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 71 
 on: October 01, 2024, 11:44 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
Angelic Hunters
UAC Angelic
  • This badge has been deemed humanly impossible, and thus any claims of achieving this badge will require video proof!

Veteran Angelic

Strongman Angelic
  • Currently unachieved

Speedrunner Angelic
  • This badge has been deemed humanly impossible, and thus any claims of achieving this badge will require video proof!

Elite Angelic

Demonic Angelic
  • This badge has been deemed humanly impossible, and thus any claims of achieving this badge will require video proof!

Berserker Angelic
  • Currently unachieved

Marskman Angelic
  • Currently unachieved

Shottyman Angelic

Lightfoot Angelic
  • This badge is currently bugged and so may be unwinnable!

Eagerness Angelic

Inquisitor Angelic

Quartermaster Angelic

Masochist Angelic
  • While this badge is considered possible, it was never verifiably won in over a decade of 0.9.9.7, and thus any claims of achieving this badge will require video proof!

Centurial Angelic
  • Currently unachieved

Pacifist Angelic
  • This badge has been deemed humanly impossible, and thus any claims of achieving this badge will require video proof!

Everyman Angelic
  • Currently unachieved

 72 
 on: October 01, 2024, 11:44 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
For the old Badge Hunters thread that covered all previous versions, click this link.

In Game Hunter's absence, I'm starting up a new Badge Hunters thread that covers version 0.9.9.8 and beyond. This thread will document everyone who has obtained each Diamond and Angelic badge, with links to each of the winning mortems. If you obtained a Diamond or Angelic badge, be sure to post it to the Post Mortem board, and feel free to notify me directly so I can update this thread accordingly (I'll link mortems from external sources like Discord, but linking threads from here is preferred). Each badge's list of achievers will be in chronological order of when each person won the badge.

Legend
(^) - The linked mortem has video of the winning run.
(d) - The link goes to a mortem posted on Discord (be sure to join the Jupiter Hell Discord server to view such links)
(*) - The linked mortem fulfilled the requirements for the badge, but the badge doesn't show in the mortem since the player copied over a previous version's data where they obtained the badge previously.
(S) - The badge was achieved in the standard game (only noted for badges that don't explicitly require it).
(Pure) - The badge was achieved purely, as in, it was obtained in the requisite challenge only and not in a Dual Angel.

The following challenge headings are only noted for badges that don't explicitly require the noted challenge:
(AoOC) - The badge was achieved in or by mixing the challenge with Angel of Overconfidence.
(AoCn) - The badge was achieved in or by mixing the challenge with Angel of Confidence.
(AoMC) - The badge was achieved in or by mixing the challenge with Angel of Max Carnage.
(AoLT) - The badge was achieved in or by mixing the challenge with Angel of Light Travel.
(AoSh) - The badge was achieved in or by mixing the challenge with Angel of Shotgunnery.
(AoB) - The badge was achieved in or by mixing the challenge with Angel of Berserk.
(AoRA) - The badge was achieved in or by mixing the challenge with Angel of Red Alert.

Other headings will be added if needed

Diamond Hunters
Technician Diamond

Armorer Diamond
  • Currently unachieved

Heroic Diamond
  • Currently unachieved

Gatekeeper Diamond

UAC Diamond
  • Currently unachieved

Veteran Diamond

Strongman Diamond

Elite Diamond

Demonic Diamond
  • Currently unachieved

Reaper Diamond
  • Currently unachieved

Berserker Diamond

Marksman Diamond

Shottyman Diamond

Lightfoot Diamond
  • This badge is currently bugged and so may be unwinnable!

Eagerness Diamond

Inquisitor Diamond

Quartermaster Diamond
  • Currently unachieved

Hunter Diamond

Destroyer Diamond

Masochist Diamond
  • Currently unachieved

Centurial Diamond

Everyman Diamond

Daredevil Diamond

Arena Diamond
  • This badge was only won once after over a decade in 0.9.9.7 and is very luck-based in nature, so it is strongly recommended you have video proof when claiming this badge!

Longinus Diamond

Scavenger Diamond

 73 
 on: September 30, 2024, 21:22 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
UV AoLT run for Lightfoot Bronze to Platinum

When you need to complete the game fast and have limited inventory, Blademaster is the obvious choice to nab the Lightfoot badges, and I comfortably get Lightfoot Platinum first try. I nearly died after The Chained Court, after coming out of it damaged with no medkits nor any armor left, while getting two consecutive Cacodemon caves. I managed to make it to Phobos Anomaly though, which had a very nice Red Armor, two Large Medkits, and Large Health Globes. After that it was a wrap, with some decent stair luck, making it to Dis without any close calls and taking just a bit over 10000 turns. With that, I have all the Bronzes, and the only Platinums and Diamonds left that I can get without playing N! are grinding badges, the Scavenger badges, and Quartermaster Diamond, so the time is coming to finally play Nightmare. But I do have a couple other runs planned first before making the jump to Nightmare.

Badge count - [26|25|25|15|3|0] Medal count - 38/50 Score - 458/1500 (30.53%)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

HNTR AoD run for Arachno Silver to complete the Silvers

Rather than put this off for the eventual Nightmare AoD run where I'll probably want to avoid having to clear Spider's Lair, I decided to try "quickly" getting it done now. "Quickly" in quotes because the game would not fucking stop giving me Halls Of Carnage, and after a half dozen AoD runs, I was thinking maybe the game was bugged to not spawn Spider's Lair in AoD (all of which I Q+Y'd out of when I saw Halls Of Carnage, other than one run where I had the Trigun and so pivoted to see if I could the Fallout Platinum Cross or maybe even Klear's Cross... until getting softlocked in House Of Pain after leaving a couple Pinky corpses behind when advancing to a later room, and so being forced to nuke myself to register the Trigun in my found specials at least). I was going with Cateye first because it's the natural choice to make AoD as painless as possible, but after getting fed up with the repeatedly fruitless runs that took over an hour each, I went to Blademaster to try getting it done faster. And on the first try with Blademaster, I finally get Spider's Lair. With that done, I now have all the Silver badges, this time getting them all before all the Golds unlike in 0.9.9.7 (Armorer Gold is going to be quite annoying when you're blazing through all the lower tier badges fast...)

