Been playing DoomRL for a little while, but wanted to post something substantial for my first mortem and I figured this was decent enough.
I actually ended up spending way longer on this than expected. Theoretically I figured that the lack of space to store ammo and Medpacks would make Marine's Vampyre trait the ideal way to go. Helped along by the massive speed boost that negated the main reason I almost always go scout over marine I figured I'd get in there, wreck some shit and be done before dinner that night. Practically though, it turns out I'm pretty bad when it comes to melee and could never make it past lvl 11, despite three days and many attempts passing.
I was already pretty aware of my lack of skill in the melee department thanks to a few AoB attempts made in the past, so my main strategy was to take a couple of levels in reloader at the start and use the two inventory slots to store shotgun ammo. Through very liberal radar shooting I was able to avoid a lot amount of damage in the early game, but by deimos I just felt that without dodgemaster I was taking way too much damage to sustain, even with Vampyre.
I was ranting to 2birds1stone about this when he suggested trying masterless scout for extreme speed. So, fed up with doing so badly I decided to give it a go and the resulting mortem occurred. I found a nuke on hell 4 and was hoping to find some invuln orbs to let me get the full win, but no such luck :( I have a slightly better grasp of how to melee properly now but I'll probably stick to using the last few levels of Hell as a missile dumping ground. Though one question I do have is about the berserker trait. Does the damage that you take to go berserk get reduced by the added resistances? Because I found a lot of the hits that turned me berserk did nowhere near 1/3 of my health in damage.
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Sandy Peterson,
level 13 Demon Warrant Officer Scout,
defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
He survived 82487 turns and scored 246892 points.
He played for 2 hours, 10 minutes and 29 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 812 out of 813 hellspawn. (99%)
He was a real killing machine...
He was an Archangel of Travel!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 3
Levels completed : 2
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
Lightfoot Silver Badge
Lightfoot Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 39/60 Experience 71236/13
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +9
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Ironman (Level 1)
Finesse (Level 3)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Brute (Level 3)
Juggler (Level 1)
Berserker (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Bru->Bru->Ber->HR->HR->DM->Fin->Fin->Iro->Jug->Bru->Fin->HR->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] red armor [4/4] (99%) (N)
[b] [ Weapon ] Longinus Spear (8d8)
[c] [ Boots ] plasteel boots [2/2] (100%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] combat shotgun (8d3) [1/5] (P1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] shotgun shell (x50)
[b] thermonuclear bomb
-- 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 -----------------------------------------------------
78 former humans
51 former sergeants
40 former captains
153 imps
68 demons
235 lost souls
21 cacodemons
25 hell knights
35 barons of hell
27 arachnotrons
8 former commandos
24 pain elementals
11 revenants
15 mancubi
16 arch-viles
2 bruiser brothers
1 Angel of Death
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
He left the Arena before it got too hot.
On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 14 he assembled a piercing blade!
On level 14 he found the Medical Powerarmor!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 17 he found the Longinus Spear!
He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
Then at last he found Dis!
On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
Boom! You dodge! Boom! You dodge! Boom! You dodge! Boom! You are hit!
You are hit! You are hit! Boom! You are hit! You are hit! Boom!
You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
You miss the Spider Mastermind.
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You feel like
a killing machine! You're 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 dies. Congratulations!
You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
125 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
110 of those were killed.
1 of those was killed by something unknown.
And 10 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
4 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
3 killed the bitch and survived.
1 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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