I was actually trying to encourage you to move away from this topic and into uncharted territory, but that's alright. Mortems in other discussions are just fine if they serve to illustrate a point, otherwise if it's worth posting it's worth posting on the mortem board.
I'm sorry, I don't understand... is there some forum etiquette thing I'm breaking here? Am I spamming the thread too much? I ask questions alot because I like learning but if people are tired of reading you need not answer, I wont be upset? Seriously I have no clue what you mean by this. I HAVE checked some of the other threads and such but the more I read, the more questions I get =P
One last question, I know HMP is considered the game's version of "hard", and HNTR is "normal"...But, I still feel wussy for not playing UV or N! yet, so angel challenge + HMP seems like a nice middle ground. But sometimes it feels like there's just no way to solve a situation with my self imposed challenge on HMP (I'll go into that further). What difficulty would a "vet" play these angel challenges on provided they are kind of ALMOST able to Clear N! (without any angel challenges), but not quite, and are keep on trying at it? That's kind of the bar I want to be at atm.
anyway...
Died again, was doing good too, was doing HRP marksman medal. Incidently, it's kind of a shame that containment area doesn't give you alternative means of getting that backpack if you lack rockets (I'm not even allowed to use em so blah). I mean it seems that the arena was "smart" enough to give me a mod instead of a rocket launcher, so why aren't containment area/the wall smart enough to put stairs on the other side and give you a homing phase thing or something. Oh well.
I got the alternative to the armory again (forgot what it was called), the double shamblers were actually pretty simple, and i was still just using 2 ordinary joe pistols, well one was a speedloader (people say speedloader is useless for gunkata, and I understand the theory why, but I find sometimes 6 rounds is just not enough for 2 ordinary pistols to take out barons of hell at long distance, and DEFINITELY not revenants...(and of course bosses). Anyway I could have made a high power pistol but one of those and 1 speedloader just makes no sense, and I was waiting for the armory to see if I would get some sweet drops first...which I did. Combat pistol! I immediately made it into a high power combat pistol, which kinda makes a good combo with the speedloader. Make the speedloader your primary, and if 6 shots isn't enough (which it often is with a high power combat on the side), you only need reload the speedloader, and you got 4 more high power dual shots.
Anyway, I was cleaning house (or hell), when that dungeon came up... you know... that one. The one I KNEW would be a VERY bad Idea for a pistol-only character to attempt. But I thought to myself, part of roguelikes is getting killed learning stuff right? Let's see HOW bad an idea it is to attempt it! I thought I een had a chance because I could dish out some great damage on the agony elemental pretty quick, and once she meatshields with lost souls, I had like 10 health kits (I normally don't carry that many but this was part of my plan) to use in conjunction with the arena masters staff. I know they resist fire alot, but they are so squishy, and they are so packed, I figure the aoe from each other would smoke em in one or two shots a go anyway.
Anyway, I got trapped in there obviously, got swarmed, put up a good fight (took like 5 uses of the staff to kill anything!), even KILLED the agony elemental! And she dropped, oh god please be a fire skull to nuke these suckers!...FIRE SKULL (I didn't know lost souls leave no corpses, I thought they left dust along with the blood or something qq)..used it...saw absolutely nothing happen (even the agony elemental didn't blow up, whyyy!?), and got munched on to death... *sobs*.
anyway
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Ghaleon, level 8 Imp Sergeant Major Scout,
was spooked by a lost soul on level 4 of the Deimos base.
He survived 193642 turns and scored 64585 points.
He played for 2 hours, 17 minutes and 58 seconds.
He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.
He killed 484 out of 523 hellspawn. (92%)
He held his right to remain violent.
He was an Angel of Marksmanship!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 6
Levels completed : 4
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
Hell Armorer Badge
Hell Champion Medal
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/50 Experience 29193/8
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +0 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Hellrunner (Level 2)
Son of a gun (Level 3)
Dualgunner (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Gun Kata (Level 1)
SoG->SoG->DG->SoG->HR->HR->DM->MGK->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] nothing
[b] [ Weapon ] speedloader pistol (2d4) [6/6]
[c] [ Boots ] grappling steel boots [1/2] (14%)
[d] [ Prepared ] high power combat pistol (3d5) [10/10]
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] pistol (2d4) [6/6]
[b] 10mm ammo (x86)
[c] 10mm ammo (x100)
[d] 10mm ammo (x100)
[e] 10mm ammo (x100)
[f] small med-pack
[g] large med-pack
[h] thermonuclear bomb
[i] power mod pack
[j] power mod pack
[k] agility mod pack
[l] bulk mod pack
[m] bulk mod pack
[n] firestorm weapon pack
[o] Arena Master's Staff
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
None
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
88 former humans
73 former sergeants
17 former captains
79 imps
55 demons
100 lost souls
15 cacodemons
26 hell knights
4 barons of hell
9 arachnotrons
4 former commandos
7 pain elementals
1 revenant
2 bruiser brothers
2 shamblers
1 agony elemental
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.
On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 7 he sneaked into the Phobos Lab.
He broke through the lab.
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 8 he assembled a fireproof armor!
On level 9 he entered Deimos Lab.
On level 9 he assembled a high power weapon!
On level 9 he assembled a speedloader pistol!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 10 he assembled a grappling boots!
On level 11 he arrived at the Containment Area.
Not knowing what to do, he left.
On level 12 he romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
On level 12 he finally was spooked by a lost soul.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
guns!
You start running!
The missile hits the agony elemental. The missile hits the agony elemental.
The missile hits the agony elemental. The missile hits the agony elemental.
The missile hits the agony elemental. The missile hits the agony elemental.
The agony elemental dies. You dualreload your guns!
The pain elemental spawns lost souls! There is a fire skull lying here.
You picked up a fire skull. The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you.
You use a fire skull. The lost soul hits you. Your fireproof red armor is
damaged! The lost soul hits you.
You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed.
You use a Arena Master's Staff. You raise your arms! The lost soul hits you.
The lost soul hits you. The pain elemental hits you. Your fireproof red armor
is completely destroyed! The pain elemental hits you. The lost soul hits you.
The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. You
die!... Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
25 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
22 of those were killed.
3 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
2 killed the bitch and survived.
1 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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I died alot since before this game, had many many many bad games cuz of the arena.. being stuck using pistols only in the arena when you don't even have dual gunner yet is awful. Wallshooting works great and all...except like effing 5 games in a row I'd have to deal with 2 demons and a cacodemon or two at the same darn time in there (which is near impossible when you have nothing but a trusty old pistol, sometimes not even armor. Running away from demons only gives me like 3 squares of distance after the full duration of the run that early in the game since I don't have hellrunner yet, and even if I got hellrunner, I'd have to lose son of a gun in a pistol only challenge, which would probably be flat out lunacy).