Badge count - [26|26|25|15|3|0] Medal count - 38/50 Score - 460/1500 (30.67%)

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 74 
 on: September 30, 2024, 19:31 
Started by apalapan - Last post by apalapan
Yes yes, I'm aware that it's the easiest Angelic of them all but still, wow.
I was trying to cheese Shottyman Platinum with AoOc, and totally missed the fact that these are the requirements for the Angelic Badge, along with the 50% kill requirement (which I wasn't paying attention to).
This all was the result of sheer dumb luck, seeing how I spawned on Hell 1 standing next to a Super Shotgun!! It's like the game itself just got sick of watching me die again and again.
Intuition 2 into Shottyman seems like a no-brainer to me; so is Fin2. After finding and applying 2 power mods to the SShotty, I decided to go for WK. Hey, a man can dream of a random Nano mod, right?

I decided to go into Mortuary, as I had a fresh Invincibility and the normal exit was at the other side of the map. I thought it would be less risky to just bolt for the exit, idk. It went fine.  I luckily found a Shell Box on the next floor to properly secure my victory.  I farmed for some XP right before Dis so I could get TaN, as I had no healing at all (other than the Blood Skull that I many times forgot I had).  Maybe Ironman would've been better? IDK, IDC.

If anything of what I said sounds idiotic to any one of you veterans, you might be right. Which makes this undeserved Angelic even more impressive to me  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This will probably be my only Angelic badge ever, so yay.

Dangit, I could've went for the Diamond too. Oh well, maybe next time.

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 DRL (0.9.9.8a) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Ashannar, level 9 Arch-Vile Lt. General Scout,
 defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
 He survived 19927 turns and scored 198642 points.
 He played for 25 minutes and 50 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 430 out of 638 hellspawn. (67%)
 He was an Angel of Shotgunnery!
 He was also an Angel of Overconfidence!

-- Special levels --------------------------------------------

  Levels generated : 4
  Levels visited   : 1
  Levels completed : 0

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

  UAC Star (bronze cluster)  25+ kills without taking damage
  Shottyman Platinum Badge   Complete AoSh on N!
  Shottyman Angelic Badge    Complete AoSh+AoOC on N!/50% kills

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

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

  Health 35/50   Experience 30134/9
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +0  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +0

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

  Class : Scout

    Finesse          (Level 2)
    Tough as nails   (Level 1)
    Reloader         (Level 2)
    Intuition        (Level 2)
    Whizkid          (Level 1)
    Shottyman        (Level 1)

  Int->Int->Rel->Rel->SM->Fin->Fin->WK->TaN->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   red armor [4/4] (127%) (BT)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   super shotgun (10d4)x2 [0/2] (P2)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   tactical boots [0/0] (100%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   shell box (x44)

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

    [a] combat shotgun (7d3) [5/5]
    [b] combat shotgun (7d3) [5/5]
    [c] green armor [1/1] (78%)
    [d] green armor [1/1] (100%)
    [e] green armor [1/1] (100%)
    [f] blue armor [2/2] (90%)
    [g] red armor [4/4] (100%)
    [h] shotgun shell (x38)
    [i] shotgun shell (x50)
    [j] phase device
    [k] technical mod pack
    [l] blood skull
    [m] protective boots [2/2] (100%)

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    bullet     - internal 0%    torso 20%   feet 0%   
    melee      - internal 0%    torso 20%   feet 0%   
    shrapnel   - internal 0%    torso 20%   feet 0%   
    acid       - internal 0%    torso 10%   feet 0%   
    fire       - internal 0%    torso 35%   feet 0%   
    plasma     - internal 0%    torso 10%   feet 0%   

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

    11 former humans
    42 former sergeants
    35 former captains
    45 imps
    14 demons
    202 lost souls
    8 cacodemons
    1 hell knight
    11 barons of hell
    1 arachnotron
    10 former commandos
    16 pain elementals
    2 revenants
    8 mancubi
    9 arch-viles
    14 nightmare demons
    1 Spider Mastermind

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

  On level 4 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
  He managed to escape from the Mortuary!
  On level 7 he assembled a tactical boots!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  On level 8 he finally defeated the Mastermind.

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

 You quickly reload the super shotgun.
 Unknown command. Press "h" for help.
 You quickly reload the super shotgun.
 You quickly reload the super shotgun.
 The Spider Mastermind flinched!
 The Spider Mastermind flinched!
 You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! Boom! Boom! Boom!
 You quickly reload the super shotgun.
 You quickly reload the super shotgun.
 You quickly reload the super shotgun.
 You quickly reload the super shotgun. Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! You are hit! You
 are hit!
 The Spider Mastermind flinched!
 You quickly reload the super shotgun.
 The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations! You defeated the Spider
 Mastermind! Press <Enter>...

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

 211 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 169 of those were killed.
 2 of those were killed by something unknown.
 3 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 9 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 28 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 19 killed the bitch and survived.
 7 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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


 75 
 on: September 30, 2024, 18:37 
Started by apalapan - Last post by apalapan
My first mortem post. 

I just wanted to get Elite Platinum out of the way, and ended up achieving a lot more than that, mostly by accident.
I gotta say: 0.9.9.8 Vampire is broken. Very much so.

Two Phase Devices were all I needed to get into the vaults by luck. Inside I found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta, and so I decided to get the medal, too!

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 DRL (0.9.9.8a) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Adrian Carmack,
 level 16 Arch-Vile Mjr General Marine,
 defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
 He survived 149016 turns and scored 385949 points.
 He played for 3 hours, 5 minutes and 22 seconds.
 He was a man of Ultra-Violence!

 He killed 1318 out of 1318 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!

