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16

Requests For Features / [Linux] Better error reporting when Doomrl fails to run.

« on: June 01, 2011, 02:15 »

Currently when Doomrl fails to run under Linux the error messages flash for under a second before the terminal gets cleared. Unfortunately that means after running it ~20-30 times you might be able to make out a word or two from all the flashing but for the most part it's not possible to get any usable information this way. Currently things that I know of that will cause a crash are enabling midi music without timidity installed, a syntax error in the keybindings file, and tonight's problem... deleting (accidentally) then undeleting the directory Doomrl was in (I think a wav file failed to recover without corruption). Luckily the player/score wads are fine so I didn't lose any of my badges.

Edit: Actually it looks like I lost my elite diamond badge, but I'm 98% sure that was from obtaining the badge and then losing power before I got a chance to exit Doomrl. I'm guessing when you exit is when the player.wad gets written. Then after all that is when I deleted it...

Granted I don't think the game should have built in protection against deleting/undeleting, it'd just be nice to be able to read the error messages.

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17

Nightmare! / [N!|AoPc|14%|YAVP] Pacifism Diamond in 14m 53s

« on: May 29, 2011, 23:33 »

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.9.3) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Adam Ring, level 10 Hell Baron 1st Lieutenant, sacrificed himself to kill the Cyberdemon
 on level 25 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 12833 turns and scored 172080 points.
 He played for 14 minutes and 53 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 155 out of 1083 hellspawn. (14%)
 Who gave him the ticket to hell, anyway?
 He was an Angel of Pacifism!


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

  Levels generated : 10
  Levels visited   : 4
  Levels completed : 0

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

  Major Icarus Cross
  Compet-n Gold Cross
  Pacifism Gold Badge
  Pacifism Platinum Badge
  Pacifism Diamond Badge

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

  ###########################################################
  #..........................................................
  #..........................................................
  #..........................................................
  #..........................................................
  #..........................................................
  #.........................>................................
  #......X...................................................
  #..........................................................
  #..........................................................
  #..........................................................
  #..........................................................
  #..........................................................
  #..........................................................
  #..........................................................
  #..........................................................
  #..........................................................
  #..........................................................
  #..........................................................
  ###########################################################

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

  Health 0/80   Experience 6264/10
  ToHit Ranged +4  ToHit Melee +4  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +0

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

    Ironman          (Level 3)
    Tough as nails   (Level 3)
    Eagle Eye        (Level 2)
    Intuition        (Level 1)
    Badass           (Level 1)

  TaN->TaN->Bad->Iro->Iro->Iro->TaN->EE->EE->Int->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   chainsaw (4d6)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   tactical boots [1/1] (100%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   nothing

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

    [a] phase device
    [b] envirosuit pack
    [c] thermonuclear bomb
    [d] blood skull
    [e] hatred skull

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

    29 former humans
    20 former sergeants
    7 former captains
    31 imps
    8 demons
    55 lost souls
    2 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 former commando
    1 pain elemental

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

  He left level 5 as soon as possible.
  On level 6 he stormed the Chained Court.
  He left level 8 as soon as possible.
  On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
  He left the Armory without drawing too much attention.
  On level 15 he encountered the Phobos Hellgate.
  He left level 17 as soon as possible.
  On level 17 he found the City of Skulls.
  He fled the City in terror!
  He left level 18 as soon as possible.
  He left level 19 as soon as possible.
  On level 21 he assembled a tactical boots!
  He left level 22 as soon as possible.
  On level 23 he entered the Lava Pits.
  He decided it was too hot there.
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  He nuked level 25!
  On level 25 he finally sacrificed himself to kill the Cyberdemon.

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

 
 You enter a big arena. There's blood everywhere. You hear heavy mechanical
 footsteps...
 Are you sure you want activate the thermonuclear bomb? [Y/n] You use a
 thermonuclear bomb. Warning! Explosion in 10 seconds! Warning!
 Explosion in 9 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 8 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 7 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 6 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 5 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 4 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 3 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 2 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 1 seconds!
 You hear an explosion! Congratulations! You defeated the Cyberdemon! Press
 <Enter>...

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

 Before him 247 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 219 of those were killed.
 8 of those were killed by something unknown.
 8 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 6 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...
 1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 5 killed the bastard and survived.

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I've obtained this badge in 0.9.9, 0.9.9.1 and now in 0.9.9.3 and it feels a lot harder then it used to be. It took a healthy amount of tries in 0.9.9, I was able to get it rather quickly in 0.9.9.1, but this time after ~4-5 hours I finally started 'rage' quitting if the first level or two didn't go well. I've played untold amounts of this game ending only in deaths or wins, and this was the badge that finally broke me into quitting early.

For the actual run, I don't remember much of it. By the time I finished it I had been playing AoPc for about 3 hours straight, so I was well into the groove of moving as fast as possible (not because I was trying to be quick, just because I wanted this challenge over). I remember finding two homing phases early on, using one on level 13 after minimal exploration because it was full of barrels, the other on level 22 for the same reason. I used a phase after entering the Hellgate which put me close to the brothers behind the barrier, which saved me a bit of health. A couple of lucky berserk/invulnerabilities carried me until level 21. 22 was the phase, 23 was a quick stair find. Level 24 worried me, I showed up with ~4-5 large health packs and 'sober' (no powerups). It was a level full of small rooms with random lava pools, leaving me too exposed. There was a supercharge and an invulnerability globe on the level, but I couldn't get to either of them because of an arch-vile and mancubus. It took me all the healing I had, but I finally found the exit.

I wasn't going to bother posting this, but then I saw how quick it was so I figured might as well record it.

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18

Century Lounge / [U|Ao100|YAAM] 2d6 + 10 and 2k+ bullets

« on: May 05, 2011, 16:11 »

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.9.3) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Adam Ring, level 24 Cacodemon Sergeant Major, completed 100 levels of torture
 on level 100 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 317611 turns and scored 2347946 points.
 He played for 1 day, 41 minutes and 22 seconds.
 He was a man of Ultra-Violence!

 He killed 4212 out of 4212 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
 He was an Angel of 100!


