Full video (note that sound is buggy with SDL)With Beta 2 of the new version out, there's lots of theorycrafting about balance. One concern right now is Vampyre, which is already very strong, but has indirectly been given a lot of buffs with the Marine now having 20% natural resistance to Plasma, Acid, and Fire, and Ironman increasing Melee, Bullet, and Shrapnel resistances by 10% each level, giving a total of 50% at Ironman x5.
In one try, I successfully completed a standard game on Ultra-Violence with 100% kills as a conqueror and fully won the game, and the game itself was trivial to complete.
Some highlights:
MAJOR BUG: I somehow overlooked this until late into the game, but with Ironman x5 and Berserk, resistances for Melee, Bullet, and Shrapnel went uncapped and actually reached 110%, where I literally was taking zero damage to those types while Berserk. The issue I believe is Ironman doesn't have a cap set. It would also be good to ensure there is a cap for the natural resistances to Plasma, Acid, and Fire.
Minor bug: When picking up Azrael's Scythe, for some reason the game messaged "You don't have an Azrael's Scythe!" I'm not sure if this was because it was the first time picking it up for this player profile, but it looked odd.
The Marine's natural resistances are actually a huge buff not only in general, but for the early bonus levels as well. Hell's Arena was much easier with damage reduction against Cacodemons and Barons, and similar for The Chained Court with Arena Master and more Barons. This actually adds a lot more incentive to play Marine instead of just Scout all the time now and think it's great!
I definitely experienced the increase in Chainsaw generation as I happened to find two of them after The Chained Court.
On top of Vampyre being very powerful, I was also fairly fortunate with gear as I got Red Armor (O), Hellwave Pack (great for clearly Limbo/The Mortuary), and an Assault Shotgun.
I exited Limbo with 200% health, despite not using any healing items or cheesing to heal. I even played aggressively and had no issues.
My kill count was 1,337 lol.
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DoomRL (0.9.9.8 BETA 2) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Icy, level 16 Former Human Corporal Marine,
nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
He survived 2111523 turns and scored 417807 points.
He played for 1 hour, 47 minutes and 50 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 1337 out of 1337 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 11
Levels completed : 11
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Medal of Prejudice Won with 100% kills
Aurora Medallion Found more than 3 uniques in one game
Explorer Badge Visited all generated levels
Conqueror Badge Completed all generated levels
Grim Reaper's Badge Clear the Mortuary/Limbo
Hell Armorer Badge Clear Hell's Armory/Deimos Lab
Hell Champion Medal Clear Hell's Arena
Technician Silver Badge Discover an advanced assembly
Armorer Bronze Badge Discover 10 exotics/uniques
Heroic Bronze Badge Receive 8 unique medals
UAC Bronze Badge Win @<standard@> game on any difficulty
UAC Silver Badge Win @<standard@> game on Hurt Me Plenty
UAC Gold Badge Win @<standard@> game on Ultra-Violence
Veteran Bronze Badge Win game on any difficulty w/100% kills
Veteran Silver Badge Win game on Hurt Me Plenty w/100% kills
Veteran Gold Badge Win game on UV/100% kills
Veteran Platinum Badge Fully win the game on UV
Elite Platinum Badge Win @<standard@> UV game as Conqueror
Lava Bronze Badge Clear the Lava Pits/Mt. Erebus
Reaper Bronze Badge Enter the Mortuary/Limbo
Reaper Silver Badge Enter the Mortuary/Limbo and exit alive
Reaper Gold Badge Complete the Mortuary/Limbo
Arena Silver Badge Complete Hell's Arena on UV
Longinus Gold Badge Complete Unholy Cathedral
Scavenger Bronze Badge Find The Vaults
Scavenger Silver Badge Scavenge The Vaults
Scavenger Gold Badge Clear The Vaults
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 220/110 Experience 124026/16
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +9
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Ironman (Level 5)
Finesse (Level 3)
Tough as nails (Level 1)
Brute (Level 3)
Berserker (Level 1)
Badass (Level 2)
Vampyre (Level 1)
Bru->Bru->Bru->Ber->Bad->MVm->Iro->Iro->Iro->Bad->TaN->Iro->Iro->Fin->Fin->Fin->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Angelic Armor [7/7] (99%)
[b] [ Weapon ] Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
[c] [ Boots ] phaseshift boots [2/4] (34%)
[d] [ Prepared ] shell box (x56)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1] (T1)
[b] assault shotgun (7d3) [6/6] (T1)
[c] red armor [6/6] (100%) (P)
[d] red armor [4] (O)
[e] shotgun shell (x70)
[f] shotgun shell (x70)
[g] shotgun shell (x70)
[h] large med-pack
[i] large med-pack
[j] large med-pack
[k] large med-pack
[l] large med-pack
[m] large med-pack
[n] large med-pack
[o] phase device
[p] homing phase device
[q] envirosuit pack
[r] envirosuit pack
[s] thermonuclear bomb
[t] shell box (x100)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
bullet - internal 110% torso 100% feet 100%
melee - internal 110% torso 100% feet 100%
shrapnel - internal 110% torso 100% feet 100%
acid - internal 80% torso 80% feet 80%
fire - internal 80% torso 80% feet 80%
plasma - internal 80% torso 80% feet 80%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
99 former humans
79 former sergeants
59 former captains
145 imps
113 demons
463 lost souls
39 cacodemons
32 hell knights
67 barons of hell
41 arachnotrons
13 former commandos
45 pain elementals
44 revenants
19 mancubi
38 arch-viles
6 nightmare imps
3 nightmare cacodemons
21 nightmare demons
2 bruiser brothers
2 shamblers
1 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
1 Angel of Death
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
1 John Carmack
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 sneaked into the Phobos Lab.
He broke through the lab.
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 8 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
On level 9 he entered Deimos Lab.
On level 9 he assembled a tactical boots!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he arrived at the Containment Area.
He emerged from the Containment Area victorious!
On level 12 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
On level 13 he found the Hellwave Pack!
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 17 he found the Azrael's Scythe!
He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
On level 19 he found the Necroarmor!
He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter Limbo!
On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
He managed to clear Limbo from evil!
On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
Then at last he found Dis!
He overloaded a nuclear BFG 9000 on level 24!
He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
Then finally in Hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
This is it. This is the lair of all evil! What will you meet here?
Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn!
Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn!
You dodge! The missile hits the lost soul. That hurt! You're going berserk!
You feel like a killing machine! You need to taste blood!
The lost soul misses you. The lost soul hits you. You need to taste blood!
John Carmack reloads his rocket launcher. The lost soul hits you. You need to
taste blood!
You hit John Carmack. The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. You
need to taste blood!
You hit John Carmack. You're going berserk! You need to taste blood!
You hit John Carmack. The lost soul hits you. You need to taste blood!
You hit John Carmack. John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John
Carmack! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now. You're going berserk!
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
2 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
1 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
1 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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