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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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wheals, level 12 Cacodemon Warrant Officer Scout,
sacrificed himself to kill the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
He survived 128556 turns and scored 130000 points.
He played for 1 hour, 58 minutes and 38 seconds.
He didn't like it too rough.
He killed 637 out of 651 hellspawn. (97%)
He held his right to remain violent.
He was an Angel of Max Carnage!
He saved himself once.
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 8
Levels completed : 8
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
Hell Armorer Badge
Hell Champion Medal
Destroyer Bronze Badge
Destroyer Silver Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/45 Experience 65610/12
ToHit Ranged +12 ToHit Melee +12 ToDmg Ranged +2 ToDmg Melee +2
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Finesse (Level 2)
Hellrunner (Level 2)
Son of a bitch (Level 2)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 1)
Triggerhappy (Level 1)
Cateye (Level 1)
Int->SoB->SoB->TH->Int->Fin->Fin->WK->MCe->HR->HR->DM->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] powered red armor [1/5] (24%)
[b] [ Weapon ] burst minigun (1d8)x10 [303/400]
[c] [ Boots ] Nyarlaptotep's Boots [6/6] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] missile launcher (6d7) [4/4] (P1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] minigun (1d6)x8 [99/200]
[b] Trigun (3d6) [6/6]
[c] ballistic medical armor [2/2] (100%)
[d] energy-shielded vest [1/1] (200%) (B)
[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] phase device
[m] phase device
[n] homing phase device
[o] homing phase device
[p] envirosuit pack
[q] envirosuit pack
[r] fire skull
[s] rocket box (x20)
[t] rocket box (x16)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Melee - internal 0% torso 6% feet 0%
Acid - internal 0% torso 0% feet 30%
Fire - internal 0% torso 12% feet 30%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
101 former humans
72 former sergeants
28 former captains
122 imps
35 demons
129 lost souls
38 cacodemons
26 hell knights
29 barons of hell
13 arachnotrons
4 former commandos
8 pain elementals
10 revenants
1 mancubus
6 arch-viles
5 elite former humans
2 elite former sergeants
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 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
On level 5 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 7 he marched into the Military Base.
On level 7 he assembled a ballistic armor!
He purified his fellow comrades.
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
He sounded the alarm on level 10!
On level 10 he assembled a power armor!
On level 11 he witnessed the Wall.
On level 11 he assembled a burst cannon!
He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
He sounded the alarm on level 12!
On level 12 he romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
He slaughtered the beasts living there.
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
On level 19 he found the Trigun!
He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
On level 22 he found the Nyarlaptotep's Boots!
He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
Then at last he found Dis!
He activated the Angel Arm on level 24!
He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
On level 25 he finally sacrificed himself to kill the Mastermind.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. You are hit!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : floor
You dodge! The missile hits the baron of hell.
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : floor
You dodge! Boom! The baron of hell hits you. You dodge! Carmack raises his
hands and summons hellspawn!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (mortally wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the revenant. The missile hits the revenant. The missile
hits the revenant. The missile hits the revenant. The missile hits the
revenant. The missile hits the revenant. The missile hits the revenant. The
missile hits the revenant. The missile hits the revenant. The missile hits
the revenant. The revenant dies. The missile hits John Carmack. You are hit!
You are hit! Your powered red armor is damaged! You die!... Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
179 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
154 of those were killed.
2 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 17 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
6 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
4 killed the bitch and survived.
1 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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I've been trying to get an Angel of Max Carnage off the ground for a while. The game says that it's "Easy," but it took some actual adjustments in my playstyle to get it to work (probably because I was worse at playing before.
I figured that the huge accuracy bonus would probably make AoMC very fun with a chaingun build, and the fact that any hit would do serious damage would make a dodging-heavy style useful. The final deduction, that made this game lots of fun, was that I could easily shoot at off-screen monsters since accuracy was so high to begin with. To facilitate that, I chose a Scout (for Cateye and early Intutiion).
I grabbed the Arena's chaingun, and thought it would be pretty good, but the game really took off when I found a minigun on Phobos 5. Yes, Phobos, not Deimos. I could basically kill anything up to and including hell knights with one volley. It was so good that I had to use the trick of starting a chain fire, then immediately breaking it off or I would have run out of bullets somewhere in Deimos.
Once I upgraded to a burst minigun cannon, I could kill anything besides a boss in one volley. At that point the game became about saving enough bullets to make it to the next former captain. I feel really dumb about not taking the nuclear plasma rifle I found in the Vaults.
The title mostly refers to the situation on screen. If you look at the message log, you'll see that John Carmack was MORTALLY WOUNDED. If just one or two more of my rounds had hit him instead of the revenants surrounding him, this would have been a YAAM/YAFW (Carmack's summons don't count toward the killrate, right?) instead of a YASD. I dd get a partial win, so that's a bit of consolation. The title also refers to my record of a 44-kill spree, my own personal record and mostly one-shotting everything before I even saw it. I was pretty close to my first UAC silver star, and blew it in a dumb rocket mishap.
Mostly I posted this to marvel at my incredible luck in drops (TWO miniguns, four missile launchers throughout the course of the game) and my incredible bad luck/stupidity in the Hell Fortress. Also, is a chaingun-dodging style the "right" way to do Max Carnage? I was trying to improve my strategy, but I'm not sure if I could have won without the lucky minigun.