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[bel_marmaduk]

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6G) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Biff Fisto, level 10 Imp Corporal Technician,
 defeated the Mastermind on level 9 of Hell.
 He survived 89192 turns and scored 41635 points.
 He played for 4 hours, 18 minutes and 8 seconds.
 He was too young to die!

 He killed 441 out of 455 hellspawn. (96%)
 He held his right to remain violent.

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

  Levels generated : 7
  Levels visited   : 5
  Levels completed : 5

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

  UAC Star (bronze cluster)
  Hell Champion Medal
  Lava Bronze Badge

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

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

  Health 0/50   Experience 45056/10
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9

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

  Class : Technician

    Finesse          (Level 1)
    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Brute            (Level 3)
    Dodgemaster      (Level 1)
    Whizkid          (Level 2)
    Malicious Blades (Level 1)

  Bru->Bru->Fin->HR->HR->DM->MMB->WK->WK->Bru->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   combat knife (3d5) (ABT)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   fireproof gothic boots [10/10] (72%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   combat knife (3d5) (BT)

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

    [a] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]
    [b] BFG 9000 (10d8) [100/100]
    [c] red armor [4/4] (81%)
    [d] Cybernetic Armor [7/7] (69%)
    [e] power cell (x50)
    [f] power cell (x50)
    [g] envirosuit pack
    [h] Arena Master's Staff
    [i] plasteel boots [2/2] (94%) (A)

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

    Bullet     - internal 0%    torso 50%   feet 50% 
    Melee      - internal 0%    torso 75%   feet 75% 
    Shrapnel   - internal 0%    torso 50%   feet 50% 
    Fire       - internal 0%    torso 50%   feet 80% 

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

    61 former humans
    56 former sergeants
    4 former captains
    59 imps
    48 demons
    113 lost souls
    32 cacodemons
    6 hell knights
    9 barons of hell
    6 arachnotrons
    4 former commandos
    4 pain elementals
    26 revenants
    3 mancubi
    4 arch-viles
    2 bruiser brothers
    1 lava elemental
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind
    1 Arena Master

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

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
  He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
  On level 4 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 12 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 13 he ran for his life from acid!
  On level 13 he found the City of Skulls.
  He wiped out the City of Skulls.
  On level 15 he found the Cybernetic Armor!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 22 he assembled a fireproof boots!
  On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  He nuked level 24!
  He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
  On level 25 he finally defeated the Mastermind.

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

 damaged! You dodge! The missile hits the revenant. You dodge! The missile
 hits the revenant.
 You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed.
 You dodge! The missile hits the revenant. The revenant dies. The revenant
 dies. You are hit! You dodge! The missile hits the revenant. You dodge! The
 missile hits the revenant. The revenant dies. The revenant dies. You are hit!
 Your red armor is damaged!
 The revenant dies. Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn!
 You dodge! The missile hits the revenant. The revenant dies. The revenant
 dies. The missile hits the revenant. The revenant dies.
 The revenant dies.
 The missile hits the revenant. The revenant dies.
 You hit the revenant. The revenant dies.
 You hit the revenant. You hit the revenant. The revenant dies. You are hit!
 Your red armor is completely destroyed! You die!... Press <Enter>...
 hell itself! Press <Enter>...

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

 61 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 60 of those were killed.

 1 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 1 killed the bitch and survived.

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I've tried DoomRL in the past, but had a lot of trouble getting into it with the ascii graphics; I've played roguelikes forever, and am quite used to console but with so many dangers out there it was hard for me to tell what was going on pre-tiles. After the graphical update, though, I fell right in to the interesting mechanics and challenging gameplay. I'm closer to about 100 games, as I've been playing this in my off-time at work and have had, needless to say, a lot of false starts. I spent a very long time on HNTR before I realized I was going to have to spend more time on Easy to learn the mechanics. I got to hell more than a few times but was never able to get past the first few floors; mancubi have basically ended every hell push I've made prior to this.

I decided after some frustration with chaingun and shotgun playthroughs to give melee a shot. I didn't really think I was going to win going this way, but found myself enjoying the melee style after playing a Berserker/Vampyre to Cybie before running out of steam. The melee game really does pick up once you get the chainsaw, but I found that I was so dependent on Berserk for defense that when I found myself in situations where I couldn't get it activated I'd get torn to shreds. On my successful run, I decided I would try going for the defensive melee route and play a Tech going for Malicious Blades. I'd found a Butcher's Cleaver in my last three runs and hoped I'd get lucky, with Malicious Blades for my main defensive ability and item-awarded Blademaster for offense.

I played up through most of Phobos as shotguns. In hindsight, I wish I'd taken the Brute points last as melee saw no use at all prior to getting the Chainsaw. After getting the Chainsaw I used it in my prepared slot and abused chokepoints and weapon swapping, killing things in melee with the saw and corner-shooting and knockback spamming with the shotgun. A couple of levels before getting to Cybie I was able to get Malicious Blades, which made a world of difference; after this point I only ever equipped a ranged weapon again to blow barrels to knock holes in walls. It was pure melee from here, the resistance bonus is really unbelievable. I fought the Cyberdemon with a supercharge and killed him before dropping below 96%. Hell was mostly unchallenging save for the occasional Arachnotron. I didn't really seem to have enough defense against rapid fire plasma, which is why I ended up skipping the spider den, and had to be very very careful in the next floors whenever I ran into commandos or arachnos.

I kept hoping through Deimos and Hell to get a good weapon, but had no luck. So I put points into Whizkid, figuring I could make some good weapons/armor from assemblies to compensate for not having any uniques. Unfortunately, I went the entire game without seeing a single power mod. I never even modded my knives until the Carmack fight, by which point it was really too late to make a substantial difference. I also spent most of the game holding onto a nano pack and half the game holding onto a cybernetic armor. As I never found any power mods, both stayed unused until the very endgame.

A few levels before the end I found some Gothic Armor Boots, which seemed like a good choice for melee because of the massive knockback resistance and protection. Got to the Lava Pits a few levels later, which I'd never been to but had seen done by GameHunter. I figured my chances were pretty poor without an envirosuit, but I went for it anyway. Thanks, I think, to Malicious Blades resistance? I was able to survive a lava walk with running and a couple of medkits, and got the Lava Element, and with a nuke I picked up on the same floor I got my Cybernetic Armor, blew the Mastermind and went after Carmack. Unfortunately, Carmack completely ruined me by immediately spawning a huge amount of cacodemons and revenants. I didn't even stand a chance. Still, I'm pretty proud of myself for finally getting to the end of the game. Now I'll have to try the harder difficulties. :)

[skarczew]

A few levels before the end I found some Gothic Armor Boots, which seemed like a good choice for melee because of the massive knockback resistance and protection. Got to the Lava Pits a few levels later, which I'd never been to but had seen done by GameHunter. I figured my chances were pretty poor without an envirosuit, but I went for it anyway. Thanks, I think, to Malicious Blades resistance? I was able to survive a lava walk with running and a couple of medkits (...)

Thanks to Gothic Boots. They give 10 resistance against stuff you are walking on.
Bad thing is, they also incredibly slow you down, so in most cases you should not be wearing them like you did against Carmack.