So I wanted to get the CRI and Jovisec Diamond badges for winning on Nightmare difficulty masterless as an explorer, and I decided to try playing as a technician, since I have the fewest victories with that class. Ultimately, I failed, I'd say mostly due to trying to complete the Dante Inferno special level, even though (as I found out from Kornel after the fact) it wasn't actually necessary to do so. (Oops!)
The run was carried by finding "Vengeance," a unique hunter rifle with a significant damage boost, plus incremental critical chance boosts from consecutive shots without reloading, which was later helped by armour with "loading feed," so I didn't have to manually reload it, so it permanently kept the critical bonus maxed out, consistently doing quadruple+ damage with each shot. (I was slightly disappointed to discover that there's a cap on how high the critical bonus can go; I half expected it to keep climbing into the thousands of percent, until I could one-shot anything; oh well...) :P
I recorded the whole run, which you can watch at the following links.
Part 1 - CallistoPart 2 - EuropaPart 3 - IoPart 4 - DanteThe recordings mostly speak for themselves, so I can't think what else to comment on. The only other really notable decision I made along the way was getting rid of the Ravager's Heart relic at the end of Io. I have no idea whether or not that was the right decision, but considering that I ran out of health items at the end, maybe it was a mistake? Who knows?
Tormuse, level 16 Technician,
killed on Dante Inferno by a toxic reaver.
He survived for 11555 turns.
The run time was 5h 40m 50s.
World seed was 6449.
He scored 6626 points.
He opposed the NIGHTMARE!
Death log
* your action, you're at 5 health
* your action, you're at 5 health
* toxic reaver deals 8 damage to you
* health down to -3, you die
CALLISTO L2 - Volatile Storage
Callisto Hub -> Valhalla Terminal L1
Valhalla Terminal L2 - Low Power
Valhalla Terminal L2 -> Valhalla Command
Valhalla Command - found Vengeance
Valhalla Command - Cleared!
EUROPA L3 -> Europa Dig Zone L1
Europa Dig Zone L3 - Low Power
Europa Dig Zone L3 -> Tyre Outpost
IO L3 - Volatile Storage
Io Nexus -> Io Black Site L1
Io Black Site L1 - The Hunt
Io Black Site L2 -> Black Site Vaults
Dante Station L2 - The Hunt
Awards
CRI Star (bronze cluster) (+50)
* 25+ kills without taking damage
Explorer Ribbon (+100)
* Visited all encountered special levels
He killed 863 out of 1033 enemies.
34 former grunts 3 toxic fiends
1 former CRI grunt 14 CalSec sentries
1 former grenadier 12 security sentries
1 corrupted grenadier 2 military sentries
6 former CRI grenadiers 16 CalSec bots
19 former soldiers 8 security bots
24 corrupted soldiers 2 guardian bots
15 hellish soldiers 16 reavers
1 former CRI soldier 26 cryoreavers
12 former sergeants 22 toxic reavers
1 corrupted sergeant 24 archreavers
1 hellish sergeant 9 cyberi
2 former CRI sergeants 9 cryoberi
18 former guards 9 toxiberi
6 former commandoes 16 medusae
17 corrupted commandoes 11 archmedusae
16 hellish commandoes 19 ravagers
7 former CRI commandoes 24 armored ravagers
3 former heavies 4 siege ravagers
2 corrupted heavies 17 plasma ravagers
3 hellish heavies 22 CRI marines
2 security drones 10 CRI bots
2 combat drones 13 guardians
52 fiends 9 sentinels
26 fire fiends 3 warlocks
15 ice fiends 5 archwarlocks
Traits
Whizkid L3
Cover Master L3
Son of a Gun L3
Hoarder L2
Headshot L2
Scavenger L1
Grenadier L1
Trait order
SoG->SoG->SoG->Cov->Cov->Hor->Hsh->Whk->
Whk->Whk->Gre->Scv->Hor->Cov->Hsh
Equipment
Slot #1 : Vengeance
* Scope
Slot #2 : AV2 9mm SMG +B2
* Barbed 1
* Critical 40
* Auto-calibrated
* Speed-loader
* Frenzy 3
Slot #3 : AV2 12ga auto-shotgun +BA
* Autoloader
* Specialist
* Calibrated 1
* Auto-calibrating 74%
* Critical 40
Slot #4 : CRI BFT9K B
* Swap Harness
* BFT
Body : AV2 basic armor PB2
* Loading feed
* Durable
* Carrier
* Compartments
* Padded
Head : AV2 tactical visor PB
* Crit Enhancer 25
* Health Monitor
* Durable
* Aim assist
Utility : AV2 utility AMP
* Metabolic boost
* Auto-med 10
Relic : - NONE -
Permanents
Relic Corruption
Inventory
energy cell (x100)
energy cell (x57)
12ga shell (x50)
12ga shell (x16)
.44 ammo (x50)
.44 ammo (x50)
.44 ammo (x2)
9mm ammo (x16)
gas grenade (x2)
EMP grenade (x1)
smoke grenade (x2)
multitool (x2)
