This marks my... I don't know, third win of doomRL ever. Something like that. It's getting easier every time.
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.2) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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bleak, level 9 Imp Lance Corporal, defeated the Cyberdemon
on level 25 of the Phobos base.
He survived 85987 turns and scored 82076 points.
He played for 1 hour, 11 minutes and 22 seconds.
He didn't like it too rough.
He killed 451 out of 510 hellspawn. (88%)
He was an Angel of Berserk!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 10
Levels visited : 2
Levels completed : 2
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Berserker Silver Badge
Berserker Gold Badge
Longinus Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 60/70 Experience 36536/9
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +4 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +6
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Ironman (Level 2)
Tough as nails (Level 2)
Brute (Level 2)
Berserker (Level 1)
Badass (Level 1)
Vampyre (Level 1)
Bru->Bru->Ber->TaN->TaN->Bad->MVm->Iro->Iro->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Malek's Armor [1/3] (1%)
[b] [ Weapon ] Longinus Spear (8d8)
[c] [ Boots ] modified plasteel boots [4/4] (91%) (T)
[d] [ Prepared ] nothing
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] modified blue armor [4/4] (100%) (P)
[b] modified blue armor [2/2] (100%) (T)
[c] large med-pack
[d] large med-pack
[e] large med-pack
[f] large med-pack
[g] large med-pack
[h] phase device
[i] phase device
[j] phase device
[k] homing phase device
[l] envirosuit pack
[m] power mod pack
[n] technical mod pack
[o] technical mod pack
[p] bulk mod pack
[q] bulk mod pack
[r] firestorm weapon pack
[s] shockwave pack
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
76 former humans
40 former sergeants
23 former captains
69 imps
47 demons
117 lost souls
21 cacodemons
10 barons of hell
1 Cyberdemon
7 hell knights
10 arachnotrons
7 former commandos
1 Angel of Death
4 pain elementals
7 arch-viles
8 mancubi
1 revenant
2 bruiser brothers
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
On level 15 he encountered the Phobos Hellgate.
On level 16 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 16 he found the Longinus Spear!
He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 22 he found the Malek's Armor!
Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You enter a big arena. There's blood everywhere. You hear heavy mechanical
footsteps...
The Cyberdemon fires! You are hit!
The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. The Cyberdemon hits you.
You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you.
You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. Your Malek's Armor is
damaged!
You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed. The Cyberdemon hits you.
You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you.
You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. Your Malek's Armor is
damaged!
You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed. The Cyberdemon hits you.
Your Malek's Armor is damaged!
You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon dies. You feel relatively safe
now. Congratulations! You defeated the Cyberdemon! Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
Before him 16 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
14 of those were killed.
1 of those was killed by something unknown.
Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
Is he immortal? 1 souls claim to have killed him...
1 killed the bastard and survived.
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Pretty standard build really. Had some trouble early in the game with bad sergeant placement, but as you can see I had plenty of health packs to last me through the game. I found a lot of awesome equipment like revenant launcher, jackhammer, and laser rifle that I never found in normal games, and I kept the firestorm pack just 'cuz I wanted to look at it on my player screen later.
I never had trouble after I got MVa except for when berserk wouldn't trigger, but again, large med packs and lots of armor helped me through. Also judicious use of the downstairs when it's surrounded by Ms and Bs. I'm pretty sure a 100% AoB run would be brutal as hell.
The Unholy Cathedral was mind bogglingly easy, I left with over 100% health because MVa makes that place trivial. Pain elementals become walking medkits with that trait. Lone archviles aren't that dangerous on HNTR with this build but if they're paired with anything stronger than a cacodemon then you should think carefully about how you approach the situation.
I found malek's armor soon after I got the LS which was nice but not entirely necessary. I got a ton of technical and bulk packs which weren't really that helpful. Got a few agility packs in the beginning which was really a lifesaver as I was able to boost my movespeed and knockback reduction enough to where sergeants didn't totally dick me over. Badass especially helped with this, but that didn't come 'til later.
Anyway, uh, yeah. I've already done an AoSh run and I died on the cybie on my last AoMr run because I didn't really know how dodging worked back then. Well, I still don't, just I know that it involves moving now. I think I'm going to try to win a standard game on HNTR, for some reason it seems more challenging to me with less restrictions because my build becomes too meandering and I invariably screw up somewhere along the line.
Also playing through the new version without spoilers (for the new stuff) is scary. I usually spoil myself when I come to a special level (especially for challenge games, wouldn't want to accidentally step into the Mortuary when all you've got is a chainsaw) but for example in the new armory in my AoMr game, it was quite difficult.