-- Special levels --------------------------------------------

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 11
  Levels completed : 11

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

  Grammaton Cleric Cross     Mastermind killed with the Cleric Beretta
  Medal of Prejudice         Won with 100% kills
  UAC Star (bronze cluster)  25+ kills without taking damage
  Aurora Medallion           Found more than 3 uniques in one game
  Conqueror Pin              Completed all generated levels
  Grim Reaper's Pin          Clear the Mortuary/Limbo
  Hell Armorer Pin           Clear Hell's Armory/Deimos Lab
  Hell Champion Medal        Clear Hell's Arena
  Elite Platinum Badge       Win standard UV game as Conqueror
  Scavenger Platinum Badge   Clear The Vaults by luck
  Scavenger Diamond Badge    Clear The Vaults by luck on UV+

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

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

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

  Health 97/60   Experience 124807/16
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9

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

  Class : Marine

    Finesse          (Level 3)
    Tough as nails   (Level 3)
    Brute            (Level 3)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Whizkid          (Level 2)
    Badass           (Level 2)
    Vampyre          (Level 1)

  Bru->Bru->Ber->Fin->Bad->MVm->Fin->Jug->WK->Bad->WK->TaN->TaN->Bru->TaN->Fin->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nanofiber red armor [2] (T)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Grammaton Cleric Beretta (1d8)x3 [3/18]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   tactical boots [0/0] (100%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   Azrael's Scythe (9d9)

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

    [a] tactical shotgun (9d3) [5/5] (P1)
    [b] rocket launcher (6d7) [1/1] (A2B1P1T1)
    [c] super shotgun (10d4)x2 [2/2] (P2)
    [d] nuclear plasma rifle (1d8)x6 [24/24] (P1)
    [e] BFG 9000 (11d6) [60/169] (B2P1)
    [f] 10mm ammo (x82)
    [g] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [h] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [i] shotgun shell (x70)
    [j] rocket (x13)
    [k] small med-pack
    [l] large med-pack
    [m] large med-pack
    [n] large med-pack
    [o] large med-pack
    [p] large med-pack
    [q] homing phase device
    [r] thermonuclear bomb
    [s] lava element
    [t] blood skull
    [u] shell box (x100)
    [v] rocket box (x25)

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    bullet     - internal 0%    torso 20%   feet 0%   
    melee      - internal 0%    torso 20%   feet 0%   
    shrapnel   - internal 0%    torso 20%   feet 0%   
    acid       - internal 20%   torso 30%   feet 20% 
    fire       - internal 20%   torso 43%   feet 20% 
    plasma     - internal 20%   torso 30%   feet 20% 

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

    91 former humans
    106 former sergeants
    49 former captains
    176 imps
    109 demons
    342 lost souls
    65 cacodemons
    48 hell knights
    70 barons of hell
    71 arachnotrons
    30 former commandos
    33 pain elementals
    31 revenants
    39 mancubi
    30 arch-viles
    7 elite former humans
    5 elite former sergeants
    5 elite former captains
    2 elite former commandos
    2 bruiser brothers
    1 shambler
    1 lava elemental
    1 agony elemental
    1 Angel of Death
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind
    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 marched into the Military Base.
  He purified his fellow comrades.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 8 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
  On level 9 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
  On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
  On level 9 he assembled a tactical boots!
  On level 9 he found the Cybernetic Armor!
  He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
  On level 11 he witnessed the Wall.
  He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
  On level 12 he romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
  He slaughtered the beasts living there.
  On level 14 he ran for his life from acid!
  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 entered the Vaults.
  On level 17 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
  He managed to clear the Vaults completely!
  Level 18 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
  On level 19 he was targeted for extermination!
  On level 19 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 19 he found the Azrael's Scythe!
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
  On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
  He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
  On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
  On level 22 he found the Necroarmor!
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.

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

 Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. You feel more calm.
 The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider
 Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind.
 You reload the Grammaton Cleric Beretta.
 The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider
 Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind.
 The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider
 Mastermind.
 The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider
 Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind.
 The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider
 Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. You are hit! You are hit!
 You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit!
 The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies.
 Congratulations! You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
 You feel relatively safe now. Boom! Boom!

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

 201 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 160 of those were killed.
 2 of those were killed by something unknown.
 3 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 9 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 27 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 18 killed the bitch and survived.
 7 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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



 76 
 on: September 28, 2024, 03:40 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
UV AoB run for Berserker Bronze to Platinum and Gargulec Cross

When attempting to get Berserker Platinum and the Gargulec Cross back, I was going to try doing it with Survivalist for a bit more fun. But I quickly ditched that, as I realized that the already annoyingly luck-based nature of early AoB gets exasperated to a very annoying degree without having Berserker. I wanted to do something different from Vampyre since, aside from feeling a little dirty using 0.9.9.8 Vampyre to get any badge, I already used it to get Berserker Platinum and Gargulec Cross back in 0.9.9.7, but the only other possible option that wouldn't take an annoyingly long grind was Blademaster, which I've already been using frequently and have farther plans to use, so I just went with Vampyre to get it over with.

Even with 0.9.9.8 Vampyre, UV AoB is still very tough early on, and it can take several attempts before you get a doable run, as the math just doesn't work out in your favor without good luck with medkits, armors, powerups, and favorable level generation. Sure enough, I couldn't pull off a sixth consecutive first try badge here and died quite a few times. For the winning run though, I got some good luck with a floor 2 vault that had a Red Armor plus Large Medkit, and even only had Lost Souls instead of Pinkies so I didn't have to lose that much health retrieving them. With that Red Armor, in conjunction with some good luck with the second wave's spawns being closed enough to wipe out in a Berserker chain, I was able to clear UV Hell Arena in AoB for my first time, and I also even only needed to burn one Large Medkit too, so I came out profitting in Large Medkits and a fresh Blue Armor at the expense of a damaged Red Armor (that later got turned Nanofiber after The Chained Court). I then later got a bunch of Phase Devices and a Homing Phase before The Wall/Containment Area, and then the latter level spawned where you need much less luck to phase past its wall, so I decided to risk the Gargulec Cross there and it worked. With Hell Arena and Containment Area taken care of, the big obstacles to the AoB Conqueror were done, and so alongside getting the Berserker badges and Gargulec Cross back, I got my first AoB Conqueror clear. That leaves Angel of Shotgunnery, Light Travel, and Purity as the only challenges left that I haven't completed a Conqueror run in (excluding the Arch challenges and challenges where it's technically impossible). Also got a Nano mod at the end, but unfortunately I already put other mods on my Phaseshift Boots so I couldn't turned them Antigrav and couldn't even make Power Armor, so that Nano mod just got stashed to look pretty in my inventory (not that it mattered though, as the run was won at that point).

Annoyingly, I didn't get the Gargulec Medal, despite other lesser versions of medals being awarded alongside their greater counterparts if you haven't gotten them before (as seen in my previous mortems here), so I'll need to do another run of AoB on a lower difficulty just to get it. I guess its coding specifies HNTR or HMP as a requirement, rather than HNTR or greater?

