I actually had the speedrunner silver badge in a beta, but I have been having a lot of trouble with it now - perhaps I had used the HP combat shotgun. I just make a lot more mistakes when trying to go quickly, and I'm not fast at the best of times. Armory spawned on this run, just to taunt me - I stopped and stared at those stairs in rage. I used shotguns off and on until hellgate, very necessary for barrel levels and sergeants. Clearing the hellgate seemed worthwhile for experience - run to the right door, kill stuff, berserk, kill the rest, more berserk, hope it lasts for the BBs.
It took a while to get a berserk in the Cathedral, which was worrying, but one led to the next vs the demons, and that was enough. City of Skulls was almost the end of me. Usually when I'm there in a melee game I have Vampyre. Fortunately I had tons of medpacks to use with the Lance, and I got enough berserks there to last the rest of the game. Necroarmor was nice, but came along late enough that it wasn't really relevant - I fought very little after that point.
I should have explored Hell 9, as I had homing phase and a nuke - but I had felt like I was slow in a few places earlier, and just phased to Cyberdemon. That estimate was wrong, there had been plenty of quick levels to make up for it. Oh well. I probably could have even done Lava Pits to ensure it. :) There's a watch on my desk and I don't play fullscreen, so the computer clock is also visible - no excuse to not know I had time.
--------------------------------------------------------------
DoomRL (v.0.9.9.2) roguelike post-mortem character dump
--------------------------------------------------------------
Rahul, level 8 Hell Baron Lt. Colonel, defeated the Cyberdemon
on level 25 of the Phobos base.
He survived 24861 turns and scored 69056 points.
He played for 17 minutes and 45 seconds.
He didn't like it too rough.
He killed 336 out of 511 hellspawn. (65%)
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 10
Levels visited : 5
Levels completed : 2
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Minor Icarus Cross
Compet-n Gold Cross
Speedrunner Bronze Badge
Speedrunner Silver Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
###########################################################
...........................................................
...........................................................
...........................................................
......###....###...........................................
......###....###.........................###...............
......###....###.............###.........###...............
.............................###.........###...............
.............................###...........................
..............................X|...........................
..............................|}|..........###.............
.............................###...........###.............
.............................###...........###.............
.............###.............###...###.....................
.............###...................###.....................
.......###...###......###..........###...............###...
.......###............#>#............................###...
.......###............###............................###...
...........................................................
###########################################################
-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 94/50 Experience 25202/8
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +9
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Tough as nails (Level 2)
Brute (Level 3)
Berserker (Level 1)
Badass (Level 1)
Vampyre (Level 1)
Bru->Bru->Ber->Bru->TaN->TaN->Bad->MVm->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Necroarmor [6/6] (100%)
[b] [ Weapon ] Longinus Spear (8d8)
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [1/1] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] combat shotgun (7d3) [5/5]
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] double shotgun (8d3)x3 [2/2]
[b] BFG 9000 (10d8) [100/100]
[c] blue armor [2/2] (68%)
[d] blue armor [1/2] (3%)
[e] modified red armor [4/4] (178%) (B)
[f] modified chainsaw (5d6) (B)
[g] shotgun shell (x50)
[h] shotgun shell (x50)
[i] shotgun shell (x50)
[j] shotgun shell (x47)
[k] small med-pack
[l] small med-pack
[m] large med-pack
[n] large med-pack
[o] large med-pack
[p] phase device
[q] phase device
[r] envirosuit pack
[s] thermonuclear bomb
[t] bulk mod pack
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
49 former humans
27 former sergeants
2 former captains
71 imps
24 demons
114 lost souls
10 cacodemons
2 barons of hell
1 Cyberdemon
9 hell knights
13 arachnotrons
1 former commando
1 Angel of Death
5 pain elementals
1 arch-vile
4 mancubi
2 bruiser brothers
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 3 he entered Hell's Arena.
He cowardly fled the Arena.
On level 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
On level 13 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
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 17 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 17 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
On level 22 he found the Necroarmor!
Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
You hit the Cyberdemon. You need to taste blood!
You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon dies. You feel relatively safe
now. Congratulations! You defeated the Cyberdemon! Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
Before him 791 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
648 of those were killed.
4 of those were killed by something unknown.
99 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 22 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
Is he immortal? 18 souls claim to have killed him...
3 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
13 killed the bastard and survived.
2 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
--------------------------------------------------------------