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Kvaak

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[H|AoB|100%|YAAM] Ballistic vest is awesome!
« on: April 22, 2012, 10:00 »

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     DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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     Seppo, level 14 Cacodemon Sergeant Marine,
     nuked the Mastermind on level 9 of Hell.
     He survived 112269 turns and scored 229445 points.
     He played for 1 hour, 57 minutes and 1 second.
     He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.
     
     He killed 1010 out of 1010 hellspawn. (100%)
     This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
     He was an Angel of Berserk!
     
    -- Special levels --------------------------------------------
     
      Levels generated : 11
      Levels visited   : 9
      Levels completed : 9
     
    -- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
     
      Medal of Prejudice
      UAC Star (bronze cluster)
      Aurora Medallion
      Gargulec Medal
      Grim Reaper's Badge
      Hell Champion Medal
      Hell Armorer Badge
      Heroic Bronze Badge
      Veteran Bronze Badge
      Veteran Silver Badge
      Berserker Bronze Badge
      Berserker Silver Badge
      Berserker Gold Badge
      Reaper Silver Badge
      Reaper Gold Badge
      Longinus Gold Badge
     
    -- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
     
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      ###########################################################
     
    -- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
     
      Health 121/70   Experience 81417/14
      ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9
     
    -- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
     
      Class : Marine
     
        Ironman          (Level 1)
        Finesse          (Level 3)
        Tough as nails   (Level 3)
        Brute            (Level 3)
        Berserker        (Level 1)
        Badass           (Level 2)
        Vampyre          (Level 1)
     
      Bru->Bru->Ber->Bad->Bru->MVm->TaN->TaN->Fin->Fin->Bad->Fin->TaN->Iro->
     
    -- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
     
        [a] [ Armor      ]   Angelic Armor [7/7] (50%)
        [b] [ Weapon     ]   Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
        [c] [ Boots      ]   tactical boots [0/0] (100%)
        [d] [ Prepared   ]   nothing
     
    -- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
     
        [a] tactical armor [0/0] (100%)
        [b] piercing chainsaw (5d6)
        [c] large med-pack
        [d] large med-pack
        [e] large med-pack
        [f] large med-pack
        [g] large med-pack
        [h] large med-pack
        [i] large med-pack
        [j] large med-pack
        [k] large med-pack
        [l] large med-pack
        [m] large med-pack
        [n] homing phase device
        [o] homing phase device
        [p] envirosuit pack
        [q] power mod pack
        [r] power mod pack
        [s] blood skull
        [t] Hell Staff
        [u] fireproof plasteel boots [2/2] (86%)
     
    -- 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 -----------------------------------------------------
     
        52 former humans
        72 former sergeants
        47 former captains
        107 imps
        60 demons
        408 lost souls
        43 cacodemons
        30 hell knights
        34 barons of hell
        57 arachnotrons
        19 former commandos
        15 pain elementals
        18 revenants
        24 mancubi
        14 arch-viles
        2 bruiser brothers
        1 shambler
        1 lava elemental
        1 agony elemental
        1 Angel of Death
        1 Cyberdemon
        1 Spider Mastermind
        1 John Carmack
        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 assembled a tactical boots!
      On level 4 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
      On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
      On level 9 he assembled a tactical armor!
      On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
      On level 10 he assembled a piercing blade!
      He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
      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 15 he assembled a fireproof boots!
      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 19 he entered the Vaults.
      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.
      He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
      On level 23 he found the Hell Staff!
      On level 23 he assembled a tactical armor!
      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 --------------------------------------------------
     
     soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. You need to taste blood!
     The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. The
     lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. You need
     to taste blood!
     You hit John Carmack. The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. You
     need to taste blood!
     You hit John Carmack. You're going berserk! The lost soul hits you. The lost
     soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. You need to
     taste blood!
     You hit John Carmack. The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. The
     lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. You are hit! That hurt! You'
     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. You're going berserk!
     rifle (1d7)x6 [24/24] lying here.
     
    -- General ---------------------------------------------------
     
     55 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
     52 of those were killed.
     1 of those was killed by something unknown.
     