Badge count - [24|23|24|13|3|0] Medal count - 37/50 Score - 429/1500 (28.60%)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Quick HNTR AoB + AoOC run for Gargulec Medal

I plan to avoid exploiting dual-angel cheese, as I feel it really cheapens badges and medals to get them that way, but since I should have gotten the Gargulec Medal alongside the Gargulec Cross in the Berserker Platinum run, I'm just doing a quick AoOC run to get that medal instead of doing another full 100% AoB run. The provision to start you with a Chainsaw when you mix AoB with AoOC is very nice; aside from significantly reducing the amount of luck needed to survive early AoB, I was also able to exploit the "drop the Chainsaw and then pick it up for a free Berserk" trick to survive the starting room of House Of Pain, which additionally had a Duelist Armor and Malek's Armor at the end of it to ensure the rest of the run went without a hitch.

Badge count - [24|23|24|13|3|0] Medal count - 38/50 Score - 432/1500 (28.89%)

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UV AoCn run for Daredevil Bronze, Silver, and Platinum

I went with Ammochain, as I haven't used it in official 0.9.9.8 yet and have no immediate plans to use it, while Rel + SoB with Marine resistances helps it survive early. I spawned on a floor with a unique and two vaults, great! But also got spawned near a Shotgunners + Commando group, and when getting away, I ran into many Imps and Hell Knights, which could have been an immediate run ender. But I survived it, and found a Lava Armor in one of the vaults, one of the nicest things I could ask for when one of the biggest hurdles of AoCn/AoOC is that you're lacking good armor while fighting heavy hitting enemies that will wipe you out quickly. Then in Hell's Armory, I found a Jackhammer; while it unfortunately doesn't work with Ammochain, it was still one of the best things I could ask for, as it pairs very nicely with Triggerhappy + SoB and I have Reloader to alleviate the reloading bottleneck, while its new single-shot mode makes it essentially a better Tactical Shotgun (just as strong with twice the clip size and the ability to reload its clip entirely at once). The rare mod turned out to be an Onyx mod, which meant I could make Lava Boots and thus keep the Lava Armor in good shape without having to hurt myself (though I held out a few floors before doing so in case I found a very good exotic armor to use it on). The luck did get balanced out a bit by the RNG withholding Agility mods so I couldn't make a Hyperblaster until near the very end of the game (I really shouldn't have made Tactical Boots so immediately... which ended up pointless too whebn I found Phaseshift Boots later), and by getting The Vaults instead of House Of Pain, which I couldn't enter without losing the requisite 100% kills.

Overall the run was great and I got this first try, unlike before when it took me some tries in 0.9.9.7 (though using Ammochain instead of Malicious Blades was much better here). With Daredevil Platinum out, I am running out of badges I can get without playing Nightmare...

Badge count - [25|24|24|14|3|0] Medal count - 38/50 Score - 443/1500 (29.53%)

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 on: September 26, 2024, 22:34 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
Got a bunch of new suggestions for badges and medals:

*Allow the Gargulec Medal to be obtained alongside Gargulec Cross

It was changed so that you could obtained lesser versions of medals alongside their greater versions if you haven't obtained them already, but as I found out when doing a 100% UV AoB run, you still cannot obtain Gargulec Medal alongside Gargulec Cross. If you've proven you can get 100% kills in AoB on UV or N!, you shouldn't be forced to do another 100% AoB run on a lower difficulty to get both medals.

*Add a new medal for defeating John Carmack without getting damaged

We have the Cyberdemon's Head and Mastermind's Brain for no damaging those respective bosses, and even Shambler's Head for beating Hell's Amory/Deimos Lab without damage, so why not an equivalent medal for the true final boss? I'm unsure for the name though, maybe "Keen's Helmet"?

*Add a new medal for completing a Conqueror run in any of the following challenges: Angel of Red Alert, Darkness, Impatience, Purity, and Masochism (while also requiring it to be a pure challenge, so it can't be cheesed by doing a dual angel with AoMC)

Seeing how Thomas' Medal exists for doing a Conqueror in Angel Of Humanity, I think we should also have a medal to acknowledge the achievement of doing Conqueror runs in these challenges where it's arguably as hard or even harder to complete a Conqueror run in (seeing how rarely they all been done, with me having firsts in two of them (AoI + AoD), a first in the pure challenge on UV for another (AoMs), and a second in one more of them (AoRA)). You could have one medal encompassing them all, or individual medals for each challenge. The potential name has to be discussed.

*Change Longinus Platinum to beating Unholy Cathedral without Brute on any difficulty, while also excluding Angel of Max Carnage and Angel of Light Travel from being able to earn it and Longinus Diamond

Current Longinus Platinum is just a check on if you can play Nightmare. You're able to play Nightmare well enough to make it to Unholy Cathedral? Then here's a free platinum for you, when any melee build will run through the Cathedral all the same regardless of difficulty, making it a very plain badge with no interesting challenge to it. Considering that beating Cathedral without Brute requires some ingenuity or particular technical play regardless of difficulty, it should be rewarded on difficulties below Nightmare. If you really don't want this badge being winnable on HNTR, then restrict it to HMP or at least UV. Current Longinus Diamond can stay as is, as beating the Cathedral on Nightmare without Brute does add some more depth to it (as the 10% speed penalty complicates speed-based strategies, and resurrecting complicates trying to utilize the Hatred Skull). I also want to propose disallowing Angel of Max Carnage and Angel of Light Travel from this badge, as they make it much easier, and apply the same restriction to Longinus Diamond as well.

