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Title: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: Sereg on September 26, 2017, 21:09
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Another dull AAo666 grind, only notable because I promoted not only in experience rank from Arch Vile to Cyberdemon, thanks to all of those wandering around, but also in skill rank from Chaos Lt. Colonel to Chaos Colonel with the completion of my technician diamond badge.

Also, yes, those are Biggest Fucking Nuclear Guns(N1) that I am dual-wielding, and yes, they are sick as fuck for clearing levels, thanks for asking.

Edit: I've also learned that I cannot use spoiler tags inside of mortems, so you'll just have to scroll through all the level messages. Typical 666 stuff I guess.
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: MaiZure on September 26, 2017, 22:51
Ao666 + YAAM deserves a medal...<something> of Patience perhaps. What a grind!
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: Sereg on September 26, 2017, 23:06
Eh, I just have a sick obsession with killing absolutely everything. Once I completed my missing assemblies(Cybernano and *B*FG) and finished my Cyberdemon kills(I was missing mere single digit kills), I should have just stairdived the rest of it, but I felt compelled to finish what I'd begun, so it took alot longer then it needed to have done.

I'm a bit disappointed in the build I chose - I had heard good things about SS, and to be fair it was an effective method for a (very small) phase of the game, but a single pistol, no matter how accurate and powerful, isn't really cut out for killing twenty thousand demons. Most of the game was bladework with the Butcher's Cleaver, but unfortunately I had almost maxed my level by the time I decided that, so I'm lacking several levels between Fin, HR, and Bru that would have made a melee run significantly smoother.

Regardless, it was still pretty effective - I completed the first *B*FNG(N1) somewhere around level 200, and after that I ran around with the big gun up and the Cleaver on juggle, blasting away whenever it charged and chopping everything else to pieces. The only trouble I really had was Nightmare Arachnotron caves, which are a pain for almost any build - otherwise the 8 points of permanent armor I had kept damage on me to a minimum even while carelessly charging around amongst packs of mancubi and viles.

Once I finished the second big gun, though... let's just say the last 50 floors didn't hold up very well. Two of those things on swap with the nano pack on top of the nuclear charging clear floors absurdly quickly, and only a handful of enemies(Cyberdemons, Nightmare Viles, Shamblers, Lava Elementals, and Agony Elementals) can survive a single blast, much less two. Really the only trouble was hardened wall levels, because otherwise the initial blast not only kills everything in sight, but also exposes everything else by obliterating all of the walls in the blast radius.

As much of a grind as this was, the end sure was a lot of fun - not often you get to play with BFGs as your permanent primary weapon system. As a space marine, this is as close as you can get to calling supporting fire from an orbiting battlecruiser.
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: MaiZure on September 26, 2017, 23:11
Interesting strategy...I know I've never stood through an entire run of Ao666. The bulk of my play time was prior to that mode existence.

As for the build, if I were to attempt it, I'm 99% certain that I'd go masterless and just stack up all the basic/advanced traits. That way every unique and every assembly can remain an option. Well that and it keeps decent trait choices up to the very end. I know with Master builds on Ao100...it's slim pickings after level 20.
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: Sereg on September 26, 2017, 23:16
Yeah, masterless or melee mastery is probably the best way to go with this game type. In the past I've used Marines with Ammochain, which is pretty effective, and I thought that it would be cool to do something similar with pistols, but even with my signature F2N1S2 laser rifle, Ammochain is slower then just running around slicing everything to pieces.

Combine that with the very real possibility of Dragonslayer(I did find it this run, but unfortunately I couldn't grab it due to my Technician Diamond goal requiring that I wear cursed armor), and melee is far and away the strongest option for 666 games - unless of course you build both Death Stars like I did this run.
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: Sereg on September 26, 2017, 23:18
Ao666 + YAAM deserves a medal...<something> of Patience perhaps. What a grind!

As far as this goes - why not simply call it the Medal of Extreme Prejudice? ;)
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: scotherns on September 27, 2017, 02:30
Medal of Extinction? It should certainly have something to commemorate such an extreme feat!
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: ZicherCZ on September 27, 2017, 08:32
Infernal Asskicker's Badge? Because, you know, 666, the number of the beast, and you are an ass-kicking marine?
Perhaps even Infernal Asskicker's Badge/Medal/Cross for getting a YAAM AAo666 win on HNTR+, UV+ and N! respectively?
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: Sereg on September 27, 2017, 08:59
Good Lord, Centurial Angelic with Medal of Prejudice?

Let's just go with HNTR-HMP-UV...

Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: LuckyDee on September 27, 2017, 09:47
Quote
awesome medal names

Yeah, keep 'em coming :D
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: ZicherCZ on September 27, 2017, 10:51
Good Lord, Centurial Angelic with Medal of Prejudice?
Yeah, IMHO such an achievement is borderline-impossible, especially with no saving.
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: khiijol on September 27, 2017, 12:38
good job, still haven't had the patience to get through one of these
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: Tormuse on September 28, 2017, 20:55
Eh, I just have a sick obsession with killing absolutely everything.

So do I...  but I've never mustered the patience to do YAAM on ArchAo666.  Well done, I'm impressed!  :o

...And now that I've said that, I feel a little compelled to one-up you, so maybe I'll see if I can do it too.  :P

Medal of Extinction?

I like this one best, I think.  :)  Or maybe Medal of Extermination?
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: Sereg on September 28, 2017, 21:25
By all means... you know, Centurial Angelic would get you the next rank...
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: Tormuse on September 28, 2017, 22:23
you know, Centurial Angelic would get you the next rank...

Already got it!  :D (https://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,6810.0.html)

And I am *not* going to do N! ArchAo666 YAAM.  :P
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: Sereg on September 29, 2017, 10:02
Ah. Got me there. Well, maybe my last chance to one up you is to get my Centurial Angelic that way ;)

I'm thinking I'll need a nanomachic napalm launcher (F1)... that or one of my Nuke From Orbit guns from this run.
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: Tormuse on October 04, 2017, 20:49
...I've never mustered the patience to do YAAM on ArchAo666...

...And now that I've said that, I feel a little compelled to one-up you, so maybe I'll see if I can do it too.  :P

Why did I volunteer to do this?  I'm not even halfway through!  :o  It's so mind-numbingly boring!  Aaahhh!  D:

(Extra kudos for your YAAM; it's definitely an achievement that requires either a lot of patience or some level of neurosis)  :P
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: Sereg on October 04, 2017, 20:52
Thanks, I think it's the neurosis one.
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: ZicherCZ on October 04, 2017, 23:48
Both patience, and neurosis. Will to waste a lot of free time is required as well.
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: Tormuse on October 10, 2017, 01:47
Hey...  wait...  I just looked up one of my old mortems and realized that I already did this! (https://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,6289.0.html)  O_o  I totally forgot!  Why am I doing this again?  D:
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: Sereg on October 10, 2017, 05:51
 Because somehow you feel the need to live up to the (laughably low) standards I set?  Despite having 4 times the Angelic Badges I do?

I dunno dude...
Title: Re: [M|100%|ArchAo666|YAAM] Double Promotion
Post by: Tormuse on October 10, 2017, 10:29
I blame the neurosis.  :P