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[N!/24%/YAVP] UAC Diamond
« on: January 16, 2015, 16:18 »

First N! win ever and first diamond badge (Br. General now). Posting this to thank Tormuse for the video he made on UAC Diamond last October. I'm still struggling with UV so I thought N! was way out of my league, but it seemed doable judging by Tormuse's run and ~15 attempts later, here I am. Oddly enough I think going for UAC Diamond rather than a simple N! win without the speedrun condition made it easier to get in the right mindset for N!, the few times I tried before this I was too stuck in my slow HMP/UV ways.

It helped that the run was very lucky, I found a p-mod for my armour soon after the Anomaly and appropriately placed armour shards all game long. In Hell I came across several invulnerability globes (thanks in part to hastily selecting the wrong trait and getting Int 1). On one level I looked at the map, only saw one flight of stairs. Obviously I overlooked the other one because I ended up in the Mortuary, which I escaped before invulnerability ran out. Afterwards I found another globe and spawned close to the stairs on the remaing levels.

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Nils Bloodaxe,
 level 8 Cacodemon Colonel Scout,
 defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
 He survived 10982 turns and scored 280404 points.
 He played for 12 minutes and 43 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 212 out of 859 hellspawn. (24%)
 Who gave him the ticket to Hell, anyway?

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

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 5
  Levels completed : 0

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

  Major Icarus Cross
  Compet-n Gold Cross
  UAC Gold Badge
  UAC Platinum Badge
  UAC Diamond Badge

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

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

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

  Health 92/50   Experience 27328/8
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9

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

  Class : Scout

    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Brute            (Level 3)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Intuition        (Level 1)
    Blademaster      (Level 1)

  Bru->Bru->Ber->HR->Int->Bru->HR->MBm->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   red armor [6/6] (99%) (P)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   chainsaw (4d6)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   nothing
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   shotgun (8d3) [0/1]

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

    [a] pistol (2d4) [6/6]
    [b] green armor [1/1] (2%)
    [c] green armor [1/1] (100%)
    [d] blue armor [1/2] (43%)
    [e] combat knife (2d5)
    [f] 10mm ammo (x27)
    [g] shotgun shell (x46)
    [h] large med-pack
    [i] large med-pack
    [j] large med-pack
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] large med-pack
    [m] technical mod pack
    [n] technical mod pack
    [o] steel boots [1/1] (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 60% 
    Fire       - internal 60%   torso 85%   feet 60% 
    Plasma     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 

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

    29 former humans
    19 former sergeants
    10 former captains
    23 imps
    22 demons
    37 lost souls
    15 cacodemons
    8 hell knights
    4 barons of hell
    12 arachnotrons
    3 former commandos
    3 pain elementals
    5 revenants
    1 mancubus
    3 arch-viles
    4 nightmare imps
    2 nightmare cacodemons
    8 nightmare demons
    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 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 11 he ran for his life from acid!
  On level 11 he arrived at the Containment Area.
  Not knowing what to do, he left.
  He sounded the alarm on level 12!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  He came, he saw, but he left.
  He left level 20 as soon as possible.
  On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
  He managed to escape from the Mortuary!
  He left level 22 as soon as possible.
  On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
  He decided it was too hot there.
  Then at last he found Dis!
  On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.

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

 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're going
 berserk! You need to taste blood!
 The Spider Mastermind hits you. That hurt! You' going berserk! 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 hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations!
 You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
 Next! You're going berserk!

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

 318 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 287 of those were killed.
 1 of those was killed by something unknown.
 And 11 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 19 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 15 killed the bitch and survived.
 2 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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thelaptop: Helped you use mortem tags.
« Last Edit: January 16, 2015, 17:03 by thelaptop »
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Re: [N!/24%/YAVP] UAC Diamond
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2015, 17:05 »

Hi and welcome to the forums!  I've taken the liberty to help you use mortem tags instead of code tags for the mortem.  =)

Also, excellent win on N!.  I've not played on N! on a long time myself, despite being around long.  I feel somewhat ashamed... >.<
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Re: [N!/24%/YAVP] UAC Diamond
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2015, 06:50 »



Congrats! UAC Diamond is indeed not difficult, as N! difficulty doubles powerup durations and healing effects.

If you are interested in general complete play in Nightmare!, see this:

http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,7424.msg64641/topicseen.html#msg64641
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Re: [N!/24%/YAVP] UAC Diamond
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2015, 14:45 »

Thanks for the link. I'm afraid YouTube says the video isn't available, though. Could be related to German copyright if there's music in the video?
Which Diamond badge would be easiest to get next (besides Technician)? I was thinking maybe doing UV Conqueror (gets me a platinum badge too) and Azrael's Scything Vaults for Scavenger Diamond.
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Re: [N!/24%/YAVP] UAC Diamond
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2015, 17:40 »

Nice one!  :)  Yay!  I inspired someone!  :D  (Better than my time too!)  :o

Whaddya say, thelaptop?  Could this inspire you to give N! a try too?  ;)

As for the easiest Diamond badges...  I hear Gatekeeper is a popular one;  it needs a lucky phase device or invulnerability for the ambush at Phobos Anomaly, but after that, it's just a matter of getting Dodgemaster and dodging Cyberdemon rockets.  (Which takes some careful precision, but at least it isn't luck-based)

I'm fond of the shotgun, so Shotgunnery is a fun one to get; just camp some Sergeant corpses to keep your ammo supply up and/or keep your kills up.

I'm also fond of Vampyre, so Strongman can be fun too.  (although the early game is tough and tedious, making sure that your hands are empty whenever something dies)

Probably Daredevil would be pretty doable too;  the beginning is extra tough, but the game is short, so you can just keep restarting until you get a lucky start.
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Re: [N!/24%/YAVP] UAC Diamond
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2015, 19:54 »

Thanks for the link. I'm afraid YouTube says the video isn't available, though. Could be related to German copyright if there's music in the video?
Which Diamond badge would be easiest to get next (besides Technician)? I was thinking maybe doing UV Conqueror (gets me a platinum badge too) and Azrael's Scything Vaults for Scavenger Diamond.


Oh, it contains a lot of songs.. as I thought original DoomRL BGMs are a little bit boring.

I think the difficulty of getting Diamonds can be classified as:


easy - Gatekeeper, Scavenger, Longinus, UAC, Technician
normal - Strongman, Berserker, Veteran, Elite, Reaper, Marksman, Shottyman, Lightfoot, Hunter, Centurial, Daredevil
hard - Quartermaster, Masochist
ultrahard - Demonic, Eagerness, Inquisitor, Destroyer, Everyman, Arena

not 'hard' in technical means, but require dragonslayer wielding - Armorer, Heroic

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Re: [N!/24%/YAVP] UAC Diamond
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2015, 05:21 »

Thanks for the advice, I'll be trying Gatekeeper and Scavenger next then.
Got Marksman Diamond (AoMr + AoOC) playing like a pacifist by getting an invuln globe before Mortuary in order to blow up Dis with the nuclear BFG.
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Re: [N!/24%/YAVP] UAC Diamond
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2015, 07:16 »

Sounds like it's worthy of another mortem thread.  :)
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Re: [N!/24%/YAVP] UAC Diamond
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2015, 08:09 »

IDK, it felt awfully cheap :p  But here it is anyway: http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,7437.0.html
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