*Add a new set of badges for The Chained Court

I find it weird how only a few special levels have complete badge sets related to them and some having no badges at all, so I think that should be rectified. The Chained Court is especially conspicuously absent with its complete lack of awards for it, given how it's one of the more iconic special levels and has a harder version that is ripe for challenges. As such, I propose the following badges for it:

Unchained Bronze: Clear The Chained Court after clearing Hell's Arena.
Unchained Silver: Clear The Chained Court after clearing Hell's Arena on HMP.
Unchained Gold: Clear The Chained Court after clearing Hell's Arena on UV in Angel of Shotgunnery (Shotguns have quite a bit more trouble here given the lack of good corner shooting spots and the inability to slug it out with the Barons and Arena Master from far range, but not too much more difficult as to merit beyond Gold).
Unchained Platinum: Clear The Chained Court after clearing Hell's Arena on UV in Angel of Impatience or Angel of Masochism (you got the berserks that can be easily destroyed by the Barons or Arena Master, or one Supercharge if you can get a well timed level up, making that all the healing you get, and you gotta do the annoying task of clearing Hell's Arena in AoI/AoMs first to even get an attempt).
Unchained Diamond: Clear The Chained Court after clearing Hell's Arena on N! in Angel of Purity (good usage of the Berserks is critical to beating the Unchained Court, especially on Nightmare, so having only the single berserk from the Chainsaw to work with should make this a worthy Diamond challenge, not to mention you have to beat Hell's Arena on Nightmare for every attempt, likely burning a lot of medkits in doing so).
Unchained Angelic: Clear The Chained Court after clearing Hell's Arena on N! in AoSh + AoP (essentially combining both the Gold and Diamond challenges together, not to mention on AoSh you're going to have a lot more complications with destroying the Baron corpses that will revive without the Arena Master's help, you really better make that Chainsaw berserk count).

*Add a new set of badges for Phobos Lab and Military Base

Phobos Lab and Military Base lacking any badges is more understandable as they arrived in 0.9.9.7, but they're still ripe for interesting badge challenges with them and so should have a set. They could have their own distinct set of badges given they're completely different levels, but I think they can work with a shared set to simplify things, so I propose the following (naming the badges after John Romero since he created both of these original Doom maps and currently he is conspicuously missing from any references in the game):

Romero Bronze: Clear Phobos Lab or Military Base on HNTR.
Romero Silver: Clear Phobos Lab or Military Base on UV (gotta at least deal with the Nightmare Demons or the full Elite Former squad for the Silver).
Romero Gold: Clear Military Base on UV in Angel of Impatience (thus you must clear it without being able to manipulate the Elite Formers to favorable positions with gift dropping, and camping the start will leave you with no means to heal).
Romero Platinum: Clear Phobos Lab on UV in Angel of Marksmanship without Sharpshooter (getting Sharpshooter allows you to reliably knockback the Nightmare Demons and thus makes an otherwise brutal challenge a lot more manageable, so it should be disallowed, but it would still be fine enough to implement without any trait restriction).
Romero Diamond: Clear Phobos Lab or Military Base on UV in Angel of Red Alert (while extremely extremely difficult, I think this can be doable without Angelic tier luck if you specifically gear your build all towards it).
Romero Angelic: Clear Phobos Lab or Military Base on N! in Angel of Red Alert (this one I'm not sure is even possible, but the extra level or two and extended powerup duration you get in Nightmare could make it barely doable with lots of rockets for gibbing + rocket jumping).

*Add a new set of badges for Hell's Armory and Deimos Lab

Another special level pair that weirdly lack a badge set, only having two basic medals, and again they very much make for good challenges. As such, I propose the following badges:

Quake Bronze: Enter Hell's Armory or Deimos Lab and leave without releasing the Shambler(s) (Avoiding making it the same as the Hell Armorer medal).
Quake Silver: Clear Hell's Armory or Deimos Lab on HMP
Quake Gold: Clear Hell's Armory or Deimos Lab on UV in Angel of Confidence (thus clearing them with only a couple levels and minimal equipment, but given the ease at which you can grind runs for this, it shouldn't be higher than Gold).
Quake Platinum: Clear Deimos Lab on UV in Angel of Masochism or Angel of Humanity without Berserker (thus you must beat the dual Shamblers without being able to heal nor activate run more than once, or in a challenge where even with ideal armor you can't take more than a few hits inbetween medkits, and without Berserker being able to greatly increase your durability against them, while also excluding Hell's Armory as it is too much easier to be an appropriate Platinum challenge).
Quake Diamond: Clear Deimos Lab on UV without taking damage, excluding the Angel of Max Carnage and Angel of Light Travel challenges (beating the dual Shamblers without getting hit is so hard that the devs didn't even bother programming in any extra reward for doing it like with Hell's Armory, so it should be worth a Diamond badge without playing Nightmare, just disallow AoMC and AoLT from getting this badge since they will make this badge much easier).
Quake Angelic: I'm not sure, perhaps clear Deimos Lab on N! without taking damage in Angel of Berserk, Angel of Marksmanship, or Angel of Shotgunnery (aside from the extra HP the Shamblers will have and the 10% speed penalty complicating manners, the weapon locked challenges will also complicate disposing of the Shamblers' corpses without lucky equipment finds, making it more distinct than just "same as Quake Diamond but a bit harder").

The Brick, Skull, Spider, and Lava series could be completed as well, and Halls of Carnage could use a badge set too, but I'll leave those free for anyone else to suggest new badges for them.

*In House Of Pain, seal off the Large Health Globes behind walls/doors that require the Arena Master's Staff to open

After very thorough playing with House Of Pain, I find it is still a bit too easy. While I think the Demons could still be replaced with their Nightmare version on UV/N!, the big culprit for the lacking difficulty is the four Large Health Globes, that means I almost never need to expend any medkits on this level. Additionally, saving the Arena Master's Staff for House Of Pain isn't rewarding enough on this level (in the beta testing when The Vaults was disabled, I never bothered bringing the Staff along since it didn't make a meaningful difference, and in official 0.9.9.8 I often forget the Staff is even an option for this level, if I just don't ditch it once I see House of Pain spawned instead of The Vaults). As such, I want to propose requiring the Staff to access the Health Globes, so this level is a lot more likely to burn your resources without the Staff, thus more encouraging you to bring and use the Staff here.

*Increase the Blaster's generation weight to 4

The Blaster currently has a generation weight of 2, which makes it as rare as most uniques. The Blaster is certainly very good, it's arguably the best thing a Pistol build can find, but it's not so good as to be made as rare as a Nuclear BFG, especially when it's still near worthless for any non-Pistol build. Increasing its generation weight to 4 would be more appropriate, and this would make it equivalent to a Nuclear Plasma Rifle, a similar innate nano weapon that has more utility for builds beyond those specializing in its weapon type.

*Have the Ballistic Armor assembly retain plasma and acid resistances from its base


The Ballistic Armor did get a nice buff in 0.9.9.8, but something I noticed that I didn't before is that if the base armor has any plasma or acid resistances, they'll be removed entirely when used for this assembly. The -20% fire resistance is already a harsh enough drawback, removing other energy resistances is just excessive, and in particular makes using Blue Armor very bad for this assembly. This also isn't inline with Fireproof Armor, which retains the base armor's other resistances.

