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[Thomas]

All you guys getting Berserker Diamond, I had to get in on the action. Turns out as long as you're willing to commit an afternoon to 50 deaths, it's not that hard.

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.9.3 BETA 1) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Thomas, level 11 Hell Baron Br. General, defeated the Cyberdemon
 on level 25 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 17551 turns and scored 434680 points.
 He played for 20 minutes and 29 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 470 out of 1028 hellspawn. (45%)
 He was an Angel of Berserk!


-- Special levels --------------------------------------------

  Levels generated : 10
  Levels visited   : 6
  Levels completed : 1

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

  UAC Star (silver cluster)
  Major Icarus Cross
  Compet-n Silver Cross
  Grim Reaper's Badge
  Berserker Platinum Badge
  Berserker Diamond Badge
  Reaper Platinum Badge
  Longinus Platinum Badge

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

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

  Health 119/70   Experience 56380/11
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9

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

    Ironman          (Level 2)
    Finesse          (Level 2)
    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Brute            (Level 3)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Blademaster      (Level 1)

A wise man once said "When your berserk runs out, you are as good as dead. Therefore, you must be fast in everything you do."

  Bru->Bru->Ber->HR->HR->Bru->MBm->Fin->Fin->Iro->Iro->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   Angelic Armor [7/7] (86%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   modified steel boots [1/1] (40%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   combat knife (2d5)

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

    [a] green armor [1/1] (100%)
    [b] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
    [c] red armor [4/4] (100%)
    [d] modified red armor [6/6] (100%) (P)
    [e] red armor [4/4] (100%)
    [f] red armor [4/4] (100%)
    [g] red armor [2/4] (26%)
    [h] combat knife (2d5)
    [i] combat knife (2d5)
    [j] modified chainsaw (4d6) (T)
    [k] small med-pack
    [l] small med-pack
    [m] large med-pack
    [n] large med-pack
    [o] large med-pack
    [p] power mod pack
    [q] Hellwave Pack

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

    49 former humans
    37 former sergeants
    24 former captains
    88 imps
    37 demons
    93 lost souls
    11 cacodemons
    26 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    19 hell knights
    8 arachnotrons
    16 former commandos
    1 Angel of Death
    7 pain elementals
    21 arch-viles
    15 mancubi
    15 revenants
    2 bruiser brothers

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

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He cowardly fled the Arena.
  On level 6 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 9 he witnessed the Wall.
  Not knowing what to do, he left.
  On level 15 he encountered the Phobos Hellgate.
  On level 16 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 16 he found the Azrael's Scythe!
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 20 he found the Hellwave Pack!
  On level 21 he entered the Vaults.
  He came, he saw, but he left.
  On level 22 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
  On level 22 he found the Angelic Armor!
  He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
  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!
 The Cyberdemon fires! You are hit! You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher. You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. You're going berserk! You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. You're going berserk! You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon dies. Congratulations! You defeated
 the Cyberdemon! Press <Enter>... Next!

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

 Before him 424 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 380 of those were killed.
 4 of those were killed by something unknown.
 2 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 16 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 22 souls claim to have killed him...
 3 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 19 killed the bastard and survived.

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All that spare armor, HP packs and hellwave was for if I ever ran out of berserk. Turns out when you have Azrael's Scythe you have about a 50% chance on every hit to go more berserk, so that didn't happen. (How to balance AoB: Make the chance of berserking directly proportional to the square root or maybe even cube root of your damage instead of whatever it is now)

[Game Hunter]

Also beta, I see. But that's good, it makes me feel better about my own run! (Isn't the new layout so much more enjoyable for early-game AoB?) Moreover, VERY impressed by the Blademaster victory. It's believed that the best use of MBm is in N! due to double healing, and this only helps confirm the belief.

I also did/completed Mort, by the way. Turns out all my Viles were on the same side...

I guess a logarithmic chance would work, but that doesn't address the "issue" of perma-zerk, which makes these kinds of runs practically trivial once you get to the point of slaughtering anything in your path. Better yet, there should be diminishing returns per activation. The first is something like 20 right now, but you could have the next 19, then 18, etc, until it's just one per activation. This will force times of non-zerk, which truly tests the player. (Berserk Packs won't be diminished, however, and could possibly reset the diminish.) If anything, Blademaster would be hurt LESS by such a change, because it uses less "time" while zerked.

For Kornel: the Scythe requirement is currently bugged, if this (and my own) run has anything to say about it.

[Thomas]

Also beta, I see. But that's good, it makes me feel better about my own run! (Isn't the new layout so much more enjoyable for early-game AoB?) Moreover, VERY impressed by the Blademaster victory. It's believed that the best use of MBm is in N! due to double healing, and this only helps confirm the belief.

I think the fact that I won with 150% HP and lots of medpacks despite not getting vampyre is pretty telling of how much health and armor you need in a N! AoB run.

I also did/completed Mort, by the way. Turns out all my Viles were on the same side...

Really? Dang. Mine were all scattered around, but with as much berserk time as you get from azrael's scythe, a couple of laps around the mort doesn't really do much to your chances of de-serking anyway.

I guess a logarithmic chance would work, but that doesn't address the "issue" of perma-zerk, which makes these kinds of runs practically trivial. Better yet, there should be diminishing returns per activation. The first is something like 20 right now, but you could have the next 19, then 18, etc, until it's just one per activation. This will force times of non-zerk, which truly tests the player. (Berserk Packs won't be diminished, however, and could possibly reset the diminish.) If anything, Blademaster would be hurt LESS by such a change, because it uses less "time" while zerked.

Ah, this makes more sense. I was also thinking of the early game though, because if it was logarithmic then he'd have to increase the coefficient or base chance, which means that you might be able to berserk off a combat knife more than one time in a million.

For Kornel: the Scythe requirement is currently bugged, if this (and my own) run has anything to say about it.

I don't think it's bugged because I'm pretty sure Kornel said something along the lines of "For now it's just random with an increased chance as you play higher difficulties" or something.

[Tavana]

It is bugged actually. There's a requirement that's supposed to be enforced that currently isn't taking effect. It's just random right now. In the next release it will require you to do a truly amazing feat.

EDIT: In retrospect it's not that amazing for many players on here. But for the majority it won't be easy to get.

[thelaptop]

I think that it probably helps that Fin increases attack speed for melee attacks also -- combining that with MBm means that you kill faster the more you kill, which is fast to begin with.