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Somebody said that while Master Traits was a good idea, it kind of shoehorns people in to one of 7 builds. I'll admit, I can't remember that last time I did a run without getting a master trait.

So I was thinking, and I figured that master traits in itself was not the problem, the problem was that there were only master traits for 1-2 builds per weapon. For example, if you want to play Shotgun Active, you're in a spot of bother because Shotgun Passive has a master trait that blows DM SM out of the water.

For those not in the know, Active is "Dodge a lot", Passive is "Have lots of armour/HP" and Tactical is "Don't let enemies see you"

So one solution is to make master traits more general and apply to numerous builds at once but I'm not sure that this is possible. A solution I perfer would be to make more master traits, until every build is possible from Rapidfire Active to Shotgun Tactical.

For example:
Run 'n' gun: DM TH, allows movement during chain-firing, but the game will only fire at your last target or a random one if you have no last target. (Turns off TaN)
Anticipation: DM SM, enemy accuracy always behaves as though you're at max range.
Hard as a Rock: TaN 3 Wiz, gives 1 extra armour if you spend the last move firing a weapon, 2 while chainfiring. (Turns off SoB)
Fireangel: Change it to something more accessable, like HR 2 Fin 2 Iro 2.

What they block off isn't really important unless I've put it in brackets.

This covers pretty much every possible shotgun/rapidfire build, and puts us at a nice even 10 master traits.

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0.9.9 / Title Convention additions for 0.9.9
« on: October 12, 2009, 01:31 »
Now that 0.9.9 is imminent (4 days or so, people) and everyone feeling particularly gluttonous for spoilers already knows about the new challenges AND master traits, I suggest this addendum to the post-mortem title convention:

AoMC - Angel of Max Carnage, duh
AoSg - Angel of Shotgunnery, duh

However, now that master traits basically DEFINE the build you have chosen and you can only get one, I also suggest adding this to the convention:

MBm: Master Trait Blademaster
MVp: Master Trait Vampyre
MAD: Master Trait Army of the Dead
MFa: Master Trait Fireangel
MGK: Master Trait Gun Kata
MAc: Master Trait Ammochain
MCe: Master Trait Cateye
NMT: No master trait.

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0.9.9 / [M|AoMC|100%|Win|0.9.9] Cateye master trait!
« on: October 10, 2009, 01:18 »
--------------------------------------------------------------
 DoomRL (v.0.9.9) roguelike post-mortem character dump
--------------------------------------------------------------

 Thomas, level 10 Mancubus Colonel, defeated the Cyberdemon
 on level 25 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 96369 turns and scored 97589 points.
 He played for 1 hour, 32 minutes and 58 seconds.
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 549 out of 549 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
 He was an Angel of Max Carnage!


 He saved himself once.

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

  Medal of Prejudice
  UAC Star (bronze cluster)
  Grim Reaper's Badge
  Hell Champion Medal
  Destroyer Silver Badge

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

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  ###########################################################

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

  Health 42/50   Experience 48918/10
  ToHit Ranged +16  ToHit Melee +16  ToDmg Ranged +2  ToDmg Melee +2

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

    Finesse          (Level 1)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 2)
    Eagle Eye        (Level 2)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Intuition        (Level 2)
    Triggerhappy     (Level 1)
    Cateye           (Level 1)

  SoB->SoB->TH->EE->EE->Int->MCe->Fin->Jug->Int->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   modified red armor [4/4] (77%) (B)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   modified plasma rifle (1d8)x6 [2/40] (P1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   modified protective boots [2/2] (68%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   modified BFG 9000 (10d8) [10/130] (B1)

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

    [a] advanced rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]
    [b] chaingun (1d6)x4 [40/40]
    [c] 10mm ammo (x125)
    [d] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [e] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [f] rocket (x14)
    [g] rocket (x14)
    [h] rocket (x5)
    [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] thermonuclear bomb

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

    98 former humans
    82 former sergeants
    27 former captains
    70 imps
    60 demons
    49 lost souls
    54 cacodemons
    36 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    29 hell knights
    7 arachnotrons
    5 former commandos
    4 pain elementals
    10 arch-viles
    15 mancubi
    2 revenants

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 3 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 8 he witnessed the Wall.
  He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
  On level 11 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 19 he found the Assault Shotgun!
  On level 22 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
  On level 22 he found the Angelic Armor!
  He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 Fire -- Choose target...
   The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket
 launcher.
 You swap your weapons instantly!
 The Cyberdemon fires! You dodge!
 Fire -- Choose target...
   The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The
 missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The
 missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile
 hits the Cyberdemon.
 Fire -- Choose target...
   The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The
 missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The
 missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The
 Cyberdemon dies. You feel relatively safe now. Congratulations!

