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[E|90%|19|YASD] Death by an Arachvile
« on: January 23, 2009, 01:13 »
All in all, not too bad of a run. And either the RNG was showing me some love, or I was really lucky. Too bad a Baron completely destroyed my Necroarmor, I was definitely feeling the effects of not having it afterwards.

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.8.11 BETA 1B) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 GenTechJ, level 7 Human Soldier, killed by a arch-vile
 on level 19 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 67875 turns and scored 20114 points.
 He was too young to die!

 He killed 269 out of 296 hellspawn. (90%)
 He held his right to remain violent.


-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------

  ###########################################################
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  ...#.==......+......}#........X/.>.....#.#.......==iii....=
  ...#.=...=...#.......#...........s.....#.#.#######====.....
  ...+===##===##......0#.0.......#V...i.././.#.....#.===...==
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  ...........#.+..===......00....+.c...............+.0.......
  ###############=#=#########################################
  ###########################################################

-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health -1/50   Experience 18983/7
  ToHit +4  ToDmg Ranged +3  ToDmg Melee +3

-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------

    Tough as nails (Level 1)
    Son of a bitch (Level 3)
    Eagle Eye      (Level 2)
    Triggerhappy   (Level 1)

  EE->EE->SoB->SoB->TaN->SoB->TH->

-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------

    [] [ Armor      ]   red armor [1/4] (25%)
    [a] [ Weapon     ]   modified chaingun (1d6)x4 [15/52] (M1)
    [b] [ Boots      ]   modified plasteel boots [4/4] (150%) (D)
    [c] [ Prepared   ]   modified rocket launcher (6d7) [1/1] (D1)

-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------

    [a] red armor [4/4] (100%)
    [b] 10mm ammo (x85)
    [c] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [d] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [e] rocket (x2)
    [f] rocket (x10)
    [g] small med-pack
    [h] small med-pack
    [i] large med-pack
    [j] large med-pack
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] large med-pack

-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------

    48 former humans
    21 former sergeants
    13 former captains
    66 imps
    19 demons
    61 lost souls
    9 barons of hell
    2 hell knights
    3 arachnotrons
    4 pain elementals
    1 revenant

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 3 he found the Butcher's Cleaver!
  On level 9 he found the Necroarmor!
  On level 9 he found Hell's Armory.
  On level 12 he found the Assault Shotgun!
  On level 18 he entered the Vaults.
  He came, he saw, but he left.
  On level 19 he finally was killed by a arch-vile.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 lost soul hits you. Your red armor is damaged! The arch-vile raises his
 arms! You are engulfed in flames! Your red armor is damaged!
 Chain fire (full) -- Choose target or abort...
   The missile hits the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Boom! Boom! Boom!
 Boom! Boom! Boom! The arch-vile raises his arms! You are engulfed in
 flames! Your red armor is damaged!
 Chain fire (full) -- Choose target or abort...
   The missile hits the lost soul. The missile hits the lost soul. The lost
 soul dies. Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! The imp fires! You are hit!
 Your red armor is damaged! Your red armor is damaged!
 Chain fire (full) -- Choose target or abort...
   The missile hits the lost soul. The missile hits the lost soul. The lost
 soul dies. Boom! The missile hits the arch-vile. The missile hits the
 arch-vile. The missile hits the arch-vile. The missile hits the arch-vile.
 The arch-vile raises his arms! You are engulfed in flames! Your red

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

  He's the first brave soul to have ventured into Hell...

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Re: [E|90%|19|YASD] Death by an Arachvile
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2009, 05:53 »
What I find funniest about this playthrough is that you still have all those medpacks when you die.

Did this archvile ambush you to the point where you didn't even see him until you were dead?  Also, are you aware of the button to switch tactics?  If he didn't totally ambush you, the tactic switch and a few medpacks might have gotten you away from the arch-vile in time.

There's nothing else I can say, really.
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Re: [E|90%|19|YASD] Death by an Arachvile
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2009, 10:15 »
Actually I was ambushed by him. Opened the door and there he was already hitting me pretty hard. Plus I went with chain fire, and I never thought of trying to cancel it (I imagine there's still a cool down while you wait for the barrel to stop spinning and firing) in order to pop a couple medpacks.

