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[M|AoH|24%|YAVP] Low-turncount win!
« on: August 26, 2009, 19:15 »

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.8.10) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Zynx, level 4 Mancubus Overlord, defeated the Cyberdemon
 on level 12 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 11174 turns and scored 23031 points.
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 84 out of 341 hellspawn. (24%)
 Who gave him the ticket to hell, anyway?
 He was an Angel of Haste!


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

  Health 2/50   Experience 4532/4
  ToHit +0  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +0

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

    Son of a gun   (Level 3)
    Dualgunner     (Level 1)

  SoG->SoG->DG->SoG->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   rocket launcher (6d6) [0/1]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   steel boots [1/1] (84%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   modified pistol (2d4) [5/6] (A1)

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

    [a] modified pistol (2d4) [5/6] (S1)
    [b] plasma rifle (1d8)x8 [32/40]
    [c] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
    [d] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
    [e] blue armor [2/2] (77%)
    [f] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
    [g] chainsaw (4d6)
    [h] 10mm ammo (x68)
    [i] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [j] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [k] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [l] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [m] power cell (x20)

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

    33 former humans
    12 former sergeants
    4 former captains
    11 imps
    6 demons
    5 lost souls
    1 cacodemon
    1 baron of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 arachnotron
    1 pain elemental
    1 arch-vile

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

  On level 3 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 5 he found Hell's Armory.
  On level 8 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  He fled the Unholy Cathedral seeing no chance to win.
  On level 10 he entered the Vaults.
  He came, he saw, but he left.
  On level 11 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
  He managed to escape from the Mortuary!
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  On level 12 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.

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

 Fire -- Choose target... The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits
 the Cyberdemon.
 Fire -- Choose target... Boom! The missile hits the Cyberdemon.
 The Cyberdemon fires! Boom!
 The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 You reload the pistol with 10mm ammo. You reload the pistol with 10mm ammo.
 Fire -- Choose target... Boom! Boom!
 You wear/wield : a rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You reload the rocket launcher with rocket.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You reload the rocket launcher with rocket.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You reload the rocket launcher with rocket.
 Fire -- Choose target... You hear the scream of a freed soul!

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

 Before him 753 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 652 of those were killed.
 12 of those were killed by something unknown.
 32 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 32 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 25 souls claim to have killed him...
 1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 23 killed the bastard and survived.
 1 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.

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So to break up the frustration of N! AoB runs I've been trying to win in the lowest # of turns possible.  At first I tried a rapid weapon build, and reached Cybie in about 8000 turns, but had no way of killing him.  No BFG, no plasma rifle, and didn't hit close to hard enough with the chaingun and merely 4 traits to win, since I didn't have the luxury of picking up many medpacks along the way.

After a few runs, it seemed that I would likely only gain 3 levels in my rush to the Phobos Arena, so how best to allocate 4 traits?  Back to pistols, actually!  Son of a Gun is nice in that not only does it up the rate of fire, but also increases damage, which is pretty important since Cybie has a lot of natural armor.  But even then you can't deal damage quickly enough relative to the damage it deals to you, so I ended up needing a fortunate situation where I could fire rockets at the wall next to him while hiding behind a pillar.

Demo available upon request, I don't want to take up too much space on the webserver with less impressive runs, although this one is a bit unique.
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Re: [M|AoH|24%|YAVP] Low-turncount win!
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2009, 09:30 »

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.8.10) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Zynx, level 5 Hell Knight Overlord, defeated the Cyberdemon
 on level 12 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 8660 turns and scored 27187 points.
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 90 out of 217 hellspawn. (41%)
 He was an Angel of Haste!


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

  Health 32/50   Experience 7754/5
  ToHit +4  ToDmg Ranged +3  ToDmg Melee +3

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

    Son of a bitch (Level 3)
    Eagle Eye      (Level 2)

  EE->EE->SoB->SoB->SoB->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   plasma rifle (1d8)x8 [0/40]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   Phaseshift Boots [4/4] (88%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   nothing

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

    [a] pistol (2d4) [6/6]
    [b] fastload shotgun (6d3) [0/1]
    [c] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]
    [d] chaingun (1d6)x5 [50/50]
    [e] chaingun (1d6)x5 [35/50]
    [f] plasma rifle (1d8)x8 [24/40]
    [g] plasma rifle (1d8)x8 [0/40]
    [h] 10mm ammo (x57)
    [i] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [j] shotgun shell (x50)
    [k] shotgun shell (x7)
    [l] small med-pack
    [m] small med-pack
    [n] phase device
    [o] phase device

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

    28 former humans
    18 former sergeants
    5 former captains
    3 imps
    8 demons
    5 lost souls
    7 cacodemons
    2 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 hell knight
    3 former commandos
    1 arch-vile
    2 mancubi
    1 revenant

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

  On level 6 he found the Phaseshift Boots!
  On level 8 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  He fled the Unholy Cathedral seeing no chance to win.
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  On level 12 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.

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

 Fire -- Choose target... The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits
 the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the
 Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the
 Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the
 Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon fires! You are hit! The Cyberdemon reloads
 his rocket launcher.
 You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed.
 Fire -- Choose target... The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits
 the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the
 Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon fires! You are hit!
 Fire -- Choose target... The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits
 the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the
 Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 Fire -- Choose target... The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits
 the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon dies.

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

 Before him 864 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 756 of those were killed.
 12 of those were killed by something unknown.
 32 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 37 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 27 souls claim to have killed him...
 1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 25 killed the bastard and survived.
 1 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.

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Got it down to 8660 turns, and with rapid weapons, surprisingly.  On Hey, not too rough, an early chaingun (or combat shotgun) is not necessarily a sure thing, unlike nightmare, so the first trait pick is a crapshoot.  Sometimes choosing reloader would lead to a chaingun, sometimes choosing eagle eye led to a combat shotgun.  Planeshift boots really cut down on movement time though, so that saved a large amount of turns.
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