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[U|100%|AoMr|YAAM] Marksman Platinum + Heroic Gold (Actual video this time)
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Sereg:
Finally finished Marksman Platinum, after way too many attempts. I was screwing around playing a Marine, and... Bullet Dance is actually pretty damn powerful. The RNG was kind, giving me the GCB before Babel, and early on in hell a Combat Pistol, which I was later able to mod into an Energy Combat Pistol, so by the end of the game I was dual wielding two of the most powerful handguns in the game and putting out scary amounts of both Plasma and Bullet damage.
With this build, I actually went for SoG3 before starting SoB, even though it meant slowing down my mastery, because of lessons learned from ZicherCZ and confirmed via play experience afterwards. I also ended up maxing it by the end of the game, so between those two godlike pistols, SoG5, SoB2, and the extra shots per trigger pull from MBD, the Mastermind was never able to stop flinching. I had equipped a gothic armor I found to keep me safe from its attacks, but it never had a chance to make any. I had to cover to reload once, but was able to step back out and finish the fight safely, earning both the Mastermind's Brain, and finally the Grammaton Cleric Cross, my 24th unique medal, which also meant I finished up Heroic Gold.
This run was also streamed and appears to have been successfully recorded(still don't know what's going on with my Elite Platinum video), so as soon as it's processed, I'll make links available. I had to switch locations mid-run, as I was playing outside(really nice weather for this time of year here) but the glare from the sun was making it very difficult to see certain things(especially enemies tracked by the Tracking Map but not directly visible), so it'll be in two parts. Part 1 includes a few earlier attempts, and this run up to the Anomaly, and Part 2 is Deimos and Hell.
Edit: Looks like YouTube merged them, so it's all available in a single video here. Commentary, advice, or feedback of any kind on the run is welcome either here or in the video comments section.
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Nathan, level 14 Arch-Vile General Marine,
defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
He survived 462410 turns and scored 289274 points.
He played for 2 hours, 3 minutes and 33 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 856 out of 856 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
He was an Angel of Marksmanship!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 3
Levels completed : 3
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Grammaton Cleric Cross
Mastermind's Brain
Medal of Prejudice
UAC Star (silver cluster)
Hell Armorer Badge
Hell Champion Medal
Heroic Gold Badge
Marksman Platinum Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 60/60 Experience 87775/14
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +0 ToDmg Ranged +2 ToDmg Melee +2
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Finesse (Level 2)
Son of a bitch (Level 2)
Son of a gun (Level 5)
Dualgunner (Level 1)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Triggerhappy (Level 1)
Bullet Dance (Level 1)
SoG->SoG->DG->SoG->SoB->SoB->TH->MBD->Fin->Fin->WK->WK->SoG->SoG->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] gothic armor [6/6] (300%) (B)
[b] [ Weapon ] energy combat pistol (3d4) [5/15]
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] Grammaton Cleric Beretta (2d6) [8/18]
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] nanofiber red armor [2]
[b] 10mm ammo (x44)
[c] 10mm ammo (x100)
[d] 10mm ammo (x100)
[e] 10mm ammo (x100)
[f] 10mm ammo (x100)
[g] power cell (x50)
[h] power cell (x50)
[i] power cell (x46)
[j] large med-pack
[k] large med-pack
[l] homing phase device
[m] envirosuit pack
[n] envirosuit pack
[o] envirosuit pack
[p] thermonuclear bomb
[q] blood skull
[r] plasteel boots [4/4] (100%) (APT)
[s] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
[t] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 0% torso 50% feet 0%
Melee - internal 0% torso 50% feet 0%
Shrapnel - internal 0% torso 50% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
115 former humans
92 former sergeants
47 former captains
180 imps
71 demons
107 lost souls
43 cacodemons
36 hell knights
39 barons of hell
10 arachnotrons
13 former commandos
11 pain elementals
25 revenants
16 mancubi
27 arch-viles
7 elite former humans
5 elite former sergeants
5 elite former captains
2 elite former commandos
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
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 as a champion!
On level 7 he marched into the Military Base.
He purified his fellow comrades.
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
On level 9 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 9 he found the Cybernetic Armor!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 12 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
On level 12 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 17 he found the Berserker Armor!
On level 19 he assembled a energy pistol!
On level 22 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
Then at last he found Dis!
On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You see : a Spider Mastermind (severely wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! The
missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! The
missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : a Spider Mastermind (mortally wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! The
missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! The
missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | floor | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider
Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! The missile hits the Spider
Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations! You defeated the
Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
1172 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
1017 of those were killed.
6 of those were killed by something unknown.
58 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 66 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
25 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
22 killed the bitch and survived.
2 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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ZicherCZ:
Congatulations on the win! Some time earlier you said that you hate pistols - I hope you found some love for them :).
Good to see that you had no ammo trouble - two such powerful weapons combined with SoG5 can cause knockback more often than not, and this can easily lead the extra bullets from MBD to miss and go to waste.
One question though: How exactly did you expect Gothic Armor to help against Spidey? 6 protection is a fair enough reason, and with 300% durability it would last a while, but Spidey fires plasma, which cuts protection in half, and Gothic Armor has no resistance to plasma. Or perhaps you were not lucky with good armor finds (energy-shielded vest, for example)?
Sereg:
Hmm, I had thought the Mastermind used a chaingun or something? That, at least, is what the sound and animation suggests, so I had always assumed it was bullet damage, but maybe she uses something closer to the shambler bolt?
In any case, that's still probably the most effective armor I had left, though in the future maybe I'll save a blue or something.
As far as pistols go - still not the biggest fan, but like anything else, they become very powerful(and fun!) with the right traits and mods/assemblies/uniques. I just don't think I'll ever go into a non-AoMr game with a pistol build in mind - I'd rather go with melee, shotguns, or rapidfire.
Ammo was a concern, but I always managed to find enough that it never graduated to the level of actual problem. Ammochains and Batteries helped, and later in the run I was carrying around a minigun I found to hold extra 10mm ammo, so I was able to keep enough on hand not to have a problem. I also didn't make the Energy Combat Pistol assembly until very late in the game, so I was using mostly 10mm and no cells for the vast majority of the run. If knockback was causing bullets to miss, I didn't notice, because things got to the edge of my sight radius, then got kicked back out of it either dead, or at least halfway there so they died on their next appearance. I believe someone once used the words "'delete everything' powerful" in a pistol mortem, and although they were using a MSs build, the words ring very true.
Tormuse:
Well, I think it's safe to say that Bullet Dance is pretty much everyone's least favourite pistol mastery, so it's pretty cool that you made it work for this run. I look forward to checking out your video! :)
Unfortunately, that will have to wait for a bit because I've been having computer troubles for the last few days and I can't even get it to turn on at the moment. :| I'll share my comments on the video when I can, though.
As for the Mastermind's weapon, I'm guessing that the Devteam gave it a plasma weapon to make it more challenging? Personally, I think it would make more sense for it to have a weapon more like a shotgun, (maybe like the Jackhammer or even a rapid-fire double shotgun?) That would be more like the weapon that the Mastermind uses in actual Doom. (And I think if it made a shotgun sound, it would make it a lot more menacing, like a final boss should be) but even if they don't change that, I think they should at least change the in-game description, because right now, it explicitly says that it doesn't use a plasma weapon and instead has a "super chaingun."
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