Took a break from this game about a year-and-a-half ago, and on buying a new laptop, decided I'd fire it up again. My original plan was to replicate my old Running Shottyman UV Conq run, but I'd forgotten that you don't start with Ultra-Violence unlocked.
I figured I may as well use the lowered difficulty to practice melee, seeing as I never really took to the build despite it being obviously powerful. This worked out... quite nicely.
My memory of the run is already pretty blurry (melee runs all feel much the same), but there were a few memorable moments.
I almost took the Cyberdemon damageless, but he got a lucky shot through my high dodge chance (whatever, I was relying on luck anyway), at which point I just charged him down to finish it off quickly.
I got careless in The Vaults and had my fireproof armour destroyed by a Revenant, which forced me back into fairly conservative play. Sometime post-UC I started underestimating HMP enemies, and was also starting to lose concentration, despite having taken breaks for Doctor Who and dinner.
The Mortuary was actually surprisingly easy this time around; I'm not sure if this is a side effect of HMP or of melee being OP (or maybe I just had a good spawn), but I killed two 'Viles within the first few turns, popped a few blood skulls, hit things and killed more 'Viles then won. The real problem this run was actually the Lava Pits (which, funnily enough, I've never actually taken before). I kinda fucked up a little and totally forgot to use my enviro suit, so I burnt a lot of health packs, then towards the end of the level decided to take the Lava Elemental with my Missile Launcher, rather than in melee. Given how large these two screw-ups were, I'm not totally sure how hard the level actually is, but it definitely strikes me as being harder than Mt. Erebus, given the total lack of cover.
JC was actually blind luck. I'd made a lot of bad plays at this point in the run, and was totally out of medkits. I emptied a lot of missiles into him early on, but his spawns were starting to get too much for me, and I was unable to close the gap to use my Scythe; I was about to accept my defeat when he kindly teleported right next to me. Silly JC. (Also, nuking SM while invuln apparently doesn't earn you brain? Huh, makes sense I suppose.)
Vampyre is brilliant, though, I came out of the Abyssal Plains with more health than I entered thanks to the Lost Soul chamber. 10/10 would suck blood again. I figure I'm going to devote the next few days to gaining my old badges back (looking forward to UV ArchAoLT, favourite challenge), then start working my way towards getting a Nightmare! standard win (which I never did manage, despite a few N! challenge wins).
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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AAA, level 14 Human Private Marine,
nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
He survived 948657 turns and scored 243572 points.
He played for 6 hours, 8 minutes and 30 seconds.
He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.
He killed 981 out of 981 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 11
Levels completed : 11
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Medal of Prejudice
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
UAC Star (silver cluster)
Aurora Medallion
Explorer Badge
Conqueror Badge
Grim Reaper's Badge
Hell Armorer Badge
Hell Champion Medal
Technician Bronze Badge
Armorer Bronze Badge
Heroic Bronze Badge
Gatekeeper Bronze Badge
UAC Bronze Badge
UAC Silver Badge
Veteran Bronze Badge
Veteran Silver Badge
Lava Bronze Badge
Reaper Bronze Badge
Reaper Silver Badge
Reaper Gold Badge
Brick Bronze Badge
Skull Bronze Badge
Arena Bronze Badge
Longinus Gold Badge
Arachno Bronze Badge
Scavenger Bronze Badge
Scavenger Silver Badge
Scavenger Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 81/80 Experience 89601/14
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +10 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +15
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Ironman (Level 2)
Finesse (Level 2)
Brute (Level 5)
Juggler (Level 1)
Berserker (Level 1)
Badass (Level 2)
Vampyre (Level 1)
Bru->Bru->Ber->Bru->Bad->MVm->Bad->Fin->Fin->Jug->Iro->Bru->Bru->Iro->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] blue armor [2] (O)
[b] [ Weapon ] missile launcher (6d7) [3/4] (P1)
[c] [ Boots ] Enviroboots [0]
[d] [ Prepared ] Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] assault shotgun (7d3) [6/6]
[b] nuclear BFG 9000 (9d6) [1/40] (P1)
[c] Angelic Armor [3/7] (43%)
[d] shotgun shell (x70)
[e] shotgun shell (x33)
[f] rocket (x14)
[g] rocket (x14)
[h] rocket (x3)
[i] homing phase device
[j] homing phase device
[k] power mod pack
-- 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 100%
Fire - internal 60% torso 60% feet 100%
Plasma - internal 60% torso 80% feet 60%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
84 former humans
74 former sergeants
38 former captains
104 imps
103 demons
294 lost souls
39 cacodemons
50 hell knights
54 barons of hell
42 arachnotrons
9 former commandos
20 pain elementals
15 revenants
26 mancubi
19 arch-viles
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
1 Angel of Death
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.
On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 6 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.
On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
On level 9 he assembled a fireproof armor!
On level 9 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he witnessed the Wall.
He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
On level 12 he romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
He slaughtered the beasts living there.
On level 13 he assembled a tactical armor!
On level 14 he found the Trigun!
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
Level 15 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 17 he found the Azrael's Scythe!
He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
On level 19 he found the Frag Shotgun!
He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
On level 20 he assembled a fireproof armor!
He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
On level 22 he found the Enviroboots!
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 --------------------------------------------------
You see : a hell knight (mortally wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the hell knight. You hear the scream of a freed soul! You
hear the scream of a freed soul! You hear the scream of a freed soul! You
hear the scream of a freed soul! You hear the scream of a freed soul!
Unknown command. Press "?" for help.
You reload the missile launcher.
You reload the missile launcher. You dodge! You hear the scream of a freed
soul! You hear the scream of a freed soul! You hear the scream of a freed
soul! You hear the scream of a freed soul!
You reload the missile launcher. John Carmack reloads his rocket launcher.
You hit John Carmack. You are hit! You dodge! The missile hits the baron of
hell.
You hit John Carmack. John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John
Carmack! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now. You feel like a killing machine! You're going
berserk!
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
He's the first brave soul to have ventured into Hell...
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