     2 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
     2 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
     
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Soo, yeah, after a LOT (do note that the numbers at the end of the mortem are for the current version) of unsuccessful 100% AoB runs trying to figure out how the hell am I supposed to clear Hell's Arena I was just about ready to give up on the arena when I picked up a ballistic vest on level 2. First I didn't think too much of it until I realized a demon I was trying to kill did way less damage than it should, then I saw the 50% melee resistance on the armor. It allowed me to clear Hell's Arena and probably a lot of other things too, I kept it with me for probably more than half of the game until I accidentally managed to blow it up. By then pretty much all armor was somewhat useless anyway since I had plenty of TaN levels and I kept taking so much damage everything I wore blew up anyway. TaN + berserk was all I needed.

I was somewhat disappointed early on in my inability to take HR but it turned out to be ok, berserk + tactical boots gave me plenty of movement speed. As for the scythe I didn't even know about it at first, it's a pretty damn awesome weapon alright.

Oh, and for a melee-only special level (meaning you'll probably have to skip it most of the time) UC sure has an unfairly awesome soundtrack.
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Re: [H|AoB|100%|YAAM] Ballistic vest is awesome!
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2012, 12:47 »

Wow, I envy you. I'm still wondering how you can do that. 100% AoB. Do you think if you hadn't had Ballistic Vest, would you make it? I mean, it's hard... I tried many times, but giftdropping doesn't help much when you're ambushed. And first level is a pain, when sergeants come in the open terrain, you can't do much there.
Congratz ;)
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Re: [H|AoB|100%|YAAM] Ballistic vest is awesome!
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2012, 12:56 »

Nice! Best Gargulec Medal I've pulled down was on HNTR- you've posted a decently impressive run. DL2 Ballistic Vest basically means DoomRL wants you to clear Hell's Arena, kudos for taking advantage of your lidcriously good luck.

And yes, UC has one of the best Simon-V soundtracks in the game. Several of his songs would fit right in next to the classic Doom soundtracks, and I daresay they might even be a little better than Mr. Prince's work.
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Re: [H|AoB|100%|YAAM] Ballistic vest is awesome!
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2012, 16:17 »

Wow, I envy you. I'm still wondering how you can do that. 100% AoB. Do you think if you hadn't had Ballistic Vest, would you make it? I mean, it's hard... I tried many times, but giftdropping doesn't help much when you're ambushed. And first level is a pain, when sergeants come in the open terrain, you can't do much there.
Congratz ;)
Unless someone proves me wrong I highly doubt it's possible to clear the arena without some sort of stroke of luck, whether it's in the form of the Butcher's Cleaver, Ballistic Vest, a lot of medpacks or somesuch. The only thing that comes to mind is taking HR and throwing combat knives.

Apart from that it's mostly about playing really, really carefully, luring the monsters whenever possible, gift dropping and from lvl 6 on abusing MVm, especially pain elementals are a good source of healing since you can just keep 1-hitting the lost souls and gaining health in the process. Once you have a level or two of TaN you're going to be pretty much permaberserked on any dangerous areas so stupidity is the only thing that can get you killed.

Hell's Arena is definitely the hardest part of a 100% clear, it just keeps getting easier after that although until you get MVm it's still pretty damn hard.
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Re: [H|AoB|100%|YAAM] Ballistic vest is awesome!
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2012, 16:32 »

Hell's Arena is definitely the hardest part of a 100% clear, it just keeps getting easier after that although until you get MVm it's still pretty damn hard.

You're thinking of conqueror badge. You can skip levels and still get 100% kills.

Edit: It will probably mean a walk in the lava in the cahined court though.
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Re: [H|AoB|100%|YAAM] Ballistic vest is awesome!
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2012, 17:04 »

Edit: It will probably mean a walk in the lava in the cahined court though.
Depends on the difficulty.  On HNTR with the cacodemons, one can throw knives to destroy the doors and let them out.  But yeah, HMP and above you'll have to lava walk or have a lot of knives :)
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