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[Defacto]

I've been playing Doomrl for about a month off and on. I've been loving it and I've been pretty much just playing on medium. But I decided that I actually wanted to see the end of the game, so I put it on easy and tore the game apart!

I did a burst build, which I have never done before. It was crazy effective and I kept a double barrel in my back pocket for corner shooting and when stuff got in melee range. I used the special pistol I found early on for like 90% of the game. The ability for it to change how many shots were fired was a really awesome tool. I kept it at x3 most of the game to save ammo.

I hope to be able to post my first medium win soon. Anyway, here ya go!

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Joseph Hewitt,
 level 10 Cacodemon Corporal Scout,
 nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
 He survived 128555 turns and scored 53546 points.
 He played for 5 hours, 1 minute and 45 seconds.
 He was too young to die!

 He killed 477 out of 502 hellspawn. (95%)
 He held his right to remain violent.

 He saved himself 3 times.

-- Special levels --------------------------------------------

  Levels generated : 7
  Levels visited   : 6
  Levels completed : 3

-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------

  UAC Star (bronze cluster)
  Aurora Medallion
  Hell Champion Medal
  Gatekeeper Silver Badge
  UAC Bronze Badge
  Lava Bronze Badge

-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------

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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health 50/50   Experience 46377/10
  ToHit Ranged +2  ToHit Melee +2  ToDmg Ranged +3  ToDmg Melee +3

-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------

  Class : Scout

    Finesse          (Level 2)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 3)
    Eagle Eye        (Level 1)
    Intuition        (Level 2)
    Triggerhappy     (Level 1)
    Cateye           (Level 1)

  Int->Int->SoB->SoB->SoB->Fin->EE->Fin->TH->MCe->

-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   plasma rifle (1d8)x6 [19/40] (P1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   Enviroboots [0]
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   BFG 9000 (11d6) [20/100] (P1)

-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------

    [a] double shotgun (10d3)x2 [0/2] (P1)
    [b] gatling gun (1d7)x6 [60/60]
    [c] Grammaton Cleric Beretta (1d8)x3 [18/18]
    [d] 10mm ammo (x78)
    [e] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [f] shotgun shell (x20)
    [g] power cell (x50)
    [h] power cell (x20)
    [i] power cell (x50)
    [j] power cell (x50)
    [k] power cell (x50)
    [l] large med-pack
    [m] large med-pack
    [n] large med-pack
    [o] large med-pack

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    Acid       - internal 0%    torso 0%    feet 100%
    Fire       - internal 0%    torso 0%    feet 100%

-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------

    93 former humans
    69 former sergeants
    22 former captains
    42 imps
    39 demons
    102 lost souls
    30 cacodemons
    31 hell knights
    13 barons of hell
    1 arachnotron
    6 former commandos
    5 pain elementals
    8 revenants
    5 mancubi
    4 arch-viles
    2 bruiser brothers
    1 lava elemental
    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 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
  On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
  On level 7 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
  On level 7 he assembled a gatling gun!
  On level 7 he marched into the Military Base.
  On level 7 he assembled a high power weapon!
  He left without a fuss.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 11 he arrived at the Containment Area.
  Not knowing what to do, he left.
  On level 14 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 15 he found the Shielded Armor!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 18 he found the Enviroboots!
  On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  He nuked level 24!
  He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
  Then finally in Hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 is completely destroyed!
 You swap your weapons. You are hit!
 You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed. You dodge! The missile hits
 the hell knight. The hell knight dies. The baron of hell dies. You are hit!
 The baron of hell dies.
 The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile
 hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John
 Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack.
 Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn! You are hit!
 You use a lava element. You feel invincible!
 You use a large med-pack. Nothing happens. You are hit! You are hit!
 The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile
 hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John
 Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. John Carmack dies. Congratulations!
 You defeated John Carmack! Press <Enter>...
 You feel relatively safe now.

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 33 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 28 of those were killed.
 1 of those was killed by something unknown.
 And 3 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 1 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 1 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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[VANDAM]

Congratulations!

[ZicherCZ]

A first win is always a breakthrough - so, congratulations! Don't worry - once you reached this threshold, more wins will come up soon enough.

One word of warning, though: Enviroboots are awesome to let you move freely through liquids, that's for sure - but they also slow your movement. You'll find out soon that on higher difficulties you _will_ need all the speed you can get, so you might grab some other boots (tactical, preferably), and switch to Enviroboots only when you need too.

And finding GCB on level 7? Well, at least I know who's stealing my luck ;).

[Thiebs]

Congratulations! Also, I find it unbelievably offensive slightly annoying that you called it 'that special pistol', as if you don't realize the significance of such a weapon. GO WATCH EQUILIBRIUM! NOW!!


Why are you still reading this!?! GO NOW!!

[LuckyDee]

Good show, and close to 100% kills too. Apart from the Containment Area, do you at which point(s) something eluded you?