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

  Levels generated : 0
  Levels visited   : 0
  Levels completed : 0

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

  Medal of Prejudice
  UAC Star (gold cluster)
  Experience Medal
  Armorer Gold Badge
  Centurial Gold Badge
  Centurial Platinum Badge

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

  ###########################################################
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  #################/###############################|......#.#
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  ==.........................}}.....#.0...0....||.#.......#|#
  ==..........|}........}}.0}.}.....#..........|.|#}......#}#
  ===============...%|.%.%||................|.....#|+.....#.#
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  ###########################################################

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

  Health 50/50   Experience 824764/24
  ToHit Ranged +4  ToHit Melee +4  ToDmg Ranged +5  ToDmg Melee +5

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

    Finesse          (Level 3)
    Hellrunner       (Level 3)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 5)
    Son of a gun     (Level 5)
    Eagle Eye        (Level 2)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Dodgemaster      (Level 1)
    Intuition        (Level 2)
    Whizkid          (Level 2)

  EE->EE->Int->Int->SoB->SoB->Fin->Fin->WK->Jug->SoG->Fin->WK->SoG->SoG->SoG->SoG->HR->HR->HR->SoB->SoB->SoB->DM->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   Malek's Armor [3/3] (100%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Grammaton Cleric Beretta (2d6) [18/18]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   modified phaseshift boots [4/4] (100%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   modified nuclear plasma rifle (1d6)x6 [40/40] (B2T3)

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

    [a] modified plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [88/88] (B3T2)
    [b] modified minigun (1d6)x8 [439/439] (B3)
    [c] modified minigun (1d8)x8 [439/439] (B3P2)
    [d] modified minigun (1d8)x8 [439/439] (B3P2)
    [e] Anti-Freak Jackal (5d3) [6/6]
    [f] modified phaseshift armor [4/4] (100%) (AP)
    [g] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [h] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [i] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [j] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [k] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [l] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [m] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [n] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [o] large med-pack
    [p] large med-pack
    [q] large med-pack
    [r] large med-pack
    [s] homing phase device
    [t] envirosuit pack
    [u] Hell Staff
    [v] Hellwave Pack

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

    185 former humans
    397 former sergeants
    490 former captains
    120 imps
    75 demons
    327 lost souls
    84 cacodemons
    714 barons of hell
    4 Cyberdemons
    181 hell knights
    206 arachnotrons
    24 former commandos
    40 pain elementals
    368 arch-viles
    368 mancubi
    264 revenants
    55 nightmare imps
    74 nightmare cacodemons
    125 nightmare demons
    45 nightmare arachnotrons
    10 nightmare arch-viles
    39 bruiser brothers
    8 shamblers
    5 lava elemental
    4 agony elementals

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

  On level 9 he assembled a tactical boots!
  On level 14 he assembled a high power weapon!
  On level 15 he ran for his life from acid!
  On level 17 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
  On level 18 he assembled a hyperblaster!
  On level 18 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
  On level 19 he assembled a tactical armor!
  On level 23 he found the Jackhammer!
  On level 25 he found the Malek's Armor!
  On level 26 he ran for his life from lava!
  On level 31 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
  Level 38 blasted him with unholy atmosphere!
  On level 40 he found the Revenant's Launcher!
  On level 43 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
  On level 46 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
  On level 47 he ran for his life from lava!
  On level 47 he found the Hellwave Pack!
  On level 48 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
  On level 51 he encountered an armed nuke!
  On level 52 he encountered an armed nuke!
  On level 54 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
  Level 54 blasted him with unholy atmosphere!
  On level 57 he found the Acid Spitter!
  On level 63 he ran for his life from lava!
  On level 69 he found the Hell Staff!
  On level 75 he ran for his life from lava!
  On level 80 he ran for his life from lava!
  On level 82 he encountered an armed nuke!
  On level 82 he found the Anti-Freak Jackal!
  On level 84 he ran for his life from lava!
  On level 97 he ran for his life from lava!
  Level 98 blasted him with unholy atmosphere!
  On level 100 he finally completed 100 levels of torture.

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

 You see : floor
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : floor
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : floor
 You hear the scream of a freed soul! You feel relatively safe now.
 You reload the Grammaton Cleric Beretta with 10mm ammo.
 There is 10mm ammo (x87) lying here.
 You found 8 of 10mm ammo. There is 10mm ammo (x79) lying here.
 There is 10mm ammo (x79) lying here.
 There is a Invulnerability Globe lying here.
 You feel invincible!
 There is power cell (x30) lying here.
 There are stairs leading downward here.
 You did it! You completed 100 levels of DoomRL! You're the champion! Press
 <Enter>... 

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

 Before him 34 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 31 of those were killed.


 And 1 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.

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Being a huge fan of the single pistol + intuition build I had to rush to try it once I realized the trait caps had been changed. The plan was rush to intuition. grab a couple SoB, get WK and juggler then I'd be stable enough to start getting SoG. The final plan was to get EE x 2, Int x 2, Fin x 3, WK x 2, Jug, SoG x 5, SoB x 5, HR x 3 for a total of 23 levels. I grabbed dodgemaster on level 98 so it never came into play, I just didn't want have one of a trait that had multiple levels.

For equipment the progression went as follows:
Level 19 made tactical armor -> level 25 got Malek's armor, ditched the rest, level ~60 found the phasesift armor used for crossing lava.
Level 9 made tactical boots -> level ~35 found some phasesift boots, used an agility mod
Level 14 made a high powered chaingun -> level ~25 ditched it over ammo concerns. Ammo wasn't tight, but there was starting to be less of it.
Level 17 made a tactical rocket launcher -> level 82 found the Anti-Freak Jackal, which was easier for destroying walls since I already carried 10mm ammo.
Level 18 made both the tactical shotgun and hyperblaster -> level ~60 both were ditched when I found the nuclear plasma rifle.
I kept every minigun I found for the ammo storage. Three was overkill though since I never had to unload more than one.
Oh yeah, I forgot that I found some other uniques, but they were crap so I left them alone.