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 Before him 188 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 158 of those were killed.
 3 of those were killed by something unknown.
 2 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 12 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 13 souls claim to have killed him...
 2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 11 killed the bastard and survived.

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

Guess what, cateye is now a master trait. Requires Triggerhappy and Intuition, turns off TaN and Reloader.

It kicks neverending amounts of ass on AoMC and AoMs. (If you've forgotten, AoMC makes all damage rolls return maximum damage, for both you and enemies)

Also yeah, I'm playing 0.9.9. Jealous? We just need to make sure it's got no bugs.

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Requests For Features / New weapon class - Exotic Weapons
« on: September 27, 2009, 07:07 »
In the beta, uniques have undergone a few changes. For starters, there's a lot more of them. I think we managed to double the amount, but don't quote me on that. Also, the uniques that aren't too outlandish (eg. Minigun counts, trigun and nuclear BFG probably wouldn't) can now be modded.

I suggest adding a new class of weapon (I like "Exotic Weapons") that are slightly better than common weapons, on par with advanced weapons. They start with more specialised stats than their common counterparts and can only be modded once no matter how much whizkid you have, much like the "semi-uniques" of 0.9.9 RC1.

Many uniques of 0.9.9 RC1 could be turned in to exotic weapons, like the minigun and plasma shotgun. Both are barely better than their common counterparts, they're just more specialised. Plasma shotgun is the shotgun for people that aren't doing a shotgun run, minigun is the chaingun for people that either have too much ammo or too much EE.

Exotic weapons are weirdly (You could even say exotically) coloured as to stand out, but do not make a level message. They're more common than uniques and advanced weapons, you'll see about 6-8 per run (You might get 2 of the same exotic weapon, but it's highly unlikely). Unlike uniques, they have a minimum level, so you wont get exotic plasma weaponry until after level 10.


This is to both cut down on the amount of uniques (and possibly make room for EVEN MORE) and give players a bit more variety in their runs. I don't think uniques are doing the job as effectively as they could right now, because you only get 1-2 and it's either "Hey this is exactly the one I wanted" or "Oh, I'll pick that up to tally it then immediately drop it". Exotic weapons are good enough where they'll make you consider changing your trait build a little bit, or if they're totally useless to you, maybe one of the next 4 will be better.

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--------------------------------------------------------------
 DoomRL (v.0.9.9 RC 1) roguelike post-mortem character dump
--------------------------------------------------------------

 Thomas, level 19 Mancubus Captain, killed by something...
 on level 100 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 156335 turns and scored 532436 points.
 He played for 3 hours, 2 minutes and 57 seconds.*
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 1243 out of 1669 hellspawn. (74%)
 He was an Angel of 100!


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

  UAC Star (bronze cluster)
  Centurial Gold Badge

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

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  ###########################################################

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

  Health 84/80   Experience 311696/19
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +3  ToDmg Melee +12

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

    Ironman          (Level 3)
    Tough as nails   (Level 3)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 3)
    Son of a gun     (Level 1)**
    Reloader         (Level 3)
    Brute            (Level 3)
    Badass           (Level 1)
    Shottyman        (Level 1)
    Army of the Dead (Level 1)

  TaN->TaN->Bad->Rel->Rel->SM->MAD->TaN->Rel->Iro->Iro->Iro->SoB->SoB->SoB->Bru->Bru->Bru->SoG->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing***
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Dragonslayer (9d9)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   nothing***
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   nothing***

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

    [a] red armor [4/4] (100%)
    [b] large med-pack
    [c] large med-pack
    [d] large med-pack
    [e] large med-pack
    [f] large med-pack
    [g] large med-pack
    [h] large med-pack
    [i] large med-pack
    [j] large med-pack
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] phase device
    [m] phase device

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

    74 former humans
    137 former sergeants
    109 former captains
    78 imps
    28 demons
    63 lost souls
    58 cacodemons
    161 barons of hell
    41 hell knights
    126 arachnotrons
    4 former commandos
    3 pain elementals
    112 arch-viles
    111 mancubi
    138 revenants

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  Entering level 2 he was almost dead...
  On level 13 he found the Missile Launcher!
  On level 16 he found the Phaseshift Boots!
  On level 20 he found the Minigun!
  On level 32 he found the Plasma Shotgun!
  On level 36 he found the Baron Armor!
  On level 43 he found the Dragonslayer!
  He nuked level 46!
  He nuked level 62!
  On level 69 he found the Gothic Armor!
  He nuked level 77!
  He nuked level 79!
  On level 100 he finally was killed by something...