*Have Grappling Boots retain the base boots' movement speed instead of being -10%

Grappling Boots is one of the least used assemblies in the game. There is a theoretical niche for it with melee builds that are getting annoyed by too much by knockback, for Invulnerable stair diving if VMR are knocking you around too much as you try to get to the stairs or for anyone that's really paranoid about getting knocked back into lava. But any such non-Invuln use for it is killed by the -10% movement speed, and the set -10% movement speed also means if someone dislikes the knockback boost of Phaseshift Boots, they can't use this assembly on it to get knockback resistance + increased movement speed. Grappling Boots would still rarely be made if they retained the base boots' speed, but if they didn't slow you down, there could be instances where you would consider it.

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 on: September 26, 2024, 13:04 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
Here is the Youtube link to the video of the entire run if you want to watch it.

To get Masochist Platinum, you just have to beat Angel of Masochism on at least Hurt Me Plenty difficulty, in addition to having no levels in the Badass trait. However, after looking on the Chaosforge forums and seeing that no one has beaten pure AoMs as a Conqueror on Ultra-Violence difficulty (there were a few AoMs Conqueror mortems I found, but they were either on lower difficulties or mixed AoMs with AoMC), I decided to aim for achieving that instead of just getting the Platinum badge.

For the build, I decided to have some fun and do Malicious Blades, since I don't see it fitting in to any runs I have planned in the near future, while the generalist nature of it makes it good for Conqueror runs and the great defensive boosts it grants will make it quite useful for a challenge you cannot heal on command in. I deviate from its prerequisites at the start to take a level in Ironman, as each level of Ironman essentially gets you 10 more HP after every level up (and another temporary extra 20 boosted HP), while saving a point of damage from formers and melee attacks early on is also pretty useful. After that it's straight to Malicious Blades to get those defensive boosts as soon as possible.

However, on my first try at this, I get incredible item luck that killed much of the challenge. First I get a Duelist Armor in floor 5, a very useful armor in general for being one of the few in the game that makes you faster for wearing it rather than slower, but that combined with its 75% melee resistance makes the usually very difficult Phobos Lab a ton more easier, as with it I could outrun Nightmare Demons without having to activate run and reduce all their bites to 1 damage when they got in (especially handy in a challenge where you cannot restore your tactics on a floor without certain powerups). Then in Deimos Lab, the weapon cache had a Frag Shotgun that was useless, but much more importantly a Super Shotgun, and then not only that, the mod cache after killing the Shamblers had not just one but TWO Nano mods (now killing the Shamblers without being able to heal would normally be a huge threat, but with Malicious Blades' 75% melee restance + 10%  from Ironman, I could reduce all their melee attacks to 1 damage even with just Blue Armor, so after releasing them I immediately ran into one of the little mod rooms and waited until one teleported inside, where I was able to melee them individually to death without getting hit by any plasma bolts). With these Nano mods, I was able to make the broken Nano Shrapnel Super Shotgun, and Antigrav Boots (which let me get Technician Platinum too as that was the last advanced assembly I needed on 0.9.9.8), to ensure I could basically never get touched while never needing to worry about ammo (and when I did get hit, MMB ensured that damage wasn't much if it was anything but plasma or acid). Then shortly after that in Deimos 3 I find a Phaseshift Armor to make me even faster than Duelist Armor can, which when combined with the Antigrav Boots, meant I was getting about four to six moves for every move an enemy made. And late in the game I find a Medical Armor for good measure, whose ability to restore your health to 50% when it drops below at the expense of its durability still works in AoMs, meaning I had a means to heal at low health (I also discovered during this run that the Blood Skulls can still heal you in AoMs too after wasting the first one I got from the Agony Elemental, and then I found another one of those too randomly).

So basically, everything after Deimos Lab is a complete cakewalk where I just infinite Super Shotgun everything to death while moving as fast as actual Doom Guy, and so this run isn't really a good representation of this challenge as you'll almost never get this lucky, but hey, still the first UV pure AoMs Conqueror win, and the nature of Roguelikes is that you sometimes get incredibly lucky.

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 DRL (0.9.9.8a) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 NEEDNOHEALING,
 level 16 Hell Baron Lt. General Technician,
 nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
 He survived 353367 turns and scored 437751 points.
 He played for 2 hours, 28 minutes and 12 seconds.
 He was a man of Ultra-Violence!

 He killed 1293 out of 1293 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
 He was an Angel of Masochism!

-- Special levels --------------------------------------------

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 11
  Levels completed : 11

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

  Medal of Prejudice         Won with 100% kills
  UAC Star (silver cluster)  50+ kills without taking damage
  Aurora Medallion           Found more than 3 uniques in one game
  Conqueror Pin              Completed all generated levels
  Angelic Pin                Clear the Mortuary/Limbo w/o taking damage
  Hell Armorer Pin           Clear Hell's Armory/Deimos Lab
  Chessmaster's Token        Complete Hell's Arena on AoMs/AoI on UV
  Hell Champion Medal        Clear Hell's Arena
  Technician Platinum Badge  Discover all advanced assemblies
  Masochist Gold Badge       Complete Angel of Masochism (AoMs)
  Masochist Platinum Badge   Complete AoMs on HMP w/o Bad

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

  Health 70/70   Experience 133978/16
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +4  ToDmg Ranged +2  ToDmg Melee +8

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

  Class : Technician

    Ironman          (Level 2)
    Finesse          (Level 3)
    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 2)
    Brute            (Level 2)
    Dodgemaster      (Level 1)
    Whizkid          (Level 3)
    Malicious Blades (Level 1)

  Iro->HR->Fin->HR->Bru->Bru->DM->MMB->WK->WK->Fin->Iro->Fin->SoB->WK->SoB->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   phaseshift armor [4/4] (93%) (APT)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   nano super shotgun (6d4)x2 (P1T1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   antigrav plasteel boots [2/2] (100%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   combat knife (2d5)

