Topic: [M|AoMr|89%|YAVP] So Close ... (Read 2752 times)

C4Cypher · « **on:** October 23, 2010, 12:40 »

I am proud to announce my first completion of any challenge, much less one involving my favorite weapon, the pistol. At last I am an Angel of Marksmanship.

My biggest challenge when starting my runs was getting through the arena. Yes, not a requirement, but I really, really wanted to get that power mod early. Some games would put me in bad spawns at the end of a round, grouping cacodemons and demons around me while I'm trying to reload, other times it was just YASD.

This run got off to a good start, hoarding ammunition early, getting a lot of good mods (a LOT of bulk mods), I had little trouble early. I entered one map, saw that 'there is something really valuable here!' and started praying for a green pistol. What I got was a Baron who just ... would not die ... I pumped endless pistol rounds until he dropped. And I found that I had worn the Cybernetic armor he was wearing down to 32%, I wish I had screenshotted it. Another frustrating thing was getting a firestorm pack ... only to find that coveted second power pack to complete my kata pistols.

The Hellgate wasn't as much of a problem as I expected. Run back to the door, and let the souls and demons funnel through one at a time, and close the door whenever you can to reload. I had dodgemaster by the time I fought the bruiser brothers, wasn't that bad.

Once I got Gun Kata ... it was pretty smooth sailing, so long as I was careful to pop around corners, and never give anything too long of a time to get a shot off at me.

My main concern in Hell was the fact that I wasn't getting much in the way of new pistol rounds, and I was worried about vile packs. My first vile pack wasn't so bad. In fact, it solved my ammunition problem in an amazing way:

Screenshot created. There is 10mm ammo (x24) lying here. Unknown command. Press "?" for help. There is 10mm ammo (x24) lying here. ..... #....# #....# #....# #....# #....###### #.......... #......... .. #.....########## .==}########.....#........# |}=|}||}.........#........# .||}}|}||%........#........#.# ..}}}|}|}@........+..0.....=.# ...|}||}}%........#####=###=.... .|}}|}|||............=.. .... ....|}}|}...........=.... . ######################### C4Cypher Armor : modified red armor [1/4] (14%) (B) Health: 84% Exp: 9/15% Weapon: modified pistol (2d4) [8/8] (B1) cautious Phobos Hell Lev6

Finding the Hellstaff was a lucky break, and it pulled me out of a couple pinches, I also grabbed a nuke I found, simply because I wanted the option to take down the Cyberdemon if the fight went south. I wasn't anticipating finding an invuln on level 24, but I took advantage of it anyway ...

BB Screenshot created. You feel vulnerable again. ###################### ############### #......................................................................... #.......................................................................... #.......................................................................... #.............................................................>............. #................................................................@.......... #............................................................................ #............................................................................ #............................................................................ #........................................................................... #........................................................................... #.......................................................................... #..... .................................................................... #..... ................................................................... ........................................................................ .. .................................................................. ................................................................. ................................................................ .... ....................................................... ############################################## C4Cypher Armor : modified blue armor [2/2] (100%) (A) Health: 100% Exp: 10/36% Weapon: modified pistol (2d5) [6/6] (P1) cautious Phobos Arena

What resulted was an excellent fight ... and I killed a LOT of barons, but I just didn't have enough armor and health to ignore the swarm and focus on the EVIL, I was running low, tried to hellstaff back for a safe reload and ... welll ...

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.9.1) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 C4Cypher, level 10 Cacodemon Sergeant, nuked the Cyberdemon.
 on level 26 of the Phobos base. 
 He survived 100322 turns and scored 82634 points. 
 He played for 6 hours, 53 minutes and 28 seconds. 
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 506 out of 566 hellspawn. (89%)
 He was an Angel of Marksmanship!


 He saved himself once.