I took my starting pistol to P2T3 and already had Finx3 and SoGx4 when I found GCB. Initially I figured the starting pistol would be better due to it's faster firing speed but when I checked their speeds GCB was firing at .11 and my pistol at .10. So I grumbled, sacrificing the .01 difference for the larger clip, but I kept the pistol around. Once I hit SoGx5 (with Finx3), I checked both of them again. They both fired at .10, which make me believe that .10 is the fastest possible firing speed. The only faster combination I can think of is SoGx5, Finx3 and a T3 Blaster, but I wouldn't be surprised if that still only came to .10. The main point here is that for this type of build a P2B3 pistol is probably the way to go (EE takes care of accuracy).

Overall, I think Ao100 is definitely getting more interesting. With lava flooding levels, nukes being set, poisonous air and nightmare caves, the pace changes every few levels making it less boring than earlier versions. It would be nice if there was enough XP during a UV run to hit level 25, but by the time it'd happen it's not really important. Maybe next time I'll try an ammochain build, see if I can survive with much slower firing speed.

19

Requests For Features / A couple of new keybinding/targeting requests

« on: March 02, 2011, 19:03 »

At one point I heard talk of letting the player bind custom functions to keys. It would be nice to be able to bind <shift>+<direction> keys and be able to check whether or not the player is in targeting mode. What I'd like to be able to do is bind the <shift>+<direction> keys to only move the targeting cursor, possibly entering targeting mode if convenient. With the amount of corner shooting required for UV Ao100, I'm getting really sick of dying when I stared walking around a corner when I want to be shooting around that corner. I'd much rather die to a tactical error than a typo.

It'd also be nice if the targeting cursor remembered the last target, regardless of whether or not it could be seen, but for some reason I thought that was already shot down.

Let's face it, corner shooting is very important and the source of aggravating mistakes for many players.

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20

Century Lounge / [U|Ao100|YAAM] Centurial platinum, Veteran gold and all the speed ever.

« on: February 18, 2011, 18:28 »

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.9.2) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Igor Savin, level 20 Hell Baron 2nd Lieutenant, completed 100 levels of torture
 on level 100 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 369504 turns and scored 2231598 points.
 He played for 11 hours, 15 minutes and 33 seconds.
 He was a man of Ultra-Violence!

 He killed 4417 out of 4417 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
 He was an Angel of 100!


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

  Levels generated : 0
  Levels visited   : 0
  Levels completed : 0

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

  Medal of Prejudice
  UAC Star (gold cluster)
  Veteran Silver Badge
  Veteran Gold Badge
  Centurial Gold Badge
  Centurial Platinum Badge

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

  ###########################################################
  #.......}.........#..#...........#...\.........|......#....
  #.................#..#........#..#.............=.%....#....
  #..##########..#..#..#........#..#.#####..#....=......#....
  #..............#.....#........#..#........#...=|......#....
  #..............#.....#........#..#..."....#...0.#.....#..#.
  #..#..####.....#..#..#........#..#.###########..####..#..#.
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  #...........=====.|.......|...%.%.|||..|..|...........|...%
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  #........#======........|........#..#.%....======..#..#...=
  #........#=.==...................#..#......===.=#..#..#..0.
  #########=====..........#####....#..#.....##===.#..#..####.
  #........==.==............=......#...........#..#..#.......
  #.........===............==......#.......^...#..#..#.......
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health 100/80   Experience 780353/20
  ToHit Ranged +4  ToHit Melee +4  ToDmg Ranged +3  ToDmg Melee +3

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

    Ironman          (Level 3)
    Finesse          (Level 2)
    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 3)
    Son of a gun     (Level 3)
    Eagle Eye        (Level 2)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Intuition        (Level 2)
    Whizkid          (Level 2)

  EE->EE->Int->Int->Fin->Fin->Jug->SoB->SoB->SoB->HR->HR->WK->WK->SoG->SoG->SoG->Iro->Iro->Iro->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   modified onyx armor [4] (APT)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   modified blaster (2d6) [20/20] (P2T3)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   gravity plasteel boots [4/4] (100%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   modified nuclear plasma rifle (1d6)x6 [40/40] (B2T3)

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

    [a] modified plasma rifle (1d10)x6 [52/52] (B1P3T1)
    [b] modified nuclear BFG 9000 (8d10) [88/88] (B3P2)
    [c] Railgun (8d8) [40/40]
    [d] modified phaseshift armor [4/4] (100%) (APT)
    [e] Berserker Armor [0]
    [f] power cell (x14)
    [g] large med-pack
    [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] phase device
    [o] phase device
    [p] phase device
    [q] phase device
    [r] homing phase device
    [s] homing phase device
    [t] envirosuit pack
    [u] Hellwave Pack

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

    293 former humans
    407 former sergeants
    571 former captains
    146 imps
    67 demons
    401 lost souls
    66 cacodemons
    583 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    126 hell knights
    337 arachnotrons
    14 former commandos
    78 pain elementals
    355 arch-viles
    360 mancubi
    326 revenants
    51 nightmare imps
    79 nightmare cacodemons
    74 nightmare demons
    42 bruiser brothers
    16 shamblers
    24 lava elemental

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

  On level 7 he assembled a high power weapon!
  On level 10 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
  On level 13 he assembled a tactical boots!
  On level 19 he found the Railgun!
  On level 27 he found the Anti-Freak Jackal!
  On level 32 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
  On level 32 he found the Cybernetic Armor!
  On level 39 he found the Hellwave Pack!
  On level 50 he found the Berserker Armor!
  On level 55 he assembled a chainsword!
  On level 68 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
  On level 72 he found the Nano Pack!
  On level 84 he stumbled into a lava elemental cave!
  On level 92 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
  On level 93 he assembled a elephant gun!
  On level 93 he assembled a gravity boots!
  On level 100 he finally completed 100 levels of torture.

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

 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a mancubus (wounded) [m]ore | floor
 The missile hits the mancubus.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a mancubus (heavily wounded) [m]ore | floor
 The missile hits the mancubus.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a mancubus (mortally wounded) [m]ore | floor
 The missile hits the mancubus.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a mancubus (almost dead) [m]ore | blood
 The missile hits the mancubus. The mancubus dies. You feel relatively
 safe now.
 There are stairs leading downward here.
 You did it! You completed 100 levels of DoomRL! You're the champion! Press
 <Enter>... 

