paddle, trying to hit a puck into your opponents goal while defending your own.

Scoring the Flawless Victory
Hit START and go to Options > Controls. Set Vertical Sensetivity high. This will give you faster movement forwards and back, to hit the puck faster and harder. Set Horizontal Sensitivity low. This will give you slower speed moving left and right, giving more accurate movement. My settings were Vertical Sensitivity at 7 and Horizontal Sensitivity ar 4.

Exit back to the game, and play. Hover around your goals to defend it, and strike out when you have clean hits. The slow side speed gives good defence and the fast thrusts forward give you a good hit. You can easily take shots straight for goal and get them in. The A.I. isn't all that good. You can also aim for the corners to get it in off the rebound. Exit out and jump back in to reset the score back to 0 - 0 and keep going untill you make a flawless victory.

If that was your first time playing air hockey for that campaign you will also recieve an Ego Boost reward for winning a game of air hockey.

I was having little luck with the other guides suggestions and decided to try it this way. Made my victory the very next game.
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Much better than FlopsyTheRabbit's solution IMO.
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By Hanx on 17 Oct 2011 23:37
Yeah, this did the trick. Got it on the 2nd try. Thanks!
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By Tuxie Duck on 07 Apr 2015 15:54
Took about 5 min using this strategy, thanks.
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By Noseos on 12 Aug 2022 23:18
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both solutions can work great but i used this method to get this achievement by using vertical 3 and horizontal 7 just a tip for people still struggling with this good luck
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Worked first time for me as well so a big +1
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By NegativeCreep08 on 08 Feb 2015 15:34
After multiple unsuccessful attempts on the other two guides, I used this guide and got it on my first try. Not gonna say it's a guarantee path to the achievement, had a few close calls, but it got me there. +1
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By o0EviIToaster0o on 23 Oct 2013 01:28
Great, great, great! Your solution is awesome! Simply the best! I've tried many times the other solutions without sucess. Following your solution I did it in my FIRST attempt. Thank you very much!
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By netstryker on 13 Feb 2017 21:40
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The air hockey game is located in the back of the Game Room in the strip club of "Duke Nukem's Titty City" When you first enter the main room of the strip club, take a look to your left and you should see a doorway with a sign over it saying "Game Room". Enter that room and continue up the small staircase. Once up on the second floor, look to your right and you'll find it. Walk up to the air hockey table and press to challenge the guy standing next to it. The controls on this are really awful and hard to use, so instead of playing offensively, the key is to play defensively and only hit the puck when it's gliding slow. The opponent will most likely screw up and either miss, or shoot it into his own goal. The camera is really bad so you won't see the puck if you happen to miss it. Take it easy when you slide the mallet back to your goal, or you might accidentally shoot it back into your goal. Play around with the sensitivities in Options, if you feel it's necessary. If the opponent happens to score, simply leave the table by pressing and re-challenge him again. The score will reset if you do so, unlike the pinball game. Winning the game will give you both the trophy and Ego Cap Reward #19 (see I Am All That Is Man).

If you want a demonstration of how it works, take a look at this:

 

Credit goes to PowerPyx.

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