For no particular reason, I've felt like playing this game lately. I played a few games with each of the characters, but my first win in this session was with the Marine.
I've been hard on the Marine in the past, criticizing that character class for the fact that it has penalties to all the most useful upgrades and bonuses to all the least useful. I still feel that the weapon upgrades don't do enough to justify the fact that they're the most expensive, but the fact that the Marine starts with more weapons and ammo did end up serving a valuable purpose in this game, because it made me bold enough to enter the Main tower right at the start and get some useful equipment that less tough character classes would not have been able to, so maybe I've misjudged the Marine; he just lends himself to a different playing style, that's all. :)
Towards the end, I found a flamethrower, a weapon I've never really used before, and it made short work of the Queen and all her Praetorian followers. The Praetorians, which are tough enough to survive a Krak grenade impact, died from one shot from the flamethrower! (Well, the initial impact would bring them down to "heavily wounded," and then standing in the resulting fireball would finish them off) Actually, I just kind of threw flames all over the place, covering the top floor with napalm; it was pretty brutal. Nothing could stand up to me, and nothing could get close to me. The flamethrower doesn't hold much ammo, (and the ammo is pretty rare) but it makes up for that by being pretty devastating to pretty much everything.
-- AliensRL 0.8.2 Post Mortem ----------------------------------------
Name : Tormuse
Class : Marine
Rank : Veteran
Result : killed the queen and escaped
Score : 16900
Total experience : 11800
Experience left : 440
Game length : 266391 turns
Security keycards : 8
Military keys : 2
Armor : Plasteel armor [3]
Sidearm : sawed-off shotgun (ready)
Primary : M41A pulse rifle (99/99)
Heavy : HK MG4 machine gun (80/80)
Medpacks: 3
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-- Skills ------------------------------------------------------------
Sidearms : advanced
Light weapons : advanced
Heavy weapons : basic
Technical : basic
Medicine : advanced
Fitness : advanced
Perception : basic
-- Ammunition --------------------------------------------------------
9mm ammo : 229/400
5.56 ammo : 260/400
.44 ammo : 150/150
M309 ammo : 198/500
M250 ammo : 100/500
60mm gren. : 40/40
12g. shells : 177/200
napalm cartrid: 11/20
frag grenade : 5/5
inc grenade : 4/5
krak grenade : 4/5
-- Other items -------------------------------------------------------
3 * medpack
5 * stimpack
4 * armor pack
8 * security key
5 * painkiller pack
10 * multi-tool
2 * military key
1 * military medpack
1 * sentry turret kit
-- Kills (773) -------------------------------------------------------
155 juveniles
84 warriors
29 elites
16 praetorians
134 scavengers
109 hunters
38 stalkers
130 drones
65 workers
12 overseers
1 queen
-- Messages ----------------------------------------------------------
You use a medpack. You feel much
better!
You reload your weapon.
You activate the elevator. Entering
Civilian Tower, level 3...
The hunter shreds you!
You barely hit the hunter! You
criticaly hit the hunter! The hunter
dies.
You reload your weapon.
You prepare your primary weapon!
You activate the elevator. Entering
Civilian Tower, level 2...
You activate the elevator. Entering
Civilian Tower, level 1...
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Topic: [0.8.2|Ma|YAVP] Flamethrower is pretty devastating (Read 10824 times)