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[H|AoI/AoOC|27%|YAVP] - Testing My Patience for finally getting Major Rank

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papilio:
My simple advice on Phobos Anomaly and Tower of Babel:

In Anomaly, just before the ambush opens, change your status to "RUNNING" (by TAB key). Tactical boots (speed+15%) helps a lot here.
Up to HMP, ambush consists of only Cacodemons/Demons/Lost souls, and all of them CANNOT OPEN DOORS,
(in UV, imps are added, but they are not a big problem)
so just after you pass the doors, CLOSE THE DOOR and repeat open - shoot - close - open - shoot - close. You can easily take down all of those ambushes.

when fighting against bruisers, make use of lower corners.

 |
 |
                  X (<-- intuition mark of bruisers)

  ----------> X (shot them like this)
@| (WALL)
 | (WALL)

If you have a combat/tactical shotgun and large shotgun shell box (you can get it from the military base), bruisers cannot harm you.



Tower of Babel: If you took BFG from Spider's Lair/Halls of Carnage, just BFG him.
If not, prepare a massive DPS rapid fire weapon, such as plasma rifle (if you have) or at least gatling gun.
To dodge cyberdemon's rocket volley, carefully look the message "Cyberdemon reloads the launcher".
Cyberdemon blasts his rocket 1.0s (maybe) after that message,
so keep your status RUNNING and use a strafe left-right run (as you did an the original DOOM) to dodge them.
Hellrunner 2 + tactical boots ensures 100% evasion here without "RUNNING" if you do everything correctly.

If cyberdemon is out of your vision, then the reload message does NOT appears, so you should notice it by reloading sound.

Arron Syaoran:
I tend to use the corner of the wall(where the breakable barrier was) as cover against bruisers. Apparently I'm not using Tactical Boots, Hellrunner or Running Tactic Enough. As for WHY UV is so hard for me, it's mainly due to the enemy's increased accuracy. This is probably why I haven't had much luck on Angel of Mass Carnage. Perhaps I should invest in Scout/Intuition more often for AoMC and UV.

Having to do AoI without AoOC would be both easier(more preparation and gear) and harder(more levels to go through). In the end though, there's plenty of set levels that don't have much for healing options, so I would have to avoid most of the special levels. I did it on AoOC because I wanted a quick, easy way to finish off the last Gold Badge I needed. The easier badges are fairly difficult, while the hardest are next to impossible for me. I could probably score 1 diamond and 1-3 Platinum, but I don't expect to ever go near Angelic unless I can master UV.

Tormuse:
I think LuckyDee has the right idea of practicing with AoMC.  It sounds like your biggest issue is avoiding getting hit and AoMC is good for teaching you that.  Just get a couple levels in Intuition so you can observe the enemy movement patterns and take it a bit slower than you're used to.

You mentioned that it would have taken 20 more tries without using AoOC and that's probably true.  If you look at my mortems, you may notice that I've won less than 10% of my games.  Behind each of my Diamond and Angelic badges, there are a *lot* of dead Doomguys.  This is the kind of game where you have to fail a lot in order to learn and do better next time.

You're on the right track and you're obviously fairly skilled at the game; it may seem to you like Diamond badges are out of your reach, but I think you'll find that with time and practice, it will be an achieveable long-term goal.

EDIT:  And I'm still curious about that forum challenge you mentioned.  :)

Arron Syaoran:
Yeah, about now I have about 4-5% Victory rate(95-96% Deaths), most of them on HNTR and HMP, about 5-14 Deaths on UV and 1 Death on N! Perhaps I should shoot into the blank whenever I hear an enemy instead of just walking until they appear onscreen. It's probably gonna make me use my shotgun more.

I'm gonna start playing in console mode, probably with AoMC w/o UV to start, for the added visual challenge. Tiles mode just seems too much like Noteye ADOM.

As for the Challenge, I'm posting it in General DoomRL Discussion unless people tell me otherwise. Perhaps I should post is in post mortem instead(because people would post their victory/defeat mortems in the challenge's thread? or will they post them in separate threads?) To be honest, I don't know where to post challenges. I'll post it when I find out where I should post it.

LuckyDee:

--- Quote from: Arron Syaoran on August 20, 2014, 07:42 ---As for the Challenge, I'm posting it in General DoomRL Discussion unless people tell me otherwise. Perhaps I should post is in post mortem instead(because people would post their victory/defeat mortems in the challenge's thread? or will they post them in separate threads?) To be honest, I don't know where to post challenges. I'll post it when I find out where I should post it.

--- End quote ---

Discussion would be a great place indeed. Mortems can still go on the Mortem Board, and refer to your challenge in the subject line.

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