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Malek Deneith

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[M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« on: July 05, 2009, 12:22 »
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 DoomRL (v.0.9.8.11 BETA 4) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Shottyman, level 10 Cacodemon Major, defeated the Cyberdemon
 on level 25 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 100275 turns and scored 85955 points.
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 389 out of 389 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
 He was an Angel of Max Carnage!


 He saved himself once.

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

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

  Health 47/70   Experience 40106/10
  ToHit +12  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +0

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

    Ironman          (Level 2)
    Tough as nails   (Level 3)
    Reloader         (Level 2)
    Badass           (Level 1)
    Shottyman        (Level 1)
    Army of the Dead (Level 1)

  TaN->Rel->Rel->SM->TaN->Bad->TaN->MAD->Iro->Iro->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   modified red armor [2/4] (41%) (M)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Jackhammer (8d3)x3 [3/9]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   plasteel boots [4/4] (65%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   modified combat shotgun (8d3) [5/5] (S1)

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

    [a] green armor [1/1] (100%)
    [b] blue armor [2/2] (76%)
    [c] modified red armor [1/4] (17%) (M)
    [d] red armor [1/4] (10%)
    [e] shotgun shell (x50)
    [f] shotgun shell (x50)
    [g] shotgun shell (x50)
    [h] shotgun shell (x50)
    [i] shotgun shell (x50)
    [j] shotgun shell (x50)
    [k] shotgun shell (x50)
    [l] shotgun shell (x50)
    [m] shotgun shell (x50)
    [n] shotgun shell (x50)
    [o] shotgun shell (x50)
    [p] shotgun shell (x50)
    [q] shotgun shell (x27)
    [r] small med-pack
    [s] large med-pack
    [t] envirosuit pack
    [u] modified protective boots [4/4] (66%) (P)

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

    51 former humans
    83 former sergeants
    33 former captains
    64 imps
    31 demons
    21 lost souls
    23 cacodemons
    12 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    2 hell knights
    8 arachnotrons
    8 former commandos
    4 pain elementals
    7 arch-viles
    4 mancubi
    13 revenants

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

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 3 he found the Blaster!
  On level 16 he found the Jackhammer!
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.

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

 footsteps...
 Boom!
 The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 Fire -- Choose target...
   The Cyberdemon fires! You are hit!
 Fire -- Choose target...
   The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 Fire -- Choose target...
   The Cyberdemon fires! You are hit!
 Your weapon is empty.
 The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 Fire -- Choose target...
   The Cyberdemon fires! You are hit! Your red armor is damaged!
 Fire -- Choose target...
   The Cyberdemon dies. You feel relatively safe now. Congratulations!

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

 Before him 397 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 370 of those were killed.
 4 of those were killed by something unknown.
 7 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 9 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 7 souls claim to have killed him...
 4 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 2 killed the bastard and survived.
 1 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.

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Well after a long period I finally got another win. And it's the best kind of win - shotty-only win :D (Yup, used shotguns exclusively since I got one) Also this is my first sucessfull attempt at "Yet Another Asskicking Marine". And last but not least I did it on Angel of Max Carnage - I don't think I saw post mortem of that one yet. Only medium difficulty though - my experiences with trying shotgun games on anything harder were less then pleasant.

Thoughts:
- Jackhammer is awesome, I was really lucky to get it. Don't think I could pull this off otherwise, not with 100% kills anyway.
- Got Army of Darkness trait - I think it helped those last few levels (and Cybie probably too - he died very quick), ut considering I've een running around with Jackhammer it's hard to tell how much it helped.
- Angel of Max Carnage seems the best challenge game for shotguns so far - yes the amount of damage you take on later levels is horrid, but at the same time it helps to maximize shotgun's efficiency.
- I still don't think shotguns stand up in power to other weapons when it comes to end-game. Untill I got Jackhammer I had serious problems with some monsters - Revenants and Former Commandos mostly. Easy and medium are doable but I wouldn't run going shotgun on hard and above.
- New barrel types are nice, but in my opinion acid and lava types should be a bit less plentifull - they become a real pain sometimes, blocking off only ways of going through level, and mass-barrel special levels become a nightmare due to them. Also I got the impression that there were too much barrels generated near-end levels in general, though that might be just me.

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« Last Edit: July 05, 2009, 12:59 by Malek Deneith »
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Re: [M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2009, 14:12 »
Angel of Max Carnage is also my favourite Challenge because the amazing damage output. You have a very easy early game but the danger factor really piles up on the later levels.

