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[Tormuse]

I had an easier time achieving this badge than I expected.  (It only took three attempts!)  I went for a Sharpshooter build to maximize ammo efficiency and the lucky find of GCB helped me kick much ass for the rest of the game.  :D  (An evil laugh may have escaped my lips when I first found it)  :P

I probably wouldn't have been confident enough to attempt Hell's Arena if not for the fact that I found an ammochain just before going in.  As it turned out, I didn't even need it, really, because the 20% speed boost conferred by Angel of Light Travel turned out to be a much bigger advantage!  Being able to outrun the Demons made it easier to maneuver them into corpse-stacking positions to help me get rid of the Cacodemon and Baron bodies.  The ammochain I got as a reward was a big help to tide me over until I got the Speedloader Pistol later on.

Once I got the Grammaton Cleric Beretta, things became fairly easy, especially once I got Intuition 2, but once I found the Nano pack in the Armoury which I used to make Gravity Boots, things just became ridiculous!  By the end, I had a walking speed of 0.12 seconds per move and a firing speed of 0.08 seconds per shot!  (which meant that in Autofire mode, I was firing off a full clip of 18 bullets in less than a quarter of a second!)  The only thing I was doing that took any significant amount of time was reloading, but with 18 bullets per clip, I didn't have to do that too often and reloader skill helped take the edge off of it.

I used the single shot mode most of the time for ammo-saving reasons, and also because, with Sharpshooter, each shot consistently knocked enemies back which made it easy to get Shambler's head, knocking enemies out of my visual range before they could fire.  (or sometimes into lava, muahaha!)  :)

Attempting the City of Skulls was probably foolish for this build, considering the abundant bullet-resistant Lost Souls, but I still very nearly pulled it off, bringing the Agony Elemental down to "almost dead" before being forced to retreat from overwhelming forces.  (If only I had been able to fire a couple more shots!)

I was surprised to see Angelic Badge on my medal list because I wasn't even trying to get it!  :o  I happened to pick up Light Amp goggles just before entering the Mortuary, so I was able to gun down most of the enemies before they saw me. When I started the level, five of the Arch-Viles started in my visual range which, under other circumstances, would have been friggin' scary, but with my ridiculously fast firing rate, I was able to cut them down before they could react.

Not much else to say except that I entered the UC and The Vaults for no other reason except that I wanted to get the Explorer Badge.  I still failed to get it, though, because I didn't realize that I had missed The Wall.  :(  Oh well...

One other thing:  I notice that I didn't get the Veteran Diamond Badge.  Is that an bug?  Does it have to be a standard Nightmare game to get that one now?  In the previous version, I achieved it by getting a full win in Angel of Shotgunnery.

EDIT:  One other other thing:  Was I supposed to get the Arachno Silver Badge?  The description says I'm supposed to get that for Angel of Darkness!  (I guess this version still has some bugs to work out!)  :|

EDIT2:  Typos and punctuation errors.  :P

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.9.5) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Tormuse, level 17 Hell Knight 1st Lieutenant Technician,
 nuked the Mastermind on level 9 of Hell.
 He survived 68373 turns and scored 944108 points.
 He played for 4 hours, 57 minutes and 16 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 1357 out of 1596 hellspawn. (85%)
 He was an Angel of Light Travel!

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

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 10
  Levels completed : 4

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

  UAC Star (gold cluster)
  Aurora Medallion
  Angelic Badge
  Hell Champion Medal
  Shambler's Head
  Lightfoot Silver Badge
  Lightfoot Gold Badge
  Lightfoot Diamond Badge
  Reaper Platinum Badge
  Arachno Silver Badge

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

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

  Health 85/70   Experience 148692/17
  ToHit Ranged +6  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +0

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

  Class : Technician

    Ironman          (Level 2)
    Son of a gun     (Level 5)
    Reloader         (Level 3)
    Eagle Eye        (Level 3)
    Intuition        (Level 2)
    Whizkid          (Level 1)
    Sharpshooter     (Level 1)

  SoG->SoG->EE->SoG->EE->EE->MSs->Int->Int->WK->Rel->Rel->SoG->SoG->Iro->Iro->Rel->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   duelist armor [4/4] (56%) (P)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Grammaton Cleric Beretta (2d6) [17/18]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   gravity steel boots [1/1] (100%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   nothing

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

    [a] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [b] 10mm ammo (x43)
    [c] large med-pack
    [d] large med-pack

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    Bullet     - internal 0%    torso 50%   feet 0%   
    Melee      - internal 0%    torso 50%   feet 0%   
    Shrapnel   - internal 0%    torso 50%   feet 0%   

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

    116 former humans
    136 former sergeants
    110 former captains
    148 imps
    112 demons
    327 lost souls
    57 cacodemons
    30 hell knights
    75 barons of hell
    52 arachnotrons
    36 former commandos
    40 pain elementals
    29 revenants
    39 mancubi
    37 arch-viles
    1 nightmare cacodemon
    4 nightmare demons
    2 bruiser brothers
    1 shambler
    1 lava elemental
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind
    1 John Carmack
    1 Arena Master

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

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 3 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 4 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
  On level 4 he assembled a speedloader pistol!
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  He sounded the alarm on level 10!
  On level 10 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
  On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
  On level 10 he found the Nano Pack!
  He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
  On level 12 he assembled a gravity boots!
  On level 12 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 13 he found the City of Skulls.
  He fled the City in terror!
  On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
  He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  He fled the Unholy Cathedral seeing no chance to win.
  On level 18 he entered the Vaults.
  He came, he saw, but he left.
  On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
  On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
  He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
  On level 21 he found the Hell Staff!
  On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
  Level 23 blasted him with unholy atmosphere!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  He overloaded a nuclear plasma rifle on level 24!
  He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
  Then finally in hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : John Carmack (almost dead) [m]ore | pool of blood
 The missile hits the revenant.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : John Carmack (almost dead) [m]ore | pool of blood
 The missile hits the revenant. The revenant dies.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : John Carmack (almost dead) [m]ore | pool of blood
 The missile hits John Carmack.
 There is rocket (x3) lying here.
 You reload the Grammaton Cleric Beretta. There is rocket (x3) lying here.
 There is rocket (x3) lying here.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : John Carmack (almost dead) [m]ore | pool of blood
 The missile hits John Carmack. John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You
 defeated John Carmack! Press <Enter>...

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

 91 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 76 of those were killed.
 1 of those was killed by something unknown.
 1 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 4 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 9 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 4 killed the bitch and survived.
 4 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.

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[ZicherCZ]

Congratulations on YAGR (Yet Another Great Run)! I believe you're a capable enough player to do this even without GCB and Gravity Boots :).

As for the Arachno Silver, the bug was already reported and fixed for 0.996. The devs changed the requirement description but forgot to change the requirements themselves from 0.994 (clear Spider's Lair on UV+).

[Zecks]

Yeah, Veteran Platinum and Diamond are bugged. :(

[Tormuse]

Congratulations on YAGR (Yet Another Great Run)! I believe you're a capable enough player to do this even without GCB and Gravity Boots :).

Sure, sure, my other two attempts could just as easily have succeeded, but they wouldn't have been as interesting as this one.  GCB is a pretty epic find for a pistol build!  :D