So, having delayed tackling the Nightmare! for quite some time due to it ruffling my perfectionist feathers (What do you mean I can't safely kill everyone?), I finally did it right off the second try. I decided to play it safe and pick a build I'm comfortable with, Shottyhead, to the point of playing it so pussylike safe as to pick INT 2 immediately to not get unexpected respawns in my back and so on. Gotta learn to play less with Intuition, it spoils your tactical thinking a lot. Anyway, the run was unexpectedly easy - even before the RNG started favoring me with stuff.
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Wyvern, level 18 Arch-Vile Br. General Scout,
nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
He survived 122526 turns and scored 1081501 points.
He played for 15 hours, 51 minutes and 44 seconds.
He opposed the Nightmare!
He killed 1594 out of 1679 hellspawn. (94%)
He held his right to remain violent.
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 10
Levels completed : 4
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (gold cluster)
Aurora Medallion
Grim Reaper's Badge
Hell Armorer Badge
UAC Platinum Badge
Veteran Diamond Badge
Elite Diamond Badge
Reaper Platinum Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 129/70 Experience 174396/18
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +0 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Ironman (Level 2)
Finesse (Level 3)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Reloader (Level 2)
Juggler (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Shottyman (Level 1)
Shottyhead (Level 1)
Int->Int->HR->Fin->Jug->HR->DM->Rel->Rel->SM->MSh->Fin->WK->WK->HR->Iro->Iro->Fin->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Malek's Armor [3/3] (100%)
[b] [ Weapon ] plasma shotgun (10d3) [9/30] (P3T2)
[c] [ Boots ] Nyarlaptotep's Boots [6/6] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] power battery (x37)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] focused double shotgun (8d4)x2 [2/2]
[b] tactical shotgun (8d3) [5/5]
[c] tactical rocket launcher (6d6) [4/5] (T1)
[d] BFG 9000 (10d6) [130/130] (B1F1)
[e] Lava Armor [4/4] (100%)
[f] Angelic Armor [7/7] (100%)
[g] shotgun shell (x70)
[h] shotgun shell (x51)
[i] large med-pack
[j] large med-pack
[k] large med-pack
[l] large med-pack
[m] large med-pack
[n] lava element
[o] Hell Staff
[p] shell box (x100)
[q] shell box (x100)
[r] rocket box (x20)
[s] rocket box (x20)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Acid - internal 0% torso 30% feet 30%
Fire - internal 0% torso 100% feet 100%
Plasma - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
109 former humans
127 former sergeants
49 former captains
269 imps
93 demons
424 lost souls
50 cacodemons
59 hell knights
75 barons of hell
46 arachnotrons
26 former commandos
43 pain elementals
40 revenants
54 mancubi
49 arch-viles
22 nightmare imps
8 nightmare cacodemons
36 nightmare demons
6 nightmare arachnotrons
3 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
1 John Carmack
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
On level 7 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 7 he sneaked into the Phobos Lab.
He broke through the lab.
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
He nuked level 8!
On level 9 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
On level 9 he assembled a fireproof armor!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he arrived at the Containment Area.
He broke into the Containment Area, but gave up against the overwhelming forces.
On level 12 he romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
He slaughtered the beasts living there.
On level 13 he assembled a fireproof armor!
On level 14 he assembled a focused double shotgun!
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
On level 15 he found the Hell Staff!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
He fled the Unholy Cathedral seeing no chance to win.
On level 18 he stumbled into a complex full of mancubi!
On level 18 he found the Nyarlaptotep's Boots!
On level 19 he found the Subtle Knife!
On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
On level 19 he found the Malek's Armor!
He managed to scavenge a part of the Vaults treasures.
On level 20 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter Limbo!
On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
He managed to clear Limbo from evil!
On level 22 he arrived at Mt. Erebus.
On level 22 he found the Lava Armor!
He managed to raise Mt. Erebus completely!
Then at last he found Dis!
He overloaded a nuclear BFG 9000 on level 24!
