Ok, so I've completed this N! rocket challenge which arguably is the easiest one. The main obstacles I encountered were obviuos weakness against robots, since I ran master-less and a great scarcity of ammo. While playing on Hard you expect ammo to cause troubles around Io, and it was a hard-learned experience. I will never forget that time when i got to Summoner and had to try and tackle it with my bare hands since all rockets depleted.
N! is much uglier in that regard. Even on Europe I began noticing that often a rocket blast leaves a few HP on reavers which doubles the expenses of precious ammo. That's why I tuned my marine build to max early damage output and took twice Army Surplus in the latter stages to comfort my anxiety of running out of ammo. To take angry MF perk you have to invest one useless into SF, but it is worth it, since it is the only way from all three classes to increase the rocket damage output.
Two ironmans gave plus 40 hp, and I was eager to use every Heal Station to increase health by 5 more. Imagine my surprise when having loaded 3 multitools in another one I discovered that my HP stayed the same 160. Those kind of limits are not told to you, so it may be useful for you to keep that in mind.
This whole build was "bet on myself and don't rely on stuff" but finding an autoloader launcher in CalSec Central was a pleasant surpise. Sure it helped. Asterius breach is useless and annoying to clear on N!, so I won't visit that resort again. Almost died there.
So here I am.
Ghoul, level 13 Marine, defeated
The Summoner against all odds.
He survived for 7092 turns.
The run time was 1h 13m 32s.
He scored 7582 points.
He opposed the NIGHTMARE!
He was an Angel of Carnage!
CALLISTO L3 - Lockdown
CALLISTO L3 -> Mimir Habitat L1
Mimir Habitat L2 - Lockdown
Mimir Habitat L2 -> CalSec Central
CalSec Central - cleared
EUROPA L3 -> Asterius Habitat L1
Asterius Habitat L2 -> Asterius Breach
Asterius Breach - cleared
IO L3 - Lockdown
BEYOND L3 - Exalted Summons
Awards
Rocket Diamond Badge
* Complete AoC on N! master-less
He killed 491 out of 601 enemies.
1 former CRI soldier
1 guardian bot
22 former soldiers
7 reavers
6 hellish soldiers
15 ice fiends
6 corrupted soldiers
24 turrets
28 exalted soldiers
9 exalted fiends
11 armored ravagers
8 plasma ravagers
9 siege ravagers
4 security drones
18 CRI bots
14 CRI marines
10 exalted ravagers
27 fiends
9 fire fiends
46 exalted reavers
4 toxic reavers
1 Summoner
4 former grunts
27 ravagers
14 former guards
13 archreavers
2 former CRI commandos
1 former CRI grunt
3 former heavys
12 corrupted sergeants
21 CalSec sentrys
3 security bots
5 corrupted heavys
18 former commandos
2 military bots
23 security sentrys
2 former sergeants
1 military drone
9 CalSec bots
12 exalted kerbeross
4 former CRI sergeants
11 cryobeross
13 rocket turrets
15 combat drones
14 cryoreavers
Traits
Hellrunner L2
Ironman L2
Tough as Nails L1
Reloader L1
Sustained fire L1
Army Surplus L2
Field Medic
Angry Motherfucker
Incoming!
Trait order
SF->AMf->Rel->Iro->Iro->Arm->Hr->Hr->
Arm->Inc->FMc->TaN
Equipment
Slot #1 : rocket launcher PA
* Calibrated 1
* Focused
Slot #2 : AV3 rocket launcher PBA
* Barbed 3
* Calibrated 1
* Frenzy 8
* Loading holster
* Autoloader
* Focused
Slot #3 : rocket launcher PA
* Longshot 8
* Stabilized 1
Body : AV2 combat armor PB
* Durable
* Carrier
* Tenacity
* Auto-med 6
Head : combat helmet P
* Exit scanner
Utility : AV2 utility AMP
* Auto-med 8
* Metabolic boost
Inventory
rocket (x10)
rocket (x10)
rocket (x10)
rocket (x10)
rocket (x3)
CRI phase kit (x1)
multitool (x2)
stimpack (x3)
small medkit (x3)
small medkit (x2)
large medkit