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You are hit! You are hit! You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You hit the mancubus. The mancubus dies. You feel relatively safe now.****
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood! There are stairs leading downward here.
 You did it! You completed 100 levels of DoomRL! You're the champion! Press

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 Before him 142 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 117 of those were killed.
 1 of those was killed by something unknown.
 2 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 12 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 10 souls claim to have killed him...
 1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 9 killed the bastard and survived.

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

* This is why this is the first and last time I'm playing Ao100.
** MAD turned off every other trait, bar triggerhappy and berserker (both worthless to someone with the dragonslayer)
*** These slots mean nothing to someone with TaN 3, Iro 3 and permanent berserk!
**** I didn't clear levels 91-99, just felt like clearing level 100 for the sake of it.

It's actually quite easy to pick up the dragonslayer, you'll wonder how you never figured it out before once you pick it up.

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Requests For Features / Spicing up Ao100
« on: September 19, 2009, 21:14 »
I mentioned on the IRC (irc.quakenet.org:6667-6669, #chaosforge) that the beta badges I was going to skip would probably be the centurial ones because I find Ao100 tedious. This led to a bit of a discussion about how we could make Ao100 more of a unique and exciting experience. We came up with a few ideas...

Add in the special levels, but more spread out. Near the end (Level 70+ or so) you get Ao100-only special levels, which are incredibly challenging.

Add in Ao100-only special levels. My favourite was the mini-mortuary, a vile spin on classic arenas.

Make Ao100-only enemies. Someone suggested (possibly as a joke) AoD caves, where there's a whole bunch of demons/lost souls... and the AoD. You can shoot at him, of course, but that doesn't stop him from being twice as fast as a lost soul and having as much HP as the cyberdemon.

So what are your suggestions for it? Make them as excruciatingly difficult as you like, Ao100 is supposed to be the hardest challenge. Besides, you're dealing with level 16 marines with 5+ uniques here, they need a challenge.

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0.9.9 / [UV|100%|Win|AoSg|Beta] Master of Shotgunnery
« on: September 19, 2009, 09:54 »
--------------------------------------------------------------
 DoomRL (v.0.9.9 BETA 4) roguelike post-mortem character dump
--------------------------------------------------------------

 Thomas, level 13 Mancubus Warrant Officer*, defeated the Cyberdemon
 on level 25 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 79044 turns and scored 256124 points.
 He played for 1 hour, 33 minutes and 33 seconds.**
 He was a man of Ultra-Violence!

 He killed 908 out of 908 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
 He was an Angel of Shotgunnery!


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

  Medal of Prejudice ***
  UAC Star (silver cluster)
  Veteran Gold Badge
  Shottymans Silver Badge
  Shottymans Gold Badge

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

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

  Health 19/80   Experience 74269/13
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +0  ToDmg Ranged +2  ToDmg Melee +2

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

    Ironman          (Level 3)
    Tough as nails   (Level 3)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 2) ****
    Reloader         (Level 2)
    Badass           (Level 1)
    Shottyman        (Level 1)
    Army of the Dead (Level 1)

  TaN->TaN->Bad->Rel->Rel->SM->MAD->TaN->Iro->Iro->Iro->SoB->SoB->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   advanced combat shotgun (10d3) [3/5] (P2T2)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   nothing
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   nothing *5

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

    [a] modified double shotgun (8d3)x3 [0/2] (T1)
    [b] shotgun shell (x29)
    [c] shotgun shell (x50)
    [d] shotgun shell (x50)
    [e] shotgun shell (x50)
    [f] shotgun shell (x50)
    [g] small med-pack
    [h] phase device
    [i] homing phase device

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

    63 former humans
    79 former sergeants
    31 former captains
    154 imps
    86 demons
    269 lost souls
    21 cacodemons
    40 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    31 hell knights
    45 arachnotrons
    11 former commandos
    25 pain elementals
    15 arch-viles
    15 mancubi
    22 revenants

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 23 he found the Trigun!
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. *5
 You use a small med-pack. You feel healed. The Cyberdemon hits you.
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. *5
 You use a small med-pack. You feel healed. The Cyberdemon hits you.
 You use a phase device. You feel yanked in an non-existing direction! The
 Cyberdemon fires!
 You swap your weapon. The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 Fire -- Choose target...
   The Cyberdemon fires! You are hit!
 You pump a shell into the combat shotgun chamber.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 
 You start running!
 Fire -- Choose target...
   The Cyberdemon dies. You feel relatively safe now. Congratulations!

