Print

Please login or register.

1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever

Login with username, password and session length

[the_scented_llama_of_doom]

So in my last post (https://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,8314.0.html) I mentioned that I was really close to getting a pretty decent jump in rank. All I needed was a to get a gold/platinum/diamond run. Turns out 'only' needing a diamond is, uh, tricky. I gave up and started trying for that ever elusive Marksman Diamond (I've been trying for ages now) and approximately 100 attempts a few weeks later I was... frustrated. So I started browsing through the forums looking for advice when I found this: https://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,7290.msg64012.html#msg64012 and I thought to myself - that looks like fun, maybe I should try?

--------------------------------------------------------------
 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
--------------------------------------------------------------

 Ilya Bely, level 8 Arch-Vile Lt. Colonel Scout,
 defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
 He survived 12101 turns and scored 258521 points.
 He played for 12 minutes and 31 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 185 out of 857 hellspawn. (21%)
 Who gave him the ticket to Hell, anyway?

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

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 4
  Levels completed : 0

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

  UAC Star (silver cluster)
  Major Icarus Cross
  Compet-n Gold Cross
  Untouchable Badge
  UAC Platinum Badge
  UAC Diamond Badge
  Speedrunner Silver Badge
  Speedrunner Gold Badge

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

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

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

  Health 60/60   Experience 23668/8
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9

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

  Class : Scout

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

  Bru->Bru->Ber->Bru->HR->Iro->HR->MBm->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   chainsaw (4d6)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   steel boots [1/1] (96%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   shotgun (8d3) [1/1] (T1)

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

    [a] pistol (2d4) [1/6]
    [b] green armor [1/1] (9%)
    [c] green armor [1/1] (26%)
    [d] 10mm ammo (x36)
    [e] shotgun shell (x50)
    [f] shotgun shell (x46)
    [g] large med-pack
    [h] large med-pack
    [i] phase device

-- 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 60%   feet 60% 
    Plasma     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 

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

    31 former humans
    17 former sergeants
    16 former captains
    49 imps
    10 demons
    22 lost souls
    5 hell knights
    9 barons of hell
    3 former commandos
    2 pain elementals
    11 arch-viles
    1 nightmare imp
    6 nightmare demons
    1 bruiser brother
    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 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  He fled the Unholy Cathedral seeing no chance to win.
  He left level 18 as soon as possible.
  On level 19 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  He came, he saw, but he left.
  He left level 21 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 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!
 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 need to taste blood!
 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 ---------------------------------------------------

 720 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 665 of those were killed.
 1 of those was killed by something unknown.
 10 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 26 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 18 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 3 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 12 killed the bitch and survived.
 3 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

--------------------------------------------------------------

That was awesome. I had tons of luck (three really nicely timed invulnerability globes) and basically did a kamikaze stair dive the whole way. So I've done it: jumped from Lt. Colonel to Lt. General in one game :-)

[Tormuse]

Hey, you beat my time!  Good job!  :D

[the_scented_llama_of_doom]

Hey, you beat my time!  Good job!  :D

Thanks! I'm kinda proud of the time - seems to be slightly faster than average for a UAC :-) Then again, having seen your run I can confidently say it's faster because I'm not as good a player - I skipped the Cathedral (didn't want my invulnerability to run out) and zerked up at the chained court and just ran for it...

So... While you're here and the forums are quiet: any advice for the Marksman Diamond? I've managed to get a few good runs going but I keep screwing things up in Deimos - I've underestimated the Armory three times now and got flattened by the Revenants in Deimos as well (got out alive but burnt all my medpacks - didn't get much further) so I'm tempted to just skip all special levels. The problem is the Anomaly uses up all my resources. My strategy there is to use not assemble the speedloader pistol but rather use the agility mod to try and get tactical boots. Then I run like hell through the anomaly and hope for the best. It works pretty well but you tend to burn through med packs...

[khiijol]

nice run, the chainsaw stairdives are a lot of fun and can get pretty intense at the end, especially when the clock is ticking

re marksman diamond, i never really got anywhere with that one, but in addition to tormuse's run, there are these two gunkata runs on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEGKushTuBQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlNbEAadq9s

[the_scented_llama_of_doom]

nice run, the chainsaw stairdives are a lot of fun and can get pretty intense at the end, especially when the clock is ticking

Thanks! It's a real adrenaline rush... Tons of fun :-)

re marksman diamond, i never really got anywhere with that one, but in addition to tormuse's run, there are these two gunkata runs on youtube

You might not believe this - but I just got it! Mortem to follow!