Wow! I'm on a roll with the Diamond badges these days! :D (And again, all 5 badges, bronze to diamond, in one game! Woot!) :)
I was recently inspired to try a Shottyhead build in AoMs, since it's quite effective at keeping your enemies out of visual range and the Scout's ability to get Intuition as a basic trait means you can prevent a lot of damage to yourself. (which in Angel of Masochism is essential!) The beginning of this game was pretty tense, with a lot of close calls where I leveled up just in time before I would've died. Once I got Shottyhead, it got easier, and after I got Int 2, I could relax a little bit, but of course, AoMs never lets you *truly* relax. :)
I got Brute toward the end because I anticipated that the Lava Elemental and Cyberdemon would be too well armoured for my shotgun and I'm glad I did! When I first encountered the Lava Elemental, I fired 3 shots in quick succession and then inspected him again and he was still unhurt! :| Either he heals incredibly quickly or I just wasn't doing any damage to him! After that, I closed in with my chainsaw and it was a lucky thing that I had leveled up recently and still had some supercharge left, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten the Lava Silver Badge. :)
There was an invulnerability next to the stairs on the second-last level, so I just chainsawed Cybie to death and claimed his head easily. :)
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.4) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 14 Arch-Vile Major Scout,
defeated the Cyberdemon on level 25 of the Phobos base.
He survived 47388 turns and scored 579840 points.
He played for 3 hours, 13 minutes and 22 seconds.
He opposed the Nightmare!
He killed 1096 out of 1466 hellspawn. (74%)
He was an Angel of Masochism!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 10
Levels visited : 5
Levels completed : 2
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (gold cluster)
Cyberdemon's Head
Masochist Silver Badge
Lava Silver Badge
Masochist Platinum Badge
Masochist Diamond Badge
Masochist Bronze Badge
Masochist Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 33/50 Experience 87306/14
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +2 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +3
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Finesse (Level 2)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Reloader (Level 2)
Brute (Level 1)
Juggler (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 2)
Shottyman (Level 1)
Shottyhead (Level 1)
Fin->Jug->Rel->Rel->SM->HR->MSh->Int->Int->HR->DM->HR->Fin->Bru->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] red armor [4/4] (100%)
[b] [ Weapon ] modified chainsaw (5d6) (B)
[c] [ Boots ] modified plasteel boots [2/2] (98%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] missile launcher (6d6) [4/4]
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] double shotgun (8d3)x3 [2/2]
[b] tactical shotgun (8d3) [2/6]
[c] modified plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [40/40] (A1)
[d] BFG 9000 (10d8) [100/100]
[e] BFG 9000 (10d8) [100/100]
[f] modified red armor [3/6] (49%) (P)
[g] red armor [4/4] (100%)
[h] red armor [4/4] (100%)
[i] energy-shielded vest [1/1] (100%)
[j] shotgun shell (x5)
[k] shotgun shell (x50)
[l] shotgun shell (x50)
[m] shotgun shell (x50)
[n] rocket (x6)
[o] power cell (x20)
[p] phase device
[q] envirosuit pack
[r] Enviroboots [0]
[s] shell box (x100)
[t] shell box (x100)
[u] shell box (x100)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Acid - internal 0% torso 0% feet 50%
Fire - internal 0% torso 25% feet 25%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
156 former humans
157 former sergeants
65 former captains
106 imps
21 demons
343 lost souls
17 cacodemons
31 barons of hell
1 Cyberdemon
14 hell knights
39 arachnotrons
23 former commandos
59 pain elementals
18 arch-viles
8 mancubi
20 revenants
4 nightmare imps
2 nightmare cacodemons
8 nightmare demons
2 bruiser brothers
1 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
-- 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 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
On level 7 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
Level 11 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 13 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 15 he encountered the Phobos Hellgate.
He left level 16 as soon as possible.
On level 17 he stumbled into complex full of arch-viles!
On level 17 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
On level 23 he entered the Lava Pits.
On level 23 he found the Enviroboots!
He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You hit the Cyberdemon.
You hit the Cyberdemon. You are hit!
The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
You hit the Cyberdemon.
You hit the Cyberdemon. You are hit!
You see : a Cyberdemon (severely wounded) [m]ore | pool of blood
You hit the Cyberdemon.
You hit the Cyberdemon. You are hit!
You hit the Cyberdemon.
You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher. You
You see : a Cyberdemon (almost dead) [m]ore | pool of blood
You see : a Cyberdemon (almost dead) [m]ore | pool of blood
You hit the Cyberdemon.
You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon dies. Congratulations! You defeated
the Cyberdemon! Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
206 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
163 of those were killed.
25 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 5 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
13 souls destroyed the Cyberdemon...
2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
11 killed the bastard and survived.
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