After about a million failed experiments with pistol builds on different challenges and difficulties, I finally won something. The thread title is a crude onomatopoeic rendering of the soundtrack of this run: chipping away at yet another archvile with an energy pistol.
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6G) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Pinky, level 22 Hell Baron 2nd Lieutenant Technician,
completed 100 levels of torture on level 100 of Hell.
He survived 261744 turns and scored 1189206 points.
He played for 7 hours, 55 minutes and 7 seconds.
He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.
He killed 2520 out of 2520 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
He was an Angel of 100!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 0
Levels visited : 0
Levels completed : 0
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Medal of Prejudice
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
Experience Medal
Centurial Silver Badge
Centurial Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 35/50 Experience 523265/22
ToHit Ranged +6 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Technician
Finesse (Level 3)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Son of a gun (Level 5)
Reloader (Level 3)
Eagle Eye (Level 3)
Juggler (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Sharpshooter (Level 1)
SoG->SoG->SoG->EE->EE->EE->MSs->WK->WK->HR->HR->SoG->SoG->DM->HR->Rel->Rel->Rel->Fin->Jug->Fin->Fin->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Lava Armor [4/4] (100%)
[b] [ Weapon ] nanomachic napalm launcher (7d7) (T1)
[c] [ Boots ] lava plasteel boots [2] (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] energy combat pistol (3d5) [15/15] (P1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] combat pistol (3d6) [15/15] (P3S1)
[b] nuclear BFG 9000 (8d8) [43/68] (B2)
[c] Jackhammer (8d3)x3 [9/9]
[d] tactical armor [2/2] (100%) (P)
[e] Shielded Armor [2]
[f] 10mm ammo (x100)
[g] 10mm ammo (x100)
[h] 10mm ammo (x94)
[i] shotgun shell (x50)
[j] power cell (x50)
[k] power cell (x50)
[l] power cell (x50)
[m] large med-pack
[n] large med-pack
[o] large med-pack
[p] Hell Staff
[q] antigrav steel boots [1/1] (100%) (A)
[r] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
[s] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
[t] shell box (x100)
[u] shell box (x100)
[v] power battery (x120)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Acid - internal 0% torso 0% feet 50%
Fire - internal 0% torso 75% feet 100%
Plasma - internal 0% torso 50% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
178 former humans
219 former sergeants
277 former captains
95 imps
52 demons
233 lost souls
41 cacodemons
102 hell knights
361 barons of hell
83 arachnotrons
12 former commandos
22 pain elementals
162 revenants
187 mancubi
228 arch-viles
35 nightmare imps
48 nightmare cacodemons
116 nightmare demons
30 nightmare arachnotrons
5 nightmare arch-viles
23 bruiser brothers
4 shamblers
4 lava elemental
2 agony elementals
1 Cyberdemon
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
On level 19 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 20 he stumbled into complex full of mancubi!
On level 20 he assembled a tactical armor!
On level 20 he found the Lava Armor!
On level 21 he found the Shielded Armor!
On level 24 he assembled a lava boots!
Level 28 blasted him with unholy atmosphere!
On level 29 he assembled a antigrav boots!
On level 33 he assembled a storm bolter pistol!
On level 34 he assembled a energy pistol!
On level 38, hell froze over!
He sounded the alarm on level 39!
On level 46 he found the Jackhammer!
On level 47 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
On level 49 he ran for his life from acid!
On level 52 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
On level 54 he stumbled into complex full of former humans!
On level 55 he ran for his life from acid!
Level 59 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 64 he found the Hell Staff!
On level 66, hell froze over!
On level 68 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
On level 69 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
On level 70 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
On level 72 he found the Hellwave Pack!
On level 73 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He sounded the alarm on level 76!
On level 80 he assembled a nanomanufacture ammo!
On level 81 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
On level 84 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
On level 85 he ran for his life from acid!
On level 88 he ran for his life from acid!
On level 90, hell froze over!
On level 92 he ran for his life from acid!
On level 93 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He sounded the alarm on level 95!
On level 100 he finally completed 100 levels of torture.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You see : floor
Targeting canceled. There is a combat shotgun (7d3) [5/5] lying here.
You hear the scream of a freed soul!
You see : Pinky (wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
Targeting canceled.
You hear the scream of a freed soul!
You hear the scream of a freed soul!
The missile hits the mancubus. You hear the scream of a freed soul! You feel
relatively safe now.
The weapon doesn't need to be reloaded!
There are stairs leading downward here.
You did it! You completed 100 levels of DoomRL! You're the champion! Press
<Enter>...
You see : a mancubus (severely wounded) | blood | [ m ]ore
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
256 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
248 of those were killed.
2 of those were killed by something unknown.
5 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
4 killed the bitch and survived.
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My strategy is to never plan on getting exotics/uniques, but to take advantage of them once they do show up. And man, did they show up. Finding the lava armor on level 20 won the game for me right then and there - it's such an amazing piece of gear that I was able to carelessly tank as much damage as I wanted afterwards. It also helps that I found an onyx armor pack early on. I made a pair of lava boots to help charge my armor, and I ended up wearing them for most of the game. I also made tactical and antigrav boots, but they mostly sat in my pack as it gets annoying having to constantly switch to protective boots in the lava-jammed hell levels.
Even with all the pistol builds I've been playing lately I've still never once unlocked "dualgunner." Sharpshooters all the way! MSs just seems like a better trait to me - it's more accurate, more ammo efficient, and you spend less time reloading. Plus, you get to experiment with oddball pistol assemblies without worrying about whether your pistols match. I started off with a regular T-modded pistol until I was finally able to find enough B mods to turn it into a storm bolter. This is, as far as I know, the best pistol you can get without any exotic drops, and it served me well through most of the game. Once I found a combat pistol I turned it into an energy pistol, so that I'd be able to make good use of more than just one ammo type. This turned out to be very wise as there were occasional dry spells where bullets or cells wouldn't spawn. I found a second combat pistol fairly late in the game and decided to just mod it up. Overall, the P3 combat pistol was stronger than the energy pistol, but it took 3 shots to kill a revenant where the energy pistol only took 2. I was hoping to find a second sniper mod so I could play around with killing viles from across the map but only one ever turned up, not that I can really complain.
For shotguns, I went from a plain shotty to a lightly modded combat shotgun to a heavily modded assault shotgun. I finally dropped the latter when I found the Jackhammer, which I mostly just kept as a souvenir (though I did bust it out in a few nightmare demon caves). For rocket launchers, I went from a plain RL to a lightly modded missile launcher, which I eventually dropped when I had the idea of making a nanomanufacture napalm launcher. I was very happy to find the second nano pack I needed. A nanomachic napalm launcher is definitely one of the more ridiculous things you can assemble in this game, and since I already had lava boots I could blanket entire levels in lava without any real consequence. I also wanted to see if I could make a nuclear biggest fucking gun but no F mods ever spawned (though I easily could have destroyed a few with the aforementioned napalm launcher).
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