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 Before him 98 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 79 of those were killed.
 1 of those was killed by something unknown.
 2 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 10 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 6 souls claim to have killed him...
 6 killed the bastard and survived.

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

* Yeah, we have a lot more ranks now.
** I had the most interesting 30-minute-long discussion halfway through my run.
*** In order:
Kill 100%
Kill over 500 (I think)
Kill 100% on UV
Win AoSg
Win AoSg on UV
**** Well what else was I going to get, huh?
*5 I had 10 large HP packs, I must've been punching him for 50 turns straight (from "Almost Dead"). The cyberdemon's HP bonus on UV is huge!

Also note that I found a pain elemental cave on level 23. I always thought they were nightmare! only.

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0.9.9 / [AoB|77%|M|StdWin|Beta Teaser] Strongman Platinum Badge
« on: September 15, 2009, 04:32 »
--------------------------------------------------------------
 DoomRL (v.0.9.9 BETA 4) roguelike post-mortem character dump
--------------------------------------------------------------

 Thomas, level 8 Mancubus Sergeant, defeated the Cyberdemon
 on level 25 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 50625 turns and scored 64347 points.
 He played for 30 minutes and 33 seconds.
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 376 out of 483 hellspawn. (77%)
 He was an Angel of Berserk!


 He saved himself once.

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

  Malicious Knives Cross
  Berserkers Gold Badge
  Strongman Platinum Badge

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

  ###########################################################
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health 69/60   Experience 22416/8
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +4  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +6

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

    Ironman          (Level 1)
    Tough as nails   (Level 2)
    Brute            (Level 2)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Badass           (Level 1)
    Vampyre          (Level 1)

  TaN->TaN->Bru->Bru->Ber->Bad->MVm->Iro->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   red armor [1/4] (17%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   modified combat knife (3d5)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   modified plasteel boots [4/4] (100%) (T)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   modified combat knife (2d5)

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

    [a] combat knife (2d5)
    [b] combat knife (2d5)
    [c] large med-pack
    [d] large med-pack
    [e] phase device
    [f] phase device
    [g] phase device
    [h] envirosuit pack
    [i] envirosuit pack
    [j] thermonuclear bomb

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

    83 former humans
    50 former sergeants
    13 former captains
    53 imps
    32 demons
    110 lost souls
    7 cacodemons
    5 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    5 hell knights
    2 arachnotrons
    3 former commandos
    3 pain elementals
    3 arch-viles
    1 mancubus
    5 revenants

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 14 he found the Cybernetic Armor!
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. The Cyberdemon hits you.
 Your red armor is damaged!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. You feel like a killing machine! You're going
 berserk! The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. You're going berserk! You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. Your red armor is
 damaged! You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. You need to taste blood!
 You miss the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon dies. You feel relatively safe

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 Before him 72 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 62 of those were killed.
 1 of those was killed by something unknown.
 And 7 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 2 souls claim to have killed him...
 2 killed the bastard and survived.

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

Beta 4, among other cool new things, introduces badges. There's about 90 of them, split in to 5 ranks:
Bronze: Anyone can get these, really.
Silver: Reasonably easy. Usually "Beat X challenge on any difficulty"
Gold: Somewhat difficult. Kornel said "The average player should strive to get all golds"
Platinum: Very very hard. Kornel said "The average player will only get a few platinums, in his 'field of expertise'"
Diamond: Absolutely god damn crazy, like "Beat Ao100 in an hour or less... on nightmare."

So in this I get a medal and 2 badges.
Malicious Knives: I dunno. Either kill lots of stuff with knives or just kill the cyberdemon with a knife.
Gold Berserker: Beat AoB on any difficulty.
Platinum Strongman: Beat AoB. You aren't allowed any one-of-a-kind weapons, like the LS, uniques or even the chainsaw!

And that's your beta teaser for today.