Anyway i haven't seen the new 8d3x3 Jackhammer so i have no idea just how much pain it can deal :P. Anyway gratz on beating the challenge Arachnotrons and Mancubus can be really nasty.
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Re: [M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2009, 14:58 »
Army of Darkness ?! WTF ! :D What does it do ? ;>

Good job on the win anyway.
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Re: [M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2009, 22:17 »
It's one of the new master traits!

Spose it wouldn't hurt spoiling one of them (There's quite a few). It does this:
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Re: [M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2009, 22:59 »
Damm you, forever! Why you don't spoil? WHY?!
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Re: [M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2009, 00:15 »
Angel of Max Carnage... Army of Darkness... *drool*
Umm, Kornel, when were you going to release v0.9.8.11 to the public, again? :p
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Re: [M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2009, 00:38 »
Sooo...
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Quote from: Mrazerty on July 06, 2009, 00:15
Angel of Max Carnage... Army of Darkness... *drool*
Umm, Kornel, when were you going to release v0.9.8.11 to the public, again? :p
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Re: [M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2009, 03:15 »
Quote from: Ilhar on July 06, 2009, 00:38
Sooo...
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Quote from: Mrazerty on July 06, 2009, 00:15
Angel of Max Carnage... Army of Darkness... *drool*
Umm, Kornel, when were you going to release v0.9.8.11 to the public, again? :p
It will take some more time as Kornel decided to finally break player.dat compability.
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Re: [M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2009, 00:34 »
Quote from: Malek Deneith on July 05, 2009, 12:22
I don't think I saw post mortem of that one yet.
Gee, I wonder why.
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Re: [M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2009, 09:15 »
I'd love to give all this stuff a try (when Kornel releases the new version to the public of course), but unless he's fixed the compatability problems the game has with Vista I'm afraid I'm not interested...
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Re: [M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2009, 13:03 »
Quote from: Captain Trek on July 08, 2009, 09:15
I'd love to give all this stuff a try (when Kornel releases the new version to the public of course), but unless he's fixed the compatability problems the game has with Vista I'm afraid I'm not interested...
No worries, the betas are quite stable unless you REALLY want to crush it (such as killing the last monster at the chained court with a knife ). Apart from that, any serious crash bugs are quickly corrected.
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Re: [M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2009, 15:09 »
Killing the last monster of Chained Court with a knife is a crasher? Is that in the beta, or can I pull that off in 0.9.8.10?
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Re: [M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2009, 09:19 »
Quote from: Melon on July 08, 2009, 13:03
Quote from: Captain Trek on July 08, 2009, 09:15
I'd love to give all this stuff a try (when Kornel releases the new version to the public of course), but unless he's fixed the compatability problems the game has with Vista I'm afraid I'm not interested...
No worries, the betas are quite stable unless you REALLY want to crush it (such as killing the last monster at the chained court with a knife ). Apart from that, any serious crash bugs are quickly corrected.

Well, I don't know, all I can tell you is that when I first put DoomRL on my Vista computer it would crash... a lot... most of the crashes proving unrecoverable... One time it even crashed while running idle in the background. So far though, since reinstalling, deleting and reinstalling again, it has only crashed once and that one proved recoverable...

By the way, is there a way to increase the window size? As it is, it's hard to see some of the darker coloured things in the game (phase device, blue armour, plasteel boots and barons in particular) because the window is just too damn small...
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Re: [M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2009, 09:35 »
Quote from: Captain Trek on July 12, 2009, 09:19
By the way, is there a way to increase the window size? As it is, it's hard to see some of the darker coloured things in the game (phase device, blue armour, plasteel boots and barons in particular) because the window is just too damn small...
My Windows isn't in English but i can guide more or less. On DoomRL window: right-click at the top and open properties. Font tab: Select a font and set it to whatever you feel confortable with. I use Lucida 26 for a 1280 wide desktop.
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Re: [M|AoMC|YAVP|YAAM] Shotgun'd!
« Reply #14 on: July 12, 2009, 10:26 »
Quote from: Dervis on July 12, 2009, 09:35
Quote from: Captain Trek on July 12, 2009, 09:19
By the way, is there a way to increase the window size? As it is, it's hard to see some of the darker coloured things in the game (phase device, blue armour, plasteel boots and barons in particular) because the window is just too damn small...
My Windows isn't in English but i can guide more or less. On DoomRL window: right-click at the top and open properties. Font tab: Select a font and set it to whatever you feel confortable with. I use Lucida 26 for a 1280 wide desktop.

Ah, thankyou very much... Turns out the properties window also allows you to change the size of the window itself... 10 x 18 is pretty good... It's not in the same ratio as the default (8 x 12), but I think it actually looks better... That's for the Raster anyway... I'll try Lucidia as well... Heh, I wonder how the classic Times New Roman would look... Horrible no doubt, but it'd be interesting to see...
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