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

 Before him 240 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 214 of those were killed.
 5 of those were killed by something unknown.
 13 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 3 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 5 souls claim to have killed him...
 4 killed the bastard and survived.
 1 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.

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I just finished this game last night, but after it was over I had to get some sleep before posting. After finishing the new Ao100, I have two words, "I approve".

I made a decent amount of assemblies, most of them were just to get crossed of the list, but a few of them were used heavily. The first was the high powered chaingun I made on level 7. 1d9x4 is quite respectable at that stage of the game. I eventually ditched it around level 30 or so for ammo concerns, but had it just been a normal run I would have ended the game with it. I made an initial red nanofiber, but as luck would have it I found the onyx armor shortly after, effectively wasting the mods (I hadn't even starting wearing the nanofiber). The only other important assembly was the gravity boots, and it's a shame I didn't get them earlier.

As for traits, I slightly tweaked my standard Ao100 build, grabbing HR to offset my plans of a nanofiber armor and grabbing Iro instead of TaN at Game Hunter's recommendation. I had already grabbed SoG by the time I found the Anti-Freak, which was nice for opening walls, but poor at everything else (at this point I was viciously guarding ammo on the floor). Around level 50 or 60 is when I found the Blaster, which is AWESOME with SoGx3 and SoBx3. After modding it a bit, I ditched almost all the ammo I had (which was roughly 700-900 bullets). Both the nuclear weapons were found later, but didn't get much use. The nuclear plasma rifle was kinda nice, but I easily could have lived without it. After freeing up eight stacks worth of bullets I had plenty of room for cells had I not found the nuclear plasma rifle. Only used the nuclear BFG once, and it was completely an accident.

Level 84... words cannot explain the terror I felt for my Doomguy after I realized what I had stumbled into. Luckily I hadn't let myself 'get comfortable' so I was still paying attention to what I was doing, so I didn't make the 'one' wrong move that would have killed me. Trust me when I say there was more than 'one' wrong move to be made, I must spent 20 minutes on that level alone. Even with being extra careful there was still two or three times I was really worried I was not going to make it, standing in lava while having to shoot does that though.

The real treat of this run was when I found the nano pack. I rushed over to the wiki (I haven't even the slightest idea what special level somehow helps people with recipes) and decided on the gravity boots, with a backup of the nanofiber skin armor if I couldn't find agility. With luck, I finally found the last agility mod I needed on level 93. I already had a firing speed of .11 with P2T3 Blaster, Finx2 and Sogx3 so speed felt like the best choice. So I make the Gravity boots, put them on with the phaseshift armor, already having HRx2. I check my walk speed, it's 0.08. Yes I typed that correcty, I had a walking speed of zero point zero eight. Granted I decided to stick with the onyx armor, giving me only a mere .15 walking speed, but it was good enough.

Looking back, I'd be interested to see someone finish an ammochain UV Ao100. I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just trying to figure out what they would do without EEx2, Intx2 and SoGx3. Infinite ammo is one thing, but I feel there are times were accuracy and speed are far more important.

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0.9.9.2 / [M|42%|15m36s|YAVP] I gave it a shot

« on: February 16, 2011, 04:00 »

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 Joseph Hewitt, level 6 Hell Knight Sergeant Major, defeated the Cyberdemon
 on level 25 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 28039 turns and scored 52988 points.
 He played for 15 minutes and 36 seconds.
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 219 out of 511 hellspawn. (42%)


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

  Levels generated : 10
  Levels visited   : 5
  Levels completed : 1

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

  Minor Icarus Cross
  Compet-n Gold Cross
  Speedrunner Bronze Badge
  Speedrunner Silver Badge

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

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  ...............#>#........................................#
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health 50/50   Experience 13262/6
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +0  ToDmg Ranged +3  ToDmg Melee +3

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

    Tough as nails   (Level 2)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 3)
    Badass           (Level 1)

  SoB->SoB->SoB->TaN->TaN->Bad->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   red armor [4/4] (80%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [28/40]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   plasteel boots [4/4] (50%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   BFG 9000 (10d8) [6/100]

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

    [a] double shotgun (8d3)x3 [2/2]
    [b] combat shotgun (7d3) [5/5]
    [c] micro launcher (5d5) [1/1]
    [d] chaingun (1d6)x4 [40/40]
    [e] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [f] shotgun shell (x16)
    [g] shotgun shell (x50)
    [h] shotgun shell (x50)
    [i] rocket (x10)
    [j] rocket (x10)
    [k] rocket (x10)
    [l] rocket (x2)

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

    38 former humans
    27 former sergeants
    6 former captains
    35 imps
    18 demons
    67 lost souls
    7 cacodemons
    2 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    3 hell knights
    7 arachnotrons
    3 former commandos
    3 pain elementals
    1 arch-vile
    1 revenant

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

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 9 he witnessed the Wall.
  Not knowing what to do, he left.
  On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
  He left the Armory without drawing too much attention.
  On level 13 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 15 he encountered the Phobos Hellgate.
  On level 19 he assembled a micro launcher!
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  He came, he saw, but he left.
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.

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

 You wear/wield : a red armor [4/4] (100%)
 The Cyberdemon fires! You are hit!
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a Cyberdemon (almost dead) [m]ore | blood
 You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed. The Cyberdemon reloads his
 rocket launcher.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a Cyberdemon (almost dead) [m]ore | blood
 The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The
 missile hits the Cyberdemon. Boom! Boom! The missile hits the Cyberdemon.
 Unknown command. Press "?" for help.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a Cyberdemon (almost dead) [m]ore | blood
 Boom! The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon dies. You feel
 relatively safe now. Congratulations! You defeated the Cyberdemon!
 Press <Enter>... Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

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

 Before him 198 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 176 of those were killed.
 4 of those were killed by something unknown.
 12 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 3 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 3 souls claim to have killed him...
 3 killed the bastard and survived.