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Requests For Features / [Balance] The BFG - Too Awesome to Use
« on: September 06, 2009, 02:36 »
I've noticed that in my runs, I never use the BFG unless I'm fighting the cyberdemon (and even then, I'm usually not playing rapidfire so I might use the LS or a shotgun). In my most recent Nightmare! shotgun game, I decided that maybe my shotguns weren't going to be enough for this level and that I had cells to spare, so I might as well fire off a couple of hundred cells and just take out the cyberdemon with my shotgun.

So I go up to the nearest 10 Revenant + 2 Vile pack (I had Iro 3, TaN 3 and red armour) and start shooting. I realise about 2 BFG shots in that I had accomplished little other than getting them all to 30% HP and destroying my reloading cover. With no phase devices, I died shortly thereafter.

It was a brutal reminder (I was on level 24) of why I never use the BFG, because it MIGHT kill everything but it DEFINITELY destroys all of your cover.

I suggest making the chance for a BFG to destroy walls MUCH lower, but keep the item destruction rate about the same as it is now.

Or change it so that the BFG has 2 explosion radiuses, one for full enemy damage and high wall destruction chance, one for half enemy damage and no wall destruction chance. The first explosion would be as large as a normal rocket, the second would be anything that you can see, no matter how far away it is.

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Alrighty, I've basically finished everything about my DoomRL mod except for actually making it. So I got some questions about the features I'm not sure if I'll have to program in or if it's already there.

1. If you give an enemy a "move <direction>" command, but the player is in the way, does it automatically melee attack the player?
2. Is it possible to make a special level that has white stairs and red stairs? (i.e allow the player to choose if he wants to do a series of special levels or just the first one)
3. Is it possible to check if the player has any HP packs, and destroy one or more if they do? (Hahaha)
4. Is it possible to destroy all items on the level? The walls must remain unharmed though.
5. Do items give you points on use? If so, is it possible to change the point value of an INDIVIDUAL item without changing the rest of that particular item type?
6. Does the game distinguish between dodging something with a sidestep and just having the enemy miss? Is it possible to keep a tally of "sidestep dodges" and "lucky dodges"?
7. Is it possible to make a special level with 2 different possible layouts? Is it possible to bias the RNG towards one of the possibilities?
8. Is it possible to change the messages the game gives you in the top two rows depending on difficulty? (Okay that's pretty obvious but whatever)
9. Is it possible to give an enemy "Move to this co-ordinate" command?
10. Does the game track when an enemy refuses to move because it was blocked by a wall/lava/whatever? (If it doesn't, that'd be a good AI upgrade for the current getting-trapped-by-lava-while-you-shoot-them-from-far-away AI)

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0.9.9 / [M|85%|AoB|Win|BetaVer] Quite an interesting run.
« on: August 29, 2009, 00:41 »
--------------------------------------------------------------
 DoomRL (v.0.9.9 BETA 3) roguelike post-mortem character dump
--------------------------------------------------------------

 Thomas, level 9 Mancubus Captain, defeated the Cyberdemon
 on level 25 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 68756 turns and scored 81522 points.
 He played for 51 minutes and 33 seconds.*
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 425 out of 498 hellspawn. (85%)
 He was an Angel of Berserk!


 He saved himself once.

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

  Aurora Medallion**
  Grim Reaper's Badge**

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

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  ###########################################################

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

  Health 61/80   Experience 35816/9
  ToHit +0  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +6

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

    Ironman          (Level 3)
    Tough as nails   (Level 2)
    Brute            (Level 2)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Badass           (Level 1)

  Bru->Bru->Ber->TaN->Iro->Iro->Iro->TaN->Bad-> ***

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Longinus Spear (8d8)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   nothing
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   Butcher's Cleaver (5d6)

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

    [a] modified red armor [4/4] (100%) (T)
    [b] Angelic Armor [1/6] (6%)
    [c] large med-pack
    [d] large med-pack
    [e] phase device
    [f] phase device
    [g] phase device
    [h] homing phase device
    [i] homing phase device
    [j] bulk mod

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

    69 former humans
    48 former sergeants
    19 former captains
    63 imps
    46 demons
    71 lost souls
    32 cacodemons
    10 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    16 hell knights
    29 arachnotrons ****
    7 former commandos
    1 Angel of Death
    2 pain elementals
    9 arch-viles ****
    1 mancubus
    1 revenant

