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Nub question - where abouts should I be by now?

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Kinitawowi:
UPDATE: First win!!!

Okay, this was just funny. Figured I'd give it a pop just to see how it played out and give me some ideas for Berserk runs, and... well. Check the other forum for details...

Thomas:
When you're not fighting anything and just going from A to B, try to move exclusively diagonally. It'll partially supress the urge to just hold the key down and if you do get caught by an enemy, you're more likely to sidestep their shot.

If your problem is revenants and mancubi, Tough as Nails will not help you. Unless your master trait requires TaN, just go for Ironman 3 instead. Red Armour, however, is a godsend against them for the fire resistance, and +4 damage reduction is nice too. You should pick up almost every red armour you find and mod them with Bulk for staying power or Agility to almost totally remove the movespeed penalty.

On the subject of traits, badass is great, but not as great as ironman. Taking it second on a melee character for the knockback resistance is a good idea, but I'd get it as my 4th trait if I was building to survivalist.

Unless you're building a pure shotgun build (Army of Darkness) or a pure melee build (Vampyre), you'll want a rocket launcher and/or BFG for the really nasty stuff. Accuracy will be a problem with the rocket launcher so either make a micro launcher (2 tech mods, heavily reduces firing delay, reloading delay and chance to miss), or get eagle eye after you get survivalist, or aim at walls near enemies.

Game Hunter:

--- Quote from: Kinitawowi on November 19, 2011, 11:35 ---"Yeah, I'm not commaing it across the Armory to get the stuff round the back of the lab, there's too much leftover ammo in the middle of the map and it'll take forever. I'll just hold left..." *gets eaten in the back by the last lost soul I missed*
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There's an option in config.lua ("RunOverItems") that specifically allows you to adjust the run command so that items don't stop you while running. You may want to set this to true if this is the reason you don't run as much as you should. (For other config explanations, use this Wiki page.)

In any case, I suggest you play on the easiest difficulty and work your way up. The real goal in the game is to prepare yourself for the boss levels of Hellgate and Phobos Arena: anything else is extra and should be treated as such.

Matt_S:
When I started off, I was dying on ITYTD frequently and early.  I had the "kill everything" attitude back then, but I finally got my first victory when I started running through the levels in hell heading for the stairs.  Since then I've gotten back into the "kill everything" attitude, but I can now win on HNTR with decent frequency.  I suggest you do the same: start by figuring out what it takes to win, then figure out how to kill everything in the process :)

Sambojin:
My number one cause of stupid deaths is trying to do all the special levels regardless. There's quite a few special levels where the rewards don't nearly match the cost of getting them. The amount of times I've died in the Mortuary is staggering, and I really didn't need any of the items in there to take down cybie.

For the good armours question, a bulk modded red is good general purpose (if somewhat slow) armour. It makes armour shards easier to use, and you keep 4 protection a lot longer. A power modded red is handy for scary areas and you have the option to slap another power on (for slow but indestructable 3 armour rating), or a bulk for a bit more lasting armour (for WKs).

Where you should be in the game? I'm not sure, but you should have a better player record than me. Mine really is bad.

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