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I saw Thomas's run, so I figured I'd give it a whirl. With a few more hours of trying I think I could shave off a few minutes, I almost killed Cybie at 10:30 once, but I was moving too fast and died instead. The idea behind this run was just grab the stairs as fast as possible, killing only what was needed to get me by. I really thought I was going to die when I met up with my first Rev, but I spent an extra few seconds and barely made it away. I ended up finding the Halls of Carnage and decided to clear it so I'd have a chance against the Cyberdemon. I'm glad I did because I don't remember seeing a nuke.

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Nightmare! / [N!|AoB|52%|YAVP] Berserker Diamond plus a handful of others

« on: February 11, 2011, 20:39 »

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 Sandy Peterson, level 11 Imp Sergeant, defeated the Cyberdemon
 on level 25 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 18175 turns and scored 400332 points.
 He played for 19 minutes and 24 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 488 out of 934 hellspawn. (52%)
 He was an Angel of Berserk!


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

  Levels generated : 10
  Levels visited   : 3
  Levels completed : 1

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

  Major Icarus Cross
  Compet-n Gold Cross
  Berserker Bronze Badge
  Berserker Silver Badge
  Berserker Gold Badge
  Berserker Platinum Badge
  Berserker Diamond Badge
  Gatekeeper Gold Badge
  Longinus Gold Badge
  Longinus Platinum Badge

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

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

  Health 48/80   Experience 51046/11
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9

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

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

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

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Longinus Spear (8d8)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   modified protective boots [2/2] (99%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   combat knife (2d5)

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

    [a] blue armor [1/2] (10%)
    [b] red armor [1/4] (18%)
    [c] modified chainsaw (5d6) (B)
    [d] small 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] phase device
    [l] envirosuit pack
    [m] agility mod pack

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

    49 former humans
    41 former sergeants
    18 former captains
    67 imps
    54 demons
    145 lost souls
    11 cacodemons
    14 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    10 hell knights
    27 arachnotrons
    5 former commandos
    1 Angel of Death
    6 pain elementals
    7 arch-viles
    5 mancubi
    3 revenants
    4 nightmare imps
    10 nightmare cacodemons
    8 nightmare demons
    2 bruiser brothers

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

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 15 he encountered the Phobos Hellgate.
  On level 16 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 16 he found the Longinus Spear!
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 23 he entered the Lava Pits.
  He decided it was too hot there.
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.

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

 The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 You start running!
 The Cyberdemon fires! You are hit! Your red armor is damaged!
 The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you.
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. Your red armor is
 completely destroyed! The Cyberdemon hits you.
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you.
 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 need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. You're going berserk! The Cyberdemon hits you. You
 need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon dies. Congratulations! You defeated
 the Cyberdemon! Press <Enter>...

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

 Before him 44 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 43 of those were killed.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 1 souls claim to have killed him...
 1 killed the bastard and survived.

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My first N! win in the new version, looks like the first diamond posted too. It took a couple of tries to make it to the Chained Court, but once I did it was pretty much smooth sailing. Kill as much as possible as fast as possible and locate the stairs. I killed everything in Hellgate, thinking I may get a badge, but it turns out merely making it through would have been fine. Didn't matter either way though, I was berserked the entire time in Hellgate. Actually I only lost berserk roughly 3 times after the court. I was a little nervous around hell 6, it was an arachnatron cave and I wasn't berserked. Luckily the first mob fixed that problem, and I still had plenty of healing.

Unfortunately I didn't get anything new this run, but my first marine of the new version makes up for it. So for now I have more gold badges then silver.

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Bug Reports / [0.9.9.2] (Linux w/sound) Game "won't" run

« on: February 11, 2011, 12:16 »

I just woke up and was very happy to see 0.9.9.2 released so I rushed to download a copy. I then tried to run it in my 32bit jail. It flashed some messages and kicked me back to the console. So I re-ran it ~20-30 more times and was pretty sure I saw the word 'timidity' flash by. So I went to '/etc' and created a directory called 'timidity', then I touched 'timidity.cfg' inside of said directory. TA-DA! Doomrl now runs fine. Strange part is, 0.9.9.1 ran fine without it.

Sorry if this is worded poorly, I generally try to not communicate until after I've had a coffee.

Edited to put a few forgotten words in.... and then to rearrange some words, damn I need breakfast

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Bug Reports / [0.9.9.1] (Linux) Armor Depot slightly broken

« on: February 10, 2011, 18:52 »

I know 0.9.9.2 is right around the corner, but I figured I'd post this just in case. I'm in the middle of an Ao100 game and have noticed that armor depots don't always repair my boots. I'm wearing

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modified phaseshift boots [8/8] (100%) (APT) for boots and switching between

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modified onyx armor [4] (APT) and

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modified phaseshift armor [2/2] (100%) (AT) for armor. The last armor depot I came across didn't fix the boots while wearing the onyx armor, but after I took it off (wearing no armor), the depot fixed the boots.

If this has already been fixed then please disregard this message.

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Requests For Features / Ability to sort high scores by wins only

« on: February 01, 2011, 19:13 »

It'd be kinda cool if the high score list could be sorted to show only wins. Maybe 'W' or something. Not really that important of an idea, but I'll go as far to say 'neat'.

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0.9.9.1 / [U|AoMr|90%|YAFW] Veteran Platinum Badge

« on: January 30, 2011, 09:54 »

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 John Romero, level 13 Arch-Vile 2nd Lieutenant, nuked the Cyberdemon.
 on level 26 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 113400 turns and scored 278290 points.
 He played for 1 hour, 35 minutes and 55 seconds.
 He was a man of Ultra-Violence!

 He killed 823 out of 914 hellspawn. (90%)
 He held his right to remain violent.
 He was an Angel of Marksmanship!


