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[M|AoMs|83%|YAVP] O Merciful RNG...
« on: September 22, 2010, 10:57 »

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.9.1) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Adam Ring, level 9 Arch-Vile Lt. Colonel, defeated the Cyberdemon
 on level 25 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 95209 turns and scored 83738 points.
 He played for 1 hour, 43 minutes and 45 seconds.
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 410 out of 493 hellspawn. (83%)
 He was an Angel of Masochism!


 He saved himself once.

-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------

  Hell Champion Medal
  Masochist Gold Badge

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

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

  Health 86/70   Experience 37330/9
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +0  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +0

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

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

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

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   modified red armor [3/6] (47%) (P)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   modified combat shotgun (8d3) [0/5] (P1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   modified protective boots [2/2] (90%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   modified rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1] (A1)

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

    [a] modified double shotgun (8d3)x3 [2/2] (B1)
    [b] modified plasma shotgun (7d3) [39/39] (B1)
    [c] modified blue armor [2/2] (200%) (B)
    [d] modified blue armor [2/2] (153%) (B)
    [e] modified red armor [2/4] (39%) (B)
    [f] modified red armor [4/4] (77%) (A)
    [g] shotgun shell (x35)
    [h] shotgun shell (x50)
    [i] shotgun shell (x50)
    [j] shotgun shell (x50)
    [k] rocket (x10)
    [l] rocket (x10)
    [m] rocket (x10)
    [n] power cell (x50)
    [o] power cell (x50)
    [p] power cell (x50)
    [q] power cell (x50)
    [r] power cell (x50)
    [s] phase device

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

    74 former humans
    47 former sergeants
    8 former captains
    55 imps
    52 demons
    91 lost souls
    27 cacodemons
    8 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    12 hell knights
    7 arachnotrons
    3 former commandos
    3 pain elementals
    5 arch-viles
    2 mancubi
    15 revenants

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

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  Entering level 3 he was almost dead...
  On level 3 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 14 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
  On level 15 he encoutered the Phobos Hellgate.
  On level 23 he entered the Lava Pits.
  He decided it was too hot there.
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.

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

 You pump a shell into the combat shotgun chamber.
 Fire -- Choose target... 
 You pump a shell into the combat shotgun chamber.
 Fire -- Choose target...   The Cyberdemon hits you.
 You pump a shell into the shotgun chamber. The Cyberdemon fires! You are
 hit! The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 Fire -- Choose target...   The Cyberdemon fires! You are hit!
 You pump a shell into the combat shotgun chamber. The Cyberdemon reloads
 his rocket launcher.
 Fire -- Choose target... 
 You pump a shell into the combat shotgun chamber. The Cyberdemon fires! You
 are hit! Your red armor is damaged!
 Fire -- Choose target...   The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 You pump a shell into the combat shotgun chamber.
 Fire -- Choose target...   The Cyberdemon dies. You feel relatively safe

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

 Before him 317 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 242 of those were killed.
 3 of those were killed by something unknown.
 34 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 15 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

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

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AoMs.  Damn thing sure looks scary as hell, and it sure is.  But the RNG was merciful today, but only towards the end.

In the beginning, things were very tough -- I didn't get my hands on a Combat Shotgun till about the early teen levels(!), and my mainstay weapon was a Tech modded Shotgun, with Agility modded Rocket Launcher.  Once I got hold of that elusive Combat Shotgun, the RNG decided to be merciful with me and dropped a lot of Invulnerability Globes and tons of Bulk Mods and a couple of Power Mods which I used on almost all the equipment I had.  Somewhere on level 17+, I found the Plasma Shotgun exotic and started hoarding up Power Cells hoping that it would do a lot of good.  But after actually trying it out on level 20ish, I was not so impressed at the damage -- my P-modded Combat Shotgun with MAD seemed like a much better deal.  But by that time, it was too late to dump the plasma cells.  I was hoping for a nuke somewhere, but the RNG decided enough was enough and denied me that.

That one save was when I had to switch machines.  Blech.

Oh, those armour with really high durabilities left?  Thanks to the couple of Megaspheres that I picked up along the way.

Cybie was a bitch to kill since I had no BFG to lob tasty plasma at him.  I had to hack away the old-fashioned way with my P-modded Combat Shotgun.  I survived to tell the tale.

This is likely the last time I will ever play AoMs, as far as I can tell.  A really painful challenge to play at higher levels of difficulty, what with fast monsters and better AI...

...and that makes it one more Gold Badge to gain the rank of Colonel.
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Re: [M|AoMs|83%|YAVP] O Merciful RNG...
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2010, 12:36 »

Congrats, AoMs is quite brutal.  for some reason I could never make progress when starting with TaN/Badass - my victory went
EE->EE->Int->Int->SoB->SoB->TH->MCe->HR->HR->DM->Iro

I needed the "easy-mode" of Int 2, with EE making a useful chaingun on the way.

I'm surprised you weren't able to clear the Lava Pits with this run - or did you not have the envirosuits?
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Re: [M|AoMs|83%|YAVP] O Merciful RNG...
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2010, 17:01 »

Nope, didn't stock up on environsuits.  I entered Lava Pits only because they were the closest stairs at that time -- I was looking for the normal exit, but the multitude of enemy noises convinced me to get the heck out of the place first.

For TaN->TaN->Bad, you need to play a very defensive offense, taking your time to clear everything to get more character levels.  I end up using shotguns a lot just because I can use their fire to detect enemies from far away and to crush them/redraw the map with my Rocket Launcher.
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