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 11 he found the Phaseshift Armor! *5
  On level 12 he found the Jackhammer! *5
  On level 16 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 16 he found the Longinus Spear! *5
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 20 he found the Butcher's Cleaver! *5
  On level 22 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
  On level 22 he found the Angelic Armor! *5
  He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil! *6
  On level 23 he entered the Lava Pits.
  On level 23 he found the Malek's Armor! *5
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely! *7
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 You miss the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. Your Malek's Armor is
 damaged!
 You miss the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon misses you.
 You miss the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. Your Malek's Armor is
 damaged!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you.
 You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed. The Cyberdemon hits you.
 Your Malek's Armor is completely destroyed!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you.
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you.
 You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed. The Cyberdemon hits you.
 You hit the Cyberdemon. You feel like a killing machine! You're going
 berserk! The Cyberdemon hits you. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need
 to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon dies. You feel relatively safe

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 Before him 33 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 26 of those were killed.
 1 of those was killed by something unknown.
 And 4 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 2 souls claim to have killed him...
 2 killed the bastard and survived.

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

*I wasn't really dawdling.
** Grim Reaper means I killed the AoD. Aurora Medallion is probably for clearing the mort.
*** No master trait. I keep forgetting that badass requires TaN, not Ironman.
**** 29 Arachs and 9 Viles, not bad.
*5 Hahah 4 uniques and the two artefacts in one run
*6 The mortuary isn't that bad as long as you berserk very quickly. Or go in berserked.
*7 Lava damage, it's so unavoidable and game-breaking that a melee character can beat the lava pits with 8 HP packs to spare.

Not pictured: Malek's Armour (Aparantly the cyberdemon can shoot it faster than it can regenerate, who'da thunk it!) and the 6 HP packs I used while fighting him.

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Discussion / The (un)official DoomRL strategy guide!
« on: August 09, 2009, 02:15 »
The (un)official DoomRL strategy guide! It will teach you how to shoot things until they die, and how to avoid being shot until you die!

Version History:
Code: [Select]
v1.6
Reworded some stuff with a vengeance.
Added all the new stuff from 0.9.9.3 and some of the stuff I missed in 0.9.9.2.
Added a couple of new strategies to the weapons section, and made my AoHu strategy 'fuller' (now that I've actually won AoHu and all)
Added some notes for AoRA (because aparantly my guide hasn't had any since I started it. Who knew?)
Gave finesse a more positive opinion, now that I've realised Finesse 2 and a Combat Shotgun is about as handy as Ammochain and a Plasma Rifle.
Put in at least 3 instances of praise for the tactical shotgun, stopping only barely short of telling people playing AoMr to get it.

v1.5
Reworded some stuff again!
Added some common assemblies and how they might be useful under each weapon.
Added a strategy-of-sorts for Angel of Humanity.
Added some stuff about the new bits and bobs regarding special levels.
Removed the parts where I said "no end-game enemies have melee attacks any more" because that is now false!

v1.4
Added a section on how to play UV, the most fun you can have while getting angry at level two for not giving you the berserk pack you need.
Removed the section on uniques. Just read the wiki, it's got stats and comments that I don't feel like interpreting for all 50 of them.
Moved the general survival section closer to the top, it makes a bit more sense up there.
Added some stuff on hellgate, under the levels heading.
Removed all references to "Advanced Weapons". They no longer exist!
Changed up some of the wording to make some things clearer.
Altered some of the strategies a bit.

v1.3
Added all the new features from 0.9.9 in to the guide. Also a new section on Nightmare! survival.

v1.2
New and exciting shotgun strategies! Are your shotguns really giving the demons all they've got?
Also, some new stuff from the 0.9.9 beta.

v1.1
Added all the new features from 0.9.8.10. Also a new section on general survival.

v1.0
Exactly 10000 words of PURE ADVICE.


If you have word 2007, choose the .docx
If you have word 2003 or older, choose the .doc
If you're one of those people that don't have microsoft office then you may be able to read this instead: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TxsIqMdr_ePPMbyB0EE6fhyEZkFxS8heVS4UkCngdQA/edit?hl=en&authkey=CKDG8rUG

(txt version forever on hold because reformatting this thing is a huge pain in the ass)

NEWEST VERSION: v1.6

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Pre-0.9.9 / [H|100%|Win|Beta4] Shotguns yaaaay
« on: July 14, 2009, 03:18 »
--------------------------------------------------------------
 DoomRL (v.0.9.8.11 BETA 4) roguelike post-mortem character dump
--------------------------------------------------------------

 Thomas, level 12 Cacodemon General, defeated the Cyberdemon
 on level 25 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 111225* turns and scored 167162 points.
 He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.

