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Author Topic: [U|AoRA|YAAM] Speed is everything or Quartermaster Diamond  (Read 2150 times)

Q2ZOv

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I haven't played DoomRL for a while because most medals or badges i wanted to achieve required enormous amount of patience and when i fail stupidly after two hours of careful corpse door-stacking i become so irritated that i just can't make myself to try one more time. Because of that i decided to try to achieve Quartermaster diamond. I thought that this challenge will require less patience. Well i was wrong. Though this challenge really doesn't need that king of patience: of carefully luring out the enemies and killing them in exact spot but it need another kind of patience: thinking about every of your actions because just one wrong move may result in not killing all enemies or not being able to make it to the stairs in time.

I tried a lot. And i died a lot not being able even to reach anomaly.

At first i tried marine trying to get SM to be able not to stop to reload thereby to speed up completion of levels. But this build turned out to be worthless. Too much time wasted on slow movements, too much risk when you are not cornershooting but moving forward and firing using SM.

So i decided to try scout.  I picked HR first to make easier completion of level 2 and then two Ints to make sure no enemies will escape to the other side of the level using my blind zones. Then HR and Fin2 was planned to speed up level completion even more. I wasn't planning any further thinking that decision will be very situation dependent.

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Q2Z0v, level 14 Arch-Vile Mjr General Scout,
 nuked the Mastermind on level 9 of Hell.
 He survived 66164 turns and scored 369607 points.
 He played for 1 hour, 59 minutes and 1 second.
 He was a man of Ultra-Violence!

 He killed 919 out of 919 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
 He was an Angel of Red Alert!

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

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

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

  Cyberdemon's Head
  Medal of Prejudice
  UAC Star (silver cluster)
  Hell Champion Medal
  Quartermaster Gold Badge
  Quartermaster Diamond Badge

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

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

  Health 50/50   Experience 85865/14
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9

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

  Class : Scout

    Finesse          (Level 2)
    Hellrunner       (Level 3)
    Brute            (Level 3)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Dodgemaster      (Level 1)
    Intuition        (Level 2)
    Blademaster      (Level 1)

  HR->Int->Int->HR->Fin->Fin->Bru->Bru->Ber->Bru->MBm->Jug->HR->DM->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   Cybernetic Armor [7/7] (99%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   phaseshift boots [4/4] (99%) (T)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   micro launcher (5d5) [1/1]

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

    [a] tactical shotgun (8d3) [0/5]
    [b] plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [40/40]
    [c] BFG 9000 (10d8) [80/130] (B1)
    [d] shotgun shell (x34)
    [e] rocket (x6)
    [f] power cell (x50)
    [g] power cell (x50)
    [h] power cell (x50)
    [i] large med-pack
    [j] large med-pack
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] phase device
    [m] homing phase device
    [n] envirosuit pack
    [o] firestorm weapon pack
    [p] blood skull
    [q] Hellwave Pack
    [r] rocket box (x20)

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

    Bullet     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Melee      - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Shrapnel   - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Acid       - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Fire       - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Plasma     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 

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

    50 former humans
    68 former sergeants
    34 former captains
    135 imps
    115 demons
    292 lost souls
    38 cacodemons
    22 hell knights
    40 barons of hell
    4 arachnotrons
    13 former commandos
    25 pain elementals
    32 revenants
    22 mancubi
    22 arch-viles
    2 bruiser brothers
    1 lava elemental
    1 Angel of Death
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind
    1 John Carmack

-- 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 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 8 he assembled a micro launcher!
  On level 10 he assembled a piercing blade!
  On level 11 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 13 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
  On level 14 he assembled a ballistic armor!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 17 he found the Azrael's Scythe!
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 22 he found the Hellwave Pack!
  On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
  On level 23 he found the Cybernetic Armor!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
  Then finally in hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.

