DRL > Nightmare!
[N!|AoB|75%|8|YASD] This is really, really hard
Peter5930:
After a 150 or so attempts, the Phobos anomaly is the furthest I've made it on N! AoB. My strategy was to lure formers and imps into doorways so that I could kill them with one or two knife hits and where they wouldn't leave corpses that could regenerate, while avoiding demons, hell knights and cacodemons until I reached the chained court and picked up the chainsaw, or unless I was berserking. Lost souls are ok, since I can back away from them and then kill them with one hit when they catch up with me usually, often without taking damage once I reach brute 2. If I try to take on demons, hell knights and cacodemons before I get the chainsaw or when I'm not berserking, I quickly run out of medkits.
I gift drop the formers to get them into doorways and with the imps I either poke my head out to get their attention and hope I dodge the fireball, or wait for them to random-walk their way into the doorway. I use running and zig-zagging to approach monsters in the open when I don't have any other choice, or just charge at them head on in the case of sergeants, but that means taking 2-3 shotgun blasts to the face, so I avoid it if at all possible. The only good thing about sergeants on AoB is that they can take out whole groups of monsters via friendly fire.
The pistols and shotgun in my inventory are from clearing items from doorways so that I can either drop a medkit/armour there or close the door.
Anyone got any advice for dealing with the Phobos anomaly when going for a MVr build? I got mauled to death in the room with all the nightmare demons and cacodemons.
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6G) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Peter5930, level 6 Mancubus 2nd Lieutenant Marine,
was eaten alive by a nightmare demon on level 8 of the Phobos base.
He survived 40864 turns and scored 81745 points.
He played for 52 minutes and 33 seconds.
He opposed the Nightmare!
He killed 218 out of 288 hellspawn. (75%)
He was an Angel of Berserk!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 1
Levels completed : 0
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
None
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/60 Experience 11682/6
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +4 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +6
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Tough as nails (Level 2)
Brute (Level 2)
Berserker (Level 1)
Badass (Level 1)
Bru->Bru->TaN->Ber->TaN->Bad->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] nothing
[b] [ Weapon ] chainsaw (4d6)
[c] [ Boots ] nothing
[d] [ Prepared ] combat knife (2d5)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] pistol (2d4) [5/6]
[b] pistol (2d4) [6/6]
[c] pistol (2d4) [4/6]
[d] pistol (2d4) [4/6]
[e] pistol (2d4) [5/6]
[f] pistol (2d4) [5/6]
[g] shotgun (8d3) [1/1]
[h] shotgun (8d3) [1/1]
[i] combat pistol (3d3) [15/15]
[j] combat knife (2d5)
[k] combat knife (2d5)
[l] combat knife (2d5)
[m] combat knife (2d5)
[n] bulk mod pack
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
None
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
57 former humans
17 former sergeants
25 former captains
38 imps
8 demons
39 lost souls
9 cacodemons
9 hell knights
1 baron of hell
2 arachnotrons
5 former commandos
5 pain elementals
3 nightmare demons
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 8 he finally was eaten alive by a nightmare demon.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
you. Your red armor is completely destroyed! You are hit! You dodge! The
missile hits the nightmare demon. You dodge! The missile hits the nightmare
demon. The nightmare demon hits you. The nightmare demon hits you. The
nightmare demon hits you. You are hit! The nightmare demon dies.
You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed. You are hit! You dodge! The
missile hits the nightmare cacodemon. The missile hits the nightmare demon.
The nightmare demon hits you. The missile hits the nightmare demon. The
nightmare demon hits you. You are hit! The missile hits the nightmare demon.
The missile hits the nightmare cacodemon. You dodge! The missile hits the
nightmare demon. The missile hits the nightmare demon.
You dodge! The missile hits the nightmare demon. The nightmare demon dies.
The nightmare demon hits you. The missile hits the nightmare demon. You
dodge! The missile hits the nightmare demon. The nightmare demon dies. You
dodge! The missile hits the nightmare demon.
The nightmare demon hits you. You die!... Press <Enter>...
lying here.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
589 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
567 of those were killed.
2 of those were killed by something unknown.
5 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
15 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
9 killed the bitch and survived.
6 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
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AlterAsc:
You were lvl6, but didn't have MVM. Not good.One more level of TaN is not worth it.
You didn't take any of health globes.Were you in full hp and in berserk?If you were not berserking, then taking both of them would greatly help in surviving initial ambush and getting to the door.
Armor.You could've bulk-modded it, or you could have equipped it when you got to the door.With MVm and red/blue armor and 1 lvl of Tan you take 1 dmg in berserk, so it's not that hard to kill them one by one.
Another choice for B-mod would be your chainsaw.
Peter5930:
Yeah, I miscalculated when I took the second TaN; I only realised after I'd taken it that I wouldn't be able to take MVr at level 6.
My idea with the phobos anomaly was to run to the other end of the hallway like I was doing in my pacifist runs and only apply the bulk mod once my armour was damaged since it would slow me down, but I was still too slow and a sitting duck with no HR/DM/scout bonus, and I ended up taking about 40hp of damage each second once the nightmare demons closed in on me, by which point all I could do was burn through my two medpacks and wait for the end.
I forgot about the berserk bonus from large health globes; I've only come across one large health globe outside of the Phobos anomaly on all my AoB runs so far, so I wasn't in the habit of thinking of them as berserk packs. My health was at about 178% when I passed them, and I did what I'd normally do in that situation; leave the health globes for healing up after the fight.
Napsterbater:
Critical to taking on early-game demons and cacodemons in melee is run mode, you need far fewer medkits. Don't even bother with sergeants, even with run mode, you're gonna take too much damage. Instead spend lots of time hiding behind a door with a medkit luring the zombos into melee range.
Klear:
In the anomaly, it might be a better choice to strip naked rather than take the red armour.
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