As for tactics, I'm still an utter newb with them though I've been playing DoomRL for a couple years now.
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Re: [E|90%|19|YASD] Death by an Arachvile
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2009, 10:29 »
Quote from: GenTechJ on January 23, 2009, 10:15
As for tactics, I'm still an utter newb with them though I've been playing DoomRL for a couple years now.

I ought to clarify that one a bit.  It used to be multiple different tactics in an old release but nowadays it's a button for an evasive mode (the game notes the tactic as 'running' but it's not running proper, I don't think).  Increased chance to dodge shots (though that won't help against an Arch-vile or Revenant, it will help somewhat against Hell Knights, Barons, and just about anything else with a projectile attack), movement speed increased (I think the wiki says 30%, although I don't know if that's an older release or the current one), but a slight accuracy hit.

After you use it, you need to either heal or go to the next floor to use it again.

Quote from: GenTechJ on January 23, 2009, 10:15
Plus I went with chain fire, and I never thought of trying to cancel it (I imagine there's still a cool down while you wait for the barrel to stop spinning and firing) in order to pop a couple medpacks.

If there is a cooldown proper, I haven't noticed it much.  I think any 'cooldown' is built into the firing time of a weapon.

Plus cooldown didn't really apply much to chainguns in the original Doom.



By the way, did Halls of Carnage ever show up as a possible special level for you?  It's one of four levels I know of that has a BFG9000, which, in addition to coming in handy against enemy hordes assisted by Arch-viles, is really recommended in most modes (I can think of maybe two challenge modes where it's not needed, and in both cases you couldn't use one in those modes anyway) for the endgame.
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Re: [E|90%|19|YASD] Death by an Arachvile
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2009, 10:41 »
I'll have to try out that running tactic, especially against the Barons and Hell Knights (does it help at all against Cybie?). And it sounds like it would help me out quite a bit, being a fan of playing a shottyman or Angel of Marksmanship.

Chain fire is something new, you stand stationary and fire until you either run out of bullets, kill everything, or die, or theoretically cancel (never thought to try canceling).

I don't recall seeing the Halls in that run. The levels I skipped were Hell's Arena (didn't have a decent weapon), Chained Court (I should've gone to get the experience and the kills), and The Wall (not a fan of that one >.<). As for the Vaults, I couldn't figure out what to do, so I left after wasting a few rockets trying to blow down the walls.
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Re: [E|90%|19|YASD] Death by an Arachvile
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2009, 11:02 »
GenTechJ, Escape cancels chainfire mode, there's no cooldown, but trying to fire again will make the cycle repeat.

Frosty, note the DoomRL version in this mortem :)
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Re: [E|90%|19|YASD] Death by an Arachvile
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2009, 11:05 »
Ah, thanks Kornel. Though, you could get evil and add a cooldown to chain fire (if it's feasible to add anyways). Makes it more Doomish I think in that chain fire becomes something of a last resort when confronted with a horde of baddies, rather than something you start doing anytime you see an enemy just in case something else comes into LoS, as I was doing.
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Re: [E|90%|19|YASD] Death by an Arachvile
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2009, 11:52 »
Quote from: Kornel Kisielewicz on January 23, 2009, 11:02
Frosty, note the DoomRL version in this mortem :)

Whoops.  In all fairness, I meant whether the WIKI listing for the evasive mode was for the older or newer versions.  (I have my doubts as to whether what's listed actually applies to 0.9.8.10 or if it's older than that, honestly.)

Unless you're referring to my cluelessness in regards to new things such as chain fire, in which case I have nothing to say.

And if you'd rather have me not butt in on beta-related stuff yet, the fact that it's from the beta should be noted in the topic title.
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Re: [E|90%|19|YASD] Death by an Arachvile
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2009, 00:19 »
I HATE ARACHVILES. with their resurrection powers and their plasma rifles, grr!
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