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:
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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 ...
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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.