So I gave N! Ao100 another try, this time going for MAc, and it works. I got me lava armour, cerberus boots and eventually a heavily modded nuclear plasma rifle, and the game got a lot easier. Notice I killed everything - this didn't need to be a YAAM, I would be perfectly happy with Centurial Diamond, but I still cleared all levels whenever I could.
So how did I die? The last level had an armed nuke, which I didn't realize when I entered. I cleaned half of it, found stairs and then noticed that I only have 2 minutes left. Since I had a homing phase, I decided to sprint to the other side and quickly kill/gib all the stragglers. When I was done, a single lone enemy remained in the level and I had 40 seconds to live. I searched the level until I only had 2 seconds and phased to the stairs. And there he was - a Former Sergeant, standing just a few steps away from me, laughing. Now I remembered that my firing speed was around 0.3 (now that I think of it, that must have been true about the hyperblaster, not the nucrifle) so I decided to risk it.
Warning! Explosion in 1 seconds! There are stairs leading downward here.
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : a former sergeant (unhurt) | floor | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the former sergeant. The former sergeant dies. You die!...
Nuff said...
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Klear, level 19 Arch-Vile Mjr General Marine,
nuked himself on level 37 of Hell.
He survived 976101 turns and scored 1147187 points.
He played for 1 day, 3 hours, 32 minutes and 50 seconds.
He opposed the Nightmare!
He killed 1622 out of 1622 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 ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/60 Experience 248056/19
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +2 ToDmg Ranged +5 ToDmg Melee +8
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Finesse (Level 3)
Hellrunner (Level 2)
Son of a bitch (Level 5)
Reloader (Level 2)
Brute (Level 1)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Badass (Level 1)
Triggerhappy (Level 2)
Ammochain (Level 1)
SoB->SoB->TH->Rel->Rel->TH->MAc->Fin->Fin->WK->WK->SoB->Bad->HR->HR->SoB->SoB->Fin->Bru->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Lava Armor [4/4] (64%)
[b] [ Weapon ] nuclear plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [23/24] (A1S1T3)
[c] [ Boots ] cerberus steel boots [0/0] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] tactical rocket launcher (6d6) [4/5]
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] laser rifle (1d7)x5 [40/40] (T1)
[b] Acid Spitter (10d10) [10/10] {a}
[c] red armor [6/6] (200%) (ABP)
[d] rocket
[e] rocket (x10)
[f] power cell (x50)
[g] power cell (x50)
[h] power cell (x50)
[i] large med-pack
[j] large med-pack
[k] large med-pack
[l] large med-pack
[m] large med-pack
[n] large med-pack
[o] large med-pack
[p] large med-pack
[q] phase device
[r] envirosuit pack
[s] thermonuclear bomb
[t] Hell Staff
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Acid - internal 0% torso 0% feet 100%
Fire - internal 0% torso 75% feet 100%
Plasma - internal 0% torso 50% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
117 former humans
176 former sergeants
119 former captains
258 imps
95 demons
158 lost souls
52 cacodemons
70 hell knights
134 barons of hell
80 arachnotrons
31 former commandos
15 pain elementals
72 revenants
122 mancubi
77 arch-viles
22 nightmare imps
23 nightmare demons
1 elite former human
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
On level 15 he assembled a hyperblaster!
On level 21 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
On level 22 he found the Lava Armor!
On level 24 he assembled a cerberus boots!
On level 26 he found the Hell Staff!
On level 28 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
On level 33 he found the Acid Spitter!
On level 35 he found the Mjollnir!
On level 37 he encountered an armed nuke!
On level 37 he finally nuked himself.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
Warning! Explosion in 20 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 10 seconds! There is 10mm ammo (x48) lying here.
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Warning! Explosion in 7 seconds!
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Warning! Explosion in 4 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 3 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 2 seconds!
You use a homing phase device. You feel yanked in a non-existing direction!
Warning! Explosion in 1 seconds! There are stairs leading downward here.
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : a former sergeant (unhurt) | floor | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the former sergeant. The former sergeant dies. You die!...
Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
376 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
312 of those were killed.
2 of those were killed by something unknown.
24 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 17 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
21 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
12 killed the bitch and survived.
7 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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