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

    [a] tactical rocket launcher (6d7) [5/5] (P1T1)
    [b] BFG 9000 (10d6) [100/100]
    [c] BFG 9000 (10d6) [100/100]
    [d] red armor [6/6] (100%) (P)
    [e] medical armor [4/4] (191%) (ABPT)
    [f] Shielded Armor [2]
    [g] Angelic Armor [7/7] (100%)
    [h] Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
    [i] rocket (x14)
    [j] rocket (x14)
    [k] rocket (x14)
    [l] phase device
    [m] phase device
    [n] homing phase device
    [o] homing phase device
    [p] blood skull
    [q] rocket box (x25)
    [r] rocket box (x25)
    [s] power battery (x120)
    [t] power battery (x120)

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    bullet     - internal 20%   torso 95%   feet 70% 
    melee      - internal 20%   torso 95%   feet 95% 
    shrapnel   - internal 20%   torso 95%   feet 70% 
    acid       - internal 0%    torso 10%   feet 50% 
    fire       - internal 0%    torso 60%   feet 75% 
    plasma     - internal 0%    torso 10%   feet 0%   

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

    111 former humans
    88 former sergeants
    67 former captains
    186 imps
    119 demons
    301 lost souls
    93 cacodemons
    60 hell knights
    63 barons of hell
    30 arachnotrons
    17 former commandos
    29 pain elementals
    37 revenants
    34 mancubi
    26 arch-viles
    7 nightmare cacodemons
    12 nightmare demons
    2 nightmare arch-viles
    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.
  On level 7 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
  He broke through the lab.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 9 he entered Deimos Lab.
  On level 9 he assembled a tactical boots!
  On level 9 he found the Frag Shotgun!
  He nuked level 9!
  He decided to nuke the forbidden Lab.
  On level 10 he assembled a nano-shrapnel!
  On level 10 he assembled a antigrav boots!
  On level 10 he assembled a hyperblaster!
  On level 11 he arrived at the Containment Area.
  He emerged from the Containment Area victorious!
  On level 12 he romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
  He slaughtered the beasts living there.
  On level 14 he found the Shielded Armor!
  On level 14 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 17 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
  On level 17 he trespassed on the House of Pain.
  He conquered the House!
  On level 19 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 19 he found the Azrael's Scythe!
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
  On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
  He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
  On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
  On level 22 he found the Necroarmor!
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
  On level 23 he stumbled into a complex full of revenants!
  On level 23 he was targeted for extermination!
  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 --------------------------------------------------

 You feel your invincibility fading...
 You feel vulnerable again.
 There are stairs leading downward here.
 This is it. This is the lair of all evil! What will you meet here?
 You are hit!
 Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn!
 The hell knight dies. The hell knight dies.
 The hell knight dies. You hear the scream of a freed soul!
 John Carmack reloads his rocket launcher.
 You hear the scream of a freed soul!
 You are hit!
 John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John Carmack! Press
 <Enter>...
 You feel relatively safe now.

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

 32 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 12 of those were killed.
 1 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 1 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 18 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 3 killed the bitch and survived.
 13 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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 on: September 23, 2024, 22:04 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
As I did not feel like doing the grind to get Quartermaster Diamond again yet in 0.9.9.8, I went just for Quartermaster Gold on easy old HNTR, and got Skull Silver out of the way, so I won't need to do City of Skulls/Abyssal Plains in the eventual Quartermaster Platinum and Diamond runs if I'm not in a good position to do them (I especially wouldn't bother with Abyssal Plains on UV/N! even with Blademaster). Along the way though, I decided to see if I can check off doing a Conqueror on AoRA, and succeeded at that, a rare feat even on HNTR difficulty. Unfortunately unlike with my prior two mortems I posted here where I claimed the first AoI and AoD conquerors, I can't claim the first AoRa conqueror, as Papilio did me beat to it. Being the second to have done it is still nice though.

Unlike Papilio, who went with Gunrunner, I went the Int2 -> Blademaster route like I did previously for Quartermaster Diamond and getting Skull Silver previously in 0.9.9.7. This made Hell's Arena harder, and I was barely able to get Phobos Lab done (had to use a bunch of rocket jumps and finished with less than 30 seconds to spare), but made all the Deimos and Hell special levels a lot easier, particularly City of Skulls and Unholy Cathedral. In this particular run, I got blessed by a vault with a Combat Shotgun on floor 2, but then the luck balanced the other end when I got consecutive Lost Soul caves in the middle of Phobos. Sure that was good for being super easy levels to clear, but meant I got shafted a lot of EXP, and so I didn't even have Berserker by Phobos Lab, while later still didn't have Blademaster by City Of Skulls. City Of Skulls still ended up being pretty easy with Berserker + rocket jumping and a Shell Box-aided Tactical Shotgun, but Phobos Lab came close as stated before. Deimos Lab also came pretty close despite this just being HNTR, and I had to burn the Homing Phase I had after killing the Shamblers and cleaning out the mod cache (which included an Onyx mod, very good, but also a Sniper mod, useless), while having to skip on the weapon cache (which had a Nuclear Plasma Rifle and Combat Translocator, not at all useful for this run but I still would have wanted to pick them up to work towards Armorer Platinum/Diamond). For one more note, enemies being revealed on the final three and items being revealed when all enemies are dead is a very helpful addition for AoRA, which does make getting 100% kills in the normal levels a bit easier, but that does get counterbalanced by Intuition 2's extended enemy detection radius being nerfed, that likely ended up costing me my first run (this overall took me two attempts, where I Q+Y'd out on my first attempt in Hell's Arena because I missed an enemy when going back and forth, that costed me too much time to clear it).

As for doing a UV AoRA Conqueror run, I think it is possible, but it would be absurdly difficult, even moreso than getting Quartermaster Diamond, and only a Blademaster build could realistically do it. Maybe someday I'll try for that...

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 DRL (0.9.9.8a) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 IMAQUARTERMASTER,
 level 13 Hell Baron Lt. General Scout,
 nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
 He survived 53767 turns and scored 190110 points.
 He played for 1 hour, 32 minutes and 11 seconds.
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 871 out of 871 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
 He was an Angel of Red Alert!