[Tormuse]

A full win as your first?  Huh!  Congrats!  :)

I have to ask what happened to your rocket launcher?  (You should have gotten one as a reward for conquering Hell's Arena)  Did you throw it away?  I think you would have found it useful, especially in the containment area.

[thelaptop]

Could've poked the Spider Mastermind during her last breath with the GCB to get another medal, you know, calmly and without incident.

No, not without incident.  New player and what-not -- probably not used to the mechanism for the death-blow.

Good win!  I sincerely hope you outgrow ITYTD to try out HNTR, where the real fun begins -- Angel challenges!  =D

[Sylph]

Nice win. Burst builds are indeed strong, but they're strongest when they take the traits in a slightly different order.

I'm guessing you were a little spoiled already to get a full win?
I, personally, was spoiled before my first win. :)

Out of interest, how far do you tend to get when you play on hurt me plenty?

[Defacto]

Since there are so many responses that need a response I decided to just do a big megapost!

Nice win. Burst builds are indeed strong, but they're strongest when they take the traits in a slightly different order.

I'm guessing you were a little spoiled already to get a full win?
I, personally, was spoiled before my first win. :)

Out of interest, how far do you tend to get when you play on hurt me plenty?

I usually die before I get to the Cyberdemon. Also what is the recommended trait order? I'm guessing Finesse before SoB?

Could've poked the Spider Mastermind during her last breath with the GCB to get another medal, you know, calmly and without incident.

No, not without incident.  New player and what-not -- probably not used to the mechanism for the death-blow.

Good win!  I sincerely hope you outgrow ITYTD to try out HNTR, where the real fun begins -- Angel challenges!  =D

Oh yeah, I don't usually play on ITYTD, just wanted to win :) 

But since I am so used to HNTR I used my skills learned there to smoke ITYTD. Oh and I've messed around with Angel challenges a little, definitely not good enough for them yet.

A full win as your first?  Huh!  Congrats!  :)

I have to ask what happened to your rocket launcher?  (You should have gotten one as a reward for conquering Hell's Arena)  Did you throw it away?  I think you would have found it useful, especially in the containment area.

Thanks!

Yeah, I threw it away. I wasn't thinking about The Wall/Containment Area when I threw it away. I was just thinking about how my plasma rifle did way more damage and I wanted space for more bullets!

Good show, and close to 100% kills too. Apart from the Containment Area, do you at which point(s) something eluded you?

If I didn't have the enviroboots, I wouldn't have been able to beat the lava zone. I didn't have any suits on me nor did I know you were supposed to save any for it.

Yeah I was sad I didn't get 100% kills, but without the rocket launcher I wasn't able to kill the enemies in the Containment Area :/

Congratulations! Also, I find it unbelievably offensive slightly annoying that you called it 'that special pistol', as if you don't realize the significance of such a weapon. GO WATCH EQUILIBRIUM! NOW!!


Why are you still reading this!?! GO NOW!!

I will totally watch that movie. I've never heard of it before now.

The author of the game must really love that movie to include that gun and "Gun Kata" in the game.

A first win is always a breakthrough - so, congratulations! Don't worry - once you reached this threshold, more wins will come up soon enough.

One word of warning, though: Enviroboots are awesome to let you move freely through liquids, that's for sure - but they also slow your movement. You'll find out soon that on higher difficulties you _will_ need all the speed you can get, so you might grab some other boots (tactical, preferably), and switch to Enviroboots only when you need too.

And finding GCB on level 7? Well, at least I know who's stealing my luck ;).

Yeah I noticed the -movement speed but just never thought it would be that much of a drawback. But I could definitely see how it would be bad since taking longer to move = more shots and movement the enemies get. I've never gotten those boots before and it was really awesome being able to walk right over lava!

Since I'm inexperienced I didn't realize how huge the GCB would be, until I was in Hell and still tearing stuff up with it :)

Congratulations!

Thanks!

[LuckyDee]

Yeah I was sad I didn't get 100% kills, but without the rocket launcher I wasn't able to kill the enemies in the Containment Area :/

Ah, but the Containment Area only contains 24 monsters (max) on ITYTD. You missed 25...

[ZicherCZ]

Yeah I noticed the -movement speed but just never thought it would be that much of a drawback. But I could definitely see how it would be bad since taking longer to move = more shots and movement the enemies get. I've never gotten those boots before and it was really awesome being able to walk right over lava!

Since I'm inexperienced I didn't realize how huge the GCB would be, until I was in Hell and still tearing stuff up with it :)

About the movement speed -it is especially dangerous when you are exploring new territories. It's not nice to get into a monster's line of sight and immediately get hit. But, say, walking right into a former commando and get a double faceful of plasma ... This _can_ instakill you right from full health easily.

And about GCB - hope you'll ever find it on a Sharpshooter build. This combination utterly rocks anything and everything.