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

  UAC Star (bronze cluster)
  Hell Champion Medal

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

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

  Health -12/60   Experience 43672/10
  ToHit Ranged +2  ToHit Melee +2  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +0

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

    Ironman          (Level 1)
    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Son of a gun     (Level 3)
    Eagle Eye        (Level 1)
    Dualgunner       (Level 1)
    Dodgemaster      (Level 1)
    Gun Kata         (Level 1)

  SoG->SoG->DG->SoG->EE->HR->HR->DM->MGK->Iro->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   modified pistol (2d5) [5/6] (P1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   modified protective boots [2/2] (100%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   modified pistol (2d5) [5/6] (P1)

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

    [a] modified pistol (2d4) [8/8] (B1)
    [b] modified pistol (2d4) [8/8] (B1)
    [c] modified blue armor [2/2] (164%) (B)
    [d] modified red armor [4/4] (124%) (B)
    [e] 10mm ammo (x38)
    [f] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [g] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [h] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [i] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [j] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [k] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [l] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [m] small med-pack
    [n] large med-pack
    [o] large med-pack
    [p] homing phase device
    [q] Hell Staff

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

    99 former humans
    61 former sergeants
    29 former captains
    97 imps
    70 demons
    52 lost souls
    22 cacodemons
    27 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    11 hell knights
    2 arachnotrons
    4 former commandos
    2 pain elementals
    8 arch-viles
    5 mancubi
    14 revenants
    2 bruiser brothers

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

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 15 he encoutered the Phobos Hellgate.
  On level 20 he found the Hell Staff!
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  He nuked level 25!
  He defeated the Cyberdemon and found the TRUE EVIL!
  On level 26 he finally nuked the Cyberdemon.

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

 Fire -- Choose target...   The missile hits the baron of hell. The missile
 hits the baron of hell.
 Fire -- Choose target...   The missile hits the baron of hell. The missile
 hits the baron of hell. The baron of hell dies. You dualreload your guns!
 Fire -- Choose target...  
 Fire -- Choose target...   The missile hits the baron of hell.
 Fire -- Choose target...   The missile hits the baron of hell. The missile
 hits the baron of hell.
 Fire -- Choose target...   The missile hits the baron of hell. The missile
 hits the baron of hell. The baron of hell dies. You dualreload your guns!
 Fire -- Choose target...   The missile hits the baron of hell. The baron of
 hell fires! You are hit!
 You use a Hell Staff. You feel yanked in an non-existing direction! You
 dodge! You dodge! You dodge! You hear an explosion! Your blue armor
 is completely destroyed! You dodge! You dodge! You dodge! You die!...

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

 Before him 78 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 56 of those were killed.
 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? 13 souls claim to have killed him...
 1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 11 killed the bastard and survived.
 1 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.

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Thanks for the read, and I hope that someone found this entertaining. I love pistol builds, and it's an honor to walk into the hallowed doors reserved for the fraternity of marksmen.

I hope to do a power build next time.

Game Hunter · « **Reply #1 on:** October 23, 2010, 13:22 »

Indeed, I am highly entertained by the thought of attempting a full win on AoMr. Sounds like it'd really only be doable with a blaster, though (or a bazillion bullets. Or just nuke it like any other mode, but that's boring and dumb) given that those Barons just keep spawning. Speaking of which, it also sounds like a great way to gain experience for absolutely no good reason.

Looks like it was a pretty fun run in general. I'm surprised that you picked up MGK so late for an HNTR run, though...you can afford to get closer to enemies when they don't have the to-hit bonus, meaning that EE isn't necessary ASAP. Looks like it worked out in the end, so it really doesn't matter.

C4Cypher · « **Reply #2 on:** October 23, 2010, 14:12 »

*chuckles* I'm trying to work on my EE addiction on pistol builds. It's a bad habit getting in long ranged duels with imps, and especially sergeants. I get frustrated at missing so much, and I like the extra range/ammo efficiency that EE brings. MGK is good, but not something I find so essential, as long as I can run, retreat, reload and get back into it. I find myself more enjoying Power builds (my first completion of M was with a wacky Juggler Power Wizkid pistol build) ... but I need to learn to survive better with them.

Additional note: To my dismay, dying to JC denied me the Marksman Silver badge.

Game Hunter · « **Reply #3 on:** October 23, 2010, 16:38 »

Quote from: C4Cypher on October 23, 2010, 14:12

Additional note: To my dismay, dying to JC denied me the Marksman Silver badge.

Probably because you somehow avoided the Cyberdemon altogether. The game should at least give you a partial victory (might be standard, I dunno) even if you die to JC. On the other hand, people have complained that they aren't given a badge on ill-timed AoPc runs, so it could be a "badge not granted if you die to JC" bug in general.

I'm not saying that EE is a poor choice: on the contrary, SoG->SoG->(DG<=> SoG)->EE is almost how every AoMr game starts for me. However, these days I play on HMP or harder, where enemies have the extra to-hit. If you have trouble sniping off enemies on HNTR, consider using the aimed shot.

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C4Cypher

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