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

  UAC Star (bronze cluster)
  Hell Champion Medal
  Veteran Platinum Badge
  Marksman Gold Badge
  Brick Silver Badge
  Arachno Silver Badge

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

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

  Health 40/60   Experience 71160/13
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +0  ToDmg Ranged +3  ToDmg Melee +3

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

    Ironman          (Level 1)
    Finesse          (Level 2)
    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 3)
    Son of a gun     (Level 3)
    Dualgunner       (Level 1)
    Dodgemaster      (Level 1)

  SoG->SoG->DG->SoG->SoB->SoB->SoB->Fin->Fin->HR->HR->DM->Iro->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   modified pistol (2d5) [3/6] (P1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   modified protective boots [2/2] (90%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   modified blaster (2d5) [19/20] (P1)

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

    [a] 10mm ammo (x17)
    [b] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [c] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [d] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [e] large med-pack
    [f] phase device
    [g] phase device

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

    86 former humans
    63 former sergeants
    38 former captains
    177 imps
    78 demons
    118 lost souls
    52 cacodemons
    88 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    26 hell knights
    54 arachnotrons
    1 John Carmack
    4 former commandos
    10 pain elementals
    14 arch-viles
    7 mancubi
    4 revenants
    2 bruiser brothers

-- 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 11 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 12 he witnessed the Wall.
  He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
  On level 15 he encoutered the Phobos Hellgate.
  On level 18 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
  He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  He nuked level 25!
  He defeated the Cyberdemon and found the TRUE EVIL!
  Then finally in hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.

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

 hell dies.
 Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn!
 Fire -- Choose target... 
 Fire -- Choose target...   Find a more constructive way to commit suicide.
 Fire -- Choose target... 
 You reload the pistol with 10mm ammo.
 You dodge! You hear the scream of a freed soul!
 The baron of hell fires! You dodge! Boom!
 Fire -- Choose target...   The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits
 John Carmack.
 John Carmack fires! You dodge! Boom! The baron of hell fires! You dodge!
 Fire -- Choose target...   The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits
 John Carmack.
 John Carmack reloads his rocket launcher. You dodge!
 Fire -- Choose target...   The missile hits John Carmack. John Carmack

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

 Before him 1664 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 1500 of those were killed.
 19 of those were killed by something unknown.
 57 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 51 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 37 souls claim to have killed him...
 22 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 10 killed the bastard and survived.
 5 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.

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This mortem is brought to you by, the Blaster. The run started normal, got lucky with Hell's Arena on level 3, so I had dualgunner. I cleared it pretty easily (I think it only took a small medpack or two). Right around dlevel 10 or 11 is when I found the Blaster. Once I realized it shot through walls I started hoping to see the Wall (actually the Vault too, but I changed my mind by then). As luck would have it, the Wall is generated. I shot a single line through the wall and that was enough to clear the level without taking any damage. Shortly after that I make to the Hellgate. I grabbed what I needed from the first room and was about to use a phase, when I realized shooting through the wall was a better idea. I dig around a bit and kill both archviles. At that point I just let the wall fall and cleaned up the rest of the first room. The bruiser brothers went down easily, mainly because at this point I have a P1 pistol, P1 Blaster, SoGx3, SoBx3 and a level or two of Finese. I realized at that point I might have a good chance at a full win.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I already had two homing devices, giving me more of a chance that I'd find a use-able invulnerability. I still needed a nuke though. I had considered going to the Mortuary for one, but I got lucky the Spider Caves was generated.

Things are going smoothly, then I find an invulnerability close the entrance the Spider Caves. I grab it and run in. I didn't even bother seeking cover, I just sat in the middle of the room picking off arachnatrons. I grab the rewards and am getting pretty hopeful. I clear a few more levels and find a third homing phase device. I make it to hell level 7, only three more stairs to go. That's when I found the invulnerability. Now up until this point I have 100% kills, but I decided not to be greedy so I grab the globe and pop all three homing phase devices. I've made it to the Cyberdemon...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Which I promptly nuked and proceeded down. It'd been a while since I'd seen JC, so I was a little out of practice for the battle. Luckily I showed up with three phases and about eight large medpacks. Actually the real lucky part was that by then I had grabbed dodgemaster, which I had completely forgotten the importance of. I get JC down to wounded, but had to use a phase device. I end up on the right side of the screen, then magically remember that I should be using dodgemaster to avoid rockets to the face. That bit of information was what I needed to finish the fight, with a medpack to spare no less.

This will probably be my last run of 0.9.9.1, but I think it was a fitting end to the version. Also this run has convinced me SoBx3 is better then MGK, even though I had the Blaster to cut down on reloading I still think I would have been okay without it. Maybe not as easy or a full win, but the damage/knockback is too much to pass up, even for free reloading.

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Requests For Features / A different Intuition symbol

« on: January 22, 2011, 23:23 »

Is there any chance the character used for intuition can be changed? Either to an 'x' for something user definable? The current symbol is too hard to distinguish from a floor tile and constantly using the look command is ruining the fast paced coffee-break style of the game for me. I figure this is a reasonable request given that a tile version is in the future. It wouldn't be fair for the tile version to use a unique symbol and the ascii to use an ambiguous one. Plus it'd be nice not to shoot at bloody floors or get killed by mobs I should have seen.

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Century Lounge / [U|Ao100|YAAM] No master trait, Veteran Gold Badge, nice and smooth

« on: January 20, 2011, 04:57 »

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 Joseph Hewitt, level 20 Arch-Vile 2nd Lieutenant, completed 100 levels of torture
 on level 100 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 363849 turns and scored 2154038 points.
 He played for 22 hours, 37 minutes and 20 seconds.
 He was a man of Ultra-Violence!

 He killed 4336 out of 4336 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
 He was an Angel of 100!


