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[N!|Ao100|85%|39|YASD] I am here to suck...
GrimmC:
Wait. Firestorm mods don't increase damage from double shotguns?
Thexare:
That's how I understand the bug, anyway.
Tormuse:
ARGH! I was just playing another Nightmare Ao100 melee build game that was going even better than this one, (level 42) and there was a power failure! :( Does anyone know if there's a way to recover my game, or is it lost forever? :(
--- Quote from: action52 on September 19, 2011, 01:06 ---Looking at your mortem, I also have to say that slapping a firestorm mod on your plasma rifle was a waste. Without EE you can't hit shit with a plasma rifle, so you're just wasting more cells with each shot. The double shotgun would have benefited a lot more (especially if you had gotten shottyman). Alternatively you could have gotten whiz kid so you could combine the firestorm mod with agility mods, or better yet made a hyper blaster and then slapped on the firestorm pack.
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I agree that it was a waste. In my defence, I put the Firestorm on toward the end when it looked like I was about to die and I figured I needed whatever edge I could get. (I was down to 16% health, out of med-packs and cornered by Revenants and Arch-Viles; I don't know how I survived that situation) I'm pretty sure that I can't put additional mods on assembled weapons, so I don't think going for a Firestorm-modded Hyperblaster would have worked anyway.
--- Quote from: action52 on September 19, 2011, 01:06 ---It might have helped to specialize in a secondary ranged weapon. I've tried the melee build in Ao100 and I find that I have the most success by going for shottyman or dualgunner after getting Vampyre (or else whiz kid 2 if you're really lucky with mods). Use your ranged weapon on the difficult enemies, switching to melee to build health and conserve ammo. Like when you have easy kill opportunities or get a berserk/invincibility powerup. I think you need to work on having a strong ranged weapon option before adding on TaN and Ironman levels. I find that TaN especially tends to be less effective against late-game enemies and isn't worth more than one or two levels.
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I'm not so sure; I find I die more often if I don't put levels into TaN and Iro. That could just be a reflection of my playing style and it might mean that I'm not careful enough, but the way I see it, melee builds tend to take more damage and so I need as much protection as I can get.
rchandra:
--- Quote from: Tormuse on September 19, 2011, 22:06 --- I'm pretty sure that I can't put additional mods on assembled weapons
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You can, with any class and any assembly. Here's how:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)have Whizkid (2) before _assembling_ the item. You can only add one mod, and no further assembling (like, no tactical fireproof green armor)
I wish you best of luck on the game recovery, but I don't think you can recover - only if DoomRL crashes will it try to save. Maybe an autosave should be a feature request - the save would be deleted when you die or quit of course.
Tormuse:
--- Quote from: rchandra on September 19, 2011, 23:16 ---You can, with any class and any assembly. Here's how:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)have Whizkid (2) before _assembling_ the item. You can only add one mod, and no further assembling (like, no tactical fireproof green armor)
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Ah, that explains why I was able to do it once. I thought it was a bug. :)
--- Quote from: rchandra on September 19, 2011, 23:16 ---I wish you best of luck on the game recovery, but I don't think you can recover - only if DoomRL crashes will it try to save. Maybe an autosave should be a feature request - the save would be deleted when you die or quit of course.
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That would be a really good feature to have, especially since Ao100 on Nightmare takes a long time! I can never do it in one sitting and I have to leave the computer on all day for days.
I sure hope I'm able to recover it; I had phaseshift armor with power, agility, and onyx mods on it, so I was super fast and super well protected, and it was only a matter of time before I won.
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