He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
Then finally in Hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You see : John Carmack (mortally wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (mortally wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (mortally wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | floor | [ m ]ore
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | floor | [ m ]ore
John Carmack reloads his rocket launcher.
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | blood | [ m ]ore
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John Carmack! Press
<Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
294 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
261 of those were killed.
2 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 6 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
25 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
10 killed the bitch and survived.
13 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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Well, the early regular levels were not much different from UV expect from a quite fun sense of urgency and that lovely "I'm knee-deep in respawning undead" feeling, which I kind of started to like. Learning to use water and barrels and doorways to minimize later respawns was interesting, but I honestly don't think I could be patient enough to employ those to get 100% kill ratio. Leading cacodemons or hell knights to water and making them dri..., I mean, die, is very useful, but I can't be bothered to do it with every single former human. My first try at N! killed me on Hell's Arena, so I decided to skip it this time - I know it's doable by stacking corpses and utilizing cacodemon blasts, but I thought, screw it. Hence, the Chained Court was easy, and so was the Phobos Lab - the nightmare demons were still easily lurable into acid and knockbackable with shotguns. In fact, I'm glad the lab generated instead of the Military Base, because the base, I think, could have killed me easily with a super-shotgun packing former sergeant or a napalm-launcher former commando respawning at the inappropriate moment, even with Intuition. In fact, I really hate the Military Base even on UV.
Now the Anomaly was a fun twist. I was so accustomed to it being easy on UV that I honestly didn't expect the ambush to be that tough. Could have easily died in the leftmost room, but phased out right to the Bruisers, killed them, and decided to chicken out on clearing out the ambush.
Hell's Armory granted me the Holy Grail of Corpse Busting, and an all-around kickass weapon for Shottyhead - The Plasma Shotgun, which was the precise reason for my getting the Elite Diamond and clearing out Limbo. I could probably still beat N! with but the good ol' P-modded tac shotgun, but with less kill ratio and I'd probably stay the hell away from Mortuary/Limbo. Shortly after obtaining the Plasma Shotgun and reaching the Containment Area stairs, I was getting tired a bit and getting reckless and had to go anyway, so decided to (s)ave the game... and, yeah, NO ESCAPE FROM NIGHTMARE! GO AND FIGHT LIKE A MAN! Damn. Fine, DoomRL, if you wanna be like that, I'll just leave you alone for a while, and when I return, you're going down xD. Hence, the 15 hours of game time, that's just taking a break.
Abyssal Plains are not even worth mentioning, 'cause, come on, shotgun build and all, Cybie - Dodgemaster, and I could probably do the Unholy Cathedral if I didn't get a bit reckless and didn't forget to lead all the demons into lava. I think there's a diamond badge for doing it on N! without Bru, but, meh. Diamond badges, who needs 'em? xD
I entered the Vaults having picked up a Hell Staff earlier, so decided to break in on luck, and succeeded to get into the middle after burning one medkit. For some odd reason, I didn't get the Scavenger Diamond (is it UV only, or did some random revenant respawning prevent me from "clearing" it?), but I had achieved it before. The best thing was that I got the Malek's Armor right after getting Nyarlo-blahblah boots on the previous level, giving me 100% fire res. Too much favor from RNG, please! Once again, I don't think those were necessary for beating the game, but it sure made the Limbo an absolute walk in the park. It's fun to just stand there and let the Mancubi and Viles fire at you and burn away corpses xD
The rest was pretty obvious, I even got an invul sphere before Dis, so if I had two nukes I could even nuke JC (I had one thermie on the Phobos Anomaly, but I blasted it right before shipping off to Deimos. I always blast away nukes I don't need when leaving a level in hopes of getting Fallout Platinum xD)
So, that's it. Although I was heavily favored by RNG drops, I can safely say that the Nightmare! is not as terrifying as I thought it to be. I even get delusions of grandeur enough to one day hope for that 100% Angelic clean sweep, but I don't have that kind of angelic patience xD
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