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

  Medal of Prejudice
  UAC Star (gold cluster)
  Veteran Gold Badge

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

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  ........########..........................................#
  =.................0.......................................#
  ###########################################################

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

  Health 100/50   Experience 749299/20
  ToHit Ranged +6  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +3  ToDmg Melee +3

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

    Finesse          (Level 2)
    Tough as nails   (Level 3)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 3)
    Son of a gun     (Level 3)
    Eagle Eye        (Level 3)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Intuition        (Level 2)
    Whizkid          (Level 2)
    Badass           (Level 1)

  EE->SoB->EE->SoB->Int->Int->Fin->Jug->Fin->SoG->TaN->WK->WK->SoB->TaN->Bad->TaN->SoG->SoG->EE->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   modified phaseshift armor [4] (AOP)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   modified pistol (2d6) [6/6] (P2T3)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   modified phaseshift boots [8/8] (100%) (APT)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   modified nuclear plasma rifle (1d6)x6 [52/52] (B3T2)

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

    [a] modified minigun (1d7)x8 [255/255] (A3B1P1)
    [b] modified minigun (1d6)x8 [255/255] (B1)
    [c] modified missile launcher (6d6) [8/8] (B3T2)
    [d] Trigun (3d6) [6/6]
    [e] Cybernetic Armor [8/8] (100%)
    [f] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [g] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [h] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [i] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [j] large med-pack
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] large med-pack
    [m] large med-pack
    [n] phase device
    [o] phase device
    [p] power mod pack
    [q] power mod pack
    [r] technical mod pack
    [s] technical mod pack
    [t] technical mod pack
    [u] Hell Staff

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

    251 former humans
    572 former sergeants
    599 former captains
    97 imps
    26 demons
    197 lost souls
    214 cacodemons
    715 barons of hell
    234 hell knights
    378 arachnotrons
    21 former commandos
    39 pain elementals
    305 arch-viles
    255 mancubi
    231 revenants
    49 nightmare imps
    50 nightmare cacodemons
    60 nightmare demons
    43 bruiser brothers

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

  On level 11 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
  On level 13 he found the Jackhammer!
  On level 21 he found the Hell Staff!
  On level 53 he found the Onyx Armor Pack!
  On level 99 he found the Trigun!
  On level 100 he found the Cybernetic Armor!
  On level 100 he finally completed 100 levels of torture.

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

 There is a Cybernetic Armor [8/8] (100%) lying here.
 There is a Cybernetic Armor [8/8] (100%) lying here.
 You picked up a Cybernetic Armor [8/8] (100%).
 There is 10mm ammo (x91) lying here.
 You found 15 of 10mm ammo. There is 10mm ammo (x76) lying here.
 There is 10mm ammo (x76) lying here.
 There is 10mm ammo (x76) lying here.
 There is a shotgun (8d3) [1/1] lying here.
 There is shotgun shell (x30) lying here.
 There is a green armor [1/1] (85%) lying here.
 There is a green armor [1/1] (85%) lying here.
 There is rocket (x3) lying here.
 There are stairs leading downward here.
 There are stairs leading downward here.
 You did it! You completed 100 levels of DoomRL! You're the champion! Press

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

 Before him 1577 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 1418 of those were killed.
 18 of those were killed by something unknown.
 57 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 48 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 36 souls claim to have killed him...
 22 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 9 killed the bastard and survived.
 5 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.

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

Well that was fun. I think I found my new favorite Ao100 build. The main idea was to get Intx2, SoBx3, SoGx3 and whizkid, so I wouldn't have to waste ammo shooting in the dark and to maximize how much damage 100 bullets could do. Too bad I never found a Blaster, making it P2T3 would have made it possibly the best weapon ever. Even with Finx2, SoGx3 and a P2T3 pistol (my starting one) I had a firing speed of 0.17 and +6 damage to each shot. With the Blaster's starting speed 0.7 and it's ammo regeneration, it's hard to imagine a more powerful weapon.

I started the run using the chaingun, switching to the combat shotgun once I hit Intx2 at level 6. Once I picked up plasma, I ditched the chaingun entirely. Then I found the Beretta, which would have been great normally, but already had plans for a P2T3 single-shot pistol and in single shot mode the Beretta is roughly a P2B3.5 pistol. So I kept it for a few levels then ditched it for the inventory space, right around the time I found the Jackhammer. I figured the Jackhammer would chew through ammo, so I didn't bother with it. A few levels later after I had taken my first level of SoG I found the nuclear plasma rifle. It was awesome. I put SoG on hold to grab a few levels of Tan/Whizkid. At some point I find the phaseshift boots, throw an agility mod on it and am pretty happy. I find two sets of phaseshift armor, put AP on one and kept the other blank. Now I'm walking around at clevel 19 with all the traits I want, then I find the Onyx armor pack. I immediately put it on the blank phaseshift armor and ditch the rest of my armor (including a blank onyx armor). After that it was smooth sailing to the end.

When I found the Trigun on level 99 I kept it but didn't use it. I was only getting a 0.2 firing speed with it and my trusty starting pistol had 0.17, so I stuck with the faster gun. I entered level 100 invulnerable with Trigun, but since I hadn't nuked any other levels I wasn't going to start now. Then I find the Cybernetic armor after I had finished clearing the level. Didn't matter if I put it on or not, since there was no more enemies left.

Over all I think this was a lot more fun than an ammochain Ao100, plus using bullets/nuclear weapons meant I always had plenty of ammo.

[--------------------------------------------------------------]

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Century Lounge / [H|Ao100|YAAM] No master traits and a B2F3 super shotgun

« on: November 19, 2010, 14:07 »

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.9.1) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Timo Viitanen, level 20 Arch-Vile 2nd Lieutenant, completed 100 levels of torture
 on level 100 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 428835 turns and scored 1166373 points.
 He played for 21 hours, 18 minutes and 18 seconds.
 He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.

 He killed 2875 out of 2875 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
 He was an Angel of 100!


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

  Medal of Prejudice
  UAC Star (bronze cluster)

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

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

  Health 50/50   Experience 510755/20
  ToHit Ranged +6  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +3  ToDmg Melee +3

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

    Finesse          (Level 2)
    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Tough as nails   (Level 3)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 3)
    Eagle Eye        (Level 3)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Dodgemaster      (Level 1)
    Intuition        (Level 2)
    Whizkid          (Level 2)
    Badass           (Level 1)

  EE->EE->Int->Int->Fin->Fin->WK->Jug->SoB->WK->SoB->SoB->TaN->TaN->TaN->Bad->HR->HR->DM->EE->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   Cybernetic Armor [8/8] (100%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Trigun (3d6) [6/6]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   modified phaseshift boots [8/8] (100%) (APT)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   modified super shotgun (9d4)x9 [2/2] (B2F3)