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

 You hit the baron of hell. The baron of hell dies. Next! You're going
 berserk!
 You need to taste blood!
 You hit the baron of hell. The baron of hell dies. Next!
 You need to taste blood!
 You hit the baron of hell. The baron of hell dies. Next! You're going
 berserk!
 You hit the baron of hell. The baron of hell dies. Next!
 You dodge! Boom! You need to taste blood!
 You hit the baron of hell. The baron of hell dies. Next!
 You hit the baron of hell. The baron of hell dies. Next!
 You hit John Carmack. You're going berserk! You need to taste blood!
 You hit John Carmack. John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John
 Carmack! Press <Enter>...
 You feel relatively safe now. Next!
 You need to taste blood!

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

 1011 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 925 of those were killed.
 3 of those were killed by something unknown.
 15 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 39 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 31 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 7 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 21 killed the bitch and survived.
 3 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.

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After dying a several dozens times i figured out some really simple rules that helped me to do everything on time.
You must run as much as it is possible, using every opportunity like picking a globe or even sometimes using medpacks when you don't really need to replenish health (for example i used 3 or 4 medpacks when i cleared arena though i was hit only two or three times. That helped a lot).
It is better sometimes to openly approach an enemy (even hard enemy like hell knight or cacodemon or baron of hell) and kill them openly from a short distance. You will lose health but the saved time may have much bigger value.
There is not much time to pick up ammo dropped from enemies so sometimes when choosing between picking up medpacks or ammo (when you don't have enough time to pick up both) it is better to pick up ammo.

After many failed attempts this time i got lucky. I managed to collect 7 medpacks to the point of entering hells arena. It is better to start clearing hells arena moving to the right side of the map. When i reached second wave i got lucky again. All monsters just kept on coming to me so i didn't need to search for them. After clearing second wave i moved to the exit and met both barons. So after i cornershooted them i still had between 50 and 60 seconds to collect reward. I was really surprised to find out that whole reward is dropped near exit in AoRA completed arena. So i managed to collect all rockets and rocket launcher, medpack and globe and to exit without any time problems.

On the next levels, before the anomaly i found 1 A pack, 3 T packs and 1 B pack. Also protective boots(instantly modded with A pack) and combat shotgun (used T pack on it). The problem was ammo. I had 20 rockets but only 22 shotgun shells. It was enough to clear anomaly but after that my ammo was almost down to zero. In anomaly i assembled micro rocket launcher (because i didn't have EE) and used B pack on red armor. During an ambush part i kept rocketjumping back and forth killing everything except cacodemons. Then i killed blew them up from the distance. After that i had only 8 rockets. It wasn't enough for bruiser brothers so i cornershotgunned them. Then i picked up rockets behind them and left the anomaly.

And i got lucky again. There were several former sergeants close to start so i replenished my ammo and  got lvl7. I wasn't sure to pick brute or SoB. I asked AlterAsc for an advice and he told me that due to my lack of ammo brute is probably better option even if i don't have chainsaw. Well he was right.

The game strangely got easier on this point. I managed to clear levels with a plenty of time left. I found lots of packs, replenished ammo in halls of carnage and got bfg. And made a lot of assemblies. I also found phaseshift boots somewhere near level 12 and from that point time wasn't a big problem. After i got Ber the game became really easy.

I had no problems at all till hell 7. On hell6 i found two envirosuits so i cleared lava pits. Hell 7 was full of lava and i was so self confident at that point that i didn't use envirosuit and tried to kill them on the few not flooded by lava tiles. As the result I barely survived.

In the dis I just waited in starting room and then used lava element.JC wasn't a problem at all since i killed monsters he spawned before they started moving.


P.S. Sorry about that walls of text and bad english.
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Re: [U|AoRA|YAAM] Speed is everything or Quartermaster Diamond
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2012, 03:19 »

1. Nice job, gratz :) .
2. Don't be sorry for the English :) . As for the Wall of Text ...it has some useful info for me, so there is no problem with it :P .
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Re: [U|AoRA|YAAM] Speed is everything or Quartermaster Diamond
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2012, 05:17 »

Good god, that was an amazing write up! I loved every bit of it, and hope someday to contribute as much to understanding the game as you have in this post.
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Re: [U|AoRA|YAAM] Speed is everything or Quartermaster Diamond
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2012, 00:00 »

As someone who recently achieved quartermaster silver while having no clue how I could have possibly gotten 100%, color me very impressed.
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