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[M|96%|Win] YAFVP - shottyman path
Zarin:
(Edit - put <mortem> tags where they belong)
I couldn't remember whether it was this game or another one where it crashed in the Arena after the second wave was done, managed to create a save, and then I had to battle through Arena again with 3 small med-packs and two 100% green armors gone. Judging by level 3 appearing twice I think it's this one. Imagine my disgust...
Anyway, the mortem: (the one previous win mentioned at the bottom was save-scummed; this one was clean)
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DoomRL (v.0.9.8.5) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Arkady, level 10 Cacodemon Corporal, defeated the Cyberdemon
on level 25 of the Phobos base.
He survived 140241 turns and scored 66842 points.
He didn't like it too rough.
He killed 542 out of 566 hellspawn. (96%)
He held his right to remain violent.
He found the Phobos Arena.
He stormed the Chained Court.
He ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
He fought on Hell's Arena.
He became a champion of Hell's Arena!
He witnessed the City of Skulls.
He faced The Wall.
He wandered into the Unholy Cathedral.
He was caught in the Mortuary!
And he managed to clear it!
-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 64/80 Experience 44407/10
ToHit +3 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Ironman (Level 3)
Tough as nails (Level 3)
Reloader (Level 2)
Eagle Eye (Level 1)
Shottyman (Level 1)
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Angelic Armor [3/6] (40%)
[b] [ Weapon ] double shotgun (6d3)x2 [0/2]
[c] [ Boots ] protective boots [4/4] (98%)
[d] [ Prepared ] advanced rocket launcher (4d5) [1/1]
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] red armor [4/4] (100%)
[b] red armor [4/4] (100%)
[c] red armor [4/4] (100%)
[d] chainsaw (4d6)
[e] advanced plasma rifle (1d9)x8 [40/40]
[f] advanced BFG 9000 (8d9) [20/100]
[g] shotgun shell (x50)
[h] shotgun shell (x15)
[i] rocket (x10)
[j] power cell (x50)
[k] power cell (x50)
[l] power cell (x50)
[m] thermonuclear bomb
[n] large med-pack
[o] phase device
[p] phase device
[q] large med-pack
[r] large med-pack
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
63 former humans
60 former sergeants
24 former captains
32 imps
47 demons
69 lost souls
50 cacodemons
20 barons of hell
1 Cyberdemon
14 hell knights
37 arachnotrons
2 former commandos
16 pain elementals
5 arch-viles
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the suface of Phobos.
On level 2 he battled through the complex.
On level 3 he battled through the complex.
On level 3 he battled through the complex.
Afterwards he fought on Hell's Arena.
On level 4 he battled through the complex.
He then stormed the Chained Court.
On level 5 he battled through the complex.
On level 6 he found a hellish city.
On level 7 he battled through the complex.
On level 8 he battled through the complex.
On level 9 he found hellish caves.
Afterwards he witnessed the Wall.
On level 10 he battled through the complex.
On level 11 he battled through the complex.
On level 12 he battled through the complex.
On level 13 he battled through the complex.
On level 14 he battled through a maze of rooms.
He then ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 15 he found hellish caves.
Then he found the City of Skulls.
On level 16 he found a hellish city.
Then he invaded the Unholy Cathedral.
On level 17 he found hellish caves.
On level 18 he battled through a maze of rooms.
On level 19 he found hellish caves.
On level 20 he battled through a maze of rooms.
On level 21 he found hellish caves.
On level 22 he found hellish caves.
He was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
On level 23 he found a hellish city.
On level 24 he battled through the complex.
Then at last he found the Phobos Arena.
There he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
Before him 209 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
195 of those were killed.
7 of those were killed by something unknown.
And 6 couldn't handle the stress and commited a stupid suicide.
Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
Is he immortal? 1 souls claim to have killed him...
1 killed the bastard and survived.
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I found double shotgun relatively early so I decided "why not Shottyman?" Shotgun ammo was plentiful, so I decided to keep 10-mm ammo to a minimum and use the chaingun only until I get Shottyman, then switch to DSG almost exclusively. I made a resolution to stay away from the cheesy EE(2)/Int(3) path, and instead went IM(2)/TaN/Rel(2)/Shotty/TaN(2)/EE/IM(3)/TaN(3). The single EE was to help hit with RL when there was a need.
I totally skipped Unholy Cathedral, but the chainsaw did save my ass once when I ran out of SG ammo - somewhere deep in the dungeon, in hellish caves with Arachnotrons. I had to go toe-to-toe with the last one. Fortunately, I picked enough ammo AFTER clearing that level, so on I went again.
My first guaranteed BFG was destroyed by Baron's acid ball, but Shottyman and DSG make City of Skulls a clean run, so the two BFGs down there were intact, as all the powercells.
I "was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary" (no, really - I wondered "where can THIS red stairway lead?" and ... saved on top of it. By the way, I noticed that Wiki doesn't have entry text for Mortuary, so here it is (note: double "is" between "the floor" and "covered" was really there):
The smell of blood! Can this be real?? The floor is
is covered by blood, and there are corpses everywhere!
Suddenly with a wail, arch-viles appear!
The left side of Mortuary was cleared with BFG shots, but then I ran out of ammo and had to switch to my advanced RL. Fortunately, the bulk of enemies was already down, so I emerged victorious. I guess I killed at least a couple of Arch-Viles by splash damage from the RL. Anyway, the booty was well worth the effort.
The encounter with Cyberdemon was uneventful: use up all advanced BFG shots, switch to DSG while closing to nearly melee range - on HNTR Cyberdemon misses moving target a lot - kill. I used only one large med-pack in the process. Mortuary was much more adrenalin-pumping, IMHO.
On to HMP!
Regards,
Arkady.
TFoN:
Savescumming really is a bad thing to do, is looked down upon by most of us and isn't worth it at all if you really want to get better.
Other than that, great game, and I'm looking forward to seeing more successful outcomes. Unfortunatly, it seems many of the newer players here are advancing rather slowly, so we don't get to read many good mortems from fresh posters :) (at that, good luck to all!)
Also, Arachs have terrible melee damage. They actually tend to be worth killing with a CS even if you do have ammo. Just don't push yourself to do this from a bad spot and get fried on the way :P
Styro:
Congrats on the win! And with Shottyman!
I love Shottyman games, but I'm just not that good at it and run out of ammo pretty quickly. The chaingun and dual pistols are my best friends. :)
Zarin:
--- Quote from: TFoN on March 06, 2007, 10:21 ---Savescumming really is a bad thing to do, is looked down upon by most of us and isn't worth it at all if you really want to get better.
Other than that, great game...
--- End quote ---
Please note that I have not save scummed on the reported game - it's just that one of my previous savescummed games ended with a win, which I never even considered "real". I came to DoomRL from ADoM, where savescumming is also very much frowned upon.
However, savescumming is a good way to get a feel for the game before trying the actual win.
Anyway, it feels really nice to know that I can win this game (on HNTR, but still) without cheating. Now I'm torn between two goals - making level 10 on AoMr/HNTR and winning on HMP. So far all my attempts in either one end after the first Arch-Vile or even earlier :(
TFoN:
I haven't been playing DoomRL much recently, so I may remember wrong, but it doesn't make sense to me that you would encounter an AV by dlvl 10 on HNTR.
Regardless, what traits have you been taking for AoMr?
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