Short time lurker, first time poster. Hi everyone! Anyway, I'm really having trouble with AoB runs, like not even getting past lvl 3 or 4. I keep getting hit way too much and lose my Blue Armor usually lvl 2 or 3. If I'm lucky, I can find another Green or even Blue to replace it sometimes, but I'm still also burning through my meds at the same time. I'm probably killing too much as opposed to running for the exit more, but then on the few times I make it to 5 or 6, I feel really under-powered to deal with the enemies there. I certainly have had no luck getting to 8 on AoB and even if I did, I doubt my ability to get past it as things stand. Any help of what I'm doing wrong or could be doing more correctly would be appreciated.
Now, my other problem is just standard games. I've gotten to the SM once, but that was through sheer blind luck (I died horribly once there). I can sometimes get lucky and get to or even kill the CD, but again, mostly due to luck rather than any "skill" or "ability" on my part. The Deimos lvls really give me a hard time and it is mostly just a crap-shoot with the RNG if I can get through them. The Hell lvls I mostly run through them as fast as possible as Mancubuses(Mancubii?) end my day very quickly. Arch-viles I kill with extreme prejudice ignoring pretty much anything else until they die. But I still have issues with either my armor not being effective enough or is always destroyed all too often. And then I kill all my meds only to still usually die in an explosion of some sorts. So any help with what I'm doing wrong here would be appreciated as well.
Last thoughts, I have read through the sticky-ed "Beginner's Guide" and while very helpful, I guess I'm not getting something from it still. I also pretty much exclusively play on HMP or higher, but with all my failures, I'm considering lowering it. Although that won't help me with getting medals/ranks as much..., nor really help with what I'm doing wrong IMO. It would just make things, easier, but without improvement on my part. So, sorry for the wall of text. Any help would be...helpful? Thanks in advanced!