 He killed 743 out of 743 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!


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

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

  Health 9/80**   Experience 60498/12
  ToHit +0  ToDmg Ranged +1  ToDmg Melee +1

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

    Ironman          (Level 3)
    Tough as nails   (Level 3)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 1)
    Reloader         (Level 2)
    Badass           (Level 1)
    Shottyman        (Level 1)
    Army of the Dead (Level 1)***

  TaN->TaN->Bad->Rel->Rel->SM->TaN->MAD->Iro->Iro->Iro->SoB->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   red armor [2/4] (26%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   modified double shotgun (9d3)x3 [0/2] (D1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   plasteel boots [4/4] (88%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   modified BFG 9000 (10d8) [130/130] (M1)****

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

    [a] modified BFG 9000 (10d8) [100/130] (M1)****
    [b] Assault Shotgun (8d4) [6/6]
    [c] shotgun shell (x33)
    [d] shotgun shell (x50)
    [e] shotgun shell (x50)
    [f] shotgun shell (x50)

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

    62 former humans
    94 former sergeants
    38 former captains
    136 imps
    36 demons
    107 lost souls
    31 cacodemons
    27 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    30 hell knights
    45 arachnotrons*****
    10 former commandos
    8 pain elementals
    4 arch-viles
    10 mancubi
    10 revenants

-- 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 6 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 9 he found Hell's Armory.
  On level 9 he found the Assault Shotgun!
  On level 11 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 12 he found the Revenant's Launcher!
  On level 15 he found the City of Skulls.
  He wiped out the City of Skulls.
  On level 18 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
  He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass! *6
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 You don't have a chaingun!
 You prepare the double shotgun!
 The Cyberdemon fires! You are hit! Your red armor is damaged!
 Fire -- Choose target...
   The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 
 The Cyberdemon fires! Boom! The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 
 Fire -- Choose target...
   The Cyberdemon hits you. *7
 The Cyberdemon fires! Boom!
 Fire -- Choose target...
   The Cyberdemon dies. You feel relatively safe now. Congratulations!

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 Before him 402 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 357 of those were killed.
 6 of those were killed by something unknown.
 4 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 20 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 15 souls claim to have killed him...
 2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 12 killed the bastard and survived.
 1 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.

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* Highest turncount ever. Assault shotgun shenanigans take a lot of keypresses if you want to get every kill.
** Hahahahahahaha
*** A new master trait, if you haven't seen Malek's run. It heavily increases shotgun damage (It's very noticeable at long ranges) but closes off hellrunner AND finesse.
**** Never fired once, I assure you. If I didn't fire it when I was on 9 HP and staring down a cyberdemon, I probably wouldn't fire it anywhere else anyway.
***** Killing these with a shotgun is unbearable. You need assault shotgun shenanigans just to take 20% or less damage.
*6 Why did I go here? No-one knows! It's the mystery of the run.
*7 Cybie's melee attack is incredibly powerful and almost never misses. So basically when I was right next to him on 9 HP, his chance of killing me was 99% unless I ran the hell away. I dodged the rocket he fired instead, somewhat luckily.

Hurr hurr I won a shotgun game on hard.

ASSAULT SHOTGUN SHENANIGANS:
Its reach is longer than your sight radius, allowing you to costantly fire it at someone beyond your sight radius. You should always roll above 10 damage, so they get knocked back every turn.

With acid and napalm barrels, pushing an arachnotron in to melty floor is hilariously easy.

It can be fired around corners, just like the chaingun. Except it never misses.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?11ty4yyxnho

My sixth or so attempt at a speedrun, first that actually won. I make a ludicrous amount of mistakes that end up costing me lots and lots of time, so it's not really that fast yet. I clocked in at about 27:40, from choosing my first trait to the big explosion at the end.

My big mistakes are:
Going to hell's arena (But it probably saved a bit of time thanks to the rocket launcher, so I might go here in my "Real" speedrun.)
Picking up FAR too much 10mm ammo
Going to hell's armory
Only skipping a few levels, even when I had enough equipment to win the rest of the game.
Over-valuing experience. All the time I spent farming monsters was basically wasted.

