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[papilio]

"Strongman Platinum" : Complete standard game on Hurt Me Plenty with only fists
"Strongman Diamond" : Strongman Platinum + 100% kills

The major difference between Angel of Berserk is that you can use weapon other than fists.
That is, you can give 1~2 shotgun shots to those nasty demons (which are absolute nightmare on early melee run)
or can do cornering shots against barons using your shotgun and make a finishing blow with your fists.
(of course just after cut down baron's health enough you have to swap weapon to make your weapon slot "empty" to do so)
A BIG DIFFERENCE.

Moreover, you can open the crates by shotguns to get useful gears in early stages.
(this helped me in many occasions)

However,

1. killing enemies by punch when you are wielding other ranged weapon DOES NOT GIVE fist-kill credit (I guess)
and
2. indirect enemy death during wielding other weapon (eg. luring demons to acid/lava, death of zombies by barrel explosion from the other shotgun guy)
DOES NOT GIVE fist-kill credit,

so you have to maintain your weapon slot as "EMPTY" in most of time as you can.

Prepare shotgun(combat shotgun) or pistol on your sub-weapon slots, and make use of smart weapon-swapping.



The hardest part is definitely the Phobos part. You must have large amount of luck to reach Brute 3 + Berserker 1.
If you are not lucky enough to face plenty of berserk packs/green, blue armors/large health globes, you cannot survive there.
In this try, most of doomguys died before reaching level 5.

"RUNNING" status is extremely useful as it cut down enemies' melee accuracy.
Basic strategy is when you found imps, get "running" into them and kill them, and take some small health globes/medpacks to recover your status.

You'd better enter Chained Court since you can get 5 berserk effects (including chainsaw - if you are not so expert to clear Hell's arena);
Note that chainsaw berserk effects is shorter than the original one so take it at last moment.
I recommend Bru->Bru->Bru->Berserk rather than Bru->Bru->Berserk->Bru.

After having vampyre, the good choice for next traits would be definitely Tough as Nails.
In the normal Deimos stages, the major difficulties are barons; make use of cornering shots by shotguns to cut down their health enough.

Making nanofiber red armor is generally considered as a stupid idea in normal games,
but it helps a lot here because armor consuming rate is so lot in this run. Of course you must have 1~2 TaN traits to use them.

Grappling plasteel boots (which gives -90% knockback) is a must-have item in late stages.
If plasteel boots does not appear, then make them with protective boots.

I were bit lucky on the Hell stages - 4 inv globes appeared there, so episode 3 stages were fairly easy.

If you have enough large medpacks, killing Cybie and SMM would not be a problem.




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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 dd, level 10 Cyberdemon Br. General Marine,
 defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
 He survived 101777 turns and scored 143014 points.
 He played for 56 minutes and 58 seconds.
 He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.

 He killed 583 out of 583 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!

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

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 2
  Levels completed : 2

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

  Mastermind's Brain
  Medal of Prejudice
  Sunrise Iron Fist
  UAC Star (bronze cluster)
  Strongman Platinum Badge
  Strongman Diamond Badge

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

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  ####...&####.................%X.........####....###########
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  #########...............####...............################
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  ###########################################################

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

  Health 120/60   Experience 47084/10
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9

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

  Class : Marine

    Finesse          (Level 1)
    Tough as nails   (Level 2)
    Brute            (Level 3)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Badass           (Level 2)
    Vampyre          (Level 1)

  Bru->Bru->Bru->Ber->Bad->MVm->TaN->TaN->Bad->Fin->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   red armor [4/4] (132%) (B)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   nothing
    [c] [ Boots      ]   grappling plasteel boots [3/3] (89%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   combat shotgun (7d3) [5/5]

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

    [a] ballistic red armor [4/4] (94%)
    [b] ballistic red armor [4/4] (89%)
    [c] red armor [6/6] (92%) (P)
    [d] nanofiber red armor [2]
    [e] shotgun shell (x22)
    [f] small med-pack
    [g] large med-pack
    [h] large med-pack
    [i] large med-pack
    [j] large med-pack
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] large med-pack
    [m] large med-pack
    [n] large med-pack
    [o] large med-pack
    [p] large med-pack
    [q] phase device
    [r] phase device
    [s] phase device
    [t] envirosuit pack
    [u] Hellwave Pack
    [v] tactical boots [0/0] (100%)

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

    Bullet     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Melee      - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Shrapnel   - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Acid       - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 95% 
    Fire       - internal 60%   torso 85%   feet 85% 
    Plasma     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 

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

    90 former humans
    99 former sergeants
    24 former captains
    96 imps
    43 demons
    114 lost souls
    34 cacodemons
    13 hell knights
    13 barons of hell
    3 arachnotrons
    14 former commandos
    7 pain elementals
    9 revenants
    10 mancubi
    10 arch-viles
    2 bruiser brothers
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 7 he sneaked into the Phobos Lab.
  On level 7 he assembled a tactical boots!
  He broke through the lab.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 12 he assembled a ballistic armor!
  On level 13 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
  On level 14 he found the Hellwave Pack!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 19 he assembled a ballistic armor!
  On level 19 he assembled a grappling boots!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.

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

 berserk! You need to taste blood!
 You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You dodge! Boom! You are
 hit! You need to taste blood!
 You miss the Spider Mastermind. You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You
 are hit! You are hit! You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are
 hit! You are hit! You are hit! You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations!
 You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
 You feel relatively safe now. You're going berserk!

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

 168 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 108 of those were killed.
 4 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 8 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 47 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 3 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 40 killed the bitch and survived.
 4 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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[LuckyDee]

Hot-diggity. You do make it sound easy enough 0_o

I'm gonna ask Kornel to implement a deathmatch mode to see you duke it out with Tormuse :)

[Arron Syaoran]

Are you allowed to have a ranged weapon in your PREPARED slot when you punch an enemy to death? Also, I hate how you can't do this on AoB and ranged whittling becomes possible. Whenever I play a melee build, I like to play Pure Melee. Using Ranged for a Melee Badge is almost as tedious as doing the speedrun badges for me.

[papilio]

Arron: Yes, you can kill enemies by fists with non-empty subweapon slot to get fist-kill credit.
I know that using ranged weapons in melee is kinda cheating and cheesy but I wonder who can do this without some aid of those range weapons on this run.

In Angel of Berserk, from start you have a blue armor (which helps you a lot) and
there is a guaranteed generate of combat knife on beginning, and Large Health globes give berserk effect. Huge benefits.

Also, you CAN also use ranged attack on AoB you can throw combat knife with alt-fire ("F" button).
Throwing (with combat knife and Mjolnir, the rare-unique melee weapon) is the ONLY ranged attack that you can use in AoB.
But damage of throwing knife is stupid so the only usage is to open crates and getting rid of some hazardous barrels.

[Tormuse]

Well, well, well!  I admit that I didn't expect you to be getting Diamond badges already!  :)  Congrats!  :D  (Less than an hour playing time too;  aah, I'm so slow!)  :P

But damage of throwing knife is stupid so the only usage is to open crates...

FYI, you don't have to throw knives to open crates; if you push f while holding a melee weapon, you can do a melee attack to open crates.  That goes for all melee weapons.

[Arron Syaoran]

I've also found you can Punch Crates, but only in TILES Graphics Mode while clicking on the crate with a mouse. Not sure if this works, though.