I thought I'd keep experimenting with different challenges and master traits. The result is this game:
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6G) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Brock, level 14 Hell Baron 2nd Lieutenant Marine,
defeated the Mastermind on level 8 of Hell.
He survived 127112 turns and scored 207005 points.
He played for 2 hours, 22 minutes and 56 seconds.
He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.
He killed 962 out of 962 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
He was an Angel of Shotgunnery!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 9
Levels completed : 9
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Medal of Prejudice
UAC Star (silver cluster)
Aurora Medallion
Grim Reaper's Badge
Hell Champion Medal
Hell Armorer Badge
Gatekeeper Silver Badge
Shottyman Silver Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 69/80 Experience 81611/14
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +4 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +6
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Ironman (Level 2)
Tough as nails (Level 3)
Reloader (Level 2)
Brute (Level 2)
Berserker (Level 1)
Badass (Level 2)
Shottyman (Level 1)
Army of the Dead (Level 1)
Rel->Rel->SM->Bad->Bad->MAD->Bru->Bru->Ber->TaN->TaN->TaN->Iro->Iro->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Shielded Armor [2]
[b] [ Weapon ] double shotgun (9d3)x2 [0/2]
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] tactical shotgun (8d3) [5/5]
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] fireproof red armor [2/4] (45%)
[b] Malek's Armor [3/3] (100%)
[c] shotgun shell (x12)
[d] large med-pack
[e] large med-pack
[f] homing phase device
[g] power mod pack
[h] power mod pack
[i] agility mod pack
[j] bulk mod pack
[k] lava acid-proof boots [0]
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 0% torso 90% feet 0%
Melee - internal 0% torso 90% feet 0%
Shrapnel - internal 0% torso 90% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
96 former humans
91 former sergeants
36 former captains
95 imps
69 demons
289 lost souls
41 cacodemons
43 hell knights
54 barons of hell
44 arachnotrons
19 former commandos
16 pain elementals
20 revenants
25 mancubi
16 arch-viles
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 lava elemental
1 agony 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.
On level 4 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 10 he assembled a tactical armor!
On level 10 he found the Medical Powerarmor!
On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 13 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 13 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
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 assembled a tactical shotgun!
On level 18 he stumbled into complex full of hell knights!
On level 18 he assembled a fireproof armor!
On level 18 he assembled a lava boots!
On level 18 he entered the Vaults.
On level 18 he found the Shielded Armor!
He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
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 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
On level 22 he found the Malek's Armor!
He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
He nuked level 23!
Then at last he found Dis!
On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You see : a Spider Mastermind (severely wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The Spider Mastermind hits you. The Spider Mastermind hits you.
You reload the double shotgun. The Spider Mastermind hits you.
You see : a Spider Mastermind (severely wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The Spider Mastermind hits you. The Spider Mastermind hits you.
You reload the double shotgun. The Spider Mastermind hits you. The Spider
Mastermind hits you.
You see : a Spider Mastermind (mortally wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The Spider Mastermind hits you.
You reload the double shotgun. The Spider Mastermind hits you. The Spider
Mastermind hits you.
You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations! You defeated the Spider
Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now.
There is an envirosuit pack lying here.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
258 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
249 of those were killed.
2 of those were killed by something unknown.
6 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
5 killed the bitch and survived.
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Army of the Dead is like a sub-challenge on top of the Angel of Shotgunnery challenge. I'm used to loading everything with mods and focusing on active defence traits, so it took some lateral thinking to make the most of basic assemblies and passive defence. I think buying berserker was a good move; I didn't know that when you take a big hit with berserker, the berserk resistance kicks in before damage is calculated. Going berserk and taking just one damage when a rocket hits you makes the cyberdemon a joke. The ranks of ironman that I got at the end might actually have been detrimental, since higher max health means berserker kicks in less often.
The first part of the game didn't feel too different than normal, as I always tend to go pretty heavy on the shotguns. Things started to change with chained court - I had to trap the arena master against a wall and chip away at him with a double shotgun while 'zerked. Phobos anomaly went well as I found an invulnerability sphere close to the stairs to it. I got lucky and was able to corner shoot the bruiser brothers without taking damage even after invulnerability wore off.
In Deimos, I left the medical powerarmor where it spawned as I've just never found a good use for it. I mostly used tactical armour and common armours instead. I found an onyx armour pack in the Armory which I saved for lava boots so I'd have more route options in hell levels. I beat Halls of Carnage because I knew it would be easy - same goes for City of Skulls, which spawned a hatred skull. An invulnerability sphere spawned close to the stairs to the Spider's Lair so I decided to tackle that too, though it got scary after the sphere ran out. Luckily, a combat shotgun with MAD does a decent amount of damage even beyond sight range, so I radar-shot my way to victory.
I was foolish enough to enter the mortuary. I used the hatred skull and a fire skull that I got from City of Skulls pretty much right away. Even while 'zerked I burned through every red armour and supercharge in the right half of the level, and when my 'zerk ran out on my way back to the left side I started to worry. Luckily, it seemed that I'd already managed to kill every vile in my all-consuming rage, so I just had to radar- and corner-shoot from the centre structure until everything was properly dead. The damage was done, though - I only had a stack and a half of shells left, which left me on a pretty tight schedule for the rest of the game. For some reason I went into the lava pits anyway, and wasted even more shells killing most monsters from out of sight range. I only had about thirty shells left leaving that level, so I knew that my one chance left was to nuke the last level of hell, wasting a nuke and lava element I was thinking about spending elsewhere, and then spend those last shells on the mastermind. I equipped the shielded armour and lured the mastermind into melee range so I could chip her health away with point-blank double shotgun blasts while she feebly scratched me. She died. The end!
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