So, a while back,
in February, Sereg challenged me to get Lightfoot Angelic without using melee to aid boss fights. (And he renewed that challenge again
in June) :) It took me a while, but I finally did it! Yay! :D
I did it with a Sharpshooter build to maximize ammo efficiency, since that's what worked for me
when I got Lightfoot Diamond before. The run was aided immensely by a nano mod from Hell's Armory which I eventually turned into a Nanomachic Pistol which permanently put an end to my ammo worries and made the rest of the game fairly simple. This makes it less of an effective demonstration than I wanted to, since Sereg insists that you need to weaken Cybie and SMM with melee attacks to save ammo, but I maintain that if I hadn't gotten the nano mod, it would've taken 57 bullets to kill Cybie and a similar number to kill the SMM and I had been entering practically every level with a full stack of bullets, (or in many cases an ammochain) so it should have been doable.
As is usual for me these days, I recorded it; here are the videos:
Part 1 Featuring: Hell's Arena, Chained Court (Plus!), Phobos Lab, Phobos Anomaly
Part 2 Featuring: Hell's Armory, Spider's Lair, Tower of Babel
Part 3 Featuring: Dis
I never intended to try for Conqueror, of course, since Unholy Cathedral would be an impossibility. I considered getting Explorer, but skipped Abyssal Plains because the prospect of being trapped in the ambush, surrounded by Pain Elementals, being able to shoot only one at a time, was very unappealing, and I just kind of didn't bother with special levels after that. (Except Spider's Lair where I almost died before giving up and fleeing for my life)
I made a point of taking things *very* slowly from beginning to end... (well not quite to end; I sped up later on, once I got the Nanomachine) :P I took the time to be careful every step of the way and took lots and lots of breaks so I wouldn't get bored or tired or do anything reckless. (It ended up being almost 7 solid hours of gameplay!) :o There were still some *very* harrowing battles, most notably in Phobos Lab and Phobos Anomaly where in both of which I got reduced below 10% health, without med packs, and surrounded by Nightmare Demons. Not gonna lie; I did not expect to survive those situations, but somehow, I pulled it off and it made my victory all the more epic! :D
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 16 Apostle Chaos Mjr General Technician,
defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
He survived 240048 turns and scored 750758 points.
He played for 1 day, 7 hours, 38 minutes and 43 seconds.
He opposed the Nightmare!
He killed 1501 out of 1613 hellspawn. (93%)
He held his right to remain violent.
He was an Archangel of Travel!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 6
Levels completed : 4
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Mastermind's Brain
UAC Star (gold cluster)
Hell Armorer Badge
Hell Champion Medal
Lightfoot Angelic Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 156/80 Experience 120454/16
ToHit Ranged +6 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Technician
Ironman (Level 3)
Son of a gun (Level 5)
Eagle Eye (Level 3)
Intuition (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Sharpshooter (Level 1)
SoG->SoG->EE->SoG->EE->EE->MSs->Int->Int->WK->WK->SoG->Iro->Iro->SoG->Iro->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] tactical armor [2/2] (100%) (P)
[b] [ Weapon ] nanomachic pistol (2d4)
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] energy pistol (2d5) [0/8] (B1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] large med-pack
[b] large med-pack
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
None
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
249 former humans
216 former sergeants
80 former captains
293 imps
58 demons
193 lost souls
60 cacodemons
21 hell knights
53 barons of hell
103 arachnotrons
33 former commandos
20 pain elementals
14 revenants
30 mancubi
19 arch-viles
4 nightmare imps
5 nightmare cacodemons
44 nightmare demons
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
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 7 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.
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he arrived at the Containment Area.
Not knowing what to do, he left.
On level 13 he assembled a nanomanufacture ammo!
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
He fled the Lair, knowing how to fear Arachnotrons!
On level 15 he assembled a energy pistol!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 18 he assembled a tactical armor!
On level 23 he stumbled into a complex full of mancubi!
Then at last he found Dis!
On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies.
Congratulations! You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
1579 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
1244 of those were killed.
8 of those were killed by something unknown.
164 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 55 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
108 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
5 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
73 killed the bitch and survived.
30 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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