-- Special levels --------------------------------------------

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 11
  Levels completed : 11

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

  Medal of Prejudice         Won with 100% kills
  UAC Star (bronze cluster)  25+ kills without taking damage
  Aurora Medallion           Found more than 3 uniques in one game
  Conqueror Pin              Completed all generated levels
  Grim Reaper's Pin          Clear the Mortuary/Limbo
  Hell Armorer Pin           Clear Hell's Armory/Deimos Lab
  Hell Champion Medal        Clear Hell's Arena
  Skull Silver Badge         Clear City of Skulls/Abyssal Plains on AoRA
  Quartermaster Bronze Badge Reach level 16 on Angel of Red Alert
  Quartermaster Silver Badge Complete Angel of Red Alert (AoRA)
  Quartermaster Gold Badge   Complete AoRA with 100% kills

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

  Health 85/50   Experience 77666/13
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9

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

  Class : Scout

    Finesse          (Level 2)
    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Brute            (Level 3)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Intuition        (Level 2)
    Whizkid          (Level 2)
    Blademaster      (Level 1)

  Int->Int->HR->Bru->Bru->Ber->HR->Bru->MBm->Fin->Fin->WK->WK->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   Angelic Armor [11/11] (95%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Longinus Spear (8d8)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   tactical boots [0/0] (100%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   shell box (x65)

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

    [a] tactical rocket launcher (6d6) [5/5]
    [b] assault shotgun (9d3) [6/6] (P2)
    [c] BFG 9000 (10d6) [130/169] (B2)
    [d] red armor [6] (AOP)
    [e] duelist armor [2/2] (100%) (A)
    [f] rocket (x11)
    [g] rocket (x14)
    [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] plasteel boots [4/4] (100%) (P)
    [r] shell box (x100)
    [s] power battery (x120)

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    bullet     - internal 60%   torso 95%   feet 60% 
    melee      - internal 60%   torso 95%   feet 60% 
    shrapnel   - internal 60%   torso 95%   feet 60% 
    acid       - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    fire       - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    plasma     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 

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

    106 former humans
    65 former sergeants
    29 former captains
    92 imps
    69 demons
    326 lost souls
    40 cacodemons
    36 hell knights
    22 barons of hell
    12 arachnotrons
    6 former commandos
    19 pain elementals
    16 revenants
    12 mancubi
    9 arch-viles
    1 nightmare demon
    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 saw, left a present and left.
  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 9 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
  On level 9 he entered Deimos Lab.
  On level 9 he assembled a tactical boots!
  He decided to nuke the forbidden Lab.
  On level 10 he ran for his life from acid!
  He sounded the alarm on level 11!
  On level 11 he witnessed the Wall.
  He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
  On level 12 he found the City of Skulls.
  He wiped out the City of Skulls.
  On level 14 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  He left level 16 as soon as possible.
  On level 17 he entered the Vaults.
  On level 17 he found the Railgun!
  He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
  On level 19 he stumbled into a complex full of imps!
  On level 19, hell froze over!
  On level 19 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 19 he found the Longinus Spear!
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter Limbo!
  On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
  On level 20 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
  He managed to clear Limbo from evil!
  On level 22 he found the BFG 10K!
  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 --------------------------------------------------

 You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Next!
 You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Next! You're going berserk!
 You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Next!
 You need to taste blood!
 You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Next! You're going berserk!
 You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Next!
 You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Next! You're going berserk!
 The lost soul hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Next!
 You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Next!
 You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Next!
 You hit John Carmack. You're going berserk! You need to taste blood!
 You hit John Carmack. You need to taste blood!
 You hit John Carmack. John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John
 Carmack! Press <Enter>...
 You feel relatively safe now. Next!

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

 31 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 12 of those were killed.
 1 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 1 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 17 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 3 killed the bitch and survived.
 12 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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 on: September 22, 2024, 23:41 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
UV AoP run with Entrenchment for Inquisitor Gold + Platinum

To make reobtaining Inquisitor Gold and Platinum more interesting, I went with Entrenchment (likely the only time you'll see it in this thread), widely considered the worst mastery in 0.9.9.7 and certainly still is in 0.9.9.8 when it's the only one of the bad masteries to not get directly buffed. For what should have been a hard challenge, it ended up going surprisingly well, much easier than when I went for this badge many years ago with my favorite mastery. This wasn't really by any surprise value of Entrenchment, rather than my own advancement as a player since then and some pretty good luck, including finding an early Combat Shotgun, lots of vaults, the RNG being generous with large medkits and me being able to obtain them before Hell Nobles nabbed them, lots of Bulk mods, and most importantly, a Nano mod from Deimos Lab. Entrenchment becomes actually functional when you can build a Nanomachic Plasma Rifle, but any build with SoB + EE can near guaranteed win with that weapon, yet won't suffer if they can't build it, so it's not a real endorsement for Entrenchment. Unfortunate I couldn't complete the rare AoP Conqueror, as with no Finesse, I can't outspeed the Angel of Death without building a Ripper (which would have been a huge waste of mods) and didn't get a Hatred Skull nor could find a good melee armor to beat him straightup, and I wasn't going to waste my time throwing knives, so I had to skip the Cathedral (if only that Mjollnir spawned in Hell 3 or before instead of Hell 7...).

On one more note, the other rare mod in Deimos Lab was replaced by one of those fucking Schematics, which could have been ok as it was for Anti-grav Boots, the last advance assembly I'm missing and thus it would get me Technician Platinum. But turns out Schematics count as a powerup, so I couldn't pick it up and that Schematic spawn ended up being even more of a waste than usual, while that badge will end up having to wait a bit longer (I could have actually assembled those boots with the aforementioned Nano mod, but a Nanomachic Plasma Rifle was again too critical to give up). With the Inquisitor badges, my Gold count exceeds my Silver count (not too unusual, I got all the Golds in 0.9.9.7 before all the Silvers), and my Platinum count reaches double digits, while my Score has exceeded the 25% completion mark.

Badge count - [22|20|21|10|3|0] Medal count - 36/50 Score - 382/1500 (25.47%)

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HNTR AoRA run for Quartermaster Bronze to Gold and Skull Silver

I posted this in its own Post Mortem thread, as it looks to be the second AoRA conqueror ever (couldn't claim the first as Papilio did it several years ago, but still a rare enough achievement for me to find it worth its own thread).

Badge count - [23|22|22|10|3|0] Medal count - 36/50 Score - 391/1500 (26.07%)

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UV AoMs run with Malicious Blades for Masochist Gold + Platinum and Technician Platinum

I posted this in its own Post Mortem thread, as it is the first UV pure AoMs Conqueror run. Also picked up Technician Platinum here as I was finally able to build Antigrav Boots and thus finish all the advanced assemblies.

Badge count - [23|22|23|12|3|0] Medal count - 36/50 Score - 411/1500 (27.40%)

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