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

    [a] modified combat shotgun (10d3) [5/5] (P3T2)
    [b] modified rocket launcher (6d7) [1/1] (B1P1T3)
    [c] modified plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [88/88] (B3T2)
    [d] modified blaster (2d6) [20/20] (P2T3)
    [e] modified minigun (1d6)x8 [255/255] (A2B3)
    [f] Jackhammer (8d3)x3 [9/9]
    [g] Railgun (8d8) [40/40]
    [h] modified red armor [6/6] (200%) (ABP)
    [i] Malek's Armor [3/3] (100%)
    [j] 10mm ammo (x72)
    [k] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [l] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [m] shotgun shell (x38)
    [n] rocket (x10)
    [o] power cell (x20)
    [p] power cell (x50)
    [q] power cell (x50)
    [r] large med-pack
    [s] large med-pack
    [t] large med-pack
    [u] sniper weapon pack

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

    185 former humans
    422 former sergeants
    401 former captains
    109 imps
    40 demons
    42 lost souls
    131 cacodemons
    406 barons of hell
    135 hell knights
    271 arachnotrons
    8 former commandos
    4 pain elementals
    211 arch-viles
    204 mancubi
    193 revenants
    27 nightmare imps
    28 nightmare cacodemons
    35 nightmare demons
    23 bruiser brothers

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

  On level 29 he found the Revenant's Launcher!
  On level 40 he found the Anti-Freak Jackal!
  On level 48 he found the Trigun!
  On level 63 he found the Railgun!
  On level 64 he found the Malek's Armor!
  On level 86 he found the Cybernetic Armor!
  On level 87 he found the Jackhammer!
  On level 100 he finally completed 100 levels of torture.

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

 You open the door.
 You open the door.
 You open the door.
 You open the door.
 You open the door.
 You open the door.
 There is 10mm ammo (x30) lying here.
 You found 30 of 10mm ammo.
 There is a chaingun (1d6)x4 [40/40] lying here.
 You fully unload the chaingun. There is a chaingun (1d6)x4 [0/40] lying here.
 You wear/wield : a Cybernetic Armor [8/8] (100%)
 You can't, your Cybernetic Armor is cursed!
 There are stairs leading downward here.
 There are stairs leading downward here.
 You did it! You completed 100 levels of DoomRL! You're the champion! Press

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

 Before him 1396 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 1249 of those were killed.
 17 of those were killed by something unknown.
 57 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 38 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 35 souls claim to have killed him...
 22 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 8 killed the bastard and survived.
 5 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.

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

Normally I wouldn't brag post about a mortem that wasn't N!, but my side arm was just too good.

This run is the practice run for attempting the same thing under UV (Ao100, YAAM, no master traits). The main concern I had going into this was having enough ammo to kill everything. So for traits I figured getting intuition 2 right away would be a good start, knowing where mobs are means not wasting ammo shooting in the dark. After that whizkid was the next on the list, to put all the mods to good use. Juggler came next, conserving ammo means switching weapons a lot. Then finally SoB and the other level of whizkid, both were helpful in maximizing the amount of damage an ammo stack could deal.

For weapons, I started with the combat shotgun, slapping the first three power mods I found on it. The rocket launcher was mainly used to destroy walls, but I used it a couple of times on mobs. All the early bulk mods went on my first/last plasma rifle, it gave me more shots before reloading, but more importantly let me carry that much more ammo. Around level 18 I found my first firestorm pack and since I don't use rockets much, I just kept it. Well that paid off when ~4 levels later I find a super shotgun. I throw on the firestorm and two bulk mods, knowing that I was never going to get reloader.

So I progress using the combat shotgun as the main attack, the super shotgun as a close up punch and the plasma rifle for archviles. Then I find the Revenant's Launcher. I pick it up, look at it, realize I can't juggler to it from my backpack then put it back down. Continue on. I find the Anti-Freak Jackal, pick it up, realize it'll probably explode the ammo on the ground, so I put it back down. At some point around this time I find my second firestorm pack, throw it on my super for B2F2 and feel that I'm doing pretty well. Ammo is still a concern, but I'm handling it well. The I find the Trigun. Finally I find a pistol worth using, so I retire my combat shotgun, but keep it around. Unfortunately I had already committed to getting DM, so SoG was out of the picture but the Trigun was amazing for conserving ammo. At some point not long after Trigun I find my final firestorm pack.

So now I'm walking around, killing with Trigun/ decked out super shotgun. I can relax a little bit at this point, but I'm still watching my ammo like a hawk. Two lucky levels in a row and I've now got the Railgun and Malek's armor. The Railgun makes arachnotron caves a cake walk, since I'll always end up with more ammo then I can carry. Malek's armor means I can relax how much armor I need, giving me more space for ammo. I grabbed the Cybernetic Armor in case I found a Nano pack, which let me drop the gothic armor that I was saving for that purpose. I never bother using the Jackhammer, the super shotgun was just that good. In the end, I never used the Minigun, I just carried it for the ammo storage, but I never had to unload it. The blaster was found very late in the game, I kept it just in case, but never needed to use it.

The real treat this run was the B2F3 super shotgun. I keep mentioning it because it was just that good. The knockback was crazy, bruiser brothers got pushed back ~4-5 squares, and with intuition 2, shooting around a corner meant they pretty much never saw me. Juggler insured that at any moment I could just blast something in the face with it. Overall it had an amazing damage to ammo ratio.

I think when I do this in UV, I'm going to get SoG instead of HR/DM and just hope it'll come in handy. To anyone else who is thinking of trying this, never under estimate how much ammo you are going to need.

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Bug Reports / [0.9.9.1] (Linux) N! AoPc full win and Veteran Diamond

« on: November 02, 2010, 14:08 »

I just finished an N! AoPc run that resulted in a full win, but was not awarded the Veteran diamond badge. The player info reflects the full win,

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Nightmare!            : fully won (6 wins total Deaths : 973  Kills : 45317 as does the challenges screen.

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Angel of Pacifism      Pt21/St1/Fl2  none          none          Pt1/St1/Fl1
I've seen other bug reports that mention badges don't get awarded when dying to JC, but this is the first I've seen of not getting a badge when nuking JC, even if the badge is for killing him.

Honestly I'm not sure if this is a bug, or intended behavior but I figured I'd post this for completeness.

I posted the mortem in case anyone is curious:
http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,3441.0.html