Oh, and the mortem... I guess.
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 DoomRL (v.0.9.8.10) roguelike post-mortem character dump
--------------------------------------------------------------

 Thomas, level 8 Cacodemon General, defeated the Cyberdemon
 on level 25 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 49861 turns and scored 69333 points.
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 341 out of 451 hellspawn. (75%)


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

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

  Health 30/60   Experience 26736/8
  ToHit +2  ToDmg Ranged +3  ToDmg Melee +3

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

    Ironman        (Level 1)
    Tough as nails (Level 3)
    Son of a bitch (Level 3)
    Eagle Eye      (Level 1)

  SoB->SoB->SoB->EE->TaN->Iro->TaN->TaN->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   plasma rifle (1d8)x8 [0/40]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   nothing
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   advanced rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1] (R1)

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

    [a] chaingun (1d6)x5 [50/50]
    [b] 10mm ammo (x65)
    [c] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [d] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [e] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [f] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [g] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [h] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [i] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [j] rocket (x10)
    [k] rocket (x10)
    [l] rocket (x9)
    [m] power cell (x46)
    [n] large med-pack
    [o] phase device
    [p] weapon magazine mod

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

    71 former humans
    36 former sergeants
    29 former captains
    76 imps
    50 demons
    34 lost souls
    18 cacodemons
    1 baron of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    6 hell knights
    7 arachnotrons
    2 former commandos
    4 arch-viles
    4 mancubi
    2 revenants

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 3 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 6 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 9 he found Hell's Armory.
  On level 12 he witnessed the Wall.
  Not knowing what to do, he left.
  On level 19 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
  He fled the Lair, knowing how to fear Arachnotrons!
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the
 Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon fires! You are hit! Your blue armor is
 completely destroyed!
 Fire -- Choose target... The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile
 hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile
 hits the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 Fire -- Choose target... The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile
 hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile
 hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the
 Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon.
 Fire -- Choose target... The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile
 hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile
 hits the Cyberdemon.
 Fire -- Choose target... The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile
 hits the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon dies. Congratulations! You

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 Before him 394 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 350 of those were killed.
 5 of those were killed by something unknown.
 4 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 20 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 15 souls claim to have killed him...
 2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 12 killed the bastard and survived.
 1 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.

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

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And I'm gonna brainstorm ideas for a little while to make DoomRL feel more like DooM and DooM 2 now that it's fresh in my mind.

It's been suggested so much before, but ministuns.
My idea for it is that chainguns make them stall for 0.1 seconds per hit, shotguns make them lose all progress unless you barely nick them (So they have to start the delay over again) and the chainsaw completely paralyses them, unless they're a boss or Arch-Vile.

A debriefing screen for each level? Gives kill count, item count and secret count (Levers pulled). Also how long the level took you in in-game seconds and minutes.

Have a small chance for the room with stairs to be specially made:
  • Only one doorway in or out.
  • Has a demon pack or a similar "Suprise, fucker!" enemy inside, like a pain elemental.
  • Stairs are either square in the middle (If it's a big exit room) or up against the wall opposite the doorway (If it's a small exit room)
  • Doorway is not brown (Possibly dark green?), says "Door - EXIT" when examined, and can't be shot down.

I'm pretty sure the sounds aren't the same in DoomRL and DooM 2. Revanent idle is different, for example.

The rocket launcher in DooM 2 is much more powerful than DoomRL's, at the expense of being very easy to kill yourself with.
I'm not quite sure how you could bring a "Dangerous to the user" element in to a roguelike though, considering you can think before firing.

Alt-Fire for plasma gun: Choose 3 targets to randomly split the shots between. DooM 2 quickly burned this technique in to my mind as a good emergency move.

Alternative to current shotguns:
Shotgun. If you pass a +1 accuracy roll, damage dropoff is reduced by 80%. This only applies to enemies that are on your green aiming line.
Combat Shotgun. If you pass a +3 accuracy roll, damage dropoff is nulled. This only applies to enemies that are on your green aiming line.
Double Shotgun. If you pass a -2 accuracy roll, damage dropoff is halved. This only applies to enemies that are on your green aiming line.

This makes shotguns a good alternative to the chaingun (Which they are, even at medium range in DooM 2), but keeps their AoE damage as low as it is right now.
However, this also makes Eagle Eye a staple trait for every single weapon (bar BFG), so I'd suggest removing it and making accuracy rise by 0.5 on levelup instead.

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